07 Apr 18
Originally posted by @secondsonSeems like the right Kool-Aid, at least!
"Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:"
08 Apr 18
Originally posted by @freakykbhI'm at a loss to understand some of the things you say.
Seems like the right Kool-Aid, at least!
Seems I'm stepping on your toes. It's as if it's a strain for you to condescend to my lower estate.
I know I'm sophomoric, but cut me a break! 😉
08 Apr 18
For instance; what does "I know I much prefer the general sense of well-being adherence to an ideology confers, if in nothing else, at least in the surety assumed in light of the general acceptance by far more august minds and overall constitutions" mean?
And what's this about heroics?
I think there's something I can learn here. Help me out.
08 Apr 18
Originally posted by @secondsonUnintended conveyance of annoyance; my apologies.
I'm at a loss to understand some of the things you say.
Seems I'm stepping on your toes. It's as if it's a strain for you to condescend to my lower estate.
I know I'm sophomoric, but cut me a break! 😉
It was more an indictment on our typical reticence of putting much of what we hold to be true, to the type of scrutiny we reserve for other matters.
09 Apr 18
Originally posted by @secondsonSomething along the lines of safety in numbers, albeit with the additional benefit of some within those numbers having established themselves as better logicians than I, having captured my opinion from any previously held positions... including (what I held to be) as my own.
For instance; what does "I know I much prefer the general sense of well-being adherence to an ideology confers, if in nothing else, at least in the surety assumed in light of the general acceptance by far more august minds and overall constitutions" mean?
And what's this about heroics?
I think there's something I can learn here. Help me out.
I believe the intention of thought to be action and it is clear beyond refute that the key in life is centered around thought.
So I think.
Now what!
Heroics pull us into battle to find the what, make it our own.
09 Apr 18
Originally posted by @freakykbhNo need to apologize.
Unintended conveyance of annoyance; my apologies.
It was more an indictment on our typical reticence of putting much of what we hold to be true, to the type of scrutiny we reserve for other matters.
We should test what we hold to be true. I don't wish to labor over what you mean by "our typical reticence", I think I get that, and agree, but what "other matters" are there we scrutinize with a scrutiny we are reticent to use on what we hold to be true?
09 Apr 18
Originally posted by @freakykbhI see. I like that. Safety in numbers. Positions held captured by better logicians.
Something along the lines of safety in numbers, albeit with the additional benefit of some within those numbers having established themselves as better logicians than I, having captured my opinion from any previously held positions... including (what I held to be) as my own.
I believe the intention of thought to be action and it is clear beyond refute ...[text shortened]... thought.
So I think.
Now what!
Heroics pull us into battle to find the what, make it our own.
Indeed the battleground is in the mind. There is a heroic, in a sense, to "bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ."