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11-24-2008, 09:39 PM
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Re: Progress??
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Originally Posted by My Own Eyes
What's interesting to me is how our interaction with each other has changed as we have "progressed".
Being a good neighbor used to be about helping each other out, now it's about keeping your grass cut, and keeping to yourself.
Families used to take care of each other, and the children would care for their aging parents, and now they ship them off to nursing homes so they don't have to deal with them.
People used to get out of the house and spend time with people, now they talk on internet forums, or play online games together.
So whereas we know more information, we actually know each other less.
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Yeah. This is a strange and wierd sort of "progression".
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11-24-2008, 09:40 PM
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Re: Progress??
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I read an obit the other day for a younger man (about 35) who died. It said he will be sadly missed by his parents, his girlfriend and his ONLINE GAMING COMMUNITY. I thought how pitiful is that!!
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Well, for us, it would be AFF!! 
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11-24-2008, 09:41 PM
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Re: Progress??
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I believe (personally) that an Amish or simpler life is more along the lines of what God would desire for us.
It isn't practical & of course would cut us off from the very harvest field we need to minister too.
Nevertheless if the economy crashes, we may not have a choice!
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I agree with this as well, with the exception that I believe these should be individual choices rather than church mandates.
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When I was young and clever, I wanted to change the world. Now that I am older and wiser, I strive to change myself. ~
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11-24-2008, 09:42 PM
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Re: Progress??
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Well, for us, it would be AFF!! |
sort of a twisted sad reality!
That does it! I am severing all AFF ties.
I DIVORCE YOU! 
...yet I keep coming back. 
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11-24-2008, 09:43 PM
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Re: Progress??
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I agree with this as well, with the exception that I believe these should be individual choices rather than church mandates.
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yup.
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"It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
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11-24-2008, 09:44 PM
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Re: Progress??
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Maybe it's the slippery-slope compromiser in me talking, but I don't see why we can't have it both ways....both a simpler lifestyle, and still have a common ground with the rest of humanity.
I think where the amish get it wrong is that they focus on rules (I could make a parallel here, but I will behave!). They want to keep a simplier lifestyle and they arbitrarily decide that having an electric fridge would ruin that (but that a gas generator power one is ok).
I think it's really a matter of perspective, and a matter of priorities.
Are you in control of the technology in your life, or is it in control of you? What's more important; having money to buy the latest toys, or having time to spend with friends and family?
It's all a matter of choice.
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This is all true on the one level of this discussion. For example, we still don't have a tv hooked up over three years after leaving the UPC. Why? It is a personal choice because we just like it that way. Not heaven or hell, just a preference.
Then, on the other societal side, I'm not sure we can do anything about it. I don't know that spending cash and all that would help. What do you think?
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11-24-2008, 09:45 PM
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Re: Progress??
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sort of a twisted sad reality!
That does it! I am severing all AFF ties.
I DIVORCE YOU!
...yet I keep coming back. |
Is this a buh bye post? 
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11-24-2008, 09:47 PM
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Re: Progress??
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yup.
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You said a whole lot with that 'yup'.
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Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
When I was young and clever, I wanted to change the world. Now that I am older and wiser, I strive to change myself. ~
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11-25-2008, 05:30 AM
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Re: Progress??
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Originally Posted by ILG
I agree with this as well, with the exception that I believe these should be individual choices rather than church mandates.
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Very true.We should all walk the direction God calles in our own individual walk with him there may be something that is a stumbeling block to one but be a non-issue to someone else.
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11-25-2008, 10:38 AM
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Re: Progress??
Something else about "progress" that is bothering me is higher education. I am not at all opposed to higher education. In some instances I am definately for it! What I am talking about is how certain jobs are being buttoned up unless you have a degree. Take my husband for instance. He is in business management and is there by experience. He has 20 years experience and some places will still hire him without a degree. But more and more places are saying you have to have a degree or they won't even look at you. What is wrong with this picture? Also, the job I used to do in a smaller town, I am no longer qualified to do because I do not have more college behind my belt. It does not matter what college I have as far as subject. There is just a certain amount required...it can be in underwater basket weaving. So, an underwater basket weaver is qualified but I, who have experience, am not.
I find it ironic that liberals, who mostly run colleges, who are supposed to be so "compassionate" towards poverty are getting these jobs all buttoned up so you must have a degree to get them.
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