But christianity is the purest form of
communism - in that it is not communism at
all!
"which form of christianity would we be
basing our society off"
the same christianity it was founded
on...
There is only one form of christianity and
that is the christianity what jesus
taught!
"how do we change then? How do we make it
to where no one needs to obtain an
abortion?"
well the first step is not obtaining one,
then fighting to change the laws, then
voting in christians to restore our
christian society to its former glory.
"people have been saying that society has
been falling apart since...Forever. It's
one of those things about getting older.
We tend to look back with nostalgia at the
places and times where we've been and this
nostalgia can make us forget how heinous
that time was as well."
societies have been falling apart
forever.... Roman society, greek society,
communist society, now the western
democractic society is falling apart to
the hands of greedy men who want a
capatalist society.... That is very
similar but much worse than comunisim!
If our society "has been based on that for
years", then why have we always had people
hungry, naked, and sick?
Because our christian society had not been
fullfilled, many ideologies have been
tried and found wanting, christianity it
seems has been found hard and left
untried!
"why do nations who are not founded in
"christianity" manage to do what we
cannot? "
like where?
India, pakistan, china, iran, afganistan,
russia
tell me which society is better than
ours.... Which non christian society
would you prefer to live in?
I wrote
"now a whole new attitude is emerging a
one of get what you can when you can and
screw everyone else..."
jen smithson wrote:
"welcome to america. That's what it's all
about and that's what it's *always* been
about. 'american dream' ring a bell?"
the american dream.....You dont even know
what the american dream is.... It dosnt
come from greed, big business america was
never about greed... It dosnt say get
what you can and screw everyone else....
The american dream is the declaration of
indipendance
in congress, july 4, 1776.
The unanimous declaration of the thirteen
united states of america,
when in the course of human events, it
becomes necessary for one people to
dissolve the political bands which have
connected them with another, and to assume
among the powers of the earth, the
separate and equal station to which the
laws of nature and of nature's god entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of
mankind requires that they should declare
the causes which impel them to the
separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident,
that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their creator with certain
unalienable rights, that among these are
life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness.--that to secure these rights,
governments are instituted among men,
deriving their just powers from the
consent of the governed, --that whenever
any form of government becomes destructive
of these ends, it is the right of the
people to alter or to abolish it, and to
institute new government, laying its
foundation on such principles and
organizing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect
their safety and happiness. Prudence,
indeed, will dictate that governments long
established should not be changed for
light and transient causes; and
accordingly all experience hath shewn,
that mankind are more disposed to suffer,
while evils are sufferable, than to right
themselves by abolishing the forms to
which they are accustomed. But when a
long train of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same object
evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute despotism, it is their right, it
is their duty, to throw off such
government, and to provide new guards for
their future security.--such has been the
patient sufferance of these colonies; and
such is now the necessity which constrains
them to alter their former systems of
government. The history of the present
king of great britain is a history of
repeated injuries and usurpations, all
having in direct object the establishment
of an absolute tyranny over these states.
To prove this, let facts be submitted to a
candid world.
He has refused his assent to laws, the
most wholesome and necessary for the
public good.
He has forbidden his governors to pass
laws of immediate and pressing importance,
unless suspended in their operation till
his assent should be obtained; and when so
suspended, he has utterly neglected to
attend to them.
He has refused to pass other laws for the
accommodation of large districts of
people, unless those people would
relinquish the right of representation in
the legislature, a right inestimable to
them and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies
at places unusual, uncomfortable, and
distant from the depository of their
public records, for the sole purpose of
fatiguing them into compliance with his
measures.
He has dissolved representative houses
repeatedly, for opposing with manly
firmness his invasions on the rights of
the people.
He has refused for a long time, after such
dissolutions, to cause others to be
elected; whereby the legislative powers,
incapable of annihilation, have returned
to the people at large for their exercise;
the state remaining in the mean time
exposed to all the dangers of invasion
from without, and convulsions within.
He has endeavoured to prevent the
population of these states; for that
purpose obstructing the laws for
naturalization of foreigners; refusing to
pass others to encourage their migrations
hither, and raising the conditions of new
appropriations of lands.
He has obstructed the administration of
justice, by refusing his assent to laws
for establishing judiciary powers.
He has made judges dependent on his will
alone, for the tenure of their offices,
and the amount and payment of their
salaries.
He has erected a multitude of new offices,
and sent hither swarms of officers to
harrass our people, and eat out their
substance.
He has kept among us, in times of peace,
standing armies without the consent of our
legislatures.
He has affected to render the military
independent of and superior to the civil
power.
He has combined with others to subject us
to a jurisdiction foreign to our
constitution, and unacknowledged by our
laws; giving his assent to their acts of
pretended legislation:
for quartering large bodies of armed
troops among us:
for protecting them, by a mock trial, from
punishment for any murders which they
should commit on the inhabitants of these
states:
for cutting off our trade with all parts
of the world:
for imposing taxes on us without our
consent:
for depriving us in many cases, of the
benefits of trial by jury:
for transporting us beyond seas to be
tried for pretended offences
for abolishing the free system of english
laws in a neighbouring province,
establishing therein an arbitrary
government, and enlarging its boundaries
so as to render it at once an example and
fit instrument for introducing the same
absolute rule into these colonies:
for taking away our charters, abolishing
our most valuable laws, and altering
fundamentally the forms of our
governments:
for suspending our own legislatures, and
declaring themselves invested with power
to legislate for us in all cases
whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by
declaring us out of his protection and
waging war against us.
He has plundered our seas, ravaged our
coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the
lives of our people.
He is at this time transporting large
armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat
the works of death, desolation and
tyranny, already begun with circumstances
of cruelty & perfidy scarcely
paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and
totally unworthy the head of a civilized
nation.
He has constrained our fellow citizens
taken captive on the high seas to bear
arms against their country, to become the
executioners of their friends and
brethren, or to fall themselves by their
hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections
amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring
on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the
merciless indian savages, whose known rule
of warfare, is an undistinguished
destruction of all ages, sexes and
conditions.
In every stage of these oppressions we
have petitioned for redress in the most
humble terms: our repeated petitions have
been answered only by repeated injury. A
prince whose character is thus marked by
every act which may define a tyrant, is
unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions to
our brittish brethren. We have warned
them from time to time of attempts by
their legislature to extend an
unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We
have reminded them of the circumstances of
our emigration and settlement here. We
have appealed to their native justice and
magnanimity, and we have conjured them by
the ties of our common kindred to disavow
these usurpations, which, would inevitably
interrupt our connections and
correspondence. They too have been deaf
to the voice of justice and of
consanguinity. We must, therefore,
acquiesce in the necessity, which
denounces our separation, and hold them,
as we hold the rest of mankind, enemies in
war, in peace friends.
We, therefore, the representatives of the
united states of america, in general
congress, assembled, appealing to the
supreme judge of the world for the
rectitude of our intentions, do, in the
name, and by authority of the good people
of these colonies, solemnly publish and
declare, that these united colonies are,
and of right ought to be free and
independent states; that they are absolved
from all allegiance to the british crown,
and that all political connection between
them and the state of great britain, is
and ought to be totally dissolved; and
that as free and independent states, they
have full power to levy war, conclude
peace, contract alliances, establish
commerce, and to do all other acts and
things which independent states may of
right do.
And for the support of this declaration,
with a firm reliance on the protection of
divine providence, we mutually pledge to
each other our lives, our fortunes and our
sacred honor.
This is the american dream... A dream
worth dying for.... Its not about greed
its about truth and dignity, its about
electing a governement to protect and help
its people....
However it is sad to see the american
dream has been sold to the highest bidder!
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oopoopoop
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Posted: 12-10-04 06:31am
Can we say "waste of bandwidth"?
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Izzy
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Posted: 12-10-04 06:37am
The decalration of indipendance called a
waste of space.....What times are we
living in?
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Posted: 12-10-04 06:53am
If anyone wanted to read that, it is
available!
Also it is a good reminder that american
women have a constitutional right to
abortion!
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Izzy
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Posted: 12-10-04 07:14am
"that all men are created equal, that they
are endowed by their creator with certain
unalienable rights, that among these are
life"
it shows how unborn children have a
constitutional right to life!
"whenever any form of government becomes
destructive of these ends, it is the right
of the people to alter or to abolish it,
and to institute new government"
says it all really
"when a long train of abuses and
usurpations, pursuing invariably the same
object evinces a design to reduce them
under absolute despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such
government, and to provide new guards for
their future security."
says it all again.
"to secure these rights, governments are
instituted among men, deriving their just
powers from the consent of the governed"
it is clear through media properganda -
the tail is wagging the dog!
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Posted: 12-10-04 07:17am
You could read it, the way it was written,
that women were not created equal...In
which case, they have no rights...But it's
absolutely impossible to see that it
refers to zefs.
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Izzy
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Posted: 12-10-04 07:21am
When it refers to "man" it means mankind
and that includes all human beings!
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That isn't true, of course, since women
were not considered citizens.
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Izzy
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Posted: 12-10-04 09:46am
They were considered citizens and
certainly human beings
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Women were regarded as possessions.
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Izzy
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Posted: 12-10-04 10:13am
I am sure they were not!
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steen
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Posted: 12-10-04 13:17pm
I can't believe that anybody are still
debatin the troll, izzy. Utter nonsense
and claptrap in his posts, such as that
being a christian you must be against
socialism, as jesus is the first-ever
documented socialist (collective property,
share wealth etc.). Why even bother with
that fool?
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jenn_smithson
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Posted: 12-10-04 20:03pm
I am assuming from key descriptors and
sentence structure that izzy is british,
if not living there now, was born there.
What I find particularly funny, myself, is
someone with british turns of phrases
telling an american about her own
government and founding document.
Classic. This is even funnier when one
considers that I am only 1 year away from
obtaining a bachelor of science in
*.Political .Science*!!!
oh, my. I'm actually giggling about
that.
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Izzy
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Posted: 12-11-04 05:58am
Actually I am of irish blood
"what I find particularly funny, myself,
is someone with british turns of phrases
telling an american about her own
government and founding document.
Classic."
and whats really funny is the founding
fathers were british.....
My sides are splitting.... Oh the
irony.
As for your .B.A in politics all that
means is you have a bigger mouth by which
you can tell more lies.... There is no
honor in politics.
You should be ashamed that I have to tell
you that the declaration of indipendance
is the american dream ashamed... If your
the type of person who is coming out of
politics school then I suggest we change
americas slogan to "god help america"
anyway I am sure jefferson is turning in
his grave to hear you talk about the
american dream being all about greed when
if you read it... It clearly states.
"for the support of this declaration, with
a firm reliance on the protection of
divine providence, we mutually pledge to
each other our lives, our fortunes and our
sacred honor."
for anyone who says america is not a
christian society... They a very much
mistaken for it is writen right there in
the decleration of indipendance and it
states if any goverment dosnt uphold and
defend the christians rights and belifes -
the people of america are duty bound to
over throw the government... You see its
by chrstian standards that democracy was
perfected and with it equality but now
democracy is dead.... It capatalism that
runs the .U.S. And the rest of the
world and capatalism is much more
dangerous than communism and just like
communism it opposes christianity...
They no longer wish to protect the
christian society... They want to
destroy america and they are doing it
right now.... But your all so blind to
see it!
As for steens remarks about jesus being
the first socialist your a fool but your
not completely wrong!.
You see, I did say maybe not on this
thread but somewhere christianity is the
purest form of communism because it is not
communism at all.
Communism and socilism put society as th
reason for work and equality of pay ect...
And they even outlaw religion...
Which never works because the greedy
people are at the top.... And the rich
get richer and the poor get poorer making
socialism and communism a very unjust
society.
But jesus promoted god for he is god...
He was not a socialist or a communist...If
he were I am sure he would not have been
crucified
under christianity all work for the good
of gods people and to please god and the
rich share there wealth and the poor share
theres and we all work together in unity
in the glory of god(a fantisy land that is
truely obtainable and will one day be
obtained probably with the second
coming).... Communism is certainly
derrived from christianity but it is the
total opposite.... Putting man first
and making laws saying god is dead....
That is why it never works.... Of
course capatilism works much the same way
but instead of working for the society we
work for the dollor and the rich get
richer and the poor get poorer and the
costly get executed! And the religious
people...... Well they will end up
being killed too eventually!
Communism/socialism - state is god
capatalism - money is god
christianity - god is god!
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Posted: 12-11-04 07:14am
This has gone totally round the
bend...Christianity, socialism, blah di
blah --- you really need to find some
alternative discussion groups that might
fully appreciate your learnedness and
perspicacity.
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Posted: 12-11-04 13:11pm
jlee77
wrote:
jenn....So what, you will
obtain your political science degree in 1
year. I mean congrats, that's great, but
it has nothing to do with debating in an
abortion forum.
So may I state and have merit that I hold
2 degrees....One in criminal justice and 1
in sociology? I think it's irrelevant
here.
Blah...........................
But good job on bragging, fun isn't it?
degrees? Well lets
see... Nah, I don't want to embarass
you. Suffice to say that your degrees
clearly are not in the biological
sciences, and that it would be greatly
appreciated if you would check your
"facts" first before posting nonsense
drivel and outright falsehoods.
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sandyallen
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Posted: 12-11-04 15:39pm
As I have said before, I have known a lot
of educated idiots in my time, jlee77 is
definitely proof of that. Jlee77 please
learn how to read and comprehend,
thanks.
Sincerely,
sandy
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jenn_smithson
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Posted: 12-11-04 17:16pm
izzy
wrote:
and whats really funny is
the founding fathers were
british.....
yes, they were british
and so pissed off about paying taxes
without equal representation in parliament
that they committed treason against the
crown to create their own fledgling
country. So, the fact that they were
british matters very little when you
consider the fact that they basically told
britian to go f--- themselves. And yes,
I do know that I am simplifying.
Quote:
tr>
as for your .B.A
in politics all that means is you have a
bigger mouth by which you can tell more
lies.... There is no honor in
politics.
I am working toward a
*.B.S.* in political *science*. This
means that I have had more training in
science and math than the arts. Also,
majoring in political science does not
mean that I am working toward a career in
politics. I think you'd find that
pre-law students are the ones destined for
political careers. My degree, hopefully,
will get me into a city planners office or
will have prepared me to work for
non-profit organizations which is what I
really want to do.
Please, tell me why so many immigrate to
our shores in search of the "american
dream" if it has nothing what so ever to
do with individualism, consumerism, and
capitalism? Essentially, people come
here and have been coming here for
centuries because they thought they could
make more money here. If you don't think
america is about making money, then please
tell me what you think it is about?
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jenn_smithson
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Posted: 12-11-04 17:20pm
jlee77
wrote:
jenn....So what, you will
obtain your political science degree in 1
year. I mean congrats, that's great, but
it has nothing to do with debating in an
abortion
forum.
if you had read the
other posts, I was responding to izzy's
long winded analysis of the declaration of
independence. We were not talking about
abortion at the time.
Quote:
tr>
so may I state
and have merit that I hold 2
degrees....One in criminal justice and 1
in sociology? I think it's irrelevant
here.
again, if you had read
the posts, you would have seen that we
were discussing things of a historical
political nature, not the biological or
medical aspects of abortion. Do try and
keep up.
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Izzy
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Posted: 12-11-04 18:19pm
I am going to say something you will never
have heard
america was about christianity!
Was about freedom.... True freedom...
Not any longer!
America was based on catholisim
one nation under god
founding fathers - apostals
constitution etc - unchangable catholic
doctrine
president - pope
congress - clergy (religious)
house of representitives - lay apostalate
supreem court - magesterium - cardinals
i believe america was built to implent the
christian way of life - the american way
of life- instead it has been hijacked by
greed....Men of wealth and power are
destroying christian moralls without
christian moralls democracy can not
survive because democracy is a christian
ideal.
Democracy is dead - capatalism has killed
it.
America once seen as guardian of freedom
is now seen as the oppresor!