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To: Lane3 who wrote (1133)	9/17/2006 6:57:41 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 10087

I eat most of my meals out and I do a lot of people watching. It's always amusing to watch a Chinese waitress in a Chinese restaurant trying to communicate to customers in Spanish, for example, which I watched for a while one day a couple of weeks ago. A Taco Bell just opened near me. I have had no previous experience with Taco Bell so I've stopped by a few times for snacks. I live in a very ethnic area. I have noticed no ethnic majority at Taco Bell, certainly no majority of English speakers. Lots of this and that. The other day I watched several patrons--a middle aged Latino worker, an elderly white woman with a middle aged black woman who appeared to be a helper, and a pair of Indonesian men all swipe handfuls of those little packets of hot sauce on their way out. Today I watched two Muslim women, draped head to toe in black, there with a little girl, do the same thing. I think people are pretty much alike.

To: Lane3 who wrote (1133)	9/17/2006 6:59:51 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

That comes from this verse: Matthew 6 19"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. 20But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, Apparently our experience in the eternal world can be made richer or poor depending on how we conduct our lives here on earth. If one is saved through faith, then judgment re how one treats one's brothers would be irrelevant, or at best peripheral. And then there's this: James 2 20You foolish man, do you want evidence that faith without deeds is useless? But there have been generations of arguments about exactly what that one means.