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To: Trinity_Tx
Even if you are right about the Genesis story, try meditating on the difference between being a liar and being honestly mistaken.

If you stand at a lighted intersection with your back to the light while it is red and say it is green, you're a liar. You have access to the truth and instead state the opposite of the truth for your own purposes in spite of the truth. Color it how you will, it's still a lie. When you further defend it, you dig yourself in further. I merely put a label to it and identified it. And that is not being abusive, it is being honest and corrective of the record. You can try to spin it any way you want in the end and you are doing just that. That don't work with me. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt by correcting you and seeing where you go. When you're corrected and persist in the error, that's not being mistaken - that's being prideful and rebellious. And that is your problem to deal with. I sympathize and understand the mindset. That doesn't excuse it. And the excuse isn't for anyone here including myself - it's for you. Because everyone else here has been presented the truth in quotes as to what precisely the scriptures say on the subject. The position of Evolution is diametrically opposed to scripture and is unreconcileable with scripture. I know better and now everyone else does to. At the point you begin denying it after you're presented the truth, you're lying to yourself and anyone else that doesn't know better. And for those that you lead astray, you will answer for. Some of you think this is one big game and that your particular feelings are more important than the truth. Guess what, Manson was upset when he was called a murderer and locked up for it. It's still the truth and I don't care what manson feels one way or the other. Your feelings are immaterial to the truth just as his are. If the truth hurts, it doesn't make it less the truth. You think the solution is to mute the truth. I know the solution is for you to get in line with it so you don't have to "feel" damaged by it being spoken. If you're on the side of the truth, you can't be damaged and emotionally ruined by being informed that you are factually wrong. And while you're being defensive as though you own the fact - the fact didn't rely on how you felt about it in becoming so any more than it will rely on how you fell about it remaining so. If you want to live your life being offended by the truth, keep propping up falsehoods and you will have your wish. If you don't, change sides and adopt the truth.. then you might discover the moral ground to be upset at lies - especially the ones that damage you every day - and maybe enough to actually do something about them like me or perhaps even better than me. This isn't a pyramid scheme as it happens, you can know and be more than the next guy and be outdone by yet another. I don't exclusively own the path I'm trying to follow. Nor do you.

601 posted on 12/03/2004 11:28:50 PM PST by Havoc (Reagan was right and so was McKinley. Down with free trade.)
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To: Havoc
And again, All of your words Beg the Question... Is Havoc the arbiter of Truth? If you are not, they are mere opinion.

I don't want to fuss with you. You tripped my trigger last night, and I didn't hold my tongue. It's a sensitive issue with me.

You think I am a liar with an evil agenda. I think you have issues and are sadly mistaken in your beliefs and methods of dealing with others.

The only thing I know for sure is my own heart. I love what is good and true. Beyond that, I am just a seeker.

I do wish you well.
604 posted on 12/04/2004 12:51:40 AM PST by Trinity_Tx (Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believin as we already do)
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