My mind isn't at it's sharpest right now, but I figured I'd better come back here now rather than wait. My arguments might not be up to my normal standard right now. Not that that should be an excuse, just a disclaimer.
I meant most. I think it was too soon to withdraw them.
I figured it would corroborate the others.
Maybe not, but the people who made the decision could have done better. There was no need at that point to divert those important people.
All right then. We shouldn't have had the war in Iraq. And if we did, we should have been more patient about it.
It's possible that your memory is faulty.
Well, doing so means nothing. Saying "I know it will probably happen" means as much as saying "I'm not sure it will happen".
I won't argue against your speculation since you're being fair here.
I don't understand why we couldn't have been just a little more forceful with the inspectors without going to war.
I think you misunderstood me.
Bush is blocking importation of prescription drugs from Canada.
Despite this, he is importing flu shots from there.
This site talks about the number of jobs, how they're falling short of expectations, and tax cuts.
His post is interesting, but I can't say I agree with it. Certainly our methods have fallen short of his ideal. While taking out Saddam itself truly is good for the Iraqis, we've kind of left the country in ruins in the process.
Although the situation is different, the way Germany was so messed up after the first world war is what allowed Hitler to take power.
To be honest, I don't blame a lot of the insurgents for what they're doing.
Believing that Saddam was a threat? No, I don't.
That's not the way it works though. He gave the reasoning right before he said the "I actually voted for it before voting against it". If person A quotes someone, it's up the him or her to make the cite. If person B says to look at the quote in context, it doesn't become his duty to cite the speech that should have been quoted in the first place.
I'll take that as a no then. It is not immoral or wrong to be gay. It's not like gay people say "Hmm... I think I'll be gay."
You know far less about the situation than you think you do, and you can't expect them to be different if you haven't experienced what they're going through.
Being ashamed of a gay person is bigotry.
That was my point. What I was responding to didn't make much sense to me because it was making elaborate assumptions about what he was saying.
They were two different posts by two different people. We really a need working "quote=" tag.
No matter what, dismissing other people's well thought out posts (including yours) as worthless is incredibly rude and something that's done way too much around here, and those kinds of posts really are worthless.
In the latter post, I was deflecting an ad-hominem that was trying to discredit me.
My posts are hardly condescending.
I may have gone a bit over the line, but I do not regret it at all. If you're going to start cracking down on me, fine, but Massassi really has widespread problems with people respecting each other, and it's not limited to the people in political threads. You would have to start spelling things out to everybody.
A lot of translations use "Go and sin no more". He also tells her he does not condemn her.
The teaching techniques that Jesus used fascinate me to no end.
God does indeed work in many ways.
There are many gay chrisitians. True christians too, with a lot of faith and who truly rely on God.
Many of them say that God blesses their gay relationships or are at peace with God.
You could say that they are wrong, but you couldn't really do that fairly unless you talked to these people in person. I'm not going to claim that they're right or they're wrong.
All I know is that there is a whole lot more going on than it seems at first.
Yep, his claims contradict several independent reports from the time. I'm going with the independent reports.
I don't know where you're getting the campaign ads thing from. You must not have read my post. See what I said to Lonelydagger, it applies to you too.
Your sniping is pathetic.
This seems like a good opportunity to quote the Morrissey song
I Have Forgiven Jesus
I think at least you would appreciate it, Freelancer. It's very powerful.
Nice to see you judging others. Pretty ironic from massassi's #1 drug advocate.
The Catholic Church.
I've seen a pretty good explanation for this one. I don't remember it right now though.
No it's not. Jesus's point was that those who don't commit adultery aren't really better than anyone who does, because everybody "wants to".
Indeed, but not in cases where people swear. I think Bush is a good example of someone whose actions don't match his words.
Who says that swearing is a sin?
Sin cannot be avoided. All that sin means is falling short of perfection. We are human and are not perfect. Sin was the word the archers used for missing the bullseye. Just look at the first word in Sine Nomen's name for a better understanding of what sin is.
You heard wrong.
Some people are. It means nothing. Those who are trying to excommunicate him are much more heretical than Kerry.
Psychotic?!?!?! You are scaring me.
I think the rest of your post is excellent, but what you say hear really isn't Godly at all.
Bush wouldn't be stopping it if he made it illegal. It would just mean that women would get dangerous non-professional abortions and you'd see more babies in dumpsters.
That still makes no sense. Should couples where one person is infertile not be allowed to marry?
