ossobuco wrote:I'll be obnoxious here and go ahead and elaborate on my take on another a2ker, not, by the way, meaning to hurl ad hominems past 'doppus', a word of my distant past, not, as it happened, said to me.
I'll say this as conjecture. I think our a2ker is bright, perhaps very bright.
I think he has lived in some isolation in trying circumstances at some tough time, perhaps for quite a while. Not my business, but I'm not closed to understanding.
I think our friend has worked up constructs from available info and generated a program to make it, move his life forward, and I see this whole construct as
a reach to survive.
I am mostly sympathetic, and understand fully that this sounds condescending, but I don't mean it so. Don't know how to fix that, having been on both sides of religion arguments.
If you are referring to me you may be onto something.
Yet the word of God has not isolated me but made me more outward...
Ac 26:17
Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,
Comment: Though learning does take much sacrifice of one's life. While others were out having fun I was studying on my own volition. For a heavenly prize.
If you keep it up I feel a testimony coming on...
I can give you some insight into myself and why I am the way I am if people would stop hurling the insults and apply some civilized decorum to this forum...
My story is quite a remarkable one but I only let people in whom I trust and who actually have a desire to learn from it. For I have only revealed the tip of the iceberg. For there are those who only desire to gather more ammunition to start a new rash of trouble.
It is a shame for if people could speak from thier hearts we could all progress together toward some worthy endeavor... I have truly been blessed by God...
Instead we have potty jokes and adolescent pranks from the peanut gallery.
There is so much on my heart that there are not enough books in the world that could contain my desires and intentions. This has always been the case.
Instead I will give you only enough to whet your curiosity for what I know is everlasting and what I have seen is eternity. There is only so much time and this moment is gone forever...
Peace with God