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Brilliant yet disappointing because there was not enough of JQA's experiences as President. His election as President should have been highlighted as a triumph of the family and his major accomplishments outlined as the nations first family dynasty continues. It instead became a bit of a Giammati showcase and less of an overview of American history. It's a delicate balance but as good as Giammati was I felt they went to deep into Adams the man and lost focus of the overall goal which was our history as a nation. There is no reason to do a history of a founding father and then take the focus off of the child.... Any comments on this episode in review are welcome!
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Re: Episode 7 - Peacefield
May 13, 2008 6:55 PM
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> Haha. I'd settle for Ronco staying on topic just
> once in every ten posts or so and not trying to
> scroll every thread with religious propaganda but
> he's too busy fishing for Bubbas with his Popeil
> pocket rod and reel. He runs rampant on the rules
> and then alleges everyone else is childish and
> dishonest. No, we're just pissed ronboy! Play at
> your own risk.
Oh indeed, it would be a miracle if Ron could, for once, manage to do just that. It is ever quite amusing of him to chide and degrade someone on their point of view, where he often tries to portray a person as uneducated and such. He is simply an instigator, of very questionable character for his numerous attacks upon anyone with an opinion that differs with his.
But, as I stated to him before, I certainly will not shy away and or ever be fearful of challenging his attacks and hypocrisy... It's just simply too much fun for me to see how flustered he becomes as he is indeed challenged 
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May 13, 2008 12:31 AM
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Haha. I'd settle for Ronco staying on topic just once in every ten posts or so and not trying to scroll every thread with religious propaganda but he's too busy fishing for Bubbas with his Popeil pocket rod and reel. He runs rampant on the rules and then alleges everyone else is childish and dishonest. No, we're just pissed ronboy! Play at your own risk.
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Re: Episode 7 - Peacefield
May 12, 2008 11:52 PM
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> When you agree to look up the definition of internet
> troll I will think about it. You may find your
> screename there. If HBO Internet wasn't asleep at
> the switch you would have been gone a long time ago.
SirDonald...
I do believe you might be asking for a true religious miracle here! Hallelujah... Amen
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May 12, 2008 11:48 PM
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> > LOL SirDonald,
> >
> > I cannot recall anyone like poor little Ron who
> goes
> A Childish, personal attack by someone who distorts
> facts and then cries like a little baby.
The only baby here is truly yourself, Ron... whine all you like! It is quite amusing indeed! LOL
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> > around and spews his pablum about religion here,
> and
> Pablum?
LMAO Ron, I knew you wouldn't have a clue... just so you know, there is a thing called a Dictionary... ever hear of it? Here's a definition for you: pab·lum - (lowercase) trite, naive, or simplistic ideas or writings; intellectual pap... just like the pablum you tend to write. Understand it now, Ron?
>
> > then in other threads, he tries to compare Obama
> with
> > John Adams, then tries to sell to everyone that
> this
>
> You can compare and contrast anything with anyone
> with anything else, if you have even the most
> rudimentary of education but not if you are trailer
> trash bigot barely capable of speech, writing and
> reading.
How comical, coming from someone who cannot even begin to know what a simple word like pablum means! Ron, you certainly know what "trash" is, don't you? You write it completely all too well...
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> > wonderful miniseries is unfactual and very bad
> (and
> > labeling Tom Hanks as "bigoted"
> It's true, but hey even a busted watch is right twice
> a day. 
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> > thread trying to tell everyone to cancel their
> HBO!
>
> It's true, but hey even a busted watch is right twice
> a day.
Usually, people throw out busted watches after they fail the very first time, with the rest of the TRASH! Sound familiar, Ron?
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Re: Episode 7 - Peacefield
May 12, 2008 7:36 PM
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RonMay...
Why do you seek spirituality in the federal government?
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May 12, 2008 3:57 PM
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When you agree to look up the definition of internet troll I will think about it. You may find your screename there. If HBO Internet wasn't alseep at the switch you would have been gone a long time ago.
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May 12, 2008 12:23 PM
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> That message looks just like a paid advertisement
> from Ronco. "Get your Christ-o-matic right here for
> $49.99! He scrolls, he trolls, he never rock and
> rolls....."
An illuminating post. In an earlier post I believe you discussed your "unitarian beliefs and church" as having more in common with the Founding Fathers. For the sake of amusement, could you please expound on your unitarian beliefs, principles and ethics some more?
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May 12, 2008 2:26 AM
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That message looks just like a paid advertisement from Ronco. "Get your Christ-o-matic right here for $49.99! He scrolls, he trolls, he never rock and rolls....."
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May 11, 2008 3:36 PM
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> It's tragic that as a subsitute for arguments the
> childish, the uneducated and the dishonest so often
> resort to personal attacks, dishonest, and
> self-avowed "screaming at their television sets".
> However, mere typographical errors aside the
> e inability to post even simple readable statements
> considering HBO's included spell checker is amusing
> and illustrative of the authors societal class,
> employment level and educational achievement (or lack
> thereof).
>
> George Washington kept a prayer journal all his life
> confirmed by handwriting experts which he named the
> THE DAILY SACRIFCE.
>
> Excerpts of the thousands of daily entries include
> MONDAY MORNING..Daily frame me more and more into the
> likeness of Thy Son, Jesus Christ, that living in
> fear and dying in Thy favor, I may in thy appointed
> time attain the resurrection of the just into eternal
> life.
> ..This is one very typical journal entry of George
> Washington's out of thousands.
>
> Samuel Adams among a multiude of hundreds of other
> living documents and official government records was
> recorded to be a devout Christian and was reported to
> be a devout believer in the Puritans. In 1772
> Samuel Adams, wrote "The rights of the Colonists"
> which included this statement: The rights of the
> Colonists may best be understood by reading and
> carefully studying The Great Law Giver and the Head
> of the Christian Church which are to be found clearly
> written and promulgated in the New Testament.
>
> Patrick Henry said "Doctor, I wish you to obseve how
> real and beneficial the religion of Christ is to a
> man. I am much consoled by reflecting that the
> religion of Christ has, from its first appearance in
> the world been attacked in vain by all the wits,
> philosophers and the wise ones aided by every power
> r of man and its triumph has been complete.
>
> George Washinton told the representatives of a
> visiting nation (official government documents) the
> following. You do well to learn our arts and ways of
> life and above all the religion of Jesus Christ.
> --Deism?
>
> John Adams selected the Reverend Jacob Duche to give
> the opening prayer of the First Congress. The
> Reverend Duche read the entire of Psalm 35 from the
> Christian Bible (not the Deist bible which does not
> exist except as fantasy in the minds of pot induced
> liberaltarians and ignornant academic failures) which
> includes: "Plead my case O Lord, with them that
> strive with me."
>
> These are but a few of the quotes and events of just
> a few of the Founding Fathers. On any other issue,
> there would be those bemoaning the influence of
> Christianity among the Puritans, the Quakers,
> conservative Christians, the modern christian right
> (pathetic and such as it is), yet as pseudo
> historians we are asked to believe that "a cult of
> "deists" without any bible, physical church or
> historical tradition magically were sent as
> democratically chosen representatives of the church
> dotted (then and now for good or worse) colonies to
> creat the United States.
>
> Simply Laughable.
>
> There is no "Deist religion" except that created by
> the dishonest, the most acrobatic and stupendous
> interpretations. the stupid and as a poor substitute
> for the means of propaganda, dishonest and
> manipulation.
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May 11, 2008 3:35 PM
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Name calling, personal attacks, a self-indulging childish post is a poor substitute for reason, and yet points up the strength of my reasoning and my posts.
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May 11, 2008 2:43 PM
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Are you really Ron Popeil? There used to this company called RonCo owned by him that sold all sorts of fraudulent garbage products on TV late at night like the pocket fisherman and veg-o-matic... "it slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries" (see Mork and Mindy and Robin Williams).
I would banish you from this great board to the outermost limits of IMDB hell if I was the god of HBO Internet. That's how much respect I have for the intellectual and spiritual quality of your nonsensical cut rate trash product sold only to the most ignert. Another pocket fisherman by RonCo anyone? Maybe a Ginsu knife would do for you. 
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May 11, 2008 2:19 PM
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Your observations say much about yourself rather than any actual reflection of the truth. Astute readers can only wonder what the first draft of your post contained before the multiple edits. However, I must commend you, at least you seem to have not overtly confessed to anymore personal scream sessions, ,childish name calling, profanity, temper tantrums or drug induced bouts of orgasmic flights of fancy.
Further, you have apparently conceded the Historical truths on my posts of the Founding Fathers.
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May 11, 2008 1:01 PM
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About the only thing GW was as devout about as his love for his country and his family was his love for good strong beer. He drank so much of his favorite variety, called porter, that it rotted his teeth.
I call for all fundamentalist crackpots to protest to HBO about their hideous slight to the beer drinking masses of the world by NOT showing just how much our first President loved to drink the dark stuff, after all he was a soldier first.
And Sam Adams? Well forget it........he is still the stuff of alephenalia legend! HBO didn't even show him taking a snort did they? The guy was heavily into the beer business for Christsake.....and was probably too drunk most of the time with friends to even read a prayerbook.
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Re: Episode 7 - Peacefield
May 11, 2008 11:32 AM
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> LOL SirDonald,
>
> I cannot recall anyone like poor little Ron who goes
A Childish, personal attack by someone who distorts facts and then cries like a little baby.
> around and spews his pablum about religion here, and
Pablum?
> then in other threads, he tries to compare Obama with
> John Adams, then tries to sell to everyone that this
You can compare and contrast anything with anyone with anything else, if you have even the most rudimentary of education but not if you are trailer trash bigot barely capable of speech, writing and reading.
> wonderful miniseries is unfactual and very bad (and
> labeling Tom Hanks as "bigoted"
It's true, but hey even a busted watch is right twice a day.
> thread trying to tell everyone to cancel their HBO!
It's true, but hey even a busted watch is right twice a day.
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Re: Episode 7 - Peacefield
May 7, 2008 11:16 PM
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SirDonald,
Indeed, Comte, of the 3 stages, with the last as the "Positive" stage as you refer to in which he was also referred to as the "Pope of Positivism" LOL I happen to agree with these theories in principle and I definitely see what you mean in Henry Adams ardently following its principles.
While it is certain that John and Abigail both subscribed to a higher being, I believe it possibly they also combined that belief along with a track of growth, as the 3 stages is also referred to as the theory of social evolutionism. I much prefer this concept, rather than simply believe in a literal interpretation as Fundamentalists often do with the Bible. I believe it is possible that both John and Abigail were on this same track, without actually naming it as such.
I have also been to a UU church as well. I have been mostly Catholic in my lifetime and I found the Unitarian Church as quite different in its basis than any other church I have experienced. It often seems to me quite a haven to those who have been pounced upon by the Fundamentalists time and again
I greatly enjoy your posts, Sir... Keep up the good work!
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