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Skriven 2009-05-02 22:35:44 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 5834 av JOHNJWILSON (1:123/140)
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JOHNJWILSON -> ED HULETT wrote:

 EH>>>> Huh? You brought your own kids into the discussion. Jeff never
 J> once
 EH>>>> referred to your kids.

 DC>>> Go back to sleep, Ed.

 ->> Is that all you can say in response? Do you have no shame?

 J> Abandon God, shame is east. Actually this is all a put on, Dan has a GREAT
 J> sense of humour: He really doesn't believe a thing he post's in here...he
 J> playing 'error catcher' and counts how many slip by...great fun...and he IS
 J> good! Took me quite awhile to figure it out. These are the steps:
 J> 1. Did he really say that?
 J> 2. Did he really MEAN that?
 J> 3. Does he think THAT is actually true?
 J> 4. He can't know that; he must be guessing.
 J> 5. No, he's faking it.
 J> 6. Caught, but he doesn't care...
 J> 7. Surely he know better than THAT
 J> 8. AH HA! He's always joking and sometimes people take him seriously.!!!!

Heh heh... you might have a point.

 J> Great stuff.
 J> Gotta hand it to Dan...he sure had me fooled for a while...admit it; you
 J> were thinking for a while he meant to be taken seriously, didn't you?

I was thinking no one could be saying the things he has and expect to be taken
seriously.

 J> Now, perhaps, a discussion concerning religion(s) just might prove of
 J> interest. For example: Mormonism. In particular I am interested in the
 J> escatological aspects -if you can accept that I consider them as
 J> abstractions, not being a Mormon, I can certainly accept that you believe
 J> them, as a good Mormon should. It is the continual evolving on a cosmic
 J> scale that interests me. (And as MY church teaches -- but we don't have to
 J> discuss THAT :-) ...I don't want to get academically immersed...I'd just
 J> like your current understanding...Any details?

If you have specific questions, I'll try to answer. In the mean time take a
look at www.lds.org and/or www.mormon.org . LDS.org is the official website and
mormon.org is an informational website.

 J> --------
 J> This could be a honest appraisal of those who are in the religion business
 J> and the fraud and flaws hypocrisy and greed...seems to be around in the
 J> corporate world as well...(But that's a different echo :-)

 J> --------

Humans are imperfect like that.

Ed

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