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awwww i guess she's left now. :( hope she wasn't mad at me! :confused: :/

but Blanca should just do whatever makes her happy! :sneaky: :cool:

oh you get friday off? that's so nice! it's really beautiful weather outside here today, but i'm working until evening :/ and beer...hmm i'm really into beer, but i'm trying to give it up for a while now so i can lose weight and become more fit. :confused:

and plus, i'm just as gentle as a baby! :sneaky: :lol:

hiiiiiii!! you're online still! cool! :-) only your baby will get to see 'em? hmm...i can be your "baby"! :wink3: :D

:cool: sounds good!

:cool: Hi Deniseeeee! *hugs* wow i've got cool company today, after a few days!! :D how's u all?

:P that's okay. I'm sure Maya will send me one! :sneaky: won't you, Maya? :wink3: :kiss: :lol:

hmm...can I have a pic of this new knicker?! :sneaky: :D and yep, I'm sure they're indeed very sweet...just like a virgin! :idea2: :lol:

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:cool: i saw that old thread. we get eastenders here but i think the episodes are really the older ones...'cuz even the British comedies that we get are really old shows....like Are You Being Served? and Open All Hours and Keeping Up Appearances.. :D *hugs maya*

yayyyyyy hi Sammie!

i know there are good sides to church...or any relgions. but you are the one trying to defend that church should be the center of attention, while i'm saying...religion is something between you and your god...and making films such as this 'Passion' is not helpful at all for the overall harmony among various religious societies... and about the differences between baptist and catholic.....honey, the baptists and upstarts and seem to have a twitchy butt so they try to go to the ends of the earth. but i can give you evidence of what the catholic church has done in india...it will make you sad. it makes me sad and angry... the Inquisitions in Goa and Kerala where thousands of Hindus were killed by captains of the catholic Church...it's gruesome, to say the least. And the perpetrator of these acts, one "saint" francis Xavier... so you see, the 'saints' of your Church are some of the biggest murderers that history has ever seen, and i'm sorry to say that. :( :cry:

why do you always say that you're about love and that you're taught to respect others' believes? I'm about love too! :D and I was always taught to respect others' beliefs...as I said, we even have one saying: Truth is ONE, learned people call it by different names. But sending missions to others is no way or respecting their beliefs, I don't think it is... and see, teaching about religions in a geography class goes to show that it's not even taught properly....half-knowledge is worse than not knowing anything at all! lol No, Hindus don't worship many gods and goddesses. Yes, there is Goddess Kali. Hindus believe there is only one God, but that his manifestations are many, and so Hindus have personal relationships with the manifestation they prefer to meditate upon. IT's not as simple as saying 'Hindus worship cows, snakes, and donkeys, and that they have 33 millions gods and goddesses' And what's more shameful and hurtful is when two years ago Hindus were celebrating Diwali--the annual festival in remembrance of the fight and victory of Good over Evil--the Church was spreading pamphlets online and in their congrigations that Hindus lived in darkness and worshipped demons. :( :cry: You quote me one Hindu religious leader that has ever said that Jesus is a demon and that Christians don't know they're in darkness! Even though, as I've said, there are umpteen examples of how Hindu spirituality completely dwarves anything that ever came out of the Church. :rolleyes:

okay, I'm not dissing your religion or making it's name sullied. :/ I am only dissing your religion's MAD urge to convert everyone else to it's way of thinking 'cuz i HATE it with all my guts! :angry: :rolleyes: I say there's nothing wrong with christians, just with the christian missionaries who sow seeds of anger, mistrust, and eventual armed insurrection in poor countries. i already given you some examples of it. what miracles are you talking of? I diss most miracles 'cuz I don't accept them, it's not against your religion, it's against mine to, and everyone else's. :D The last "miracle" I know of is the one attributed to Mother Teresa..the "beatified". Why is she being put on a fast-track to sainthood by this Pope? Is it so that it will help to convert the poor Hindus of India?? The "miracle" she is thought to have committed--and the Pope accepted it--was that she cured a lady of a cancer. However, her doctor's submission was never accepted. There are records of this woman having gone to public hospital for like a year of medical attention before her tumor started to reduce. The woman herself is a Hindu! she doesn't even care about all this and says she just prays to Teresa, along with other Hindu deities! :lol: So why do you think the whole Catholic Church is out there denying science and just trying to get this Teresa saint business going? :rolleyes: The Pope was welcomed in India only 3 years ago after every other country he wanted to go to denied him visa! and then he comes to India and tells his ARMY of missionaries to "harvest the souls" of India...which means convert the Hindus. Is this how your fecking repay a host's welcome? :angry: :angry: May be Hindus should act like every other religious community and declare a war to convert everyone else...afterall, we genuinely have the OLDEST religion in the world, a living philosophy of yoga, meditation, vegetarian diet, high learning, oldest written texts, the oldest language of the world, and etc. :rolleyes: But we dont do it. If Poland is starting to have more Buddhists (I doubt you guys have any Hindus :( ) then it's not because there are Buddhist missions out there to actively convert people. It's because the inner souls of some Polish people have arisen and understood the quiet dignities of life. what kind of spirituality does the church offer anyways? there is no history of inner thought, of meditation, or of individual pursuit of God...there has always been hegemony of others, dictats from Rome as to how you will offer prayers and who will offer prayers, etc. :rolleyes: I'd say I know a lot more about Christianity then you do about Hinduism or Buddhism... and no, I revere the good things in Christianity also, and if you want good articles on that, you only have to read up on "Christian Century" or "Christianity Today" magazines....something I know I do read from time to time. So I know how it is. Don't tell me I don't know about christianity...I went to a Catholic school for like 10 years! :D about bible talking "history"...NO, the earth was not formed at 4000BCE, NO, the earth and universe were NOT made in seven days! need I say more?! :rolleyes: You know, religion is a completely different and separate subject all together. The Christians, sooner you learn this, the better off you and the world will be. The bible is NOT a history book so don't harp on it...just take it as spiritual rather than historical...'cuz everyone knows you can't have a virgin birth! :D All the same, Hindus never try to claim anything as historically firm, 'cuz our spirituality doesn't depend on it. Neither does yours, really. Except, since your Church is centrally guided, and the leaders have been morons, they have continued with such stupid remarks....that's another reason why some people in the west get attracted to the philosophies offered by buddhism or hinduism or other eastern religions...'cuz they're tired of the Church's fight against knowledge, against Galileo, against Darwin, against archeology, against biology...

and you don't know anything about Hinduism, the little that you do know is twisted all out of reality and context :rolleyes: But I don't see Hindu or Buddhist (or even Jewish) missionaries going out to convert whole Christian or Catholic societies...even though there would be ample literature for them to fall back on (example: Bhagvad Gita--the spoken word of Krishna the Supreme God Himself--tells Hindus to worship only Him and to spread His word), etc. Why is it just the Muslims and Christians who feel like they need to convert everyone else to their way of thinking about God? and yes, many many missionaries from various sects of Christianity have knocked on my door (and i have welcomed them and tried to debate the finer points of their religion! :lol: ) and tried to convert me. One even talked about how I can meet pretty girls at their church! :rolleyes:

hehehe...Tetley got bought out by Tata Tea (an Indian company) last year :wink3: I drink tea almost exclusively with milk and sugar in it. first you add tea to water and bring the water to boil, then you add quarter cup of milk (for one cup of drinking tea) and let it boil, add sugar. But I don't make tea...so I only get to drink it if my mom or my sister is around...don't like the way my dad makes it, either! :D :P Plus, the way most indians drink tea (and tea is an indian drink :D :P ) is by adding a hint of ginger in the boiling brew, and also some 'tea masala'...tea spice... :lol: :cool: i know most people in other countries either don't drink tea at all, or if they do, then its green tea or flavored tea or (in america) iced tea which is sooooo totally bland! :rolleyes:

then move up to Dallas! :sneaky: :kiss:

:/ sorry! that wasn't meant to be offensive :/ :D :P

the less you know, the better, it seems! :lol: :lol:

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i learnt HTML tags 7 years ago and made a web page...that time, the Internet was very "young" they still had the Univ. of Illinois' web browser...Mozilla! lol i made my own web page at that time...must have been only one in a few hundred million... now...billions of web pages! :dozey:

hi Blanca!! :-) it's cool we agree on that! :D and yep..it'll be controversial. but i don't think it will be such a big deal in Mexico since ya'll are all Catholics, and the Pope even is supposedly seen the movie and said that the movie shows the facts: "It is as it was." so...let's see, i guess! are you doing to go see it, if they show it there? :wink3:

hi gvargas! how's you?

aawwwww i wish u some snow!! lol it snowed here in dallas last weekend, but it lasted less than a day on the ground! but still, it was fun! and beautiful, until it lasted! :D :D