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Look, if you and KB wanna believe the world is getting better, I'm not gonna argue with ya. That wasnt the point of this thread anyway.

Have a nice night.

In life we don't get what we deserve we get what we expect. If I foresee the world getting better, then my world will. If you foresee your world getting worse chances are it's going to get worse.
 

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KB, in a metaphysical sense (imho) we do in fact get everything we deserve. And inversely, we deserve everything we get.

That noted, I do most certainly echo your and share my personal testimony of the power of Expectation.
 

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In life we don't get what we deserve we get what we expect. If I foresee the world getting better, then my world will. If you foresee your world getting worse chances are it's going to get worse.

I'm not getting what I deserve. I agreed with you there
 

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Who is the Architect?


I was passing through Columbus Ohio some years ago and stopped to eat in the depot restaurant. My attention was called to a slice of watermelon. I ordered it and ate it. I was so pleased with the melon that i asked the waiter to dry some of the seeds that i might take them home and plant them in my garden.

That night, a thought came to my mind... I would use the watermelon as an illustration. So the next morning, when i reached Chicago, I had enough seeds weighed to find out that it would take about 5,000 watermelon seeds to weigh a pound. I estimated that the watermelon weighed about forty pounds. Then i applied mathematics to the watermelon.

A few weeks before, someone, i know not who, had planted a little seed in the ground. Under the influence of sunshine and showers, that little watermelon seed had taken off its coat and gone to work. It had gathered from somewhere 200,000 times its own weight and forced that enormous weight through a tiny stem and built a watermelon. On the outside it had put a covering of green, within that a rind of white, and within that, a core of red. Then it had scattered through the red core, little seeds, each one capable of doing the same work over again.

What architect drew the plan? Where did that little watermelon seed get its tremendous strength? Where did it find its flavoring extract and its coloring matter? How did it build a watermelon? Until you can explain a watermelon, do not be too sure that you can set limits to the power of the Almighty, or tell just what He will do or how He will do it. The most learned men in the world cannot explain a watermelon, but the most ignorant man in the world can eat a watermelon and enjoy it.

God has given us the things that we need, and He has given us the knowledge necessary to use these things. And the truth that He has revealed to us is infinitely more important for our welfare than it would be to understand the mysteries that He has seen fit to conceal from us.

William Jennings Bryan..
 

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Clarence Darrow kicked his ass in Arkansas but the jury liked Bryan's biblical style parables.
 

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Very little but it wont be the 1st thread on here that went off course.
 

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It would be thankful and less violent if a belief in God was an adult version of a tooth ferry. Unfortunately, angry Christian God fearing, mad at the world, control freak, military welfare parasites share psychological similarities with Islam suicidal terrorists where God is a psychological coward crutch. Does your God belief change anything? If you believe in Jesus, does your control freak belief reverberate back through time and rewrite bible history to make the Dinosaurs die within the last five thousand years? Does your belief in Jesus enable you to handle poisonous snakes with immunity to bites? So far, the evidence is that the snakes are more powerful than Jesus, and their venom rattles all pontificating warmongering christain life crusaders to rest with feverish and deadly spasms. I am generally tolerant but obvious atheist baiting runs down the Darwin stupidity ladder in a race with other world fundamentalist to the bottom.
 

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It would be thankful and less violent if a belief in God was an adult version of a tooth ferry.

Friendly note that a fairy might be found crossing a body of water on a ferry, though I imagine a tooth fairy probably just flies across.
 

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One day, a man was walking through the forest with his son thousands of miles from the nearest civilization. All around them they were surrounded by brush and trees. Suddenly they came to a clearing, and in the middle of that clearing stood a great house.

"Dad, how did that house get here if there was no one to build it?" the son asked.

"Well," said the father, "one day, a tiny particle of sawdust was floating in the air, and then when it got to this spot the air changed and the speck of sawdust exploded and after 5,000 years, this house was here."

"Wow," said the son. "I guess that makes more sense than an architect designing it...."
 

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One day, a man was walking through the forest with his son thousands of miles from the nearest civilization. All around them they were surrounded by brush and trees. Suddenly they came to a clearing, and in the middle of that clearing stood a great house.

"Dad, how did that house get here if there was no one to build it?" the son asked.

"Well," said the father, "one day, a tiny particle of sawdust was floating in the air, and then when it got to this spot the air changed and the speck of sawdust exploded and after 5,000 years, this house was here."

"Wow," said the son. "I guess that makes more sense than an architect designing it...."
That is exactly how I feel. In my mind, there is no reason to try to deny and explain away what is obvious.
 

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I was passing through Columbus Ohio some years ago and stopped to eat in the depot restaurant. My attention was called to a slice of watermelon. I ordered it and ate it. I was so pleased with the melon that i asked the waiter to dry some of the seeds that i might take them home and plant them in my garden.

That night, a thought came to my mind... I would use the watermelon as an illustration. So the next morning, when i reached Chicago, I had enough seeds weighed to find out that it would take about 5,000 watermelon seeds to weigh a pound. I estimated that the watermelon weighed about forty pounds. Then i applied mathematics to the watermelon.

A few weeks before, someone, i know not who, had planted a little seed in the ground. Under the influence of sunshine and showers, that little watermelon seed had taken off its coat and gone to work. It had gathered from somewhere 200,000 times its own weight and forced that enormous weight through a tiny stem and built a watermelon. On the outside it had put a covering of green, within that a rind of white, and within that, a core of red. Then it had scattered through the red core, little seeds, each one capable of doing the same work over again.

What architect drew the plan? Where did that little watermelon seed get its tremendous strength? Where did it find its flavoring extract and its coloring matter? How did it build a watermelon? Until you can explain a watermelon, do not be too sure that you can set limits to the power of the Almighty, or tell just what He will do or how He will do it. The most learned men in the world cannot explain a watermelon, but the most ignorant man in the world can eat a watermelon and enjoy it.

God has given us the things that we need, and He has given us the knowledge necessary to use these things. And the truth that He has revealed to us is infinitely more important for our welfare than it would be to understand the mysteries that He has seen fit to conceal from us.

William Jennings Bryan..
Have never heard this, but I am trying to see how anyone could disagree with him.
 

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Friendly note that a fairy might be found crossing a body of water on a ferry, though I imagine a tooth fairy probably just flies across.

All good Barman. Thanks for correction on spelling 'fairy/ferry'. I live out on water and 'ferry' might have been high percentage subliminal.
 

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I don't know HP? I think you spelled it right =)

Staten Island Fairy Crash Injures 15

NEW YORK — A fairy boat with about 800 passengers aboard lost power while docking during the Wednesday evening rush hour and slammed into a pier, injuring 15 people.

Fairy officials said the boat's hard docking happened as it entered slip No. 5 at the St. George ferry terminal in Staten Island, where a 2003 fairy crash killed 11 people. The injuries in Wednesday's accident were minor.

Preliminary reports indicated the captain sounded the boat's whistle and crew members prepared the passengers for the hard landing, Staten Island Fairy Chief Operating Officer Jim DeSimone said.

Witnesses said that the announcement from the pilothouse was to "hang on" and that riders scrambled to the back of the fairy, which was taking them from lower Manhattan.

The boat hit the terminal's lower bridge platform and upper pedestrian passenger walkway, causing minor damage to the bridge deck and handrail on the walkway, DeSimone said. There was no damage to the boat, the John J. Marchi, named for a former state senator who died in April.

Fire department officials said between 750 and 800 passengers were removed from the boat after the incident.

The city Department of Transportation, which oversees the fairy system, and the U.S. Coast Guard were investigating. Fairy crew members were undergoing routine drug and alcohol tests, DeSimone said.

The Staten Island Fairy has nine vessels that carry commuters between Staten Island and lower Manhattan. The 5-mile, 25-minute ride is free.

A Staten Island Fairy boat with about 1,500 people aboard crashed into a pier at full speed on Oct. 15, 2003, killing 11 people and injuring dozens more in one of the city's worst mass-transit disasters. The fairy's pilot had been taking painkillers and was suffering from extreme fatigue.
 

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A gay friend of mine from NYC tells me that The Staten Island Fairy is a great ride
 

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