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Rants! & Raves!
Here it is, our second edition of Rants! & Raves! — your chance to gripe and crow about the week gone by. Remember the rules:
1) A Rant! is something you’re not happy about and is signified by the word “Rant!” or an appropriately grumpy emoticon.
2) A Rave! is something you are happy about and is signified by the word “Rave!” or an appropriately peppy emoticon.
3) All Rants! and Raves! must concern something that has happened within the past week.
4) You may gripe about a person’s speech, writings, or actions in the past week, but you may not use a Rant! to express general unhappiness with a person.
Have fun!
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Rant:
Bob Kerrey is staying as president of the New School and not running for the senate in NE. John Ensign got lucky!
Rave:
Diane Denish has created a federal election action committee which signals that Healther Wilson not might be all that lucky, Ensign is keeping his fingers crossed!
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Rant: Having only 24 hours or so notice that I’m not going to have my little girls any more, when I’d been expecting they’d be living with me for several months.
Rave: Being able to pack up the Psalm 23 poster from their wall and other favorite things to add to the clothes they brought with them.
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Anlir, Five Guys is great! No frills at a decent price. There aren’t any up here in KY, though.
Rant #1: No Five Guys in Louisville!
Rant #2: Spending most of Monday and Tuesday bailing water so our basement didn’t flood!
Rave #1: Having a dry basement!
Rave #2: Getting plenty of needed rain!
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Rant: My daughter’s boyfriend, who is trying to “grow up” more, didn’t bother going in to work one evening cuz he wanted to spend time with her. (Their schedules were conflicting that weekend.)
Rave: Was at a local restaurant yesterday, Bravo’s, which has really good onion rings, & a nice carrot cake (& their other foods are good, too).
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Rant! apparently adopted ANOTHER sick cat from the shelter.
Rave! kind words from virtual strangers at just the right time
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21487060/
Every so often, someone comes up with something smart. Letting prisoners fight fires is one of them. They learn how to work on a team, they see their value to society. It’s a win win.
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Rant: Halle Berry’s remark about how a gadget distorted her image. She had a much bigger nose and she said it made her look like a Jew.
Rave: Fran’s or Dan’s hamburgers in Austin Texas. The South Congress Avenue Fran’s is a great place. Juke box loaded up with all the great hits.
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Rave: And thanks for all the help received from fellow bloggers. A special thanks to EYG for help on the avatar. A special thanks to everyone who has prayed for me or my issues or have given me good advice. I have prayed also for many of you, most recently for mumsee and Cheryl. I appreciate those who are helpful and lift up.
Rant: Those bloggers who use the same old tired arguements and illogic over and over on the same old issues.
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Rant! 5 straight days of cold rain, essentially killing all motivation to get up early this week and ride my bike.
Rave! Fall is finally making its way to the South, so out come the sweaters and jackets!
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Rant: That Graceland can send San Diego County even one day of her rain.
Rave: We got fog this morning! Two days ago our humidity was 2%.
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RAVE:
http://www.rightwingfacebook.org
new funniest site on the web
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Rave: Red Sox
Rant: Rockies (I’m a D’Backs fan)
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Rave: The body of Christ in Santa Rosa, CA for coming to the aid of a family whose mom is in critical condition from a fungal lung infection at Stanford hospital. The neighbors, the home school group and our church have rallied around these three home schooled boys as Dad has stayed 100 miles away in a church-loaned trailer in the Stanford parking lot.
Laurie probably is not going to live (though we’re praying for a miracle). But it is a sobering blessing to see so many have turned their grief to ministry and reached out to this family–including a web site so we can coordinate meals, teaching, trips to see Mom and Dad, and know what to do in case of an asthma attack.
Rant: That young moms die from illnesses not even Stanford can figure out how to treat.
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Rave: I can’t believe I’m saying this but a Rave rave to Bill Clinton for taking the 9/11 conspiracy wackos at a speech. Bravo, Bill
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Rant: Having to work at a job you don’t like because the bills have to be paid.
Rave: I’m working at the job I’ve always wanted and look forward to going to work every morning like I’m a kid in a candy store. Woohoo!
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Rave:
Our code enforcement people have finally made my neighbor clean up his act (mostly) There’s still one inoperable truck with a car cover over it. Otherwise all the equipment is stored in the back yard, and all the vehicles are actually in a parking spot instead of the grass in the front yard.
Rant:
Why didn’t they do this 10 years ago? And why couldn’t my neighbor dispose of the chip on his shoulder and make all his neighbors happy instead of making us look at his junkyard for this long?
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MiM: Gee, I thought you were a “my home is my castle” kind of guy. Yet you are cheering government interference with this other fellow’s right to do what he wants with his private property? On purely aesthetic grounds???
Right on, bro…
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# 17: Ivan (btw, notice how I did change to Knox, so that we wouldn’t be confused
), where did Clinton do this? Do you have a link? Having run into some of these folks (nothing quite like having someone hand you a copy of “Loose Change”), I’d be interested in what the former President had to say.
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KI,
Your avatar looks great. You’re so cute. I’m proud of you! I can’t believe my help helped!! :-0
A migraine from an intensely stressful day yesterday.
I am going to my LMT at 4:00, she will work out the stiffness and pain. I know it will help tremendously.
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Rant: FEMA called a press conference on 15 minutes notice and when no real reporters could get there that quickly, FEMA used its own employees to play the role of ‘reporters,’ then cut it short when real reporters began arriving.
“Are you happy with FEMA’s response so far?” a FEMA staffer asked.
“I’m very happy with FEMA’s response so far,” Johnson said, hailing “a very smoothly, very efficiently performing team.”
Rave: Every night at bedtime my daughter asks if she has school in the morning. If the answer is, “Yes,” she cheers!
link to the FEMA story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/10/25/AR2007102502488.html
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Not really a rant because it happens every year, but it happened the first time for this year last week:
I pulled up the tomato vines. Not a big deal, you say. It means no more home grown tomatoes. My wife is already buying those tomatoes from China (or wherever). Those Chineese tomatoes don’t have any taste, they are made for shipping, not eating. They have no taste at all. Granted, home grown tomatoes make messy sandwiches, but they are Good
Go Gamecocks! Oh, sorry, that’s for another thread.
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EYG: Thanks again. Flattery will get you everywhere. I also made another avatar that is a quilt square I made for my grandaughter’s quilt I am just finishing up. I have switched to that, but it hasn’t shown up yet. You did help for sure!
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Arcadia,
If he didn’t like the code or the covenants, then he didn’t have to move in. He definitely didn’t have to operate his business in a residential neighborhood.
Or do you think it’s a good idea having a chicken farm, or pig farm, or junkyard in a residential area?
Location, location, location.
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Rave: I just came across the alumni site for my high school and registered. I can post pictures, brief info about my family and what I’ve done since high school (necessarily brief since I’m in my 40s now). And I can see what former classmates have posted.
Rant: Out of a class of over 400, there were only 7 other alumni registered so far. Only two names I recognized, and neither was someone I knew well.
But I would guess the website is fairly new (I know it wasn’t there when I looked at the school’s site a year ago). And if you don’t know it’s there, you have no reason to go looking for it.
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RAVE! Violence in Iraq is down a full 70% since the surge. Cheers for our troops! Prayers for progress toward peace & justice in Iraq.
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@Chas: I cheat. I mow over the leaves and the grass at the same time…
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Rant: Boneheaded base-running. More specifically, Matt Holliday allowing himself to get picked off first base last night in the 8th inning, killing a potential rally.
Rave: I have a ticket to one of the World Series games this weekend!
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RAVE: That some people say violence is down 70% in Iraq! Awesome!
RANT: That Comptroller General David Walker told Congress: “Let’s just say that there are several different sources within the administration on violence, and those sources do not agree.”
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Rave: It’s beautiful and sunny again today!
Rant: I have to clean up leaves and mow the lawn.
Rave: I use the same method Derek does so it won’t be too bad!
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I had to rake some leaves before I mow tonight or tomorrow – there’re just too many, but I wouldn’t call it cheating if I could just mow and not rake at all.
Sunshine all weekend.
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RAVE: After many days of rain it is a gorgeous blue October day with nary a cloud in the sky. The temperature is around 70 and the humidity is low.
Rant: Well with a day like the above I just don’t have one.
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Sawgunner – I read that Halle Berry’s Jewish friend first made the comment to her, & she repeated it to Leno as it popped into her head.
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Part 2 of Rant (continued from #6): Not only did Daughter’s boyfriend not go in to work last weekend, he then didn’t bother going in after that cuz he figured he was fired. Didn’t even bother calling them. And isn’t looking for another job.
Rave: So grateful for my hubby, who is a very responsible & good man.
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Rant:
Spammers are making the “most recent” comments and messing up the blog order.
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Rave: Woke up this morning with severe chest pain, wasn’t a heart attack, the ticker is in fine fettle. Is pleurisy so another rave for z-pacs.
Rant: Colbert, although sometimes funny, and Stewart those sometimes funny are all too often all the news some folks get.
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Rant: I must be exceptionally sinful right now, because our very own qwerty is getting on my nerves. Actual dialogue with “trolls” …is it possible?
Rave: Those wondrous times when the liberals/progressives around here make sense, and dialogue is possible. Good stuff.
Rave 2: #14, Luke’s rave about the “rightwingfacebook”…got a chuckle out of me. But I wonder, would a left-wing facebook get such a good reaction out of liberals?
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I think I may have violated rule #4 regarding my rant. Sorry, Lynn!
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The spam on this blog is completely out of control. I noticed spam is putting threads in this list when they don’t belong there. The result is threads that do belong on this list are not there, thanks to the out of control spam.
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I just noticed MakeItMan said the exact same thing I just said. Something needs to be done. Too bad the criminal doing this can’t be captured, tortured, and executed.
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#11 Anlir the image of Space Invaders with Rush playing in the background just popped into my head — love to be thre.
#17 Bill Maher physically escorted 9/11 conspiracy nuts from his audience.
in response to #19
Rant: small town conformist.
in response to #29
Rant: statistics created out of thin air with faulty methodology
#38
agreed
rave: the commute to work in the fall
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RAVE: Seeing some of the old names back on WMB.
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Rant:
http://www.reuters.com/article/GlobalEnvironment07/idUSN0242499420071002
“No oil drilling in the Gulf”, Florida governor Charlie Crist said this week.
This epitomizes the lack of fundamental conservative principles held by current GOP leadership around the country. They don’t seem to understand the limits of their authority.
Legally, any oil company in the world has a legal case for setting up shop anywhere past three miles off-coast.
They have rock-solid legality behind them, if they go past 12 miles. China understands this.. http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/china_starts_oil_drilling.html
http://www.answers.com/topic/territorial-waters
If I were an oil company exec. responsible for making those kinds of decisions, I would set up camp 12 1/4 miles off-coast, with as much as I could safely invest, as a message to coastal governors. And I would fight for the three mile limit that the US has claimed sovereignty over since becoming a republic.
Don’t these idiots understand that our only chance at over-all stability, and improving geo-political leverage is tied directly with energy independence?..apparently not.
Rave:
My new democrat governor Mike Beebe. I like this Mike.
Finally, after a 25 year drought, my state is led by someone with common sense.
Here is what my new gov. said recently,
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=204415
“The Hispanic community has a “disconnect” with non-Hispanics on the issue of illegal immigration, Gov. Mike Beebe told a group of University of Central Arkansas students Wednesday.
Beebe was fielding students’ questions in a public forum on the UCA campus when a student mentioned legislation in Congress that would put children of illegal immigrants on a path toward citizenship, as long as they came to the U.S. with their families before turning 16 and they plan to attend college or join the military.
The measure failed a test vote in Wednesday in the U.S. Senate.
The student, Manny Sepulveda, asked what Beebe is doing for students in Arkansas who want to attend college but may not be in the country legally.
“What are we doing on the state level? Absolutely nothing, because it would violate federal law, or at least it would open the state up to paying moneys that we could never afford with regard to illegal immigrants,” Beebe said.
The governor, who took office this year, said when he was serving as state attorney general in 2005 he had to tell the Legislature there were problems with proposed legislation to provide college scholarships and in-state tuition rates to the children of illegal immigrants.
“The problem is, there was and still is a federal statute that says if you do that – it doesn’t say you can’t do that – it says if you do that, then you have to provide that same opportunity for every American citizen,” Beebe said.
The legislation, supported by Beebe’s predecessor, former Gov. Mike Huckabee, passed the House but fell just short of approval in the Senate.
Thank you democrat senate!
Now…could someone remind me why I am Republican?
Something weird:
I just changed channels from Sirius-Hair Nation, where I heard Kiss’ version of “God Gave Rock And Roll To You”, to Sirius-The Vault, where Argent’s original of the same song was playing.
Oooo!
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“Your comment is awaiting moderation.”
I don’t think it is.
I can see where my comment would look like spam. I wonder why it came up before being checked?
Hmmm. Maybe this can help you figure out what is going on with the spam
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Rant: Users who use this space as a way to palliate their boredom–or maybe as an echo chamber in which to hear the sound of their own voice.
Rave: Lynn’s management of the blog and the patience and courtesy typical of regular commenters.
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Rant (not really a “rant”, more of an FYI for Dr. No) – When accessing this site without “www” as in
http://online.worldmag.com/
I get the following error: “Openads has been installed, but no configuration file was found.”
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rant:
People who disapprove of other’s rants and raves.
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Rave (to the mowers and rakers): Having a mulching blade so I can chop the leaves into tiny pieces and create food for the grass.
Rant: Living in an area with grass that has to be mown. I guess I should have looked for a place in the country and bought some goats or sheep for mowing (and food source).
Rave: Cooler weather! (I have problems with high humidity in the summer. Uncle Arther Itis visits too often.)
Rant: Cold enough to turn in the heater.
That said: This is the day the Lord has made. Let us [we should] rejoice and be glad in it. Psalm 118:24
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Since Peter L just quoted the Bible, I have a good excuse to put a quote here also. This quote from 144 years ago explains why all supernatural claims are only believed by gullible people.
No miracle has ever taken place under conditions which science can accept. Experience shows, without exception, that miracles occur only in times and in countries in which miracles are believed in, and in the presence of persons who are disposed to believe them.
[Ernest Renan, 1863]
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Qwerty: That makes a lot of sense when you think about it. God primarily grants miracles to those who believe in Him already–and those who don’t believe in Him before the miracle do believe afterward.
Here’s another rant: people who say, “I could never do foster care, because I’d get too attached.” The hint (unexamined by them) is that they’d get more “attached” than I do, and thus, because they’d love the kids too much, they can’t take them in. Reality: You love the kids so much it hurts to lose them, but you know you’ve offered the best you can, and losing them is part of life.
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“those who don’t believe in Him before the miracle do believe afterward.”
Some people who are too lazy to figure anything out, will claim it’s a miracle. Your claim there have been atheists who suddenly believed in magic has no evidence. The Bible, a book of lies and insanity is not evidence for anything.
Even today there are people so gullible, and so dense, they almost instantly assume some event is a miracle. It’s only the people whose minds are completely saturated with god nonsense who make these wild supernatural claims.
People who are able to think rationally know there never have been any miracles and there never will be any.
It important to understand there are real atheists and there are fake atheists. A real atheist could never believe in any miracle, which is just another word for childish magic.
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Qwerty: Another quote for you: “He (Jesus)could not do any miracles there, except lay his hands on a few sick people and heal them. And he was amazed at their lack of faith.” Mark 6:5&6
The Pharisees were like you. No matter how great the miracle, they found a way to dismiss it. Some people refuse to believe no matter what happens around them and no matter how much God tries to show them the truth.
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Too bad he couldn’t grow back an arm or a leg. Or divide one person into two. Now THAT would be a miracle.
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RDsean – Identical twin start out as one.
I know that’s not what you meant, but still…
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I hate, I lothe, I detest, I abhor
That silly Hardees commercial where that uncouth dunce is eating a sandwich and twiching a hula doll. It seems Hardees likes uncouth.
Did I mention that I don’t like it.
I realize that I’m not their target. They don’t want me in their store, and I oblige them.
I don’t really know why. I just detest it.
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You are not alone in your dislike of the Hardee’s commercial. They have long had yucky commercials aimed at the young men they know like lots of burgers. They assume all young men are yucky. Our Hardees ended up closing down and is soon to reopen as an Arby’s.
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Rant: Hardee’s commercials.
Rave: The Hardee’s in KI’s town closing and becoming an Arby’s. I prefer Arby’s to any of the burger joints.
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Rave: Georgia beats Florida, 42-30!!!
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Rant
Football is a stupid game. Anyone who would stay up till 11;00 to watch a bunch of overfed guys push each other around and run up and down the field is an idiot.
I have to get up early tomorrow.
I’m going to bed.
I think.
If South Carolina could just get their offense on track for some consistency they would be great.
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“Some people refuse to believe no matter what happens around them and no matter how much God tries to show them the truth.”
Some people refuse to understand the Bible is fiction and quoting from the Bible proves nothing.
The writers of fiction make everything tie together to make it as realistic as possible. To enjoy the book, the reader has to pretend it all could be true. Of course, readers of fiction know they are reading a made up story, unless they are extremely deluded, gullible, brainwashed, and they’re reading the fiction in the Bible.
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Rant
People posting quotes without telling why the source is qualified (Qwerty, 50)(Who is Ernest Renan?)
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Logical, did you ever hear of the corporation called “Google”?
Use their search engine and you can find the answer to any question. It’s better to look things up yourself instead of wasting other people’s time. Most people on this blog have the same problem. They could find the answer themselves using google, but instead they prefer to waste someone else’s time.
A simple google search gave a large number of results, including this “liars for jesus” website:
The French philologist and historian Ernest Renan (1823-1892) said, “No miracle has ever taken place under conditions which science can accept.”
Renan made a good point. Miracles are only believed by gullible people. No sane person could ever believe in any miracle, for the simple reason it’s a childish belief.
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From the same holy roller website I linked to in #63:
Some scholars say that the miracles of Jesus are hoaxes. If they are right, Jesus cannot be our Savior.
I agree. Throw out the stupid miracles, and Jesus is just another human ape. The Christian religion depends entirely on people who are gullible enough to believe any nonsense, no matter how insane it is.
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My family has some full-blown miracles in its history. Directly after prayer, my Uncle Arthur, as a young boy, was healed of a lung problem that was supposed to have killed him. Later, as an adult, he was healed of a different problem when he walked out of the hospital after being thrown from a horse. He was told he’d never walk again.
My cousin was healed of a tumor that had documented evidence. He went in for surgery after a night of prayer and the tumor was gone.
The thing about miracles is that those who believe will be strengthened. Those who don’t will pull out the most convoluted and bizarre “explanations” to explain why they weren’t really miracles.
After all, look at the Israelites. God miraculously leads them across the desert. He is a cloud by day and a fire by night. They see miracle after miracle, and yet they easily fall astray at the first difficulty.
Human beings are like that. I honestly think Christ could descend on a cloud with a voice of thunder and legions of angels at His sides, and people like Qwerty would say, “Well, it doesn’t prove He’s God. What if He just has some advanced technology? And, even if He is God, why should I have to listen to Him? Maybe He’s just further evolved than I am and humans can be like Him someday. And, even if He did create me, what right does He have to tell me what to do? I’ll bet we’re all having mass delusions anyway.” And, so on and so on.
Miracles are wonderful as an uplift to faith, but they will never cause the true heart change and repentance required for the steadfast unbeliever. Such a person will go to any lengths to excuse them or explain them.
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