Drifting wrote:Why, when Frantalk posts do I get a mental image of some old Chinese guy saying "Ah Grasshopper" to a young David Carradine.....
You give yourself way too much credit. You neither have the wisdom of an old Chinese guy or the open mind of a young David Carradine. Grasshopper.
And you can't read. Try reading my post again and you will see that I am not referring to myself at all...
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
malkie wrote:My concern is with the people who are willing to override their (and society's) sense of right and wrong because they believe that a private communication from a god is telling them to kill.
but that is an entirely different subject...i believe the assumption, or given, was that God had actually instructed you to act a certain way...altogether different than "thinking" God instructed you.
malkie wrote:As to what I "seem to hold", as long as we live in a society of any sort, there will be a third party whose views on right and wrong count. Note that I am NOT saying that any such third party should be granted unquestioned authority on this point.
Agreed, but a society can hardly afford to allow that third party system to be unreliable, unpredictable, or "subjective".
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
malkie wrote:My concern is with the people who are willing to override their (and society's) sense of right and wrong because they believe that a private communication from a god is telling them to kill.
but that is an entirely different subject...i believe the assumption, or given, was that God had actually instructed you to act a certain way...altogether different than "thinking" God instructed you.
You're joking, right?
Or do you mean simply that you could not be mistaken, whereas anyone else could? Especially if they disagreed with what you thought?
malkie wrote:As to what I "seem to hold", as long as we live in a society of any sort, there will be a third party whose views on right and wrong count. Note that I am NOT saying that any such third party should be granted unquestioned authority on this point.
subgenius wrote:Agreed, but a society can hardly afford to allow that third party system to be unreliable, unpredictable, or "subjective".
You mean like the various gods have proven to be?
I think that, in spite of imperfections, many societies have a much better track record than gods generally do.
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Maksutov: "... if you give someone else the means to always push your buttons, you're lost."
The point is I do not care what your point is. I could care less what the context of your message was. You argue for the sake of self gratification. I get all of that. I was using your own words in what ever context I wanted to make a joke of you.
Yet somehow that went over your head as well. Don't you just hate it when that world you build around yourself just does not go as planned. Get a life.
The point is I do not care what your point is. I could care less what the context of your message was. You argue for the sake of self gratification. I get all of that. I was using your own words in what ever context I wanted to make a joke of you.
Yet somehow that went over your head as well. Don't you just hate it when that world you build around yourself just does not go as planned. Get a life.
Is that really Celestial dialogue? I think not.
~Those who benefit from the status quo always attribute inequities to the choices of the underdog.~Ann Crittenden ~The Goddess is not separate from the world-She is the world and all things in it.~
The point is I do not care what your point is. I could care less what the context of your message was. You argue for the sake of self gratification. I get all of that. I was using your own words in what ever context I wanted to make a joke of you.
Yet somehow that went over your head as well. Don't you just hate it when that world you build around yourself just does not go as planned. Get a life.
You were trying to make a joke out of me? Well, that backfired didn't it!
'Get a life'. Frank, I'm not the one desperately clinging to the hope that there is something spiritual after I'm dead. I'm not the one looking for hidden spiritual clues to an ethereal existence while ignoring the existence I'm in. I'm the one WITH a life, you're the one still searching!
Anyway, good luck with your Celestial Quest Lord Lancelot....
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“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
The point is I do not care what your point is. I could care less what the context of your message was. You argue for the sake of self gratification. I get all of that. I was using your own words in what ever context I wanted to make a joke of you.
Yet somehow that went over your head as well. Don't you just hate it when that world you build around yourself just does not go as planned. Get a life.
just me wrote:Is that really Celestial dialogue? I think not.
I was just trying to be helpful.....
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
"One, two, three...let's go shopping!" Thomas S Monson - Prophet, Seer, Revelator
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei
just me wrote:Is that really Celestial dialogue? I think not.
Come now, when a tool of the godless army gets called out it is a breath of fresh air. I am very definite with my comments of faith. I try and describe how I feel and what I believe. If I feel that someone on this board is a fool I will treat them as such. For far to long this society has coddled the idiots and told them that they too are just normal. We now have a whole generation of sick twisted people who believe they are normal. If you wish to treat the insane as sane that is up to you. I will call an idiot an idiot. I have had hundreds of respectful chats with atheist and self declared pagans. We write about our beliefs and why we feel that way. We ask questions of each other. But there are lowlife jerks who also inhabit this sites. They are weak in the mind and controlled by self gratification. Their goal is to raise them self up by stepping on others. Their goal is to destroy the faith that others may have. They are a cancer that needs a little sunshine. They are like a fly that normally you brush aside, but sometimes you bring the swatter out. Then they get their way and the track of a tread is dismantled. We end up talking in circles about nothing and ignore the subject of the thread. Just writing you about this fool will bring gladness to his heart because his goal of distraction in his eyes has been successful. Where he sees that you and I have fallen into his trap what has actually happened is that a light was shone on him and his tactics. And in the big picture it is worth it to stop and identify fools as fools every once in a while.
