Grape juice of course. I like pineapple juice only if it's connected to
the pineapple.

This overanalyzing thing. I'm not sure I get what you mean. Do you mean
analzying things to the nth degree? Or do you mean, analyzing things
just before you get to the nth degree? Perhaps you meant overanalyzing
things beyond the nth degree? Just what IS the "nth degree," anyway?
Could be a lot of things. I'm not really sure. Does anyone know? I wish
I knew. If I knew, then I'd be better equipped to use the word correctly
in a sentence. One thing that's good about me, though, is that I NEVER
overanalyze things. I know this to be true, because I ...well, maybe I
do sometimes. But then again, maybe I don't. Maybe some days I just SEEM
like I'm overanalyzing and other days I'm REALLY overanalyzing. I guess
some days I could be underanalyzing, too....

"But Christians don’t think that way at all. They see the
earth as just being an inanimate rock that god placed us on as
completely separate beings."

Sighhhhh...here you go AGAIN.

Who the H are you to presume to know what it is Christians think or
don't think?

For instance, I'm a Christian, and Idon't think that way at all. Also, I
have never been to any church or Sunday School that taught me to think
that way, either.

M'boro's about 25 miles "up the road" from me. And yes, they are nutz. I
know this from a first-hand perspective, as I'm a resident here and can
attest to that fact.

No.

The older I get the more I realize there's only one person I need to be
a 'valuable asset' for, and that's myself. Of course, there's always
room for improvement. I'm only human. But by and large, these days, I'm
pretty much in the green, I would think.

Okay, "has no sense of humor." That'll cost you some points.

ty, btw...

Okay, I give up. Who?

If you have "grapefruits," I'd be starin', too.

Yes, Ghost, the haircut and your eyelashes.

With already having two degenerated disks in my lower back? Guess.

Never understood that one, either, Gamail. I mean, you don't say "lead
pencil," do ya?

Absolutely not. Especially not now. I have to almost force myself to eat
these days.

hey, Tri, remember, some people are cannibals, even!

Ghost, you look like Liza during her younger days..fabulous, dahling,
just fabulous!

Thousands..and yes, He did. And some people don't consider fish a meat,
but it has a face, doesn't it? I'd say anything with a face is "meat."

People here in the South refer to iced tea as "sweet tea." Unless they
order it without sugar, in which case they'll say "unswetened tea."

And there's a reason they call it "sweet tea," I've found. "Sweet" isn't
the word for it. They should call it "Diabetic Demon" or something like
that.

"The Bible says that in the earliest days of creation, all of God's
creation, including animals, were vegetarian. When God blessed Adam and
Eve in the Garden of Eden, He said to them: "I give you every
seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that
has fruit with seed in it. They will be food for you. And to the beasts
of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that
move on the ground--everything that has the breath of life in it--I give
every green plant for food. And it was so" (Genesis 1:29-30).

It appears that all creation was vegetarian until after the waters of
the Great Flood receded and Noah and his family were left to replenish
the earth.

Genesis 9:1-3 says: "Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them,
"Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. The fear and
dread of you will fall upon all of the beasts of the earth and all the
birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and
upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. Everything
that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green
plants, now I give you everything."

It is interesting to note that because they didn't eat meat, it could
have been one of the reasons that Noah was able to so easily gather all
the animals into the ark--and explains why the animals did not devour
each other while they were in it.

After the flood, why did God now deem it fit for His creation to eat
each other? A possible clue that comes to mind is this: Man's wickedness
had just reached its fullness, and God had destroyed almost all of the
inhabitants of the earth because of it. That flood had somehow changed
the order of things--and it was as if Noah and his family were like Adam
and Eve, beginning things all over again, but without the innocence of
Adam and Eve. The first world, which had been created in perfection, was
ruined because of sin. For man to function in the post-flood world,
evidently God allowed for the eating meat that would become a part of
our existence. The distinguishing mark on this particular era of history
would be having to live with the blight of sin.

Because man chose to sin, he lost his proper position of authority over
God's creation; he lost it in the Garden of Eden, and then it appears
that he lost even more when God decided to flood the world because of
man's wickedness. When man lost his original position on the earth, it
caused all of creation to lose its proper position as well. And now,
everything has been tainted with the perverted character of the Wicked
One. Even certain animals must be destroyed at times because demons have
entered them. In the Old Testament, when an animal killed someone or
was vicious, it was commanded to be destroyed.

Exodus 21:28: "If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the
ox shall be surely stoned, and his flesh shall not be eaten; but the
owner of the ox shall be quit (cleared)."

Today, some ask if it is a sin to eat meat. The Bible makes it clear
that we can eat meat, even as Jesus ate meat when He was on the earth.
Luke 24:42-43, "And they gave him (Jesus) a piece of a broiled fish, and
of an honeycomb. And he took it, and did eat before them."

In the millenium, when Jesus comes to restore this earth back to His
original plan, we will then be able to enjoy the original plans and
purposes for this earth. The animals will once again eat grass and not
each other. Man will also enjoy the original foods God made for him and
since the devil will no longer be present in this earth, all creation
will be free from the curse of sin. The wild animals will no longer
attack men. The lamb and the lion will lie down together. Man will have
no desire to hunt or kill anything. All the earth groans and awaits for
that day to come when the devil no longer roams this earth but is
chained and cast into hell along with all of his followers.

Isaiah 11:6-9:
6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie
down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling
together; and a little child shall lead them.
7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down
together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the
weaned child shall put his hand on the ****atrice' den.
9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth
shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the
sea."

Yeah, GAMail and that's how it should be. If you want your tea
unsweetened, you should just say "unsweetened." but no need to refer to
it as "sweet tea," IMO.

That's like saying "ink pen." LOL.