Private interpretation has yet to much enter into it.
This should be fun, if we can't legitimately attack his theology, we'll attack his sentence structure and then we can advance to his spelling.
This can open a whole new world in debating huh? :-)
I think you've misunderstood, Jim. I was in no way mocking his word choice or grammar. I reserve that only for the drive-by nitwits.
What I found profound in the statement is the sense of inspiration found by Havoc. This entire thread has been about nothing more than "private interpretation," yet he can't see it.
SD
A year ago I started writing my thoughts and mini stories and results of Bible studies on certain subjects, and since I now had a spell check at my disposal, I thought this should be a snap.
My wife is an avid reader, and had a working career in an office and showroom, so naturally I took my first great work to her for final approval.
I still have no idea why she had problems reading it, because it was so brilliantly structured, It was in one solid block of words, all in upper case (to make it very easy to read,) and I had even written it with out sentence breaks and periods, and comas, and all those funny little things so the reader could easily follow the line of thought with out all the brain interruptions that punctuation marks cause.
I asked her to read it out loud, so I could experience the brilliance of my first sure to be award-winning piece.
Well to my dismay, I found out that my wife, who I had always considered to be very intelligent, failed me completely.
She had no sense of story flow what so ever, she kept hesitating, and starting over at key points where flow is so important, and then she would mumble something about needing "cumas" or something like that, and saying such dumb things as "Oh, this should be the starting of a new sentence, as if I didn't know that. Sheeesss!!
So anyway, I said why don't you correct it (as if there was anything to correct), so she wasted three full days trying to find something wrong with my article, so she could mark it all up, and make it appear that she had done more work on it then I had.
Well I pretended to humor her along, acting like it was conceivable possible for me to make a mistake here or there, (even with a spell checker) but when she got finished, I had to go print off an un- edited copy of it just so I could see what it was when I had written it.
Well to make a long story short, after this harrowing and deflating experience, I decided to not take chances anymore, so I started to put in comas every 8 words, and a period every 32 words, paying careful attention that I never use more then 4 comas per 32 word sentences.
But do you think this satisfied her? You guessed it, and would you believe it, she then started taking them out instead of putting them in, showing me that she had no intentions of trying to get along what so ever, so in anger, I made up a sheet of nothing but periods, and another of comas, and I gave them to her and in frustration said, "here, use the damn things anywhere you want," and we have done pretty well since.
The main reason I have written this is to warn you of what this obsession with punctuation marks can lead to.
Yesterday, I was praying, and I said to God, "Help me to better understand your word "COMA" and to change with knowledge and…. and…. and...,. I don't believe it. I said "coma" in my prayers "coma" and that is frightening "coma" because "coma" can you imagine what my prayers are going to sound like when I start doing them in HTML code (question mark)
JH