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(...) Oops-- miswording/typo on my part: That's why experimental developments in other things are palatable and are unpalatable in religion-- other things aren't expected to be "fair". DaveE (24 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Let me see if I can phrase it better. I expect that you posit Truth (moral, judicial, 'heavenly') and God as unchanging; while Christianity (human understanding of Truth) changes as time goes on. Is that correct? (...) Not necessarily morality (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) 8^) What's your problem, anyway? I was getting set to demonize you and burn you in effigy, and then you turn out to have been reasonable all along! 8^) (...) Ah! My fault. My use of "nonsense" was intended with a note of irony (which, as is (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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This is a helluva lot more rambling than I'm comfortable with... (...) Ah -- I think I see what happened. You had replied to my message, in a fairly (imho) personal kinda way ("personal" as though one person addressing another, not "personal" as in (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Darn, and I just told Larry I don't usually get heated replies :) DaveE (24 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I suppose if one defined it that way, sure. Perhaps it's my inexperience with outside newsgroups other than Lugnet, but I've more just seen it as a general (non-person-specific) goading into debate. Certainly the connotations associated with (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Forgive me if this comes across as trolling, but my understanding would benefit from a few points of clarification. Do you propose that morality is self-evident? I accept a priori your faith in God, but did God specifically create morality, or (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) No, I don't think you'd ever notice the trend in any sort of public forum, because while it works, the most common reply to a flame is to flame back. I've kind of noticed that in o-t.debate-- a rather alarming number of the regulars quite (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) All right then. Stipulating that "troll" can reasonably be used as a neutral term, then I'll agree that I was trolling. Generally I don't accept that definition, however; never have I seen "troll" used with a positive connotation, and it's (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Indeed. I do not posit Christianity as an unchanging Thing. I do assert, however, that Christianity claims to have some insights about the ultimate nature of reality, insofar as it concerns us. Science didn't change with Einstein's theories, (...) (24 years ago, 15-Nov-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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