When I was a kid, if you asked 100 people at random "Do you believe in god?" I would expect a very small number 5-10 would have said no. Around age 13 I started having doubts about the reality of god even though as a catholic I went to church, received communion, confirmation, even prayed occasionally although I always felt stupid doing it because I never knew what to say and it seemed like an excercize in futility. Like my little prayers were really going to be answered, they never were as I recall. The only reason I behaved like a devout christian was because my mother forced it on me.
Today, if you once again sampled 100 people at random "Do you believe in god?" I would expect a much larger number maybe 30-40 would say no. When I was a kid you wouldn't dare say you don't believe in god because if you did, you would be an outcast and be viewed as a bad person. I think christian religions are losing their stranglehold on peoples minds.
Did YOU call the bank or did this Co connect you? It sounds fishy to me. Financial institutions don't usually call people on the phone they send paperwork through the mail.
As a tax payer I'm glad that I wont have to support him for the rest of his life. The only down side is he fathered a child by one of the girls he kidnapped and that child will have to grow up with the knowledge that her father was a criminal who did some horrible things.
Basically it's a 2 step process. Step 1, Fermentation. That means you let the apples basically rot. Yeast is added or just use the natural yeast on the apples and you add sugar for the yeast to eat. The yeast eats the sugar forming a by product, alcohol. This produces what is known as "Hard Cider". You'll be lucky to get 10% alcohol. The next process is. Step 2, Distillation. This means heating the hard cider in a sealed flask, collect the steam and condense it. That's hard liquor. Most Moonshine is made from corn though, not apples.
Hi Jan, The thread originator is the only one who can ban somebody. If you start a thread you will see a big button appear under everybodies post. Just click on it and poof they can't post again in your thread unless you UNban them. I've banned a few people in my life, mostly trolls and bible thumpers who copy and post pages of gospel or really nasty people who get insulting. I don't ban dumbasses because I think it's best to let them speak and self destruct. The bit about hiding threads I think has the opposite effect by drawing attention to it. If you want to be sure everybody reads what you have to say, just hide it. Human nature will assure that it gets read.
Well, nobody would have known for sure which poll I was banned from if you just kept quiet about it but in typical narcissistic fashion you had to declare it was your poll. For all anybody knew I may have been talking about a poll from 2 months ago. BTW, I was extremely careful not to give any clues leading to your poll as I was quite confident that you would do that all on your own.
There is something I'm curious about though. I know you are a very big defender of the Constitution specifically the 2nd Amendment which gives Americans the right to bear arms, so how do you square that with trashing the 1st Amendment which gives Americans the right to free speech? Hmmm?
It seems to me that just because I voiced an opinion counter to what the poll creator holds that I was banned from his poll in spite of the fact that I hadn't even said word one to him. All I did was respond to another person who posted to the thread. Subsequently, I am unable to answer any comments directed toward me including addressing certain posters who felt it was necessary to mock on my screen name. So now people can attack me and I can't even defend myself. Is this the American way? If a person is so insecure as to ban someone for holding an opposite opinion from him, that person is truly a coward.
There is something about sisters singing together. I don't know exactly what it is. Could it be biological, genetic, growing up and singing together for years? I do know that I've observed this phenomenon many times before though. Sisters harmonize in such a perfect way it can give you chills.
Men who raise the toilet seat, do so out of respect for women by not pissing all over the seat. Given the choice of sitting on a wet seat, or expending a small amount of energy to put the seat down before you plop your precious derrière on it, which would you choose? Women seem to think that the task of raising and lowering the seat should be borne by the man totally, whereas it is more democratic to share this terrible burden. It may come as a shock to women that at times men have to sit on the seat and I've never heard a man complain that he had to lower the seat.
For the record, I'm not in favor of giving weapons of any kind to any country in the middle east including Israel. Israel doesn't need them anyway, they already have enough military might for their defense. But like I said early on it's not about helping one country defend itself from another, it's about jobs and profit.
Hi Jan, Some people have chickens and pot bellied pigs for pets. To me they are livestock and don't belong in the house. I think a pig is smart enough to potty train but a chicken? No Way.
Who in their right mind would have a scorpian for a pet?
I think that part of owning a pet is the companionship you gat from it. In my mind this would eliminate a snake, lizard, fish, turtle, spider, and a scorpian.
We don't "sell" the tanks and F16 fighter jets to Egypt, we give them to Egypt for free, a not so subtle difference to the tune of $3.9 billion since 1980. Russia also gives military hardware to Egypt it's a leftover practice from the cold war where the East and West was being played by every little country with their hand out.
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I didn't think that was possible.
I enjoyed that.
Just updated my office software to Open Office 4.0
I love Open Office esp as it's free, but I hate the graph module. Lotus 123 was 10X easier to create graphs.What is libre?