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RE: Federal Government Shutdown
October 14, 2013 at 5:00 pm (This post was last modified: October 14, 2013 at 5:01 pm by Mystical.)
I'm basing my actions on the default actually happening, secretly hoping Obama has a constitutional trick up his sleeve. I feel like they're a bunch of chickens running around with their heads cut off and Obama's the fox, waiting for them to fall over on their own..
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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RE: Federal Government Shutdown
October 14, 2013 at 5:16 pm
(October 14, 2013 at 2:46 pm)festive1 Wrote: At least the majority is putting the blame where it's due. Especially independents which is where it counts come election time. The big question is whether or not we'll remember this in a year...
Even China has chimed in on the default, granted they hold a lot of our debt and would be disproportionately screwed. But a default would be disastrous to the global economy, not just our own.
Can this just stop now?

Really, I don't see this ending until A) America becomes a failed state and Obama a failed president, or B) The Tea Party stops becoming a major force in the Republican Party.

I've said it before and I'll say it again; the Republican Party is turning into Gene Tierney's character in Leave Her to Heaven.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...0SiMF-zV_U
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RE: Federal Government Shutdown
October 14, 2013 at 5:35 pm (This post was last modified: October 14, 2013 at 5:36 pm by Mystical.)
Congress-did-something-so-spectacularly-creepy-that-its-too-unbelievable-to-make-up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pla...LO1A#t=230

The rules committee under the rules of the house change the standing rules of the house to take away the right of any member to move to a vote to open the government and gave that right exclusively to the republican leader.
If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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RE: Federal Government Shutdown
October 14, 2013 at 5:46 pm
(October 14, 2013 at 5:35 pm)missluckie26 Wrote: The rules committee under the rules of the house change the standing rules of the house to take away the right of any member to move to a vote to open the government and gave that right exclusively to the republican leader.

Giving The Speaker of the House a one-man-filibuster power. ...that he doesn't have to be present to maintain. ...that can't be stopped by a cloture vote.
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RE: Federal Government Shutdown
October 14, 2013 at 6:46 pm
I feel bad for my family and friends.. they're just getting scared out of their wits by their republican base sites. Here's one that was
posted today just now by my aunt titled, "WTH that's scary!"

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=633...=2&theater

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If I were to create self aware beings knowing fully what they would do in their lifetimes, I sure wouldn't create a HELL for the majority of them to live in infinitely! That's not Love, that's sadistic. Therefore a truly loving god does not exist!

Quote:The sin is against an infinite being (God) unforgiven infinitely, therefore the punishment is infinite.

Dead wrong.  The actions of a finite being measured against an infinite one are infinitesimal and therefore merit infinitesimal punishment.

Quote:Some people deserve hell.

I say again:  No exceptions.  Punishment should be equal to the crime, not in excess of it.  As soon as the punishment is greater than the crime, the punisher is in the wrong.

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