a congreation will complain about paying taxes and what's being done with the tax money but never complain about paying tithes and where the tithes money goes even through it pretty clear that God doesn't need it

Hi Di ... everyone ...

Creative told me I just had to pop in to see this thread of Di's ...

Too funny ... and sad ... some are quick to take credit when the prayers seem to give them what they want ... the same 'some' are seemingly quick to distance themselves from any responsibility when there are potentially negative consequences to "them" ...

hmmmm .... what does that say about their "faith"? ... legal issues aside ... it is an interesting point of self reflection if people are open ...

If I didn't know better, I'd say that this behaviour by the Christian population in the news story was a lil hypocritical ... ... I wonder if they can recognize it in themselves ...

Sorry to hit and run Di but I have much real life to attend to ...

I have a CD here with very slow romantic piano music on it, and in the background there is the sound of whales.

I put it on to lull myself to sleep. And the music started playing, then the whales started singing.

I started laughing.

I never realized how much whales sound like a constipated Ape.



All I could do was laugh. It just sounded like an Ape that couldn't relieve itself of it feces.

I laughed so hard and so long that I played myself out and fell fast asleep.

Once you get a picture in your head of a constipated Ape howling, it's pretty hard to get rid of that image.

I did manage to rectify the situation though. I set up an aquarium next to my bed with bubbling water and looked at a lot of pictures of whales before going to bed. Then I tried the CD again, and it actually worked. I could see the whales swimming gracefully in the deep blue and it was a whole differnt experience.

Funny how the mind can play tricks on us.