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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 3:53 pm
amber told God her boyfriend deserves a motorcycle? huh. wow.
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Klaw73
Member
08-21-2006
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 3:56 pm
Did anyone read that AP ends on September 12?
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 3:58 pm
from jokers: Amber: "Even if nothing comes out of this, or I don't win," she has still had the experience of a lifetime, etc., has to get worse before it gets better, listing off all the reasons she needs the money--her mother has no retirement, she wants her nieces to go to college, she wants her boyfriend to get a motorcycle, she wants to live in the Midwest where there are four season and she wants to make a snowman with her daughter, she hates it in Vegas i want to meet her accountant. if she can do all of that with the winnings, less taxes, my hat is off to her.
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Flamingo
Member
08-19-2003
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 3:58 pm
Amber wants God to buy her boyfriend a motorcycle? Is her daughter on her shopping list to God at all?
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Boberg
Member
10-04-2002
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 3:58 pm
I think she prays out loud in front of Jameka cause the other day Jameka started critiquing Ambers prayers and telling her how good she was getting at praying.. I am tell you the truth as wierd as it may seem.
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Cmist
Member
09-20-2005
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 3:59 pm
My understanding of the term "Bless you " means "God bless you" and has various explanations of why is it said but if goes back to ancient Greek times. Most of the explanations involve thanking GOd for protecting you from devel or death with other variations of these reasons. I just am confused because I thought Dick didn't believe in God. Perhaps he really does but not in the "church going way". If this is true he has a lot of company. Some of the best people I have ever known do not attend church regularly but live good, honest, charitable lives. Maybe there is more to Dick that meets the eye.
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Flamingo
Member
08-19-2003
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:00 pm
some people say bless you to be polite. I wouldn't over-analyze it.
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:01 pm
flamingo, her daughter gets to build a snowman with amber.
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:02 pm
i don't think dick doesn't believe in God, he doesn't believe in man made religion.
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Tresbien
Member
08-27-2002
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:03 pm
Dick has said he's an atheist. ETA: not sure if he was joking but he said it.
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Dbald
Member
08-04-2007
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:03 pm
well at least her nieces get to go to college
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Meggieprice
Member
07-09-2001
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:04 pm
They did not even have veto in Will's season DIck lol. HOH was the new concept that year.
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Laralyn
Member
08-04-2005
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:04 pm
Dick calls himself an atheist. However, he does seem to know the Bible. I think from the way he talks he believes in more of spiritual universe type of belief. And way back, people believed that the heart stopped when sneezing, hence the G-d bless you.
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Smartypants
Member
03-09-2007
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:04 pm
saying bless you or God bless you when somebody sneezes is a superstition..(in my opinion of course)... and it has evolved into a manners or etiquette type thing... I stopped saying it for a while (when someone sneezed) b/c I got on this "no more doing mindless superstitous things just b/c" kick..but then I realized everyone thought i was just rude so now I say it again..
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Meggieprice
Member
07-09-2001
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:06 pm
Anyone seen Zach today?
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Dipo
Member
04-23-2002
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:06 pm
Meggie he was talking about all stars.
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Smrtass
Member
09-11-2000
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:06 pm
Atheists can live good, honest, charitable lives. Not believing doesn't mean you don't have a moral compass.
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Tresbien
Member
08-27-2002
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:07 pm
Zach was outside a short time ago when they were on lockdown Meggie. He's napping now.
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Tamaracsb
Member
07-12-2007
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:07 pm
And see, as I child, I was told this about sneezing: Because a sneeze was the first sign of the plague in the 14th century, when people sneezed it was taken as being that they were sick and probably going to die Hence, 'God Bless You', now bless you.
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Lurknomore
Member
07-07-2001
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:17 pm
Remember all, regardless of what Dick believes NOW, he was raised in a Christian home, and isn't his Mom a Minister? And I would think there is a good chance he went to a Catholic school. Based on that early discussion w/Jam and Amber, he is very well educated and well read on Catholicism. I know he doesn't believe in organized religion, but something in the tone when once said he was an athiest made me feel it was said for effect. I forget what it was that made me feel this, and this is 100% speculation, but I think he says things for shock value, and I think he believes in something, just not organized religion and dogma. Sadly no one has engaged him in an intelligent religious conversation. I'd be curious what he has to say. He mostly said it when being challenged and to make a point. If I was there was I love to know what he believes in terms of Spirituality etc. Again, just a guess, but I'm thinking he has some belief system, just not church/Bible type. ETA forgot to say, to I tend to agree with Laralyn!! lol probably could have just said that and skipped the rest of the post hehe
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Cmist
Member
09-20-2005
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:20 pm
Thanks for all of the good opinons. I didn't mean to imply that atheists didn't live moral lives. I was just comenting on the difference between church going believers and those who believe in God but don't find it nessesary to attend church regularly.
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Dfng
Member
08-04-2005
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:20 pm
why is Jameka talking like Jess now. The up and down sing song get on my nerves way to talk.
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Zachsmom
Member
07-13-2000
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:22 pm
exactly lurk. i have said, out of all the houseguests, dick has the greatest understand of who and what God is.
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Kalekona
Member
06-12-2005
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:22 pm
The one thing i will say in the whole Dick is an Atheist discussion is he may call himself one but when speaking to Jameka about God he does not (or at least did not in the past) refer to God as "Your God" he would say "God" most atheists would not speak of Gos in that familiar way. They distance themselves from the entire concept. Just an observation I've made. He does know the Bible much better than Jameka does and his argument about religion was never that there was no God just that God wouldn't do things the way those in Organized Religion preach. And he respects Daniele's faith and His mothers to, to an extent with her i think there are resentment issues.
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Lucas
Member
07-01-2005
| Sunday, August 26, 2007 - 4:23 pm
Dick/Mother Theresa, both so giving... 
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