[Pinecone]

Re: It’s been 12 years since I last logged in

Greetings in ' Precious Name to you, dear Mr. Pinecone. It's awfully nice of you to visit with us, and I so hope that your birthday has been a joyous and peaceful event. But, Dear, please know that you are very welcome to visit with us at any time, and not just during your birthday celebrations.

Pleasure to meet you as well, ma'am, and I am grateful for the invitation.

[Pinecone]

Re: It’s been 12 years since I last logged in

The emails are not automated, Miss Cookie sends each one personally and types them individually.

I shall endeavor to send my personal thanks then.

While I am glad to see you are back, what have you done for God and the Church? Life is not all about you.

And that is an excellent question. With COVID locking down most local churches, Sunday services have taken a turn for the surreal with pastors moving online, broadcasting their services. It's hard to get used to, especially the quiet in the background, but God willing, we'll enjoy the blessings of medical advancement and return to the good old fashioned praise and worship.


In the interim, I suppose the most I've done is endeavor to live by that old spiritual maxim, "They shall know we are Christians by our love." Have to live the example, and testify when the opportunity is right. A soul is too precious a thing to waste on account of timidity or pride. Other than that, I've been focusing on healing up this tongue so I can get back to singing hymns. Not satisfied just humming along.

[Pinecone]

Re: It’s been 12 years since I last logged in

We sat there until the boat came back but the wretched garments which were brand new seemed designed to disintegrate even as you wore them!! Rips appeared and threadbare bits pulled apart and if you tried to move another tear would appear somewhere especially since they were now wet.

That's an interesting discussion, how threadweights and fabrics these days are growing thinner and thinner, flimsier and flimsier, while the quality taking a huge dive. With labor being outsourced to the third world and prices rising while planned obsolescence ensures a steady stream of re-purchasing, Americans throw out 14 tons of clothing annually. Just goes to show you how much waste we're throwing our money away on.


And let's say you're one of the good ones who'll take the time and effort to repair and mend as apposed to consume and toss. Machines these days, across the board, whether you're talking homewares, treadmills, or automotive are all dumping quality metal pieces for cheap made-in-China plastics, so good luck keeping a sewing machine functional longer than 90 days.


Toss this salad with rising inflation, and you can start to feel a little worry on the back of your neck.

[Pinecone]

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God killing all of your family - only to eventually replace them with a whole new and improved family, of course:

I am grateful that familicide is one set of trials that God has not seen fit to try me with yet. Should that day come, well, there's no promise God's made yet he hasn't kept, and any expectation above and beyond the enumerated promises of the Lord are naught but wishful thinking.

[Pinecone]

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Anyway, I'm sorry you raised the LORD's hackles such that He chose to rebuke you for whatever sin you harbored, but I'm glad to see you've repented. Welcome back, dear.

I absolutely adore your signature block, ma'am. So much wisdom in such a succinct reference. It is an absolute delight to make your acquaintance.

[Pinecone]

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I am a friendly Black man who enjoys studying white people and so I come to this forum where I am fairly well tolerated and only occasionally rebuked.

Well howdy, and I don't envy you your course of study. White folks are sort of all over the map these days. Walk down the street and strike up a conversation with any pale-faced individual and you never know what you'll get. Maybe they'll be a righteous Christian full of love, charity, and temperance. Maybe they'll be a criminal, communist provocateur. Maybe they'll be so filled with self-loathing they'll feel the need to apologize for their own births on bent knees; maybe they'll invite you to clean their pool and offer you their spouses while they gratify themselves in the corner, or perhaps they're a furry, or a Nazi, or insist their a biological sex which they are clearly not, or they plan on voting for Jo Jorgensen, or invite you to join the NRA; there's really no telling.


Almost makes you grateful there's compelling reason to stay home away from the crowds.

[Pinecone]

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Perhaps if Mr. Pinecone played some heroic role in the Great Trump Afghanistan victory, he could pray on that and perhaps God would stop sending him trials. For example, if Mr. Pinecone had got himself losered, sorry injured on the first day then that's one factor God could consider. But if he took out an enemy sniper by storming his position and stabbing him in the throat that is quite another. We all recall Pastor Pistle's Vietnam Miracle, of course.

Oh, nothing so worthy. I was leading a supply convoy to bring fuel, mechanics tools, TAT boxes, and Bibles to Engineers clearing IEDs off the roads in Kunduz province. Everything went as well as could be expected, except having to divert to recover two armored vehicles that had plunged over the side of a cliff in the Hindu Kush mountains with the help of a German Army crane team (tell you, fighting alongside trucks with iron crosses on them was just about as surreal as it gets).


Anyways, we dropped off the supplies, grabbed some ice cream, then turned around to make our way home. As we passed through the town of Pul-i-Kumrhi, this old grizzle Afghan in a black turban and robe comes at us mean mugging across the road in front of us, just glowering at us and stroking his beard. We all laughed it off, suggesting that we'd just come face to face with the Taliban commander, but soon after as we were leaving the outskirts of the town, out in the rice patties (yes, I expected a whole lot more sand, but instead I made my way to the Arab world to find myself in the consarnit rice patties) we came across a pack of farmers just a farming away out in the fields.


As we drove by, these quaint little farmers dropped their hoes and forks and picked up AK-47's and RPG's, and let us have it. I took an RPG to the driver's side window, our third vehicle got rocked but was saved by it's V-shaped hull, and praise God their rockets missed our fuelers and trail vehicle. We opened up with .50 cals as we dashed out of the kill zone. It took a few minutes for the smoke, dust, and sand to settle after the strike; fortunately my driver survived the blast even though his hands had been exploded from the inside out. I didn't even know I was hit until the blood started pooling up from my neck, face, shoulders, wrist, leg. Adrenaline sure is one heck of a chemical.


I tried to reestablish command of the convoy, but my BFT and radio cables had all been severed in the explosion. The rocket had pierced the blast glass to my left, traversed the cab, streaked in front of me, deflected off the inside of the windshield, and rocketed through the steel floorboard inches from my right leg. So I initiated first aid on my driver while our gunners let them have it. I didn't stick around to see how it ended. We eventually stopped, and our medic showed up to pull us out of that truck and back to an RG31 with an RPG cage. I remember running, bleeding on that dusty road as our machine guns chattered. I raised my rifle ready to hunt, but wasn't able to make out any clear targets in the foliage. We called for an evac and a Blackhawk touched down, taking us from the field to a German field hospital.


In reflection, I harbor no hate in my heart for those insurgents. I do believe the world is a better place for the shallow graves their bodies would eventually be dropped into, one way or the other, sooner or later; but I don't begrudge them their choice to raise arms against we foreign invaders. The human scum I find I have the most difficulty committing to godly forgiveness are the Afghan police who manned national checkpoint near the ambush sight who ducked and covered BEFORE the insurgents opened fire. They knew what was coming, knew, and did nothing to warn us. They were entrusted by the puppet government we installed and benefitedfrom massive training, supplying, and financing by the US of A, yet they hid as cowards (or co-conspirators) before they knew we were about to face a hail of rockets. It might not be the most Christian of sentiments, but those oathbreakers can go ahead and enjoy the suffering of the most creative tortures Satan has to offer.

[Pinecone]

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One way to feel special.."cis hetero-patriarchal racial capitalist violence" upon which "the so-called United States" was founded.

Oh, please stop with that sort of talk, even if in pantomime. It's already given me a frightful headache.

For rioters to eat their own bread surely they'd need to renounce the drivel they spout concerning property & validation for subsequent ownership of looted goods to have any bread to eat in the first place?

I think this is exceptionally well-said and highlights one of many fatal inconsistencies with intrinsically flawed liberal ideology. You saw the very same principle in effect with the Seattle autonomous zone. There you had impotent Democrat city leadership cede their territory to lawless vandals seizing on an opportunity to plunder thanks to an idiot cop kneeling too much on a fentnyl-hopped criminal. And after these visionaries got their pound of flesh, free from police? Free from local government? They brought their guns, established their own rule and internal police force, then built a wall around the whole caboodle. Classic revolutionary behavior. Unfortunately leftist theory rarely extends past the burning and looting into the sanitation, power grid maintenance, and 'how are we going to feed ourselves.'


There's a disconnect in the liberal brain from what things around are, and what they want them to be. Regardless of that gulf in between, they will stumble and cavort, blindly and violently, until they are either stopped by far more reasonable representatives of society, or ruin everything they touch to the point of dissolution.

Seoul and Incheon aren't too bad. Can it be a coincidence that development follows acceptance of Christ and all the new Christian Churches? (That's what I thought anyway.)

No coincidence by any stretch of the imagination to be sure.

[James Hutchins]

Re: It’s been 12 years since I last logged in

And that is an excellent question. With COVID locking down most local churches, Sunday services have taken a turn for the surreal with pastors moving online, broadcasting their services. It's hard to get used to, especially the quiet in the background, but God willing, we'll enjoy the blessings of medical advancement and return to the good old fashioned praise and worship.


In the interim, I suppose the most I've done is endeavor to live by that old spiritual maxim, "They shall know we are Christians by our love." Have to live the example, and testify when the opportunity is right. A soul is too precious a thing to waste on account of timidity or pride. Other than that, I've been focusing on healing up this tongue so I can get back to singing hymns. Not satisfied just humming along.

COVID is a plot by the demoncrats. Not a single True Christian(tm) has been sick. The Chrystal Cathedrahl in Landover is filled to capacity every service, with close to 10,000 inside and an additional 20,000+ in the LBC stadium and drive in lots watching on the JesusTron. All holding hands (except Platnum Tithers(r) as they have prove boxes) and not a face mask to be seen (though a few of the Tin Tithers(r) should wear one due to their general appearance)

[MitzaLizalor]

Re: It’s been 12 years since I last logged in

good luck keeping a sewing machine functional longer than 90 days.

The 1888 model is quite good, very dependable. I also have a 1923 with different bobbin. Both work fine and I have no need to look for a new one. Normally I have my clothes made as required and they last well enough so far; there won't be any reason for trendy Hawaiian surf shops. I should point out that I am not a goth.

Oh, please stop with that sort of talk, even if in pantomime. It's already given me a frightful headache.

One way to feel special is to uniquely understand the "cis hetero-patriarchal racial capitalist violence" upon which "the so-called United States" was founded. What could possibly be the solution? Several proposals are put forward (not by me) such as Looting or to outright dis the work ethic itself.

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There were a lot of interruptions yesterday and I forgot to provide context. Do the letters NPR mean anything to you? They'd reviewed a book about looting and I was quoting something I'd simply typed as I heard it, incorrectly: the actual word is cisheteropatriarchal. Did you catch that? Here it is again:

cisheteropatriarchal

Apparently it was too much even for NPR. Their updated page is included in my source links together with the origin of my actual quote. I should have included it before and appreciate that I may now seem like a communist. Il Dolce Far Niente.

The goth is a terrible thing. There is one shop I visit occasionally (they have a large range of marcasite brooches) catering to goth tastes. Generally the clothes are quite well made and probably 100 years old. Some of the styles can be seen in any Hogarth engraving about lunatic asylums. I very much admire the skill of engravers but for some reason Hogarth (who did his own) adopted asylums as a sort of lietmotif. He sought to present ideas in a visual format for people who couldn't read. He was very effective. Do you think there's a place in the modern world for a similar outreach to the sub-literate? People unable to join up words into writing never seem able to do joined-up thinking, either. Perhaps that explains why they go looting?

[WWJDnow]

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That's an interesting discussion, how threadweights and fabrics these days are growing thinner and thinner, flimsier and flimsier, while the quality taking a huge dive.

Isn't it glorious how the free market always leads us to the optimal solution!

Americans throw out 14 tons of clothing annually.

Let's see... 14 tons times 2,000 pounds per ton times 16 ounces per pound, divided by 330 million of us, that equals 0.0014 ounces of discarded clothing per person. Shocking!

Just goes to show you how much waste we're throwing our money away on.

If you want to talk about waste, let's discuss Obamacare.

[Cranky Old Man]

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There's a disconnect in the liberal brain from what things around are, and what they want them to be.

You're too kind, liberals don't have brains.

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