On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 11:28 PM, geoff <[email protected]> wrote: > You do seem to have remarkable trouble with anyone questioning you.
Said a pot about a kettle. > You can > post all day about minutae and all power to you. But when you talk about > angelic free will and buy into the troll argument that began it, your > apparent intelligence fails you. Unlike you I don't think the topic is totally irrelevant or nonsensical, even though I am quite sure Ricardo intended it to be. > You get sucked into every trivial > irrelevancy that you feel you are an expert in (almost everything) yet when > someone wants to move a topic away from the irrelevant to the hugely > relevant, you object. A more natural positive direction to take this particular topic was the even more hugely interesting question of what it means to be made in the image of God -- which angels aren't, and actually gets to the root of what grace is all about, insofar as it gets to who God is. I tried to move it in that direction, but nobody here, least of all you, seemed interested. Oh well. > Did you not see that the opening post was an invite to > discuss an irrelevancy for the very purpose of denigrating the faith we both > hold? Right, and still you started the attacks on me, without even trying to comprehend my points. Just, "It's too much to read." > The reason I tried to moved it to Grace was to try and take a troll > post to a positive one. You simply tried to hijack the thread. Who hired you as arbiter of the relevant? > Congratulations. Your ego and arrogance won. Feel > pleased? Nothing won on this thread, least of all reason -- and you're the one who introduced pretty much all the discord and acrimony. Good on ya, mate. Buh bye. - Publius > Geoff Flight > General Manager > > Sustainable Resources Industry Training Pty Ltd > 58 Norrie Ave > Clovelly Park 5042 > P: +61 8 8277 6380 M: 0414 965 226 F: +61 8 8177 1290 W: www.srit.com.au E: > [email protected] > TAKE THE SURVEY! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/976V5JT > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Publius Maximus > Sent: Tuesday, 9 November 2010 9:42 AM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: Re: [OT] On christian mythology > > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 10:53 PM, geoff <[email protected]> wrote: >> I attack your posts mainly because you use a massive amount of words to >> confuse an issue. > > You attack my posts because you think you're smarter, and hate it when > my arguments prove otherwise. So you create a meme -- in the past, it > was that "everybody in the world disagrees with you", now, it's "you > write massive amounts of confusing text" -- to explain your > ineffectual nit-picking. > >> Take the subject of Grace. It is an inherently simple (and >> accessible) concept which you clouded by your many words. > > You try to make a topic that is about angelic free will about grace, > and so my comments on angelic free will you contend confuse the issue > of grace. > > Actually, you just object to my staying on topic and are bummed that > you were unable to change the topic by your own literary dysentery. > >> And if your mean >> 'angelic realms' as separate from the more general 'spiritual realm' then >> you'd be one of very few who deal in 'wholeness and healing' in this > manner. > > I mean them synonymously. I am still trying to stay on topic, recall. > >> >> You consider yourself superior on the basis of the volume of your words. > > No, I consider them superior because I actually construct arguments. > You wouldn't know modus ponens from a vas deferens. > >> So >> much of scripture and of grace and salvation is essentially very simple. > > But the subject was the nature of angelic will. Feel free to start > your own thread about grace and salvation. > >> Perhaps occasionally you could remember that. > > Geoff, you would do well to remember that other people are allowed to > talk about things you think are trivial, and you don't have to own a > third of the responses just objecting to the topic or how a particular > participant writes about it. > > - Publius > >> >> Geoff Flight >> General Manager >> >> Sustainable Resources Industry Training Pty Ltd >> > -- > > "It ought never to be forgotten, that a firm union of this country, > under an efficient government, will probably be an increasing object > of jealousy to more than one nation of Europe; and that enterprises to > subvert it will sometimes originate in the intrigues of foreign > powers, and will seldom fail to be patronized and abetted by some of > them. 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