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Post by HowdyDude on Oct 1, 2007 12:01:40 GMT -5
The tenor of the testimonies starts changing on Sunday morning. Young people dread school and adults dread work. After a break from the cares of life, those professing must "face the world". Some say unseen tests await them as the enemy of their soul will try to take away from what they heard at convention.
Maybe everyone should stay home the next day so they could retain something? Eh?
Professing children are misunderstood in schools..ridiculed because they don't go in for the things their friends at school enjoy. Oh those days...glad I am old! Believe it or not.
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Post by Bluenoser on Oct 1, 2007 12:40:58 GMT -5
The tenor of the testimonies starts changing on Sunday morning. Young people dread school and adults dread work. After a break from the cares of life, those professing must "face the world". Some say unseen tests await them as the enemy of their soul will try to take away from what they heard at convention. Maybe everyone should stay home the next day so they could retain something? Eh? Professing children are misunderstood in schools..ridiculed because they don't go in for the things their friends at school enjoy. Oh those days...glad I am old! Believe it or not. Help me understand something.....these children are misunderstood as you say....but it is not their choice/conviction to abstain from certain things or look a certain way ....how do they then later "repent" and experience the resulting changes if they've been all boxed in??? Does anyone know what I mean??? (I am a parent and do realize that our own beliefs/morals influence what we let our children do...but can this be taken to an extreme???)
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Post by Brick on Oct 1, 2007 13:07:02 GMT -5
Of course everything can be taken to an extreme. You can brush your teeth so much that you wear the enamel off and your gums recede from around your teeth. That's why I stopped brushing after becoming a pirate. I know what you mean. Children need to learn to make choices. I heard an interesting story about a man who offered his child a choice between walking or riding in a stroller. An older man advised him to not let his children make choices until they had the wisdom to make good ones. I think we protect our children from bad choices until they are capable of making good ones. Until then, we put borders around them with rules, restrictions, and disciplinary measures that help them understand what the best choices are.
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Post by Bluenoser on Oct 1, 2007 14:49:16 GMT -5
So what waters are you cruising on these days??? (Good thing you're cute cause bad breath really ain't that attractive )
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Post by Brick on Oct 2, 2007 11:33:26 GMT -5
We've been raiding along the Delaware Bay. After leaving the Rappahannock (Downings convention), we raided along the Potomac, Chesapeake, and now Delaware. We want to see some of the fall foliage, so we are staying close to land, lying up in quiet coves and rowing ashore to the Jersey side to hit a Wawa convenience store under the cover of darkness. New Jersey is good for us. We don't even have wear disguises to try to blend in. I think everyone there is a pirate of some kind or another.
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Post by Bluenoser on Oct 2, 2007 14:04:31 GMT -5
Well good, you just stay down there with the Yanks....don't be comin up and botherin the nice Maritimers....it's not worth it for ya now anyway since our dollar is on par with the Americans and occasionally surpassing it! ;D
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Post by wanttobewithGod on Oct 2, 2007 16:27:50 GMT -5
LOLLLL. The piratey post made me laugh! ARrrrr!
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