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Old 08-21-2005, 11:17 PM
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Cliffs and twisties, sounds good.
 
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The gift of choice
I have frequently heard free choice as an explanation for the evil and bad that exists in the world. However I had a thought tonight that maybe that is the wrong perspective.

It is a unique gift that tommorow you can choose:
To be happy or sad
To be kind or mean
To be loving or hateful
To be generous or miserly

So tommorow when you awake you CAN choose who you are, use the gift wisely.

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Old 08-21-2005, 11:28 PM
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Re: The gift of choice
Someone's getting mighty philosophical here. True words though, those...
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Re: The gift of choice
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... I had a thought tonight that maybe that is the wrong perspective....
Good.

It's not a wrong perspective, just one dimension/aspect of the effects of free choice. If no one or nothing had FoC, there could in fact be no wrong.

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Re: The gift of choice
Tomorrow, tommorow, let's call the whole thing off....

It's all a matter of choice.
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Sheepofblue = Jack Handy
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Old 09-07-2005, 9:52 AM
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Sheepofblue = Jack Handy
who is that?
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al franken.
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al franken.
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Old 09-07-2005, 10:09 AM
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Re: The gift of choice
he called me Al Franken did I say He is a liberal commie hating goat that does not work for my shepherd
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Old 09-07-2005, 10:12 AM
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Re: The gift of choice
To be fair, Jack Handy was a character (that was an excellent personification of the wussiness of liberals) the jackass played on Saturday Night Live before he got really mouthy with his America-destroying left wing extremist bullshit.
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"Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy" I actually got a kick out of it. No offense meant it just sounded Handyesque. Anybody remember any of them?
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"Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy" I actually got a kick out of it. No offense meant it just sounded Handyesque. Anybody remember any of them?
http://www.erikandanna.com/Humor/Dee..._thoughts_.htm
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Sheep have you been running the RC inside of the trailer again?
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Old 09-07-2005, 11:37 AM
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Sheep have you been running the RC inside of the trailer again?
Nope that will be Friday night loading for Barber. Where I will choose to be happy, generous and hope to be faster than the white sheep
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I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet.
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Old 09-07-2005, 11:55 AM
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It's Jack Handey.
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I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
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If trees could scream would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? Well maybe, if they screamed all the time, for no reason.
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OK, it's time to get BOT. Thanks
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Re: The gift of choice
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I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it.
Thats because its not you holding the gun
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Thats because its not you holding the gun
Any man, in the right situation, is capable of murder. But not any man is capable of being a good camper. So, murder and camping are not as similar as you might think.
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Re: The gift of choice
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I have frequently heard free choice as an explanation for the evil and bad that exists in the world. However I had a thought tonight that maybe that is the wrong perspective.

It is a unique gift that tommorow you can choose:
To be happy or sad
To be kind or mean
To be loving or hateful
To be generous or miserly

So tommorow when you awake you CAN choose who you are, use the gift wisely.


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