(June 16, 2012 at 3:02 am)Epimethean Wrote: Er, because he may well be employing it to generate an emotional response for the purpose of garnering some sympathy or at least a lessening of the drubbing he's been taking in other threads. Then, too, it could simply be to draw other christians to his side. Either way, coming at this remove from the proper time to make an introduction which might have contained this, it smacks of disingenuity or a heightened state of self-delusion.
So, again, all we can do is now speculate what his motives might be, but what good is that? Take it for what it is; a subjective experience. What can we do with it? Nothing but sit back and listen to a different walk of life share a part of his life.
I personally don't see any objective things that could be discussed to prove or disprove certain things. We don't even have two subjective accounts that could provide at least some way of filtering things. None of us were there, so what is there to discuss?
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
