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Originally Posted by CC1
I have no doubt he is serious. It has gotten to where I hate posting anything here because it gets picked apart and criticized. I am not talking about posts that are intended to be debated but just anything. No doubt you will have some snarky answer to this as well.
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CC1, this is a forum. its name comes from the ancient marketplace or public square of a Roman city. Which was the center of judicial, business affairs, and a place of assembly for the people. If you remember Mark Antony's eulogy, Julius Caesar,
Act 3, Scene 2, Mark Antony is called to the public chair which was located somewhere in the forum's evaluated area. He then proceeds to give an eulogy for the murdered Caesar. If you remember how the eulogy starts it starts with a defense of Brutus, but Antony turns this around. In a public forum debate, opinions, criticisms are all set before us, and towards us. Mark Antony before he gathers the attention of the forum kneels at the base of Pompey's statue. He asks forgiveness of his dead friend that he should be meek and gentle with those who murdered him. Yet, Brutus expects this when Antony brings out the cloaked and lifeless body of Caesar. But believes Antony to plead Brutus' cause and show the people how just it was to kill such a dictator. That's how life is, that is how discussion go, that is part and parcel of the public arena. You fly it up the proverbial flag pole and see who salutes it, or who shoots it down. If you are not willing to do that then hold your peace. You would be seen as the wiser for doing so. You have been with the evolution of this forum through the years. Everyone had a turn at the wheel. From the time of Brother Jim Yohe, through his death, through his sister inquisition of the Ultra Conservatives to the Daniel Alicia's trashing of what ever the Old Time Pentecostals held sacred.
We have a virtual plethora of varying opinions, you use the term old time Pentecostal without a thought. Your avatar is David M. Wasmundt's book Neo-Phariseeism. Your signature is Ethel Goss' quote on how the Charismatic movement was back in her day. How everyone looked like everyone in the world. The only difference was they were no longer Presbyterians?
Bro, you been around this stuff since you were knee high to a pygmy? So, you know what is a red flag waved in front of someone who believes opposite from you?
Seriously?
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