If Sklansky became a born again Christian...

[David Sklansky]

This BluffTHIS, SDM duel may be the one I've been waiting for. Both on tightropes. One has to worry about falling, off into the tentacles of spaminator, Not Ready, or the relentless udon'tknowmickey. The other risking the clutches of RJT, bossjj, Pair The Board, or even me if he thrusts too hard.

[sexdrugsmoney]

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This BluffTHIS, SDM duel may be the one I've been waiting for. Both on tightropes. One has to worry about falling, off into the tentacles of spaminator, Not Ready, or the relentless udon'tknowmickey. The other risking the clutches of RJT, bossjj, Pair The Board, or even me if he thrusts too hard.

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I must warn you David, I have a history of disappointing all those that put faith in me. [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[BluffTHIS!]

It should be obvious by now that he's just another PTB and I'm not wasting much time on him.

[sexdrugsmoney]

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It should be obvious by now that he's just another PTB and I'm not wasting much time on him.

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A rather curious post.

I was always sincere in our discussions and thought they were amicable.

How strange.

[BluffTHIS!]

Even though you have a certain knowledge of christianity you always have a very flippant tone to your posts which suggests to me that you might not take it all that seriously. While perhaps this just a personality thing where my own runs to a drier sarcasm at times, it is nonetheless similar to other posters here who just like to debate about anything, and religion is just another field to do so. And I don't say all this because you are necessarily critical or jesting about catholicism in particular. And it's not that I mind debating with non-believers either certainly as I do all the time. If I am wrong about you then state for the record what denomination you belong to and whether you attend church every sunday. Just don't expect me to keep responding to posts like the ones dealing with confession where you keep coming up with more elaborate hypothetical examples and pretend that you can't see the theological difference between being truly repentent for something and merely pretending to be.

[David Sklansky]

"It should be obvious by now that he's just another PTB and I'm not wasting much time on him."

I'm confused. I thought SDM was more conservative than you and PTB the opposite.

[BluffTHIS!]

While the views he states seem to be, for the reasons in my reply above I have reason to think they really might not be.

[sexdrugsmoney]

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Even though you have a certain knowledge of christianity you always have a very flippant tone to your posts which suggests to me that you might not take it all that seriously.

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Could you provide examples of this flippancy?

I ask this sincerely.

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While perhaps this just a personality thing where my own runs to a drier sarcasm at times, it is nonetheless similar to other posters here who just like to debate about anything, and religion is just another field to do so.

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I was not aware my posts came across that way.

I always strive for friendly discourse as I believe the end result should be knowledge for both parties to consider and therefore assist them both in making a better choice.

Wheras I believe debating has a masturbatory nature of ego stroking primarily, and little if any chance of providing food for thought.

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And I don't say all this because you are necessarily critical or jesting about catholicism in particular. And it's not that I mind debating with non-believers either certainly as I do all the time. If I am wrong about you then state for the record what denomination you belong to and whether you attend church every sunday.

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Is an inquisition to my beliefs really a prerequisite for further discourse between us?

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Just don't expect me to keep responding to posts like the ones dealing with confession where you keep coming up with more elaborate hypothetical examples and pretend that you can't see the theological difference between being truly repentent for something and merely pretending to be.

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I was sincere in my posts.

[BluffTHIS!]

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Is an inquisition to my beliefs really a prerequisite for further discourse between us?

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How hard is it to just briefly say what they are?

And no I am not going to provide examples of flippancy as they are obvious including in many of your questions which you say are sincere.

Example from this thread:

"Fictional scenario: I'm catholic, Friday night, I go to this high quality whorehouse and have an orgy with 4 of the hottest escorts money can buy. I'm telling you, it cost a fortune but was worth every penny. Lesbianism abounds."

Any remarks like that in preface to a question like that cannot be taken seriously and only demonstrate my points in my previous post. I would take such a question seriously from David though as he usually has a point in asking and is not just mocking unless in response to stupid or illogical statements. However for a professed christian to do so after the topic in question was already fully explained by me in that thread makes me think that you really don't care all that deeply about religion. I realize that this might be a hasty generalization but it appears correct.

And again, if you are going to discuss christianity and religion how difficult is it for you as an anonymous poster talking to people who will likely never meet you to just state what your actual beliefs are? If you won't do so then it only serves to further reinforce my point.

[sexdrugsmoney]

And to think one bit of comedy caused all this.