Edgar Allan Poe had a word for what you are doing: mystification. You get to talk all around your subject without actually saying anything. I have been in the communication field all my 50-year career, and if anything is true, it is that those who know something worth knowing also know how to communicate. And do not hide behind veils and mystification.
I have studied linoleum floors for decades...and they all have faces. I am capable of seeing what you are talking about...just like I'm capable of seeing faces in the linoleum. They are equally unreal.
Interesting how you HAVE to apply labels and judgement to everything you don't understand.
You're being obtuse. I don't believe you're doing it on purpose - you just aren't capable of understanding. (That notion just eats you up, Boeing... I know it)
This is like trying to explain why the moon is full to a K9.
I'm out... it's a waste if time trying to explain decades of observation to someone incapable of understanding abstract pattern recognition - even when it's spelled out to you right in your face.
All you can do is say words that belittle or criticize because you're not capable of understanding. Then you start the SJW song and dance like you always do when you're completely out of touch.
Just like Luke 17:21 - it's clear you have not experientially found what was pointed to - it remains only as a concept within your left brain. Cue the story about a camel passing through the eye of a needle...or casting your net to the right side... both of these are lost on you because you cannot get beyond their literal meaning to see what is ACTUALLY said.
So feel free to continue your mental masturbation quoting Poe and all that bs. There's a milk bone by the door ...
That's what language is for: to apply labels to what we do understand. The process of definition, which leads to conceptualization.
I have no reason to credit someone who insults my intelligence. How many decades of observation? I bet I can beat you at that one. Ever heard of pareidolia? That is the mental phenomenon of recognizing patterns in the environment that are only coincidental. Seeing faces in clouds...or Baphomet in angels. Just like my linoleum faces---just because I can recognize them doesn't mean they are really there.
Luke 17:21 is the doorway to a grave misunderstanding, if you take the wrong translation. Your approach is the essence of Pentecostalism, the idea that it is up to us to find the Kingdom of God inside us. Which is just Works Righteousness under a different name. The camel metaphor is exactly that: a metaphor. Most people recognize what is being said.
And yet Poe was on target, regarding you. You spout lofty assertions without the slightest scant of explication. All this wonderful knowledge you have, but somehow my dense brain offends you so much, you cannot explain yourself. In my experience, that means either of two things: (1) you are a fraud and have nothing to explain, or (2) you are inarticulate and don't know how to explain.
Edgar Allan Poe had a word for what you are doing: mystification. You get to talk all around your subject without actually saying anything. I have been in the communication field all my 50-year career, and if anything is true, it is that those who know something worth knowing also know how to communicate. And do not hide behind veils and mystification.
I have studied linoleum floors for decades...and they all have faces. I am capable of seeing what you are talking about...just like I'm capable of seeing faces in the linoleum. They are equally unreal.
Interesting how you HAVE to apply labels and judgement to everything you don't understand.
You're being obtuse. I don't believe you're doing it on purpose - you just aren't capable of understanding. (That notion just eats you up, Boeing... I know it)
This is like trying to explain why the moon is full to a K9.
I'm out... it's a waste if time trying to explain decades of observation to someone incapable of understanding abstract pattern recognition - even when it's spelled out to you right in your face.
All you can do is say words that belittle or criticize because you're not capable of understanding. Then you start the SJW song and dance like you always do when you're completely out of touch.
Just like Luke 17:21 - it's clear you have not experientially found what was pointed to - it remains only as a concept within your left brain. Cue the story about a camel passing through the eye of a needle...or casting your net to the right side... both of these are lost on you because you cannot get beyond their literal meaning to see what is ACTUALLY said.
So feel free to continue your mental masturbation quoting Poe and all that bs. There's a milk bone by the door ...
That's what language is for: to apply labels to what we do understand. The process of definition, which leads to conceptualization.
I have no reason to credit someone who insults my intelligence. How many decades of observation? I bet I can beat you at that one. Ever heard of pareidolia? That is the mental phenomenon of recognizing patterns in the environment that are only coincidental. Seeing faces in clouds...or Baphomet in angels. Just like my linoleum faces---just because I can recognize them doesn't mean they are really there.
Luke 17:21 is the doorway to a grave misunderstanding, if you take the wrong translation. Your approach is the essence of Pentecostalism, the idea that it is up to us to find the Kingdom of God inside us. Which is just Works Righteousness under a different name. The camel metaphor is exactly that: a metaphor. Most people recognize what is being said.
And yet Poe was on target, regarding you. You spout lofty assertions without the slightest scant of explication. All this wonderful knowledge you have, but somehow my dense brain offends you so much, you cannot explain yourself. In my experience, that means either of two things: (1) you are a fraud and have nothing to explain, or (2) you are inarticulate and don't know how to explain.
u/#tired