Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Best to focus on Mankind in the here and now, no?
As Marley said in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, "Mankind is our business." I can get behind that.
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Best to focus on Mankind in the here and now, no?
Ceeboo wrote:RedJacket wrote:
Interesting that you refer to it as a Creator/God. Do you have a particular brand of deity that you're attached to?
Yes - the brand that Created the entire universe.
Jersey Girl wrote:I know that a lot of criticism has been directed your way, but I want you to know that I'm not trying to make you feel down on yourself. I just wanted to try to give you a bit more insight to the children who wear the labels we adults put on them.
KevinSim wrote:And I just wanted to try to give IHAQ a bit more insight to the women who he wanted to wear his labels.
I have a question wrote:That's a disgraceful attempt at misrepresenting what I actually posted.
The only poster applying labels to women in this thread is you.
I labelled Jersey Girl's posts as 'bitchy', I did not label Jersey Girl a 'bitch'.
Please try and comprehend the difference.
sock puppet wrote:So, in sum, I think there is no evidence for either, but one (the "god" hypothesis) has in times past satiated human curiosity about the world's formation and yet gives hope to those who need it that as distinct, integrated conscious entities, they will continue after death--in some kind of easier/rectified existence.
richardMdBorn wrote:Doctor CamNC4Me Regardless, even if the gospels were correlated and time stamped, the authors' claims, the miracles, the existential reasons for a blood sacrifice by the Jewish god are as believable as Joseph Smith' s fable. I mean, we're 2,000 years on from the narrative. s*** hasn't changed yo. People are still dicks.
Jersey Girl I don't recall anywhere in Biblical scripture the claim that Christianity would change the inherent nature of human beings.
Doctor Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
I'll interject a personal story. In my senior year at Brown, I took an English history class from David Underdown (a well respected historian). Before one class, i overheard one student talking to another about the remarkable transformation of a third student. He'd been a big time jerk but his conversion to Christianity had transformed his life in a positive way. Obviously, not all conversions are so dramatic. Louis "Louie" Zamperini is an example of a prominent person who changed very positively after his conversion. But humanity as a whole has not been converted and there's no promise in the New Testament that those outside of Christ will have their nature changed.
I have a question wrote:KevinSim wrote:And I just wanted to try to give IHAQ a bit more insight to the women who he wanted to wear his labels.
That's a disgraceful attempt at misrepresenting what I actually posted.
The only poster applying labels to women in this thread is you.
I have a question wrote:I labelled Jersey Girl's posts as 'bitchy', I did not label Jersey Girl a 'bitch'.
Please try and comprehend the difference.
bitchy
adjective, bitchier, bitchiest. Slang.
1. characteristic of a bitch; spiteful; malicious.
Kevin wrote:By calling Jersey Girl's posts "bitchy" you were calling her a bitch.
Jersey Girl wrote:Excuse me, female poster over here! **waves hand**
I don't know why I even look in here some times....Kevin....when I tried to gave you insight to the children on whom we place labels, such as "illegitimate", I was trying to give you insight on behalf of a vulnerable portion of our population who have no personal power to change their situation and who have no voice.
That is why adults like me advocate for them.
Women are quite able to speak for themselves. I've done so on this very thread. Please do not reduce me to the status of child who needs adults to act as advocate, for I have personal power of my own and I definitely have the means with which to convey it.
Jersey Girl wrote:If you want to talk about women whose lives were damage by abuse, sexual assault or discrimination in the work place, that's fine. But what you're doing here is trying to criticize a male poster for the adjective he used to describe a female posters postings here.
Why didn't you go after the word "irrational" when he used it?
Jersey Girl wrote:Why didn't you criticize me for characterizing him as a "hyperbolic dick"?
Jersey Girl wrote:I want some freaking equality around here, people, even when that means criticizing me for doing the same when I responded in kind.
Anyway, bitchy is just like whining or grumpy, or blathering. I often blather myself. You can see it in my posts. ;-)
KevinSim wrote:
But just answer me this question, Jersey Girl, do you agree with IHAQ that I owed him an apology because I called him on the carpet for using the word bitchy, and do you agree with him that I still owe the people on this forum an apology? If you do, and if you can explain to me why I owe those two entities an apology, I will most certainly give them one. (Well, I'll give the MDB an apology anyhow; IHAQ has informed me that it's too late to give him one. Thanks for defending me on that issue, by the way.)