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Re: codifying marriage on biblical principles
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date: 
Fri, 12 Mar 2004 21:58:34 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:


I don't know that it's two steps back.  I can accept that Luke, Matthew, John,
and Mark are separate authors of the Gospels, just as I accept that, say, HP
Lovecraft and August Derleth are separate authors of the Cthulhu Mythos, but
that doesn't mean that Lovecraft's account verifies Derleth's (of vice versa)
except within the context of the Mythos.  In that regard, Luke may validate Mark
within the text of the Gospels, but that doesn't mean that either of them is
validated beyond those contextual confines (i.e., in the real world).


Er-hem.  I know what you are trying to get at, I'm just trying to point out that
your examples aren't exactly the best for doing that (and mostly just to give
you are hard time for humor's sake).  In your example above, all that's true,
but it's pretty much true for your original example of Dave!, Todd, Tim, and
Jake within the confines of Lugnet (bow, genuflect) too.  You need to go back
and fix that example rather than create new examples that repeat the same flaw.
Or otherwise John will leap all over it.

Of course, he hasn't, and I have, so God Only Knows what I think I'm
acomplishing!

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:-O
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-->Bruce<--

Advocating his Green-eyed self into a Devilish corner

Wait...that's not how it goes...



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  Re: codifying marriage on biblical principles
 
(...) Maybe at this point I need to fall on my sword and admit that I don't understand quite what you're getting at. What is the flaw, exactly, in the original example? Let me try again, in the spirit of redundancy: Within a single framework, three (...) (20 years ago, 15-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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  Re: codifying marriage on biblical principles
 
(...) That's my amazing prose, of course. (...) I don't know that it's two steps back. I can accept that Luke, Matthew, John, and Mark are separate authors of the Gospels, just as I accept that, say, HP Lovecraft and August Derleth are separate (...) (20 years ago, 12-Mar-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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