The Secret

[Bandit]

The secret is, there is no secret. Now everyone knows.

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by Bandit

The secret is, there is no secret. Now everyone knows.

Welcome back.

[Faithfulservant]

Originally Posted by Bandit

The secret is, there is no secret. Now everyone knows.

Bandit This a drive-by?

[paganprophet]

This philosophy if taken seriously contradicts belief in God. It's saying we are gods and can and do make reality ourselves. Having gone through a religious conversion experience of God's reality I can't buy the self made world idea--it doesn't jive with what happened to me to make me realize God runs the whole Show from top to bottom inside out.

We are merely the physical fingers of Something enormously complex and powerful and..unknowable in Its entirety by our limited human minds caught in our time-slots in the time-space continuum that is Creation.

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by paganprophet

This philosophy if taken seriously contradicts belief in God. It's saying we are gods and can and do make reality ourselves. Having gone through a religious conversion experience of God's reality I can't buy the self made world idea--it doesn't jive with what happened to me to make me realize God runs the whole Show from top to bottom inside out.

We are merely the physical fingers of Something enormously complex and powerful and..unknowable in Its entirety by our limited human minds caught in our time-slots in the time-space continuum that is Creation.

Nice to meet you "Pinnochio".

[paganprophet]

Is this the way one gets around the ground rules here prohibiting direct personal attacks? "Pinnochio"..good cover for calling me a liar..

thanks for the welcome..

[Quahom1]

Originally Posted by paganprophet

Is this the way one gets around the ground rules here prohibiting direct personal attacks? "Pinnochio"..good cover for calling me a liar..

thanks for the welcome..

Actually I was thinking of the wooden puppet striving to become human..."liar" never entered my mind...

[AndrewX]

Originally Posted by paganprophet

Is this the way one gets around the ground rules here prohibiting direct personal attacks? "Pinnochio"..good cover for calling me a liar..

thanks for the welcome..

The sad part, paganprophet, is that this guy who just did that ... is a "moderator" - yeah, uh-huh ... and he insults people all the time, left and right. I've never quite understood what the cover is, either, as he is quite proud of calling himself a Christian.

I think I'll call myself a mechanic today. Maybe then I can go out and fix my alternator?

Tomorrow I will be a CIA operative, and go arrest some people at random ...

[I, Brian]

I think it was simply a misunderstanding.

But I'm making a point of trying to ensure moderators don't make comments that may be generally perceived as personal attacks as well.

[paganprophet]

No need to go to any trouble on my account, Brian. Moderators are people too and I've been called a lot worse than the little zinger Quahom threw my way, probably unintentionally.

Heat shows there's spirit in the discussion so I'm always more on the side of letting people speak their minds freely instead of being bound by politeness rules that end up making posters hypocritical in revealing their true sentiments. We need to know what we are dealing with honestly I think.

[Saltmeister]

Originally Posted by paganprophet

Is this the way one gets around the ground rules here prohibiting direct personal attacks? "Pinnochio"..good cover for calling me a liar..

thanks for the welcome..

It's a parliamentary privilege.

Anyone living in Britain or the Commonwealth? Brian?

I've heard that under parliamentary privilege, one can say (possibly offensive or derogatory things) without being arrested, taken into custody or expelled from Parliament, if one said things in a roundabout fashion.

That's one of the things Winston Churchill, I was led to believe in an article in Wikipedia about parliamentary privilege, was able to do frequently.

With the smiley added at the end, labelling it as a "personal attack" might be seen as . . . terminological inexactitude . . .?

Originally Posted by AndrewX

The sad part, paganprophet, is that this guy who just did that ... is a "moderator" - yeah, uh-huh ... and he insults people all the time, left and right. I've never quite understood what the cover is, either, as he is quite proud of calling himself a Christian.

I think I'll call myself a mechanic today. Maybe then I can go out and fix my alternator?

Are you sure you didn't mean "my moderator" or is that terminological inexactitude?

Oh no . . . damn it . . . I'm not under parliamentary privilege!!! I forgot I wasn't supposed to say those things. Better get out of here . . . The Parliamentary Police will be here soon. Better run before they catch me.