OH MY GOODNESS!

[mycrabface]

Please don't mark this as spam, but Pianistimo has reached an astonishing 7000 posts!

[wishful thinker]

Please don't mark this as spam, but Pianistimo has reached an astonishing 7000 posts!

You find this astonishing?  Given her daily output, I think its a wonder that there aren't more 

Maybe (s)he has a special programme that just fires off replies to threads ramdomly....

[prometheus]

She has more posts than 7000.

[mad_max2024]

Given the size of her posts, can you imagine the amount of letters she has written?

Must be millions

[debussy symbolism]

Greetings.

Many posts can indeed be only short and still convey a message. It is also paradoxical that Pianistimo's posts are mostly redundant and repetitive.

[thalbergmad]

Another great landmark and perhaps one that is just a little worrying, is that she is also rapidly approaching 60 days on line on this site.

Incredible for a woman with a husband and kids.

[ahinton]

Given the size of her posts, can you imagine the amount of letters she has written?

Must be millions

Given the size, number and frequency of her posts, she might have written almost no letters, through sheer lack of time...

Best,

Alistair

[arbisley]

I think they were meant to be alphabetical letters.

[ahinton]

I think they were meant to be alphabetical letters.

Ah, well, if so, then that puts an entirely different complexion on it; it wouldn't be capital letters, that's for sure, for she seems not to have much affection for those...

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

Another great landmark and perhaps one that is just a little worrying, is that she is also rapidly approaching 60 days on line on this site.

Incredible for a woman with a husband and kids.

I can only imagine that she has somehow managed to create for herself that perfect miracle of the forty-eleven-hour day. I wonder what her kids' names are; tell us, Susan dear - TELL US NOW!! (just kidding!)...

(I'll bet she can remember them, too...)

Best,

Alistair

[pianistimo]

i can remember them, but i get them mixed up.  i call ivana, 'lexi' and 'lexi' ivana.

now what are the cat's names.  spit them out.  oh, btw, my son's name is 'misha.'  each of the names is, of course, russian.  my husband had his way. the first girl i wanted to name 'colleen.'  what happened to that?  well, i got interested a little in geneology and thought that it probably was important to keep family names going.  and, my husband had a favorite uncle who was named 'misch.'  mischa = means little bear.  alexis = i think is greek and is for wisdom or something.  and ivana = is the feminine name of ivan or john - so would be joanna - and it means 'gracious gift of God.' 

my children don't care anymore what i do.  and, i suppose that is good to a certain extent.  i mean, when it gets late and i want to 'chill' - i just go on pianoforum. 

i'm involved in their lives very much.  usually i go on pianoforum when the littlest is in kindergarten.  and then, later in the day when she's outside playing.  the other one goes to drama club one day a week and is gone then, and my son is a computer game addict and when he's not on the computer is honing his driving skills - driving around.  of all the three - he's the one that looks like me (irish) and has reddish brown hair and freckles.  ivana sort of looks like me - too.  and, alexis is very much like her father.  sometime i'll download some pics.  it's really hard for me - because we dont' have a scanner and i don't want to bother the neighbor. unless we got a cd from taking pic's and i got the cd put into photobucket. 
btw, i'm a 24 hour a day stay at home mom - so i don't think a few hours will kill them.  usually the other hours are typical laundry, cooking, cleaning -so it's not like pianoforum isn't exciting.  just think - if i was doing more exciting stuff, i'd not even be on.  like performing around the world, or something.  mom's have to have adult conversation.  otherwise - their brains waste away.

[johnny-boy]

I hope her husband and kids aren't being neglected. That's a lot of time on the net.

I'm a little concerned that it may be an addiction. Is there a rehab for internet addiction?

Best, John

[ahinton]

i can remember them, but i get them mixed up.

  i call ivana, 'lexi' and 'lexi' ivana.
That's a shame for bothe of them, surely...

now what are the cat's names.  spit them out.

I'm not accustomed to spitting out cats. An awful lot of unnecessary fuss has been made of this side topic. That said, you would in any case know what they are if you'd been concentrating.

oh, btw, my son's name is 'misha.'  each of the names is, of course, russian.

So you have three children? That sounds an enourmous number to me...

my husband had his way.

Well, we'd all assumed that, otherwise you'd have had none...

alexis = i think is greek and is for wisdom or something.

I do my best...

and ivana = is the feminine name of ivan or john - so would be joanna - and it means 'gracious gift of God.' 

Trump that!

my children don't care anymore what i do.  and, i suppose that is good to a certain extent.  i mean, when it gets late and i want to 'chill' - i just go on pianoforum. 

i'm involved in their lives very much.

And they still "don't care"?

mom's have to have adult conversation.  otherwise - their brains waste away.

You mean "moms"; no genitive of the "grocer's aposptrophe" kind (for you must surely have undergone sufficient genitive activity already in order to end up with so many offspring). In writing of brains wasting away, however, might you not be inviting a barb from our resident NeanderThal?...

Best,

Alistair

[pies]

I don't know why, but I always skip over pianistimo's posts.

[ahinton]

I don't know why, but I always skip over pianistimo's posts.

"Skip"? You mean that you make giant strides?...

Best,

Alistair

[debussy symbolism]

"Skip"? You mean that you make giant strides?...

Best,

Alistair

Since when does "skip" denote strides of gigantic proportion? That would be more of a leap. "I leap over Pianistimo's posts" is a more applicable usage here...

[debussy symbolism]

Pianistimo, why is it that now you have such utter disregard for scientific concepts such as stating that "Pangea" is (or was) a hoax? What happened to that second law of thermodynamics in your signature?

[pianistimo]

pangea has nothing to do with thermodynamics does it?  it is a concept as old as myths you say i hold.  you know, atlas holding up the world. 

prove to me pangea is a noble theory.  for one, if you put all the land masses together - it looks like barely a third of our land mass today.  where's the other part?  and, what about fossils.  i mean - were all the latitudes and longitudes so different '250 million' years ago?  how can you prove that the earth under the sea was completely covered at all times.  what is to account for land bridges that STILL exist between continents today? 

pangea is an old myth.

also, mitochondrial dna has proven that all human races came from one maternal mtDNA - they even call her 'eve' although say she was much earlier than 6,000 years ago.  but, they are OFF on the mutation rate.  one site said that there was one mutation per 10,000 years.  ha!  it all happened as God said.  6,000 years.  211 plus or minus mutations according to one site.

God CAN do things quickly.  HOW?  for  one thing...He made the universe out of something that is not visible to us.  Heb. 11:13 'By faith we understand that the universe was fashioned by the Word of God, so that the visible came forth from the unvisible.' 

Astronomer Robert Jastrow believes that if you follow the genesis account of what things were created first - it follows a pattern logically in science.  of what things would need to be there first - to create life for the next thing.

Geologist Wallace Pratt also has made discoveries about time - that counter the long evolution. 

there is more than one side to a theory.  i believe to have a 'real' education - you have to at least allow the other side to tell it's story. why not intelligent (divine) design?  this makes much more sense than 'we all came from nothing.'  something had to be here first.

[debussy symbolism]

pangea has nothing to do with thermodynamics does it?  it is a concept as old as myths you say i hold.  you know, atlas holding up the world. 

prove to me pangea is a noble theory.  for one, if you put all the land masses together - it looks like barely a third of our land mass today.  where's the other part?  and, what about fossils.  i mean - were all the latitudes and longitudes so different '250 million' years ago?  how can you prove that the earth under the sea was completely covered at all times.  what is to account for land bridges that STILL exist between continents today? 

pangea is an old myth.

Pangea does have nothing to do with thermodynamics. I just used it to imply your sudden shift from posting scientific information to that that says that it is a hoax.

Pange did infact exist. The idea was proposed by Alfred Wegner, and the basis for his thinking was that the spreading of the sea floor was the cause for the continents to shift away. His ideas lay largely dormant until around 1960's. As for fossils? Well, I do not exactly know what you mean by "fossils." Yes, they were there. The hot, humid conditions of the Pangea was more suitable for reptiles. As the continents drifted apart, mammals started to diversify.

[prometheus]

Sheesh, I get the idea we are making too much sense to her. So she is resisting it because she is about to fall of her faith, something which she fears deeply. Which results in that stupid signature.

I feel like someone taking a furred animal from a little child. But if I don't then I feel like someone telling a child there is an evil bogeyman in her/his closet that is going to hurt the child the moment it stops listening to her/his parents.


If there is really a god then you won't have to claim hominids are all hoaxes. There are more than 200 Hominina fossils.

Are all other fossils hoaxes too?

[ihatepop]

I don't know why, but I always skip over pianistimo's posts.

Me too. Theres just too much to scan through and so little energy.

ihatepop

[thalbergmad]

Sheesh, I get the idea we are making too much sense to her. So she is resisting it because she is about to fall of her faith, something which she fears deeply.

The more she debates with us the more she will feel that her faith is based on nothing.

It would therefore be in her own best interests to shut up.

I do not see that happening.

Thal

[prometheus]

But don't you enjoy myth for what it is? Thatbergmad? Why don't you say that the story of Gilgamesh is non-sense? And don't you dare to take away from me greek mythology and legend...

Anyway, the bible also includes some exquisite erotic poetry.



But what is a macrospecies, haha... People defending these things always make stuff up along the way.

[ramseytheii]

Anyway, the bible also includes some exquisite erotic poetry.

Please - tell us where!!

Walter Ramsey

[thalbergmad]

But don't you enjoy myth for what it is? Thatbergmad?

Of course dear Prommy, but as long as it is only claimed as myth.

Thal

[prometheus]

It's called the Song of Solomon or sometimes the song of songs. This song is also careful enough to inform us about how many woman are involved.

It contains some cute references to oral sex as well. Also, it contains the now immortal phrase "We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts..."


There is this Dutch-Moroccan writer that studied arabic. And he translated several arabic erotic poems. Apperently not many people want to read those.


Thal, I don't think all of the bible is rubbish. Of course they are myths written by bronze age people. It contains a lot of horrible things. But some parts are also nice or interesting. It is a big book.

As a child I liked the stories about David and Jonathan. Also, their gay sex scene is cute.

But it doesn't come close to something like the epic of Gilgamesh. I have a reconstructed artisitc(rather than historic) version on audiobook. It is amazing. I think it is the oldest story of mankind that has survived time. And it is really not what you would expect from primitive people.

[thalbergmad]

But it doesn't come close to something like the epic of Gilgamesh. I have a reconstructed artisitc(rather than historic) version on audiobook. It is amazing. I think it is the oldest story of mankind that has survived time. And it is really not what you would expect from primitive people.

I will have to read that. I noted it was mentioned several times in Graham Hancock's "Fingerprints of the Gods".

Thal

[pianistimo]

dear debussy symbolism - if alfred wegner's theories are still plausible today - why are they not discussed in detail.  who can prove what happened to the ocean floor - really?  how about dr. ballard - who has actually gone out into the ocean and researched more of the depths recently?  it is unexplicable for MASS to have been added to the earth.  do you realize how much of the earth is covered in WATER.  are you saying that all this suddenly appeared when the continents broke apart?

God says he founded the earth upon water.  man doesn't want to believe it - but it has recently been found that it is true.  when drilling into the core - there is WATER.  there are 'fountains' found - recently also in the ocean that are letting water from the core of the earth into the ocean.

God is not wrong. 

and, if David (King David) was A MAN AFTER GOD's own HEART - he was not having gay sex with Jonathan (another King's son).  He was the next king in line because GOD CHOSE HIM.  would God choose someone who was not representative of the judaic kingly line and who would openly worship several gods at the same time.  the pagan gods were worshipped via alternative sexual pleasures.   there is no mention of sex between david and jonathan.  also, many men can be 'best friends' without having sex.  the bible had ALREADY given the commandment in the statues that a man shall not lie with a man as a woman.  so, i'm sure David was aware of this.  it is arrogant to make assumptions that biblical figures who are saints - were also sexually immoral.  i do not understand the allowing of concubines - but apparently God allowed that to be for Solomon.  King David married Bathsheba - and his other wives, too.  i don't understand why he married more than one wife...but at the same time - HE WAS PROMOTING THAT THE KINGLY LINE WOULD ENDURE TO TODAY.  God knows how to accomplish what he starts and he blesses the fruitfulness of the people's that give Him glory.

[prometheus]

Hahahaha...

Amazing. When people in the bible kill children and babies you say it is 'just' because 'God wills it!'.

But when they have gay sex then you do reject it because they are 'saints'. I guess 'saints' can kill children and babies but can't have gay sex.

Amazing. Amazingly stupid. Gay sex harms no one. Killing people does. The bible forbids both. But when they kill anyway then its ok. But when they have gay sex its not. Why?

Maybe their gay sex was 'just' and maybe 'God willed it'. God ways are unknowable, you know? If he didn't he wouldn't have written it down, right? The bible is the word of god, right?

God is not wrong.


The bible has many references to sex. They are all allegorical. Just look at the original texts.

[thalbergmad]

the bible had ALREADY given the commandment in the statues that a man shall not lie with a man as a woman. 

Well, there are millions that do.

What would you do to them??

Kill the lot i suppose and say it was Gods will.

Go away please.

Thal

[ramseytheii]

sex between david and jonathan. 

please, tell us where this is!!!

Walter Ramsey

[pianistimo]

that's my question.  where does it say david and jonathan had sex.  it doesn't.  you have to quote scripture and verse.  and not the one where jonathan takes off his kingly robes and hands them to david.  this was a significant gesture of willingness to accept that God had chosen david to be the next king.

also, if you think christians want gay people dead - you are wrong, prometheus.  if we wanted you dead - we'd never preach the gospel to you.  we'd be saying - 'yes, let's keep this a secret - so God will judge them in the future and take away their ETERNAL life.'  i think any sin can be forgiven.  so the sexual sins of adultery, fornication, gay sex, child pornography, pornography, prostitution - whatever - can be forgiven.  but, if you are forgiven and go back to it - it's like it says in the bible - a pig going back to wallow in mud.

aids is a real disease. you are more likely to die of it than a christian killing you.  but, this is a 'personal choice' nowdays.  it is also legal in one state now in the usa, if i heard correctly.  people are accepting this grudgingly - but it doesn't make sense to give complete legal rights to two men who are having gay sex.  a marriage is a man and a woman.  that is the only way God can bless a marital union.  a man and a man are NOT blessed and will reap the fruit of the 'dirt.'  anal sex is dirty.  there is no way around it.  the anus wasn't made for sex - no matter how much one disagrees.  and, the anal walls can be punctured and damaged and cause the bowels to basically almost come out of the hole itself.  a woman's vagina is made differently. it was made in a cleaner way - and cleans itself every month.  it is lubricated.  and it is not a source of aids - unless the woman has gotten it from someone who had it (who most likely was bi-sexual). 

if you want to be holy - and clean - and pure - in the sight of God - take whatever sins you may or may not have - and pray for yourself and others.  help others do what is right.  don't put them at risk.  start now -and start saying 'no' if people are propositioning you or taking advantage of you if you are young.  if you are olders - stop watching pornography and things that make you want to have this type of sex - or any type that puts people at great risk for sexual disease.  get tested.  make sure you stay clean.  wait for marriage!

[prometheus]

"The soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul ... And Jonathan stripped himself of the robe that was upon him, and gave it to David, and his garments ... and his girdle."
1 Samuel(18:1-4)


The bible is always this obscure when sex is involved. So it is hard to know for certain if they really meant something sexual with this. But it is very well possible. It certainly seems to elude to it. It doesn't seem too afraid to create the confusion.

Some reason that this story was anti-monarchical.


Why don't you explain the fact that when the bible talks about killing babies you try to defend it. And then when it talks about gay love, including sex or not, you start to question 'god's word'.

Being gay is as much a choise as any other property of sexual preference; hair colour, skin colour, eye colour, physical build, etc.

There are so many AIDS death thanks to Christianity. Because to christianity a condom leads to 'loose sex' and that is worse than many many people dying because of AIDS.

Bush and the pope both had policies that damaged AIDS the campaign. And they already have enough problems fighting the retarded pagan beliefs people in Africa have.

But what has being gay got to do with AIDS?

Anyway, I am hetrosexual and a 'virigin', if such a concept can truely exist.

About 60% of all gay pairs never have anal sex. Some hetrosexual people also have anal sex.

If anal sex is dirty then when was god so stupid to place the reproduction organs just next to it? That makes no sense at all.


The bible teaches you that it is bad to marry. But if you really want to have sex, then you should marry.

[pianistimo]

he loved him as himself- that is why he gave the KINGLY robes to David.  it was a symbolic gesture of giving a crown to another person who was chosen to be king.  it was not sexual.  jonathan was next in line to saul.  he was giving up his spot.

find a passage anywhere that says ' and they went to bed'  or 'the two became one flesh.'

a robe was the kingly robe and the girdle was what held it on.  the belt.

people generally don't look to the bible to condone homosexuality because of the statutes (a man shouldn't lie with another man - as with a woman).  lev. 20:13 'if there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act...'

now, adultery and many other sexual sins are detestible acts - too.  but, nowdays - they are commonplace in some countries.  but, if we are to 'draw close to God'  so He can draw close to us - we have to learn to put up a wall of resistance to evil.  to say - well this sounds like it might be good - or it might feel good - but the ways of evil lead to sin and death - ultimately in the final sense.  the word 'dogs' is used to refer to homosexuality in revelations.  they are OUTSIDE of the kingdom of God for sniffing poop.  rev 22:15 'outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.'  now, paul - having murdered some christians said in corinthians - 'and such were some of you... ' also confessing his own sins - and then he says that it is better to be a eunech for God than risk your eternal life.

[thalbergmad]

people generally don't look to the bible to condone homosexuality because of the statutes (a man shouldn't lie with another man - as with a woman).  lev. 20:13 'if there is a man who lies with a male as those who lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act...'

now, adultery and many other sexual sins are detestible acts - too.  but, nowdays - they are commonplace in some countries.  but, if we are to 'draw close to God'  so He can draw close to us - we have to learn to put up a wall of resistance to evil.  to say - well this sounds like it might be good - or it might feel good - but the ways of evil lead to sin and death - ultimately in the final sense.  the word 'dogs' is used to refer to homosexuality in revelations.  they are OUTSIDE of the kingdom of God for sniffing poop.  rev 22:15 'outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.'  now, paul - having murdered some christians said in corinthians - 'and such were some of you... ' also confessing his own sins - and then he says that it is better to be a eunech for God than risk your eternal life.

So, are you saying that Homosexuals are evil?

Please give a one word answer, either yes or no.

I do not want to see pages of schizo babble. I have asked a simple question and i want a simple answer.

Thal

PS Sniffing poop, are you sure about that

[pianistimo]

everyone is evil in some way, thal.  i don't think i am righteous.  does that solve your question?  Jesus makes all of us righteous by His grace.  we ALL deserve to die - but He has died for us so we can live.

now, if it was good for sin to be - then the bible wouldn't even tell us what sin is.  how would i know if homosexuality was a sin?  i wouldn't.  today - if things feel good - they are right.  feelings aren't rational.  but, we have the dilemma of curses that go with sin.  that proves that they are not right.  do we have aids among monogomous heterosexual people?  no.  so- it's a double stone.  you can get aids and die in this life.  you can lose your eternal life, too, for sinning purposely when you know the bible says not to.

ps i understand about monogamous couples getting aids if one partner or the other was not faithful or previously was bi-sexual or homosexual - or caught aids from a prostitute or something.

i think God saves us from grief.  he tells us what will bring joy and happiness - although it is sometimes different than what we think sometimes.

if you think about it - the most loving thing you can do for someone else is to give up your life for theirs.  that means in living, too.  if you think you or someone else COULD get aids - why risk it?  and, if someone has it - they should pray for healing and not pass it on.  that is evil.  i really believe that God can heal ANYTHING.  he can cause cancer to go into remission.  why not aids?  God is great!

[thalbergmad]

I ask for 1 word and you give me 100 schizo babble.

Are homosexuals evil?

If they are comitting a detesable act, will they be allowed to enter heaven?

Now i just ask for 2 words.

Answer me.

[pianistimo]

every breaking of God's commandments are evil.  homosexuality is no more evil than adultery.  they are both shaming our bodies which are 'the temple of the Holy Spirit.'  why would we want to paganize it?  do you realize that immoral sexual practices were used to worship other gods.  that is because the other gods allowed it and in fact requested it supposedly.  the true God is different.  if He were the same - we wouldn't be able to tell the truth from a lie.  sexual immorality = sin = evil.

[thalbergmad]

how would i know if homosexuality was a sin?  i wouldn't. 

Well, the Bible says it is sinful and you believe everything in the Bible do you not?

Therefore if you do not think Homosexuality is sinful, you do not believe the Bible.

You cannot have it both ways.

ANSWER

[thalbergmad]

every breaking of God's commandments are evil.  homosexuality is no more evil than adultery.  they are both shaming our bodies which are 'the temple of the Holy Spirit.'  why would we want to paganize it?  do you realize that immoral sexual practices were used to worship other gods.  that is because the other gods allowed it and in fact requested it supposedly.  the true God is different.  if He were the same - we wouldn't be able to tell the truth from a lie.  sexual immorality = sin = evil.

I asked only for 2 words

[pianistimo]

you directly took that out of context.  right before that - i said - 'if the bible didn't tell us what sin was.'

[thalbergmad]

2 words only i asked

[thalbergmad]

Still waiting

[pianistimo]

love = law 

Christ kept the law and therefore we have freedom in Christ - not for breaking the law but from the law of sin and DEATH.  people don't fear as much when they accept Christ.  it transforms how you look at things.  instead of thinking negatively (dying in hell) - you think positively (being with Christ and God)

[thalbergmad]

No answer yet received.

Only 2 words required

[pianistimo]

yes no



yes - homosexuality is evil
no- homosexuals are not going to hell - they are as sinful as any other person.  sin is the same.  it's a broken law.  repentance is granted to all who ask.  but the time is not tommorrow for people who want to test God.  testing God is pointless.  you'll get curses in this life and the next.

i'm hopeful that noone will be hurt by what i say - because i'm not singling out any one type of person as more sinful than another.  we all sin.  we're all under death sentence.  but Christ commutes it for us.  so - we have to be grateful and obey as best we can what we understand is right (according to the law).

[thalbergmad]

yes - homosexuality is evil
no- homosexuals are not going to hell - they are as sinful as any other person.  sin is the same.  it's a broken law.  repentance is granted to all who ask.  but the time is not tommorrow for people who want to test God.  testing God is pointless.  you'll get curses in this life and the next.

I am gonna save that before you go back and change it

[pianistimo]

ok.  btw, hell is not eternal torment.  it is actually a second death.  the typical view of hell is burning forever.  but, there is no mention of this type of hell in the bible excepting for the devil, the beast, and false prophet (who are demons) and tortured forever. rrev 20:10 'and the devil who deceived them ws thrown into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are also; and they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.'

there is a lake of fire.  people will die a second time.  final.  no more living.  the unrepentant will cease to exist.  rev 20:14-15 'and death and hades were thrown into the lake of fire.  this is the SECOND DEATH, the lake of fire.  and if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.'

that is why the parable of lazarus and the rich man.  our chance may be mostly in this life to obtain mercy from Christ.  take it now.  don't wait!

[thalbergmad]

Well, you have just judged millions of people to be evil.

YOU HAVE JUDGED

[thalbergmad]

yes no



yes - homosexuality is evil
no- homosexuals are not going to hell - they are as sinful as any other person.  sin is the same.  it's a broken law.  repentance is granted to all who ask.  but the time is not tommorrow for people who want to test God.  testing God is pointless.  you'll get curses in this life and the next.

i'm hopeful that noone will be hurt by what i say - because i'm not singling out any one type of person as more sinful than another.  we all sin.  we're all under death sentence.  but Christ commutes it for us.  so - we have to be grateful and obey as best we can what we understand is right (according to the law).

The last part was an afterthought.

It was not in your original post