Dysmas

Reply to Im a Catholic AND an American so? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Thank you. I am glad to see that we can agree on some issues and disagree on others in a polite manner. It is nice to have a good diolague with someone. As I've said before, I am no expert on Scriptures nor am I a Theologian, just a man who attempts to expalin why Cathoics and other Christians in general feel the way they do and why we believe what we do. A bit of history: I was born and "Baptised Catholic". I was initally raised in the C

Reply to Im a Catholic AND an American so? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Thank you. I am glad to see that we can agree on some issues and disagree on others in a polite manner. It is nice to have a good diolague with someone. As I've said before, I am no expert on Scriptures nor am I a Theologian, just a man who attempts to expalin why Cathoics and other Christians in general feel the way they do and why we believe what we do. A bit of history: I was born and "Baptised Catholic". I was initally raised in the C

Reply to About time for US Military in Politics JoeUser Forums

THANK YOU for posting this! I was going to say something about this issue but decided to just keep my mouth shut. It is a disgusting thing, to have military recuriters attacked and ridiculed at this time,( or any time). So much for the USA! USA! patriotism that followd 9/11 and even into a contraversial war. Another thing to note: at the President's Inaguration Parade. A group of protesters held up signs saying "no more war!"....they held these signs

Reply to Im a Catholic AND an American so? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Could you possibly imagine the Levitical Priesthood under Moses or the Priests in Christ's day, with females serving at the altar as the do today? Lol, no I couldn't imagine it. It would have caused a MUCH greater problem than it is today. But I feel that as long as the truth remains,(that women cannot be o

Reply to Im a Catholic AND an American so? in Religion JoeUser Forums

We wouldn't. Im not sure what exaclty you mean by your response. The point being made was: "...because the Catholic faith does not teach that any representative, even Doctors of the Church, even its best popes know every single doctrine. To say that a doctrine cannot be Catholic or Christian on the grounds that this or that saint, or even a number of learned saints, didn't know it doesn't discredit the Catholic position in the slightest"

Reply to Im a Catholic AND an American so? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Indeed Sabbatismus, but the proponents of the same heresies keep claiming that they are "new" or "lost truths" it is a sad thing to be sure. On the topic of "marriage of spirit and matter" I e-mailed an other apologist and got this response: "That Augustine did not know the Catholic answer to a particular question is no objection to the Catholic faith, because the Catholic faith does not teach that any representative, even Doctors of th

Reply to Im a Catholic AND an American so? in Religion JoeUser Forums

I hate to demur but deep thought is something that comes from education Im not exactly sure what you mean by education. Are you refering to "higher education" - Collage and the like? <TD class="mb-Bod

Reply to Im a Catholic AND an American so? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Millions of them are not able to read or comprehend or capable of deep meditative thought. I can conced that perhaps millions are not able to read but for them not to be able to "comprehend or capable of deep meditative thought" I disagree. Just becuase one is unable to read why would that make them unable

Reply to Discourses of a 2 year old in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

lol that IS cute. Lucky you though, my son's favorite thing to say is "NO!" its "no" everything, even if he wants it. " hey Patrick...do you want a cookie?" his eyes light up and he nods his head. "yes peese" so we give him one. He looks at it, looks at us, smirks. Throws it and yells NOOO! all the while smiling. what a pain. our first wasnt that bad lol.

Reply to Im a Catholic AND an American so? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Your comment is very true, by an large. And of course I have no problem with a disagreement, even amongst Catholics. I would like to make a few things clear. Please dont feel that i am attacking you personaly, nor am I attacking the Catholic layity or our Protestant cousins. And thank you very much for this conversation, it always helps to get a second point of view on the same side. that being said let me address some of your responses. <

Reply to Im a Catholic AND an American so? in Religion JoeUser Forums

I don't think it is the duty of Priests or Biships to "settle" the role of Mary in any way. Her role in the Catholic Church is fully explained already and one has but to simply look to know. It's not a deep or hard concept to grasp. Protestants, in general, don't grasp the the communion of sai

Reply to Still True Today in Politics JoeUser Forums

Is it beyond comprehension? ........Yes it is. If you read my first post I explain how we FOUND WMDs both the components to make them and actually inside wepons which could be fired at US forces. ( and if you dont think they were you would be crazy.) In Iraq my unit's NBC detection equipment sounde

Reply to Im a Catholic AND an American so? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Sabbatismus: Yes you are absolutly correct. Some people may put Mary equal with God and they are wrong and will answer for it when its thier turn before the Lord. On a different note, some others seem to "worship" the Bible even though they scream IDOLITRY at Catholics when we pray to a Saint for help.

Reply to Still True Today in Politics JoeUser Forums

My post cannot be disputed becuase they are all facts. It is sad to see some people spewing out only one side of the story. The truth is that yes there are problems in Iraq and yes the situation is serious. But the other side of the coin is that there are MUCH more good things that have happened, are happening, and will happen in Iraq. Its simply not fair to focus on one side of the issue to "prove" how bad things are when they are not actually

Reply to Still True Today in Politics JoeUser Forums

Still true today: 1.) Saddam Hussein has been captured and awaits trial. 2.) Saddam's sons and Senior Regime Leaders have been caught. The leaders await trial and his vicious sons have been killed. 3.) Schools, hospitals, orpahnages, electric companies, fuel companies, sanitation faciliteis, law enforcement personnel, Civil Defense Military and stock markets.... are all stocked, maintained, online, at work, at work and in training,

Reply to Im a Catholic AND an American so? in Religion JoeUser Forums

"Catholics worship Mary" I am so sick of hearing that already. Even a child reasearching the RCC would find that to be utterly and completly false. Yet there are some out there who continue to spew this spoon-feed view upon the world. Catholics DO NOT worship Mary or anyother saint for that matter. We, just like any other Christian, worship God and God alone. We HONOR Mary and the saints of course but worship ,

Reply to Ramblings of insomnia in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Been away for a bit but thats ok. Im not missed much lol. I have some GREAT NEWS!!!....................ok, not great at all, im just a sarcastic ass. NOW the army tells me I have to go to Walter Reed Military Hospital in DC. Ok. And, because of my condition, I must have a chaparone. Ok. BUT they wont pay for my kids to come! Im 1100 miles away from my family, how in the hell am I supposed to go to DC with my wife and NOT with my kids? It makes no sense

Reply to It just not as much fun anymore. in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Well Im new here, sort of, but my vote is for you to stay as well. I don't know if what I write is interesting to other people but I write anyway, if not for others then I do it for myself. Stick around, write and respond when you want and with what you want, perhaps the muse of "idle thoughts" will grace you again. By the way, how is it that some of you seem to know other blogger's names? Is there some type of "inner community" around her

Reply to I unwittingly did something I'm not proud of in Home & Family JoeUser Forums

Nahh, Animal cracker are good. (tip)- buy one for you and one for your kids and have your wife hide your children's treats from you. see, its win-win.

Reply to Last night in bed in Misc JoeUser Forums

Just great, three posts in a row. Wish i could get all of my thoughts together before I post. Uh....ask if the invisable monkey could get ME some cash, we are running low.

Reply to Last night in bed in Misc JoeUser Forums

OHHHH now I think I know, never mind............( dysmas

Reply to Last night in bed in Misc JoeUser Forums

...........> sleep, what a wonderful thing is it not? ( I have insomnia) Sleeping is very high on my list of "favorite things to do" I also have the so-called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, I refer to it as "Im-a-lazy-ass-syndrome. I can sleep for 12 hours, 10,8,6,4 or not at all but one thing remains the same. It is my favorite time of the "day". Waking sucks, the only thing I like is tha

Reply to It's Permanent! in Misc JoeUser Forums

Thanks Texas Wahine, no problem. Yeah my wife absolutly does deserve credit. Sometimes I feel that the role a spouse has in a deployment is overshadowed by the one who was actually deployed. Both parties suffer. There are different opinions as to who suffers more but there is no problem with that. I think that, basicly, whoever the deployment is harder on, for whatever reason, is the one who suffers the most. And, perhaps, the children.

Reply to Im a Catholic AND an American so? in Religion JoeUser Forums

Without the benifit of a response at this time I will move on to something else. First let me say....... WOW I have recently purchased a video on the "Easter Tridium" by Father John Coripi. Of all the many homilies and religious speakers I have ever heard, Fr. Coripi is, with question, the most eloquent and powerful speaker I have ever heard. For anyone who may be interested the video is available at the EWTN website or you ca

Reply to It's Permanent! in Misc JoeUser Forums

I had thought about getting a tat with two little monkeys and the boys' , now THAT would be interesting! Err... <TD class="mb-Body-Quote-Text"