I know exactly what I want.......

Yep, I want to find one job that actually challenges me and eventually retire by myself in a house on the coast.

It's kinda like chess for me. I'm moving the pieces on the board, and it looks like no plan, because i'm thinking 3 steps ahead already. Unfortunately women I talk to are unable to grasp it, they just see me as pushing my figures around aimlessly.

I will know what i want when it finds me till then not sure what i want

What I want has some conflict with that old scripture of, "I shall not want" ....
I have no "want" if it comes down to that.
I've heard the saying, "don't want what you have and can't have what you want". Seriously, it fits too many people.

I'm not quite sure I understand.

Why would scripture tell you not to want?

And why would you allow scripture to stifle you from going after what you want?

And why would you deny yourself what you want because some 2000 year old scripture said "I shall not want...."

That's not the whole scripture, and the point is not to not want, but that the Lord provides all our wants and needs.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
he leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the
paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death; I will fear no evil: for thou
art with me; thy rod and thy staff they
comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me in the
presence of mine enemies: thou anointest
my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all
the days of my life; and I will dwell in the
house of the Lord for ever.

psalm 23 - bible - psalm of david


Hope that helps. :)

I want to regain the "sense of self" that I have lost along the way....

I want my nephews Cancer to be completely healed and gone from his little body.

I want a sense of belonging and to figure our where I am supposed to be in life, in general.

I want a family to call my own...Im tired of feeling like an orphan.

I want to find new friends in this new place Im living.

I want to find somewhere here, that I can sing and play my piano.


Thats all I Want...Is that too much to ask?

Were there punctuation marks in the first version of the second testament?


In particular, were there semicolons used in it? Had the semicolon already been invented?

I am very curious to find out.

Coz the first line may have read originally as
"The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want", meaning, "meet the new boss, same as the old boss", meaning, being herded is not the best of lifestyles, irrespective of who does the herding. Or the Lord had a reputation of losing sheep to wolves and angels, or getting them to drink poisonous water. I don't know. There are not too many reasons to not wanting a shepherd, he can't screw up too many different ways, so much that the people who contracted their sheep out to him would wish to exit the contract.

you are what you think

That looks good...missed it tho

Your hobblin tho...one step at a time

yes

I think the point is that the Lord provides all wants and needs to those who follow.

That's not the whole scripture, and the point is not to not want, but that the Lord provides all our wants and needs.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:
he leadeth me beside the still waters.

He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the
paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the
shadow of death; I will fear no evil: for thou
art with me; thy rod and thy staff they
comfort me.

Thou preparest a table before me in the
presence of mine enemies: thou anointest
my head with oil; my cup runneth over.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all
the days of my life; and I will dwell in the
house of the Lord for ever.

psalm 23 - bible - psalm of david


Hope that helps. :)


Very awesome Totage! Watched the History Station lately?? Scientists are now finding truth to <for all you skeptics> that "2000 year old scripture"

Totage



Yes and it is an analogy that compares a follower to a sheep and "the Lord" to the shepherd who makes sure the sheep is protected from wolves and gets enough to eat.

In other words, followers and believers are like live stalk.

So what happens to the sheep when they take them to "harvest?" They train a goat to lead them to the slaughter house.

Personally, I don't trust the shepherd.

The importance of whether the semicolon was invented before the interpretations is not important. You're just trying to get a rise out of people here I think. If you put your faith in God, He will not lead you astray; but YOU have to do the work. If you strive to clean up your heart and soul ie: filling with love instead of anything less, material things will not become "mind engulfing". God gave us a "free will" to choose. I don't want anyone that doesn't want me either. I'm sure He feels the same way. God doesn't "screw" up...man does. Look what he created...
the Heavens and the Earth. It's the perfect Circle of Life.

As you say.

What's circular about heavens and earth.

How do you know how He feels. You don't even know how a shepherd in Syria feels right now. God is infinitely complex,no? So for you to be able to feel how he feels you must be able to perceive infinite complexity -- a task I bet you can't do. Do NOT make empty, meaningless statements, like you KNOW how HE feels.


IF I put my faith in God He will not lead me astray... bah. There were lots of people in history who put their faith in God and were not led astray... and there were lots who put their faith in God and were led astray. There is no positive correlation there at all.

There were lots of people who did not put their faith in God and had a long, beautiful life, doing good and wonderful things... and there were lots of people who did not put their faith in God and had a wretched life. Again, no correlation can be shown between faith in God and not be led astray. Humbug.

Who are you to say that language is not important? If you throw away the rigours of language, then any statement can mean anything else, a million different things, since languge you don't consider important if it proves the Bible wrong. But you can't have two kinds of languages -- on one hand, language for trade, science, the arts, and everyday communication, which language is important to have unique meanings in its combinations, and on the other hand, the language of the Bible, that uses the same words and constructs, but tears itself away from meaning. A lot of religious people think this is possible and good, but I say this is travesty and tool to perpetuate a set of tragic lies. A spade is a spade is a spade. "The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want" IS completely different from "The Lord is my shepherd I shall not want".

Yes, I am here to get a rise out of people. My main and only purpose in life is to show people how very self-contradictory the Christian bible is, and try to show them that you need faith to believe in it, a lot of faith, since oftentimes it will say one thing which the follower is to beleive as an absolute and irrefutable truth, then turn the page of the Book and the follower be told that now he has to believe the opposite of the first truth he beleived just a page ago.

This is what I am fighting against: blind faith, belief in something that is shown clearly as impossible to believe. I wish to instill the ability in people to think critically; to think for themselves; to see contradictions when they happen; to be able FOR THEMSELVES and by themselves, without help, to see a lie when they are given one, instead of believing all lies without any questioning.

This is my folly.

I bet, that peace on earth and good will toward men will be achieved much faster, when people finally stop believing in dogma and lies, when people start to think logically and for themselves, than by following the Word of Jesus Christ The Confused Liar.

What I want is to live with a word in which people can think for themselves, in which people can tell the difference between blatant lies and things that are not blatant lies. What I want is for reason and common sense to prevail all over the land on this beautiful Earth.

What I want is to live in a world where the christian bible will be rejected by all, for the only reason that it's full of self-contradictions and blatant lies, aside from containing a lot of meaningless rhetoric.

What I want is to live in a world in which the christian bible will be rejected by all, for the reason that people will realize that if you keep needing to interpret and -- yes -- twist the words in the bible, or in any other book, to keep it acceptable to the senses and the mind and the emotions, if you need to interpret the words of a book and the bible to make sense of it and to smooth over the horribly stupid assertions it makes, then that book is basically nothing but a collection of crappy ideas that are not worth half a dead flea.

~ Wow~ While it is nice that everyone hath a right to their own opinion and freedom of speech...there is still a reguard to respect others views, although they arent your own. In your heart of hearts, what you want is to reign others beliefs and change a whole worldly religion...thats really sad and very selfish. Who are you to cast stones?