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Old 10-13-2005, 12:10 PM   #16
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If you love your children, beat them......they're worth it.
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Old 10-13-2005, 04:12 PM   #17
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If you love your children, beat them......they're worth it.
That's just wrong.
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Old 10-13-2005, 11:02 PM   #18
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I have heard that Los Angles will do with a Grand Jury what Philadelphia has already accomplished - use Church's own records to demonstrate widespread pedophilia in the Church, and Church management that conspired to hide and suppress it. The victims be damned. The problem be ignored. Morality defined by the powers that be because society cannot be trusted to make such decisions. That is akin to communism in its worst form.

Begs the question - what is the purpose of the Church? To provide a service to its parishioners? Or to enrich and protect itself? Ironically god becomes an excuse to justify the coverup rather than a reason to condemn it. Same twisted logic that also blames pedophilia on homosexuality. But then this is what happens when organized religion decides to impose its standards - by people who don't live in the real world - to save us all from ourselves - rather than just serve its parishioners.
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Old 10-13-2005, 11:05 PM   #19
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Morality as justified by the law? Or simply religious doctrine? Which takes precedence?
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Old 10-14-2005, 02:40 AM   #20
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That's just wrong.
But if you don't, what will the chat with their analyst about?
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Old 10-14-2005, 02:41 AM   #21
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Morality as justified by the law? Or simply religious doctrine? Which takes precedence?
Tough love trumps both.
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Old 10-14-2005, 09:16 AM   #22
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I think you'll find that a higher percentage of priests are queer than the general population.
so that's what happened to gonzo_4_life15 in the Thomson thread. I get it now!
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Old 10-14-2005, 04:52 PM   #23
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But if you don't, what will the chat with their analyst about?
Oh I'm sure they'll come up with something.

Spanking is like duct tape though. It has a proper application, but most of the time it's just an ugly all-purpose quick-fix, used until a real solution can be managed. Take good care of your stuff in the first place and you won't need so much duct tape.
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Old 10-14-2005, 04:57 PM   #24
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Speaking of duct tape. I went to my doctor last week to have him look at a problem I was having with pain in my foot. The doctor takes a look and says I have a plantar's wart. You know the prescription? (Aw you guessed already.)

Put a piece of duct tape on it. Change it once a week.

That's it.
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Old 10-15-2005, 01:30 AM   #25
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If you weren't outside of Chi-town, I'd think that you must go to the same doc that my other boss does (I have a boss and an other boss).

She had a ganglion cyst on her wrist. The treatment was to be whacked very, very hard with a large book ... He used the PDR because it was handy.
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Old 10-15-2005, 09:52 AM   #26
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That's what they told me to do with my ganglion too, but they said don't do it yourself because you might break your wrist. I chose instead to just try to relax my hand more when playing the viola, and it went away on its own.
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Old 10-17-2005, 08:33 AM   #27
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I'm with Bullitt here -- an organization that requires celibacy seems to attract people who are trying to run from their sexuality. There's no surprise at all to the objective observer when these people discover the hard way that there simply is no running from your sexuality -- even castration is only a palliative, and understandably viewed as a cure that is no improvement over the problem. By everyone from Pope Benedict down.
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