RE: Gullibility - a key to heaven?
October 16, 2012 at 8:53 am
(This post was last modified: October 16, 2012 at 9:13 am by The Grand Nudger.)
@Cat fish.
Produce the "legitimate word"
Produce anything beyond the text.
Demonstrate that you "understand perfectly"
Demonstrate that anything is "written" on anyone's "heart".
You can double or triple down on bullshit all day long, I'll just keep adding things to this list...and whether you feel the need to support these claims or not they will never become my responsibility. Now, there comes a point when asking someone to elaborate upon any given claim they've made that you start to suspect that they are incapable of doing so. I think we've reached that point (in truth I think we began at that point). If you feel that your responses deserve anything more than casual dismissal you're going to have to add some substance to them, if the only substance you can add is evasion and shifting...well, again...we've reached that point. I think you should really take the time to see the strange place we find ourselves in here. Your inability to support your claims has led you to proposing meaningless and fanciful shit like writing on hearts (or that hearts do something other than moving fluids). Now, I understand that this is meant to be metaphor...but when your metaphors propose idiocy...in support of fantasy, something about the notion has turned you in knots around yourself (because I'm gonna go out on a limb here and state that you probably don't believe anything at all is written on your own heart in actuality). Now, if the goal here is to promote a better understanding, or to communicate the principles or reality of your faith...I can't see how such a trite platitude is going to further that goal. More specifically I can't see how it's going to be very helpful in a conversation with me...because personally I don't accept platitudes as substitutes for understanding or knowledge. I'd suggest that you shouldn't accept them as such either..but in the end, what you decide to accept as knowledge or understanding is your own god-damned business.
Produce the "legitimate word"
Produce anything beyond the text.
Demonstrate that you "understand perfectly"
Demonstrate that anything is "written" on anyone's "heart".
You can double or triple down on bullshit all day long, I'll just keep adding things to this list...and whether you feel the need to support these claims or not they will never become my responsibility. Now, there comes a point when asking someone to elaborate upon any given claim they've made that you start to suspect that they are incapable of doing so. I think we've reached that point (in truth I think we began at that point). If you feel that your responses deserve anything more than casual dismissal you're going to have to add some substance to them, if the only substance you can add is evasion and shifting...well, again...we've reached that point. I think you should really take the time to see the strange place we find ourselves in here. Your inability to support your claims has led you to proposing meaningless and fanciful shit like writing on hearts (or that hearts do something other than moving fluids). Now, I understand that this is meant to be metaphor...but when your metaphors propose idiocy...in support of fantasy, something about the notion has turned you in knots around yourself (because I'm gonna go out on a limb here and state that you probably don't believe anything at all is written on your own heart in actuality). Now, if the goal here is to promote a better understanding, or to communicate the principles or reality of your faith...I can't see how such a trite platitude is going to further that goal. More specifically I can't see how it's going to be very helpful in a conversation with me...because personally I don't accept platitudes as substitutes for understanding or knowledge. I'd suggest that you shouldn't accept them as such either..but in the end, what you decide to accept as knowledge or understanding is your own god-damned business.
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