_________________ " How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hahn
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LOL!!!! You are so right, Chris! What a funny mistake I made. My only excuse is that it was early this morning that I posted. Can you fix it?
_________________ " How we eat determines, to a considerable extent, how the world is used." - Wendell Berry, What Are People For?
“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child — our own two eyes. All is a miracle.” -Thich Nhat Hahn
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LOL!!!! You are so right, Chris! What a funny mistake I made. My only excuse is that it was early this morning that I posted. Can you fix it?
And I thought it was a trick question! I voted yes. God should be taken off everything it was inserted on to over the years. The Pledge was changed to add it after all...so taking it off is just going back to the original.
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I say remove it. It'll never fly though. Most Americans still can't accept evolution and they're sure as hell ain't gonna let 'God' be removed from the currency. This is a 'Christian nation' after all.
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What would they say instead? How about "Fornit Some Fornus." It's an expression from a short sci fi story I read a long time ago. Fornits were tiny aliens who lived in a guy's typewriter and Fornus was a substance they shot all over that gave writers good luck. I can't remember who the author was.
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What would they say instead? How about "Fornit Some Fornus." It's an expression from a short sci fi story I read a long time ago. Fornits were tiny aliens who lived in a guy's typewriter and Fornus was a substance they shot all over that gave writers good luck. I can't remember who the author was.
I like that. Or even better, how about Don't Panic!
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I had a boyfriend in the eighties who had some very unique ideas about stuff and things. He heard of a conspiracy theory from somewhere and he believed it. The theory was that the government planned to tatoo all of our wrists with barcodes. The barcode would contain our identity, our financial info and our criminal records. The boyfriend was terrified that that would dehumanize us somehow, since we would not be able to get away with being criminals, use fake identification, and spend money we don't have. I like the idea of just having them scan my wrists at the Wal Mart checkout. Sounds very efficient and convenient. Solves the God thingy too. The only problem is that crooks might sever people's arms to get at their bank accounts and commit identity fraud.
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Everytime he makes a large goof-up they cover it up with all his lesser goofs that are more funny in a haha not ahhh sense.
Like those times he mispronounces common words, not really a bad thing, I mean somepeople really can't help that, but everyone is able to laugh and agree that he must be a idot (he's not).
But when he spouts off on someonther issues it is not really that funny when you think about it, it is really scary what he is intentioning, but perhaps the majority of people are able to let it go because he is not being stupid directly .
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