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How Could I Ever Be Forgiven?

Paulos23

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Vehicular manslaughter is a kind of misdemeanor. It requires criminal negligence or violation of traffic safety laws. Typically an independent infraction or negligence is usually required.

Generally if you kill someone while not paying attention to the road (like putting on lipstick) that is negligence and can land you in jail.
 
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Generally if you kill someone while not paying attention to the road (like putting on lipstick) that is negligence and can land you in jail.

Well then it's a good thing the fellow, Gary, did not press charges and was forgiving, right?

But I see what you're saying:
Putting on lipstick is conduct by an individual which is not reasonable — that is, the individual did not act with the care and caution of a reasonable person in similar circumstances.
 
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Yeah, and most of the humiliation you suffer is selfinflikted.

No, I just think it's ironic that someone comes in here with such a cocky sn such as "pwnerer", then fails to "own" anyone. I calls 'em as I sees 'em.
 
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No, I just think it's ironic that someone comes in here with such a cocky sn such as "pwnerer", then fails to "own" anyone. I calls 'em as I sees 'em.
Dude, I would so pwn you. It's preordained. You couldn't touch me because I'd be invincible, but since you're an atheist you can't enter god mode.
 
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Due, as was stated before, the police would have shown up. If the did that, they would investigate, and find out the girl took her eyes off the road (assuming she didn't lie). At that point they would have booked her.

The story just doesn't have that much in the way of reality. Nor would it convince a rational person to convert. It is just to sappy.
 
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Pwnerererer,

You end up pwning yourself more than you do anyone else. I just wanted to point that out to you.

ROFL!

Yeah, and most of the humiliation you suffer is selfinflikted.

I think he's fabulous.

No, I just think it's ironic that someone comes in here with such a cocky sn such as "pwnerer", then fails to "own" anyone. I calls 'em as I sees 'em.

Yeah, this thread is silly. I'm mostly here for my own entertainment, and because I enjoy seeing Pwnerer snap at people.
 
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http://randyalcorn.blogspot.com/2007/07/more-on-international-christian-retail.html

According to this, there are pics of the woman who hit her. Turns out that she has a book deal, http://www.amazon.com/Completely-Hi...9627924?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191362771&sr=8-1, so she isn't forgiven for killing a woman because of reckless driving, but making money off the story.

 
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I snap at people like the Macho Man snaps into a Slim Jim.

Ohhhhhhhyeaaaaaaah.
HAHAHAHA. i must say your cockiness is as funny as sad, i'm not sure weither to laugh or cry... nah laugh

by the way nice name.. good luck winning any debates with a name like that
 
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It's not hard to come up with stories like this. They are more "inspired by a true story" than "true story" however. First you come up with the ending, the moral of the story if you will, that caters to your audience. Then you take some facts and some creative license, and organize them in such a way that they move from point A to point B...even if the events didn't happen in that order. It's a trick that all writers and story tellers learn to do.
 
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Wow. You get major props for the apropos linkage.

I just saw this story for the first time and had no idea she wrote a book. Maybe they mentioned it in my link but I didn't notice it.

It sounds like she was feeling really guilty. She almost killed herself out of guilt. If she is making money from this book I hope she uses it for a good purpose.
 
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HAHAHAHA. i must say your cockiness is as funny as sad, i'm not sure weither to laugh or cry... nah laugh

by the way nice name.. good luck winning any debates with a name like that

Cry for the n00bs I will pwn. Then laugh as I pwn them. I don't debate, but defeat.

By the Pwner of Gameskill, I am the Pwnerer.
 
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I googled the name of the woman she hit.
It comes up in a number of Christian sites, most of them promoting her book.

To be honest, the story does have a LOT of qustionable details. Why did it take the paramedics 45 minutes to get there? If the girl said, "I just struck a woman on a bike with my car! She's not moving!", I doubt they would take their time. They also wouldn't show up and say, 'We need to call a funeral home." They just bring them to the morgue. He doesn't press charges, but she walked? Completely free? If I hit a homeless man with no family, I am still held responsible - even if I am a minor.

But more than that, I don't even know what I am supposed to take away from this. Someone kills a man's wife, and he doesn't press charges, stating that, "It was her time. It's not your fault. Don't beat yourself up over this", etc.

It wasn't her time any more than it is "someone's time" when someone kills you. God doesn't take you. You are taken out of the world.

And we are supposed to be inspired by a man that forgave a careless teenager putting on lipstick for killing his wife? We are to see that as an act of forgiveness to aspire to? If someone stabs my partner, do I forgive him, and ask him to be set free, to show him forgiveness, and inspire him (and potentially release a killer into society?) Is it not forgiving to hold people accountable?

I'm just not clear of the point.
 
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Cry for the n00bs I will pwn. Then laugh as I pwn them. I don't debate, but defeat.

By the Pwner of Gameskill, I am the Pwnerer.
dude seriously go back to WoW, i don't think you are impressing anyone with your weaksauce game
 
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Dude, I would so pwn you. It's preordained. You couldn't touch me because I'd be invincible, but since you're an atheist you can't enter god mode.

I lol'd. Irl. But... not because it's funny funny, but because it's a sad funny.

HAHAHAHA. i must say your cockiness is as funny as sad, i'm not sure weither to laugh or cry... nah laugh

by the way nice name.. good luck winning any debates with a name like that



Cry for the n00bs I will pwn. Then laugh as I pwn them. I don't debate, but defeat.

By the Pwner of Gameskill, I am the Pwnerer.

I'm with WF on this. I didn't think this thread was serious to begin with.

dude seriously go back to WoW, i don't think you are impressing anyone with your weaksauce game

Ok.. RDG.. umm.. I know you didn't just dis WoW! I totally take back my " " now. A lot of people that play act like pwnererererer... some of us don't
 
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And there are the rest of us that just sit back with a sniper rifle and own you high elves and your silly magic till kingdom come.

Pwnerer, as much as I love video games and respect your stance, philosophy has no need of absoluteism (yes, I made up a word) such as yours.
 
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Ok.. RDG.. umm.. I know you didn't just dis WoW! I totally take back my " " now. A lot of people that play act like pwnererererer... some of us don't
lol sorry i know there are smart people on WoW should i say lineage 2 instead?
he talks like people in barrens chat, its scary

only 15 year-old l33t dudes talk like that..thank loki i'm not 15 anymore..
 
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