Hopefull90
@Hopefull90 (921)
United States • Age 87
Joined myLot 11 years ago
Hopefull90's Mentions
Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
19 Feb 15
I understand that Christian disciples are 'on a mission' (almost 'by contract') to go & lead others to become Christian disciples themselves. But 'telling them that God has given them a Promised Land' http://q.gs/8289510/biglie...
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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
30 Jan 15
... then why WASN'T His life longer than 33-to-54 years? (as it says https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Exodus%2020:12 Honor your father & mother that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you)...
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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine @Hopefull90 (Not defending Catholicism, just 'explaining why they're that way') Paganism--whatever 'deities' they might use to "personify" (I forget the word I really mean there) the natural forces--are just thankfully accepting God's creation as what it...
21 Apr 15
Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
30 Jan 15
... then why WASN'T His life longer than 33-to-54 years? (as it says https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Exodus%2020:12 Honor your father & mother that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you)...
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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
30 Jan 15
... then why WASN'T His life longer than 33-to-54 years? (as it says https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Exodus%2020:12 Honor your father & mother that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you)...
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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
11 Mar 15
I ask http://www.mormon.org/chat "What are the goals of the LDS Church (Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints)?"
An elder responds "To enable us to receive eternal life."
I'm inspired to respond "Talk to Our Father....
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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine @Hopefull90 If 'whether I believe or don't believe in something' affects 'whether that thing is true or not,' then it fails to hold faith for me. God is faithful, his people (no matter how much 'God breathes through/on/at them'---root of the word "inspire")...
19 Mar 15
Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
30 Jan 15
... then why WASN'T His life longer than 33-to-54 years? (as it says https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Exodus%2020:12 Honor your father & mother that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you)...
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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine @Hopefull90 I suppose 'working in exchange for food & shelter & clothing & comforts' felt a bit too much like "slavery." But I too would rather be a slave of the king than a free man unto myself.
I suppose (kinda like Morpheus says in http://q.gs/868QO...
9 Mar 15
Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
30 Jan 15
... then why WASN'T His life longer than 33-to-54 years? (as it says https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Exodus%2020:12 Honor your father & mother that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God gives you)...
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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Jan 15
Well, http://adf.ly/2SCpm he DOESN'T; but 'my staying home' has nothing to do with "whether God controls the weather."
(I wouldn't be going to church for "God" anyway, but -for my there-adopted family whom I met because they all...
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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Jan 15
Well, http://adf.ly/2SCpm he DOESN'T; but 'my staying home' has nothing to do with "whether God controls the weather."
(I wouldn't be going to church for "God" anyway, but -for my there-adopted family whom I met because they all...
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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine @Hopefull90 "if the weather gets in my way from worshiping" ... that could be 'bad' weather (making it unsafe to drive) OR 'good' weather ("tempting you" to go & enjoy Satan's gift of sunshine & comfort rather than -to crowd into that dark church ... the one I...
23 Jan 15
Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Jan 15
Well, http://adf.ly/2SCpm he DOESN'T; but 'my staying home' has nothing to do with "whether God controls the weather."
(I wouldn't be going to church for "God" anyway, but -for my there-adopted family whom I met because they all...
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Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine @Hopefull90 The custom came from https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=baptize&qs_version=NIV God. (i.e. sure, it's based on religions that were before Judeo-Christianity; but it's carried-on by the Scriptures in the link.
And yes, maybe...
18 Jan 15
Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Jan 15
Well, http://adf.ly/2SCpm he DOESN'T; but 'my staying home' has nothing to do with "whether God controls the weather."
(I wouldn't be going to church for "God" anyway, but -for my there-adopted family whom I met because they all...
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2 people
Uncle Jay, Finding More Value in Your Machine
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
31 Dec 14
http://q.gs/7vH0a The question popped into my head today, 'Who sets the Sabbath (the one day out of seven that people are supposed to rest)?'
Of course, it was quickly joined by the answer 'Everybody does, according to the day of...
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Sunil Kumar Mishra
@sunilmishra7756 (4263)
• Moradabad, India
29 Aug 14
I think that heaven and hell both are the imagination of man, there is no reality in it.
ONE WHO DOES NOT CARE FOR HEAVEN, HE IS ALREADY IN HEAVEN. SOME SAY THAT HEAVEN IS BUT THE VISION OF UNFULFILLED DESIRE.DO WE HAVE DESIRES TO...
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Sunil Kumar Mishra
@sunilmishra7756 (4263)
• Moradabad, India
29 Aug 14
I think that heaven and hell both are the imagination of man, there is no reality in it.
ONE WHO DOES NOT CARE FOR HEAVEN, HE IS ALREADY IN HEAVEN. SOME SAY THAT HEAVEN IS BUT THE VISION OF UNFULFILLED DESIRE.DO WE HAVE DESIRES TO...
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Sunil Kumar Mishra
@sunilmishra7756 (4263)
• Moradabad, India
29 Aug 14
I think that heaven and hell both are the imagination of man, there is no reality in it.
ONE WHO DOES NOT CARE FOR HEAVEN, HE IS ALREADY IN HEAVEN. SOME SAY THAT HEAVEN IS BUT THE VISION OF UNFULFILLED DESIRE.DO WE HAVE DESIRES TO...
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Sunil Kumar Mishra
@sunilmishra7756 (4263)
• Moradabad, India
29 Aug 14
I think that heaven and hell both are the imagination of man, there is no reality in it.
ONE WHO DOES NOT CARE FOR HEAVEN, HE IS ALREADY IN HEAVEN. SOME SAY THAT HEAVEN IS BUT THE VISION OF UNFULFILLED DESIRE.DO WE HAVE DESIRES TO...
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Sylvia Pet
@robswife06 (3)
• Presto, Pennsylvania
6 May 14
It seems nothing is going right for me lately. I look back on my life & wonder just how I let this happen. I have a wonderful husband whom I love w/ all my heart, but ever since we moved to his hometown in PA I have been...
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Sunil Kumar Mishra
@sunilmishra7756 (4263)
• Moradabad, India
20 Apr 14
All the great persons have the same opinion about the immortality of life. Why do they believe in death ?
Abraham cowley says' Nothing is there to come and nothing past. But an eternal now does always last.
Ralph Waldo
Emerson...
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