09 Nov 19
@sonship saidI have been answering your questions regardless of whether my answers are upsetting you. When you ask a string of questions and then start to get pouty or facetious, the question arises as to whether you are getting upset. I have been fielding your queries regardless. I am not "on" any "hook" here, sonship.
So if I am "upset" then you're off the hook huh?
09 Nov 19
@sonship saidI distinctly remember you vehemently denying that you had ever been an "unbeliever" when I mentioned the fact that you'd once said you were one.
I distinctly remember that when I was an unbeliever ...
It would seem it suits you right now, in this conversation, to say that you were once an "unbeliever" and then try to attribute to me some of the things that were true about you back then.
Years ago, lemonlime tried the same rhetorical gimmick.
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I distinctly remember you vehemently denying that you had ever been an "unbeliever" when I mentioned the fact that you'd once said you were one.
No you don't.
I may have said that I never was an Atheist and that I always believed that there was SOMETHING, even if it was a great giant cosmic question mark somewhere as big as the universe.
You may have also heard me say that I was a backslidder and virtually like one with amnesia for some years.
THAT you may have seen me write in the last decade or so.
You did not read me say vehemently deny I was an unbeliever.
It would seem it suits you right now, in this conversation, to say that you were once an "unbeliever" and then try to attribute to me some of the things that were true about you back then.
Years ago, lemonlime tried the same rhetorical gimmick.
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It would seem it suits you right now, in this conversation, to say that you were once an "unbeliever" and then try to attribute to me some of the things that were true about you back then.
Years ago, lemonlime tried the same rhetorical gimmick.
We have experience with your memory and how it works around here.
I never denied I was an unbeliever. I always thought that there was SOME KIND of ultimate something. I did not know what or who or how.
But during those days, "God" was a word that meant everything or my ego or void or whatever depending on the time. I changed from morning to evening some days.
Forget about opening a Bible then.
The ONLY time in high school I thought to open a Bible was when I went to a Rock Mass and thought it was cool. The band that did it was called The Mind Garage. They have songs on Youtube still now.
So I arranged that my band would do one. We played In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida by the Iron Butterfly. The local clergy was glad I was so enthusiastic. But I had NO theological reasons for doing it.
It was for the self glory of my rock band I did it.
Oh, ONCE I opened up and read a few passages from the book of Isaiah. But I quickly closed it perplexed and baffled by what I read.
In College I pursued Zen for awhile. I pursued the Rosicrucians for a short while.
09 Nov 19
@sonship saidIf you are seeking to project any of this onto me in any way, just say which bits.
I never denied I was an unbeliever. I always thought that there was SOME KIND of ultimate something. I did not know what or who or how. But during those days, "God" was a word that meant everything or my ego or void or whatever depending on the time. I changed from morning to evening some days. Forget about opening a Bible then. The ONLY time in high school I thought to op ...[text shortened]... by what I read. In College I pursued Zen for awhile. I pursued the Rosicrucians for a short while.
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You do not remember me vehemently denying I was an unbeliever. Period.
Produce it.