AdamSmith

Always worth a repost...

Not at all! Your original post was so understanding, and so moving. I was deeply grateful.

I rather doubt the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary would approve of my notions of belief. Those run more along many alternate traditions. Shinto, probably closest to my soul. And, probably closest to my whole being, the Hindu Vedanta.

Always innovate!

Yes, actually. the pronoun matters?

I think He will, actually.

One of the strains of thought & feeling, deeply buried in the strata of American spiritual & intellectual being, that will I am convinced fairly soon rise from the collective conscience to save us from the present moment... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiezer_Coppe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_anarchism

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0523182/mediaviewer/rm1248444416

Which organ?

I don't like scat but I love piss! Truly.

@TotallyOz you know I love you, and always have. I will keep putting my shit here, joyfully.

Has not arrived yet. Interesting observation about latency of the site forum servers.

Ah, ma cherie! Agree completely. That Oz is still letting us suss this one out shows he is OK. Who knows how this piss match may end? But that it has not been summarily cut off is a great thing.

I know I am being a sort of over-the-top 'fiery seventeenth-century Jesuit priest' about this. (As Nixon quoted Alice Roosevelt Longworth describing Bobby Kennedy.) But I do not yield the point.

Because {1) this is not a professional news site; and (2) when CNN or whoever modifies an original post, they add a huge note explaining what and why the editorial powers did it, at the foot of the original piece. If that has happened here, I was napping and missed it. Please bring me up to date.

Authority and authenticity and truthfulness of the original speaker's words are the only way to judge -- and certainly, if needed to condemn them -- the only way. As our current political situation must certainly make clear, nein/

I profoundly disagree. My entire professional (and personal) life is founded on these principles: https://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp