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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 12:04 AM Original message |
"God will never give you more than you can handle" |
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MiddleFingerMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 12:17 AM Response to Original message |
1. Amen, brother. |
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texanwitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 12:32 AM Response to Original message |
2. I have had more then I can handle the last few years, mangaged to make it somehow. |
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kimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 01:00 AM Response to Original message |
3. You know, I actually used to believe that saying |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 01:13 AM Response to Original message |
4. My dear Amerigo Vespucci... |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:51 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. you are CORRECT |
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ohheckyeah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 01:29 AM Response to Original message |
5. Yeah, I've heard that all before, too. |
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Tripper11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 02:29 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. I have to agree with Peggy and ohheckyeah |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:16 AM Response to Reply #9 |
17. I'm beginning to think that's the key, "forcing the issue"... |
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ohheckyeah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:29 PM Response to Reply #17 |
37. Well, you have friends here. |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 07:10 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. My POSSE. |
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ohheckyeah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:22 PM Response to Reply #39 |
45. Indeed. |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 01:31 AM Response to Original message |
6. That hypothesis fails to take into account |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 01:34 AM Response to Original message |
7. Yeah, and God will also let you get run over by a bus or eaten by a bear |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 03:44 PM Response to Reply #7 |
35. My niece has an outspoken atheist Daddy and a bible-believing Mommy. |
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some guy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 01:36 AM Response to Original message |
8. I'm not a Christian. |
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AngryOldDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 07:37 AM Response to Original message |
11. If that's the case... |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:22 AM Response to Reply #11 |
18. Most of the Christian friends I know are of two beliefs. |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 12:07 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. I'm curious (and sincerely) about your definition of God. |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 01:25 PM Response to Reply #25 |
29. A pastor once said the following in a sermon: |
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Heidi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 03:27 PM Response to Reply #29 |
34. I don't disagree with a single thing you've said. |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 12:27 AM Response to Reply #34 |
48. Thanks Heidi. |
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kimi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:57 PM Response to Reply #29 |
47. Yep |
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AngryOldDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 12:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
26. That is exactly where I'm at. |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 01:31 PM Response to Reply #26 |
30. Yes, that "no" thing is pure arrogance. |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-12-11 09:34 AM Response to Reply #18 |
49. Great post! nt |
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PassingFair (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 03:46 PM Response to Reply #11 |
36. That line is ALMOST as bad as the "everything happens for a reason" line. |
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hobbit709 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 07:53 AM Response to Original message |
12. what does that say about people that can't handle it and give up. |
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kedrys (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 08:04 AM Response to Original message |
13. My mom was lamenting some of the crap I'm going through, and I said that to her |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 08:05 AM Response to Original message |
14. I only hurt the ones I love. |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:33 AM Response to Reply #14 |
19. It feels less like love and more like that scene with The Gimp in "Pulp Fiction." |
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raccoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
15. I don't believe that saying either. Harold Kushner, who wrote WHEN BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE |
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WolverineDG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 08:19 AM Response to Original message |
16. Have I ever heard that one before |
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GaYellowDawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:50 AM Response to Original message |
20. It is a total horseshit line. |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:19 AM Response to Reply #20 |
22. Lucky enough to have never encountered it, or... |
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meow2u3 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
21. Sometimes a human has the last word with God |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:27 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. There is an irony in my current situation, because... |
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CBGLuthier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
24. I guess bringing up all the people God kills with his floods would be mean |
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ismnotwasm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 12:51 PM Response to Original message |
27. I HATE that saying |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 12:52 PM Response to Original message |
28. Sorry, that is one of the classic BS lines religion always spews to cover for this "god" |
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Tuesday Afternoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 01:36 PM Response to Original message |
31. "God will never give you more than you can handle" -- true but, |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 01:55 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. That goes back to the "handshake deal" in the Book of Job... |
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dawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
33. The prisons, and psychiatric hospitals, and graveyards are full ... |
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Arugula Latte (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 04:37 PM Response to Reply #33 |
38. That's a lot of mental gymnastics to justify a belief in this being. |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 07:20 PM Response to Reply #33 |
40. All valid points, and... |
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dimbear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 08:04 PM Response to Original message |
41. All the crap that happens is nature's way of preparing you to |
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Amerigo Vespucci (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 09:54 PM Response to Reply #41 |
43. That part worked years ago |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 08:15 PM Response to Original message |
42. Bullshit. If there were a God, I would punch him in the face on behalf of all the h'capped and ill |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 10:03 PM Response to Original message |
44. My therapist said that to me, without the god part, once. |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-11-11 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
46. Explain all the suicides then? n/t |
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