This is not a political rant. This is me venting.

[Geo]

There is a fellow I just met at the barber shop who doesn't realize how close he just came to getting choked- by me.

As I was getting my haircut he impatiently waited for his turn ("any idea how much longer", "will I lose my place in line if I come back in a bit"). But instead of leaving like he announced, he started reading the bible.

He informed everyone that the book of revelations predicted the damage our water is about to receive from the oil spill. And then informed us that all of his friends in the oil industry have said that something doesn't add up with this incident and that he's no conspiracy theorist but that "everybody knows that Obama has all these followers who support alternative energy and there are billions of dollars to be made here".

I still kept quiet in my chair- snip, snip, snip (hair falling).

"I'm not saying it was sabbotage but you gotta follow the money. You always gotta ask who stands to gain and here it's the environmentalists. I mean this is tragic. Ga prices have spiked already!"

Before it was over I told him I hoped gas was $20.00 a gallon. Other than that, I remained polite in our discourse.

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[Gidget]

Oh my, that must have been difficult to sit through! Sorry you had to experience such a loon first hand. I'm afraid he's been listening to Rush. I would have been shaking.

G

 

[Beauty hunter]

Hitler had the bible memorized, Satan lived with God before he was kicked out (who quoted scripture to Jesus) but not with the intent of saving him, and other people that quote scripture may or may not be walking with God. Jesus said you'll know them by their fruit. In other words, you'll know who people are by what they produce.

 

[Douglas the Intrepid]

Geo

Call me anytime...say 'Babylon'...I will be over pronto to help get rid of the body...

Regards,
Douglas

 

[ShallowsNole]

Great input, BH. You are absolutely correct.

Geo, sorry you had to deal with that.

 

[LuciferSam]

That's when I lose the diplomacy and tact for which I'm so famous on the SoWal message board. A stream of laser guided f-bombs would have been dropped down his air shaft.

 

[Miss Critter]

Geo

Call me anytime...say 'Babylon'...I will be over pronto to help get rid of the body...

Regards,
Douglas

Good to know. Copying this to my contacts as we speak. ;-)

 

[Bob]

Christianity, with its roots in Judaism, was a major factor in the development of the Western worldview.... A basic Christian belief was that God gave humans dominion over creation, with the freedom to use the environment as they saw fit. Another important Judeo-Christian belief predicted that God would bring a cataclysmic end to the Earth sometime in the future. One interpretation of this belief is that the Earth is only a temporary way station on the soul's journey to the afterlife. Because these beliefs tended to devalue the natural world, they fostered attitudes and behaviors that had a negative effect on the environment. ~Donald G. Kaufman and Cecilia M. Franz, Biosphere 2000: Protecting Our Global Environment, 1996
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man. ~Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," 1967

 

[Bob]

Hitler had the bible memorized, Satan lived with God before he was kicked out (who quoted scripture to Jesus) but not with the intent of saving him, and other people that quote scripture may or may not be walking with God. Jesus said you'll know them by their fruit. In other words, you'll know who people are by what they produce.

people, people who quote scripture, are the wackiest people in the world. can you hum that tune brother?

 

[LuciferSam]

people, people who quote scripture, are the wackiest people in the world. can you hum that tune brother?

What about people who quote your Messiah and worship the very ground he walks on. Do ya think its just a coincidence that he pals around with terrorists, and people who would deliberately destroy an oil platform to weaken our resolve to be free of the tyrannical governments of places like Iraq, Iran, and north korea. This is in God's hands, and we respect the lord for it is he who caused this to happen and it is he who will punish those socialists who strive to weaken our blessed nation.:nono1: