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Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:03 pm

henry quirk wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 4:35 pmMy post was on the mark. You're nekkid and you got nuthin'.

Without a clear exposition it is that sort of statement that really has no power at all. Can you carefully and throughly articulate your position?

You're asking too much of him, I'm afraid.

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:00 pm So I am very open, though not as prepared as I might like (this all takes time) to discuss any aspect of these issues.

Well, I'm barely prepared at all. I hear "Inquisition", "Pogroms", Crusades" and so on and I have only a surface understanding of them. However, at that surface level, they certainly don't sound very Christ-like. But I'll leave it you and IC to hash the details out if that's what you guys choose to do.

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:00 pm Once one grasps [IC's] absolutist, fantastical and as I say fanatic position, then his *project* becomes far more clear. The implications of this strange way of seeing can then be unraveled. Carefully and cautiously.

I do hope you share that unravelling with us as it progresses.

And it would be useful to learn of your findings as to the metaphysical principles that can be extracted from Christianity.

Finally, I've been meaning to bring this up for a bit: you indicated a while back that you might offer your thoughts on my little nine-scene kinda farcical melodrama. If you're still willing to do that, I'd be interested in your thoughts. If not, that's fine.

phyllo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 4:55 pm ...one can reasonable expect that more would have died without due process.

One knows nothing of the kind. One never knows what "would" have happened, but did not.

And as for "due process," to credit the Inquisition with due process is a bit like crediting Josef Mengele for his work on hypothermia. There might be some remote relation, but not one you'd want to make much of, if you're sensible about it.

One knows nothing of the kind. One never knows what "would" have happened, but did not.

I wonder how you can make any decision at all since you don't know what might, could, would happen.

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:03 pm

henry quirk wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 4:35 pmMy post was on the mark. You're nekkid and you got nuthin'.

Without a clear exposition it is that sort of statement that really has no power at all. Can you carefully and throughly articulate your position?

Don't have to: you know you're nekkid and why.

BigMike wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:17 pm

Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:03 pm

henry quirk wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 4:35 pmMy post was on the mark. You're nekkid and you got nuthin'.

Without a clear exposition it is that sort of statement that really has no power at all. Can you carefully and throughly articulate your position?

You're asking too much of him, I'm afraid.

Thus spake the toaster.

phyllo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:02 pm

henry quirk wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 4:59 pm

phyllo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 4:47 pm
His posts were public.

Why not your reaction to his posts?

The conversation was private.

So you're okay with what he posted?

Ain't no fish in this lake.

Lots of lame ducks.

phyllo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 6:46 pm Lots of lame ducks.

Sorry, Elmer.

I accept your apology.

Bugs is my hero.

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 2:41 pm

Walker wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 2:19 pm - Should not Christians protect the precious temple, as did Christ, and not subject it to inequity?

I have no idea what you mean.

Interesting. I either have gremlins, a rogue spell-check, or the noggin is misfiring. Oh well.

Iniquity

What's also interesting is how a single letter can remove all ideas from intelligence, leaving a remainder of no idea. A single sound can do that, repeated over and over. Takes awhile, not my style. Japa.

phyllo wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 5:49 pm

One knows nothing of the kind. One never knows what "would" have happened, but did not.

I wonder how you can make any decision at all since you don't know what might, could, would happen.

It's not that. One makes guesses and estimates all the time. What one can't make are definite conclusions.

Your claim that the Inquisition saved more people from death needs evidence. There's none available from a guess.

Walker wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 9:09 pm

Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 2:41 pm

Walker wrote: ↑Tue Aug 30, 2022 2:19 pm - Should not Christians protect the precious temple, as did Christ, and not subject it to inequity?

I have no idea what you mean.

Interesting. I either have gremlins, a rogue spell-check, or the noggin is misfiring. Oh well.

Iniquity

What's also interesting is how a single letter can remove all ideas from intelligence, leaving a remainder of no idea. A single sound can do that, repeated over and over. Takes awhile, not my style. Japa.

Oh. Well, which "precious temple" and which "iniquity"?