The PHANTOM
9/16/2008 12:58:00 PM
On Sep 15, 2:41 am, "Roy Blankenship" <pointbla...@earthlink.net>
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> > "Roy Blankenship" <pointbla...@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> > > "Just Visiting" <nospam-webex...@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
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> > > Maybe someday people will transcend all this "prayer" stuff and realize
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> > > is just us. It gets tiresome hearing people asking others to "pray" for
> > > them
> > > or their loved ones. When are you people going to wake up and realize
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> > > have been indoctrinated into a belief system designed to control you out
> > > of
> > > fear? How is the selling of "burning in Hell" different from your
> > > insurance
> > > man painting a picture of the financial disaster you would be in if you
> > > didn't buy insurance from him?
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> > > I just went to my 40th high school reunion, one of the attendees had
> > > "received his calling" and is now a "minister". When someone asked him
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> > > "bless the reunion with a prayer", I actually felt offended. I wanted to
> > > say, "Hey, don't drag me into your bizarre voodoo bullshit". We had a
> > > customer recently who wouldn't buy a product he needed because it had
> > > "Voodoo" in the name. How ridiculous is that?
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> > > No more ridiculous than praying for someone's safety to the unseen
> > > pie-in-the-sky.
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> > logic and reason says you're right,
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> > the unexplainable says you might be wrong
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> > there is not enough evidence or information to prove either
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> Ah, the unexplainable. There is that. I awoke one time and had a sense that
> my dead mother was going to appear to me, I walked to the front door, it was
> raining, I opened the inside door (there was a screen door), and after about
> 10 seconds, a lightning bolt hit the telephone pole across the street. The
> next day, I went and picked up a baseball bat-sized shard and kept it. I
> wonder if this means my mother is pissed off now that she can observe my
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Prolly means you need to give up the gallon-a-day MD 20-20 habit.