You messed up my day Peter! I thought of a lot of people that I would like to invite but I narrowed it down because of the questions.
Here is todays list...tomorrows list might look different.
Nikola Tesla,
Question- How did you pull electricity from the air?
Enoch,
Question- How and what motivated you to “walk” with God?
Jesus,
Question- What are the unalterable laws of the universe and why
Question- What world changing technology has been suppressed because of the greed of man?
Adam,
Question- Since the Bible says you were not deceived when you ate the fruit. Did you eat the fruit intentionally because you saw a bigger picture?
Royal Raymond Rife,
Question- How did you build the Universal microscope and frequency generator?
My Wife,
no question for her...I would want her to experience it with me...she's my best friend! That would allow me to ask Jesus an additional question.
All 6 of them would be from this forum. Probably Fred and Scott and Qwerty and Paris and Xep and Herbie. If we could squeeze forreal in maybe he could come too.
ROFL
Mutherloaded... That would be quite the Dinner! I would thoroughly enjoy it.
If this would ever happen, all we would then need is a "little child".
IS 11:6 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them.
I'll also make a list for a dinner party of people on the forum that I think would make for an enjoyable yet lively evening.
Scott
Kevin
Peter
Psytrancer
Needleman
Cupcake
Since my wife would be cooking she would also be in attendance.
And we would need someone to serve coffee so Calledout would need to attend...Aw heck, why don'cha all chust come!
Peter,
If you have Bono to your dinner could you ask him a question for me?
Regarding the song "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
Is that a song about his experience with the church?
1. Jesus... not sure what I'd ask.. to many things to ask
2. Judas Iscariot.. 2 questions.. why did you betray Jesus and why did you commit suicide? (both of these make me wonder because he knew of God's goodness and grace...)
3. Paul..what would you tell the people in 2008 concerning some of your letters and what you meant by them?
4 & 5. My Grandparents after being in heaven now.. what would you say concerning the holding of avoidance on the ex's?
6. Any of the men who decided to make it so the black men & women would not be counted as equals in between the time of giving them their freedom and making it so they could not vote, etc. (asking questions along that line..)
Mark, I got to chat with Bono for a few minutes in 98. That question did come up and he explained that while many evangelicals wished that was the story, it was not true. He was and has made many statements regarding the pursuit of junk in the western world. The age of Walmart has given us everything we ever wanted and yet "we still haven't found what we're looking for". (and no, I did not get to meet Clayton or Edge.)
My assortment of 6 guests for dinner...
Jesus
My Dad
My husband
My brother who has passed on
Nelson Mandela
The prostitute Rahab from the Bible days (I've always been fascinated by her story, it would make a great movie)
6 women for a girls night out...
Well I think I'd invite Rahab again,
Oprah
Mother Teresa
Lady Di
Joan of Arc
Heart (I'm counting all the girls in the band as one)
6 people from the forum that I have yet to meet would have to be...
Nascar
Paris
Forreal
GM
Brent U
Hank
Choice # 1: my wife, my mother, my father, my mother-in-law, my father-in-law, and my daughter (I can count on one hand the number of times this has happened, and I doubt that I will ever see it again)
Choice # 2: Adam, Eve, Enoch, Luke, Peter, and Mary the Mother of Jesus (I’d like to hear these people talk about their walk with God)
Choice # 3: Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Robert E. Lee, Teddy Roosevelt, Douglas MacArthur (I’m a Political Science major & a military man)
TOTALLY depends on how good you are!
and for the record, she was awesome. I would be proud to leave a legacy like she did, If I understand the history correctly then Jesus is one of her descendants.
Well, I'm thinking Locklady has that one sewn up....but who knows I think Brent is the guy who should do the casting.
.......opps derailed the thread again, Sorry Peter!
well Grace I am trying to figure out if you are paying me a compliment or if I did something wrong again. I am claiming it as a compliment, I think.
I did have an H make a snide remark to me on chat the other nite about my stories, as he put it. I believe he was trying to put down my credibility. but that's okay. I have been thinking about it in relation to the H system and how the people see others and I guess I am seeing somewhat more of why we clash in some areas. In the H definition of normal, and normal christian life and family relations, I definitely do not fit in to that category. My family and life is too varied, too unreal, too abstract to be able to be believable to the finite thinking there. I mean really How many H teenage girls have taken trips with old maid H that are the Great,great-grandaughter of Queen Victoria of England and the great-grandaughter of an Indian Princess? How many H women have uncles that are ministers in 3 other denominations, relatives that have served communion with the Pope in Rome? Have had their brother shot 9 times by the police and live? Have the life story I have lived and can still laugh and live with a smile on my face?
I guess I can kinda get the picture why you H think I am not to be believed, but unfortunately I have lived too much life to know that there is a whole lot more going on in the lives of others around us, than we ever will have a clue and I also believe that there is a spirit world out there that is affecting us much more than we ever want to recognise and it is high time we sat up and claimed the promised of our God and Christ and fight back with the armour that we have been given thru salvation.
Give me the chance Grace and I will gladly play that part in your dinner party.
As to who I would have for dinner That one is hard to try to get down to just the number of 6. I did have a thought though that I think it would be very interesting to have a discussion with 6 of the top H ministers, only I would like to hear what they are actually thinking, not just what is coming out of their mouth because they are saying what they think is the right thing to say.
It was most definitely a compliment! You know I adore you!
I just thought that Naomi leaving her people behind and following God was just a perfect fit for you!
You must come visit, dinner wouldn't give us enough time to hash it all out!
Thanks Grace, would surely love to come to your side of the country. think I would need a month to see all the folks I know that way. But even if I could spend a day seeing those I have come to love it would be a bonus. I can hardly believe that I have actually gotten to KS 2 times to see the ones I have met from here. I want to go to Alberta, Manitoba, Missouri, Idaho, BC, California, Michigan,Colorado, Wisconsin, Pa, KY, MS, and every where else you are all from. I have totally enjoyed every one that I have met from this un-conventional place and consider you all my friends. I stand amazed at the places I have been and the people I have met in my life time. I wonder how much we really realise that God is controling life. Maybe there are some here that consider it unimportant to meet others in person. but to me it is a priviledge and important part of my life. I even count it a priviledge to have known lots of H and H ministers. Even though I have issues with some H actions, I have a hard time considering them as enemies as most of those I know are friends and family. Leaving there is the single hardest thing I have ever done in my life. But I have had to come to the place to recognise that I did not make the choice that made me not a part of them. Some here did. and their choices have kept me from there. and Yet over it all God is still there and in control and so I am moving forward in life and keeping a close relationship with God in my life and learning to let go of the thought that there is any thing that I can tell them that will help them to be able to recognise that God lives in other places and peoples in the world other than the H church, and just because this is the only way we have been taught doesn't necessarily make it right.
Looking forward to more of God's blessings in my life.
15: For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
16: The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:
17: And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.
18: For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
28: And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
29: For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
30: Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
31: What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
32: He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?
33: Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.
Romans 8
I love all you "coggers" it would be way cool to do a evening and day somewhere during the summer. (lake and boat of course)
Just think of the "fun" we would have roasting herbie, (after he fed us with his famous barbeque) forreal (after he sang to us), and wtk (just for fun)!
that being said however, when I first saw the title of this thread, I immediately thought of my favorite people to be around, and I felt sort of bad, because I see them almost every day, and they already eat with me almost every meal!
But this thought here would only be appealing to me under one condition
I did have a thought though that I think it would be very interesting to have a discussion with 6 of the top H ministers, only I would like to hear what they are actually thinking, not just what is coming out of their mouth because they are saying what they think is the right thing to say.
They would have to be tied to a chair and hooked up to a lie detector connected to a bomb, and the first time they lied they would blow to the next world, because I am absolutely done playing lie with the h jello factor.
those people in general are the slipperiest most two faced people I have ever dealt with.
I sort of wonder how honesty lost it's attraction to the H people?
I did have an H make a snide remark to me on chat the other nite about my stories, as he put it.
Locklady,
Forgive me if it offends, but I have been reading for some time, and after some reflection, have arrived at the conclusion that sometimes the implications I get from what you say (about the H) is not quite the same as the reality of the situation.
This includes statements such as these:
-I definitely do not fit in to that category
In regards to a statement you've made about people telling you that you are intimidating...
Don't believe anything thing you hear, only half of what you see...
People I would like to invite for lunch (& the afternoon):
Locklady
Xep
WTK (I actually had that opportunity a while back when he stopped in, would LOVE to do it again sometime )
Gladwin Koehn (actually that opportunity may be coming up the next revivals )
Hank
Brent R
Brent U
Ecxuse me but just maybe you can explain it to me since I have spent 12 yrs under that sentence and never had anyone that could. even got conflicting stories from the ministers in charge. so since you seem to have some idea of it would you kindly explain it. You can email my log in if you don't want to explain in public
kinda hard to miss the point when you are told point blank that "Everyone is afraid of you"
then you ask Everyone and they laugh and have no clue what you are talking about.
This message has been edited by Locklady on Apr 28, 2008 9:06 AM
locklady, what they mean is they want you to submit to minister Buttkiss, and if you refuse to genuflex properly, well they got your kids so too bad for you!
By the way AAH just give us a call. To every one else we hopefully will be heading west sometime this summer. Our daughters want us to in 3 weeks but we don't see how we can, but are definitely planning on heading that way in the end of Aug, have to see that new grandbaby then ya know. so hard to have them grow up so far away, but so glad they have places to live and great jobs.
JSB
Do you plan on confessing to Gladwin at next revivals how you are guilty of abusing the conference guidelines regarding the use of the computer.
In order for you to be completely at peace and participate in communion (if that happens) you MUST do so, for you cannot say that you love the church and its doctrines (Rules & Regulations) without lying to your brothers and sisters.
Or, are you perhaps one of those who are above the guidelines? It is apparent that every member posting on this forum is guilty of the sin of disobedience to the Mother Church.
OrgSinnick; I take exception to your last comments about computer use by our H brethren. There is liberty within the H church to step a certain distance and it is your comments that stifle that. You should accept the fact that members have a conscience that is not totally bound by what the strictest interpretation of the rules are. So, for goodness sakes, give JSBye credit for wishing to dialogue.
Yeah, you're probably right. It is totally futile to point out the great hypocrisy of it all. I have attempted to do so in the past and came to an epiphany that no man is as righteous as one in his own eyes.
JSB, my apologies. You are perfectly free to be as hypocritical as you please.
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