Spiritual Yard Sale

Originally posted by FMF
As I said, robbie, you don't have to mention the fact that you think that Jehovah's Witnesses are the "True" Christians® every single time you post. It's been what you have been propagating on this forum for years.

We were not discussing Jehovahs witnesses, we were discussing your outlandish claim
that you were a Christian. It seems that you simply use the fact that I am a Witness as
some kind of cheap excuse to avoid telling us how in any shape or form you were
anything other than a nominal Christian.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
We were not discussing Jehovahs witnesses, we were discussing your outlandish claim
that you were a Christian. It seems that you simply use the fact that I am a Witness as
some kind of cheap excuse to avoid telling us how in any shape or form you were
anything other than a nominal Christian.

If I were a Jehovah's Witness, robbie, like you are, I would be agreeing with you and saying that I was not really a Christian back when I was a Christian. However, I don't subscribe to the same views as you do on what you choose to call "nominal Christians".

Indeed, as I said earlier, your definition of Christian means even less to me now than it would have meant to me, if you'd shared it with me, back when I was a Christian. I am not attempting to tell you "how in any shape or form" I was a Christian because it is moot seeing as I have abandoned Christianity and I don't need your endorsement, either in the present or retrospectively.

That I have abandoned Christianity was my point on page one of this thread, and whether or not you agree that I was ever a Christian really does not affect what I have 'revealed' in reply to the OP.

If you want to argue with a Christian about what it means to be one, then you should do so; there are plenty of them here.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
deluders gonna delude themselves 😛

In case you have forgotten, it was you who had to admit on this forum you are in fact 'closed minded' and 'ignorant' not me.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
LOL, I dont hate the bearded wonder, i like him, I was just sayin.

The term 'hater' is common in the rap world. It just means 'critic' in that context.

As far as literal hate goes? I don't think either one of you hates the other.

Originally posted by SwissGambit
The term 'hater' is common in the rap world. It just means 'critic' in that context.

As far as literal hate goes? I don't think either one of you hates the other.

do you ever wonder what would happen if all the posters in the spirituality forum met in a pub and had a few beers together. would everybody bite there tongue when in each others physical presence, would there be a healthy argument and banter or would it end in black eyes and bloody noses?

who would be the most likely culprits to kick off and get handy and who would win? who would be the alpha male of the group?

Originally posted by stellspalfie
do you ever wonder what would happen if all the posters in the spirituality forum met in a pub and had a few beers together. would everybody bite there tongue when in each others physical presence, would there be a healthy argument and banter or would it end in black eyes and bloody noses?

who would be the most likely culprits to kick off and get handy and who would win? who would be the alpha male of the group?

I vote for it to end in black eyes and bloody noses. 😏

Originally posted by FMF
If I were a Jehovah's Witness, robbie, like you are, I would be agreeing with you and saying that I was not really a Christian back when I was a Christian. However, I don't subscribe to the same views as you do on what you choose to call "nominal Christians".

Indeed, as I said earlier, your definition of Christian means even less to me now than it wou n about what it means to be one, then you should do so; there are plenty of them here.

I simply do not have the will to argue with you, suffice to say, that the defining criteria
for a Christian is contained in the Bible, making any references to Jehovahs witnesses,
pure straw. Unless you walk in Christ's footsteps figuratively speaking, knowledge of
Christ is simply nothing more than a purely intellectual exercise and in many instances
a hollow and futile ritual. This has nothing whatsoever to do with Jehovahs witnesses
as you have erroneously assumed , has it, on the contrary it has every thing to do with
experience or as Solzhenitsyn puts it, 'how can you expect a man who's warm to
understand one who's cold?'

Originally posted by SwissGambit
The term 'hater' is common in the rap world. It just means 'critic' in that context.

As far as literal hate goes? I don't think either one of you hates the other.

ok, its a critic, cool, not being a big rap fan except for the occasional tupac shakur
number, i dunno, in fact i watched a documentary on the last 24hrs of his life the other
day, was interesting.

Originally posted by Proper Knob
In case you have forgotten, it was you who had to admit on this forum you are in fact 'closed minded' and 'ignorant' not me.

In case you have forgotten i was redefined as a free thinking liberal according to
sumydid criteria, not some bizarro materialistic manifesto of world dominion.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
I simply do not have the will to argue with you, suffice to say, that the defining criteria
for a Christian is contained in the Bible, making any references to Jehovahs witnesses,
pure straw. Unless you walk in Christ's footsteps figuratively speaking, knowledge of
Christ is simply nothing more than a purely intellectual exercise and in many i ...[text shortened]... Solzhenitsyn puts it, 'how can you expect a man who's warm to
understand one who's cold?'

OK, I get it. You don't think I was a Christian, robbie. Thanks for that. I shall file it away along with a whole pile of other stuff, like your notion that blood transfusions are immoral, your notion that going door to door peddling magazines is somehow the equivalent of Old Testament "blood sacrifice", and your notion that me opposing discrimination against homosexuals makes me an "extremist". Thanks for all of your ideas and notions, robbie.

Originally posted by FMF
OK, I get it. You don't think I was a Christian, robbie. Thanks for that. I shall file it away along with a whole pile of other stuff, like your notion that blood transfusions are immoral, your notion that going door to door peddling magazines is somehow the equivalent of Old Testament "blood sacrifice", and your notion that me opposing discrimination against homosexuals makes me an "extremist". Thanks for all of your ideas and notions, robbie.

Please dont take this personally but clearly you have not the slightest idea of what
going to homes after the apostolic manner entails nor could you unless you have engaged in
it. You see FMF, one needs spiritual comprehension to understand that a sacrifice has
different nuances of meaning, not always literal, one needs a certain degree of
knowledge to understand why what is moral to a Christian on the basis of his
conscience and understanding of Gods word may appear strange an unorthodox, one
needs to experience going from home to home trying to find persons who are
interested in Biblical things to know what the house to house ministry is about. I
myself dont mind what you say personally, but you cannot know everything and at very
least try to understand why people profess what they do, without belittling them.

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
Please dont take this personally but clearly you have not the slightest idea of what
going to homes after the apostolic manner entails nor could you unless you have engaged in
it. You see FMF, one needs spiritual comprehension to understand that a sacrifice has
different nuances of meaning, not always literal, one needs a certain degree of
kn ...[text shortened]... and at very
least try to understand why people profess what they do, without belittling them.

Good for you if traipsing around from doorstep to doorstep makes you feel good. I am not impressed, however. If that makes you feel belittled, so be it.

Originally posted by FMF
Good for you if traipsing around from doorstep to doorstep makes you feel good. I am not impressed, however. If that makes you feel belittled, so be it.

“It's an universal law intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An
ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound
education breeds humility.” - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

Originally posted by robbie carrobie
“It's an universal law intolerance is the first sign of an inadequate education. An
ill-educated person behaves with arrogant impatience, whereas truly profound
education breeds humility.” - Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

You're using Solzhenitsyn to question intolerance and humility? Whose intolerance and humility? Yours or mine?

Originally posted by FMF
You're using Solzhenitsyn to question intolerance and humility? Whose intolerance and humility? Yours or mine?

no not intolerance, ignorance, yours.