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— go to most recent comments76 - Mary Reborn
Stranger yet are why are the signs in America and not in the HOLY LAND?
77 - Mary Reborn
You should be thinking about other Biblical characters who went through ordeals and came out smelling like a rose. Albeit, I smelled the roses and so will you.
78 - Mary Reborn
My song, Stop And Smell The Roses that I sang aloud in Tampa,Florida and a woman was in her back yard as I walked through the alley way to my Grandma Reynolds place on Branch Ave. Oh yeah, you all think you know but you don't know.
79 - Mary Reborn
So enough stupid remarks already and show some respect.
80 - Mary Reborn
Al Barger said himself he prayed but did not know if God was really listening. So if anything from this, he can see the miracles of others who know God is listening and doing great miracles these days for our sakes. Some of us stay aloof or lukewarm because nothing amazing ever happens. Some of us, our cups runneth over.
81 - Mary Reborn
About dogs on leashes or ties...there is a Saint Bernard near by that I do feel sorry for being tied and walked very seldom. I sang the song bless the beasts and the children by the way too but like I said, I have enemies of God in a country that is supposedly blessed. HA, not so.
We have more crime than is reported or known about. We have more sadness than we admit and we are not that great. Shame the stupidity of those who do not see. Open your eyes!
82 - Jet
"Mary" I may have lost most of my faith during my "ordeal" but your transparent act is blasphemy or worse trying to pass yourself off as anything other than a pityful human trying to gain attention and respect you don't deserve.
83 - Mary Reborn
You are pathetic beings. I rise above in pictures because I cannot stand it here. Liars, theives, seducers, and the true blasphemers. I prayed for miracles. I am not lying. I sang the songs that were stolen as I caroled as a child. I am a child of God.
As long as there's Christmas, I truly believe
that the love and the caring will go long past
Christmas Eve.
So you are shameful who say things about a person you do not know.
84 - Mary Reborn
Go to hell who ever you are and when you get the chance...stay there.
85 - Mary Reborn
I do not have patience for this nonsense.
Slander or gossip is a sin.
So before you make complete asses out of yourselves, do me a favor. Shut up.
86 - Mary Reborn
So in your ignorance and shame JET...do it.
I taught people how to sing lovely songs.
I am not evil and I deserve far more good credit than I got.
87 - Mary Reborn
I say that with conviction that you are a trouble maker. Again, you were not there, I was. You make up lies, I do not. I prayed for the miraculous photo that shows me/ Mary rising above on the planet and not in Heaven because people say that I am in Heaven when I am not. The photo clearly shows this and was predicted and told would come out by me in session. [Personal attack deleted by Comments Editor].
88 - Mary Reborn
Miracles happen due to my prayers. Thus, God is on my side.
89 - Mary Reborn
I am sure that a priest coming up to me in Pa, saying you know how to pray, so pray did not think he was talking to a derranged person and certainly knew I have the faith. The miracles that happened, the priest was witness to as well as the Dallas Corrections of a man who was in need of reminders that God is watching him.
So JET stop running your stupid fool mouth and grow up.
90 - Mary Reborn
Yep, you are a trouble maker, I just looked at your URL.
However; ahem, looking at mine, you first see a dove. Interesting...
so do me a favor Jet Gardner...compute what you need to say with some backing behind it.
I will not back down.
91 - Mary Reborn
First off Jet, you made some blunderous errors in your comments on your own URL. Do not generalize. We are watching you run your damned mouth.
92 - Mary Reborn
Who are we? The ones that are really in prophecy Jet. You will find out who WE are.
93 - Christopher Rose
Jet, you should have learned the futility of engaging with people like Mary by now. There is no point at all in attempting to communicate with her mania...
94 - Mary Reborn
The faithful are not disruptive and they do not cause trouble for others.
95 - Mary Reborn
Alas, the last of the good ones is still here.
96 - Mary Reborn
You hold no candle compared to me and God knows that.
97 - Mary Reborn
Do you follow prayer policy? OR
Do you follow your own istincts?
98 - Mary Reborn
People around the world have miraculous photos that were told would come out by random ones.
You can't handle the truth and you act like bafoons trying to figure it out on your own accords.
99 - Mary Reborn
Mania does not have dates, times, places, witnesses.
Assholes.
The ones who cannot be talked to are the loudest or the snottiest or the meanest to ones who are standing by with the wait and see attitudes.
Ask The Baldasty family who heard God tell them about me.
How I said what would you do if Jesus came to your house and they laughed but then the doorbell rang several times and no one was there. Nope, nothing wrong with it. I said it again and the doorbell rang later after being checked.
Your ought to be more mindful of ones who really know the score.
100 - Mary Reborn
You just keep watching stupid Sci-fi when the real deal is sitting right here.
101 - Mary Reborn
Note that if I was Satanic, most likely I would not be so GOD talkative. Note that if I was out to be famous, why go to the common folks? Note that if you think you are so smart...hey, wisen up, I took psychology and I am not stupid about mental illnesses. Note that I have already been analyzed and given the clear. Thanks to the money hungry assholes that occupy this country that is, I had to suffer on their accounts.
102 - Mary Reborn
I had gone through a nasty divorce folks is why I saw counselors. I was very ill after having a third c-section. It was not what you thought it was and kindly shut the hell up.
103 - Mary Reborn
So when we are living with LEGIONS of liars and seriously screwed up people, I advise you to think about some that are left and don't like strife and want to serve God but cannot due to the likes of those legions.
104 - Mary Reborn
You are not welcomed to say anything off the top of your heads.
105 - Al Barger
Jet sez to MRL "your transparent act is blasphemy or worse trying to pass yourself off as anything other than a pityful human trying to gain attention and respect you don't deserve."
Jet, it's not blasphemy or worse if she believes it - or if it's true, which we wouldn't necessarily know. Any real prophet would certainly SOUND crazy.
But I particularly do not appreciate your spiteful and hate nonsense about "pitiful" people who want "respect you don't deserve." Speak for yourself there [Personal attack deleted by Comments Editor].
106 - Mary Reborn
Maybe when Al sorts out all the facts and has two accountable people to represent them, he can set up a nice photo op on his features and you can all eat crow for rudeness to me. I would not come on here to appear unworthy of comment or worthy of Jet's rudeness comment. How very unsavory of you Jet to make a rash utterance when at the foot of the master is his hand maiden who has waited long enough to tell the world what needs to be told and soon, Al Barger, will have note worthy attention to the miraculous photos from my own private collection and none were falsely produced and none were sold and none are to be viewed with contempt or mistrust. I did not ask God for proof so you could kick dirt in my face.
107 - Mary Reborn
Christopher Rose...
You had better make wiser choices in your life and watch who you associate with. Don't believe Harry Potter movies about hearing voices. The Bible depicts truer sense of the meaning to it.
108 - Mary Reborn
Maybe you should ask my ex mother -in- law about the time I said I am praying to lose ten pounds in one day. Awe, you're crazy she told me. Oh really? Then why did she see with her own two eyes that I lost ten pounds in one day? Nothing wrong with that scale mind you. Just a bunch of dim witted unbelieving semi-sane people running around trying to act like they know. You need to take your own medicines and leave us alone.
109 - Mary Reborn
Brain washed little robots filling a demand...make people crazy who are not crazy and live high off the land. Go after them zealots, go after them fools, write them down as no counts, and seriously unloved and rate them like ghouls. Oh yes, go after essentrics, go after ones who stand out, go after the plain talkers of which you know nothing about. Go after them, do it, you'll even get paid and then watch out cause Cathie is going to spray you with RAID
110 - Mary Reborn
Oh did I forget to tell you, this is a raid? HA!
Al, get those pictures together and be a real nice guy about it.
I am sure eyes will be on your blog magazine like eyes on a potato.
111 - Christopher Rose
Mary, you're right, I should avoid the obsessed and the deranged. Maybe people who take either Harry Potter, the Bible or other works of fiction seriously too...
112 - Mary Reborn
So you want to size us all up to a one size fits all? Try getting to know me. I've been there - done that, been there and back again fellow. So I go to see your URL, BINGO! How did I know that you had some overt reason for going for broke if you had to but it was worth it to you to antagonize me? Oh I do. First off, let me comment on your strategy. It sucks. huh huh it does big time kahuna. Now, let's get back to Harry Potter. I did not even want my kids watching that at first but hey it was on cable and now I have to watch at my leisure. Still, I am not one to sit back and let the world take one last stab at me. Oh no, not this one. This one will not go quietly. Oh yes, I was born 1958 so I talk in modern slang poor valley girl talk. That does not mean I cannot write with the best of them. You fail to know that my real life story inspired other TV shows, movies, books, and maybe when you get yourself and your life together, you may as well be one I have reached effectively. I won't give up on you just yet. You can't catch fish with peanut butter and jelly just because you like it Opie. So let me start off with how you became GAY. I really want to know at what point and time you decided that life was direly unpopular and not going your way.
113 - Mary Reborn
Oh by the way, I have a gay brother.
114 - Mary Reborn
I am the only child who was born like this. I answered the doctor what my name is, I just said Mary. NO LAST NAME and for good reasons. You see, my Mom was in love but her parents made her marry someone with good standing and was at college. I may not even be his child. Her then lover came to claim me as a kid. I do not come from a perfect world but I come from another lifetime. What was to transpire after I said my name is Mary when I got my mother's attention was that God sent me back. This was while I was still in diapers and by the way, my Mom denounced God and so she was totally perplexed why her child was born like this.
115 - Mary Reborn
Al Barger does not have to listen to the incredible but the credible and he kept asking for more so I gave him more. It's not about me not being born like this because I was born like this but that I came on his blog about the miracle of the sun prophecy because I am the woman of the prophecy. As I lived, signs and wonders came and Al Barger will get that together but right now he has to sort all that out. I did not just send a few things you see. It goes that I have been working on this my whole life since birth. You will see the miraculous photos with your own eyes and hopefully he will caption what it was about at the time correctly. This is not an easy subject to talk about...reincarnation. However; I am not the only one born like this.
Just because it happens to be the miracle of the sun prophecy doesn't mean that I am full of it.
I lived in Tampa, Dunedin, Clearwater, and moved up north. I am not hiding anything. Al Barger will get this feature done when he has all the facts and we are waiting on someone whose family saw the actual occurence to make a call. He is standing by. You wait and see cause the incredible happens. Then common changes altogether doesn't it?
116 - Mary Reborn
I am not going to throw darts at you Jet but our preacher gave us a sermon once about hitting the mark of excellence and not the mark of the beast.
I attended churches, went to Bible camp, sang in the choir, did charity drives, and I did my own thing until one day...a very bad man who claimed to hate Christians decided he would start killing them and he came after me. Now you want to talk about haters? Go ahead, but I've been down that road and I am not going down it again.
117 - Mary Reborn
Saying all gays are nice people may not be correct either. I think people are seeking some kind of acceptance and security is what I think and assurance that they feel actually loved by another human being. However Jet, to throw away God would be like you buying ice cream in a five gallon bucket and you don't know how to take it, so you waste it. Maybe in smaller increments you can handle what you will see when Al gets this done. For the reporter asks for the facts, asks questions, gives the facts. One like yourself, just blurts out some defensive remark and truthfully, you don't know how you hurt others because you are the one who is hurting.
118 - Mary Reborn
God does have so much love to give us if we will just accept it in good faith. Too many people forget to pray or think too little of FAITH to pray. Normal is not just a setting on the washer. There is normal. I see Jet as being the one to take what I dish out but not too heavy cause he is at some point in his life where the stress of life has been impartial and you know Jet, I can't make it any clearer for you. To not trust in God, well, it just is a waste of your life. Once you make that decision to trust, your life will bring on a life of rewards and not a life of its own.
I will hope that you learn next time to refrain from treating me like I am inhuman also, have no inkling of reality, and am on here to get attention. Poor you. I have more purpose to life than just me. God gave me purpose and God gave me back my sanity when people all around me were losing theirs.
119 - Mary Reborn
So normal/regular and when you come across to someone like me who has the courage to step up to the world and tell it like it is, you should have at least the courtesy to pay attention Jet. For at six years old, I had to pray to "be like them but that I would overcome". Many of us shall sing the final song "We Shall Overcome" but we will sing with tears of joy. See this is not a joke to us about salvation. The Lord is not some whimsical character of whom we cannot depend on.
I know what mean spirited people are Jet. They caused me to become like them and disabled me.
I suffered.
120 - Mary Reborn
I mean it's not like saying do you belive in taking vitamins? Hey, Jet, Bryan Austin of Montrose, Pa was THERE when I said, I was not born normal like you and God will show you my color blue shortly, do not be afraid and the whole room lit up blue. This takes love and compassion to do what I am doing. Do not take me for some conjurer. I have seen enough of what is going on and now it's my turn to finish the mission.
121 - Mary Reborn
So mania cannot have witnesses or times and places Jet so pardon your very rude and uncalled for remark and Christopher Rose...why don't you contact Pete Rose who also witnessed a miracle at the Montrose Inn in Montrose, Pa and ask him about the lady who said an earthquake will happen now and one did and there was no reports of one and I was at work all day besides that. Do not mess with me because you will be sorry.
122 - Mary Reborn
Don't give me that oh the big Daddy image of God right Jet/ oh but I will. Because when Jesus was talking about his Father in Heaven, he was not kidding. When the miracles happened around me, the story had to come out because people were trying to fill in the blanks and it was not making sense. So, when you finally get your mind to concentrate on real life stories Jet, then you can say oh boy, what was I thinking? Cause I am about to reveal what I was thinking and what happened to this little baby born speaking. Project being born to parents who no longer believe in God and yet they produce a little girl who bubbles over about God. Yeah, odd isn't it?
123 - Jet
dementia must be so embarrassing. I left at noon to go to a doctor's appointment and got back at 5PM, so you've been talking to yourself for hours.
Al, so self-rightous, typical of you.
If you want to believe this poor soul is Mary Reborn, that's your affair, and your personal attacks on me (whatever it was that was deleted) mean absolutely nothing to me.
I respect only those who respect me.
124 - Jet
Sorry Mary, I've been gone six hours, so this very odd conversation with me is all in your head, along with all your other false prophecies
125 - Jet
How did this deranged fool hijack this website all day and have an imaginary conversation with me?