[Frumanchu]

Nope. The style’s the same. You engage in personal attack, insulting and condescending innuendo, and in direct and implied character assassination.

Interesting, though......that style....is so reminiscent....

Can we expect a public apology when you successfully get another poster banned under false charges of being a retread?

The rank hypocrisy in your statements here is rather odious, x. I know for a fact topcat is not a retread, so save your breath and your own character assassination attempts and stick with the topic, k?

[xzins]

Actually, I’ve never had anyone banned. Nor have I said that TC is a retread. I said the STYLE is reminiscent.....and it is.

[TomSmedley]

Thanks!

Refereeing this conversation takes a great deal of stamina. When we discuss the goals of our lives, we're getting pretty close to the heart of the matter. What are we here for? What can we hope to achieve with our lives? Is there any earthly hope for those who are "born from above?" Both sides have a lot of personal passion invested in the issue. It matters, if we think our lives will have an impact for centuries to come. It matters, if we think that time is too short for anything except passing out a last few tracts.

William Gurnell wrote his massive book The Christian in his Complete Armor to assert the pointlessness of external hopes. While the Scottish covenanters were being martyred by the thousands, Gurnell deserted the field and cultivated his interior garden.