PG: ...The only reason I can see for why a short question might really need a long answer is that in fact there are no good answers to the question, so you need time and space to create a new context within which the question can mean something else—something that you can answer. Insisting that people listen to a long answer is exactly like insisting on dimming the lights before doing your magic trick. It's something you do to get away with deception....
That sounds like what Hamblin was trying to do with Jenkins during their infamous debate. Having to do it live so you can dim the lights is a great way to put it, PG, because when it’s done in ‘slow-time’ writing, i.e. under very bright lights, it’s clunky and awkward and can even highlight the trick instead of masking it, as Hamblin found out. Jenkins didn’t tolerate it at all, and CES letter objectors seem to be having no better success than Hamblin.
Thank you for that post. It was incredibly good; the whole thing was signature-line worthy.
"Finally, for your rather strange idea that miracles are somehow linked to the amount of gay sexual gratification that is taking place would require that primitive Christianity was launched by gay sex, would it not?"
They shut down posters like ALarson (one of the most intelligent and fair poster on that board and they know he'd nail them to the wall if they allowed the discussion to continue). Period. But, their board/their rules.
It's amazing for all their zeal for sharing the Gospel and showing how it stands up to rigorous criticism that message board closes down literally THOUSANDS of threads.......when I was in charge of it, lo those many years ago, we NEVER closed down threads. NOT O-N-C-E......
Dr CamNC4Me
"Dr. Peterson and his Callithumpian cabal of BYU idiots have been marginalized by their own inevitable irrelevancy defending a fraud."
Philo Sofee wrote:It's amazing for all their zeal for sharing the Gospel and showing how it stands up to rigorous criticism that message board closes down literally THOUSANDS of threads.......when I was in charge of it, lo those many years ago, we NEVER closed down threads. NOT O-N-C-E......
Right. I remember that: "We at FAIR" . . . .
Just for fun, may I ask you a question? How do you think you'd have held up back then if today's SHULEM had approached you back then and slammed you with the Book of Abraham? I have to wonder how you would have held up.
Ha! Piece of cake! I'll see your Nibley refutation and raise you a John Gee quote!!! Gee knows 8 different languages, and he travels the world over, and he's written real books, and he has a real Ph.d.....and.....and.....and........(My Midget imitation)
Dr CamNC4Me
"Dr. Peterson and his Callithumpian cabal of BYU idiots have been marginalized by their own inevitable irrelevancy defending a fraud."
Philo Sofee wrote:Ha! Piece of cake! I'll see your Nibley refutation and raise you a John Gee quote!!! Gee knows 8 different languages, and he travels the world over, and he's written real books, and he has a real Ph.d.....and.....and.....and........(My Midget imitation)
