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To: Natural Law; Mad Dawg; Alamo-Girl; Amityschild; Captain Beyond; Cvengr; DvdMom; firebrand; ...

I’m more than a bit surprised to read that from you.

It tends to appear that Mad Dawg is the only RC/Ortho I can reliably have a genuine dialogue with of any dependability at all.

God knows I’ve tried many times over the years with most of the rest of the RC’s. At 64 years old . . . I try to hit my head against brick walls far less than I used to.

The other RC’s on FR could go a great deal of the distance toward demonstrating a genuine interest in dialogue if they really wanted to. They NEVER HAVE—certainly not for more than a few posts or a few days—which ever came first, usually.

I’ve just not seen any significant evidence that RC’s on FR want genuine dialogue any more than Jihadi’s do.

RC’s have been trained from birth to

!!!!CONTROL!!!! !!!!CONTROL!!!! !!!!CONTROL!!!!

AND

!!!!DEMAND!!!! !!!!DEMAND!!!! !!!!DEMAND!!!!

Being on the other end of that is not Proddy’s favorite recreation regardless of how much deluded RC’s may think it is.

Perhaps most importantly, RC’s seem to have the DNA

—certainly the ORGANIZATIONAL RELIGIOUS DNA

that tolerates ONLY

NEAR
100% SUBMISSION

OR

NEAR
100% AGREEMENT.

There’s little to no room for dialogue in that.

On top of that, the critical differences tend to have no new material to share between the two camps about them.

On sum, I just can’t make a good case for bothering with even an attempt at dialogue with most RC’s on FR.


400 posted on 06/15/2011 10:05:49 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix; johngrace

Actually, John Grace and I do well enough when we try.

However, as staunch an RC as he is, he doesn’t sound like he’s sold ever cell and fiber to the company store after a lobotomy. So I don’t tend to consider him a ‘normal’ RC.


401 posted on 06/15/2011 10:07:31 PM PDT by Quix (Times are a changin' INSURE you have believed in your heart & confessed Jesus as Lord Come NtheFlesh)
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To: Quix
"On sum, I just can’t make a good case for bothering with even an attempt at dialogue with most RC’s on FR."

I suppose we have to ask ourselves the reason we post and then determine the best way to accomplish that. For a long time I believed that I had to defend the Church and fight fire with fire, insult with insult. I have since come to believe, based largely upon my Lenten Prayers and absence from these threads, that the Church has persevered against greater attacks than any Freeper can muster and will continue to do so with or without me. Jesus promised that. All I intend to do is to present the truth to try to correct some misperceptions or outright lies. I have no interest in Proselytizing. The truth will set you free.

What is your purpose for posting?

403 posted on 06/15/2011 10:22:57 PM PDT by Natural Law (For God so loved the world He did not send a book.)
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To: Quix

Wait! How many threads on this topic do we have to have?


411 posted on 06/16/2011 4:44:45 AM PDT by Mad Dawg (Oh Mary, conceived without sin, pray for us who have recourse to thee.)
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