OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:


lol There has been an ongoing thing on the local radio the past few
days... One of our local militant atheists is challenging the Texas
constitution.

Seems that in order to hold public office, you have to believe in a
higher power, so that excludes atheists.

For good reason. You can't have non believers running the state when there are
morally superior Christians like David Koresh to show us the way.

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"Doug Kanter" wrote:

"Nola" wrote in message
...


On 29-Mar-2006, (Glitter Ninja) wrote:

I just have a problem with an organization that requires
religious worship. It's not any of their business whether a family
attends church or not, and if they do, what church they go to.

Stacia

Then stay away from the BSA, a private, non-profit organization that
clearly
states its mission to be:
"to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their
lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the Scout Oath and Law."

***snip***


It's not like they have a secret agenda and trick boys into a cult. If
you
don't believe in, or at least are open to, these things, you have no place
in BSA - just as you would have no place in a church's Sunday School. Go
start your own organization to have fun and promote ethical and moral
choices in a Godless manner and quite bitching that those with God in
their
life are depriving you of something.

Damn God-hating liberals are as bad as the whacko fundamentalists.


Do you understand that not believing in a deity, or believing in a different
one than someone else are not the same as "hating god"?



Probably not. ;-)
Sheeple rarely see the obvious.
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

In article _CxWf.2766$Aa1.1899@dukeread05,
Roberta wrote:

Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:43:47 -0600, OmManiPadmeOmelet
wrote:

In article ,
Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 15:57:57 -0600, OmManiPadmeOmelet
wrote:

On the upside Carol, it's not GS cookie season right now! G
That's okay. Girl Scouts are pretty scarce around here, so temptation
isn't an issue. Cookies re one of my worst vices.
There is always that line from Adams Family:

"Are they made with real Girl Scouts?"

Best line in the movie. Actually, the only line that I remember.

Carol

My favorite line from that movie - Wednesday comes down the stairs on
Halloween looking just like Wednesday - she is asked where her Halloween
costume is, her reply "I'm wearing it. I am a homicidal Maniac, they
look just like everyone else."

For some reason that line makes me laugh to the point of tears

ROFL! Thanks for reminding me of that line!
I need to watch that movie again. I've got it on DVD......
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

In article ,
"Nola" wrote:

--
"Better Things for Better Living, Through Chemistry." - DuPont, or Timothy
Leary?

Wasn't that L. Ron Hubbard?
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

Nola wrote:

Do you understand the "God-hating" is just short-hand for "hates to see
others receive joy from something that they can't/won't participate in and
strongly prefers to deny others that joy".

I'm not a particularly regious person, I'm just sick and tired of people who
whine about being "troubled" by religion being involved in things. Get a
life, find something to enjoy, quite trying to eliminate religion from
everything.

Are you familiar with the phrase "separation of church and state"? Or
the concept that out founding fathers were trying to protect the
colonists' desires to escape the King's REQUIREMENT that English
citizens in the 1700s were to be actively involved with the Anglican
Church? They came here to escape force-fed religion. Now that the world
is full up, where do you want people to take their alternate belief
systems to form a new country? American citizens should have a
protected right to be involved in activities freely without worrying
about religious affiliation or shame about believing in something
different. Especially children.

There are many, mnay countries in this world where religion is dictated
by the government. Historically, many people have felt the need to hide
their beliefs and worship in secret. (Examples - formerly communist
china and russia; afghanistan; iran) Here in the U.S., ideally, we
should be able to proudly flaunt our different beliefs and respect one
another, without worrying about discrimination.

I hear ya, though, I can understand why you would be tired of people
trying to follow through the Founding Fathers constitutional beliefs.
C'mon, go find something useful and not prohibited to do! This is
America! OOps, not here, though, this is for Judeo-Christian believers
only. Maybe try over there.

In article ,
"Nancy Young" wrote:

"notbob" wrote

On 2006-03-29, Nancy Young wrote:

Boy Scouts around here are in big trouble too ... somehow
their council wound up in a million or two debt.

Might have something to do with United Way, which BSA mistakenly
hitched their wagon to.

That is one organization I have no use for.

nancy



Gods.

Ditto here!

They take thousands of $$$ from communities that could put the funds to
FAR better use!!!

Our hospital used to have an annual thing where they offered paycheck
deductions to donate.

Hell no!

Goal was $100,000.00 from that community, and I know for a fact that
there are families that live in dirt floor homes with no plumbing.

Use local money for local problems. UW never did SQUAT for the poor in
our area!

Damn, that'll get me to cussing. I hate those stealing bastids.
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

In article ,
notbob wrote:

On 2006-03-29, Nancy Young wrote:

That is one organization I have no use for.

Likewise. Used to really **** me off, my company's yearly campaign to
extort money for UW. Monthly payroll deductions, no less. I
steadfastly refused, choosing to make contributions directly to the
orgs of my choice.

nb

Ditto here!!!!!!
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

In article ,
Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

On Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:42:42 -0600, OmManiPadmeOmelet
wrote:

In article ,
Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

Any chance we'll be seeing you in that other newsgroup?

Oh I'm there, just mostly lurking.
I started that vitamin B-2 thread.
I really, really hate that stuff, but I take it anyway.
I gag it down right before going to sleep after eating
a light meal so it'll sit ok.

It makes a noticable difference in my eyesight. It helps
with Astigmatism. (sp?)

I don't do supplements as a rule. I do take a multi-vitamin, calcium,
and 81 mg of aspirin every day, though.

Since I'm not interested in that stuff, I just deleted all the B-2
posts. Sorry.

Peace,
Carol

That's ok. :-)
I've personally noted that if I take a multi high in B-complex, it does
a lot for me.

Sux tho' that the B-2 in it stinks so bad, I have to really steel myself
to put it in my mouth. :-P
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

In article ,
Goomba38 wrote:

OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:
Thin mints.

Frozen thin mints to be more precise! Then tagalongs.. oh wait, trefoils
with a nice hot cup of tea. That'll do me.

I freeze thin mints too...... ;-d
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

Goomba38 wrote:


On some message boards people insist there are cheaper versions of
thin mints available year round. I disagree!! NO other cookie is
quite as perfect as the dark chocolate wafer with the chocolate mint
coating of the Girl Scouts one. I'd rather do without than have a bad
substitution. Goomba

I bought some cheap mint chocolate cookies at Family Dollar or one of
those stores. They were surprisingly good. Not exactly Thin Mints by
any means, but not at all bad. I had tried the Keebler Grasshopper
ones, but those have a fudgy coating rather than thin dark chocolate.


Brian
--
If televison's a babysitter, the Internet is a drunk librarian who
won't shut up.
-- Dorothy Gambrell (http://catandgirl.com)

"OmManiPadmeOmelet" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Nola" wrote:

--
"Better Things for Better Living, Through Chemistry." - DuPont, or
Timothy
Leary?

Wasn't that L. Ron Hubbard?

Not sure if LRH did drugs, but the Big Secret of scientology sure sounds
like the product of an addled mind. Here's a recent story from Rolling
Stone:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...player=unknown

And, here's one of the better parts:

Scientologists must be "invited" to do OT III. Beforehand, they are put
through an intensive auditing process to verify that they are ready. They
sign a waiver promising never to reveal the secrets of OT III, nor to hold
Scientology responsible for any trauma or damage one might endure at this
stage of auditing. Finally, they are given a manila folder, which they must
read in a private, locked room.

These materials, which the Church of Scientology has long struggled to keep
secret, were published online by a former member in 1995 and have been
widely circulated in the mainstream media, ranging from The New York Times
to last year's South Park episode. They assert that 75 million years ago, an
evil galactic warlord named Xenu controlled seventy-six planets in this
corner of the galaxy, each of which was severely overpopulated. To solve
this problem, Xenu rounded up 13.5 trillion beings and then flew them to
Earth, where they were dumped into volcanoes around the globe and vaporized
with bombs. This scattered their radioactive souls, or thetans, until they
were caught in electronic traps set up around the atmosphere and "implanted"
with a number of false ideas -- including the concepts of God, Christ and
organized religion. Scientologists later learn that many of these entities
attached themselves to human beings, where they remain to this day, creating
not just the root of all of our emotional and physical problems but the root
of all problems of the modern world.

"Hubbard thought it was important to have a story about how things got
going, similar to the way both Jews and Christians did in the early chapters
of Genesis," says UCLA's Bartchy. "All religion lives from the sense either
that something in life is terribly wrong or is profoundly missing. For the
most part, Christianity has claimed that people have rebelled against God
with the result that they are 'sinners' in need of restoration and that the
world is a very unjust place in need of healing. What Hubbard seems to be
saying is that human beings are really something else -- thetans trapped in
bodies in the material world -- and that Scientology can both wake them up
and save them from this bad situation."

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:05:00 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

There is always that line from Adams Family:

"Are they made with real Girl Scouts?"

Best line in the movie. Actually, the only line that I remember.

My favorite is:

Wednesday: Please pass the salt.
Morticia: And what do we say?
Wednesday: NOW!

--

-Jeff B.
zoomie at fastmail dot fm

In article ,
Dave Smith wrote:

OmManiPadmeOmelet wrote:


lol There has been an ongoing thing on the local radio the past few
days... One of our local militant atheists is challenging the Texas
constitution.

Seems that in order to hold public office, you have to believe in a
higher power, so that excludes atheists.

For good reason. You can't have non believers running the state when there are
morally superior Christians like David Koresh to show us the way.




Score a 10 for excellent sarcasm........ ;-)
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

In article ,
"Doug Kanter" wrote:

"Hubbard thought it was important to have a story about how things got
going, similar to the way both Jews and Christians did in the early chapters
of Genesis," says UCLA's Bartchy. "All religion lives from the sense either
that something in life is terribly wrong or is profoundly missing. For the
most part, Christianity has claimed that people have rebelled against God
with the result that they are 'sinners' in need of restoration and that the
world is a very unjust place in need of healing. What Hubbard seems to be
saying is that human beings are really something else -- thetans trapped in
bodies in the material world -- and that Scientology can both wake them up
and save them from this bad situation."

That's funny as hell and I was not aware of that. ;-)
Hubbard being an excellent Sci-fi author (my favorite book of his is
"The Man that Fell to Earth") I'm not surprised.

There are many that believe that, due to the racial diversity etc., that
earth was colonized by various humanoids and we did not evolve here.

Some even theorize that earth was a penal colony, and earth was chosen
specifically due to it's cyclical, massive natural disasters that
totally wipe out civilization periodically so that we cannot advance
enough for our genes to "escape" back into the galactic collective.

Or whatever. grins

I don't know what to believe.........

An open mind can gather garbage. lol
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson

In article ,
Yeff wrote:

On Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:05:00 -0600, Damsel in dis Dress wrote:

There is always that line from Adams Family:

"Are they made with real Girl Scouts?"

Best line in the movie. Actually, the only line that I remember.

My favorite is:

Wednesday: Please pass the salt.
Morticia: And what do we say?
Wednesday: NOW!

;-)
--
Peace, Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch." -Jack Nicholson