10-28-2007, 02:43 AM
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I don't know... post less and they complain... post more and they complain...
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10-28-2007, 12:17 PM
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10-28-2007, 02:52 PM
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10-28-2007, 03:00 PM
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Hot gin anyone?
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10-28-2007, 03:05 PM
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Yes, my brethren, in these things it is that we have to look, individually and personally, at our condition and our estate, both towards God and towards man. If the pestilence is to lay hold on us, it is not and will not be for the national sins, but for OUR OWN. Get rid of the idea, I beseech you, of dilating publicly about the PUBLIC virtue, but rather give yourselves privately to a private examination of your own virtues. Do not write or speak in abstract terms about the sins of the people, but reflect how far your own sins are in them involved.
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10-28-2007, 03:39 PM
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I'll have a Tequila, John Woo-style.
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10-28-2007, 04:16 PM
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we can hardly expect God to wirthdraw His chastisement unless we correct the sins for which He chastised us, and therefore unless we find out what particular sins have brought the evil on us. For it is mere cant and hypocrisy, my friends, to tell God, in a general way, that we believe He is punishing us for our sins, and then to avoid carefully confessing any particular sin, and to get angry with any one who tells us boldly which sin God is punishing us for. But so goes the world. Every one is ready to say "Oh! yes, we are all great sinners, miserably sinners!" and then if you charge them with any particuar sin, they bridle up and deny that sin fiercely enough, and all sins one by one, confessing themselves great sinners, and yet saying that they don't know what sins they have committed.
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10-28-2007, 04:32 PM
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When they saw human beings dying by thousands of the pestilence, they all got frightened, and proclaimed a Fast, and confessed their sins and promised repentance in the general way. But did they repent of and confess those sins which had caused the cholera?- Ibid.
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10-28-2007, 04:53 PM
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Bazalgette built the sewer system which saved London from the cholera epidemic.
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