So many good lines here Patrick-555! I get disgusted by people and organizations that I ask prayer from who then try to scam me out of money through every conceivable means! Even Christian well-wishers promote scandalous businesses while I fight to live. Yesterday, a man said he was touched by my prayer request and forwarded it over to an organization in Jerusalem that takes prayer requests to the Church of the Holy Sep. I went there to submit a prayer but them found out it would cost me $15 to do so for EACH prayer!!! That is exactly what Jesus got mad at when at the Second Temple- the commerce going on as if it were a market place or currency exchange!!! Made me mad too. There are good people and bad people everywhere. But no one likes their e-mail given over to the African scammers, Euro lottery scammers, and even US Army scammers who either beg for money or want your checking acct number b/c they want to deposit millions in your name (rather to transfer all your funds out). As for Gnostics... never ran into any here in Cali. Here, it's Mormons, JWs, 7th Day Advents, and even some Scientologists! I remind them of Galacians 1 and politely shut the door.

I think the "Con" in the name says it all.

I thought that was what the Reformation was for. Anyone can address God directly, without the need to pay for intervention. I've heard of the Nigerian deposit scam. There used to be a life insurance scam. Someone would take out a policy, then fly to Sierra Leone or Liberia and "die". He would have a phony death certificate issued, and even print an obituary in a local newspaper and forward the whole lot to the insurance company. Those countries were considered too hazardous, so no investigators were ever sent to follow up. I attended a couple of the Gnostic lectures and listened to what my lady friend told me about them. Their doctrine seemed to be mostly contradictions of mainstream Christianity. There didn't seem to be any cult leader trying to get sex or money out of anyone. I still have no idea what they were up to. Have not been able to find any disgruntled ex-member sites, the way you can with Mormons, Catholics, Herbert Armstrong Church of God, or other religions. I recall seeing a TV exposé of an evangelist named Tilden or Tilton. His staff would open the envelopes with prayer requests and extract any checks or currency. Those without a donation went straight to the dumpster in the alley. Maybe Tilton went to the alley to pray over the dumpster, but I doubt it.

LOL Patrick! My excursions into romance have been less than fruitful too. Maybe I should write a parody about the psychopath I dated at age 19...

Patrick, I feel your pain. I can assure you that from my part what M&P write in our parodies is based on "I wonder what it would be like" rather than the more desirable "I remember what it was like"... To that end, one of our future releases shall be "Felling Bold" to the tune of Sting's "Fields Of Gold". I hope you catch it. It will be much more 'accurate Peregrin'. Unfortunately.

I have shared with Tommy Turtle that I feel a certain discomfort about some risqué or "racy" material. But your "Seasons in the Sun" was quite hilarious. There is some sort of a line I can't quite define but I know it when I see it. I'd like to hear a recording of "Pleasin' Was This Hon". I remember "Fields of Gold". I think it had bagpipes in it. Any song is better with bagpipes.

This gal was a member of the "Religion of the Month Club". Had, probably still has, the largest collection of New Age, religion, motivational, mystical, witchcraft, philosophical, self-help books in the state of Missouri. Filled every shelf in the house and stacked on staircases. A friend who writes music says that songs about happy romances don't sell nearly as well as ones about love gone wrong. Of course, my songs don't sell at all.

Actually quite poignant, esp. about being "Lonely Together", a topic that greater minds than yours or mine have written on, but it *would* make a good title switch from "Happy Together" by ... can't think of the band name right now... dang it .. .guess I'll have to look it up.

Loved "ATM - bankrupt". One of your best, Patrick. $555 -- sounds like you need them -- and *now* are you starting to see the advantages of dating sheep instead? ;)

I'd feel guilty about a liaison with a sheep, especially since that afternoon at the Greek restaurant. Great idea about the song by that 60's group, I forget their name, too. Ha, ha. "Imagine ship and crew, a rogue wave too, I "sink" about it day and night, on amiright, the Edmund Fitzgerald".

God ! That was good......All people want to believe in something, even if it's nothing....No donation for the information