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<DIV class=RTE><FONT color=#ff0000>Frank, you wrote:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV class=RTE>Hey everybody</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>I have been asked to talk a little on repentance tomorrow in
church. Does anyone have any stories or experiences you feel you could
share, and would let me maybe use in this talk. It is mostly about the
importance of repenting. I have my talk, but, thought maybe a real life
example would be good.</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Thanks</DIV>
<DIV class=RTE>Frank</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>I guess the last act I seriously repented of was
failing to vote for Al Gore in 2000. It's not that I have come to see anything
especially good about Gore. But it was selfish of me to pretend that George W.
Bush would do no more damage than Gore would. I spent the election feeling
superior to the whole process, writing it off as akin to a Japanese horror
movie. (Remember "Allosaurus vs. The Blob"? I called the 2000 election
"Anti-Christ vs. The Blob.")Gore was the Blob, because he has taken every
conceivable position on every conceivable issue in the course of his political
career. Bush, for obvious reasons, was the Anti-Christ. He reminded me, and
still does, of Damieon in OMEN III. I felt very cool to distance myself from the
liberals, but thousands of people have needlessly died because I (and a million
or so others) failed to recognize that Bush was genuinely EVIL, while Gore was
merely a fool. I put my own pride above the good of my country and the
world.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>Well, that's my real life repentance story. I bet some
other folks have very different ones.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#ff0000>Siarlys</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>