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	<title>Comments on: Open thread 5/17</title>
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		<title>By: Boxlock</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351626</link>
		<dc:creator>Boxlock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Same for you cosmos, that&#039;s the best you&#039;ve got?
Pathetic!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Same for you cosmos, that&#8217;s the best you&#8217;ve got?<br />
Pathetic!</p>
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		<title>By: CapnAmerica</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351625</link>
		<dc:creator>CapnAmerica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:48:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At least she spelled &lt;i&gt;English&lt;/i&gt; right . . .</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At least she spelled <i>English</i> right . . .</p>
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		<title>By: CapnAmerica</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351622</link>
		<dc:creator>CapnAmerica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:47:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hehehe, it&#039;s like the angry woman holding up a handlettered sign at an anti-immigration rally:

&lt;i&gt;Make English the Offical Language&lt;/i&gt;

Uh, but would it help people like her, do you think?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hehehe, it&#8217;s like the angry woman holding up a handlettered sign at an anti-immigration rally:</p>
<p><i>Make English the Offical Language</i></p>
<p>Uh, but would it help people like her, do you think?</p>
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		<title>By: cosmos_originally</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351620</link>
		<dc:creator>cosmos_originally</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Boxlock posted May 17, 2008 at 10:37 pm

&quot;... nothing but slimy syphilitic shancres[&lt;b&gt;sic&lt;/b&gt;] from...&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Boxlock posted May 17, 2008 at 10:37 pm</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8230; nothing but slimy syphilitic shancres[<b>sic</b>] from&#8230;&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Boxlock</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351619</link>
		<dc:creator>Boxlock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:40:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I repeat myself, &quot;You spend that much time on an ’s’ vs ‘c’ TYPO when everyone including yourself knows exactly what was meant?&quot;
Small Capn, really small when that&#039;s the most you can come up with.
Elementary phonics solves that problem if you knew them.  Oh well.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I repeat myself, &#8220;You spend that much time on an ’s’ vs ‘c’ TYPO when everyone including yourself knows exactly what was meant?&#8221;<br />
Small Capn, really small when that&#8217;s the most you can come up with.<br />
Elementary phonics solves that problem if you knew them.  Oh well.</p>
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		<title>By: CapnAmerica</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351616</link>
		<dc:creator>CapnAmerica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yeah, I gotta give you credit, Nathan.

You did admit you were wrong.

Maybe you&#039;re not a complete CON after all.  There&#039;re glimmers of reasoning shining through the darkness . . .</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yeah, I gotta give you credit, Nathan.</p>
<p>You did admit you were wrong.</p>
<p>Maybe you&#8217;re not a complete CON after all.  There&#8217;re glimmers of reasoning shining through the darkness . . .</p>
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		<title>By: Boxlock</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351615</link>
		<dc:creator>Boxlock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>By the way &#039;Capn-way too dense&#039;
It is obvious from your need to search and focus on it you don&#039;t even know the definition of the term.
Enough time wasted, case closed!
Playing in the dirt with pigs can get one dirty.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>By the way &#8216;Capn-way too dense&#8217;<br />
It is obvious from your need to search and focus on it you don&#8217;t even know the definition of the term.<br />
Enough time wasted, case closed!<br />
Playing in the dirt with pigs can get one dirty.</p>
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		<title>By: CapnAmerica</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351613</link>
		<dc:creator>CapnAmerica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m shaking my head right now.

I tell you what the right spelling is.

You tell me I&#039;m wrong, and then give me the spelling I gave you.  

And then you tell me to &quot;look it up, if I don&#039;t believe it.&quot;

Thanks, Boxlock.

I understand you a lot better now.

You&#039;re just an idiot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m shaking my head right now.</p>
<p>I tell you what the right spelling is.</p>
<p>You tell me I&#8217;m wrong, and then give me the spelling I gave you.  </p>
<p>And then you tell me to &#8220;look it up, if I don&#8217;t believe it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thanks, Boxlock.</p>
<p>I understand you a lot better now.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re just an idiot.</p>
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		<title>By: CapnAmerica</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351612</link>
		<dc:creator>CapnAmerica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:32:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m shaking my head right now.

I tell you what the right spelling is.

You tell me I&#039;m wrong, and then give me the spelling I gave you.  

And then you tell me to &quot;look it up, if I don&#039;t believe it.&quot;

Thanks, Boxlock.

I understand you a lot better now.

You&#039;re just an idiot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m shaking my head right now.</p>
<p>I tell you what the right spelling is.</p>
<p>You tell me I&#8217;m wrong, and then give me the spelling I gave you.  </p>
<p>And then you tell me to &#8220;look it up, if I don&#8217;t believe it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thanks, Boxlock.</p>
<p>I understand you a lot better now.</p>
<p>You&#8217;re just an idiot.</p>
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		<title>By: Nathaniel</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351610</link>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CapnAmerica,

I admitted that I made a mistake.  Will you on your statment that all Cons don&#039;t do that?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CapnAmerica,</p>
<p>I admitted that I made a mistake.  Will you on your statment that all Cons don&#8217;t do that?</p>
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		<title>By: Boxlock</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351609</link>
		<dc:creator>Boxlock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:27:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You are incredibly slow, and I incredibly patient to put up with it.  Okay here&#039;s Tabor&#039;s Medical Dictionary.
http://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/ub?
Go there, type in the word &#039;chancre&#039; and hit &#039;Keyword Search&#039;, think you can do that simple thing?
Come on are you smiling in that picture or not?
Pic Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancre</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You are incredibly slow, and I incredibly patient to put up with it.  Okay here&#8217;s Tabor&#8217;s Medical Dictionary.<br />
<a href="http://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/ub?" rel="nofollow">http://www.tabers.com/tabersonline/ub?</a><br />
Go there, type in the word &#8216;chancre&#8217; and hit &#8216;Keyword Search&#8217;, think you can do that simple thing?<br />
Come on are you smiling in that picture or not?<br />
Pic Link: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancre" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancre</a></p>
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		<title>By: CapnAmerica</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351607</link>
		<dc:creator>CapnAmerica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:26:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry, Box, I don&#039;t share your obsession with what syphilis chancres look like.

Well, actually I did. 

But then I turned 9 . . . 

And see, saying &quot;I Boxlock was wrong&quot; is not so bad, is it?

The next thing you know, you&#039;ll be re-thinking your ignorant position on helping the poor (instead of the rich).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry, Box, I don&#8217;t share your obsession with what syphilis chancres look like.</p>
<p>Well, actually I did. </p>
<p>But then I turned 9 . . . </p>
<p>And see, saying &#8220;I Boxlock was wrong&#8221; is not so bad, is it?</p>
<p>The next thing you know, you&#8217;ll be re-thinking your ignorant position on helping the poor (instead of the rich).</p>
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		<title>By: Boxlock</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351604</link>
		<dc:creator>Boxlock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Okay then, CapnChancre, is that better?
You spend that much time on an &#039;s&#039; vs &#039;c&#039; typo when everyone including yourself knows exactly what was meant.
By the way are you smiling in your picture I linked to above?  If so it doesn&#039;t help.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Okay then, CapnChancre, is that better?<br />
You spend that much time on an &#8217;s&#8217; vs &#8216;c&#8217; typo when everyone including yourself knows exactly what was meant.<br />
By the way are you smiling in your picture I linked to above?  If so it doesn&#8217;t help.</p>
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		<title>By: CapnAmerica</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351602</link>
		<dc:creator>CapnAmerica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Link to a dictionary or a medical dictionary.

Otherwise, admit you were wrong.

Oh, wait, I forgot . . . CONs are incapable of doing that.

Look at Bush.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Link to a dictionary or a medical dictionary.</p>
<p>Otherwise, admit you were wrong.</p>
<p>Oh, wait, I forgot . . . CONs are incapable of doing that.</p>
<p>Look at Bush.</p>
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		<title>By: Boxlock</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351601</link>
		<dc:creator>Boxlock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:15:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Faith is Action, Based upon Belief, Sustained by Confidence in God&#039;s Word and His promise to perform it.&quot;

Satan believes in Jesus...faith is action according to his word.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Faith is Action, Based upon Belief, Sustained by Confidence in God&#8217;s Word and His promise to perform it.&#8221;</p>
<p>Satan believes in Jesus&#8230;faith is action according to his word.</p>
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		<title>By: CapnAmerica</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351600</link>
		<dc:creator>CapnAmerica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>BTW, you&#039;re too dense to notice that you wrote &quot;you’re to dense&quot; [sic].</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>BTW, you&#8217;re too dense to notice that you wrote &#8220;you’re to dense&#8221; [sic].</p>
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		<title>By: Nathaniel</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351599</link>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Chas,

Those first verses say what I have been saying.  That you are saved by faith.

Duh.

The second verse doesn&#039;t support saying that you can be saved without faith.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Chas,</p>
<p>Those first verses say what I have been saying.  That you are saved by faith.</p>
<p>Duh.</p>
<p>The second verse doesn&#8217;t support saying that you can be saved without faith.</p>
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		<title>By: CapnAmerica</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351597</link>
		<dc:creator>CapnAmerica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:12:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Boxofrocks--

Let&#039;s boil this down to the essentials so maybe you can get it this time--

You mispelled the word &quot;chancre&quot; as &quot;shancre.&quot;

That spelling is incorrect.  I went to the Merriam-Webster dictionary site and typed in your spelling.  It had no word with that spelling.

Case closed.  You lose.  You&#039;re wrong.

What you posted showed the correct spelling &quot;chancre.&quot;  Then it showed the pronunciation guide &quot;shángk?r.&quot;

Nowhere does it show that your original spelling of the word &quot;shancre&quot; is correct.

No wonder you&#039;re a CON . . . simple commonsense reasoning eludes you . . .</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Boxofrocks&#8211;</p>
<p>Let&#8217;s boil this down to the essentials so maybe you can get it this time&#8211;</p>
<p>You mispelled the word &#8220;chancre&#8221; as &#8220;shancre.&#8221;</p>
<p>That spelling is incorrect.  I went to the Merriam-Webster dictionary site and typed in your spelling.  It had no word with that spelling.</p>
<p>Case closed.  You lose.  You&#8217;re wrong.</p>
<p>What you posted showed the correct spelling &#8220;chancre.&#8221;  Then it showed the pronunciation guide &#8220;shángk?r.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nowhere does it show that your original spelling of the word &#8220;shancre&#8221; is correct.</p>
<p>No wonder you&#8217;re a CON . . . simple commonsense reasoning eludes you . . .</p>
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		<title>By: Boxlock</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351595</link>
		<dc:creator>Boxlock</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CapnTurd,
I can&#039;t help it if you can&#039;t do a decent search, but I&#039;m not surprised at all, typical of what we get from you.  That&#039;s why I provided a link but you&#039;re to dense to use it.
Note where it shows the plural use, nitwit.
http://au.encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861787174/chancre.html	
chancre
chancre [ shángk?r ] (plural chancres)
noun 
Definition:
 
1. ulcer indicating syphilis and other diseases: a small painless highly infectious ulcer or sore that is the first sign of syphilis and some other infectious diseases
2. ulcer: a sore or ulcer at the point where a disease-causing organism pathogen enters the body
[Late 16th century. Via French&lt; Latin cancer &#039;ulcer&#039;]
chancrous adjective

Here is a better link, note the last sentence of the first paragraph where the term shancres is used.
ALSO, THERE IS A TRUELY EXCELLENT PICTURE OF THE CAPN AND A FEW OF HIS FRIENDS AT THIS LINK ALSO.
&quot;Chancres may diminish between three to six weeks without the application of medication.&quot;

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancre

CapnTurd, you really need to see someone about that soon.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CapnTurd,<br />
I can&#8217;t help it if you can&#8217;t do a decent search, but I&#8217;m not surprised at all, typical of what we get from you.  That&#8217;s why I provided a link but you&#8217;re to dense to use it.<br />
Note where it shows the plural use, nitwit.<br />
<a href="http://au.encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861787174/chancre.html" rel="nofollow">http://au.encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861787174/chancre.html</a><br />
chancre<br />
chancre [ shángk?r ] (plural chancres)<br />
noun<br />
Definition:</p>
<p>1. ulcer indicating syphilis and other diseases: a small painless highly infectious ulcer or sore that is the first sign of syphilis and some other infectious diseases<br />
2. ulcer: a sore or ulcer at the point where a disease-causing organism pathogen enters the body<br />
[Late 16th century. Via French&lt; Latin cancer 'ulcer']<br />
chancrous adjective</p>
<p>Here is a better link, note the last sentence of the first paragraph where the term shancres is used.<br />
ALSO, THERE IS A TRUELY EXCELLENT PICTURE OF THE CAPN AND A FEW OF HIS FRIENDS AT THIS LINK ALSO.<br />
&#8220;Chancres may diminish between three to six weeks without the application of medication.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancre" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancre</a></p>
<p>CapnTurd, you really need to see someone about that soon.</p>
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		<title>By: cosmos_originally</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351594</link>
		<dc:creator>cosmos_originally</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 21:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;... he constantly defends himself by accusing others.&quot;

No, I pointed out the fact that jimmymac is a liar.

http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351321 

If jimmymac did not want to be known as the WE Blog liar, he should not have posted so many lies.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;&#8230; he constantly defends himself by accusing others.&#8221;</p>
<p>No, I pointed out the fact that jimmymac is a liar.</p>
<p><a href="http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351321" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351321</a> </p>
<p>If jimmymac did not want to be known as the WE Blog liar, he should not have posted so many lies.</p>
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		<title>By: Chas</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351592</link>
		<dc:creator>Chas</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 20:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ephesians  2:8-10

I Corinthians 5:9-13 (esp. Vs. 13</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ephesians  2:8-10</p>
<p>I Corinthians 5:9-13 (esp. Vs. 13</p>
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		<title>By: Nathaniel</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351590</link>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 20:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CapnAmerica,

Why does it take faith for you but no one else?

Do you have any scripture to back that up?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CapnAmerica,</p>
<p>Why does it take faith for you but no one else?</p>
<p>Do you have any scripture to back that up?</p>
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		<title>By: CapnAmerica</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351587</link>
		<dc:creator>CapnAmerica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 20:41:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;What do you believe it takes to be saved then?&quot;

I believe it takes faith &lt;i&gt;for me&lt;/i&gt; to be saved.

I don&#039;t know how God is going to judge anyone else, just like I don&#039;t know why the criminal on the cross was saved.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;What do you believe it takes to be saved then?&#8221;</p>
<p>I believe it takes faith <i>for me</i> to be saved.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t know how God is going to judge anyone else, just like I don&#8217;t know why the criminal on the cross was saved.</p>
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		<title>By: CapnAmerica</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351585</link>
		<dc:creator>CapnAmerica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 20:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Actually, I was thinking of this passage when I wrote that some people without faith were healed--
    
6When Jesus saw him [the cripple] lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, &quot;Do you want to get well?&quot; 

 7&quot;Sir,&quot; the invalid replied, &quot;I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.&quot; 

 8Then Jesus said to him, &quot;Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.&quot;

*****

There&#039;s evidence that this guy doesn&#039;t even want to be healed.  He&#039;s been there for years making excuses for himself.  When Jesus asks if he wants to be healed, he doesn&#039;t even say yes.  He just makes an excuse.

He exhibits no sign of having faith in Jesus whatsoever, yet when Jesus commands him to walk, he does.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Actually, I was thinking of this passage when I wrote that some people without faith were healed&#8211;</p>
<p>6When Jesus saw him [the cripple] lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, &#8220;Do you want to get well?&#8221; </p>
<p> 7&#8243;Sir,&#8221; the invalid replied, &#8220;I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.&#8221; </p>
<p> 8Then Jesus said to him, &#8220;Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.&#8221;</p>
<p>*****</p>
<p>There&#8217;s evidence that this guy doesn&#8217;t even want to be healed.  He&#8217;s been there for years making excuses for himself.  When Jesus asks if he wants to be healed, he doesn&#8217;t even say yes.  He just makes an excuse.</p>
<p>He exhibits no sign of having faith in Jesus whatsoever, yet when Jesus commands him to walk, he does.</p>
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		<title>By: Nathaniel</title>
		<link>http://blogs.kansas.com/weblog/2008/05/open-thread-517/#comment-351584</link>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 20:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>CapnAmerica,

So answer my question then.

What do you believe it takes to be saved then?

Is it all some random crap shoot of just hoping God saves you?  Is that how it works?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>CapnAmerica,</p>
<p>So answer my question then.</p>
<p>What do you believe it takes to be saved then?</p>
<p>Is it all some random crap shoot of just hoping God saves you?  Is that how it works?</p>
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