Dan Gross

But hopefully not Gross in a 500 pound mouth-breathing double-butter popcorn kinda way.... To bring this full circle, I remember deciding to make the most of my name and writing a series of "Gross poems" back in elementary school... So I'm boring to Brandon. That's cool, I'm pretty boring to me too...

I haven't used that name since, well, let's not get into that...

I don't think he's talking about lying as much as behavioral differences evident when you are dealing with someone anonymously. The reason why I choose to use my name in forums as my user name is to force myself to try to think about what I'm posting before-hand to try to ensure it's a post I'd "put my name on" (in other words, something I wouldn't have qualms about saying in person.). The difference I find in the Internet is the desire for people to take what I say too seriously. Those people need more Kool-Aid. So I say stupid stuff? Yeah. I say it in real life as well. Difference is it's easier to edit a forum post (which I rarely do, except in some cases to edify) than something that was said.

Something new written on the restroom stall every day...

Now-a-days the equivalent is ATV's. One of my early gigs with my band, we played one of the local hick bars in the middle of winter. Overheard: Drunk #1:"Hey, I haven't seen you here in a long time." Drunk #2:"Yeah, I lost my license for driving drunk so now the only time I can go out drinking is when I can ride my snow mobile..."

Yeah, it is. I haven't been down that way in 4 years (used to go down every year to catch the fireworks on the Mall before the kids came...), but I expect my 5 year old would love Reptileland.

GG's tool will do the same...costs $0.02 though http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en

Based on a true story and proof that Lynch can do good movies without time warps, midgets, bizarre fetishes and/or Kyle MacLachlan.

Can't quite speak to that time-frame, but they set up some tricky speed traps thanks to the terrain. Remember once cresting a hill and turning a corner, and there is a cop standing roadside aiming his gun at the cars going by (with a chaser car accompanying him of course). Fortunately I was doing reasonable speed. Pay extra careful attention in Harrisburg to stay on-route. 15 is an interesting ride...there's usually contruction somewhere along it slowing things up for a bit. There's a stretch where it seems like there's a McD's every 5 miles, and every 10 miles or so there's at least porn and/or fireworks shop...been to some of the McD's, not to any of the other two.

Did he fall face-first into your tub? VABills did good...with a little prodding.

So was Medusa the first recorded case of Herpes...?

Sure you can, but your button is called "banish." Only two on mine, and neither have been around in a while....at least one of them was "globally ignored" by the mods.

Hey!

If you want to light a candle you have to put money in the box...much easier to curse the darkness... Whoops, wrong thread/forum...

Yes I am. Got my Hobbes doll when I joined the church.

technically, I am a catholic, as "catholic" as a term connotes the universality... Not a wanna-be, but a not-wanna-be, per my "cultist" criteria above... But yeah, I know, a lemming by any other name...

Yup, the First Presbyterian cult. 2.4 million members strong in the US...don't let your kids watch Mr. Rogers, or they'll be pulled into it too...

Nah, you just say: "I want to be saved....where's your wife right now...?" I hear ya. My faith guided me to a church that is more about "good News" rather than "Hellfire and Brimstone." It also guided me to a church that was about learning how to be closer to God, and I felt that ritual upon ritual was not the way for me. I feel I am a better person for the last five years I've spent at my church.

And that's just covering the debt. In order to get there you have to burn through your $14.50 daily allowance first...

"Hello, I am Sally Struthers. I'm here to call attention to a problem that is overlooked by many in today's society, but has grave consequences to many. I'm talking of Christian chronic masturbators. Let me introduce you to Harry Palms. His chronic masturbation has led to a Holy Debt. For just 1.05 per day, you can help Harry repay that debt so that one day, when he dies, he can ascend into Heaven. Please help. Harry, and thousands others like him need you. Adopt a Christian chronic masturbator today."

Oh, so you were "acting," eh? Brilliant! And don't worry, I've got you covered. I have $.35 set aside to pay in indulgences for the day (hopefully waaaaaaaay off into the future) that you meet your maker...

As I quoted, you said: "However, every Christian faith does say that you have to accept Jesus or you are condemned." After a couple more responses, it appeared you softened that a bit, but that's where you started from.

In response to K-Dog's question about all non-Christians going to Hell. You are painting things with too broad a brush stroke there VA. Calvinism accepts that we are saved through the grace of God alone (because not even Christians are "worthy"), which leaves room for the interpretation that God can allow others into Heaven as he sees fit...who's to question God and his motives anyway? Yes he called the Jews "his chosen," and made the new covenant with them through his son Jesus Christ. Yes, according to many Christian faiths (I don't pretend to know every splinter faith like you do), accepting Jesus as your Lord and Savior is the one way to guarantee you reach Heaven (and, of course, within the Roman Catholic faith, you need not only faith but deed). But the logic does not necessarily follow that all non-Christians go to Hell, or the unofficial wishy-washy place called "limbo." God will do what He wants and if He thinks a non-Christian belongs in Heaven, who are we to argue?

Reminds me of a Father Guido bit. Went something like:

So I take it you are among those that reject Vatican II? You know, Lumen Gentium, Section 16..."Those who, through no fault of their own, do not know the gospel of Christ or his church, but who nevertheless seek God with a sincere heart, and moved by grace, try in their actions to do his will as they know it through the dictates of their conscience-these too may attain eternal salvation."