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[priestwarrior]

 So this conversation occurs all the time everywhere.
            Woman: “...yeah, right, because I’m totally that skinny [note: heavy sarcasm]”

Hapless Bystander: “What? No, you’re thin and beautiful.”

Woman: “Yeah, whatever. You’re just saying that, blah blah blah blah...”

People, shut the hell up. I have never heard anyone

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[ext_119696]

I like your first suggestion about avoiding positive reinforcement; I have to agree, the reductio ad absurdum method you advocate is probably more effective

Re: Thoughts

[ext_119696]

Oh, don't take my "reduction" comment the wrong way. All the things mentioned there are good and necessary (except that I would distinguish morals from moralism), though any of them in isolation come nowhere near constituting full faith.

Re: Thoughts

[priestwarrior]

Yes, wrestling with God is a dangerous concept. So's grace - "shall we go on sinning that grace may abound?" This is one of the things that makes Christianity make so much sense to me - it never shies away from dangerous ideas. The paradoxes central to Christianity arise because it refuses to let go of either dangerous extreme: Christ was fully God, yet also fully man - the Trinity is three yet one - and so on. I completely agree that we must view struggling with God in the light of the fact that it is he who enables us to struggle. Thanks.

Yeah. I tend to take some flak for liking U2, and I agree that Bono is ridiculous and bombastic, but I don't care as long as he keeps writing lyrics like that. Up there with Morrison.