Originally posted by Grampy BobbyI never asked for this sewer heart, that's just what the Good Lord gave me. Maybe the Good Lord has a bit of a sewer heart himself (and is maybe a little ugly on the side)?
He could care less about being invited into the stinking sewer of the human heart. It's the other way around. He invites us to party with Him.
(Props to FZ)
Originally posted by NordlysHesitate even to reply, Nordlys, since so much is at stake. Without intruding myself, let me simply suggest that He's a perfect gentlemen
It sounds more like coercion than like an invitation to me. "Come to my party, or else..."
and longsuffering, unwilling that any should perish. Desires that all may accept His gift of salvation (faith in Christ) but won't force your will.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyGod's so-called love is the most archaic of hoaxes. Just ask the slaughtered corpses of the Old Testament.
Hesitate even to reply, Nordlys, since so much is at stake. Without intruding myself, let me simply suggest that He's a perfect gentlemen
and longsuffering, unwilling that any should perish. Desires that all may accept His gift of salvation (faith in Christ) but won't force your will.
Originally posted by darvlayNone of us did. All human beings are born under the Adamic curse. Federal head of the human race screwed up the same way any of us
I never asked for this sewer heart, that's just what the Good Lord gave me. Maybe the Good Lord has a bit of a sewer heart himself (and is maybe a little ugly on the side)?
(Props to FZ)
would have done in his shoes. So we're born with an old sin nature in our genes (passed down from the male). It has areas of weakness
(sin) and of strength (human good)) and does a great job of cranking up temptation. Guess what? Volition is involved. Whatever our own
shortcomings, indigression and sins... we wanted to do them and did. Good news: Sin was judged on the cross. God's integrity is perfect.
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Originally posted by darvlayMan, Darvin. Your mention of me caused bona fide warm-and-fuzzy type feelings and should I ever find myself in the T-Dot I will be buying you a foamy pint of Non-Sub Rec. I don't quite know what this thread is asking, but there's a lot of wit and wisdom up in here, and if I started mentioning names yours would totally be appearing:
You're no. 2 by the way, Fraulein.
Brothaz and sistaz, this is Darv. Women want him, men want to be him (seriously). Darv is a man of subtlety and perspective; a sage without being a cynic. Darv has only been wrong once in recent forum history, when he put Noodles below me on this list (unless I'm 3 and he's on the up?!?).
RHP punches way above its weight in terms of interesting things being done with minds in big groups of people. I can't hope to mention even just the ones I've seen (and I don't really read too many threads these days), but a few (in addition to Darvinberg) spring to mind. Thus, in no particular order except maybe weakly by the amount I've talked to them:
Starrman has had a large influence on my thinking. He has the rare gift of connecting the very abstract and the very visceral aspects of life in a funny insightful way. Few people have both a desperate creative impulse and the ability to give it voice, and few people have the ability and inclination to talk cogently about, say, Hempel's paradox while too drunk to remember their own name, but Liam is one of them.
When I was 16 or 17, I had a little pantheon of people I respected enormously for their ideas. The criteria for being in this pantheon have tightened as I've gathered more experience, but bbarr and DoctorScribbles are still representing. These brothaz are articulate, skilled reasoners and practitioners of well-placed skepticism. Criticism from either one is a virtual guarantee of improvement in one's ideas, and praise of one's thinking from either of them is highly valued. These are first-rate thinkers.
Much is made of Nordlys' lexical acumen in the Forae. This is well-founded praise, because Noodles is the cunningest linguist I have encountered, with a keen appreciation for the interplay of form and content, and this extends to her deep understanding of music, humor, logic, language and art. She's fair-minded, an astute judge of character and meets a pretty wide variety of RHPers halfway communicationwise.
If in some long dark teatime of my soul, the well-meant words of my "real" friends were to be of no solace, and I were sensible enough not to swim in the more psychospiritually counterproductive forms of soul-tea, I'd probably hit up Brotha Kirk for a little guidance. I've had such guidance from him, as an observer, numerous times. A lot of mystical traditions posit some sort of unity of the mundane and the metaphysical, and Kirk's ability to show us the redemption that is to be found in things that actually happen to all of us each day, and to do so in a hilarious way, totally puts him on this list.
The last person who comes to mind right now is maybe quite controversial for those who remember him -- I don't believe he's appeared for a while, but as the archetypal prodigal forumite, he shall no doubt return: StarValleyWy is a fearless asker of very large questions, in the tradition of the hairy physicist he admires.
I hadn't intended such a love-in when I set out to acknowledge and return Darvin's compliment. Love and peace to y'all. Bear in mind that my skull-piece RAM is a random place and this list might have looked completely different if written at a different time.
Originally posted by ChronicLeakyThanks, my brotha. I would also add Visteds to the list. Brilliant mind and always accepting and non-judgmental.
Man, Darvin. Your mention of me caused bona fide warm-and-fuzzy type feelings and should I ever find myself in the T-Dot I will be buying you a foamy pint of Non-Sub Rec. I don't quite know what this thread is asking, but there's a lot of wit and wisdom up in here, and if I started mentioning names yours would totally be appearing:
Brothaz and si ...[text shortened]... t might have looked completely different if written at a different time.
I consider RBHill to be one of my favorite posters. I don't think he has come to appreciate the unintentional humor that he provides.
When are you coming to Toronto, by the way?
I have much love for all the people you listed as well, Mark. Without getting too sentimental, my original days of witnessing forum chaos really inspired me to take my brain matter more seriously and for that, I owe everyone on that list (and more) a hearty thanks.
Originally posted by ChronicLeakyRec'd.
Man, Darvin. Your mention of me caused bona fide warm-and-fuzzy type feelings and should I ever find myself in the T-Dot I will be buying you a foamy pint of Non-Sub Rec. I don't quite know what this thread is asking, but there's a lot of wit and wisdom up in here, and if I started mentioning names yours would totally be appearing:
Brothaz and si ...[text shortened]... t might have looked completely different if written at a different time.
Originally posted by darvlayOld, yes, in the sense that His perfect humanity willingly suffered substitutionary spiritual death (separation from the Father) on behalf
That's not good news, that's old news.
of mankind two centuries ago, fulfilling a plan made in eternity past. Good news: Your sorry soul and mine don't have fry for all eternity.
Originally posted by Grampy BobbyThere's too much love here for me to keep playing with you, Gramps. Respect.
Old, yes, in the sense that His perfect humanity willingly suffered substitutionary spiritual death (separation from the Father) on behalf
of mankind two centuries ago, fulfilling a plan made in eternity past. Good news: Your sorry soul and mine don't have fry for all eternity.
