In Search of Truth - All posts http://forums.insearchoftruth.org/index.php "As iron sharpens iron, so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend." (Proverbs 27:17) en-gb Copyright (c) 2010 In Search of Truth truthseekers@insearchoftruth.org (In Search of Truth) truthseekers@insearchoftruth.org (In Search of Truth) Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0600 Sun, 01 Aug 2010 01:10:02 -0600 MSSTI RSS Feed 2.0 Version 1.2.1 - (C) 2008-2009 leviatan21 - http://www.mssti.com/ In Search of Truth - All posts http://forums.insearchoftruth.org/styles/isot_silver/imageset/forums_title.png http://forums.insearchoftruth.org/index.php 60 Re: Secular Pastimes http://forums.insearchoftruth.org/viewtopic.php?p=5722#p5722

Anyway, today's "Argyle Sweater" is an excellent illustration of what I meant: (June 30th, 2010)

http://www.theargylesweater.com/

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Anyway, today's "Argyle Sweater" is an excellent illustration of what I meant: (June 30th, 2010)

http://www.theargylesweater.com/

Statistics : Posted by fluffywarthog • on Wed Jun 30, 2010 2:02 pm
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Statistics : Posted by BensMom • on Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:04 am
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Statistics : Posted by BensMom • on Tue Jun 15, 2010 7:04 am
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Also, thanks for the advice! And no, I've never heard "measure twice, cut once" Image , but I get it.


P.S.: The word, um, "di$gusting" seems to have transformed into an annoyed blue face with an "ing" attached to it... THAT isn't a bad word now, right??? 'Cuz that would be really ironic, considering the original topic of this thread...

Statistics : Posted by fluffywarthog • on Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:28 pm
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Also, thanks for the advice! And no, I've never heard "measure twice, cut once" Image , but I get it.


P.S.: The word, um, "di$gusting" seems to have transformed into an annoyed blue face with an "ing" attached to it... THAT isn't a bad word now, right??? 'Cuz that would be really ironic, considering the original topic of this thread...

Statistics : Posted by fluffywarthog • on Mon Jun 14, 2010 11:28 pm
]]> fluffywarthog@gmail.com (fluffywarthog)Tue, 15 Jun 2010 00:28:03 -0600http://forums.insearchoftruth.org/viewtopic.php?p=5720#p5720 Re: My Friends Tigger & Pooh http://forums.insearchoftruth.org/viewtopic.php?p=5719#p5719 You sound like many of my students have in the past.

Thanks for the apology. I'm glad you're learning, and I know that learning to admit wrong is something that many people never learn, no matter how long they've been a "Christian". I could tell by your zealous nature that you were probably young and wanting to do everything as perfectly as possible, even if it wasn't something you'd agree with in the future. That's a good trait (Paul had it). Just so you know, I've grown, too. My kids are nearly 2 & 5 now, so I've gotten WAY more unsolicited advice than you can possibly imagine. It goes with the territory, so look out when you have kids. (The "nod and smile" method works great. Image )

I'm sure you've heard "measure twice, cut once", right? Same thing with scripture. Read twice before repeating to others, just to make sure you're saying what you think you're saying. Your original post is still something I agree with and have never forgotten. I'm much more careful with what my kids see than I EVER was with things I'd let myself watch. I was an over-zealous teenager once, but somewhere along the line, I lost my zeal, and I did a lot of really stupid things. Watch yourself. I sometimes look back at my life in horror now. There are relationships that can never be fixed, because those people in my life have moved on. I have no idea how to find them. There are times when you won't be able to fix things you've said because the person you spoke to has passed on.

I certainly don't mean to tell you that you shouldn't spread the gospel. Quite the opposite, actually. I mean to say that people remember things... even things that you have forgotten you said. People from my past pop up occasionally, and it embarrasses me when they bring up things I erroneously said back then. It shames me to know people may be lost because I never corrected their behavior, but rather joined in or ignored it.

Kudos to you kid. Image

Statistics : Posted by BensMom • on Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:57 pm
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Thanks for the apology. I'm glad you're learning, and I know that learning to admit wrong is something that many people never learn, no matter how long they've been a "Christian". I could tell by your zealous nature that you were probably young and wanting to do everything as perfectly as possible, even if it wasn't something you'd agree with in the future. That's a good trait (Paul had it). Just so you know, I've grown, too. My kids are nearly 2 & 5 now, so I've gotten WAY more unsolicited advice than you can possibly imagine. It goes with the territory, so look out when you have kids. (The "nod and smile" method works great. Image )

I'm sure you've heard "measure twice, cut once", right? Same thing with scripture. Read twice before repeating to others, just to make sure you're saying what you think you're saying. Your original post is still something I agree with and have never forgotten. I'm much more careful with what my kids see than I EVER was with things I'd let myself watch. I was an over-zealous teenager once, but somewhere along the line, I lost my zeal, and I did a lot of really stupid things. Watch yourself. I sometimes look back at my life in horror now. There are relationships that can never be fixed, because those people in my life have moved on. I have no idea how to find them. There are times when you won't be able to fix things you've said because the person you spoke to has passed on.

I certainly don't mean to tell you that you shouldn't spread the gospel. Quite the opposite, actually. I mean to say that people remember things... even things that you have forgotten you said. People from my past pop up occasionally, and it embarrasses me when they bring up things I erroneously said back then. It shames me to know people may be lost because I never corrected their behavior, but rather joined in or ignored it.

Kudos to you kid. Image

Statistics : Posted by BensMom • on Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:57 pm
]]> smithcp@digitalonline.org (BensMom)Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:57:25 -0600http://forums.insearchoftruth.org/viewtopic.php?p=5719#p5719 Secular Pastimes http://forums.insearchoftruth.org/viewtopic.php?p=5718#p5718
For example, I feel like by definition, a "Christian board game" is a board game that has lots of Bible and religious-related stuff. But here's an example of board game I like to play with my family: "The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Game."

http://www.amazon.com/New-Yorker-Cartoon-Caption-Game/dp/B000MPNK5K

We come up with silly and usually completely random captions and laugh our heads off. This has absolutely nothing to do with the Bible. In fact, if it did, I don't think I would like it, because I don't like to laugh at things that are Holy, because, to me, it would be blasphemous.

(I've actually been offended a number of times by VeggieTales when I've felt that God's name isn't being treated with the utmost respect. For instance, when Bob gets annoyed because Larry is singing "And God has a lot to say in his book." But don't get me wrong, I love that show!)

So as long as something like that isn't overdone, isn't it okay to do something completely unrelated to the Bible, even if you are a Christian?

Oh wait, and just so you know, I'm one of the teenagers in the family, not one of the adults. Like I said on a different thread, I'm in no position to be teaching. I'm posting this with a "is this right?" sort of attitude, not a "This is right" sort of attitude.

Statistics : Posted by fluffywarthog • on Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:49 pm
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For example, I feel like by definition, a "Christian board game" is a board game that has lots of Bible and religious-related stuff. But here's an example of board game I like to play with my family: "The New Yorker Cartoon Caption Game."

http://www.amazon.com/New-Yorker-Cartoon-Caption-Game/dp/B000MPNK5K

We come up with silly and usually completely random captions and laugh our heads off. This has absolutely nothing to do with the Bible. In fact, if it did, I don't think I would like it, because I don't like to laugh at things that are Holy, because, to me, it would be blasphemous.

(I've actually been offended a number of times by VeggieTales when I've felt that God's name isn't being treated with the utmost respect. For instance, when Bob gets annoyed because Larry is singing "And God has a lot to say in his book." But don't get me wrong, I love that show!)

So as long as something like that isn't overdone, isn't it okay to do something completely unrelated to the Bible, even if you are a Christian?

Oh wait, and just so you know, I'm one of the teenagers in the family, not one of the adults. Like I said on a different thread, I'm in no position to be teaching. I'm posting this with a "is this right?" sort of attitude, not a "This is right" sort of attitude.

Statistics : Posted by fluffywarthog • on Mon Jun 14, 2010 1:49 pm
]]> fluffywarthog@gmail.com (fluffywarthog)Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:49:50 -0600http://forums.insearchoftruth.org/viewtopic.php?p=5718#p5718 Re: My Friends Tigger & Pooh http://forums.insearchoftruth.org/viewtopic.php?p=5717#p5717
First of all, I'm sorry if I didn't make this clear, but I'm just a teenager. I do not have any kids, I just watch Winnie the Pooh because... well... I think it's funny, and I don't like the assumption that, as people get older, they can only laugh at sex jokes. I find most "adult" programs to be Imageing. That's not to say I spend a lot of time watching Pooh or anything, and I just kind of tune out the parts that are only meant for little kids...

Anyway... if you happen to read this, BensMom... I obviously offended you, and I'm truly sorry. You see, I've grown up in a family that is almost completely devoid of anything religious, and at the time I posted here, you could say I was just starting to discover Christianity. This whole minced oath thing is a fairly simple subject, and I guess I just kind of attached myself to it, since it was easy for me to understand and follow. Now I am still confused about a lot of stuff, but not nearly as confused as I was then, and I see now that Christianity is not nearly as simple as not saying a word like "gosh."

On that subject, I've actually changed my opinion. If someone says a "minced oath" all their life without even considering it to be bad, surely there's nothing wrong with that? But I guess my point is, I'm currently in no position to be teaching. As Jesus says:

3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. (Matthew 7:3-5, NIV)

While it's easy for me to say, "Look, that wasn't me, I'm a different person now!" I am very much the same person, I've just discovered more. So please forgive me for my simple-mindedness...

Statistics : Posted by fluffywarthog • on Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:55 pm
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First of all, I'm sorry if I didn't make this clear, but I'm just a teenager. I do not have any kids, I just watch Winnie the Pooh because... well... I think it's funny, and I don't like the assumption that, as people get older, they can only laugh at sex jokes. I find most "adult" programs to be Imageing. That's not to say I spend a lot of time watching Pooh or anything, and I just kind of tune out the parts that are only meant for little kids...

Anyway... if you happen to read this, BensMom... I obviously offended you, and I'm truly sorry. You see, I've grown up in a family that is almost completely devoid of anything religious, and at the time I posted here, you could say I was just starting to discover Christianity. This whole minced oath thing is a fairly simple subject, and I guess I just kind of attached myself to it, since it was easy for me to understand and follow. Now I am still confused about a lot of stuff, but not nearly as confused as I was then, and I see now that Christianity is not nearly as simple as not saying a word like "gosh."

On that subject, I've actually changed my opinion. If someone says a "minced oath" all their life without even considering it to be bad, surely there's nothing wrong with that? But I guess my point is, I'm currently in no position to be teaching. As Jesus says:

3 “Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye. (Matthew 7:3-5, NIV)

While it's easy for me to say, "Look, that wasn't me, I'm a different person now!" I am very much the same person, I've just discovered more. So please forgive me for my simple-mindedness...

Statistics : Posted by fluffywarthog • on Mon Jun 14, 2010 12:55 pm
]]> fluffywarthog@gmail.com (fluffywarthog)Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:55:54 -0600http://forums.insearchoftruth.org/viewtopic.php?p=5717#p5717 Re: Presidential Voting and The Christian http://forums.insearchoftruth.org/viewtopic.php?p=5716#p5716 I am of the Church of Christ ditent not institutuionel. I am the original Caribbean music. I am black and if I was American I would vote not for Obama. its policy is liberal and allows the opposite of my faith, I would vote not for senior buch view it was for the war in iraq. So I would vote for that? for anyone. voted for this person is allowing imoralité and the war in progress in this world. more Christians should be out of this world, so I am not obliged to vote. I just do it, but it would be a blank vote.
in France we are also voting, and the parties to which a Christian could vote would be the party of President Sarkozy. but it allows the construction of mosque. I would vote for the little things to him but he changed his policy and the little that it allows the adoption of children for homosexual. So I would vote not for him, not for parties sacialiste who is left then left communist.
as Christians we find ourselves at the foot of the wall? Actually no. I am a Christian and I made patis this world, so I am not obliged to vote. I just do not be but voted for a party that looks like a lot but Christian values, and not racist. I would vote for a candidate not for its color or origin or the same religion, we are passing through this world, and our only preoccupation is the kingdom of God.

Statistics : Posted by examiner la bible • on Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:46 am
]]> I am of the Church of Christ ditent not institutuionel. I am the original Caribbean music. I am black and if I was American I would vote not for Obama. its policy is liberal and allows the opposite of my faith, I would vote not for senior buch view it was for the war in iraq. So I would vote for that? for anyone. voted for this person is allowing imoralité and the war in progress in this world. more Christians should be out of this world, so I am not obliged to vote. I just do it, but it would be a blank vote.
in France we are also voting, and the parties to which a Christian could vote would be the party of President Sarkozy. but it allows the construction of mosque. I would vote for the little things to him but he changed his policy and the little that it allows the adoption of children for homosexual. So I would vote not for him, not for parties sacialiste who is left then left communist.
as Christians we find ourselves at the foot of the wall? Actually no. I am a Christian and I made patis this world, so I am not obliged to vote. I just do not be but voted for a party that looks like a lot but Christian values, and not racist. I would vote for a candidate not for its color or origin or the same religion, we are passing through this world, and our only preoccupation is the kingdom of God.

Statistics : Posted by examiner la bible • on Mon Mar 22, 2010 10:46 am
]]> examinerlabible@hotmail.fr (examiner la bible)Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:46:15 -0600http://forums.insearchoftruth.org/viewtopic.php?p=5716#p5716