“That’s me in the spotlight...”

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The thread has certainly been 'contrasty,' with several sub-threads and cross-dialogs running concurrently.

If the volume of TUs and TDs is any indication, others too appear to have been following with interest who may not have actively contributed.

PS apologies if my particular exchange with Eladar hijacked your thread.

@fmf said
I think "Jesus" was "invented later by and for theologians" although your attempt to speculate about what he might have actually meant by what he said [assuming he said it] is edifying.

Careful now, you might insult someone's beliefs. 😉

@moonbus said
Careful now, you might insult someone's beliefs. 😉

Of course he is. As long as he is surrounded by other skin heads like yourself it gets joked about. Do it around your sister and she will not be around you.

You are a sick and twisted bunch, you skin heads. Nice truce lol

@eladar said
Of course he is. As long as he is surrounded by other skin heads like yourself it gets joked about. Do it around your sister and she will not be around you.

You are a sick and twisted bunch, you skin heads. Nice truce lol

You take any querying of a belief, especially your beliefs, to be an affront. If beliefs had never been queried, Copernicus, Galileo, et al would have kept their thoughts to themselves and we'd all still think the Earth to be an immovable pancake at the center of the universe, medical doctors would still believe in the four humours and still bleed people, the mentally disturbed would still be chained to asylum walls and left to rot, there would be no bills of rights guaranteeing freedom of press/speech/religion—there'd still be the divine right of despots. All progress depends on challenging what people think they know most certainly and on the best authority; and that means putting someone, somewhere, sometime, on the back foot; if he takes offence at it, that's his problem.

@eladar said
Of course he is. As long as he is surrounded by other skin heads like yourself it gets joked about. Do it around your sister and she will not be around you.

You are a sick and twisted bunch, you skin heads. Nice truce lol

Have you ever met a skin head?

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Have you ever met a skin head?

The hate is still the same. To answer ypu question I have been around a couple.

@eladar said
Of course he is. As long as he is surrounded by other skin heads like yourself it gets joked about. Do it around your sister and she will not be around you.

You are a sick and twisted bunch, you skin heads. Nice truce lol

You are sorely lacking a sense of perspective.

@bigdoggproblem said
You are sorely lacking a sense of perspective.

Not surprised you think so.

@moonbus said
You take any querying of a belief, especially your beliefs, to be an affront. If beliefs had never been queried, Copernicus, Galileo, et al would have kept their thoughts to themselves and we'd all still think the Earth to be an immovable pancake at the center of the universe, medical doctors would still believe in the four humours and still bleed people, the mentally ...[text shortened]... omeone, somewhere, sometime, on the back foot; if he takes offence at it, that's his problem.

Your problem stems from your arrogant point of view. I do not know how to get past your point of view so I can only warn you. I doubt skin heads can see how they are wrong either.

@eladar said
Your problem stems from your arrogant point of view. I do not know how to get past your point of view so I can only warn you. I doubt skin heads can see how they are wrong either.

Some people might view your point of view as arrogant.

@dj2becker said
Some people might view your point of view as arrogant.

Of course some would but I do not answer their questions disrespectfully to their beliefs.

I answer their questions based on what they believe giving it respect.

He was not respectful to his sister's beliefs.

@eladar said
Not surprised you think so.

Come on, even I think so.

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We've been back and forth on this forever, or at least it seems so. Clearly you have adopted a more colorful adaptation of what I said, perhaps as a result of 'hearing what you wanted to hear' and over-emphasizing what was actually said to make it appear more unbelievable. But, yes, I have saved more than one life with CPR, I have taken homeless people to the hospital, I have broken bar tables, although they were not MY sexual molesters, for the most part, and I have been visited by angels, although on only one occasion. As I've said before, that you live a dull, placid life is not my problem, although you seem to want to make it so.

But, you do you.

@suzianne said
Come on, even I think so.

No need for the 'even'.

You've got some sense about you.

@suzianne said
I have saved more than one life with CPR

It was your claim that you had "lost count of how many lives" you'd saved by giving CPR "on the sidewalk" that caused several people to query the story. At what number of saved lives does one no longer remember how many there were? Twenty? Thirty? Two?