then let him answer - through those who say they hear his voice and speak with him ok?

If he's real i will show respect, but i've been asking this question on and off for over 2 decades and no one has responded correctly yet - thus no spirit to respect!! remeber god did at least give egypt an answer as you say many - i'm asking for 1 - 1 time only.

absence of spirit's answer = no spirit - unless you can do as i ask i need no further advice thnx.

Day went on as usual...the girls kept running back and forth, said they were at their aunts making salsa to can. Byron came home from work and said we had to leave right away to run errands. when we pulled in there were cars everywhere I asked Byron what was going on. he didnt know and looked suprised. he jumped out of the car and ran in the house, of course it takes me a few to get in there. i walk in and turn the corner into the kitchen to about 30 people screaming "HAPPY BIRTHDAY" those little turds!!!!!!!! made me cry!!!!!!!!!! they had been planning this for weeks and here i thought everyone just forgot so i just blew it off....it was awesome, no one has done anythign like that for me since i was 10 years old, that was my last birthday cake. Big cook out...was just awesome!

i dont know about you but i think that some of us need to get laid.............there are some stressed out people with no lovin.................be a friend and hook them up.......or are you then one who needs it........

Sorry, I was agreeing with YOU, Hinky..didn't realize you are male. lol

Lol at the "cliff notes" comment.

Seems all the religious jibberish should be in the religion threads, no?

How about what each candidate is proposing?? Will he carry through on his promises, exactly WHAT "changes" will take place..as all change is not good change.

Okay, I lied. NOW this is my last post in the political threads. lol

Wanted to clarify I was agreeing with Hinky!

Sorry, I was agreeing with YOU, Hinky..didn't realize you are male. lol

Lol at the "cliff notes" comment.

Seems all the religious jibberish should be in the religion threads, no?

How about what each candidate is proposing?? Will he carry through on his promises, exactly WHAT "changes" will take place..as all change is not good change.

Okay, I lied. NOW this is my last post in the political threads. lol

Wanted to clarify I was agreeing with Hinky!

First his name. He was called Johnny by his mother to
differentiate him from his dad, the alcoholic Admiral John Sidney
McCain II. So with Johnny Sidney McCain you have the number of his
name equalling 666. "Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding
count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his
number is Six hundred threescore and six." Revelation 13:18.

Next, John McCain is known for his hot temper, and when he gets angry,
which is often, a stream of profanity and blasphemies stream out of
his mouth. "And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things
and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and
two months." Revelation 13:5. Finally, the Antichrist will be someone
who has been wounded unto death, but then lives again. John McCain was
severely injured in Vietnam. He probably would have died if he hadn't
agreed to collaborate with the North Vietnamese and give them military
information in return for being taken to the hospital. "And I saw one
of his heads wounded to death; and his deadly wound was healed: and
all the world wondered after the beast." Revelation 13:3.

How many profiles is this guy going to make, and how many times is he going to ask the same questions?

He starts a thread pretty much stating the exact same thing as he did in this one, and then doesn't bother to reply to anyone's remarks. And then the next day, he starts a new profile, asking the same question again. I don't get it???

And some people just like to stir the pot. Pit people against each other behind the scenes, then want someone to ride to thier rescue. And prove that they are thier friends by defending them in public. And there fore drawing attention to themselves....

I agree. Great advice. No pic = no reply.

I hope you are right. Trust me - those people are not enjoying their lives. They just don't know a way out; and worse, they don't believe it can happen for them so they won't try.

I was brought up constantly being told that some people are just meant to be poor and there is nothing you can do about it so don't bother to graduate or aspire to anything greater than what you know.

It's just sad, is all. Sometimes I will see a drugged-out teen with a baby and I think, that poor child hasn't got a chance. Somehow the idea of a chain gang doesn't cheer me up.

I agree with you about the children.

But who is going to do it? I have let them into my home before and they not only robbed me blind, their ghetto friends showed up on my doorstep.

It's a serious problem and self-perpetuating. There are a few, like you and myself, who can see beyond their circumstances and do whatever it takes to rise above. But most can't; and so the cycle of poverty and misery continues. I guess this is what you are talking about - the ghetoo mentality. It has nothing whatsoever to do with race or skin color. It is a way of life; I know because I come from a family immersed in the ghetto way of thinking. I was the youngest of 8 and the first to graduate high school. The others didn't bother; dropped out and took low-level jobs; and now my sisters think I am "lucky" because I have a good job.

They really don't see that they bring it on themselves.

I don't want to argue with you; I agree with the concept of personal responsibility. However, I have seen some children that my child befriended, for example. Their parents had them at 16; the father is a drug dealer, the mother is scared, abused, uneducated.

These kids really don't have a chance in hell of making it in society. They never grew up because they were not raised.

Is that their fault? We tried to show them a better way but they could not see it. They are both hustling and dealing to get by, since they dropped out of high school.

They didn't have a strong parent behind them to support them and teach them how to live.

And they are not "minorities", at least in the sense that I think you mean it. They are caucasian.

Um..I grew up in the inner city. My family was hampered by mental illness, addiction, crime.

I am now a professional, and a college graduate. I own my own home and have raised a child by myself; a child who is now in college.

I do recognize, however, that not everyone that I grew up with had the strength or the will to get out the way I did. They don't see that they have to power to change their circumstances.

These problems are cross-cultural and are driven by societal problems of unemployment, lack of educational opportunity, and poverty.

It's harder to escape than you think; you don't know until you have lived it.

Tell me I am wrong!!!!

Inferior VALUES in a culture.

Sky rocketing birth rates in single parent homes. The embracing of violence, theft, drugs. .gangster mentality. Very very high incarceration percentage compared to other cultures in that same society.

Tell me I am wrong!!!!