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If the whole cult leader thing doesn't work out, at least you'll be good for a job teaching rhetoric at some community college.
If you were as good at contributing to the topic at hand as you are at detracting a contributor, an amputee may have been healed already.
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I, for one, never claimed to be a guru, and you are a schmuck on a message board with nothing better to do than bullshit people.
What are you claiming to be, or not to be?
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What 'sucks' is that you pollute an interesting discussion with your cheesy sanctimonious blather.
What was interesting about stoning my Father, standing by as my words are shredded, and leaving my brothers for dead, missing their limbs?
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You are just a different flavor of troll -- certainly more unique than the standard variety, but a troll nonetheless.
You can put whatever you want on my tombstone. Good luck with that.
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When I say that the truth is more than what you offer, I am not talking about some divine secret I hold in my hand.
I am asking you to offer what is in your hand. Maybe give it to an amputee.
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As for what truth I possess: I have read enough, thought enough, and walked enough paths to have figured out a few things. Nothing more exciting than that.
How much of it can you apply to the topic at hand: how to heal an amputee?
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I can taste the difference between good fruit and bad fruit.
There's probably a job out there that requires those skills. Possibly high turn over. What is the logic behind that? What would fruit from the tree of life taste like?
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And I can spot completely shite arguments when I see them.
Could you do me a favor and fill in for me on my days off? I need someone to spot all the arguments in this thread that suggest an amputee can't be healed.
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You would think the living logos would have a little firmer grasp on logic, and not be puking up glaring fallacies in almost every post.
What is not logical about exchanging hell for heaven, death for life, sickness for healing, nothing for everything? What about this world is not glaringly fallacious?
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As for serving up truth and where to find it: there are plenty of worthwhile books out there.
Any on how to raise the dead, how to walk on water, how to heal an amputee?
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Insightful people have been thinking about this stuff for a good while now. The best books will all tell you, in one way or another, that books can only serve as a starting point. The internal journey requires effort and time, no different than hiking a mountain or walking many miles. This is just a common sense observation. Many have made it before me. I am in no way a guru for sharing this.
What is the goal of such a journey? Where does it end? What is your goal in this thread?
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Enlightenment is not earth shattering. If anything it is the opposite. Before enlightenment: chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment: chop wood, carry water.
After enlightenment, you can also walk on water and turn it into wine on occasion. Even greater things than these can you do. You can shine your light for all the world to see. Why hide it under a bushel?
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Shunryu Suzuki: "Before you attain it, it is something wonderful, but after you attain it, it is nothing special."
What did he say he attained?
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What you offer is neither practical nor insightful nor useful.
That depends on where you want to go on your trip.
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That leaves aesthetic value. What you offer has no aesthetic value because your schtick is so bloody annoying.
I am offering aesthetic value to amputees. What is so annoying about that?
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So in essence, I think it sucks that your particular brand of trolling is messing up a thread I was otherwise enjoying. Little more.
What brand were you enjoying otherwise?
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And, while I'm not sure I consider them my brethren, I have feelings of compassion for those who are sucked in by your bullshit
What are your feelings about offering healing to amputees?
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-- partially because I suspect that the real you, the guy behind your Jesus schtick, is as cynical as anyone else here and knows exactly what you are doing.
I am not cynical. I am innocent, and I suspect everyone else here is also innocent, knowing not what they do.
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I sense that you are one of those people who like to shit in a river or dump battery acid in a stream, as Lou Reed might say, just because you have nothing better to do.
What's better than forgiving my brothers their illusions about themselves, about me, about our Father, and about amputees?
Jesus
