But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their
right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.
5/4/2009 5:07 PMJack wrote:
Those that voted for Hussein are obviously suicidal masochists. He actually said he was going to do all these things. You only have yourselves to blame. Reply to this
5/5/2009 11:53 AM
AMDR wrote:
My children take my silence about certain actions as approval or even permission. Perhaps this only serves as proof of bad parenting. I think rather that it speaks to a basic part of our humanity. No matter how educated or sophisticated we are, there’s always that part of us that is saying “Well, Dad didn’t say I couldn’t...). And that is why, even as adults, we need a guide, a moral compass, a “dad” to say “This is wrong” and/or “I don’t care what all your friends are doing, you are not to do that”. Our “dad” has let us down, he has disappointed us. Instead of looking at other churches and thinking “My dad is better than your dad” or even the classic “My dad could beat up your dad” I now only think “Geez, why does my dad have to be such a weenie?” Reply to this
Those that voted for Hussein are obviously suicidal masochists. He actually said he was going to do all these things. You only have yourselves to blame.
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Obviously.
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My children take my silence about certain actions as approval or even permission. Perhaps this only serves as proof of bad parenting. I think rather that it speaks to a basic part of our humanity. No matter how educated or sophisticated we are, there’s always that part of us that is saying “Well, Dad didn’t say I couldn’t...). And that is why, even as adults, we need a guide, a moral compass, a “dad” to say “This is wrong” and/or “I don’t care what all your friends are doing, you are not to do that”. Our “dad” has let us down, he has disappointed us. Instead of looking at other churches and thinking “My dad is better than your dad” or even the classic “My dad could beat up your dad” I now only think “Geez, why does my dad have to be such a weenie?”
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