RE: What's the most face-palm-worthy statement you have ever heard from a priest/preacher
August 29, 2015 at 11:13 am
I don't recall saying the response which you attribute to me. Here's the point. If I ask a straightforward question, honestly and sincerely, and the questioned party points to something that doesn't address the question, can I then be castigated for not finding such a response satisfying?
Couple of years ago I was in the position of helping and supporting a friend who was being threatened by social services with having her child taken for adoption. Unjustly, I will add, purely for financial gain and because she was herself in the care system as a child. Two social workers were assigned to vet her parenting abilities during home visits over a period of about a month; they would bring the little boy - when it suited them - and assess her for a couple of hours. Eventually they produced a final report from their notes, a document filled with weasel language, emotional appeals, blatant misrepresentations and subjective opinion. I was able to pick it apart and produce our own report on their report, saving her defence attorney weeks of work.
I mention this to set up the background for a telephone exchange I had with the boy's guardian, who insisted on pointing to the assessment report for every flaw I pointed out in it. It was farcical, actually:
"Well the report says a, b and c..."
"Yes I know, but the report is wrong for the following reasons..."
"But the report says..."
And so on.
She did the same thing that you did a couple of posts ago, only she did it way before you. I asked how we can know that this special mark is actually there as you claim and if it can be or has been tested for its existence; you pointed to a document that affirms your claim. A response, but hardly an answer.
Couple of years ago I was in the position of helping and supporting a friend who was being threatened by social services with having her child taken for adoption. Unjustly, I will add, purely for financial gain and because she was herself in the care system as a child. Two social workers were assigned to vet her parenting abilities during home visits over a period of about a month; they would bring the little boy - when it suited them - and assess her for a couple of hours. Eventually they produced a final report from their notes, a document filled with weasel language, emotional appeals, blatant misrepresentations and subjective opinion. I was able to pick it apart and produce our own report on their report, saving her defence attorney weeks of work.
I mention this to set up the background for a telephone exchange I had with the boy's guardian, who insisted on pointing to the assessment report for every flaw I pointed out in it. It was farcical, actually:
"Well the report says a, b and c..."
"Yes I know, but the report is wrong for the following reasons..."
"But the report says..."
And so on.
She did the same thing that you did a couple of posts ago, only she did it way before you. I asked how we can know that this special mark is actually there as you claim and if it can be or has been tested for its existence; you pointed to a document that affirms your claim. A response, but hardly an answer.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'