What does that word really mean?

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
Inigo Montoya, The Princess Bride

Can Man Live Without God? No! But we try all the time....

following quoted from http://www.apuritansmind.com/apologetics/steveturnercreed/

An excerpt from Ravi Zacharias’ book “Can Man Live Without God?”
Steve Turner says “No!”…But we try all the time….

Creed - by Steve Turner
a satirical poem on the modern mind

We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin
We believe everything is OK
as long as you don’t hurt anyone
to the best of your definition of hurt,
and to the best of your knowledge.

We believe in sex before, during, and after marriage.
We believe in the therapy of sin.
We believe that adultery is fun.
We believe that sodomy’s OK.
We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that everything’s getting better
despite evidence to the contrary.
The evidence must be investigated
And you can prove anything with evidence.

We believe there’s something in horoscopes
UFO’s and bent spoons.
Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,
Mohammed, and ourselves.
He was a good moral teacher though we think
His good morals were bad.

We believe that all religions are basically the same-
at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation,
sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

We believe that after death comes the Nothing
Because when you ask the dead what happens
they say nothing.
If death is not the end, if the dead have lied,
then its compulsory heaven for all
excepting perhaps Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Kahn

We believe in Masters and Johnson
What’s selected is average.
What’s average is normal.
What’s normal is good.

We believe in total disarmament.
We believe there are direct links between warfare and bloodshed.
Americans should beat their guns into tractors .
And the Russians would be sure to follow.

We believe that man is essentially good.
It’s only his behavior that lets him down.
This is the fault of society.
Society is the fault of conditions.
Conditions are the fault of society.

We believe that each man must find the truth that
is right for him.
Reality will adapt accordingly.
The universe will readjust.
History will alter.
We believe that there is no absolute truth
excepting the truth
that there is no absolute truth.

We believe in the rejection of creeds,
And the flowering of individual thought.

If chance be the Father of all flesh,
disaster is his rainbow in the sky
and when you hear
State of Emergency!
Sniper Kills Ten!
Troops on Rampage!
Whites go Looting!
Bomb Blasts School!
It is but the sound of man
worshipping his maker.

Steve Turner, (English journalist), “Creed,” his satirical poem on the modern mind.
Taken from Ravi Zacharias’ book Can Man live Without God? Pages 42-44

quote above is from
http://www.apuritansmind.com/apologetics/steveturnercreed/

"History repeats itself, has to, nobody listens"

"History repeats itself, has to, nobody listens"
~ Steve Turner

"They only differ on matters of creation sin heaven hell God and salvation"

quote:
This reminds me of Steven Turner’s satirical observation of this sort of thinking in his poem “Creed.” “We believe that all religions are basically the same, at least the one that we read was.
They all believe in love and goodness.
They only differ on matters of creation sin heaven hell God and salvation.”
This is, as C. S. Lewis called it, “patronizing nonsense.”
https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/reza-aslan-doesnt-get-religion-cnns-tour-de-farce

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

The Merchant of Venice  William Shakespeare

SCENE III. Venice. A public place.
Enter BASSANIO and SHYLOCK
SHYLOCK
Three thousand ducats; well.
BASSANIO
Ay, sir, for three months.
. . .
SHYLOCK
I cannot tell; I make it breed as fast:
But note me, signior.
ANTONIO
Mark you this, Bassanio,
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

http://shakespeare.mit.edu/merchant/merchant.1.3.html

“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.”

“Whatever women do, they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good.”
~ Charlotte Elizabeth Whitton, the first female mayor of a major Canadian city

"the story that we tell is the one that becomes truth"

“[Jackie Kennedy] is such an amazing woman… Really having the understanding of history to very strongly and quickly define her husband’s legacy after the assassination. She knew that the story that we tell is the one that becomes truth.”
~ author unknown

When a man's ways please the LORD, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Proverbs 16:6-7 ESV
By steadfast love and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
and by the fear of the LORD one turns away from evil.
When a man's ways please the LORD,
he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

Proverbs 16:6-7 NRSV
By loyalty and faithfulness iniquity is atoned for,
and by the fear of the LORD one avoids evil.
When the ways of people please the LORD,
he causes even their enemies to be at peace with them.

the best fake Lincoln quote

"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that is difficult to determine whether or not they are genuine."
~ Abraham Lincoln

Aviation Quotes

Aviation Quotes from www.airborne-aviation.com.au/resources/aviation-quotes.php

• Aviate, Navigate, Communicate.
• Truly superior pilots are those who use their superior judgment to avoid those situations where they might have to use their superior skills.
• The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.
• In a twin-engine aircraft, the purpose of the second engine is to supply the pilot with enough power to fly to the scene of the crash.
• When a prang seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity, as slowly and gently as possible.
  - Advice given to RAF pilots during W.W.II.
• When in doubt, hold on to your altitude. No-one has ever collided with the sky.
• Try to learn from the mistakes of others. You won't live long enough to make all of them yourself.
• If God had meant man to fly, he'd have given him lots more money.
• You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3.
• Airspeed, altitude or brains: Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.
• When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something may be forgotten.
• Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day.
  - Layton A. Bennett
• Never fly the 'A' model of anything.
  - Ed Thompson
• A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum.
  - Jon McBride, astronaut
• If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible.
  - Bob Hoover
• Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you.
  - Richard Herman, Jr., 'Firebreak'
• There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime.
  - Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970.
• Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.
• The three most common expressions in aviation are, "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" and "Oh Crap".
• Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers.
• A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication.
• Helicopters are for the rich... or the enlisted.
• We have a perfect record in aviation: we never left one up there!
• Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag for the purpose of storing dead batteries.
• Helicopters don't fly... they just beat the air into submission.
• Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding it.
• What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots?
  If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies;
  If ATC screws up, the pilot dies.
• If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to.
• Aviation in itself is not inherently dangerous. But to an even greater degree than the sea, it is terribly unforgiving of any carelessness, incapacity or neglect.
  - Captain A. G. Lamplugh
• In flying I have learned that carelessness and overconfidence are usually far more dangerous than deliberately accepted risks.- Wilbur Wright in a letter to his father, September 1900
• The ultimate responsibility of the pilot is to fulfill the dreams of the countless millions of earthbound ancestors who could only stare skyward and wish.
• Helicopters can't fly; they're just so ugly the earth repels them.
• If helicopters are so safe, how come there are no vintage / classic helicopter fly-ins?
• A 'good' landing is one from which you can walk away.
• A 'great' landing is one after which they can use the aeroplane again.
• Every takeoff is optional. Every landing is mandatory... in other words, for every take-off, there WILL be a landing.
• If you push the stick forward, the houses get bigger. If you pull the stick back, they get smaller. That is, unless you keep pulling the stick all the way back, then they get bigger again.
• Flying isn't dangerous. Crashing is what's dangerous.
• One of the most important skills that a pilot must develop is the skill to ignore those things that were designed by non-pilots to get the pilot's attention.
• A helicopter is a collection of rotating parts going round and round and reciprocating parts going up and down - all of them trying to become random in motion.
• It's always better to be down on the ground wishing you were up in the air than up in the air wishing you were down on the ground.
• The probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival. Large angle of arrival, small probability of survival and vice versa.
• Stay out of clouds. The silver lining everyone keeps talking about might be another aircraft going in the opposite direction. Reliable sources also report that mountains have been known to hide out in clouds.
• Always try to keep the number of landings you make equal the number of take-offs you've made.
• A meteorologist is just a common person who went to school long enough to be paid to guess what the weather is going to be.
• You start with a bag full of luck and an empty bag of experience. The trick is to fill the bag of experience before you empty the bag of luck.
• In the ongoing battle between objects made of aluminum going hundreds of miles per hour and the ground going zero miles per hour, the ground has yet to lose.
• Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, experience usually comes from bad judgment.
• Keep looking around. There's always something you've missed.
• Remember, gravity is not just a good idea. It's the law. And it's not subject to repeal.
• There are old pilots and there are bold pilots. However, there are no old, bold pilots.
• Always remember you fly an aeroplane with your head, not your hands.
• "Unskilled" pilots are always found in the wreckage with their hand around the microphone.
• Remember that the radio is only an electronic suggestion box for the pilot. Sometimes the only way to clear up a problem is to turn it off.
• Flying the aircraft is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding or doing anything about it.
• It is solely the pilot's responsibility to never let any other thing touch his aircraft.
• You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi to the ramp.
• Those who hoot with the owls by night, should not fly with the eagles by day.
• Things which do you no good in aviation:
  The sky above you.
  The runway behind you.
  The fuel still in the truck.
  Half a second ago.
  Approach plates in the car.
  The airspeed you don't have.
• What's the difference between God and fighter pilots? God doesn't think he's a fighter pilot.
• Trust your captain but keep your seat belt securely fastened.
• An aircraft may disappoint a good pilot, but it won't surprise him.
• There are only two things required to fly a modern airliner: a pilot and a dog. It's the pilot's job to feed the dog. It's the dog's job to bite the pilot if he touches anything in the cockpit.
• Aviation is not so much a profession as it is a disease.
• There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
• It's a good landing if you can still get the doors open.
• Passengers prefer old captains and young flight attendants.
• The only thing worse than a captain who never flew as copilot is a copilot who once was a captain.
• It's best to keep the pointed end going forward as much as possible.
• If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter... and therefore, unsafe.
• If something hasn't broken on your helicopter... it's about to.
• Any attempt to stretch fuel is guaranteed to increase head wind.
• A thunderstorm is never as bad on the inside as it appears on the outside. It's worse.
• I know there's a lot of money in aviation because I put it there.
• It's easy to make a small fortune in aviation. You just start off with a large fortune.
• A male pilot is a confused soul who talks about women when he's flying, and about flying when he's with a woman.
• A fool and his money are soon flying more aircraft than he can handle.
• The last thing every pilot does before leaving the aircraft after making a gear up landing is to put the gear selection lever in the 'down' position.
• You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.
• Rule one: No matter what else happens, fly the airplane.
• Flying is hours of boredom, punctuated by moments of stark terror.
• Fly it until the last piece stops moving.
• It's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing you were down here.
• Believe your instruments.
• Think ahead of your airplane.
• I'd rather be lucky than good.
• The propeller is just a big fan in the front of the plane to keep the pilot cool. Want proof? Make it stop; then watch the pilot break out into a sweat.
• If we are what we eat, then some pilots should eat more chicken.
• Without fuel, pilots become pedestrians.
• Regards engine power: Lots is good, more is better, and too much is just enough.
• If you're ever faced with a forced landing at night, turn on the landing lights to see the landing area. If you don't like what you see, turn 'em back off.
• A checkride ought to be like a skirt, short enough to be interesting but still be long enough to cover everything.
• Experience is the knowledge that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
• No one has ever collided with the sky.
• Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine.
• Experience is a hard teacher. First comes the test, then the lesson.
• Never let an airplane take you somewhere you brain didn't get to five minutes earlier.
• Don't drop the aircraft in order to fly the microphone.
• Hovering is for pilots who love to fly but have no place to go.
• Flying is the second greatest thrill known to man.... Landing is the first!
• The probability of survival is equal to the angle of arrival.
• If you've got time to spare, go by air.
• IFR: I Follow Roads.
• If you don't gear up your brain before takeoff, you'll probably gear up your airplane on landing.
• In thrust I trust.
• Helicopters are for people who want to fly but don't want to go anywhere.
• The future in aviation is the next 30 seconds. Long term planning is an hour and a half.
• I'm not speeding officer — I'm just flying low.
• The only thing that scares me about flying is the drive to the airport.
• Young man, was that a landing or were we shot down?
• It is far better to arrive late in this world than early in the next.
• Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous.
• You can land anywhere once.
• I want to die like my grandfather did, peacefully in his sleep. Not screaming in terror like his passengers.
• The nicer an airplane looks, the better it flies.
• The real value of twin engine aircraft is it will double your chances of engine failure.
• CAUTION: Aviation may be hazardous to your wealth.
• If it ain't broke, don't fix it; if it ain't fixed, don't fly it.
• The worst day of flying still beats the best day of real work.
• It at first you don't succeed, well, so much for skydiving.
• It is said that two wrongs do not make a right, but two wrights do make an aeroplane.
• Without ammunition the USAF would be just another expensive flying club.
• Nothing flies without fuel, so let's start with some coffee.
• Any comment about how well things are going is an absolute guarantee of trouble.
• A terminal forecast is a horoscope with numbers.
• I give that landing a 9 . . . on the Richtor scale.
• Keep the shiny side up and the greasy side down.
• Aviation has created many millionaires, primarily from the ranks of multi-millionaires.
• Some pilots will make an emergency out of a bad magneto check. Others, upon losing a wing, will ask for a lower altitude.
• Remember, you’re always a student in an airplane.
• Keep looking around; there's always something you've missed.
• Fuel in the tanks is limited. Gravity is forever.
• Never trust a fuel gauge.

"I'm sorry"

a note about apologies from the New York Times, Jan. 30, 2017:

"Most times when we say, 'I’m sorry,' it’s for something trivial. But when it matters, watch your wording.
Psychologists and other experts say the best apologies are short and don’t include rationalizations or requests for forgiveness.
And 'I’m sorry you feel that way' really means 'I’m not really sorry at all.'"

Together

Coming together is a beginning,
staying together is progress,
and working together is success.
~ Henry Ford

Thank-You Note Suggestions from "Ask Amy"

"A personal present from an individual requires a handwritten individual thank-you.
A gift presented at a party on behalf of a roomful of people can be acknowledged with a verbal thank-you to everyone at the party either individually or, acoustics and topography permitting, all at once.
A group gift delivered at home (or tossed in an inbox at work) can be acknowledged with a card posted in the lunchroom or an email.
Miss Manners agrees that those who are not thanked cannot reasonably be expected to participate in the future."

The Washington Post, January 24, 2017
Ask Amy column

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/ask-amy-should-hurtful-mother-be-banned-from-her-childs-wedding/2017/01/22/5a308146-d8f1-11e6-9f9f-5cdb4b7f8dd7_story.html

Did Martin Luther King Jr. steal the "I have a dream" part of his speech?

Yahoo Answers
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091209211248AAeJ209

Did martin luther king steal the I have a dream part of his speech?

Best Answer: 
Critics have charged that King plagiarized that too by borrowing from a speech given to the Republican convention in 1952 by an African-American preacher named Archibald Carey, Jr.
Some of them say he gave Cary's speech word-for-word.
It can probably be said that King borrowed from the idea of the speech by Carey (who was a friend of King's), but only the last couple of paragraph's resembled Carey's speech and little of it is word-for-word.
Both men spun their remarks off the words of the song "My Country 'Tis of Thee."

King's speech ended with:
This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with a new meaning, "My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old ***** spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

Carey's speech ended with:
We, ***** Americans, sing with all loyal Americans: My country 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, Land of the Pilgrims' pride From every mountainside Let freedom ring!
That's exactly what we mean--from every mountain side, let freedom ring. Not only from the Green Mountains and White Mountains of Vermont and New Hampshire; not only from the Catskills of New York; but from the Ozarks in Arkansas, from the Stone Mountain
in Georgia, from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia--let it ring not only for the minorities of the United States, but for the disinherited of all the earth--may the Republican Party, under God, from every mountainside, LET FREEDOM RING!

“The second one is always harder.”

quote from a reader of the Carolyn Hax column:

Readers Dish on Family Dynamics

When my husband’s aunt died, I was devastated. Over the years we had become very close. She was kind to me and I admired and loved her.

When she died, my husband’s family closed ranks. I was not allowed to participate in planning the memorial service and no one seemed to understand how deeply I was grieving. It was especially hard because it was a few months after my mother died. In one summer I had lost a mother and a mentor.

At the funeral of my husband’s aunt, I broke down, and people were looking at me strangely and bypassing me to comfort the “real” family. The only one who understood was the minister who had officiated at the service. She pulled me aside and said, “The second one is always harder.” Those words meant a lot to me.

N.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/readers-dish-on-family-dynamics/2017/01/22/109c16fa-df43-11e6-918c-99ede3c8cafa_story.html

"This man has never had children."

Garrison Keillor: I think I need a new religion
Garrison Keillor, The Washington Post
Published 8:47 am, Thursday, January 19, 2017

. . . So I've been shopping around for a new religion to see me through the next four years. . . . I'm looking around for other options.
Buddhism involves way too much sitting still for my taste; the Dalai Lama basically says, "Be gentle. Listen to the universe. Live in the moment. Let happiness flow through you." And I think to myself, "This man has never had children."

http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/article/Garrison-Keillor-I-think-I-need-a-new-religion-10868744.php

“I’m sorry to hear you feel this way.”

Carolyn Hax: Don’t hurl online foulness back — stay polite and exit the cesspit

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/carolyn-hax-dont-hurl-online-foulness-back--stay-polite-and-exit-the-cesspit/2017/01/10/290dee78-d455-11e6-a783-cd3fa950f2fd_story.html

quote, bold added:

By Carolyn Hax Columnist January 11 
Adapted from an online discussion.

Dear Carolyn: My adult niece, 40, posted a very nasty comment about me to a social-media site because of my stance that women and girls should NOT be judged on their looks. This stance was never communicated to her specifically, it is just something I occasionally reference.
She said of me: “She’s totally nuts. She’s got a ton of money, no kids and clearly no joy in her life, either.”
How do I get over the hurt, since I have no idea where the hate originated?
Family Member

Family Member: This sounds like the tip of the storyberg here, but, just going on what you gave me, I suggest you comment on her original nasty post so she knows you know what she wrote. Utterly without inflection, write, “I’m sorry to hear you feel this way.” That’s it, then block her on that site.
Whatever you may or may not have done to offend her, the fact that she responded this way is cowardly and completely on her. It also hints at a profoundly unhappy person, which also is about her, not you. The hate is her damage, not yours.
And the onus is on her to rebuild a relationship with you if that’s what she wants. In the meantime, heal by devoting your time and concern to people who welcome you — and civility — in their lives.

"It will all be OK in the end. If it isn't OK, it isn't the end."

"It will all be OK in the end.
If it isn't OK, it isn't the end."
~ author unknown

Unspoken thought of a grieving parent

"If you mention my child’s name, I may cry. But if you don’t mention it, you will break my heart."
~ author unknown

“Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.”

quotes:

“Resentment is like taking poison and hoping the other person dies.”
~ St. Augustine (354-430)

“No Scientific Christian ever considers hatred or execration to be ‘justifiable’ in any circumstances, but whatever your opinion about that might be, there is no question about its practical consequences to you. You might as well swallow a dose of prussic acid in two gulps, and think to protect yourself by saying, ‘This one is for Robespierre; and this one for the Bristol murderer.’ You will hardly have any doubt as to who will receive the benefit of the poison.”
~ The Sermon on the Mount (1938) by Emmet Fox—a text that later became popular with Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), where the saying was disseminated widely.

In 2003, American actress and author Carrie Fisher wrote: “She’d worked so hard to turn her boiling grudge against Leland down to a low-simmering ache. It was best put by what she’d heard someone in AA say a few years back: ‘Resentment is like drinking a poison and then waiting for the other person to die.’”
Fisher repeated the quote in 2008 in her book Wishful Drinking.

“In fact, not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.”
~ Anne Lamott, Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith (1999)

"Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done, or putting a false label on an evil act. It means rather that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship."
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."
~ Lewis B. Smedes

“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
~ Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of  throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
~ Buddha in the Suttas (Buddhist scriptures)

many of these quotes are from
https://www.quora.com/Who-said-holding-a-grudge-is-like-drinking-poison-and-waiting-for-the-other-person-to-die