Nathan_Jr

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I have found determinism can help me to be more compassionate.

You did? Where do you stand now? Free will or determinism? I'll tell you I am undecided, but I tend to lean towards determinism. Though, I find the issue fascinating, I haven't thought enough about it to discuss. It's all very complex.

Like how when victor put it all together - that was the original part. But that's not origination. That's derivation. Unfortunately, for victor, his wholly original man made teachings were the stupidest and easiest to refute of all his pedagogy.

Oh, the fetishizing of pedagogy. Beware those so eager to teach you. Why are they so eager to teach you?

Like the angel that visited René Descartes in a dream. Nothing has been the same since. Thank God for René Descartes.

Irony. God made that, too.

They did?

If only victor could have beleeved big enough to live long enough he would have been taught how (H-O-W) to be as spiritually aware and perceptive as Dave Chappelle and Bull Burr.

Chappelle’s wife is Asian. Both of their treatments on race and marriage are profoundly insightful with devastating honesty.

Bill Burr or Chappelle? Both are in mixed race marriages.

I saw Bill Burr about 10 years ago at a 1500 seat theatre. Absolutely hilarious show! He didn’t trash any hecklers, but he did engage the audience and throughly roasted the South and my city. Chappelle is the GOAT. Chappelle’s Show is the Blazing Saddles for this our day in time.

He claims to have a background in stand up comedy. Had a five year run back in tha day. And he studied the brain. So, there's that.

Thanks

Right. I'm aware of ethical standards and practices in journalism. I didn't mean to suggest a breach of those. I'm just venting, I suppose. Are those the only two journalistic standards for calling a cult a cult: self-identification (never happens) or identification by a court? Curious. Everyone's ears have become so brittle in recent years. Cancel culture, wokeness, etc. The eggshell's seem to be scattered everywhere. It's "sexual assault" instead of rape or "sodomitic session" instead of child rape. This linguistic dishonesty isn't helpful. It seems ani-accountability. That's really my only point. I don't mean to suggest the shrugging off of ethical standards.

BELEEF is fundamental to all conspiracy theories and all cults. Truth can be known. It can be found out. Truth is not discovered by believing.

These euphemisms are part of the problem. No one wants to call a spade a spade or a cult a cult. Reminds me of Oldies disturbing use of sodomitic session as a sugar-coated, apologetic euphemism for child rape yesterday in the NT Canon thread. How can someone offering up a theological defense for child focking be permitted here, but a discussion of ideological cults is forbidden?

An EX stand up comic.

Of course! Lo Shonta is not a girl's name, FYI.

Who taught that first guy 100,000 years ago how to cook?

That article is so much easier to understand than anything Mike writes, but not nearly as funny.

That Lo Shonta was competing for space with the pennies. He had to make some room.

Victor's only goal in regurgitating "you can't go beyond what you've been taught" is indoctrination by manipulation. The subtle implication is what you've been taught is wrong, but it's not your fault, because "you can't go beyond what you've been taught." But never fear, vic is here! He's gonna teach ya the word as it hasn't been known since the 1st century (and the 19th) rightly divided. First, you've got to "unlearn what you've learned." Next, renew your mind (turn off your mind), and git ready to absorb by BELEEVING what the teacher teaches. THAT'S the only way to go beyond the error you've been taught.

God"s the one having the difficulty. Got it. The human is not having difficulty hearing God. Rather, it's God's deficiency in communicating. Got it. Thanks.

"No man can REALLY say Jesus is Lord but by holy spirit." But no man can git holy spirit until he says Jesus is Lord. Gosh, this seems like some kind of paradoxical circle! Kind of a chicken and egg thing.