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Name: Conteuse
Gender: Female
Interests: Phantom of the Opera, Theophostic Prayer Ministry, vocal music, fanfiction, languages, motorcycles, hunting, nutrition, and writing.
Expertise: Teaching ESoL, foreign travel, writing, editing others' writing, playing with horses, staying up late, and teaching my son how to sack a castle with siege towers, sappers, and trebuchets (he says onagers don't fling as far).
Occupation: Education/training
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message me
Member Since:
9/8/2005
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| I am using the HCG protocol for weight-loss.
Praise God, it seems to be working so far! Ten lbs. in ten days, and it's all perfectly safe and medically supervised.
Will write with more information later about it, but in the meantime I will leave you with this link to the book about it written by Dr. Simeons who discovered the protocol decades ago.
And if you can raise your tolerance for tin-foil-hat-wearing-paranoiacs, you might want to give Kevin Trudeau's book a try -- it has all the same information, only packaged in conspiracy-theory terms.
The thing is, I'm not so sure Trudeau is wrong about everything!
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| ...has prompted this humorous list of:
Top 10 Reasons Why Men Should Not be Ordained
Top Ten Reasons Why Men Should Not Be Ordained (think David Letterman)
10. A man's place is in the army.
9. For men who have children, their duties might distract them from the responsibilities of being a parent.
8. Their physical build indicates that men are more suited to tasks
such as chopping down trees and wrestling mountain lions. It would be
"unnatural" for them to do other forms of work.
7. Man was
created before woman. It is therefore obvious that man was a prototype.
Thus, they represent an experiment, rather than the crowning
achievement of creation.
6. Men are too emotional to be
priests or pastors. This is easily demonstrated by their conduct at
football games and watching basketball tournaments.
5. Some men are handsome; they will distract women worshipers.
4. To be ordained pastor is to nurture the congregation. But this is
not a traditional male role. Rather, throughout history, women have
been considered to be not only more skilled than men at nurturing, but
also more frequently attracted to it. This makes them the obvious
choice for ordination.
3. Men are overly prone to violence.
No really manly man wants to settle disputes by any means other than by
fighting about it. Thus, they would be poor role models, as well as
being dangerously unstable in positions of leadership.
2.
Men can still be involved in church activities, even without being
ordained. They can sweep paths, repair the church roof, and maybe even
lead the singing on Father's Day. By confining themselves to such
traditional male roles, they can still be vitally important in the life
of the Church.
1. In the New Testament account, the person
who betrayed Jesus was a man. Thus, his lack of faith and ensuing
punishment stands as a symbol of the subordinated position that all men
should take.
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| Last year I took one of those quizzes about "What Kind of Christian Beliefs do you Have?"
Tonight I took the same quiz over again.
It is very interesting to see where God has brought me in the last year or so.
Here are my results from last year:
You scored as Non Denominational Christian, You don't claim
allegiance to any church body, but still profess to be a Christian. You
believe that doctrine and denominations get in the way of true faith in
God.
Non Denominational Christian | | 93% | Protestant | | 87% | Ecumenical | | 80% | Trinitarian | | 73% | Evangelical | | 60% | Presbytarian | | 53% | Charismatic/Pentecostal | | 53% | Messianic Jew/J4J | | 40% | Christian Scientist | | 26% | Unitarian Christian | | 20% | Catholic/Orthodox | | 13% | Anglican/Episcopal | | 7% | Mormon | | 7% | Jehovahs Witness | | 7% |
And here are my results from tonight:
| You scored as a Non Denominational Christian |
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don't claim allegiance to any church body, but still profess to be a
Christian. You believe that doctrine and denominations get in the way
of true faith in God.
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Non Denominational Christian
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87%
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Protestant
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80%
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Unitarian Christian
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60%
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Evangelical
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54%
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Charismatic/Pentecostal
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53%
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Trinitarian
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53%
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Ecumenical
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53%
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Presbytarian
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47%
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Messianic Jew/J4J
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40%
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Mormon
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27%
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Anglican/Episcopal
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20%
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Christian Scientist
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20%
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Catholic/Orthodox
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13%
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Jehovahs Witness
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7% | |
The main ones are still the same, but just check out the 40% gain in Unitarian! That's funny! I guess that must be a result of my no longer believing that we can have all the answers about God -- no matter how much the churches I've attended claim they do.
Oh, remind me to tell you about my new hobby -- Sacred Cow Tipping.
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| ...that I've ever read in my whole life.
Although I naturally want everyone to run right out and order copies of my Phantom novel, I have to say that if I had a choice between their buying mine and buying this one, I'd want 'em to buy this one.
It's like everything God's been trying to teach me for the last three years, all neatly packaged up in paperback. It's like a 250-page Theophostic Prayer session. It's God as you've never seen him before.
Buy it. Read it. Live it.
No joke. And no, I'm not getting paid for this. 
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