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  • Anybody ever see the movie Marjoe starring Marjo Gortner

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    @westside-steve said:

    Anybody ever see the movie Marjoe starring Marjo Gortner

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    Indeed I have, after I saw Christopher Hitchens briefly describe it in one of his books. It's highly disturbing about how his parents treated him as a child.

  • You know cal, for someone who continuously floods the political discussion board with negative post after post about "libs" and democrats in general, I find it rather audacious and hypocritical of you to be admonishing others about being too general in their critique of Christian televangelists. jblu

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    I have no idea what you are talking about. Where did I complain to libs about them being too general....

    what???????

    Go back and read again.

    I said

    "Qubbling about the very end content/details doesn't make the basic logical structures

    stop being the same."

    The point was, they were looking at the details of content, when I was talking about the

    basic logical structure. Of course the details are different. Actually, I was complaining

    that they were into details between televangelists and engineers, obviously completely different,

    when I was talking about why my sarcastic examples of engineers did the same thing -

    shed a bad light on an entire group. That's all.

  • Churches are already openly lobbying for policy. Tax em.

  • Wow Cal, jbluhm's post went right over your head. I think you missed his point completely

    And again, you're still reaching incredibly hard on the "point" you're trying to make. I posted a video that shined a light on some negative aspects of Christianity (conmen that parade as preachers [tho the whole thing is one big con] and the dumb/desperate/mindless followers that eat up the con). You didn't like that apparently, so you posted engineering disasters over the course of centuries. Apparently trying to equate thr two, though they aren't alike in any way. Other posters here seem to agree too.

    It was a desperate reach of an apparent attack of something I do. It pretty much failed spectacularly too. As much as you want the two to be the same, they aren't. Accidents aren't cons.

    Then you calling everyone a liberal that disagrees with you about anything is just the icing on the cake.

  • I testify...use this to cleanse your sins or get out of debt or cure cancer......truly one of gods gifts to you!!

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  • Really? I did.

    Anyway I did watch the video. There are some real assholes out there in the world of televangelism. And I think John Oliver is very good. As opposed to the shrike that took over for Colbert.

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    @westside-steve said:

    Really? I did.

    Anyway I did watch the video. There are some real assholes out there in the world of televangelism. And I think John Oliver is very good. As opposed to the shrike that took over for Colbert.

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    I also watched the video, and John Oliver is great.

    Was that Debbie Downer playing his wife?

  • Ha!! That video was hilarious/infuriating.

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  • I give it as much credence as Obama's State of the Union address.

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  • I Never Knew You

    21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ 23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you...

    * There are warnings in the bible like this that could apply here. I am not the judge but the bible says there will be those who think they are fine with the Lord and will have a rude awakening one day. There are no examples from Jesus to His disciples living the lifestyles of the rich and famous. I do not believe Christians have to be poor either but it comes to moderation in all things. If a private jet could be justified because of expenses for use in ministry that would be an acceptable argument but that is not the case. These private jets that cost millions plus maintenance costs to me only seem to be status symbols.

  • Owning a private jet is almost always more expensive than chartering a private jet, over the course of years/decades.

  • " there will be poor always, pathetically struggling, look at the good things you've got."

    A L Webber

  • Stuart

    A better analogy for Cal to have used would be to list the deceit and lies of tele-democrats.

    Right Woody?

    There are like a 100 "Obama lies" videos.

  • being rich isn't a sin, and no I don't think you're "obligated" to hand out your money either. The issue is "how" you got rich. There quite a few rich people in this country that got rich because they deliberately hosed someone or some other people. Knew full well they were indulging in a system that if you knew it well, you could work it to fuck over a lot of people. Those people ain't seein nothing after they die. Someone who got rich cause he invented something, a service or product or whatever...that benefitted people for the most part...that's fine. More power to them. And a lot of those people are infact job creators.

    What I hate is that rich has become synomonous with job creation, which is horseshit. In our current system you can get filthy stinking rich, up to your eyeballs in our fake monopoly money...and not create jack shit. Just feed off the system. I wish conservatives could wrap their heads around that distinction, the party would grow if they could.

  • Well people do work for corporations but that's not the point of the corporation. The point is to provide profit for those who invest. People like me, my father, my sister and just about every regular human being that has anything invested anywhere. Corporations are not and should not be seen as welfare organizations pissing away profits to keep useless workers on the job. Sorry but that's an unfortunate truth of the matter.

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  • that's interesting, that corporations who employ thousands aren't really technically places of employment. Apparently they're places where laborers reside and toil away for their whole lives primarily for the benefit of investors. That is an interesting take on the economy. Explains a lot though. Maybe we shouldn't look at corporations as "job creators" then? Seeing as their just investment houses and all...

  • I think you might be confusing a corporation with a charity. Or possibly a hybrid like the WPA

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  • So they shouldn't be considered as "job creators". Cause companies that consider themselves job creators, ie economy stimulators, first and foremost...are the companies that should get old fashioneds regularly from govt. I really did think the purpose behind companies was to employ as many people as the business model would allow and make money for everyone involved in the endeavor.