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I understand your concern, Pam. In this case I think we need to consider the source and the spirit with which it is done. It is meant in kindness, and a simply lonely soul is doing his best to reach out and be involved. Now that we have a Like button, let's see what happens.

Itzik sat down at a funky Tel Aviv restaurant asking for something from the lunch menu. "It’s 10:15," the waitress told him. "We’re only serving breakfast now." Itzik thought it over and replied, "Do you have anything on the breakfast menu that tastes like lunch?"

Did you hear about the Cannibal with a wife and eight kids?

Hi Woody, For me, being open to all truth is holding on to what you believe until someone convinces you otherwise. That requires one to keep an open mind. It also may expose you to some pretty convincing deception - at least temporarily. I always like to bounce things off of several people prior to putting something into or deleting anything from my '"faith file". This forum's pretty good for that. If you post anything out of the ordinary, you're sure to get an earful on both sides of the fence.

I'm always surprised how many can't or refuse to see the stunning irony of the freedom loving settlers wiping out millions of freedom loving indigenous people. America with no Christians would have left millions with the right to enjoy their inalienable rights, life, & liberty, & the pursuit of happiness.

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JEWBILATION - Pride in finding out that one's favorite celebrity is Jewish. TORAHFIED - Inability to remember one's lines at one's Bar or Bat mitzvah. CHUTZPAPA - A father who wakes his wife at 4:00 AM so she can change the baby's diaper. DISORIYENTA - When Aunt Sadie gets lost in a department store and strikes up a conversation with everyone she passes. MISHPOCHAMARKS - The assorted lipstick and make-up stains found on one's face and collar after kissing all one's aunts and cousins at a reception. ROSH HASHANANA - A rock 'n roll band from Brooklyn. FEELAWFUL - Indigestion from eating Israeli street food. KINDERSCHLEP - To transport other kids in your car besides yours. OYVAYSMEAR - What one says when the cream cheese squeezes out of the bagel and falls on your clean pants. JEWDO - A traditional form of self-defense based on talking one's way out of a tight spot.

Searcher, here is an issue that you may not understand: The Unions believe that they have the right to determine who in their territory should be ordained. They believe that this right was given to them when they were organized and that the General Conference does not have the right to tell lthem who they can, or cannot, ordain. If this is correct, it is not the Unions that are in rebellion. Rather, it is the General Conference that is in rebellion in assumning a role that it has not been given. Now, you may disagree with this. That is your right. In any case, this is a disagreement. It must and will eventually be settled. The procedure to settle it is complicated and not an easy process. But, until that settlement comes about, it is the choice of the individual Unions to either wait for the settlement, or to proceed until a settlement tells them differently. In the meantime, while the process is taking place, it might be the better part of valor for each side to not accuse the other of being in rebellion. But, if names are going to be called, there is mud that can be thrown by each side at the other.

Something is broken, when the concern is the sex gender rather than what gets accomplished.

I think you will find, that unless someone has a hugh interest in a video, they will generally not watch more than 3 minutes. Can you punch the message down to 3 minutes and then give the link to the longer one for those interested?