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  1. Rocky
    What is CLEAR is you haven't taken it upon yourself to learn the fundamentals of communication. Likewise you refuse to own YOUR responsibility to make your message clear to readers. IF you perceive that YOUR message is not being received in the way you intended it, the responsibility for clarification is YOURS alone.
  2. Rocky

    Cults S3

    Rocky replied to chockfull's topic in About The Way

    A totally human construct. To me, it highlights the power of peer pressure, the need for belonging, and the quirkiness born of religion founders propagating how to communication the "specialness" of their particular sect/cult. Nevertheless, intriguing.
  3. Rocky
    It's as if he's taken ownership of the entire website.
  4. Rocky
    Bless their pea-pickin' little ol' hearts.
  5. Rocky
    Good golly, Mike. it's as if you can't take even the most UNsubtle HINT.
  6. Rocky
    Makes sense to me.
  7. Rocky
    Of course. IMO, Wierwille was a selfish man who developed a niche within a religious context. Reflecting back to M Scott Peck's thesis in People of the Lie, the essence of evil is deception, or lying. From that angle, I certainly don't give him the benefit of the doubt. It has now been about 30 years since I read People of the Lie. From Goodreads: "People who are evil attack others instead of facing their own failures. Peck demonstrates the havoc these people of the lie work in the lives of those around them." That quote certainly describes Wierwille.
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  9. Rocky
    The Whole Duty of Man 9 And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yes, he pondered and sought out and set[c] in order many proverbs. 10 The Preacher sought to find [d]acceptable words; and what was written was upright—words of truth. 11 The words of the wise are like goads, and the words of [e]scholars are like well-driven nails, given by one Shepherd. 12 And further, my son, be admonished by these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh. 13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man’s all. 14 For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.
  10. Rocky
    ‘Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.’ These words, along with ‘to everything there is a season’, are among the most famous in the Book of Ecclesiastes, part of the Old Testament. The Bible is full of well-known quotations which are often cited in a way that floats quite free of their original context; so what does ‘Vanity of vanities’ and ‘all is vanity’ actually mean? There’s a simple answer to this, but it’s also – like many simple answers – imperfect. But let’s begin with this answer, in any case: 1:2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity. In summary, the Preacher who is the author of Ecclesiastes tells us that everything we do is ‘vanity’: empty, futile, and short-lived. It doesn’t matter if you’re wise or a fool, ultimately, because everyone ends up dying. The author goes on to encourage wisdom as something to strive for in order to ensure a well-lived earthly life, but he is sceptical of whether it carries any long-term benefits beyond this life.
  11. Rocky
    What if... the people who wrote the Bible were doing essentially the same thing(s) the writers of Norse, Roman, Greek, or any other culture's mythologists were doing when they wrote what those cultures accepted as godly insight? What if they were simply, within the context of the culture in which they lived and dwelled, were inspired to make sense of life as they knew it at the time? To me, that would make a lot of sense and explain the silliness or vanity (or vainness) of: IOW, that pretty much everything Wierwille taught us was -- and putting it this way gives ol' Victor the benefit of the doubt -- was either complete and total bullshonta OR it was simply him explaining life the way that made sense to him. Of course, within that framework, what made sense in life was how VP could most efficiently and effectively separate us from our hard earned money.
  12. Rocky
    Your "model" of any kind of free will is complete and total bullshonta.
  13. Rocky
    Bravo! Your entire post/comment is worthy of hearty emphasis. Thanks, Old Skool.
  14. Rocky
    I respect these people, historians and other academics, FAR more than Bullshonta Mike, on topics related to this thread.
  15. Rocky
    https://www.amazon.com/Why-Receive-Holy-Spirit-How-ebook/dp/B00IQFBMTE/ https://www.amazon.com/gift-Holy-Spirit-Jack-Stiles/dp/0800704789/
  16. Rocky
    Then there's the question of who's responsible for that which one feeds one's mind (brain). If Mike's right, how many incarcerated humans in how many countries are no longer responsible for what they did? See my comment above about mens rea. Mike is FULL of bullshonta.
  17. Rocky
    Mens Rea refers to criminal intent. The literal translation from Latin is "guilty mind." The plural of mens rea is mentes reae. A mens rea refers to the state of mind statutorily required in order to convict a particular defendant of a particular crime. See, e.g. Staples v. United States, 511 US 600 (1994). Establishing the mens rea of an offender is usually necessary to prove guilt in a criminal trial. The prosecution typically must prove beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the offense with a culpable state of mind. Justice Holmes famously illustrated the concept of intent when he said “even a dog knows the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked.”
  18. Rocky
    Further indication of Mike's INTENTION to commandeer GSC for his own purposes.
  19. Rocky
    Again, an affirmative indicator of Mike's INTENT to hijack this entire website for his own narcissistic purposes.
  20. Rocky
    How much of a coincidence is it that LEARNING to SIT is something dogs are taught in obedience school?
  21. Rocky

    Doug Mastriano

    Rocky replied to penworks's topic in Open

    Doug Mastriano lost. He will not be the next governor of Pennsylvania.
  22. Rocky
    To make a claim about what "the authoritative ones... are thinking, requires links to what so-called authoritative ones have said aloud. Otherwise it's complete and total bullshonta. You actually have the ear of two professors in the field (a cornfield in OH, right?) is more complete and total bullshonta. There's no room for amateurs like you when professors of neurology or psychology apparently, according to you, don't even have it figured out. Why don't you try to get your book published, chapter by chapter, in Popular Science. IF you do, then tell us about it. Until then you're just full of bullshonta.
  23. Rocky
    More evidence of addiction to vain babblings. “Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” ― Mark Twain
  24. Rocky
    Thus saith the Lord, there's no new thing under the sun... except for what Mike dreams up.
  25. Rocky
    The reason I don't think of it the way you bullshonta suggest is because what you "give it" is a counter purpose to the intended purpose of this site. You ARE a con artist. Your suggestion above lends credibility to the characterization and corroborates your intent to take it over. Not only have you done so, but you appear to have done so with full intent. Btw, remember the first rule of holes? When you're in one, stop digging.
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