"Live by the lamp of their own conceit"

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_Lamanite
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Re: "Live by the lamp of their own conceit"

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GoodK wrote:...



[DELETED] I would've told your Dad. And I hope that someone would tell me if my daughters were acting in a similar way. At least we could then have a dialogue.

Unlike Brother Petersen, I believe you are someone who should be ignored. Feel free to do the same with my posts.




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Re: "Live by the lamp of their own conceit"

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Lamanite wrote:[DELETED]


Ahh... an ad hominem is much easier than explaining your bizarre list of non sequiturs. It's fine.

Forgive me if I don't take tough guys who internet posture on religious message boards very seriously.

I was just giving you a chance to explain your list - it made me laugh. Please don't punch me. :lol:

So what do John Calvin, the Dalai Lama, and Harriet Tubman have in common?

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Re: "Live by the lamp of their own conceit"

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GoodK wrote:So what do John Calvin, the Dalai Lama, and Harriet Tubman have in common?


Possible nobodies who did something to be somebodies.
One moment in annihilation's waste,
one moment, of the well of life to taste-
The stars are setting and the caravan
starts for the dawn of nothing; Oh, make haste!

-Omar Khayaam

*Be on the lookout for the forthcoming album from Jiminy Finn and the Moneydiggers.*
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LifeOnaPlate wrote:
Possible nobodies who did something to be somebodies.


If the list were thoughtful enough to discuss, I'd argue that the Dalai Lama - crowned at age 2 (assuming we are talking about the current head of the CTA) - did nothing and that everyone that is a "somebody" (whatever that means) was a possible nobody.Hell, Hitler should be on this savant's list.

But it's not.
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Re: "Live by the lamp of their own conceit"

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Daniel Peterson wrote:
GoodK wrote:You passed several links as I've demonstrated.

Sharing a link to a public message board isn't a crime. Doing it twice or three times wouldn't be a crime, either.



Daniel is correct as usual. Snitching is not a crime. You can do it as often as necessary.
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The answer is no, Lamanite. Thanks anyway, but no. No, I'm not willing to risk my family, my life, my career, and my comfort zone in order to placate your sense of fair play. If you don't like that, oh well. I'll be there when I get there. I'll meet whoever wants to come for dinner. I'll pay my own way. But I won't be imposing myself on some poor unsuspecting general authority who wouldn't know what hit him, until after I'd left... and then he'd call my poor beleagured stake president to start the process for my court of love. Not gonna happen. Especially not gonna happen because you try to drag my life into some alternate reality of a middle school. Yes, I speak Teenager, but I don't live in that world.

If a general authority ever calls me and wants to pick my brain for ideas, suggestions, comments, or criticism, I'll do my best to accomodate him. I'll even share why I think the way I think. But I won't put myself on the hot seat to satisfy someone else. Find some other schmuck stupid enough to play your game. It won't be me.
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silentkid wrote:That's probably where you and I differ, but only just a little. I'm more of a Type B wussy. I couldn't win a fight to save my life, so I don't pick them (unless it's with LoAP, cause I know I could take him. :wink:)


Huh? I thought you were like 6'6. Most guys wuold have to stand on a box to punch you [unless they were to go for the stones :eek: ] plus you gotta have the reach issue. I'd lay money on the big guy.
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Yong Xi wrote:Daniel is correct as usual. Snitching is not a crime. You can do it as often as necessary.

And now it's a trio: Rollo Tomasi, Yong Xi, and the GoodKid.

You call it "snitching." I call it pointing something out to a friend that, had the situations been reversed, I would have wanted to know.

However, I think we need to discuss this for ten or twenty more pages, at least. We can call the epic Paradise Lost, or something like that.

Of Dan's Worst Act of Viciousness, and the Fruit
Of that Horrific Deed, whose mortal tast
Brought Strife into the Clan, and all our woe,
With loss of Eden, till one greater Man
Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top
Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire
That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed,
In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth
Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion Hill
Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow'd
Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence
Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song,
That with no middle flight intends to soar
Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues
Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhime.
And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer
Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure,
Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first
Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread
Dove-like satst brooding on the vast Abyss
And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark
Illumin, what is low raise and support;
That to the highth of this great Argument
I may assert Eternal Punishment,
And vilify the wayes of Dan to men.
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Daniel Peterson wrote:However, I think we need to discuss this for ten or twenty more pages, at least. We can call the epic Paradise Lost, or something like that.


How I love Milton.
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Re: "Live by the lamp of their own conceit"

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Daniel Peterson wrote:
Yong Xi wrote:Daniel is correct as usual. Snitching is not a crime. You can do it as often as necessary.

And now it's a trio: Rollo Tomasi, Yong Xi, and the GoodKid.

You call it "snitching." I call it pointing something out to a friend that, had the situations been reversed, I would have wanted to know.



Typical DCP "snitchsmack".
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