heh...part of tellling the truth means saying things that aren't
completely flattering to even your own side sometimes. You should
notice I'm talking about how truth looks and not how it is...and I don't
think the presence of political motivations invalidates a belief from
the category of transcendent truth. That's like saying Christ was human
but never had to shit.
Jim
Yocum Daniel GS 21 CES/CEOE wrote:
>Who sheared your hair Samson, er I mean Jim? Are you the strong side or
>weak side LB? I know, it's not a nickel D and you are playing the middle LB
>but remember, the middle LB can't over penetrate hoping for a sack and he
>can't fall back looking for the Interception he has to glide horizontal
>along the line to keep all gains short of the full ten, very conservative
>and no field streaking like a free safety. Politics? I guess if your main
>desire is for the polis then yea politics but if the tranquility of the
>polis or self for that matter is not what lies at heart then Politics is
>just another type of blood sucking vermin that requires tongs or a little
>fire to get rid of. It's that body thing and its regulation I guess but
>politics brings to me images of that whole stitched together body; ad hoc
>grave robbing stuff. I guess if any of that body is going to make it
>doesn't hurt to have a surgeon who is skilled with the blade. That's the
>interesting part Jim, the surgeon can be slandered as the Psycho shower
>slasher but when all the cuts are done is the victim alive? I suppose some
>were concerned about how the light was reflected into Roman eyes, actually I
>am sure some were but I think that a close reading of the material wasn't
>terribly concerned with Rome but with the stiff necked lot in question.
>Like we said previously, transcendent truth is not exclusive to one group
>and the overlap can be construed as courting some sort of political favor
>when in truth the early Christian church wasn't even harvesting that crop it
>just turned out to be gleanings at that time in history and later the same
>fruit became political baggage. It seems that there are many more things
>with two edges than only swords but what matters most is the cutting ability
>in the hand that wields them, now some may call that political but that call
>would only make a nasty contusion instead of a clean cut.
>Daniel
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