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— go to most recent comments176 - Mary Reborn
So John Lennon says you have to learn to smile as you kill so you can be like the guy who lives on top of the hill.
John Lennon saw the world for what it was.
He did not believe in God.
He wanted peace.
John Lennon sang a song for me.
Let It Be and it really is about me.
I could not have said it better.
But John, answers were not in the Bible.
No, Yoko married to another goes for John.
And now, she squabbles over the money.
TISK TISK
And life is not a bowl of cherries.
177 - Mary Reborn
Like a song I sang while waiting out more misery in New Milford, Pa...I sang about waiting for that second chance...and in the arms of angels fly away from here. I was in a hotel room when I sang it. I sing often. People steal just often from me. I watch and I live with sinners and have my own list of sins. One was letting people step on me like a welcome to my fortune mat.
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So when I pray and signs and wonders happen afterwards, does that make me crazy? I am not crazy. Sorry to disappoint you. Most people who are really crazy have others in fear. I mean like wrapped so tightly, they can't utter a peep. I let you be yourselves...then I ask God for signs.
All of us need them.
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For John Lennon, he was that working class hero.
He was not a zero...in Yoko's eyes. He was bigger than God and he captured her heart. Alas, when Mark David Chapman heard a voice to kill him, he really did hear it. I know he did. As with Kennedy. I knew the command was given. I am Mary sent back and I hear God.
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So all you who have decided there is no God, I pity you. For as surely as I am on here now, that I asked God to make emailing possible and Al Gore took the machine I invented with God's help, there is a God. And I am not afraid and I know who I am.
181 - Mary Reborn
I want my cheese sandwich back.
Golden Palace has it.
Hey, world...wake up.
Smell the roses.
182 - Mary Reborn
I live with sinners. Karen Carpenter stole my songs but before another Carpenter could steal from me, I took the husband and had the kids that would have been mine if I had royalties for the songs taken from me. Take that Peggy Carpenter.
I will not let the Carpenters do me wrong again.
But oh well, God works in strange ways and so do I.
183 - Mary Reborn
As long as you keep doing me wrong world, you will be sorry for it. I am more like the gladiator mother than you know.
184 - Mary Reborn
Three hail Marys
1. What goes around, comes around
2. To repay you for wronging me
3. I get even
185 - Mary Reborn
For real laughs.
Meanwhile back on it's so good I just had to steal it farm.....
Way to go!
Keep racking it up...sky high.
Yeah, show the world you got one life to live.
186 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
So Mariah Carey gets a chance at motherhood. The great Gatsby of all time move makers. Al, where are you? I need to talk to you.
187 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
I called my Father in Florida to get school records of Michael Jackson. All he could think about was himself and wanted a list for himself of the songs Michael took from me before going back to Gary, Indiana. Sin is a rampant thing in America. The folly of law is that when it is corrupt, it serves no justice.
188 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
The ironic coding criminal justice. Yeah and they get a warm bed, food, gym, and social visits. HA! Call who? Protection by whom? Don't make me vomit.
189 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
The Exocism of Emily Rose is a classic example of the attempt to scare people into church attendance. Then you see, they are doing the same with me. I pray for miraculous photos, the real kooks try to claim them not knowing what is behind it all.
190 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Exorcisms do not reveal the problem going on to disturb the individual. I call it the domino theory. There were lots more involved into it. Who is running this God online blog? www.dumb.com as if we were children writing into Santa?
191 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Sure, you want to avoid ants, don't go to the ant hill. Same principle applies to trouble. Don't go walking into the den of thieves and liars and legions of war crazed and scientific fact presenters. You just may come out ticking like a bomb.
192 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Some how I keep hearing "there's a lot of nice girls out there" in my head. Going back to my plow huh? Proving you only live once? Oh jarhead, can't you see? So here it goes...sending proof to NBC studio in NY. Do I jive or is high five time? I know. Maybe the divine intervention of my timing eludes some of you.
193 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Let me see, like a Leon Russel song. Lady Blue...hey, I contacted Leon. Sure, loving me more and more lyrics. HA! Quite human I am and a human being living on a crazy planet. The sad guitar drama and Jimmi Hendrix could make me cry. Bird on a wire or am I just wired? Who made this black box? Oh, yeah...sure it wasn't the Masons?
194 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
My son Jesse is over seas in Afghanistan. Much as I am the flower girl, his Father is the pistol. You see now how the battle of souls goes and how God sorts us out. I refuse to fight or die. I fight my own battles. Oh, I forget, Jesus pray for me, Jesus fight for me. HA HA, true you know.
195 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Al Barger, did you kiss the ground? Is it Holy? Or will you come back with pin worms? I mean, let's get real here. I don't want no Blarney Stone or clovers to trust in. I am really fed up with fudge covered liars. HA, they exude you know what. Oh fudge!
I think it's kind of like that brown covered crab on MSN. Yeah, a new sauce?
Maybe we will have to get use to it. Raping and taking what we can get from the Earth and from each other. No sermons today please. I got a manual at birth that says if you can't get out the crib, it's their fault.
196 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
DO NOT ANGER THE BEARD.
Chazbot! Nor laugh too hard at Family Guy mutterings. I get it. Green eyed lady/monster and go getter or Jude, did I say that? I mean, it's all relative. CUZ and maybe the Simpsons and the Sawyers are related and maybe hey blood is thicker than marriage licenses. Rednecks of America, unite under one flag. When did they unite? HA HA, never surrender in that case. Let's all jam the internet and cause a crack.
197 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Hey Al, black holes...they are not like black moles. I mean maybe they did get it mixed up. They put their ears up close you know, it may be fuzzy. Too close, back off. HA, I am not sure why Bourne Identity makes the grade. If it were up to me, the song don't bring me down would be a number one hit.
198 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Legacy? Legions of liars perform mental message. Al, do you not know that there are symptoms that can be another cause? Hey, I shudder to think about leaving my care up to those who were TRAINED to think the way they think. Sure, Dr. Auth here where I am has her trained brain giving me pills I did not need, did not work, and neither were they going to. She loves the get a second opinion method and may she suggest someone?
199 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Who would marry a corpse bride and live to tell it? HA HA
Al, please, the Charlie the tuna jokes are so over.
We all played musical chairs with love like picking out tuna and that's the bottom line. What have you? That's what they want to know.
It's a love affair for the bottom line.
Sickening really.
I thought you can't live with them and you can't shoot them was my line!
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What was I doing all that time? I was painting. www.masslive.com
and see one I have up for sale? Sure, I did over 40 framed works, maybe 5% will sell. Maybe I am stuck with more paintings than I have walls.
201 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
The beard has powers? Al,if your fish tank smells, can you please clean it? If life gets hectic, can we slow it down? I mean, National Pound Cake day? Oh GAWD...are we a nation of pay attention to us on a grand scale? I think I have more to pay attention to than would be masters of the universe if I let them. Cough, cough. Hey beard, are you sure if SOUP on TV means anything?
202 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
While I was taking a time out, Keith reminded me that men have feelings too. I was going to make all men take an exam to pass fit to be a human before he told me this. OK. Do I accept his theory? Men do have feelings and perhaps, just maybe, I overlooked that fact?
203 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Oh powers that be! Glory be and the creek does rise. Al, I am searching for the holy beard? All this time and I did not know it? Oh, yeah, possibly it was my hat. Hats off to the lady. Pass the hat/ what ever! Now, you want a test for sanity? If tomorrow never comes, how will you know?
204 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
So this brings me to Shocking Videos? Hey, I thought I might be on that TV show. Talk about tremors. Then I told myself, hey I am not on death row either. You know why? HUH HUH? Maybe, just maybe...God saw a little Cain in me. He raised hell but he lived to tell it. OH yeah, I know, laugh all you want. The next round of drinks will not be on the house.
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The law people? Like on Emily Rose and Laura Tinney says the law does not like religion above the law? Hee haw, you jackasses. People have always been a stick in the mud waiting for the rain to wash them clean. Gasp, and I did say that and you can quote me on that.
206 - Irvin F Cohen
Dear Blogocritters of Blogocritterland,
Sorry to rain on your parade, but this has got to be the sorriest litany of puffery, excessive adulation and self-importance, inconsequential fluff and intellectual masturbation I have ever read.
Albeit, of course, outside of 90 plus percent of the American media, in particular, the vast majority of the lib qua commie-lib/simp qua useful idiot liberal progressive, commie and Marxist loving world of what passes for journalism and high culture, etc..
Culture? High or low? I take it this is all an exercise in low, as in de profundisimmis, whose basic, literal Latin translation is "from the very depths." But since it is a superlative, one could also reasonably embellish it as "the very farthest or deepest depths" as well.
But do feel free to hate me [edited].
207 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Al, religion makes men build buildings. I don't know if it makes sense to most.
Like hair coloring makes your hair look younger, not you. Hey, what are we doing? Preaching abundant life or abundant bullshit? I mean absolutes or no absolutes? The judges don't know God's voice? What are they doing judging?
208 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Oh dear me, comment more. I love to see how you backfire. cyber space zapping dollars critters? Sure, maybe it's magic, maybe it is a play on words, maybe take my advice and stay home until you feel better. Save a buck or a thousand.
209 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Sell it or tell it to the hand but to my mind's eye, it is all the same of how family is not you or I or even the word but a top hat of pointalism and focalize the truest of assholes.
210 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
If John Lennon says there is magic in the air, I mean, can that be detected by the average Joe? Where can you find reason? Is it the sky changes colors to make me smile? Or is it go to shark waters and get your hands on experience minus the hands within five minutes? Sure, go home with clean underwear. I dare you!
211 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
See, this is not for the meek, not for the faint of heart, not for the outsider looking in to comment on. This is about the real witnesses to miracles, the sure fire way to pray, and hey, who asked you?
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Obama accepted dirty money from Michael Jackson and how long will it be before I get the justice I have coming? Oh is it because I am white?
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Thus the what's in your wallet mentality wins again huh? Sure, fancy cars give you wings not God. It has nothing to do with God and who needs blisters on a long road to Hell? I know. I get it. The pope puts an M on his coffin when I prayed if you can hear my prayer, put an M on your coffin. Yeah, who is full of it? You are America. You and your so called notion a nation under God. HA, I see the truth.
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Danny Glover gets dusted after thinking of a way to go after Predator 2 with dust or nitrogen. So let's see how many ways to slice and dice abundant life and toss it to the wayside? What of time capsules and the evidence? I shall bury them in many places and people will unearth them to see how Christianity fared in an evil world.
215 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Oh yeah, on my turf now. Wanna play like fear.net? Duration...I am ready for the duration. Second wind and here we go. No time like the present.
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Oh I shall tell the people of the future of the false church, oh yeah...God told me first. Then, I will tell them of learning how to pray when it got down to the nitty gritty. I shall show them the miracles that happened in film, online, in front of people, and I will not let them forget me. You say self love but I was selfless for a long time. You speak out your ass whoever you are. So the way it stands see, is that people who were on top...get exposed for HOW they got there. The high shall be made low. Oh, don't get dusted now. I mean it, I want to sneeze achoo.
217 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
To those who love me, yeah, really love me. This is not like an interview with Stockard Channing. I do not do it for the nookie. I am not on here so the same stupid high minded men who are really about sin, try to take aim at my fortune and my other attributes. Sure, why don't you scrape out a living? Sure, why don't you put my face on Mt. Rushmore? Let's tell America about the government coming because of the virtuous woman who was smart and lifted many from poverty. Yeah, count on me. Why don't you just wrap this up in a neat little duty filled day and sit on it Potsies.
218 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Time capsules, great ideas! Wonder how they will react when they say oh the last days and why people went bizerko on each other and how they were greedy and so so lost. Yeah, the last days when man has made his planet given to him by God and seemingly a man's world...a place where some make it and some don't and the rules get broken and made for personal agendas. Top that one.
219 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
So while you are bringing the world to tears with your asswipe remarks there bud, why don't you find a dinosaur still living in Jurassic Park and make a saddle. I want to see you portray how mankind evolved.
220 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Yeah, I thought so. Be content to sit at your desk and hammer time yourself to the bitter end. Like on Gladiator, the time to go...when both are fighting. Looks like someone has to make the announcement. You first? Ha, show us how brave you are.
221 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
You know it's funny how people are. You can hear a bird call and say, oh that's a Red Winged Blackbird. You hear someone sing my songs and you say their names and not mine. Can you tell me why? Is success so important that your gratitude is not held in high esteem? Right, you will die with a big tombstone and procession and a shelf for your books and walls for your awards. How great thou art!
222 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
I have mailed NBC proof of who that Mary is John Lennon sang about whispering in his ear. It was me, I sang the 64 song in front of him while he was there in Dunedin, Florida. He was only one of many that sang songs of mine. Ask yourselves, if it is worth the aggravation to point fingers at me and start trouble with me?
223 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Are you spooked easily Al? I mean by lights going off and on by themselves?
224 - Mary Reborn/Catherine
Being afraid of the dark? Ha, maybe a kind spirit is only reminding you to turn on a light!? People rant about so much, a dumb ass on tv just now talking about flying objects. You know what America? Don't give those twits a minute of your time. You would think that ghostly activity would not bother you. Is God in control or not?
225 - Mary reborn literally
Blackmail...and the world is full of that crap! Spying for the fun of it? I think not. If you advertise, the word gets around but hey, then keep it to yourself. The world is still arguing over rights to be bad right? This ought to record something...ugh. Maybe we've said enough.