Archive for September 3rd, 2010

hey,
I have posted before about my recent girlfriend problems. I have been going out with her for about 2 years now. Click on my user name and try to read my question titiled "is it really over after 2 years?"
Basically, she a couple weeks ago, after 2 years of dating, she wants me to do a bunch of things…. start going to church with her 3 times a week, including Saturdays. She even wants me to quit my job because she won’t let me work on saturdays, as it is the day of rest and supposed to be devoted to GOD. If you remember, she goes to church on Saturdays and NOT Sundays, her religion is Adventista. Anyway, last night we had a long talk. I love her and I pretty much had to do all the compromising. She told me that she want’s to follow the 10 comandments of GOD. I told her that it’s quite o.k. with me. She then said that means no more sex until we are married. I told her "O.K." Then she told me that I can’t work Saturdays anymore because it is the day for GOD. I don’t know what is in her mind? I told her that I can’t just quit my job. I go to college and have 2 years left to graduate. How am I supposed to pay for college? I don’t get any student loans! I have a car payment, and a personal loan. Who will pay all this? I told her that I can do everything, even stop having sex until marriage, but I can’t quit my job, because no one will give money! She said to me, “I need someone who will follow ALL the 10 Commandments with me.” I asked her why she goes to church on Saturdays and not Sundays. Because I know her religion is “seventh-day Adventist” So the “seventh day of the week is SUNDAY NOT SATURDAY. She said, that I’m wrong and it Saturday that should be worshiped. She also said that all the people who go to church on Sunday are wrong and they don’t know what they are doing. Then she said “why don’t you want to follow me?” “Don’t you want to follow the word of GOD, because he will be coming back soon and taking with him to heaven only those who follow what the 10 commandments exactly.”
Then she had her pastor from her church e-mail me a script to show why you must go to church on Saturday and not Sunday.
I want to share it with all of you to see what you think. Here it is:

"Sunday is a Catholic institution…. From beginning to end of
Scripture there is not a single passage that warrants the transfer of weekly
public worship from the last day of the week to the first." Catholic
Press, August 1900
"For, since we [Catholics] deny that the Bible is the sole truth, we
can fall back upon the constant practice and tradition of the Church."
Francis Lentz, Catholic priest, 1900
"If Protestants would follow the Bible, they should worship God on the
Sabbath day. In keeping Sunday they are following a law of the Catholic
Church." Albert Smith, Chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, 1920
Even the Protestants themselves admit that Sunday observance is not
biblical:
"There was never any formal or authoritative change from the Jewish
[sic] seventh day Sabbath to the Christian first day observance…. The
[Gentiles] brought over the consciousness of various observances in the
pagan religions, preeminently the worship of the sun – a sort of Sunday
consciousness." W. Carver, professor at Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky, 1940.

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See McCain on the Flip-Flop!

* McCain supported the drilling moratorium; now he’s against it.

* McCain strongly opposes a windfall-tax on oil company profits. Three weeks earlier, he was perfectly comfortable with the idea.

* McCain thought Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite.

* McCain defended “privatizing” Social Security. Now he says he’s against privatization (though he actually still supports it.)

Wait, I’m not done with the last two weeks yet….

* McCain wanted to change the Republican Party platform to protect abortion rights in cases of rape and incest. Now he doesn’t.

* McCain thought the estate tax was perfectly fair. Now he believes the opposite.

* He opposed indefinite detention of terrorist suspects. When the Supreme Court reached the same conclusion, he called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.”

* McCain said he would “not impose a litmus test on any nominee.” He used to promise the opposite.

And these come after these other reversals from April and May:

* McCain believes the telecoms should be forced to explain their role in the administration’s warrantless surveillance program as a condition for retroactive immunity. He used to believe the opposite.

* McCain supported storing spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Now he believes the opposite.

* McCain supported moving “towards normalization of relations” with Cuba. Now he believes the opposite.

* McCain believed the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Hamas. Now he believes the opposite.

* McCain believed the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Syria. Now he believes the opposite.

* He argued the NRA should not have a role in the Republican Party’s policy making. Now he believes the opposite.

* McCain supported his own lobbying-reform legislation from 1997. Now he doesn’t.

* He wanted political support from radical televangelists like John Hagee and Rod Parsley. Now he doesn’t.

* McCain supported the Lieberman/Warner legislation to combat global warming. Now he doesn’t.

And these are the flip-flops I’ve noticed earlier:

* McCain pledged in February 2008 that he would not, under any circumstances, raise taxes. Specifically, McCain was asked if he is a “‘read my lips’ candidate, no new taxes, no matter what?” referring to George H.W. Bush’s 1988 pledge. “No new taxes,” McCain responded. Two weeks later, McCain said, “I’m not making a ‘read my lips’ statement, in that I will not raise taxes.”

* McCain is both for and against a “rogue state rollback” as a focus of his foreign policy vision.

* McCain says he considered and did not consider joining John Kerry’s Democratic ticket in 2004.

* In 1998, he championed raising cigarette taxes to fund programs to cut underage smoking, insisting that it would prevent illnesses and provide resources for public health programs. Now, McCain opposes a {content}.61-per-pack tax increase, won’t commit to supporting a regulation bill he’s co-sponsoring, and has hired Philip Morris’ former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser.

* McCain has changed his economic worldview on multiple occasions.

* McCain has changed his mind about a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq on multiple occasions.

* McCain is both for and against attacking Barack Obama over his former pastor at his former church.

* McCain believes Americans are both better and worse off than they were before Bush took office.

* McCain is both for and against earmarks for Arizona.

* McCain believes his endorsement from radical televangelist John Hagee was both a good and bad idea.

* McCain’s first mortgage plan was premised on the notion that homeowners facing foreclosure shouldn’t be “rewarded” for acting “irresponsibly.” His second mortgage plan took largely the opposite position.

* McCain vowed, if elected, to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term. Soon after, he decided he would no longer even try to reach that goal.

* In February 2008, McCain reversed course on prohibiting waterboarding.

* McCain used to champion the Law of the Sea convention, even volunteering to testify on the treaty’s behalf before a Senate committee. Now he opposes it.

* McCain was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to illegal immigrants’ kids who graduate from high school. Now he’s against it.

* On immigration policy in general, McCain announced in February 2008 that he would vote against his own legislation.

* In 2006, McCain sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal their financial donors. In 2007, after receiving “feedback” on the proposal, McCain told far-right activist groups that he opposes his own measure.

* McCain said before the war in Iraq, “We will win this conflict. We will win it easily.” Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was “probably going to be long an

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I’m thinking about co-signing a mobile home for my mom, how will it show up on my credit report? As real estate or a personal loan?? Will I be able to rent an apartment with this on my credit report??

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