Comments for My Time Being a Religious Conservative | Eastern NC Now

Okay, I'm going to stop joking now! I'll wait for the serious stiff while I'm sitting in the phew.

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 5:28 pm By: Bobby Tony

Gene is correct also! Now what about that one paragraph thing?

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 5:24 pm By: Bobby Tony

Ted McD is correct again! Anyone can throw a curve ball. Now a knuckle- ball is something else. Even the pitcher does not know where it is going, or as Bob Uecker says "The way to catch a knuckleball is to wait until it stops rolling and then pick it up."
This is not fair, I think GS is off line and can't defend himself.

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 5:20 pm By: Bobby Tony

WOW --- I picked a good topic on a boring Sunday for you 3 guys. Quite frankly you are all playing when I meant business. When you want to grow up and make a real comment, we shall engage. Until then, I have nothing to say to nothing, gentleman!

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 5:13 pm By: Gene Scarborough

GS, it is a good think you did not get to Duke to study under Dr. Rhine.

"Rhine's experiments with Zener cards were discredited due to the discovery that sensory leakage or cheating could account for all his results such as the subject being able to read the symbols from the back of the cards and being able to see and hear the experimenter to note subtle clues.[7] Terence Hines has written:

The methods the Rhines used to prevent subjects from gaining hints and clues as to the design on the cards were far from adequate. In many experiments, the cards were displayed face up, but hidden behind a small wooden shield. Several ways of obtaining information about the design on the card remain even in the presence of the shield. For instance, the subject may be able sometimes to see the design on the face-up card reflected in the agent’s glasses. Even if the agent isn’t wearing glasses it is possible to see the reflection in his cornea.[8]

Once Rhine took precautions in response to criticisms of his methods, he was unable to find any high-scoring subjects.[9] Due to the methodological problems, parapsychologists no longer utilize card-guessing studies.[10]"

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 5:05 pm By: Bobby Tony

My 'ox was gored' when my nation was taken from children.

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 5:03 pm By: Stan Deatherage

I think GS is doing a good autobio here and it could be a conversational grenade.
Sooner or later you have to state what you believe. You are then open for personal attack. Attacking protestant denominations or the Bible has been a waste of time for 2015 years. Stan is right--throw what you know. That is a baseball story I can tell.

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 4:53 pm By: Ted McDonald

You guys crack me up. And I need that from time to time. Hell, I need it a lot.

Ted has a good point on Religious Moderate conundrum. Would that not be an oxymoron? Now if Ted can just capture it all in three very short paragraphs ...

Now that would be artful.

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 4:40 pm By: Stan Deatherage

As old Junior Johnson the race car driver used to say about breakfast.
The Chicken was involved but the pig was committed.

I did take one of those Ink block test once. I was prepared and had studied. Every time he held up one of those cards with a blot on it, I held up a blank card. I think I passed because he stopped holding up cards.

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 4:17 pm By: Bobby Tony

Stan and I need a definition of Religious Moderate. Let's start with the average guy. Maybe one paragraph in English. I will help kick start by saying the NC Snake Handlers prove their faith. I would like concrete definitions not abstract.
Actions and not words alone.

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 4:08 pm By: Ted McDonald

Two Psychologists pass each other in the hallway. The first says to the second, "Hello!"
The second smiles back nervously and half nods his head. When he is comfortably out of earshot, he mumbles, "God, I wonder what *that* was all about?"

Two Psychologists meet each other in the street. "Hi," says one, "How am I feeling today?"

How many Psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Just one, so long as the light bulb *wants* to change.

How many Psychologists does it take to change a lightbulb?
Well, how many do you think it takes?

"Doctor, I feel as though nobody understands me."
"What do you mean by that?"

"Ka-Ching"

Commented: Sunday, May 31st, 2015 @ 4:03 pm By: Bobby Tony