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I was watching this television program last night. There's a contest among chefs, and the winner will get backing and advice so they can open their own restaurant. The contest is to determine who is most ready for the opportunity- who COULD run a restaurant if given a chance. Each contestant thinks they're ready to do it, and has their own concept of the restaurant they want to open. In the very first challenge, they were each given the task of making a single plate of food that embodied their concept for the restaurant. They were told that one person would be sent home afterwards, the one who performed least well in the challenge. (So, the task was to be making a single plate of food that embodied their concept for their restaurant, and also tasted good, which was obvious to all the contestants.) Everyone ran around and each prepared a dish. A panel of 3 people was presented each dish one at a time. One person on the panel knew the concepts. The other 2 tried the food, gave their thoughts on the quality of the dish, and also speculated on the specific concept of the restaurant, which was compared to the stated concept. Three chefs ended up performing less well than the others, and the one who performed least was sent home immediately. He said his concept was "Southern food and ramen." The dish he presented was not Southern food, nor did it contain ramen. Both guesses to the concept were from judges who could detect no pattern. "The concept is 'a mess.' " When the chef was sent home, he told the cameramen that the concept was there, but for some reason the judges couldn't see it. (Um, neither could we, and we were watching from home.) He refused to accept that the responsibility for clear communication was his, and decided that if there was a miscommunication, it HAD TO be on the recipients because he was SURE he had communicated clearly. However, he had not- and we have the video recordings to prove it. It's a poor communicator that communicates vaguely and then blames the audience for not seeing his points.

Again, the reality is posters on this thread are TOYING with you, almost certainly because (as has been documented in various comments) nobody is taking your "thesis" seriously... and because it is obvious to everyone (perhaps excluding you) that you're both full of bullshonta and freely posting without honoring either your fellow posters or the (legitimate) owner(s) of the website who make it available for you to publish your "book" without contributing financially.

Considering all of Mike's contradictory ramblings I'm thinking it should moved to The Dumpster section.

However, like the story WW relayed about the chef, just before my comment, whether Mike knows what he's doing or not is not relevant. That he refuses to OWN his responsibility for communicating his message clearly IS relevant. IMO, it's well past time to send Mike home. It's a poor communicator that communicates vaguely and then blames the audience for not seeing his points.

Nobody missed anything.

You were probably hoping no one would call out the trolling tactics You were off-topic to begin with then said you were posting a “thesis” on determinism and free will, then you posted chapters of pseudoscience nonsense, then when challenged that your “theories” were incoherent ,based on nonsense, contradictory to certain tenets from PFAL and to basic tenants of Christianity - you pivoted to counter-argue that said - or will say - actually proves you’re in agreement with the alleged challenges. Your bottom-up approach you posited on the NT canon thread was utter nonsense- I wouldn’t bring that up if I were you - since it exemplifies what a troll would do to derail a thread. I’m not a glutton for being trolled- so coming back to any topics you’ve done a royal # 2 of Bull-Shonta to the 666th degree does not sound appetizing. It’s probably too much to hope that you will quit acting like an incessant troll - ditch the duplicity - grow a real backbone and YOU start a thread and stay on topic. If your supervisor (or handler ) at HQ sees this stuff you've been posting - you will probably be called on the carpet about it since it reflects poorly on PFAL Today.