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Pia Zadora
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A - Z City Game - part 2
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Dearborn, MI
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I Need a girlfriend
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I'd like to commend you on your strategy. You posted your first message about 15 minutes ago, and you already have a couple of cuties coming to your rescue. Brilliant!!
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Parson
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Al Kaline
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A - Z City Game - part 2
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Prague, Czech Republic
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Topic:
A - Z City Game - part 2
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Evansville, Indiana
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Dean Chance
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Quade
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A - Z City Game - part 2
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Burlington, Vermont
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Topic:
A - Z City Game - part 2
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Qala Nau, Afghanistan
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Salome
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Raymond Chandler
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Ford Frick
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Rube Walker
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Topic:
A - Z City Game - part 2
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Indianapolis, Indianna
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Wynton
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Answering whether or not the "bad" people are going to heaven is never an easy thought. I think that most people agree that these people do not deserve to go to heaven. However, there are a couple of things to keep in mind. One thing is, does anyone truly deserve to go to heaven? If heaven is this absolutely amazing place as a reward for those who are all-loving, pure, without fault...I don't think anyone would make it. I can barely get in the car without cussing someone out for cutting me off! While I realize road rage is a far cry from genocide and serial rapists, all forms of hatred stem from the same place. Until you can claim that you have never hurt anyone or yourself, or until you can claim that you are the epitomy of everything you were meant to be, I don't think any of us deserves heaven. With that said, I also still have a problem with a "death bed" conversion. But the Bible, in Romans, says that God is the ultimate judge. I trust that if God can create the world and everything in it, if he knows our hearts and what is best for us, then he will probably make a good bouncer at the gates of heaven! Couldn't have put it better, myself. That is essentially my take on the matter (if you read my earlier posts, you'll see). What I've been reading on here are what I see as semantics without pragmatic competence. I do not see this "getting into heaven business" as that complicated. I believe this idea should be viewed with a pragmatic approach, i.e., if we understand God as an all seeing, all knowing, omnipotent being, we cannot escape our life's deeds, dirty or otherwise, and thus cannot escape God's decision. It is ultimately His decesion, not ours. Therefore, uttering some vow of repentence in the eleventh hour will not erase what we have done for the entire of our life. To try to apply literal, linguistic interpretation to what is written in the Bible is faulty, in my opinion. This has been attempted by philpsophers for many years using deontic and symbolic logic. All this has produced is more and more sets of questions. Think about it. If we literally interpreted every word written in the Bible, we'd believe that we can walk on water, snakes and bushes can talk, and that we may live to 500 years old. The former are metaphors, and the latter can be understood as a simple temporal calculation difference from that time and the present. So, my contention is that our interpretation of what is written should be tempered with a degree of a priori knowledge--the simple inherent knowledge that God is always watching and keeping score (so to speak), and all we can do is hope our actions on Earth will favor our admittance into heaven. Ahem, I know some of you are licking your chops, now. |
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It's getting very testy in here.
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Topic:
A - Z City Game - part 2
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Zambezi, Zambia
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