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Welcome back Julie I like forward to an influx of postings now that you're back! Glad you've managed to get things mostly sorted and that the end is in sight! SH

Time for me to join in!

Being the pedantic sort of person... I'm gonna start with agreeing with Laurie for the most part. (hehe, make sense of that!) I've been a Christian for 6 and a half years now (since my baptism), and over this period I've been fed information from two conflicting sources - my science teacher and my church. I agree with what Laurie has said for the most part, but I have still not fully formed a full opinion on the matter...

And for that reason, I'm now going to pick holes in the arguments of others!

God didn't intervene in the Crimean, 1st or 2nd World Wars, Vietnam, Korea and other mass genocides that took place so why should he now?

Ok... How do you define "intervene"? If by intervene you are meaning for God to come down with a big stick and beat the bad guys to a pulp, then no, he didn't intervene. But God very rarely works like that. He works on a personal level too. Being a Christian is all about having a personal relationship with God, not some big guy with a lightening bolt stick that he can zap people with. There will have been countless Christians who went through that war who survived only on their faith to get them through. God performs miracles in a small way by answering prayers such as "God help my survive this day without getting shot", or "I pray that we'll find a way out of where we're currently hiding" (taking the perspective of the civillian victims here). On that level, God intervened, so I'm sorry, but that statement is completely false.

it's in human nature to destroy ourselves

can't remember who said that, but it appears to be true!

Well... I'd disagree. Human nature varies from person to person. It all depends on the up bringing of a person and what ideas of life the person has been subjected to as they develop as a human being.... As such, we get people such as Mother Teresa, and Gandhi (I can't spell his first name! Mahatma?) who for them, human nature is to be kind, loving, compassionate etc.

Then on the other hand, we have someone like Hitler, or George W Bush , whose human natures are not quite the same, to say the least. (I'm not likening the two of them).

So it is not human nature to kill each other. Everyone has a conscience, some people just choose to ignore it because of the way their life has panned out from day 1.

If God created everything, and truly loves us all, why did he create guns, with which we can kill each other? A bit contradictory isn't it?

I'm not picking on you, Francis, honest! Anyway...

Aren't you contradicting yourself? A few lines above that, you say that God didn't create the dictionary, nor did he write the bible of the ten commandments. Very true indeed. How, then, can you say that God created guns? The gun is something conceived by humans, made by humans, and used by humans. The Bible (and indeed the 10 commandments) were conceived by God, "made" by God, but recorded and used by humans. Get it right!

Ok, I'm feeling a bit ranty now. Don't take it personally!

I opened the door and a couple of missionaries of Jehovahs witnesses were standing in front of me. It became a tiresome discussion...

I can't stand the Jehovah's Witnesses. Not only is it a religion created primarily for money by man (ok, mormans win on that one), (whilst they don't appear to condone it outwardly), they allow paedophilia to go on amongst their ranks... oh, and my primary reason for disliking them, is that they give God such a bad name that it's almost untrue.... Grrrrr @ them

(If any of you are Morman or JW, don't take it personally, please)

And, God said to Adam "About that bridge, did you want it to be 2 lane or 4 lane?"

4 lane, with 3 lanes of roadworks at any one time!

Some religions, or denominations, believe that God gave humanity free will, thus, people can go off and do things like kill one another. God creates, loves, forgives, but God is there to influence, not control.

Exactly.

It's like a test, I guess. I think we might be failing it as a species. We'll have to work on that.

It might be like a test, but it isn't God doesn't put us to the test. That's one of his unfailing promises. As for failing as a species... well, I think some members of the species are failing, or have already failed. Some of us are doing alright.

Hhhmmm.....That being the case,the Oxford Concise Dictionary must have come about through an explosion in a print factory.

Hahahah That made me laugh... I never looked at it like that, but it's a very accurate analogy! Poo to evolution! (Ok, so not the strongest argument against it! )

Your "Great Flood" idea is so far fetched as to be part of a silly B-movie.

Yes, almost as far fetched as your evolution "theory". The very idea that something like us can evolve out of a random explosion several billion years ago is quite frankly proposterous. Yes, it's a nice theory and all, but please, let's see the proof for this big bang?

There is proof already for things that happened in the Bible. Until you can prove the Bible wrong, I'm not going to believe any evolution/big bang poppycock.

Evolve:

1) To develop or achieve gradually

2) To work (something) out; devise (does that mean I evolve at the gym?! )

I'm not saying things haven't evolved. I evolve. That is the nature of humans - to learn from and adapt to our environment. When I stuck my fingers in an electric socket, my reaction was along this line of: "Ouch, that wasn't nice. Mustn't do that again". That shows development, working something out.... (ok, perhaps not achieving!), therefore I evolve.

Similarly, I'm not saying genetic mutations haven't occurred. I'm positive that they have been witnessed, but that's not to say we evolved from an ape-like creature. If there's one thing I learned from GCSE Biology, it's that genetic mutations rarely survive because they have too many imperfections to survive. It's a huge jump from saying that genetic mutations can and have occurred to then say that we mutated, evolved, or whatever you like, from an ape-like creature. Would you need some kind of 4 lane bridge a few thousand light years long to bridge that gap?!?!?!

Which creation story? Well, the Christian one is right of course!!!! Seriously... Christianity is one of the few religions/faiths that states that the leader of it created the universe. If you take Buddhism for example, it's based on the teachings of one human a long time ago, who never claimed to create the universe. Islaam and Judaism share the same creation story (although with maybe different names for God), since Judaism is Christianity minus Jesus (essentially), and Islaam has strong ties to Christianity through Abra(ha)m. (Abram being the father of Mohamed).

Hmm... scary to think I actually learnt something in all those RE lessons!!!

Ok, rant over. Like I say, don't take it personally. And I may not have my facts straight about the creations stories, so don't quote me on that one.

Heh, just my 3 pennies' worth!

SH

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also lifted up

But I want more shoes now! And a graphics card now! *Throws tantrum*... Ok, I'm done! I'll just have to see which I end up spending money on first I guess! SH

A non-existant car Although I'm currently learning on a nice Rover 25, 1.4L, V reg I believe. Alloy wheels too... SH

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and jock strap (please remember this is a story, not a 1000-word-long sentence, so please remember punctuation!)

life

I think Herman Munster's would have been even less stylish than those! I quite like boots like that on the right person with the right clothes. Boots like that can be fiendishly expensive though, and I'm not sure how easy they'd be to modify for heels, considering the thick, tough sole and stiff leather. SH

I guess wearing heels gives me a buzz. Sometimes they turn me on, sometimes they don't, although more often than not, both occur at just the wrong time. I've tried wearing my ankle boots to bed, and it just doesn't work for me. It may be that I'm wearing the wrong shoes/boots, but my other shoes have rubber soles that would just cause a lot of friction with the sheets, rather than being smooth inbetween them.... Plus there's the factor of what happens when my dad wakes me up in the morning and sees me wearing them! SH

But then, footwear styles change much over the seasons, so what I want might be available now, but I may spend the money on other things (like a GeForce 4!), and then when I do have the money, the style is no longer in fashion, and I've lost out on a great pair of shoes. Grrr! Decisions! (And a lack of money too....) SH

I'd say there's nothing wrong with it. Just try not to make it too obvious. I don't like people to notice when I stare at their footwear. This is why I like my sunglasses so much, because they have totally reflective wrap-around lenses, which means I can stare all I like and they can't tell! SH

My ex-girlfriend seemed to approve, judging by the fact she encouraged me. Therefore I'm putting that down as the first option. There ought to be an option for ex-parteners! (although that would be toooooo complex!) SH

Bubba, those are the kind of style I'm talking about. As Mike said, I should be able to find some without much problem I would have thought. Now I just need to go looking. I have to choose between spending money on shoes or computer hardware.... not an easy decision I can tell you! Especially when that GF4MX with video capture is only £66 on dabs.com....! SH

Those are great slides... That's exactly the kinda thing I want for myself, nice and plain, black, reasonable heel height, wedge, and with just a single "strap", if you can call it that. Shame the delivery cost to the UK almost doubles the cost of the shoe.... Anyone fancy buying me a pair!? They've also got a few other styles that I like the look of... I'll just have to move to the US! Does anyone know if United Footwear sell shoes like this? I'd imagine someone in the UK must... I'm not after larges sizes, just a 8UK SH

Welcome to the board... Don't forget to check out the huge array of links on the main page (www.hhplace.org), as you'll find many many 'resources' from there. And of course you'll find lots of advice and chat etc from here

SH

I'm not sure if there are people from from DC on the board here, but I'm pretty sure there must be some people from the surrounding area and states that will be able to (or are willing) to travel to meet up. Oh, and welcome to the board SH

I'll have to check what I'm doing on Good Friday - I may be busy, I may not. If I am, I could make the next Tuesday if people have that off work. SH

Only if you have really nice legs.

Well count me in then! (Might need shaving first though...!)

SH

Snap *twang!* Oh how I hate broken strings....

the wasps disappeared (I think the wasps have gone a bit further than I expected here!)

"Slapper" is one of the labels given to certain people (mostly in the younger generation) who have the stereotype of being a bit of a tart, slag, slut, etc etc. Owing to my lack of brain power at 1:16am, I can't define slapper properly... ... but what she was wearing was very tight, and designed to show off her female protrusions that young guys like to oogle over so much. Her hair was done back so tightly it must have been stretching her face, all tied up in a bun at the back, and wearing large gold hoops in her ears that you could almost jump through... oh, and jeans so tight they made her arse practically scream "pinch me", or something like that... Bleh. Brian failure. SH