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Domitan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:36 AM
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What will save George W Bush's soul?
I don't know how redeemable he is...but at least on a personal level for him, it will have to start with touching his grief over his sister's death. Remember the stories of his sister dying when he was a boy, and how he was forced by his family to suppress his grief. I believe it's shit like this that can help harden the heart. If he ever touches that part of himself, it will be a start for Shrubbie.
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:39 AM
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1. About 30 years in solitary might help.
After being sentenced by an International War Crimes court.
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swag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:39 AM
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2. Only eternal damnation and hellfire will save his soul.
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Gin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:42 AM
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3. only Goerge can save George...he was given huge opportunites...and he
took the low road....I would not want to be him under any circumstances...all the money in the world won't fix what he has to do for redemption.
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meti57b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:43 AM
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4. That would explain a lot. He was taught to not care about the suffering of
others, by his parents. I didn't know that happened.
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Domitan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:51 AM
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9. Here's the story
Barbara Bush is described by her closest intimates as prone to "withering stares" and "sharply crystalline" retorts. She is also extremely tough. When he was seven, Bush's younger sister, Robin, died of leukaemia and several independent witnesses say he was very upset by this loss. Barbara claims its effect was exaggerated but nobody could accuse her of overreacting: the day after the funeral, she and her husband were on the golf course.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0%2C12271%2C1033904%2C00.html
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meti57b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:56 AM
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12. Thank you. I hadn't known about that. It explains a lot
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TrogL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:45 AM
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5. Stand on the front steps of the Capital and confess
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:48 AM
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6. That assumes he has a soul
and judging by his actions and not his words i'd say his vacant in the soul department.
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mindem Donating Member (353 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:48 AM
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7. Save his soul?????
How can you save something you don't have in the first place??
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Domitan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:52 AM
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10. I believe we all have souls
Some are just darker than others.
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Auntie Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 12:04 PM
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17. His soul says..."Color me black." God says, "Sure...done."
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DemWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:51 AM
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8. The Jimmy Swaggert Perp Walk...
you know, where he stands on front of everyone and proclaims "I have sinned against you". Then go on to list his lies and misdeeds, and those of his administrations. That might do it, for a start...
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Auntie Bush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:55 AM
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11. Nothing! He's doomed! Dead as a door knob!
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no_hypocrisy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:58 AM
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13. "When a man looks into the abyss and there is nothing staring back to him,
at that moment a man finds his character. That is what keeps him out of the abyss."

From "Wall Street" - Hal Holbrook's great moment in taking Charlie Sheen to task for his moral (and legal) corruption.
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bacchant Donating Member (747 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:59 AM
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14. A small Tupperware container. n/t
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 11:59 AM
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15. he doesn`t have a soul
humanity was driven from him at an early age by his mother and we are now paying the price.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 12:00 PM
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16. Nobody!
He'll burn in Hell!
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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 12:05 PM
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18. When he as passed and is reincarnated
I sure God has plans for a future life. It will be full of things he needs to experience.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 12:32 PM
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20. A ghetto baby in Detroit,
Knowing his past life.
And don't forget him being drafted for the war his actions as president spawned.
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drdigi420 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 12:07 PM
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19. Nothing, his "soul" will cease as soon as he dies
just like the rest of us

Once the power is turned off (no more electricity from the brain), the "soul" dies, as it is just a collection of memories and electrical impulses, not some spiritual hogwash.

That said, Gov. Bush will never be able to atone for his sins in his own mind, and I'm hoping those demons haunt him until the day he ceases to exist.

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ET Awful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 12:37 PM
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21. All the money he made will never buy back his soul . . . .
to paraphrase Bob Dylan.
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Media_Lies_Daily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 12:38 PM
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22. Not a damn thing at this point...I hope he burns in Hell forever.
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devinsgram Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 12:39 PM
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23. He has a dark soul
and those are the ones you need to distance yourself from. They will try to bring you down to their level.
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CityZen-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 12:43 PM
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24. Bu$h*t Got No Soul
that Chimp does not have one bit of rhythm!
All seriousness aside, you have to have a conscience in order to have an operative soul. Let's face it people this Resident Evil has neither
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seabeyond Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 12:46 PM
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25. it is his to do
not my concern, he can do it outside of office
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 12:58 PM
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26. True repentance
I don't think this will be possible when he is still in office. He is much to caught up in power to change at this point. It would involve realizing that he was wrong about a lot, developing true empathy, significant work in the areas of peace, helping the needy, and/ or the environment, and giving a significant percentage of his wealth to these causes. This would prove to me that he was a forgiven person.
Really though, it is not up to us to judge anyone. Who knows who God forgives and saves? When I see people who have done bad things truly change, I am confident that if God forgives anyone, God has forgiven them though.
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 01:37 PM
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27. Here's a thought
Take away all his money. Give him an apartment in a lousy neighborhood of a large city. Give him a job at Wendy's flipping burgers (you know, a manufacturing job). Make the twins share a bedroom. Give Pickles a job at a laundry. Make them both go begging to social welfare agencies for help paying their electric bill. Make them have to choose between buying food and paying the rent. Let one of them get sick and see how much fun it is to try to navigate the REAL health care system. Let them see how millions of Americans who are NOT lazy and who are NOT stupid have to live.

That's what I'd ask for if I ever found a genie in a bottle.
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belle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 01:55 PM
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28. That's between him and his God. All I care about is getting him *out.*
Maybe the sting of losing will help him spiritually. Maybe not. But it'll certainly help the *rest* of us.
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greekspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 02:06 PM
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29. Gee...I am sure Bar's "beautiful mind" will think up something
After all, she is not wasting it thinking about the soldiers dying in Iraq for her son's dirty little war. At least she can put it to some good use.
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boobooday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 02:07 PM
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30. 100 years of emptying bedpans
For the sickest and weakest among us.

http://www.wgoeshome.com
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AngryLizard Donating Member (488 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 02:28 PM
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31. Unfortunately, I just don't care.
I just want him out of public life where I never, ever, ever have to see or hear from him again, except to hear what a LOSER he is.

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GoneOffShore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jul-31-04 02:33 PM
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32. Not being a believer in 'souls'
per se, I'm not worried about 'saving' *'s. I think an orange jumpsuit, some leg irons and a cellmate named Bubba would do him a world of good, however. It would make him think about the pain and suffering he's inflicted on the world.
But I doubt that even that would make him think. He is a IMHO a sociopath with no thought about the consequences of his actions.
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