Slade Henson wrote:
And I direct your words back at ya, babe, 'cuz you said we need but one Teacher, Messiah, and reject anyone else. You, yourself are here "teaching." This is hypocrisy. The only reason to be here is.....
 
Ok.
 
Forest. Trees.
 
The first time I was on TruthTalk, you weren't here. Some other dude named Glenn was here. Glenn ended up hating me, I think. I can say that because I think so, so don't fight me on that one. His posts indicated hatred, plain and simple. You can't condemn someone to H-E-Double-Hockey-Sticks for saying something about Jack Van Impe without it coming from an off-kilter love-bone from deep within. My unfortunate motivation for being on TruthTalk at that time was to teach. As one of the Johns once said (sorry, can't remember which one), if you're here to teach, you'll be sorely disappointed (not an exact quote). It was misery. When I ended my subscription, I was actually relieved.
 
I can't tell you why I signed up again, but this time, I;'m here to try to learn to express myself in effective ways. I'm not here to teach. Least of all to you. You have rejected me from every turn, and that's ok. You are merely the reincarnation of Glenn, or Chris. No malice in intended. DavidM twists what I say into comments like "don't you understand Roman 7 & 8" in order for me to consider passages that might be likewise misconstrued in the Real World. He likewise is here to show how people will take the Hebrew Mindset argument and spin it around and claim that I claim superiority. There must be opposition in order to create dialogue. If we agreed on everything, eventually there would be no dialogue... only prepositional truths. HOW BORING!!! As stated here in TruthTalk, we are community and we have different viewpoints which produced conflict which facilitates conversation. G-d is great!
 
Ad hominems? Perhaps, but right now, I don't care because there's no other way to get this point across. If this makes you upset, tell DavidM to yank me from my tarnished pedestal. Life is much happier away from the pigeon poop.
 
P.S. The love fest is NOT over :) I haven't said it enough lately.
 
-- slade who loves Izzy
 
P.P.S. Some people have so much knowledge, they become literate retards. I hope I'm not one.
Good post Slade.  Gut level.  One little thing though that you might be missing.  I do not think ( if I read what David said correctly) that David singled you out as a Jew who felt superior because you are a Jew.  He said, quite correctly, that there are Jews who feel that way.  Whether you are one of them would have to be determined by self examination.  This is not something peculiar only
to a percentage of Jews.  You will find Catholics and Baptists and Holy Rollers who feel the same way.  God made them special.
My advice, since you intend to stick it out: Roll with the punch, counter with a smile.
Terry

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