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Some thoughts after both of your posts. In cyberspace, it may be difficult to figure out where someone is coming from when their persona contradicts their stated goals or intent. When someone is that predictably inconsistent, I become very wary of anything they say. Is it a mental health issue or a deliberate deception for whatever reason? Since I’m not qualified to play doctor and diagnose someone over the internet – I usually go by my version of dealing with someone at face value – as I would if I were a bank teller. If what they hand me looks fake, I won’t accept it. Go deposit crazy somewhere else ~ ~ ~ ~ for example - this post

Or... In short, you missed all the trouble areas and missed a lot of unique learning experiences. And that's why you can't hear what others say about the real TWI. Did it ever occur to you to study the Bible? In 20 years studying just the gospels or the OT or the epistles, you could really have learned something.

That goes for me too! Grease Spot is great for exchanging ideas and connecting with folks in cyberspace. It’s not like we’re developing an aggregate doctrinal thesis. And as scatterbrained as Mike’s stuff sounds – I tend to think he’s aware of that too - - and it might be he just gets his rocks off by annoying others.

Seriously? You admit you're a parasite here at GSC?

You adding more books or subtracting?

It's the same whether it's straight or flipped.

Shame on you for not letting them know how futile their efforts were, in light of not being able to "go beyond what you're taught".

How do you retrieve pieces in the wind? And did you come up with that concept? “The calculus, theory of relativity, and wave theory stuff that I mentioned is trivial and can be found in any history of science text, no expertise needed”. I’ve noticed you tend to exaggerate, bloviate, and generalize stuff all out of proportion into a big ball of nebulous nonsense – so I’m not surprised you make foolish statements like this. Not surprised at all. “You are too formal about background credentials, and you deny yourself good knowledge knocking at your door.” That’s why I don’t believe anything you say – since you seem to have an open door policy for any pseudoscientific, pseudointellectual, pseudo-Christian baloney that doesn’t even have to knock – you go out on the porch and drag them in. “The spirits I had in mind were the Holy Spirit and his angels, plus the devil. New ideas come from the spiritual realm.” Is this theories that YOU came up with? “Most of neuroscience has come around to agree with the Bible on man's self aggrandizement of his own consciousness” What surveys have YOU conducted and what data have YOU reviewed to come up with that? What a stupid incoherent mess you’ve dumped in this thread, Mike! Do you even keep track of what you say? You say you’re intent on getting your message out here – to come back to PFAL – but your unintelligible propaganda is a huge turn-off for me. I can think of only a few of possibilities as to why you keep going like this – there’s probably other reasons too that I haven’t thought of…but anyway here’s some of my reasons why your “advertisements” turn me off: 1. If you’re representative of what PFAL does to one’s intelligence – yikes! 2. Your persistence in pushing nonsense has a nefarious purpose – yikes! 3. Your “career” of insinuating yourself into any thread is annoying – are you on TWI’s payroll? Yikes ! 4. Your inability to tell the difference between truth and lies – Yikes!

If this were any more ironic Andrew Lloyd Webber would be writing songs about it.

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.

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

Chef Boyardee, of course.

Warren Sanchez was introduced to a poor man who asked Warren: 'Brother, what is the meaning of life?' Warren answered: 'The meaning of life I will tell you In four words: How would I know?" What did Warren wish to tell us with this? Let us analyze the phrase. "I" , ego. It would appear to indicate egotism, worship of the self, haughtiness. The thing is that here, Warren uses it through opposition, to tell us precisely the opposite. In other words, humility. So that it is quite clear here, when Warren says "I", he is saying "humility." But Warren says something further. Warren says, "How should I know?" In other words, "I, who should know." In sum, brethren, Warren knows the meaning of life, but humility keeps him from saying it.

You added the word "really" to the word of wierwille. When you add to the word of wierwille, you no longer have the word of wierwille. There's a certain irony of taking face-to-face, or mouth-to-mouth, as God put it, in this context. You said communicating in the "5 senses", like an audible conversation, is CRUDE and LIMITED, and that it is "far from a face-to-face conversation." Don't you get it? God confirmed that "face to face conversations" are personal, but since they're by the senses, you're categorizing them- inadvertently- as "CRUDE and LIMITED." Don't you listen to yourself? That's an internal contradiction- and it came from trying to make obvious errors into secret truths.

Check out Jeremiah 32:27 sometime: Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh, is there anything too hard for me? God created the universe and the laws there within. If he want to talk to someone without spirit, guess what he can make a universal law to do? Or was his foreknowledge on the fritz that day?

When beginning the discussion with a given of an ALMIGHTY God, the idea of that ALMIGHTY God having "difficulty" with ANYTHING is a ludicrous one. "Less efficient", to one with infinite resources, is equally ludicrous.

Mike your "messaging" is antithetical to changing anyone's mind in the direction you say you want to. First thing to do, for successful messaging, is to get people to like you. Clearly, that is not something you seem to know or if you do know, you don't care about. You are wasting your time here, Mike. You've done so, off and on, for roughly 20 years. Is this really what you want your life to have meant when it's all over?

PFLAP was the last time I took a class by someone not apt to teach. In Elizabethan English, apt means skilled. A skilled teacher doesn't deflect questions. A skilled teacher takes the time to organize his thoughts so meaning is clearly conveyed. Above all, a skilled teacher is a skilled student, always willing to learn, willing to let go of rotten ideas, willing to embrace the unknown, willing to admit he is wrong so that he might pursue truth.