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Tommy,

What does the First Commandment say?

It is curious to me the Commandments you choose to notice when writing on this forum, while other Commandments don't seem to have meaning to you and your life. All the Commandments are important in a Christian's life, and in the lives of all who dwell on Earth.

If we thought you held the Commandments close to your heart and mind, your quoting them here would have more significance.

10/19/21 06:10 PM

#22602

Wayne Gary

Janalu.

Did you make it to the State Fair last week?

10/19/21 06:14 PM

#22603

Didn't make it, Wayne. We thought the weather might be rainy and humid, so we made other plans, but we will try again next year.

Thanks for all of your helpful hints! You're a good man, Charlie Brown! (Just kidding wid'ya!)

10/19/21 06:44 PM

#22604

Tommy and Chief Jimbob of the Les Purse,

What was that famous quote you told me? " I will spend no more, forever."

I certainly do not covet Hull's Wealth. I don't know how Hull does it. It is a full time job spending the money I have. If oil prices keep going up because of Biden, I either have to get a helper to buy things or turn Democrat. I haven"t decided which yet.

10/19/21 07:20 PM

#22605

Steve,

As far as I know, Tommy Thomas does not have authority to edit anything on this website except for his own posts. I was the one who reoriented your photos. I wouldn't have mentioned it, except for the fact that he wrote, "You're welcome," essentially taking credit. I don't know if you posted the same photos on his site. Maybe he did reorient the photos on his site.

10/19/21 07:22 PM

#22606

Wayne Gary

Janalu,

I have been called worse names. I appreciate the reference to Charlie Brown.

Steve,

If you need some help I am available and willing. I just bought a Colt Officers Model 38 with target sights from 1912 to go along with my 1938 Colt Officers Target Model in 22LR.

10/19/21 07:29 PM

#22607

Steve said, "It is a full time job spending the money I have. If oil prices keep going up because of Biden, I either have to get a helper to buy things."

David responds, "Dear Mr. Keene, please forward an employment application to me. I have extensive experience buying things that I shouldn't. I can bring that experience to the table. I am confident that I can buy plenty of items that you don't really need, in which case I can take them off your hands. Thank you, Sir."

10/19/21 10:11 PM

#22608

Tommy,

No, it isn't "good manners" to take credit for someone else's efforts. Neither is it minutiae.

10/20/21 12:16 AM

#22609

To All,

The first Commandment from The Bible is;

"I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me."

10/20/21 01:15 AM

#22610

David,

Just to clear things up, I no longer trust the other site enough to risk posting there, since the content of my posts was changed by the administrator. On the other question of a job, I do not want to risk Martha's wrath by diverting your attention from time with her that she has patiently earned. Also to be blunt, you are way too old to work for me. I am trying to keep up with the new generation not revisit the baby boomer era.

10/20/21 01:20 AM

#22611

Janalu,

Maybe one day Tommy will understand that even Satan knows the Word of God. We are called to live the Word, not recite it.

10/20/21 04:50 AM

#22612

Steve said, "Also to be blunt, you are way too old to work for me."

David replies, "Ouch! Hmmm. Sounds like age discrimination to me. Besides, I think you are too old for me to work for you. It was kind of you to be concerned that Martha wouldn't want me to be away from home too much, but I suspect that her opinion would be just the opposite!"

10/20/21 10:28 AM

#22613

Tommy.

There you go again reading too much into things. I like you. I just can't depend upon you to be rational about some things like Trump and The Bible and Infanticide and being objective to name a few.

10/20/21 10:29 AM

#22614

Marty Fulton

Lowell, I see that mistake now in Janalu's post. No biggie - all is well. Glad that the Dodgers and the Astros 'woke up' and smelled the chewing tobacco last night. Those are the teams I'd like to see in the W Series. Next time I get down to Houston, we will go out to Memorial Park for a round. If I remember correctly, you have an 'inside way' of getting a decent tee time there....

10/20/21 10:33 AM

#22615

Wayne,

You'll shoot your eye out, kid!

10/20/21 10:55 AM

#22616

Tommy,

I'm sure that you know that the verse you quote, "Thy shalt love the Lord with all your heart....." is from Matthew 22:37, and is a very meaningful and important one. But when Moses brought the stone tablets down from the mountain to give to the rescued followers he was leading out of Egypt, the very first Commandment was "I am the Lord thy God, and thou shalt have no other gods (gods means anything one considers above the worship of God Almighty, possibly even money, or anything else that might take one from proper exaltation of God, who is to be our utmost focus in life in the number one position,)....before me.

God spoke these words to Moses and emblazened them onto stone tablets.

It is not my wish to question your faith, as you have every right to believe what you wish.

As you have stated on this forum and the other forum, you seem to choose what you believe from various faiths and philosophies you have studied, and I thought you were declaring to us, the readers of the forum or forums, that you take ideas from many religions, even from Ram Dass, and you enjoy an amalgamation of ideas to nourish yourself. Is that correct?

Anyway, when God commands us that we are to know that our Lord, God says that He is God, and that we should have no other, that He is the one true God, our Creator and the creator of everything we observe before us, we should hold that fact and incredible gift close to heart and mind at all times. That is what I have learned since I was a child. Is that what you learned as well, before you became a lay minister in Richardson, years ago?

I often challenge you with queries, not because I don't respect you and value what you have to say, but because I'm trying to understand what you choose in your life, even though I know that really it is none of my business; it's just curiosity, mostly.

10/20/21 11:14 AM

#22617

Tommy,

Your Charlie Brown cartoon implied that you did not care to spend time on those who did not like you, but with those you love and love you. It's placement led me to believe that you thought I did not like you.

On the other type of worthy person you give your full attention to with love, like Charlie Brown I assume it is a very short list.

10/20/21 02:33 PM

#22618

Wayne Gary

Janalu,

Way to go on trying to explain the 1st commandment to Tommy who has said he is an atheist,

10/20/21 03:41 PM

#22619

Tommy,

I have been following your Broyles feed on the other site. I think you have gotten to the Wilson soccer ball washing up on the beach. Do not miss that when Tom Hanks returns to modern life and realizes that his priorities have changed and he no longer wants the corporate path, he takes off driving across the country looking for his little bit of Heaven. He finds that spot at a four way intersection in the Texas Panhandle between Hansford County on the west and Ochiltree, Lipscomb or Wheeler County on the East. I know of four or five four way stops in the area near the Canadian River, north of old highway US.66 that fit the bill. Heaven and all good things come from West Texas or the Texas Panhandle, being placed there by God. That is in the Bible if you look closely enough, A long legged jean clad West Texas or Panhandle girl is what a real Godly woman should be, as described in Proverbs 31:10 -31. You can verify that with Janalu and Melinda if you like.

There are some faiths that are of Satan who would destroy all those that do not believe as they do in the name of their god. You cannot negotiate or compromise with those people whose belief is that it is not wrong to deceive an infidel to achieve their ultimate goal. Those people have to be wiped out and removed for they are evil. If we have allowed evil to thrive, Jesus Christ will remove it when he returns for his followers. The Bible tells us these facts.

10/20/21 03:43 PM

#22620

Jim Bedwell

Chief No Stache,

Does all this mean you're going to defer your scheme(s) about Hull's wealth? If so, Mulvihill had already told me that he's in, so I'm going to have to let him know! Plus he indicated this may have to boost his percentage of the take. Just letting you know...............

Don't you find it interesting the difference in how Christians treat people vs. atheists? Remember I asked Tommy to change his N-words that HE replaced my expletive-deleted special characters with. Not only do I not know if he did that, I never heard a heard from him about that (other than his blanket apology for all the abuse he's directed at me the last many years), so I bet he hasn't even given that a second thought since he read my request. Whaddaya bet?

Chief Bedpost

10/20/21 04:02 PM

#22621

Tommy and Chief Jimboob,

I am surprized that you two goofballs don't have better things to do than try and make stuff up about me and Hull. Your lives must be pretty dull. Go to an Indian casino and look foor your relatives. I am off the reservation enjoying real life.

10/20/21 04:16 PM

#22622

Jim Bedwell

With all this Cowboy & Trevon Diggs hoopla, I thought I'd list a few OUTSTANDINGLY NOTEWORTHY things about our Watch-checker in Chief, a real outlier (and liar of liars).

He really is THE posterchild for:

1) Alzheimer's disease research

2) the 25th Amendment (inadequate President to be removed from office)

3) Impeachment

4) Quintessential American Marxist governance

5) Psychopathic research

Concerning the last item, even though a Psych major, I hadn't realized what I saw on a documentary once. When we hear the word "psychopath", we think serial killers and Charles Manson. But no, there are MILLIONS of psychopaths walking around among us. They just don't have all the dysfunctionality exhibited by the monsters; they don't have an urge to kill or commit mayhem. They really do look like and act like the rest of us. They just simply don't care about anybody but themselves. If they were in the Warsaw ghetto or Auschwitz, seeing a dead body or somebody dying right in front of them wouldn't bother them at all, or even in an ideal environment. My estimation is that the Abandoner in Chief is a perfect example of this. He really wouldn't care if he saw somebody literally eviscerated in front of him, I believe. But that documentary was a real eye-opener for me.

10/20/21 04:21 PM

#22623

Bob Davidson

Jim, of that Bloomsbury crowd, Leonard Woolf was the one I identified with and liked and would like to have known the most. (I have a habit of reading someone's biography, getting curious about the other people around, reading up on them, having my curiosity stirred up more, then getting absorbed in the whole setting while reading everything I can get my hands on about them, their times, etc. -- the World War II leaders were another crazily connected group that fascinated me -- Ike, Patton, Bradley, Pershing, FDR, Marshall, King, Nimitz, Dewey, Cactus Jack Garner, Hopkins, then Churchill, Monty, Montbatten, George VI, etc.)

Leonard was an outsider, coming from a very different background than his peers at Cambridge and their relatives and families -- his father died when he was young and he grew up poor with about eight siblings. He met Virginia through her brothers Toby and Adrian -- the guy who translated Freud to English -- and was published by Leonard and Virginia. His friends included Bertrand Russell, John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster, and most of the leading intellectuals of their day. After college, he spent ten years governing a district in Ceylon as a colonial administrator before he returned to England on leave, met his college friend's sister and married her.

The thing I found absolutely fascinating about Virginia and the other intellectuals (except Leonard) was that they considered themselves middle class (in her diary she frequently referred to herself as being of Scottish peasants) and were awed by the useless, decadent titled assholes they knew, like the Sackville-Wests and Lady Ott Morrell. Virginia's dad was one of the most influential intellectuals of his day, the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, and her stepmother was Thackery's daughter for Gosh sakes, her friends were immortal writers, and many of her relatives were people who actually mattered to the history and culture of our civilization but she was impressed with Lady Ott. She fawned over those people, while mocking their friends T. S. Eliot, D. H Lawrence, Keynes, and others who were giants.

10/20/21 04:25 PM

#22624