Recent content by Abogado del Diablo

Hey, juan! Thought I'd drop by your digs to say "hello" . . . . so . . . . Hello!

Thanks, juan. Doing well thanks.

Hi, Laurie. Just reminiscing a bit this morning after dauer's email reminded me of C-R (now "intefaith.org" . . . fancy . . . ). I'm still completely out of gravy, though. With no plans to stock up again.

All is quite well, thanks. Hadn't visited here in a long time . . . until I got your "friend request" in my email this morning, I think it had been close to two years since I'd even lurked. Thanks.

As a child I grew up in a house full of smokers. I was the youngest of six children. My mother smoked Winstons. My father smoked Marlboros. My brother smoked Camels. Two of my sisters smoked. From birth to age 16, I lived in a house with a constant haze of cigarette smoking that I drew in...

One of my main reasons for participating in this forum is to observe the way people communicate with one another about topics of religion and how we listen to and respond to one another. I have tested various ideas about how to bring people together to really listen to one another. None of...

Add in the doctrines of the Prosperity Gospel, and you also have the makings of a pyramid scheme. :)

Exactly. :)

LOL. I know we have tax protesters and death protesters. And I bet even the periodic chart has its detractors. But you may be right about Murphy's Law.

I know I can't change learner, or anyone else. The reason for my response is so that people know that when someone launches a personal attack like this, there is someone who sees it for what it is . . . and cares. Whether Jesus said the "rant" or not (or whether a literal historical Jesus...

We can't. I'm not faulting learner for his feelings. I'm faulting him for his callous disregard of someone else's feelings. And if Taijasi callously disregarded a feeling you had expressed, perhaps you should have said something. No. Like any dialogue, it's a place for listening.

Move forward with what?

It would depend on how his perception of his devoutness predisposed him to see and treat others I suppose. At least that's the message I take away from the "rant." But should he have forgiven, shut his trap, and walked away? Or was there something for those who could hear him to learn from...

This another funny glimpse at the way language works. Like this, from a recent article on the new definition of "planet" that is being proposed: Talk about the Divine Logos - instantaneous creation of three whole planets merely by the power of a word!:)

What isn't subject to debate? :D