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To: spirited irish; tacticalogic; betty boop
spirited irish: "From the very first, your posts have reflected pride and blindness."

Let's see... yes, there it is.
The first definition of "pride" in my dictionary is: spirited irish.
Now let's see again... yes, there it is. Arrogance = spirited irish.
What about "false accusations"? Yes again: spirited irish.
What about, "posts blithering nonsense"? = spirited irish.
"Has no good intentions"? = spirited irish.

spirited irish: "...you cannot see the continuous stream of self-contradiction flowing through your keyboard."

That falls under "false accusations", already defined.

spirited irish: "Then your pride demands that you save face since from the first you’ve been positioning yourself as the repository of what is worth knowing or not, so you immediately reduce what you cannot understand to insignificance, rantings, railings, falsehood and even foulness:"

Now let me tell you the truth of this matter: what you call "pride" is simply me returning your insults to sender.
If "pride" is your issue, then there is none more prideful than spirited irish in posting an unending stream of falsehoods and insults.

spirited irish: "Now if it was true that your church—and you— goes by what God’s Revelation to man says then your pride would not be so offended by “Falling Stars...” that you have repeatedly tried to undermine the veracity of the author and joined with other offended posters in having the essay removed to the religion forum."

Well, thank you!
tacticalogic, at last the truth comes out!
They can't stomach spirited irish on the religion forum -- she's been banished! Or should I say shunned!
Isn't that wonderful?
Thank you, Free Republic.

Now I think my work here is done, we've coaxed out a small truth, I doubt if we'll ever get more, and besides it's Thanksgiving, so I'm going to visit family.

Oh, and by the way, dear Ms irish, I certainly had nothing to do -- had no knowledge of -- getting you shunned from the FR religion forum.
But thanks so much for telling us the truth.
It has had tacticalogic, myself and others wondering for a long time.

Have a great Thanksgiving, all!

:-)

1,310 posted on 11/27/2013 9:01:46 AM PST by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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To: BroJoeK; YHAOS; hosepipe; betty boop; Alamo-Girl

Spirited to Bro: “Now if it was true that your church—and you— goes by what God’s Revelation to man says then your pride would not be so offended by “Falling Stars...” that you have repeatedly tried to undermine the veracity of the author and joined with other offended posters in having the essay removed to the religion forum.”

Bro the sophist responds: Well, thank you! tacticalogic, at last the truth comes out! They can’t stomach spirited irish on the religion forum — she’s been banished! Or should I say shunned!

Spirited: Only the painfully twisted, upside-down, self-deluded reasoning of a sophist would see vindication of ‘self’ in those remarks.

The conscience of the sophist is polluted and depraved, and a depraved conscience is the most destructive force in political, legal, social, economic, and cultural life. This is because though the intellect remains intact, reason is warped and inverted, thus useless for pursuit of the good, the just and the true. In short, guided by a depraved conscience, reason is used in pursuit of the preservation of self-image at any cost. This is sophistry.

In a penetrating analysis of sophistry, J. Budziszewski observes that the sophists’ view of reality is paradoxical because it ultimately denies reality. Sophists are shock troopers of evil says Budziszewski, and according to their satanically-inverted view of reality:

“Man is the measure of all things, but man has no fixed nature. Man measures all things by his words, but words have no fixed meanings. Language is not an instrument for finding truth, but for changing it. Those who can master it, master all. It is a good creed for rogues, and commends itself to tyrants in every age.” (What We Can’t Not Know, Budziszewski, p. 167)

Sophistry is the religion of America’s left-right Ruling Class and legions of like-minded individuals. Sophistry says autonomous man is a free-thinker, thus the maker of his own truth and morality even though sophistry denies the reality of both truth and morality. It says depraved man
can unmake and then remake himself. Thus man is free to divinize himself as in days of old. Males can be females and females can now be males, or they can be androgynous, that is, transgender.

Sophistry’s’ favorite Scripture is “judge not.” The only judgment is the judgment against moral judgment. The only sins are the ideas that sin and immutable truth exists. The only truth is the idea that truth does not exist. Evil is the idea that evil exists. The greatest evil of all however, is to dissent against sophists.

Sophists are braggarts who love to boast of their scientifically-informed reason, yet reason is actually escape from reason. By way of unreason, arrogant sophists claim that God is dead, or just a jump-starter for evolution, His Revelation a myth, and evolutionary theory absolutely true, but sophistry also says that words have no fixed meaning. There is no truth in sophistry. Therefore,
God is not dead but rather evolutionary theory is, for as it must begin with the spontaneous generation of something from nothing, then Darwinism is also nothing. This means that Godless evolutionary theory is as meaningless as
spontaneous generation and the much-vaunted reason of sophists.

Sophistry is all the rage in contemporary America, even though it prefers longer, more intellectual sounding names to dupe the gullible. Thus for example, it calls itself postmodernism, empiricism, naturalism, epistemological relativism, anti-foundationalism, pragmatism, situational ethics, pluralism, multiculturalism, interfaith, evolutionary humanism, trans-humanism, positivism, rationalism, and progressivism.


1,337 posted on 11/30/2013 10:30:42 AM PST by spirited irish
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