I am not a Christian, but you are: therefore you regard the words of Jesus and God recorded in the Holy Bible very seriously, perhaps moreso than ordinary Christians to whom Sunday Church is mostly a social get together. You are serious about your religion. You are also married, divorced from a non adulterer, non abusive spouse(me), and remarried. The Jesus you believe in did not exactly approve of marriage, divorce, and remarriage ("Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman commits adultery against her. And if she divorces her husband and marries another man, she commits adultery."-Mark 10:11-12(NIV)), except in very limited "my spouse was an adulterer/adultress" cases. Dr. Peter Ruckman, a Baptist pastor in his third marriage, argued from Scripture that divorce was also permitted in cases of spousal abandonment. (I have read Ruckman's argument and think it is basically the "Pauline privilege", that a believer abandonded/divorced by a non believer spouse may remarry.)(Christian Divorce and Remarriage discusses the Pauline Privilege as one of only two acceptable reasons to remarry after divorce. NOTE that the Christian spouse may remarry if abandoned/divorced by a non believer, not if she abandons/divorces a non believer.)
The views of the Jesus you believe in are summed up in the original
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia:
Divorce
in the New Testament.
Some years ago I compiled a list of sayings attributed to Jesus about
divorce
I know you are not Roman Catholic, but they have given literally centuries of
thought to this subject:
Divorce and
remarriage. Very lengthy and detailed:
Original Catholic
Encyclopedia (1907): Divorce; also
Catholic Encyclopedia
(1917): Divorce (In Moral Theology).
Protestant and more Biblical:
What the
Bible says about Marraige, Divorce, and Remarriage (also lenghty and
detailed.)(Not so lenghty and detailed:
What the Bible
Says About Divorce and Remarriage)
Pure scripture:
Divorce and
Remarriage: What Does the Bible Teach about Who May Divorce and Remarry? A
Bible study of divorce and remarriage.
DIVORCE AND
REMARRIAGE IN THE BIBLE; Interesting! This author says that the reason
women wear jewelry is that, in the early Biblical days, wives could be easily
divorced and ejected from the home with only the posessions she could carry.
She could get a new start in life by selling her jewelry.
More, Protestant and Biblical:
Divorce,
Remarriage, and the Bible(not lenghty and detailed.)
What are
Biblical grounds for divorce? "Christian, Protestant, conservative,
evangelical" page.
Pure Bible:
JESUS
DISCUSSES MARRIAGE, DIVORCE, and ADULTERY
Understanding Divorce and
Remarriage-my favorite! Quite long, covers everything, even the ancient
debates between Hillel and Shammai;
Jewish theologians, on the words of Moses.
What does
the Bible say about Vows and Keeping one's Word?
Divorce and
Remarriage. Does God Permit It?
What early Christians (before 400 AD) believed about marriage, divorce, and remarriage
Question: "Is remarriage after divorce always adultery?"-" Ending a remarriage through divorce would be just as sinful as ending a first marriage through divorce. Both would include the breaking of vows before God, between the couple, and in front of witnesses." It seems to me that someone who believes in the Christian version of God would not want to go on "worshipping God" every Sunday after telling Him "I'll do what I want...I was only a Christian because Mom and Dad were!"
1 Cor 7:39(KJV) "The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord." Logically, therefore, a second marriage is adultery, unless your first husband is dead.
If I were a Christian and thought Jesus was the Son of God, I would be darned sure to do what Jesus wants; after all, some of his harshest criticism was directed at those who claimed to be his followers and called him Lord, but did not do as he advised. ("Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' and do not do what I say?" -Luke 6:46, NIV)
I do not understand CINO people (Christian In Name Only) or
Cafeteria
Christians or as I call them: MakeBelieve, LetsPretend Christians.
("Let's Pretend God did not say not to commit adultery ("You
shall not commit adultery" -Exodus
20:14, NIV), and Let's Pretend that Jesus did not say that
remarriage after divorce is adultery!")(See above) If your religion is so
important to you, why don't you act it? Your Jesus denounced
hypocritesoften
("In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on
the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness."-Matt
23:28, NIV)
[It does stand to reason, doesn't it, that if you are a Christian, married in a
church by a "Minister of the Gospel" who says "What God has
joined together, let no man put asunder"(see
Matt
19:6, KJV), that it takes more than a decree from a human judge to undo
what God did? I am not a hypocrite; I never claimed to believe in your God...I
honestly can not remember a time in my life that I thought your God (or
Muhammed's God, or
Ellen White's God, or
Joseph Smith.'s
God, or Moses'/Josephus' God, or any of
these Gods) really
existed. I'm not really sure your Jesus was a
real historical
person, ever since I read G.A.Wells' Did Jesus Exist?, and saw
the DVD The God
Who Wasn't There. A lot of the content in this DVD can also be found at
http://jesusneverexisted.com/index.html(Did a historical Jesus
exist?)(Also see:
Jesus
Myth - The Case Against Historical Christ)(LOTS MORE: just go to
Yahoo and search +Jesus +myth)(Were George
Washington and Thomas Jefferson Jesus Mythicists?)(A "Jesus
Mythicist" is kind of like an "Obama Birther", except that
with Jesus, it's not where he was born, but whether he was born.)I
didn't believe my little sister's Invisible Magic Friend existed, either, nor
do I believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the
Tooth Fairy, the
Invisible Pink
Unicorn(Vegnautic Scripture
of the IPU), the Great Pumpkin, the
Flying
Spaghetti Monster, The Dragon in My
Garage, or Russel's_teapot.)(I
don't accept the minimal Deist
idea: God created everything and then left us alone.)(I don't think anyone on
this long
List
of people who have claimed to be Jesus was the Second Coming.) Going to
church as a boy because Mom and Dad required it is not being a believer; I
vividly remember that when the good Reverand at our wedding told us we were
"in the presence of God", I thought then that he was wrong. No
disrespect intended toward the Reverand; maybe if we had gone to him for
premarital counseling, he would have explained to you that marriage is intended
to be "until death do us part", not "until you become
unsatisfactory and I find someone else I like better"; I always did think
that, and didn't need a clergyman to remind me.] Besides, if I did think that
Christianity was true, I would be a Roman Catholic, not a member of our
parents' goofy (I apply "goofy" to things or people I can't take
seriously, like Glenn Beck and
Al Franken)
Protestant sects. The Roman Catholic system appeals to the rational
mind. I strongly suspect that the Holy Bible is mythology; do you really
believe that Noah lived to be 950
years old, and had sons when he was 500, and got on the Ark at age 600 with
his 100 year old son,
Shem?
It is at least faintly amusing that if your views on God turn out to be right, that you will have to answer for your adultery, and I will have to be grateful to my ex-fiancee for dumping me and not makng me guilty of adultery also.
Being a Let's Pretend Christian sounds like so much fun!! All the social acceptence of being a real Christian without having to follow the Ten Suggestions or pay any attention to what Jesus said! (If Christianity really is true, aren't you afraid there might be a penalty for pretending to be something you really aren't?)
"The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality." -- George Bernard Shaw
It is even more amusing to note that your fellow political conservatives usually have my attitude towards divorce, while your view is shared by political liberals and theological liberals.
Postscript: Please do not blame me for your childless status. I never
*forced* you to not have children. It was your own, voluntary, uncoerced
choice. You were 28 when you divorced me.
Octomom, born in 1975, was
34 when she had the most recent of her 14 children, all by IVF.(Octomom now
says:"Babies
disgust me".) (You are not too old for IVF!
Here is a story
about a woman who had twins by IVF at age 70!. There are more of these
Methuselah
moms!)(But before rushing into IVF, consider:
Fertility
treatment babies prone to ‘serious defects’)(Is there
anything wrong with being 53 and pregnant?)(You could have had a litter at
age 30 and been a multiple grandmother by now.)(Of course, you could have
adopted if your remarriage had been to someone a little closer to your own age;
marrying a guy old enough to be your father was a pretty stupid thing to
do for someone who wanted children; of course, raw brains and common sense do
not necessiarily go hand in hand. You have plenty of the first,
not so much of the second.1)(And, of course, you
could have divorced me as soon as you found out I had no interest in either
fatherhood or in PWESHUS WIDDLE BAYBEEZ. To this day, I cannot think
of a rational reason to want children.)
It's probably a good thing you and I didn't have kids; not just because both of
our famalies are full of people who got Alzheimer's: Yes, you say it's not
genetically inherited, but your mother and your sister..my mother, her sister,
and their father, of course it's not inherited! (In 2007, I heard a
woman with a Masters in Gerontology say that Alzheimer's IS inherited.) But I
don't like kids, never wanted kids; repeat, I don't like kids, never wanted
kids. I would have been a terrible father (have no patience for non
rational people), and have known several people who were thoroughly screwed up
by having parents who didn't really want them; would you want to inflict
another of those on the world just so you could have been a brain dead mommie
and Stay At Home Mom? You should thank me that you are still in the highly
intelligent category; instead of spending your youth changing diapers and being
on a fast track towards Alzheimer's. Every person I knew who got Alzheimer's
had spent years being mentally inactive(the women years as a SAHM), which is an
indicater that furthur scientific research *might* show that mental inactivity
(mothers retiring from thinking after the first child arrives, people retiring
from work and thinking at a certain age) is a serious risk factor for
Alzheimer's. (The one serious expert I have heard said that advancing age was
the primary risk factor, but since advancing age and retirement go together,
maybe it's the retirement and it's consequent mental inactivity that are
risky.)
Learning
a Second Language Protects Against Alzheimer's: support for my guess.
JUST THINK! If you had never met me, you could be sitting at home watching soap
operas while your mind turns to mush, like other retired Stay At Home Moms,
instead of working (thinking). Of course, not all work requires thinking, but I
know what you do, I used to do it myself, and any type of work that involves
problem solving requires thinking. Heck, if a retired SAHM were to sit around
solving puzzles, she would be *thinking*, and would be better off than watching
mindless TV. (Actually, now that you are retired, I hope you are still using
your mind!)
JUST THINK #2! If I had gone to Oakland University, which accepted me, and
which my father wanted me to attend, you would never have met me, and I could
have married an intellectual woman rather than a
baybee-rabid
wannabreeder!
Does having children make you happy?
Advantages and Disadvantages of Being Childfree
Children: “They’re a huge source of joy, but they turn every other source of joy to shit.” Precisely!
Postscript #2: I have never liked phoniness; I have nothing against
Christians per se, but I have a lot against Christians who can make
promises like, "for better, for worse......in sickness and in
health..." in a Church, toss their spouse into the garbage can when the
spouse is "in sickness" status, and then claim that their religion is
important to them.* People who talk the talk, but refuse to walk the walk give
religion a bad name.
*"Screw promises made in the presense of God! Marriage is all about
ME! ME, ME, ME, ME, ME, It's all
about ME! *I* wanted baybees! I'm not going to stay married to
some jerk who gets sick and doesn't even give me PWESHUS WIDDLE
BAYBEEZ first!! Oh, Christ is where "Christian" came
from? And I'm supposed to do what Christ says? But "I am ME, and ME
is all, that counts in life!" (Not breeding was the best thing I ever did!
I can't imagine life with
children.
I am NOT into BDSM; you'd
pretty much have to be into some aspect of BDSM to find parenthood enjoyable.
Either that, or be a religious person who thinks that having/raising children
is "doing the Lord's Work".)
Author Haz Babyee, Loses All Ambitions- really scary: this brand new mother campares her condition to heroin addiction.
Having a Baby Will Ruin Your Life-for women, by a woman
Having A Baby Totally Sucks-for men, by a man
"if people knew what hell it was raising an infant, they would never have sex in the first place." -Bristol Palin
What is it with you and your fellow "conservative", Republican,
"Christians"? You know, people like former Sen.Larry Craig , Sen.
David Vitter, former
Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich, former
Sen. John
Ensign....John Ensign was my US Congressman, then a US Senator, then fooled
around and supposedly his parents gave money to the woman, and Ensign resigned.
Ensign had been seen as a "rising star"...., former Gov. "It is
my personal view that the largest proclamation of one's faith ought to be in
how one lives his life."
Mark Sanford, the very
anti-porn, anti-LGBT former Rep.
Mark
Foley, and now Rep. Mark
Souder, who had an affair with a married staffer he was making a film about
abstinence(!) education with? Plus former Gov
Arnold
Schwarzenegger! Can' t any of you make a promise and keep it? You
Republicans! Of the Republicans elected to the House in the 1994 victory,
15
out of 73 have had messy divorces or other scandals! (You
"conservative"? "Christians"? have a
much higher divorce
rate than agnostics and atheists!)Of course, when a liberal like Bill
Clinton gets a blowjob in the Oval Office, or former Sen.John
Edwards cheats on his wife(sound famaliar? "My spouse got sick, so I
started shopping around!"), nobody is too surprised, but you guys go to
church on Sunday and read God's Word and talk about your superior morality. (I
never had any trouble keeping promises, except one, about ruining my life by
becoming a Dah-dee. I probably would have kept that one, too, if you had pushed
the question, but I would nave been really unhappy being around
Ugly Little Crying Babies.
(I know a little about what having little kids around is like. I used to live
with a grandma who doted on her preschool age granddaughter, and had her over
for week long "visits". NEVER AGAIN! After granny left, I went around
my house and threw away all the Kiddy Krap she had accumulated. Unfortunately,
the kiddy wallpaper she put up in the bathroom could not just be thrown away,
so I bought two(different) large copies of the
Periodic Table of the Elements,
which, combimed with a third copy I already had and a "Support Clean
Government" Peanuts "Pig-pen" poster, returned the room to adult
status!) (Having a home full of kid sounds, kid toys, kid videos, and Kiddy
Krap convinced me that I missed nothing worthwhile by not having children.)
Her"After a while you'll forget everything
It was a brief interlude and a midsummer night's fling
And you'll see that it's time to move on"
Him"I won't do that, I won't do that"
Her"I know the territory, i've been around
It'll all turn to dust and we'll all fall down
And sooner or later, you'll be screwing around"
Him "I won't do that! no i won't do that!"
-Meat Loaf
BTW, if you want to repay the money you "borrowed" from my parents
over 35 years ago, you'd better hurry! My father is 93 and not healthy. (Too
late! He died in Jan, 2011) And if for some reason you decide to repay the
$1,000 you "borrowed" from me in 1976 and forgot to repay, I'll send
you my address. After my father dies, you can send the $500 you owed him to me,
and I will see that my sisters get their share. I promise. (Hey, maybe you can
find some squishy liberal theologian to tell you it's OK with God to steal from
a spouse who doesn't get you pregnant after you divorce him! Oh wait, there's
those intrusive Ten Suggestions again, you remember,
the
one about not stealing...)
I guess once you get past the "I'm the most virgin virgin you've ever
met" lie, and the "for better, for worse, in sickness and in health,
to love and to cherish, until death do us part" lie, it's easier to lie
about paying back the $1,500, or was that a "Let's Pretend" promise,
like your wedding "vows"* were? (Note; I
agree with Augustine in On
Lying. You probably were telling what you believed to be the truth when you
got married and borrowed money, but the honorable thing would be to admit it as
soon as you realized you were not going to keep your promises.)(In modern
times, your attitude towards promise keeping is called
"situational
morality".)(What I needed, but was written 30 years too late:
How To
Detect Bullshit)
* I must have missed the (unspoken) fine print in
the vows: "VOID if: the wife does not get pregnant, or if the husband gets
sick"
What Does the Bible Say
About Telling Lies?
For
the Love of Money . "Money can change people sometimes."
"For the love of money People will lie, Lord, they will cheat
For the love of money People don't care who they hurt or beat"
No, I am not (as) bitter anymore. The years since 1976 have given me experiances I never would have had if I were "Married......With Children". (Especially going on cruises, and visiting places like Las Vegas, Reno, Atlantic City, San Juan, San Francisco(got a long ride through the Haight-Ashbury), Hawaii (Kauai, Oahu(Pearl Harbor); Hilo and Pahoa on the Big Island, and Maui; went on "the road to Hana"), Acapulco, Tahiti, the Panama Canal on 1-1-2000, Toronto, Philidelphia, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, the beautiful island of Roatan near Honduras, Hippie Hollow near Austin, Texas, the microscopic hamlet of Cambridge, Ontario, the Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, HalloweeM in Chicago, WarpTech in Phoenix, AZ, a Nowhere Man Festival in Portland, Oregon, and the very unusual island nation of Dominica. Plus I would have been stuck in the Arctic cold weather of Michigan winters, yuck!)(One thing that would have been positive had you stuck around: When my mother's relatives wanted to sell the cottage at Rondeau in the mid-1980s, I would have bought it and stayed there all summer after I retired; being there a lot, I would also have bought a house in Ridgetown, or another cottage elsewhere, for use after 2017, when the Ontario government is going to bulldoze the cottages at Rondeau; losing access to that cottage is a Great Regret of my life.) Plus, it was your buying me a subscription to Penthouse that led directly to my becoming a member of Mensa.
One thing you never said after tossing me into the dumpster and then ripping
me off:
I'm
Sorry. I'm convinced that if the legal marrying age was 25, I would never
have been cursed with being married to you. By 25, I would have known for sure
that I wanted no part of howling* screeching baybees, and you could have
married some guy that did!
*"BTW, on another note: I just read something in a magazine about noise
and hearing loss. The average baby make 90 decibels worth of noise when crying.
Hearing damage at 90 decibels occurs after 90 minutes of exposure!"
-Cynthia Stern, 7-12-11 on the Say_No_To_Sprogs Yahoo list, in a post entitled
"Re: Yay".
There is a Moody Blues song that goes through my head if I think about you: Your Wildest Dreams Also, (Remember) Walking in the sand.
Of course, I do have lots of positive memories...although I wasn't aware of
it at the time, we were visiting Washington, DC on the weekend of the infamous
Saturday Night
Massacre, and we were in St Louis for the historic 1969 YAF convention,
which was the defacto beginning of the libertarian movement in the USA,
as an effort seperate from the conservative movement. (Libertarians are a lot
more consistently pro-freedom than conservatives; see the
Nolan Chart: libertarians
favor civil liberties, personal freedom (Bill of Rights stuff), and economic
freedom (capitalism)....people like Barry Goldwater and William F Buckley, Jr
had strong libertarian leanings, although both are identified as conservatives.
And, of course I remember that fantastic pasty place in the Upper Peninsula, just over
the bridge; I think it was called "Madalyn's" or "Lehto's".
IIRC, this place was on the left side of the road when driving north after
crossing the Mackinac Bridge. (Pasties are the World's Finest Food; in MI, they
were easy to get, but not in Las Vegas.)
"If the girl you want to commit your life to is the first girl you've ever dated and/or slept with, do NOT fucking marry her. You're a brainless idiot for even considering it."(I did this; my mama didn't tell me to "shop around"!) A guy needs more experiance with women, not just sexually; he needs to date enough to realize that women vary extensively, not just sexually, but in honesty. A guy really needs to be lied to a few times and dumped, so he knows what he is getting into. Knowing in advance that "for better, for worse, in sickness and in health, until death do us part" is nice in a movie but is frequently total bullshit in real life will help a guy get over the trauma of his first really big dumping.) Remember this, guys! She wants to have baybees. Don't believe she doesn't unless she has been surgically permanently sterilized, is OK with you getting surgically permanently sterilized, and has a career she loves(sitting at home watching TV and changing diapers is not a career!). (My hypothesis about why women want to undergo this uncomfortable, painful, and ultimately unrewarding, life altering process is on this page.)
Remember this?
"When one is weak, the other must be strong
When one is ill, the other must be well
Neither can be the strong one, the well one, the brave one all the time
The roles must change, they must reverse as health and courage flag or revive
Living together does not mean that each mate is always at his strongest or that
the two of them together are always twice as wise resolute; but that through
love,through tenderness, through sympathy, even through pity, their acceptence
of life and their journey through the years can be enhanced.
This is collaboration; this is marriage"
-recited by Rev D Salisbury 6-29-68(original author unknown, but in searching
for it, I found, by accident, this piece of advice, which I pass along to my
ex-wife: REMEMBER THAT IT USUALLY DOESN'T WORK TO DEPEND UPON ANOTHER PERSON
FOR YOUR HAPPINESS. I copied this from
HEARTBROKEN?(their
point nine ), and think it is true. I have found that living alone is
infinitely preferable to living with someone who wants you to make her life
complete.
Here's what I
really think of you!(No Kidding!)
(No, I don't hate you; I would like to see you once more for old time's sake. I
am eternally grateful to you for 1. not
oopsing me,
and 2. leaving me to face and defeat my agoraphobia on my own, which took all
of 24 hours to do! I still vividly remember the day about a week after
you left that I took a bus to a doctor's appointment, and walked across the
street in front of Borgess Hospital, and knew I was normal again) (Yes,
I know you don't like my long hair, and want me to get a haircut. I will give
up my long hair, which I like, if you will give up your pro-choice,
pro-prenatal infanticide church. (the official position of
your church on abortion; while they do reject abortion as birth control or
gender selection, they accept it if going to term will (somehow) damage the
mother emotionally.
My
position of pro-choice for the mother and pro-life for the child, becomes
increasingly medically feasible. I strongly suspect that the emotional damage
caused by the thought "I killed my own child" is as great or greater
than other emotional damage. (Your church is also facing a major
split
over gay marriage.)
When we were first married, you said a lot more than once:
"Make my mind up for me!"
Who is going to do your thinking for you after your elderly husband passes
away?
Do
what you want to do, and go where you're going to; think for yourself 'cos I
won't be there with you
I agree with this: "Guess what - you have kids, your life is over. Period. Don't like it? Don't have kids" -Joe Hylkema on the Childfree list, 1-20-10.
Ann Landers: If You Had It To Do Over Again— Would You Have Children?
"I'm sorry I ain't the fool you thought would play by your rules
But to-each-is-own philosophy"-The Turtles
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and
to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his
children smart."
-- H.L. Mencken
4-3-10: Here is what I really do think of you: Yes, still after all these years(I haven't had agoraphobia since 1976, and the underlying cause has been completely controlled since 2002.)
4-26-10: Yes, I really mean the lyrics in the song in the last paragraph. Remember, you were the first female I ever dated, and the first I ever slept with. To a guy, that makes you doubly rememberable. Plus you never oppsed me! Life can be a lot more interesting if you are not tied down with yuck children!
Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and
by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
1.I have seen these people up close. I used to live with a woman smart enough to get into Mensa, but without the common sense to know that smoking very heavily/taking diabetes meds only when not feeling well, will destroy your physical health, and that gambling heavily at casinos will destroy your financial health.
Seasons change,
and so did I
You need not wonder
why-the Guess Who
The perfect song for lying soon to be ex-wives shopping around for a new
spouse:I
know theres something going on.
"Life is queer with it's twists and turns, as each of us, sometimes
learns"-CSJ, c. 1968. It is very ironic that I, who once had
agoraphobia, have been all over the US, Canada, and the Caribbean. Where have
you gone with Mr Wonderful?I think I know the difference between you and
I!.....I want to enjoy life and take an around the world cruise; you wanted
to be tied down to an ungrateful brat that would tell you it hates you....most
kids do that at some point, I know I did. (I'm still unhappy with my late
father for making me see my late mother when she had Alzheimer's; I would
rather have remembered her as healthy. Since I wanted to remember my father as
healthy, I did not go to visit him near the end of his life.) You are happy to
spend most of your life in the little town you were born in;
"Nothing
but the dead and dying Back in my little town"(No offense, but to
someone who grew up in the suburbs of a major city, and then spent many years
in a University city, and then moved to another major city, your little town
seems awfully small!)(But to be honest, I would love to live in
Ridgetown,
Ontario during the summer. Ridgetown is even smaller than your little town,
but I liked it a lot more.)("Uncle Carl and Aunt Betty" lived in
Ridgetown.)
Furthur postscript: If/When you decide to stop being a hypocrite and
renounce Christianity, the Wikipedia entry on
Religion_and_Divorce
explains what other religions think of divorce! There are other religions which
follow the Old Testament but do not get all confused about doing what Jesus
said to do.
In Roman Catholic doctrine, divorce is a serious sin, what used to be called a
"Mortal
sin". (Good non technical overview:
Wikipedia entry on Mortal
sin.) If the pre-Vatican II Catholics are right, and you die without
confessing your sin, you are eternally damned. How do you know the
(traditionalist) Catholics are wrong?
I'm a good Christian! 1. I go to Church every Sunday.
2. I listen carefully to the Sermons.
3. I live my life according to Jesus' teachings.
Oh, well, "two out of three ain't bad"! (B. Obama could say that,
too. After attending Rev. Wright's church for 20 years he had no recollection
of Rev. Wright's sermons.)
Lenghty discussion of the Ten Commandments; yes, they are binding on non Jews. I know what you think about the rules against adultery and stealing, but do you observe the other eight?
Cause when tomorrow comes It's all just yesterday's news
St. Peter(at The Pearly Gates): "Why does your non-Christian ex-husband know the Bible better than you do?"
4-16-12: "Will you still need me, when I'm 64?" No, you moron! All I needed you for was stud service. All that crap about "love" was just what women say when they want to have baybees, and spend life as a Stay At Home Mom!
5-2-12: Very positive closing note: The Libertarian Party National Convention is on right now in Las Vegas. I'm pretty sure they will nominate former NM Gov. Gary Johnson (ex-R) (In 2008, they nominated a former Republican US Congressman, who beat out a former Democratic US Senator for the nomination.) I wish you were here! I'm looking for someone to go to things like that with me. I'm thinking about buying or renting a second residence for the *hot* summer months, plus I want to take an around the world cruise when my current term as Treasurer of Southern NV Mensa expires in early 2013, plus I want to go to the INSITE annual "Somewhere In Time Weekend" at the Grand Hotel in October, plus I'd love to go to the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas, plus I want to stay at the new Sands Hotel in Macao, China, which is owned by the same company that owned the immortal Sands Hotel in Las Vegas. You have no idea how much fun I had traveling and cruising after you dumped me, but the two women I used to travel with both destroyed their health smoking! What fools: they were both highly intelligent, but without the common sense to know that smoking kills! I suppose it takes more than common sense to quit; they were nicotene junkies just like Mr Hope-and-Change and Speaker Boehner (I used to live with a nicotene junkie, and saw what happens when they run out of drugs and go into withdrawl. Pathetic.)
I'd also like to go back to Rondeau again. There is public access beach right next to my maternal grandfather's cottage; I could get some sand from my childhood playground, and I want to take a picture of my paternal grandfather's cottage, and some pictures at "The Point". I'd also like to see more live theater, what the Brits call "theatre". I'd love to visit the UK, and see a Shakespearean play. (but not the rest of the Eurozone, which except for Germany looks like it going to follow Greece down the drain.)
I'd also like to go to Willard's swearing in on 1-20-13! Willard is not my idea of an ideal President, but he will be a big improvement over Mr Hope-and-Change. I'd love to see the USA by driving on back roads, not freeways, from Las Vegas to Kalamazoo, where I will likely have a summer place to live. I'd also like to go to more Mensa Annual Gatherings (AG) and Regional Gatherings(RG). I went to lots of RGs before I moved to Las Vegas, and I went to the AG when it was in LV. These gatherings are both intellectual and social. I'm sure you would qualify for membership in Mensa, too. (You have friends in the school district where you must have taken either the ACT or the SAT, I'd bet that your score would qualify you.)
Written 2-10-09, rev 5-23-12; reprinted at http://home.sprynet.com/~jhunter2/theex.htm; a previous version of this memo is still online: See "Index to my web writings".