The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?

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_Jersey Girl
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Re: The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?

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I have a question wrote:
Agreed, he's now the sole tenant of my ignore list. Done.


I can't blame you. I decided a long time ago that I can't complain about the vortex if I voluntarily leaped into it. I have some posters on my ignore list, but not MG. It's too easy to ignore him without the feature because I know that whatever he writes is basically endless babble that does nothing to forward discussion of any given topic.

That's why I rarely show up on a thread like this. I can bore myself to death quite nicely without inviting someone else to join me.
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Re: The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?

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Jersey Girl wrote:
I'm asking you to explain how the exchanges that were posted were NOT intellectually dishonest.


As soon as Lemmie can show that anything I said was intellectually dishonest in the post being referred to (where she is making that accusation), I will be happy to make further comment. She cut and pasted some things I said and then accused me of being intellectually dishonest based on the random comments she threw together. I responded and said that I wasn't being dishonest AT ALL and that there weren't any contradictions, etc.

She needs to put up or shut up.

Enough of this nonsense. I see that she hasn't come back into the thread to actually detail specifically what in the heck she's even referring to and/or talking about.

Regards,
MG
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Re: The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?

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I have a question wrote:
mentalgymnast wrote:I won't change from who I am. But I do evolve.


Staggering.


Why do you say that? Please be specific. There is not a contradiction here in what I said...if that's what you're thinking.

Thanks,
MG
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Re: The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?

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mentalgymnast wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:
I'm asking you to explain how the exchanges that were posted were NOT intellectually dishonest.


As soon as Lemmie can show that anything I said was intellectually dishonest in the post being referred to (where she is making that accusation), I will be happy to make further comment. She cut and pasted some things I said and then accused me of being intellectually dishonest based on the random comments she threw together. I responded and said that I wasn't being dishonest AT ALL and that there weren't any contradictions, etc.

She needs to put up or shut up.

Enough of this nonsense. I see that she hasn't come back into the thread to actually detail specifically what in the heck she's even referring to and/or talking about.

Regards,
MG


My request to you has nothing to do with Lemmie's accusation.

My request to you has to do with you supporting your own claim.

And you can't or won't even do that.

You can't even explain your own words.
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Re: The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?

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I haven't read every single post on this thread, but I have read enough of it to see that the arguments of the apologists like MG consist of endless repetition of the same circular reasoning and intellectually dishonest approach to discerning truth, and what I like to call "division by zero logic" -- that is, logic of a type that can be used to justify continuing belief in virtually anything one is desperate to believe in, no matter how absurd or contrary to reality.
No precept or claim is more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.

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Re: The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?

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Jersey Girl wrote:
My request to you has nothing to do with Lemmie's accusation.



Then I have no interest in conversation with you right now.

Lemmie has constructed a false narrative. I am calling her out.

No sidetracks. I am waiting to hear from her.

Regards,
MG
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Re: The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?

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mentalgymnast wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:
My request to you has nothing to do with Lemmie's accusation.



Then I have no interest in conversation with you right now.

Lemmie has constructed a false narrative. I am calling her out.

No sidetracks. I am waiting to hear from her.

Regards,
MG


You're shifting focus from the question that was asked of you.

You show no interest in conversation with anyone, much less me.

Escalate a little more. Whatever it takes to avoid answering the question. You just go ahead and do it, k?
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Re: The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?

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mentalgymnast wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:
My request to you has nothing to do with Lemmie's accusation.



Then I have no interest in conversation with you right now.

Lemmie has constructed a false narrative. I am calling her out.

No sidetracks. I am waiting to hear from her.

Regards,
MG

You're "calling me out"? Please. If you have a problem with a concept in my post, then feel free to write a post addressing that concept.
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Re: The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?

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I have a question wrote:
mentalgymnast wrote:I will stop "wasting everyone's time" at this point in the thread

Regards,
MG


No you won't, you will have an unquenchable need to carry on.

Apparently.
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Re: The Book of Mormon: Man-Made or God-Given?

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Not to worry folks. If you'll just be patient, in another 3 pages it'll be some other darn excuse.
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