OldSkool
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Hi. Been a busy weekend. Funeral on Saturday and gsc free Sunday. Seems I missed a lot. I'll chime in a lil later. Peace.
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I feel in many ways TWI practice fails if Christ isn't absent to them. Placements for example: they literally think they are placing members in the body of Christ as it peases God when they decide way corps assignments. To them Christ is absent so the standing in the gap concept comes to play to enforce compliance. Just a couple examples.
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I am willing to read more. I enjoyed what you posted. Keep on keeping on!
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I prefer extreme hot sauce and ball peen hammers though.
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Im thinking that personal or political bias are more elements that help form a person's decisions, and though are contributing factors in the process, are also independant of one's free will. I say this because someone could arrive at the same conclusions as someone with personal or political bias independant of said bias. I can understand freewill meaning weak will power to people, especially in our modern society where so many values, such as basic discipline, have been eroded. We are the informercial generation...lol....give us a product that makes life quick and easy and most of us are happy. Im not discounting the medical side of addictions such as smoking, or even mental disorders that can cause people to over/binge eat. Sometimes people just need help with these issues and all the freewill in the world will not overcome the addiction. Im thinking along the lines of T-Bone that a metaphysical approach tends to be more inconvlusive versus biological / electrochemical approach. Why? Well, as soon as you introduce varying standards that influence free will then you are really down to a bowl of spaghetti becuase most people have their own standards (religous/moral tenets) for how they arrive at decisions and that could be based on an inderterminate number of factors that could be damn near impossible to quantify in any standardized fashion for comparison.
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Yes! Personally, I do better getting ideas out on paper going from the basic premise that the mind is better suited for coming up with ideas versus remembering them. Some writers prefer to be more techinical up front, outlines and such. I've written that way before but in the end felt stifled.
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I tend to write in the same manner. Sometimes it's a matter of getting thoughts out onto the computer screen and then coming back around to straighten it all out.
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Mike, I know you aren't asking a critique, but I do think it's well written in substance. Im not sure how the rest of the book plays out in terms of defining your terms. You have probably handled that in other preliminary sections. Im thinking from a developmental editing perspective you may be leading the audience into your perspective somewhat For example: Why is it edgy for some? Maybe there are those in the scientific community who don't think it's edgy at all and could be more dismissive on that basis. Perhaps with clearly defining your terms (and for all I know you have) you would be able to lead other's who wouldn't consider this perspective into a braodened point of view with you leading the way with your work you are presenting. However, Im not here to do a developmental edit, or any editing at all really. The topic is new to me from a scientific point of view so I did enjoy the read and enlarging my understanding somewhat in a direction I don't typically go on such matters - science. I think from a "religous" perspective freewill is perhaps oversimplified or perhaps it's just that simple but it basically comes down to the ability to make a choice between multiple options. Of course in this context concepts such as right/wrong come into play and it get's muddied very quickly. Gonna peruse it a little more later but nice work! P.S. - I did see definitions devolop somewhat as the chapter progressed, so it's not like it's ignored. I just mean possibly defining them up front before progressing.
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Yeah...gotta analyze that for a few hours...lol
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YES!!! Nailed it!!!
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Mike - thank you for posting some substance. I will give it a read. Gotta get some pizza figured out in my life after my early Friday evening nap. Then I will be back. Thanks again.
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I think he seeks a self-appointed platform of moral and intellecual superiorty to pull off his agenda, which he's failing miserably at...you know getting us to re-take pflap and all. Now...who else have I ran across that did that sort of thing...vic...victor Ppp....ahh..was coming to me....
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I still marvel that Mike is amongst the top neuroscientists in the world and spends his time studying pflap and the collaterals ..all of which are quite remedial. Sounds like rock n roll group ..Pflap and the Collaterals!
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No - the household didn't get out of hand. Wierwille and the trustees got out of hand - embezzling donations, sexually molesting young women, alcohol abuse, etc. What started with wierwille ended with Rosalie doing around a 20 years coverup. RICO case.
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If a man says something and his wife isn't around to hear it is he still wrong?
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Yeah...just like God marched all those super spiritual men to wierwille so he could learn what to teach...
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These couple of paragraphs are so full of bullshonta it's hard to know where to start. Who ever said the first century believer's STOPPED walking in the light of the great mystery? Wierwille? well of course he said that becuase how else could he come up with a package of material that hadn't been known since the first century if it hadn't been lost? The erroneous doctrines started as soon as the letters were circulated and had NOTHING to do with first century believers not riding the Mystery Machine any longer. You don't know history. Gnostic sects in Alexandria started rewriting epsitles as soon as they got em and that's verifiable HISTORY. No - nothing was lost. False prophets like wierwille came along with a lot of bullshonta is what happened though.
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Why would anyone remember what you post. Not that you don't come up with some doozies.
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You would think after 7 years for two hours a week. I mean let's say Mike's informal group only met while school was in session. Typical college semester is 10 to 15 weeks. So let's just run an average of 30 weeks a years they met out of 52. So thats 60 hours of meetings each year for 7 years...lets'call it 420 hours total....a truly appreciable number in come circles..I digress....so of 420 or so hours with the worlds top neuroscientists mike can produce .... nothing!
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Nah...I didn't miss anything, not even you trying to cover your tracks after you were called on the carpet for embellishing your story like you did. You wouldn't have said another word about it if nobody had said anything. Just like wierwille you lead people to believe that you are/were MORE than what you are/were and you do it in such a way that gives you (at least inyour own mind) plausible deniability.
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How in the eff and eff do you know a body soul person from someone with holy spirit? You giving out lo shonta tests or something?
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See..you start out making it all sound formal and full of brainiacs and God opened these massive doors for you to study with the top neuroscientists when in reality it was so informal it didn't officially exist, so naturally having you along for the ride looked like it was all inclusive....but why exaggerate it in the first place? Joining a club is FORMAL and clobs formally exist and are recognized by the university as having FORMAL benefits to the students and such. You definately led people to believe it was something a LOT more than it actually was.....basically you were in an informal study group that didn't exist in any meaningful way as far as the university was concerned....just a group of folks getting together of which you were the tag-along-mascot kinda guy.
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And you just unequiviocally know when spirit is present, or not.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQfzwFloVqA
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Geez. You obviously lack any depth of understanding in what you are actually talking about. There isn't a scientist anywhere that wants to hear anything about spirit becuase it can't be scientifically proven.
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Your wierwillian judgmentalism really comes out with these statements. Who are you to judge another man's walk? So- if im to translate your way speak here....people are smart when they are following wierwilles formulaic approach to walking for God and when they no longer toe the line they become stupid because holy spirit no longer operates in them. And people who disagree with you lose IQ because that disagreement is based in hate. Either way your assumed superiority shines through here, both morally and intellectually.
