cwald wrote:You have entire threads here where you go off on "emotional-driven rants" that are pretty well nothing more than "personal smears and relegating your opponents to the void of non-personhood." Sometimes you'll post five, six, seven or more consecutive posts without any kind of response from others at all. You don't seem to notice though that no one is taking you serious during these tirades. That is why I said "wow."
Care to adduce a logically connected argument vis-à-vis any of my arguments or specific claims?
Such as this one, perhaps:
... the entire country is under the control of a cult of argument dodging leftists who's only retorts to critical analysis are emotion-driven rants, personal smears, and the relegation of their opponents to the void of non-personhood.
Trouble is, it's just about as falsifiable as saying that the anti-Christ reigns on Capitol Hill.
What verifiable facts would one have to establish to prove that the above statement is wrong? The word 'rant' might well have been invented specially to characterize statements such as the one quoted.
Zadok: I did not have a faith crisis. I discovered that the Church was having a truth crisis. Maksutov: That's the problem with this supernatural stuff, it doesn't really solve anything. It's a placeholder for ignorance.
President Hinckley on Hugh Nibley: "I have respected him highly for his great scholarship and for his quiet and humble manner. He knows what he is talking about, but he does not shout it."
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kjones wrote:President Hinckley on Hugh Nibley: I have respected him highly for his great scholarship and for his quiet and humble manner. He knows what he is talking about, but he does not shout it.
God I wish Mormons would actually listen to their own prophets.
"Jesus gave us the gospel, but Satan invented church. It takes serious evil to formalize faith into something tedious and then pile guilt on anyone who doesn’t participate enthusiastically." - Robert Kirby
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer. -- Henry Lawson
kjones wrote:President Hinckley on Hugh Nibley: "I have respected him highly for his great scholarship and for his quiet and humble manner. He knows what he is talking about, but he does not shout it."
The opposite of Droopy, who doesn't know what he is talking about and shout it.
EDA ... and is not respected ...
- Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message. - Umberto Eco - To assert that the earth revolves around the sun is as erroneous as to claim that Jesus was not born of a virgin. - Cardinal Bellarmine at the trial of Galilei