Osama Has Won!

[Walks_in_islam]

<grins> The graduates generally scatter.

The truly lost are those who take given talents, one of which is the gift of logic and reason and ability to discern from factual words, and then deliberately choose to hide them ( say for instance "under bushels")

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Amen, but all those who would see are not graduated from the Bible college, or are sure not in "affiliated" churches. Good luck

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by Walks_in_islam

<grins> The graduates generally scatter.

The truly lost are those who take given talents, one of which is the gift of logic and reason and ability to discern from factual words, and then deliberately choose to hide them ( say for instance "under bushels")

Amen.
However, there are degrees here, of "deliberate" and even "factual,"
and we are led by degrees? It is possible to be led to a place a little at a time that one would never start out to reach, or accept all at once, yes?

It seems to me that it is the others who are scattered, and the graduates become affiliated into the mainstream.

[Walks_in_islam]

My views on the difference between what I experienced by actually living in the Middle east and what I read here about the middle east was probably best summarized by Twain (LOL)

It liberates the vandal to travel--you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

- The American Abroad speech, 1868


Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

- Innocents Abroad

Originally Posted by bbyrd009

Amen.
However, there are degrees here, of "deliberate" and even "factual,"
and we are led by degrees? It is possible to be led to a place a little at a time that one would never start out to reach, or accept all at once, yes?

It seems to me that it is the others who are scattered, and the graduates become affiliated into the mainstream.

[bbyrd009]

Originally Posted by Walks_in_islam

My views on the difference between what I experienced by actually living in the Middle east and what I read here about the middle east was probably best summarized by Twain (LOL)

It liberates the vandal to travel--you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.

- The American Abroad speech, 1868


Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

- Innocents Abroad

Well put. I never quite realized this in connection with my faith, but have noted other advantages to being a vagabond.
I do see that if one lives in a city or even larger town in the US, there is a completely diff world, right down the street; but if you go there with a closed mind, you may as well stay home.

I was mostly struck by how I was treated when in need; I had but to ask, to be "taken in;" might be ten people in a two-room house, but full of love--compare that to being in need in a Christian neighborhood, two rooms for every person...