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Markus · VIP Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 542

Firey, do not take the LORD's name in vain. (That includes: God, Lord, Jesus).

It's one of the commandments. You ought to revisit your Sunday school lessons.

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jo-jo-7 · Just Starting Joined: 16 Mar 2010 Posts: 6

Yuri-s-Girl · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:52 am Post subject:

Yuri-s-Girl · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:53 am Post subject:

Yuri-s-Girl · Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2007 6:57 am Post subject:

surfguy · Lounge Wizard Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 6979

HOW LONG DO WE HAVE?
>
> This is the most interesting thing I've read in a long
> time. The sad thing
> about it, you can see it coming. I have always heard
> about this democracy
> countdown. It is interesting to see it in print. God
> help us, not that we
> deserve it.
>
> How Long Do We Have?
>
> About the time our original thirteen states adopted
> their new constitution
> in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor
> at the University of
> Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the
> Athenian Republic some
> 2,000 years earlier:
>
> "A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply
> cannot exist as a
> permanent form of government."
>
> "A democracy will continue to exist up until the time
> that voters discover
> they can vote themselves generous gifts from the
> public treasury."
>
> "From that moment on, the majority always vote for the
> candidates who
> promise the most benefits from the public treasury,
> with the result that
> every democracy will finally collapse due to loose
> fiscal policy, which is
> always followed by a dictatorship."
>
> "The average age of the world's greatest civilizations
> from the beginning of
> history, has been about 200 years."
>
> "During those 200 years, those nations always
> progressed through the
> following sequence:
>
> 1. from bondage to spiritual faith;
> 2. from spiritual faith to great courage; 3. from
> courage to liberty; 4.
> from liberty to abundance; 5. from abundance to
> complacency; 6. from
> complacency to apathy; 7. from apathy to dependence;
> 8. From dependence back
> into bondage"
>
> Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of
> Law, St. Paul,
> Minnesota , points out some interesting facts
> concerning the 2000
> Presidential election:
>
> Number of States won by:
> Gore: 19
> Bush: 29
>
> Square miles of land won by:
> Gore: 580 ,000
> Bush: 2,42 7,000
>
> Population of counties won by:
> Gore: 127 million
> Bush: 143 million
>
> Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by:
> Gore: 13.2
> Bush: 2.1
>
> Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the
> territory Bush won was
> mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of
> this great country.
>
> Gore's territory mostly encompassed those citizens
> living in
> government-owned tenements and living off various
> forms of government
> welfare..."
>
> Olson believes the United States is now somewhere
> between the "complacency
> and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of
> democracy, with some
> forty percent of the nation's population already
> having reached the
> "governmental dependency" phase.
>
> If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty
> million criminal
> invaders called illegal and they vote, then we can say
> goodbye to the USA in
> fewer than five years.

surfguy · Lounge Wizard Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 6979

Subject: THINGS TO PONDER AS WE APPROACH ANOTHER FOURTH OF JULY...]

Ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence?

Five were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.

Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons

serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured.

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

They signed and pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they?

24 were lawyers and jurists. 11 were merchants, 9 were farmers and

plantation owners; men of means.

They signed the Declaration of Independence knowing that the penalty

was death if they were captured.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his

ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and

properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.

The British hounded Thomas McKeam. He kept his family in hiding. He

served in Congress without pay. His possessions were taken. Poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer,

Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson, Jr., urged General George

Washington to open fire on HIS OWN HOME where the British had set up

headquarters. The home was destroyed. Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis; home and properties were destroyed. His wife died in

jail within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife's bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives.

His fields and gristmill were laid to waste. He lived in forests and caves, returning home to find

his wife dead and his children vanished.

Some of us take these liberties we have so much for granted, but we shouldn't.

Take a few minutes while preparing for and enjoying your 4th of July

holiday. Silently thank these patriots.

Remember: freedom is never free!

MrSpice · Lounge Wizard Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 3431

surfguy: Can you please post something that is longer and more extensive? I feel like I need to scroll some more and spend a few more hours reading what you have to say.

yorbcbud · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:05 am Post subject:

nikir · Frequent Guest Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Posts: 56

Why would anyone prepare for the 4th on the 8th?

yorbcbud · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 9:18 am Post subject:

I think he's a little slow at everything.

nikir · Frequent Guest Joined: 17 Mar 2010 Posts: 56

Who reads them, I just noticed the first line.

surfguy · Lounge Wizard Joined: 13 Apr 2006 Posts: 6979

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