Looking For Another Christian (please ignore if you are not a believer.

[Esquilax]

ETA: I would volunteer to make it a foursome in the Esquilax/Drich/Rev debate.

I'd be down for that, though I've offered Rev a debate in the past, and he turned me down. Which is really weird, given his continued interest in telling everyone else who can and can't post in his threads; when he's given the opportunity to offer his arguments in a controlled environment, he refuses.

It's almost as if the martyr act he gets to pull when people don't do what he wants is more important to him than the thing he purportedly wants.

You get how when things fail, you change your method to fit, yes?

That isn't always the case.

http://clydeherrin.wordpress.com/2013/08/23/insanity/

There's like three reasons why I'd disagree with that. The first is that, being a biblical miracle, I obviously don't think it happened, so using it as an example isn't compelling. The second is that "keep doing the same thing over and over even if you fail every time, because magic might happen the next time!" is just a dressed up version of the same definition of insanity, given reality's propensity not to have magic in it. The third is that... well, they weren't doing the same thing over and over. Fishing takes place in a dynamic environment, filled with life that creates a situation that's constantly in flux; Simon wasn't even casting into the same patch of water, given the nature of fluid dynamics. And fish move around a lot, so he wasn't casting into the same arrangement of potential prey. Lots of things were changing in that scenario.