jackwebster

Vortices, man, VORTICES!. Btw, Macchu Picchu is the real deal. Climb that rock and tell me you didn't commune with the many-faced god. Speaking of real scams: I just got Tidal and for the past 48 hrs have been convincing my ears that I hear the unparalleled clarity of lossless. It has something to do with ... Well, I haven't mastered the jargon yet, but I'm sure I will after I get my Boenicke p1 and w5's. I figure 10 more G's, and I'm set. After that, I just need to upgrade my stylus. Then, a new belt. Then, banana clips. Then

Come on... I'm not saying it was you, but some of your orange brethren had crafted some pretty thorough apologetics.

Idk. Keeping momentum seems like a real thing. If you score at the end of the first and ride out, going down immediately to keep the ball rolling and stretch the lead seems like a strategic advantage. Something about 4 - 0 on the scoreboard is confidence building .. one more takedown and you're close to a major. Whereas, if it's 3-0 at the end of the first, the other guy goes down, and then escapes, he's making a comeback. Might sound like bs, but that's how it worked in my pea brain.

Moisey Branch Epperly

That's gold, Jerry! Gold!

When you have 5~kids raked #1, every team is weak.

C) Drawn to -- he was a kid. A = violent, misogynistic narcissist B = violent narcissist D = megalomaniac fueled by possible Geshwind syndrome

Sorta lost in this discussion is the fact that there's no way AJ competes with Brooks.

I coached for a long time and like all coaches had to deal with parents who defended their kid's outrageous behavior. But, I never had an athlete whose behavior got close to this (I had a kid steal an i-pod from a locker room; I never had a kid decorate one with his own shit). Question: What do these parent's say about this. I know it's sorta beside the point bc their adults. Still wonder.

Here's an obligatory Wu-tang objection.

Some strange Myrtle Beach / Indaniola / New Brunswick gene splicing going on.

Your reply was a little aggressive, so here's a snarkier go: the fact that this omnipotent, immortal God wants to be worshipped for a self-sacrifice through which he sacrifices nothing -- he comes out immortal, omnipotent, perfect on the other end -- is an affront to all the mortals who sacrifice themselves in service to and honor of their families, friends, nations, and traditions.

If he's omnipotent, maybe he could have just forgiven us?

"Christ’s sacrificial death on the cross is a payment for the sin debt of mankind." Gotcha. This is certainly the message in Mark. I just don't have much respect for this kind of god. You do. Fair enough. In any event, safe travels.

My bad. This summary of the loan agreement is missing a clause: In addition to Christ's payment in blood, each individual is required to pay in the trifecta a beliefs you stipulate. Again, it's hard for me to understand why an omnipotent and benevolent diety would require such payments when we forgive our children as a matter of course. Certainly, Jesus teaches something radically different.

Word.

Youre gonna have to walk me through this: according to the verse, we need(ed) to be "reconciled" to God. I assume this means that we are in His debt vis a vis sin (Original or otherwise). So re debt, the debtor has two paths towards recolliation: forgiveness or atonement. If God wants to forgive us-- being the omnipotent being that He is -- He just clears the debts, no questions asked ... you know like we do when our children f*@&% up. I.e. there ain't no need for a mediator. Atonement, on the other hand, requires a repayment of a debt. In the passages you quote, this repayment, the atonement is taken care of by Jesus. And the atonement is made "through blood on the cross." So, your exegesis is in a bind: you claim both that God forgives our sin (I.e. rents the veil in the Temple before Jesus expires on the cross as in Luke, if I remember correctly), and at the same time that God accepts atonement for our sins with Christ's blood as tender (i.e. rents the veil in the Temple after Jesus expires on the cross as in Mark). Forgiveness and atonement are mutually exclusive ideas, and this is made explicit in this context by the discrepancy about when the Temple veil was torn. So, again, walk me through it. I just can't understand why an omnipotent diety would demand atonement, a blood sacrifice of his own son, when both Jesus and lowly sinners like myself can forgive "for they no no what they do," etc.

The problem with the strong Kuhnian reading is that the "fantastically incomplete" parts of "our current body of science" are liminal. It's a baby bathwater situation, and Kuhn himself was disturbed by the post-structuralists who read SSR this way. I mean science didn't stop sciencing just because Heisenberg said the better you know the position of an object the less you know about its momentum. Yeah, the "new atheists" and their kind are insufferable. But...

I like this line of thought, but I imagine Brooks will win both meetings. I see AJ seeded 4th at best.

So, God didn't actually forgive us of our sins? Jesus was sacrificed as atonement? Kinda lame that an omnipotent diety demands a blood sacrifice.

Do you think that certain coaches play the long game and see their athletes and assts as future rivals? I ask bc I remember an old interview with Alan Fried where he talked about showing up at OSU and feeling that Smith was his rival. Obviously, the rivalry never panned out bc I think they only wrestled the one time, and Fried -- prone to some bizarre thoughts -- might have imagined the friction; but, I wouldn't put it past Smith to keep the guy at arm's length. Idk, maybe this is why Smith hirers idolators.

No doubt. I was responding more to remind myself of this fact. He's sorta like the board's chatbot.

At first, I was put off by the silly username, but you write well. Good luck in your travels.

"Superior Belief in Godand Jesus Christ " It's St. Anslem come back to re-spread the ontological proof. If it's good enough for Jean Luc Marion to have another look at, I won't fault Ferrari for it. Plus, there's all sorts of other things to fault him for.

Not sure of your tone; but, if youre up to it, take a swing.