tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post7245723573259173611..comments2024-03-28T03:05:37.670-06:00Comments on The Barb Wire: THANK YOU, LORD! for safety on the highways (It's good to have babies!) (revised post)Barbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-38367964348882544482008-11-25T07:32:00.000-06:002008-11-25T07:32:00.000-06:00Mudrake, I still have your posts in my email. I n...Mudrake, I still have your posts in my email. I never delete yours --if you are trying to remove evidence.<BR/><BR/>But don't worry --I told you I don't intend any legal remedy --unless you continue in impersonation, libel, harrassment, lewd art, etc. I would be the blogger with a strong case. I've been your favorite target, no question about it.<BR/><BR/>Funny, I remember you as a smiley man....Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-72270486243414504182008-11-23T06:40:00.000-06:002008-11-23T06:40:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02039938750941288207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-39760945207739584232008-11-23T06:14:00.000-06:002008-11-23T06:14:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.katebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00303582356827169392noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-37764544173007128892008-11-22T22:33:00.000-06:002008-11-22T22:33:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02039938750941288207noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-30249686754161055142008-11-22T12:40:00.000-06:002008-11-22T12:40:00.000-06:00Right! Thanks for research, Kateb.Right! Thanks for research, Kateb.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-51704776964550625402008-11-22T01:00:00.000-06:002008-11-22T01:00:00.000-06:00The actual lyrics under discussion were a Lesley G...The actual lyrics under discussion were a Lesley Gore tune - It's My Party<BR/><BR/><BR/> "It's My Party" <BR/><BR/>Nobody knows where my Johnny has gone<BR/>Judy left the same time<BR/>Why was he holding her hand<BR/>When he's supposed to be mine<BR/><BR/>It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to<BR/>Cry if I want to, cry if I want to<BR/>You would cry too if it happened to you<BR/><BR/>Playin' my records, keep dancin' all night<BR/>Leave me alone for a while<BR/>'Till Johnny's dancin' with me<BR/>I've got no reason to smile<BR/><BR/>It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to<BR/>Cry if I want to, cry if I want to<BR/>You would cry too if it happened to you<BR/><BR/>Judy and Johnny just walked through the door<BR/>Like a queen with her king<BR/>Oh what a birthday surprise<BR/>Judy's wearin' his ring<BR/><BR/>It's my party, and I'll cry if I want to<BR/>Cry if I want to, cry if I want to<BR/>You would cry too if it happened to you.<BR/>___________________________<BR/><BR/>I can see how a specific party would rather cite a different song since this one wasn't a song about Johnny and Johnny :-)katebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421985130851337710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-60479680817125847492008-11-21T23:11:00.000-06:002008-11-21T23:11:00.000-06:00Yes, indeed! Thank you!Yes, indeed! Thank you!Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-40821428807194619122008-11-21T18:52:00.000-06:002008-11-21T18:52:00.000-06:00Praise the Lord Crissy was not hurt.Praise the Lord Crissy was not hurt.Christian Apologisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15644769968798609435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-14642629161741428392008-11-21T09:21:00.000-06:002008-11-21T09:21:00.000-06:00Wishful thinking, Mudrake, wishful thinking --on y...Wishful thinking, Mudrake, wishful thinking --on your part--and John Lennon's<BR/><BR/>You wish you could just die and cease your miserable existance --but you will be judged.<BR/><BR/>"The fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.'"Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-22203208609477894802008-11-21T07:02:00.000-06:002008-11-21T07:02:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.mud_rakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04786611698569598023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-83902631958015266032008-11-20T19:32:00.000-06:002008-11-20T19:32:00.000-06:00I meant it to recall those lyrics and the tune. P...I meant it to recall those lyrics and the tune. Perhaps the rest of the song gives a clue.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-54135916504300520892008-11-20T19:21:00.000-06:002008-11-20T19:21:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.mud_rakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04786611698569598023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-5689245414963610502008-11-20T10:35:00.000-06:002008-11-20T10:35:00.000-06:00Don't worry Mudly. "It's my blog and I'll bloviat...Don't worry Mudly. "It's my blog and I'll bloviate if I want to."<BR/><BR/>bloviate: orate verbosely and windily<BR/><BR/>What RX do you recommend based on your experience?Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-86966703337253817182008-11-20T10:22:00.000-06:002008-11-20T10:22:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.mud_rakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04786611698569598023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-22350803800092651212008-11-20T09:19:00.000-06:002008-11-20T09:19:00.000-06:00PS --on Mudly's complaint--I did refer to the gays...PS --on Mudly's complaint--I did refer to the gays in Calif as Peter Pans and "brats" -for their behavior in demonstrations there.<BR/><BR/>I've seen that brat personality in more than one --not all. But there is an intrinsic immaturity in the lifestyle --along with the intrinsic promiscuity.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-49920396311920391142008-11-20T08:35:00.000-06:002008-11-20T08:35:00.000-06:00I wrote "I can apologize here on line to any homos...I wrote "I can apologize here on line to any homosexual wounded by my Peter Pan reference. But I would also warn him that God's Word calls him a "lover of self." *It* says nothing about a lack of love on my part for him or her as a person --I'm telling them that full maturity includes a willingness to marry and parent if God provides the opportunity."<BR/><BR/>The *IT in this paragraph is not referring to God's Word --but my Peter Pan remark. That remark does not mean I lack love for gays as persons. I have a lot of compassion for people who feel they are "different" this way and don't want to be different. For those who were victims of others' sins toward them. For those who yearn to an extreme degree for male friendship and acceptance and intimacy because they lacked it from a father. <BR/><BR/>There is no one way to homosexual orientation--no guarantee of parents to blame --or experience with Chester the Molester. Peer ridicule of kids who are just "different" --non-stereotypical in their sexual self-image --non-macho guys, non-feminine girls --in mannerisms and interests --it is a theory of mine that such kids can be made to believe they are homosexual before they really have the attraction or the experience --in this day of gay promotion and school counselors and peers and even parents looking for predictors of homosexuality in our children. <BR/><BR/>but most concerning is the fact that same-sex preference in friendship and idolatry of same sex friends can be a normal but passing phase of childhood. I don't want sex ed that confuses children on this point, making them think their normal same sex affection and preference in friends is sign of homosexual orientation to come. I don't want kids to even HEAR about it --much less go to a gay wedding as kindergartners --as happened in a Calif. public school without parental permission.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-48713397864603488562008-11-20T08:24:00.000-06:002008-11-20T08:24:00.000-06:00Yes, Antipelagian--PTL for the many times when He ...Yes, Antipelagian--PTL for the many times when He is there when we call.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-12236377253310267332008-11-20T08:21:00.001-06:002008-11-20T08:21:00.001-06:00I should have said --"a willingness to marry the o...I should have said --"a willingness to marry the opposite sex and parent with them."Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-57881711449633991322008-11-20T08:21:00.000-06:002008-11-20T08:21:00.000-06:00I have often referred to homosexuality as a case o...I have often referred to homosexuality as a case of "arrested development" --where boys become stuck in their hero worship and envy of ideal-appearing persons of their own sex --to the total lack of interest in people of the opposite sex --even though they could (and do ) perform sexually with the opposite sex. In surveys, many gays and lesbians admit to bisexual experience within a year of the survey.<BR/><BR/>I have called HS the Peter Pan Syndrome --and I was not the first or the only one to see gays as like the "lost boys of neverland who don't want to grow up."<BR/><BR/>There is a choice made by a homosexual where normal romance, normal husband-hood and father-hood are rejected as goals (as normal romance is usually ycchy in the mind of a small boy)--a choice whereby sinful same-sex love and sex are indulged in the mind -- and sometimes experienced in homosexual activity in adolescence--as in the case of Congressman Foley, because of molestation by older gay men --his priest --at the altar boy age.<BR/><BR/> St. Paul, who had a miraculous experience from God , called homosexuals "lovers of self" who had exchanged truth for a lie.<BR/><BR/>Now really, I like Peter Pan and his lost boys --but they needed to grow up someday, also. So with gays.<BR/><BR/>It was not a cruel remark --except from Mudrake's warped perspective.<BR/>No-- gays wouldn't like it--but they don't like what the Bible says, either. Truth is really tough love. The wages of sin is death --homosexuality is a sin--if we would be saved by Christ from eternal death or eternal Hell --we must recognize our sin and repent of it --all of us.<BR/><BR/>I can apologize here on line to any homosexual wounded by my Peter Pan reference. But I would also warn him that God's Word calls him a "lover of self." It says nothing about a lack of love on my part for him or her as a person --I'm telling them that full maturity includes a willingness to marry and parent if God provides the opportunity.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-91232766247205172062008-11-20T08:12:00.000-06:002008-11-20T08:12:00.000-06:00Praise God for watching over Chrissy!Praise God for watching over Chrissy!Antipelagianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08927734975794920598noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-76305709239204301562008-11-20T06:30:00.000-06:002008-11-20T06:30:00.000-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.mud_rakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04786611698569598023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-35672553269238602772008-11-19T23:43:00.000-06:002008-11-19T23:43:00.000-06:00Barb, I am so sorry that you lost your Dad. At lea...Barb, I am so sorry that you lost your Dad. At least in the worldly sense. It's good that you know you'll be together again, but it's one of the greatest fears of the daughter of a truly good father.<BR/><BR/>To be apart from them, even if it's only for a while.katebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05421985130851337710noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-78356947857915619792008-11-19T20:33:00.000-06:002008-11-19T20:33:00.000-06:00Thank you for this public affirmation, Measure! Y...Thank you for this public affirmation, Measure! You were a good egg, too! (Not one of mine but I would be proud to claim you!)<BR/><BR/>See there, Mudly, I was a good Mom --says so right here in the blogosphere!Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-80223862139083574602008-11-19T15:00:00.000-06:002008-11-19T15:00:00.000-06:00I'm glad Crissy is okay. My dad always puts weigh...I'm glad Crissy is okay. My dad always puts weight in my trunk during the winter so it helps a bit with small cars and fishtailing. New tires would probably help too! Thanks for raising wonderful kids. I'm so lucky to be friends with them. Seeing your family makes me desire to have children someday (even though I joke about not having them) :). You're a good mom!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1526647904385272392.post-85077388168350907212008-11-18T21:16:00.000-06:002008-11-18T21:16:00.000-06:00Thank you all for your kind comments. Candyly, ...Thank you all for your kind comments. <BR/><BR/>Candyly, my father died of colon cancer at 58. It was so sad for me as I was his only daughter and a Daddy's girl. I have one brother. My dad was such a nice man --had the "common touch" --no snobbery.<BR/><BR/>When he died in our home, my mother and I just sat down and wept --as we were there when he left and witnessed his last breath--what a difference between precious life and death. The earthly finality of death seemed too great a pain to bear. But I was soon buoyed up by my faith and sailed through the funeral with confidence that he was in Heaven and that I would see him again.<BR/><BR/>But later on, the cold earthly finality of his burial was depressing me giving me niggling doubts of our hope in Christ--and out of the blue --about 4 or 5 months later, when I was going through this blue period, an old college roommate wrote me --and said, "Barbara, the Lord has laid you on my heart. He has impressed me to tell you that you are being tested like Job --and the Lord cares. I am to encourage you." She didn't know my father had died. She is a very spiritual Christian with deep faith.<BR/><BR/>That so touched me that over time and distance the Lord had laid me on her heart --it was a small thing, but big to me. Like a sign from Heaven. <BR/><BR/>"Jesus wept" at the death of lazarus --even before He knew He would bring him back to life. <BR/><BR/>Jesus is the greatest comfort --and the only comfort there is in the face of death with any convincing validity. Only 20 centuries ago, he rose and said he went to prepare a place for us that where He is, we may be also.<BR/><BR/>If He had not risen, Christianity would be about HIs teachings only, not about His resurrection. It's about His resurrection because it happened. <BR/><BR/>I hope to be comforting and not depressing. sometimes spiritual things depress people if they need to draw closer to Him. He presses us to press onward for the fullness of knowing Him and the joy of salvation.Barbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05016832868807957194noreply@blogger.com