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I can not shop at Costco anymore :-)) Yesterday I was at Costco buying a large bag of Purina dog chow for my loyal pet, Necco, the Wonder Dog, which weighs 191 lbs. I was in the check-out line when a woman behind me asked if I had a dog. What did she think, I had an elephant? So because I'm retired and have little to do, On impulse I told her that no, I didn't have a dog, I was starting the Purina Diet again. I added that I probably shouldn't, because I ended up in the hospital last time, but that I'd lost 50 pounds before I awakened in an intensive care ward with tubes coming out of most of my orifices and IVs in both arms. I told her that it was essentially a Perfect Diet and that the way that it works is, to load your jacket pockets with Purina Nuggets and simply eat one or two every time you feel hungry. The food is nutritionally complete so it works well and I was going to try it again. (I have to mention here that practically everyone in line was now enthralled with my story.) Horrified, she asked if I ended up in intensive care, because the dog food poisoned me. I told her no, I stopped to Pee on a Fire Hydrant and a car hit me, I thought the guy behind her was going to have a heart attack, he was laughing so hard. Costco won't let me shop there anymore. Better watch what you ask retired people. They have all the time in the World to think of crazy things to say. Forward this (especially) to all your retired friends...it will be their laugh for the day! NOTE: This has been widely circulated on the Internet. I have no idea who first wrote it.

Liberal and conservative are very hard to define, especially as we have so many different options that get both labels. In the religious field on the one hand those who minimize the Bible are seen as the liberals, and those who maximize the Bible are labled as conservative. But those who question 1844 as well as those of us who support 1844 are Biblical maxamists, but the Fordites are called liberals and we supporting 1844 are the conservatives. But many of us believe that the Bible teaches women's ordination, and others believe that the Bible does not teach women's ordination, so here we who believe in women's ordination are considered liberals and those who are against women's ordinaiton are seen as the conservatives. There are people who question Mrs. White's inspiration and those who believe in her ordination, the questioners are called liberals and those of us who believe in her are conservative. But there are prople who see her pre-1888 writings as from God and her post 1888 writings from what she read, her increased interaction with non-Adventists, and very much influenced by people such as Willie, Daniels and Prescott, so the everything before 1888 are called consdervatives and those who include her post 1888 writings liberals. The list goes on and on and on. We need to develope better vocabulary. Same thing with the terms "Old" and "New" Theology. "New Theology" has been used as a lable for such groups as those who did not accept the fundamentalist view of inspiration. It has also been used for Mrs. White's post 1888 writings and Adventists who believe in the trinity. It has also been used to seperate the Fordites from the rest of the Adventists. And the so called "Historic Adventists" use it for anyone who does not fit their subgroup of Adventists, no matter how similar or different any specific idea is to theirs.