Truman diary

[Canuck_2]

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@BA Deere wrote:

No question that God IS in control.  Just as a boss testing the trustworthiness of an employee, he can ultimately step in at any moment and correct the employee or fire him.  God has blessed me, I don`t know why, I`ve only asked Him for wisdom and help to do the right thing.  Never have I asked for money, but it seems if things look to be tight, He has always stood by me, even when I`ve failed to stand by Him.  He is a Great Loving God. 

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I have no 'god' looking after me and I have been lucky enough to have everything I need or want too.

Strange that you would think a 'god' provides you with money.

[Canuck_2]

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@verbatime wrote:

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@johnaa wrote:

  Your lack of knowledge of history and racism has left you vulnerable to being misled, your racism is obvious in your "white man" vs Muslim comparison.   America certainly has not been the only Nation which oppressed Asian countries, it was going on before the USA gained independence from GB, our military has only been misused by the colonialist criminals for the last hundred years, mainly after WW2.   Perhaps you need to refresh your knowledge of world history and pay attention to who is slaughtering who.  To explain conflicts between nations and cultures, much of it over territory and resources, to religion and race is ignorant.

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Correct Muslims have been slaughtering folks in neighboring countries long before the lower 48 was settled by the white man. 

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And Christians showed them how, read CRUSADES.

If you think all things are strictly religious based you are taking the eassy road.

Yes religion is often the excuse. That is because 'believers' park their thinking and reasoning part of their brain and allow people to manipulate them into hate for others just to protect their 'gods'.

The unfortunate part is if their 'gods' were really half as powerful as they 'believe', their 'gods' would look after themselves not depend on humans to do it. 

[Canuck_2]

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@ihmarty543282 wrote:

I see john as a terrorist sympathizer. If the people in Homeland Security are not keeping track of him I would be surprised

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I see John as someone who can think for himself not just follow the crowd.

[ihmarty543282]

Kind of like UBL?

[verbatime]

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@Canuck_2 wrote:

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@verbatime wrote:

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@johnaa wrote:

  Your lack of knowledge of history and racism has left you vulnerable to being misled, your racism is obvious in your "white man" vs Muslim comparison.   America certainly has not been the only Nation which oppressed Asian countries, it was going on before the USA gained independence from GB, our military has only been misused by the colonialist criminals for the last hundred years, mainly after WW2.   Perhaps you need to refresh your knowledge of world history and pay attention to who is slaughtering who.  To explain conflicts between nations and cultures, much of it over territory and resources, to religion and race is ignorant.

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Correct Muslims have been slaughtering folks in neighboring countries long before the lower 48 was settled by the white man. 

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And Christians showed them how, read CRUSADES.

If you think all things are strictly religious based you are taking the eassy road.

Yes religion is often the excuse. That is because 'believers' park their thinking and reasoning part of their brain and allow people to manipulate them into hate for others just to protect their 'gods'.

The unfortunate part is if their 'gods' were really half as powerful as they 'believe', their 'gods' would look after themselves not depend on humans to do it. 

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Sort of confused on the order of things and who showed who how... Islam was invented in 610 AD.

• Within 100 years of the invention of Islam, Muslims had wiped out 80% of all Christians on the face of the planet with the sword. The modern "Orthodox" church (eastern, Byzantine) was almost entirely destroyed. Before this Islamic-initiated holocaust, the Byzantine church was 5 times larger than the "western/roman Catholic" church. Today the Roman Catholic church is 10 times larger than the Orthodox, as a testimony to this slaughter they endured at the hands of the Muslims. Had this slaughter not occurred, the Orthodox church would be 10 times larger than the Roman Catholic today.

[johnaa]

  "Within 100 years of the invention of Islam, Muslims had wiped out 80% of all Christians on the face of the planet with the sword" 

   Please supply a the source for that.  It is purely a LIE.     What color is the sky in Lala Land?

[verbatime]

LOL, it's like you think there was no history before the crusades... why do you think the crusades took place?  Have you heard of Constantine and or Constanople? 

It's true.

[verbatime]

Sorry to burst your bubble... must have been pretty comfy in that fog of bliss you live in.

[johnaa]

  I undoubtedly know a hell of a lot more history than you, or you would not have claimed that 80% of the world's christians were killed by muslims in 100 years.  But please supply the source of your wisdom.   Come on put up or shut up. 

[johnaa]

In the course of a plot between Philip of Swabia, Boniface of Montferrat and the Doge of Venice, the Fourth Crusade was, despite papal excommunication, diverted in 1203 against Constantinople, ostensibly promoting the claims of Alexius son of the deposed emperor Isaac. The reigning emperor Alexius III had made no preparation. The Crusaders occupied Galata, broke the chain protecting the Golden Horn and entered the harbour, where on 27 July they breached the sea walls: Alexius III fled. But the new Alexius IV found the Treasury inadequate, and was unable to make good the rewards he had promised to his western allies. Tension between the citizens and the Latin soldiers increased. In January 1204, the protovestiarius Alexius Murzuphlus provoked a riot, it is presumed, to intimidate Alexius IV, but whose only result was the destruction of the great statue of Athena, the work of Phidias, which stood in the principal forum facing west.

In February, the people rose again: Alexius IV was imprisoned and executed, and Murzuphlus took the purple as Alexius V. He made some attempt to repair the walls and organise the citizenry, but there had been no opportunity to bring in troops from the provinces and the guards were demoralised by the revolution. An attack by the Crusaders on 6 April failed, but a second from the Golden Horn on 12 April succeeded, and the invaders poured in. Alexius V fled. The Senate met in St Sophia and offered the crown to Theodore Lascaris, who had married into the Angelid family, but it was too late. He came out with the Patriarch to the Golden Milestone before the Great Palace and addressed the Varangian Guard. Then the two of them slipped away with many of the nobility and embarked for Asia. By the next day the Doge and the leading Franks were installed in the Great Palace, and the city was given over to pillage for three days.

The great historian of the Crusades, Sir Steven Runciman, wrote that the sack of Constantinople is “unparalleled in history”.

“For nine centuries,” he goes on, “the great city had been the capital of Christian civilisation. It was filled with works of art that had survived from ancient Greece and with the masterpieces of its own exquisite craftsmen. The Venetians, wherever they could, seized treasures and carried them off. But the Frenchmen and Flemings were filled with a lust for destruction: They rushed in a howling mob down the streets and through the houses, snatching up everything that glittered and destroying whatever they could not carry, pausing only to murder or to rape, or to break open the wine-cellars. Neither monasteries nor churches nor libraries were spared. In St Sophia itself, drunken soldiers could be seen tearing down the silken hangings and pulling the silver iconostasis to pieces, while sacred books and icons were trampled under foot. While they drank from the altar-vessels, a prostitute sang a ribald French song on the Patriarch’s throne. Nuns were ravished in their convents. Palaces and hovels alike were wrecked. Wounded women and children lay dying in the streets. For three days the ghastly scenes continued until the huge and beautiful city was a shambles. Even after order was restored, citizens were tortured to make them reveal treasures they had hidden.

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