MrStakhanovite wrote:Debating is a game, and is not a valid method of finding the truth, merely a means to walk one’s rhetoric for a little exercise.
These are the ramblings of a cornered intellectual hack who is functioning from a position of fear, fear of what the really substantive apologetic arguments may make of the sophisticated knit one, pearl two text-critical approach the critics have long taken to the Book of Abraham and which has now been taken to the mat by competent LDS scholars who have begun to beat them at their own game.
College debate clubs may do it as a game. Serious thinkers do not, and you have long ago recused yourself from among that class.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Drifting wrote:Maybe Chris will debate Will in the period following publication of Will's long awaited, much vaunted, previously pulled, piece of work.
When/where will that be?
Doubtless long before the over 25 years we've been waiting for Metcalf's.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
MrStakhanovite wrote:Hey Loran, didn't that happen in the same thread where you claimed to have debated in a formal academic setting, but upon questioning, it turned out that it was just some kind of speech class?
I have no idea what you're talking about, and neither do you. I've never debated in a formal, academic setting, except within academic classes with other students, nor have I ever taken a speech class.
Next time you roll your dice, Stak, take those cheap 3-D glasses off and aim for the floor.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Drifting wrote:Maybe Chris will debate Will in the period following publication of Will's long awaited, much vaunted, previously pulled, piece of work.
When/where will that be?
Doubtless long before the over 25 years we've been waiting for Metcalf's.
A very bold claim! I hope you are right.
I'm not familiar with Metcalfe, nor his work, so I don't see the relevance (but accept there may be relevance).
“We look to not only the spiritual but also the temporal, and we believe that a person who is impoverished temporally cannot blossom spiritually.” Keith McMullin - Counsellor in Presiding Bishopric
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How do you know who Will Schryver is? Have you been to other message boards? You said you have only been here for a short amount of time and you didn't know what we were talking about. But then you know who Will Schryver is. That makes no sense because not to many Mormons know who the hell Will is and they really don't care. Most Mormons don't know what an apologist is. Do you know what an apologist is? Can I ask your background?