sox4lifeinPA

yeah, but can everyone see my isp information?

what....the....fug?

has a really scary fa..er, big boned kid as his avatar.

donkey...can anyone else see the graphic in your sig? or is it just something that only I can see?

Classic™

I learned something from him... apparently Satanists are just like everyone else.

why? why? do i play PC games? anyone play this game yet? it's awesome.

CRIKEY!

hahahahahaha...so...friggin'...classic.... from "Jonathon's Dark side": wow. no words but wow. uhhhhhhh....apparently this guy thinks he's "friends" with the Bush's. more wow. This has realultimatepower.net written ALL over it.

thanks LCR, that gotquestions page was a great read. kudos.

QUOTE(Texsox @ Jan 12, 2006 -> 09:42 PM) PA, I was just talking to friends of mine tonight about that very issue. As Scout leaders, we always offer a worship service on Sundays during our campouts. For many of the young men, and now ladies, in our units, this may be their only contact with religion. I pointed out that there are far more ladies in attendance at service than men, and perhaps our greatest gift we can give these kids is showing them strong male Christian role models. I also enjoy showing them female role models they may not normally see. Our Venturing Crew advisor is older than me, cute as can be, petite, and can backpack, climb, cave, and camp with the best of the men. Beauty, brains, brawn, and a determined spirit. Girls rarely see a strong women leaders and guys rarely see strong male leaders, and that's universally true to any organization. As far as the church goes, I understand why a church service basically works they way it does, but in search of an unoffensive and universally appealling product, men a left in the dust (understandably because we're only 35-45% of the population). what a lot of churches are doing now is trying to understand the prevailing culture or certain segments of the population and organize their efforts to appeal to those groups. I'm in that category.

QUOTE(Wong & Owens @ Jan 12, 2006 -> 07:12 PM) I would argue that. That is far from an indisputable fact. Many scholars don't even agree on the IDENTITY of many of Jesus's followers, and some scholars dispute the existence of Jesus himself. I personally haven't decided on that. In any case, close followers of any religion have been known to die for their beliefs, and their deep love of anything doesn't mean it's not misguided. I'm sure the Heaven's Gate folks had a deep love of that Applewhite? guy, but I don't think it proves that the Heaven's Gate belief system has any more merit than anything else. To Alex -- what was so asinine about my comments on missionaries? You're right about the martyr issue, but to say there aren't ANY facts in the bible is just stupid. There are archeaological landmarks that verify the dates of things written and scientific terms such as weight and value of money that are indisputable as you put it. anyway, we can all agree that much of what is written is kosher; we can argue about anything if you want. Wong: It's so after the fact that it's almost not worth it, but your comments were just way out there. You are definitely right about Africa, but do you really think South America is uneducated? I've personally been to Central Mexico twice for short term mission trips and one of my pastors was a missionary in Ecuador for 30 years. I understand your argument, but I just don't think it correctly applies in this case. From my experience and what I've personally seen in latin america, these people aren't looking for whatever they can get for themselves. I don't think appeasing the white man by "believing" what they want just to get free food, shelter, money is their aim. I don't deny that that's a possibility, but I think it's a possibility for ANY race in any part of the world. haha, maybe it's just that Anthraxdouche made you look like a saint in comparison.

QUOTE(DePloderer @ Jan 12, 2006 -> 05:27 PM) You bet. I have to say though that there is nothing worse than an American trying to imitate an English accent, so please stop. Oh and yeall have a nice day now ye hear? great post served, mate!

born into the baptist church, then the church of the nazarene, then methodist, then free church, then independent baptist, now Christian and Missionary Alliance. I don't buy too deeply into any of those churches except the independent baptist one. (go TEXAS!) Kap, SS, and I could probaby go to the same church.

indie rocks! I like spoon and sufjan stevens...

Holy s***.... 20 pages and this is my FIRST post. I guess there's solace in the fact that the only 3 of the 20 pages were worth reading. to Wong: Thank you for not being a douche after page 5. to Tex: Thank you for making me laugh throughout 20 horrific pages to Yasny: I give you props dude. I wouldn't have done half as well as you did. I agree with 100% of what you said. to MrEye: I like you much much more than Anthraxdouche to Anthraxdouche: It's not that I don't like your politics. It's not about that. I hate Wong's politics, but most of the time he's respectful (aside from the assinine missionary remarks). You turned this whole thread into a piece of wet hair in the drain; Useless and a stain on Soxtalk. to PA: thanks for being you. To answer the question originally intended in this thread. I think there's an epidemic in the church today. I've been to nearly 50 churches in the last 3 years and there's definitely some issues circulating. When I say church, my experience is 100% protestant ranging from Church of Christ to Baptist to C&MA to Free Church to Episcople. There's a southern church and a northeast church, as far as my experience goes. The south has its problems which range from uber-legalism to ambiguity at megachurches. The NE suffers from a hostile environment, a lack of honesty and openness, and what I call the "sunday morning smile" problem. That being said, it's easy to understand why church membership is down. Most churches that DO have sizeable membership cater their "worship" experience to middle aged women. There's very little about church that empowers men to act like men. There's a serious lack of leadership building and youth groups fail to show girls what their roles are as women and boys what their roles are as men. (and I dont mean the man works and the woman is at home and pregnant in the kitchen) I mean the essence of what it means to be a woman and what it means to be a man. (strength and beauty). anyway, that's my quick two cents.

I suppose this law is better than the one they propose a couple years back... "Carry a Diaphram or pay a fine"

usually those sites are pay per view. There's money to be made on Geneology sites. I don't know if this explains anything, but on my dad's side, I believe a great-great-great uncle, possibly even a grandfather, was a Civil War captain in the cavalry......................for the south. needless to say, we lost a lot of land and a lot of slaves. I think that's the best bad thing that's ever happened to my family

Boog's real name was scott...or scotty Boog I've had my name since 2000 on the ESPN message board. I was apart of the great phone call of 2001, amongst other hilarious fiascos. You can blame southsider for inviting me here. Sox (as in the white ones) 4 (the hip way to write "for") Life (in constant search of one) in (well, in) PA (PEE-AYE) I'd go by just PA, but I've been told that makes me look like a grandfather. I'd be happy with "PA, of the hill people" In case there are any mods out there.

Start to finish, best poster on Soxtalk.com

That was a great BBM review. Thanks for whoever posted it.

QUOTE(Gene Honda Civic @ Jan 10, 2006 -> 12:39 AM) What is this, post #300 from you not-so-subtly calling me gay? It's old. We get it. You're homophobic. You don't like me. Therefore, I must be gay. Passive aggressive green text is so 2004. I guess we'll skip over your condescending post towards WSJosh... think what you want dude.

has anyone stopped to ask, exactly how many real life gay cowboys are there? is this a story that "MUST BE TOLD?" I'm pretty sure if this were two wall street workers no one would care...and even less if they were actors playing actors.

Josh, Gene Civic Cheat is upset because he is a gay cowboy himself.

QUOTE(White Sox Josh @ Jan 9, 2006 -> 05:59 PM) Sam Mendes directed American Beauty so that is probably why that is the case. I don't think that though. I think this is a much better movie than American Beauty and I liked American Beauty. I know why it was so similar... I just said I didn't like movies that take 10 of the craziest things that probably happened at some point and assign those things to 6 people. It's just not realistic.