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Well, if it's a miraculous grilled cheese sandwich, it must be made of Velveta. I find what you said so, so, funny. Actually though, the 'evil' one does do things like that portrait of 'Greta Garbo' (Virgin Mary?), on the cheese sandwich in order to confuse people as to real miraculous occurences. Can you imagine the owner saying, it brought her good luck. Well why not a rabbit foot then. ..But to go further into it, the pagans also had their miracles, and then again, let's not forget Rasputin. Actually, he did cure the Czarvich, but it was never permanent. The Czarvich remained a hemophiliac. Which reminds me of a story a lady from Greece told me years ago. She said that when she was a child, something was wrong with her eye. A woman made a poultice and placed it on her eye, and it was cured. Now was it a true remedy, or was it witchcraft? Zenovia
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Which reminds me of a story a lady from Greece told me years ago. She said that when she was a child, something was wrong with her eye. A woman made a poultice and placed it on her eye, and it was cured. Now was it a true remedy, or was it witchcraft?
Zenovia I think that is the reason I am so suspect of signs and wonders. I can't tell where they come from. I am sure God works many miracles, but I have a feeling his miracles don't appear on ebay. Most of the miracles from God are probably the ones we don't hear about unless we happen to know the person who benefitted from them.
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Originally posted by iconophile:
Oh, I don't know, Michael. I have an Orthodox friend in Tennessee, a converted Bobble Babdist, and we have talked, semi-jokingly, about what an Appalachian Rite Orthodox Church would look/sound like. Our speculations included icons on black velvet and shape-note singing and piney incense...
To show how differently my mind works, and why I will probably never be rich, if this had happened to me I would have said "hey, that sandwich kind of looks like a face." And then I would have eaten it. Oh, I don't know Daniel. I have seen many places in Ohio that didn't have much in the way of identifiable high culture, either. And I do know about that since I lived there at one time and have visited many times since.
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Originally posted by byzanTN:
I think that is the reason I am so suspect of signs and wonders. I can't tell where they come from. I am sure God works many miracles, but I have a feeling his miracles don't appear on ebay. Most of the miracles from God are probably the ones we don't hear about unless we happen to know the person who benefitted from them. Charles, What you've just said pulls me into a thread of a type to which I ordinarily avoid posting - you clever devil you  . I agree particularly with your final sentence, but I would go a step further even. I suspect that we - all of us - are blissfully unaware of most of the miracles worked by God, because they transpire without anyone even realizing that a true miracle happened. "It was a miracle that she survived" is a commonplace phrase that is printed, spoken, and thought thousands of times each year, as folks view devastation wrought by natural disaster, human error, mechanical failure, warfare, or malice. Questioned, most would describe it as figurative speech, a cliche, idiomatic, or just a natural reaction to "a stroke of luck". Think about it; aren't some of these instances perhaps the "true miracles" that folks are seeking instead in grilled cheese sandwiches? Many years, Neil, who earlier today, while slicing pita rounds into quarters and bagging them to freeze, forgot to check among the folds for apparitions, thereby forfeiting his financial future. Darn 
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Neil- perhaps you missed the Pieta on the pita!  I'm sorry, I have a hard time taking this stuff seriously... -Daniel
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Originally posted by iconophile: Neil- perhaps you missed the Pieta on the pita! Daniel, You scoundrel, you knew it was there all the time and didn't tell me  ! Btw, will answer your pm a bit later - have something interesting to pass on about your former acquaintance (as well as a joke that you'll appreciate, given the scandalous attitude you're displaying here ) Many years, Neil, who thinks the continued existence of a certain city on the banks of the Cuyahoga is a miracle in itself 
"One day all our ethnic traits ... will have disappeared. Time itself is seeing to this. And so we can not think of our communities as ethnic parishes, ... unless we wish to assure the death of our community."
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Scandalous; who me? That city on the Cuyohoga now has a saviour, haven't you heard? His name is LeBron... -Daniel, who thinks sports are the opiate of the people [except baseball]
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Speaking of basketbrawl, the plastic/paper "Cup" allegedly thrown by a fan at Ron Artest full (or half-full) of precious beer, which "triggered" him to attack the stands, is now up for sale at e-Bay!? Open your bids, ladies and gentlemen! Amado (I can't figure out where the "miracle" is, but some wags say it is in the money!)
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Originally posted by Gaudior:
Jesus has apparantly appeared on a fish stick...for sale on e-Bay
Gaudior, who thinks this is verging on mocking religion... VERGING???? I think it crossed that threshold a long time ago. Tammy
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