Posted on 09/18/2006 1:51:27 PM PDT by PatrickHenry
Durnit, I left my vorpal blade at home. :-p
You are far more advanced in the Way of Wisdom than I; I see you living out Proverbs 16:21, and I praise Jesus, the Word and Spirit in you!
Oh goodie, I must not be a fool, 'cause I don't really hate anyone.
Proverbs 16 has been with me all day particularly verse 3.
Hey, you really should have worded this post differently. You directly insulted me and js1138, you know. You should have said "in response to a certain group of people whom I think quite silly, which might contain individuals with screennames starting with a and ending with y and starting with j and ending with 8--naming no names, wink wink, nudge nudge." Just to keep things impersonal.
? Your post said that the words "lapdog" and "nameless" were referring to you and Betty Boop when a cursory read revealed that they weren't. I was correcting an error in your post. Aren't you happy people weren't calling you names??
Sure is a whole lot of cackling and braying going on over at the Darwin Central barnyard these days!
It is disappointing to see some of the names involved. Oh, well....
As you wrote in your e-mail to me,
And I agree with you that reason itself seems to be under attack. People everywhere seem to want a talking points response to the deep questions dont think, parrot. That doesnt surprise me in the U.S. because students have been conditioned to do precisely that from their earliest years through post-grad....[Ooooppppsss! Please forgive me, Alamo-Girl, I'm selectively quoting/quote mining you. I left out all the Plato and Aristotle. Plato especially is held in contempt over at Darwin Central. No reason given, just "politically correct" abuse.][The evolutionists] routinely accuse their opponents of lying, plagiarizing and any other slur or smear they can muster. Those are spit-wads. If they had a good rational comeback they would use it they do when they have one....
I dont think any of them read your posts they just have a knee jerk reaction especially to quotes of any kind from our side of what they perceive to be war.
Anyhoot, thank you for this excellent essay/post. And I'm with you, kiddo:
"If anyone would care to lay aside his talking points and pick up his thinking cap then, bring it on and well let the readers judge for themselves if we are boobs (ignorant and foolish) --- who is reasoning and who is parroting --- and which is more valuable."Seems eminently reasonable to me....
Thank you again for illustrating my points!
Go back and read the entire webpage at the link. The conversation about lapdog and nameless is in reference to posts around 9/21/2006 on this thread and then compare the posting history of the two posters you linked above.
Ahem...
Are you sure?? I see they have almost 27,000 posts there, have you read all of them? Wouldn't want to make a knee-jerk assumption, you know.
I'm afraid I'm simply not getting whatever you are attempting to imply. Are you persisting in saying that lapdog and nameless were terms used to denote you and betty boop? Because I've noticed in our discussions the ground topics tend to slip and slide about a bit and I want to make sure we're on the same footing we started with.
Plato especially is held in contempt over at Darwin Central. No reason given, just "politically correct" abuse.
Nobody has objected to this statement at of yet. That's why I inferred it must be "politically correct" to hold Plato in contempt over at DC.
Some foks are interested in an exchange of views, even with people they disagree with, and some just like sharpening their skills with the ad hominem.
You're wasting your time with the latter.
By the way, I agree with the "chemical soup" view of the origins of life, just as I believe in the "lump of iron" view of the origin of diesel engines. You start with a lump of iron, and inject energy and information (technology, plans, intelligent directed effort) and voila', an engine.
The chemical soup works the same. Its more than just the zap of electricity, because even single cell organisms are actually small single-cell machines, with moving parts. Pretty interesting, really. With an internal transmission of information and control.
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But why aren't we being pinged when they talk about us?
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