What has happened to the God of love?

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_JAK
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Such a Good Laugh Nehor

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The Nehor wrote:
marg wrote:Nehor, JAK asked you questions about your claims. To be taken seriously, you have the burden to respond with something greater than vague rather meaningless responses, in order to warrant that your claims have some validity.

JAK has been attempting to take you seriously but that's hard to do. Rather than appreciate this you've not responded with intellectual honesty.

Of course your question on JAK's mental state was not addressed. It's called an ad hominem fallacy. It's employed as a diversionary tactic to divert attention away from the main argument at hand, in this case your claims to God, and onto something else, in this case the person you are in discussion with.

It's interesting that YOU recognize the claim of "seeing dead people is evidence for God" is a joke, but you fail to recognize the "joke" in the rest of your claims which you do take seriously.


Why? In the past I've described the Spirit in detail. JAK called it emotional response. Why share it again so I can be villified. My question on JAK's mental state was not an irrelevant tangent. If for some reason he is incapable of having the same experiences as mine that would make him a very biased source. Akin to a blind man trying to share his personal hatred of the color orange. I will assume you're evasion is due to my guess being correct and that JAK can have no say in matters he is unable to experience unless he can avoid evading the point and answer it.

Seeing dead people is evidence for God. While saying it that way was a joke it is also true. Refute away. How did I see dead people? No drugs, no altered emotional state, no extreme tiredness. Have fun. As evidence for my claim I cite my own testimony above. To show that I am not unique I recommend reading the accounts of Peter, James, John, Joseph Smith, Wilford Woodruff, and that guy who saw his dead wife and child while crossing the plains.

By the way, I like the name, "Nehor the Evader". Has a great sound to it. Might ask Shades to make that my name.


Nehor stated:
In the past I've described the Spirit in detail.


A false statement. If accurate, link me directly to it or quote/restate.
Or, I suppose this is a joke. Ha, Ha.

Nehor stated:
JAK called it emotional response.


False. I asked you to distinguish between emotion and your claim of spiritual. And you admitted that you could not do it.

Nehor stated:
My question on JAK's mental state was not an irrelevant tangent. If for some reason he is incapable of having the same experiences as mine that would make him a very biased source. Akin to a blind man trying to share his personal hatred of the color orange. I will assume you're evasion is due to my guess being correct and that JAK can have no say in matters he is unable to experience unless he can avoid evading the point and answer it.


More joke I assume since you said your entire post was a joke earlier.

If not, it’s irrelevant to the issues at hand. You make claims and fail to provide any evidential support for the claims. A joke or a diversionary tactic -- it makes no difference.

The burden of proof for your claims lies with YOU. You offer nothing and admit you cannot offer clear, transparent, open to objective review evidence for your claims.

Claims absent reasoned evidence are without merit.

Nehor stated:
Seeing dead people is evidence for God. While saying it that way was a joke it is also true.


A self-contradictory statement. I asked you directly about the claim, and your response was to say you laughed all the way through because your post was a joke.

Let’s see you demonstrate how you are sincere in your posts.

Nehor stated:
No drugs, no altered emotional state, no extreme tiredness. Have fun.


A defense against no challenge. No one attempted to claim that you were on “drugs” etc. It’s an irrelevant sentence. Or, Oh I see, it’s another joke. Ha, Ha, Ha. Great humor, Nehor. We are having “fun.”

Nehor stated:
As evidence for my claim I cite my own testimony above.


GM tested GM cars against the competition and found GM cars superior to the competition.

Ha, Ha, Ha. More humor, Nehor. You are your own support for your own claim. Ha, Ha, Ha. That is such a good joke, Nehor. You are so funny!

Nehor stated:
To show that I am not unique I recommend reading the accounts of Peter, James, John, Joseph Smith, Wilford Woodruff, and that guy who saw his dead wife and child while crossing the plains.


Irrelevant to the questions before you. Parroting religious myth is no help to you. No transparent, objective review and confirmation -- just a claim absent evidence. Oh, I forgot, you’re joking. Ha, Ha, Ha. I get it now -- you made a funny. I must lighten up as you demonstrate your incapability to address a call for evidence.

This is no evidence, it's religious propaganda. But I’m sure it’s funny, so I’ll just keep laughing. I'll keep you company laughing.

Nehor stated:
By the way, I like the name, "Nehor the Evader". Has a great sound to it. Might ask Shades to make that my name.


Whatever whimsical, mindless metaphor that flips your feet, Nehor.
Ha, Ha, Ha. Maybe you could be called the funniest man on the bb -- (well man is an overstatement).

You’re such a good laugh.

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Thanks JAK, your post was funny too. However I'm curious as to what I am if man is an overstatement. You better not say woman or the feminists will descend in droves. :)
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Keep Laughing

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The Nehor wrote:Thanks JAK, your post was funny too. However I'm curious as to what I am if man is an overstatement. You better not say woman or the feminists will descend in droves. :)


Oh, it’s all a joke -- just keep laughing. It suits your level.

JAK
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The Nehor wrote:Thanks JAK, your post was funny too. However I'm curious as to what I am if man is an overstatement. You better not say woman or the feminists will descend in droves. :)


Very true!

Your training in the Goddess suite has served you well.

;)
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Re: Keep Laughing

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JAK wrote:
The Nehor wrote:Thanks JAK, your post was funny too. However I'm curious as to what I am if man is an overstatement. You better not say woman or the feminists will descend in droves. :)


Oh, it’s all a joke -- just keep laughing. It suits your level.

JAK


I just broke Level 13 and got 7th level spells :)
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liz3564 wrote:
The Nehor wrote:Thanks JAK, your post was funny too. However I'm curious as to what I am if man is an overstatement. You better not say woman or the feminists will descend in droves. :)


Very true!

Your training in the Goddess suite has served you well.

;)


I didn't say men weren't superior, just that he better not say it. I tend to think men are superior to women in some ways but then women can make me stand in awe of them in so many others.
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The Nehor wrote:
liz3564 wrote:
The Nehor wrote:Thanks JAK, your post was funny too. However I'm curious as to what I am if man is an overstatement. You better not say woman or the feminists will descend in droves. :)


Very true!

Your training in the Goddess suite has served you well.

;)


I didn't say men weren't superior, just that he better not say it. I tend to think men are superior to women in some ways but then women can make me stand in awe of them in so many others.


Neither is superior to the other. We're equal. Men and women have different strengths and weaknesses that balance each other out.
;)
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liz3564 wrote:Neither is superior to the other. We're equal. Men and women have different strengths and weaknesses that balance each other out.
;)


That is a better way of saying it.
"Surely he knows that DCP, The Nehor, Lamanite, and other key apologists..." -Scratch clarifying my status in apologetics
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The Nehor wrote:
liz3564 wrote:
The Nehor wrote:Thanks JAK, your post was funny too. However I'm curious as to what I am if man is an overstatement. You better not say woman or the feminists will descend in droves. :)


Very true!

Your training in the Goddess suite has served you well.

;)


I didn't say men weren't superior, just that he better not say it. I tend to think men are superior to women in some ways but then women can make me stand in awe of them in so many others.


In what ways?

Nehor,

I didn't realize this thread had morphed into a "holy ghost" thread.

I have "felt" things that I can't explain. I wish I had an explanation for these things. Sometimes I do believe I have an explanation. Then I consider that perhaps I'm wired the way I am to know God. Not that my brain just "feels" God, but that I was made specifically in this way to "know" God.

I do feel things. Not much anymore because I shut it off and am scared of being overcome with the sensation. I used to seek God, or what I thought that was because I, to be honest, liked the high it gave me. I thought I felt God when I was a young girl wandering around in Japan. I had no religion to tie God to. I just "felt".

I read a bit of Book of Mormon a few months ago and had a distinct experience. This may very well be that I was in a state of extreme mental anguish and wanted to feel something. I didn't recognize feeling that way at the time, but it is quite a possibility. I felt as though my eyes lost focus and a crowbar smacked me across the forehead. I looked at the words again and even contemplated that they were written in such a way as to bring confusion to the reader. That is rather ridiculous but my first thought was to look to a sensible reason for my reaction to these words. I was told by some this was the holy ghost and others were startled by this. There were no warm fuzzies for me. :)

Anyway, I think it doesn't matter what you attribute your "feelings" to. If you are a happy, kind person it doesn't matter to me.

I wonder why it does to others.
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Back to THE question:

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What ever happened to "The God Of Love?" Some interesting responses... Unfortunately many base themselves on the reality of "God of love', while unfortunately others base their response on the unreality of "God" of anything... Making a meeting of minds next to immpossible. As i see it from the sidelines--to this point. If this thread hasn't "morphed"... Nehor said, a few pages ago, into which i'll inject inbold:

... God does most of the work. RM: Like, make for rain and sunshine? I just show up for the buffet. RM: Do you mean that produced by "God's...work"??? The accusation of intellectual honesty doesn't really ring true since you are asking me to deny some of my experiences and favor the established consensus of the scientific community as the supreme method of discovering the way the world works. RM: What means of discovery do you employ? For those of us who do attribute human progress to the Sciences where are we wrong in doing so? I can't do it, I've done enough experiments on my own to know what does and does not work. RM: Will you please share the experiments, and your findings with us?



Nehor, i'm not trying to be disrespectful here, but you are not presenting a convinceing argument to others not of you mind-set. To those who are in your camp, i'm sure you have a "cheering section" too. Is it so hard to see the similarity between your current "reasonableness" and that of those primitives who cringed when "God" sent lightning & thunder to show "His" displeasure??

JAK, kudos for your patient persistance, and expertice in the science :-) of communication. You're a great teacher--to those open to instruction. However, i think your pedagogy is not easily absorbed by those steeped--that's what they do to tea to make it 'good'--in the mythologies of religion to the point of their being 'good' and faithful to their creeds, whether edicted from above or winnowed from the chaff on their own. Nehor seems to be of the latter group. A group that i have experienced for many decades, and which for some time i had somewhat agreement. So i can empathize to a degree. But as Gramps suggested, if ya ain't ready...and as Gramps intimated, had You and 'marg' been in his corner earlier, it would have made things a lot easier--as i read his posts.

It appears to me, THE stumbling block for the Nehors, and they are numerous, is to think HG/Spiritual-experience Trump's emotion. It doesn't, it is simply an ancient term used before the term "emotion" was coined... simply a 'feeling'... I expect younger folks will side step that... Warm regards, Roger
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