Now this is slutty - Brazilian woman auctions off virginity

[Tropicana]

Using said logic then most women of arranged marriages are fornicators because they sleep with a man they dont know only because their parents arranged it. The only difference is some authority declared them married and her parents paid the virginity fee.. i mean dowry up front

Hello....when people are married to each other it is not prostitution.

I totally don't get that people don't get these fundamentals. Your grandparents would have understood all of this clearly. No wonder so many places are being hit by hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and diverse natural disasters. Judgement a come.

[Tropicana]

Seeing the Hand of God in Natural Disasters


A recent survey found that 40 percent of Americans believe that natural disasters are signs from God. If you believe this, you have much of American history on your side. Let me explain.

In 18th-century New England, that famous "City on a Hill" founded by our Puritan forbearers, earthquakes and other natural disasters were commonly interpreted as signs that God was punishing His covenanted people. Massachusetts felt the effects of regional earthquakes in 1638, 1661, 1663, and 1732. In 1727, the Boston area was hit with an earthquake that, by today's estimation, would have reached 5.5 on the Richter scale. In 1755, the area was hit with an even larger earthquake, registering about 6.2. (In that same year a massive earthquake, probably 8.5-9.0 on a modern Richter scale, decimated the Portuguese city of Lisbon.)
Puritan ministers responded to these earthquakes and tremors by climbing into their pulpits and warning the people of their sins. There were no sermons that chided Puritans for excessive government spending or lamented the government's failure to listen to the will of the people. But there were plenty of sermons that condemned people for using the market for material gain or wanting freedom to pursue happiness in their own way without government interference.
The Puritans believed that they were the chosen people of God—a kind of new Israel. Ministers in this 17th-century world were not only responsible for the care of individual souls, but they also served an important role in making sure that the people of Massachusetts remained moral and Christian so that their special covenant with God would not be jeopardized. The sermons these ministers preached were known as "jeremiads" (after the Old Testament prophet Jeremiah) and they were a fixture of New England religious culture.
Puritans never stopped responding to natural disasters and other societal problems through jeremiads. Historians have traced this practice in New England all the way up to the American Revolution. But we also know that many of the 18th-century descendants of Puritans were integrating their Calvinist faith with the new ideas emanating from the Enlightenment.
For example, John Winthrop, the great-great-grandson of the Massachusetts founder by the same name, argued that earthquakes were best explained by science, not theology. He has often been described as the founder of the science of seismology. After the 1755 quakes in Boston and Lisbon, Winthrop engaged in an extended debate with New England clergyman Thomas Prince, in the pages of The Boston Gazette, over the best way to explain earthquakes. Prince defended the traditional Puritan view: earthquakes were primarily sent as signs of God's judgment. Winthrop defended a scientific explanation.
For many 18th-century New England Calvinists, the scientific and religious explanations for earthquakes were not mutually exclusive. Earthquakes were understood both scientifically and providentially. I am sure both Robertson and Bachmann would not deny that earthquakes can be explained through seismic waves and the movement of tectonic plates. Yet, by suggesting that earthquakes and other natural disasters have spiritual meanings, they are also following this Puritan tradition.
Whatever you think about politicians interpreting natural disasters as signs from God, there can be no doubt that Robertson and Bachmann alike were, for better or worse, participating in a time-worn American practice.

http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Add...9-01-2011.html

[Tropicana]

In case you think this is extreme...here is what Billy Graham had to say about it:

Are natural disasters sometimes an instrument of God's judgment? I've wondered sometimes if God was trying to speak to us when these things happen. — J.H.N.

Yes, God certainly can use natural disasters to speak to us -- just as He can use other difficulties and tragedies to turn our hearts toward Him.

What can such events tell us? For one thing, they remind us of the brevity of life. We may be strong and successful, and assume life is always going to be that way -- but when disaster strikes, we realize this isn't true. We can lose everything in only a few seconds, and perhaps for the first time we are brought face to face with the reality of death -- and our need of God. Isaiah wrote, "Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love you kept me from the pit of destruction" (Isaiah 38:17).

Disasters also can remind us of our need to help others, and not just be concerned about ourselves and our problems. Not long after Hurricane Katrina devastated large parts of New Orleans, my son Franklin and I visited the affected area. I will never forget the way that disaster brought people from different backgrounds together, especially in the churches. The Bible says, "Carry each other's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ" (Galatians 6:2).

We don't necessarily know why God allows natural disasters to occur; sometimes Satan seems to have a hand in them. But the time to prepare for life's crises is now, not when they strike. Is your faith and trust in Christ, and are you seeking to live for Him every day, no matter what happens?

http://www.billygraham.org/articlepa...articleid=5570

[quodlibet]

So question - based on the alleged average dimensions of the ethno-geographic region native to the successful bidder, does this mean she can run another auction afterwards?

[Tropicana]

Apparently.

[RichD]

so if she marry the man after him pay her the 700K before dem finalize the contract all is good den?

[Peasie]

Is how dis thread started with slutty virgins and got to God and natural disasters?

Don't answer that Quodlibet

[Gen]

because sins always lead back to God and natural disasters. yuh nain know ? even sandy was gay people fault-ascawding to wah mi read in the news.

Is how dis thread started with slutty virgins and got to God and natural disasters?

Don't answer that Quodlibet

[Peasie]

Sandy was gay? He was kinder to Jamaica

because sins always lead back to God and natural disasters. yuh nain know ? even sandy was gay people fault-ascawding to wah mi read in the news.

[WitchyOoman]

If she gets paid to fornicate, she is a common whore. [/IMG]

Not at all. That's a barefaced lie, actually.

If she manages to get paid THAT MUCH for fornicating, then she is ANYTHING BUT common. Still a whore. Just not a common one.

[WitchyOoman]

I don't give a flying fornication what anybody says: If the slut manages to get paid that much money to fornicate, then she is an UNcommon whore.


slut = a loose woman, one who gives 'it' away for free (versus a whore, or prostitute, who is paid for 'it')

[WitchyOoman]

By the way, Tropi, how about you cite the url of your source?

[Tropicana]

By the way, Tropi, how about you cite the url of your source?

Source for what...the original story? I deliberately didn't include it as it links to the site selling virgins. Don't want to promote it.

[Peasie]

Source for what...the original story? I deliberately didn't include it as it links to the site selling virgins. Don't want to promote it.

So, is research you were doing when you stumbled on that site? :showtime:

[WitchyOoman]

So as far as we know, there is no story except of your confection, then, Tropi?
That's ^ the point to including a source. Proof.
It sounds like time to call B-S on this, IMO. I don't believe it. lol

Peasie makes an interesting point, also. If it IS actually a real story (doubtful), what WERE you doing on that 'site, anyhow? dwl