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Georgia Governor Prays for Rain
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ATLANTA - What to do when the rain won't come? If you're Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue, you pray.

The governor will host a prayer service next week to ask for relief from the drought gripping the Southeast.

"The only solution is rain, and the only place we get that is from a higher power," (not from water vapor & dust?) Perdue spokesman Bert Brantley said on Wednesday.

Perdue's office has sent out invitations to leaders from several faiths for the service, set for Tuesday.

Perdue has several times mentioned the need for prayer — along with water conservation — as the state's drought crisis has worsened. Over the summer, he participated in day of prayer for agriculture at a gathering of the Georgia Farm Bureau in Macon, Ga.

Perdue, a Baptist, has enjoyed strong support from Georgia's Christian conservatives. (Ignorance loves company? Stupidity clumps together?)

The Southeast has been suffering from an intense drought in recent months that has threatened supplies of drinking water. Georgia has been locked in a battle with Alabama and Florida over how much water should be sent downstream from the state's dwindling reservoirs.

Governors from the three states reached a temporary agreement after meeting with Bush administration officials in Washington.

The prayer service will be held outside the state Capitol on Tuesday. Unless, of course, it rains.

"Then we'll move it inside, thankfully," Brantley said.


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Edited by OrgoneConclusion (11/13/07 04:01 PM)

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Re: Georgia Governor Prays for Rain [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
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:smilingpuppy:

you should see the "authorities" that ride around the suburbs, handing out tickets for watering plants, yards, etc.

and the neighbors who report their "criminal"/well watered neighbors


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“You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.” - George Harrison

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Re: Georgia Governor Prays for Rain [Re: dirtworshipper]
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And god sits back and laughs... "now? NOW??? You think of me NOW??? What happened when everything was just swell, i never got a peep out of you mayor"

haha oh man.

Anyhow, florida isn't in a drought that i can tell. I live here and it hasn't rained in 2 weeks and there is STILL standing water in the cowfield behind me.


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Re: Georgia Governor Prays for Rain [Re: cube talk]
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:rofl:
exactly, cube
"Keep on usin' me, until you use me up"
dun dun dun, dundun dun dun, dundun

everything has been quite crispy here for some time

if i remember correctly, we've been bad off (water wise) for a while now


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“You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.” - George Harrison

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Re: Georgia Governor Prays for Rain [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
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OrgoneConclusion said:
Perdue, a Baptist, has enjoyed strong support from Georgia's Christian conservatives. (Ignorance loves company? Stupidity clumps together?)


Those seem like charged and condescending words, OC. Clearly this isn't really a strong form of intolerance or hatred, yet there is still aversion/distaste/intolerance in your words. I'm curious as to why that is?


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"What is in us that turns a deaf ear to the cries of human suffering?"

"Belief is a beautiful armor
But makes for the heaviest sword"
- John Mayer

Making the noise "penicillin" is no substitute for actually taking penicillin.

"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it." -Abraham Lincoln

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Re: Georgia Governor Prays for Rain [Re: dblaney]
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Yes this form of local ignorance pisses me off, but when taken to the national level, God-spoke-to-me Bush backed mostly by the Christian fundamental right led to the War on Iraq based on lies and hate of Islam resulting in hundreds of thousands dead, allies turned against America and 1.2 trillion in treasure gone forever.

And the repercussions are only beginning.

Generally, I don't care what others do/believe, but when my country is being led to ruin based on illogic, superstition, fanatacism and irrationality, I get slightly peeved.


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Re: Georgia Governor Prays for Rain [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
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yeah they prayed on the steps of the capital today. man church and state....they're like this


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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time
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Re: Georgia Governor Prays for Rain [Re: Jack Albertson]
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A number of months back there was a major drought in Australia (do a search here). After praying there was serious flooding and many thousands were left homeless along with much property damage.

Proof of God's sense of humor.


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Re: Georgia Governor Prays for Rain [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
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Didn't they invite the Native American community to perform a rain dance? These guys at least have a tradition of manipulating weather. When Christians manipulate the weather it is considered witchcraft I thought. Didn't anyone tell them about accepting the will of God?


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"A warrior is a hunter. He calculates everything. That's control. Once his calculations are over, he acts. He lets go. That's abandon. A warrior is not a leaf at the mercy of the wind. No one can push him; no one can make him do things against himself or against his better judgment. A warrior is tuned to survive, and he survives in the best of all possible fashions." ― Carlos Castaneda

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Re: Georgia Governor Prays for Rain [Re: Huehuecoyotl]
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Huehuecoyotl said:
Didn't they invite the Native American community to perform a rain dance? These guys at least have a tradition of manipulating weather. When Christians manipulate the weather it is considered witchcraft I thought. Didn't anyone tell them about accepting the will of God?


Shhh, not when it serves YOUR benefit, silly.

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Re: Georgia Governor Prays for Rain [Re: Kinematics]
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Kinematics said:
Huehuecoyotl said:
Didn't they invite the Native American community to perform a rain dance? These guys at least have a tradition of manipulating weather. When Christians manipulate the weather it is considered witchcraft I thought. Didn't anyone tell them about accepting the will of God?


Shhh, not when it serves YOUR benefit, silly.


Duh!


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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time
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Re: Georgia Governor Prays for Rain [Re: Jack Albertson]
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'Oh, Holy Tefnut, bless us with rain to end our drought.'  :bushtaliban:

Hahaha  :rofl2:

I almost find this kind of thing hard to believe.

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Re: Georgia Governor Prays for Rain [Re: Cameron]
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It sprinkled for like 2 minutes today. thanks jesus


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Man is timid and apologetic; he is no longer upright; he dares not say "I think," "I am," but quotes some saint or sage. He is ashamed before the blade of grass or the blowing rose.Man postpones or remembers; he does not live in the present, but with reverted eye laments the past, or, heedless of the riches that surround him, stands on tiptoe to foresee the future. He cannot be happy and strong until he too lives with nature in the present, above time
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Re: Georgia Governor Prays for Rain [Re: cube talk]
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I'm in Miami, it rains all the time, sometimes heavily, but it's not raining into Lake Okeechobee where our drinking supply collects.

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