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    Question. Mike, have you ever responded to Raf's points concerning PFAL errors brought up when you first washed up on these shores? Raf, did he? I find few of the conclusions even arguable. Most seem so solid as to be incontrovertible. Not that I'm all that interested to tell you the truth. Curious, I guess.

    No, he did not. He has not. He continues to dodge, distract...

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    Do you dislike me so intensely because I make too much sense and people have a hard time undoing and negating my message?

    Actually, I found it was a fairly easy task. The only difficulty is in your persistent denials that this task was accomplished within a week of your arrival.

    quote:
    Originally posted by Mike:

    Raf,

    It's not riddled with errors if you use the proper set of tools to examine it.

    Mike,

    Yes it is.

  3. quote:
    Originally posted by UncleHairy:

    It's unbelievable how so many still worship at the feet of Vic the grifter and his spermsickle cult. I say throw out the baby with the bathwater.

    I agree!

    Hear me out, though:

    My belief is that if we who still profess to be Christians decide to follow this advice, and honestly examine the scriptures, we will not have lost any "baby" in PFAL. We will, however, have lost ALL the bathwater. Not a bad exchange.

  4. quote:
    Originally posted by Mike:

    Why are they "great" if they are riddled with the kinds of errors I just listed?

    Why is their never hearing of PFAL so significant to you? Does fame = truth in your book?

    And why is PFAL so great if it, too, is riddled with errors (and it is)?

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    What do you mean by the words "fair" and "unfair"? Do they mean something like "kosher"? or something like "unpleasant to stop and consider"? Am I presenting a line of argument, or a line of persuasion? ABS "was not about donation but obligation... it was debt." What exactly do you think you generate when you make a "pledge", Raf? Isn't it an obligation? Isn't it a debt? Free-will regular (pledged) donations are just as much about obligation and debt as ABS ever was.

    I haven't read everything and won't have time to right now, but to answer a coupole of things:

    1. By fair/unfair, I meant that you deliberately compare my decision to give a certain amount with the compulsory/guilt tripping of TWI's ABuSe, which detracts from the value of your argument.

    2. Making a pledge and following through on it is not even close to being told that giving less than 10 percent is ROBBING God, and anything above that is just peachy. They're not the same thing, and your comparison of them is ludicrous.

    Other points later. Off to dinner in NYC! icon_smile.gif:)-->

  6. quote:
    Originally posted by Hope R.:

    Yes, but Belle didn't specify which Harry Potter movie she was using. As a matter of fact, there is no move called simply "Harry Potter", so technically, that movie wouldn't be allowed! anim-smile.gif

    Get it? Got it? Good. icon_razz.gif:P-->

    Cute. Only problem is, Jason Isaacs was in only ONE of the Harry Potter movies, so she could only have meant II.

    In the future, please indicate complete titles. icon_smile.gif:)-->

  7. Buzzzz!

    That's the same movie.

    Also, sequels and/or prequels are not allowed if both actors are in both movies.

    (In other words, you can't use Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets because it's the same movie Jason Isaacs was in, and you can't use Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone because Alan Rickman and Richard Harris were in both movies). Since Jason Isaacs was only in one Harry Potter movie, Chamber of Secrets was the only possibility.

    Here's something that WOULD have been allowed:

    Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone

    Ian Hart

    Finding Neverland

    Why? Because Ian Hart was ONLY in the first Harry Potter movie (he played Prof. Quirrel). So if you're using sequels and prequels to get to an actor who's ONLY in one installment, that's okay. But not to get to actors in all the installments.

    Get it? Got it? Good.

    WE left off at Richard Harris.

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    Jim Caviezel

    Frequency

  8. Here's an idea: delete all threads whose sole purpose is to ask another poster to look at his/her privates.

    Er, private topics.

    That ought to save about 9,000 or 10,000 posts right there.

  9. Oh, all right.

    How about the archived birthday threads?

    And does this mean our post counts will drop (I don't have enough arguing left in me to get back up to 5,000).

  10. quote:
    Originally posted by Steve Lortz:

    Words have meanings.

    Many words have more than one meaning. Partner is such a word. You're using it to mean one thing. They're using it to mean something else. The way they're using the word, there's absolutely no deception involved.

    I don't presume, because it's called the "partnership plan," that the principals of CES and I are homosexual lovers. However, partner is the word used of homosexual lovers. Words have meanings. Maybe they should avoid using that word so that no one will think they're implying that we're all lovers.

    I do not presume, because of the CES partnership plan, that I am a manager or policy maker of CES.

    This is neither stated nor implied in CES' use of the word partner," anymore than they are stating or implying that they are my homosexual lovers.

    You may decide all you want to focus on one meaning of the word partner, and call CES deceptive based on their failure to adhere to the meaning YOU'RE using, but if the meaning THEY'RE using is just as valid, what's the problem?

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