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I was exorcised, but only once.
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Only once? Amateur.
As a teenager, I managed to get REALLY pissed off by the street preachers in downtown Chapel Hill, where I hung out with the punks every Friday and Saturday night. I took it upon myself to annoy them, trying all sorts of tricks, such as walking counterclockwise around them while holding a black candle and reciting something that I claimed was the Lord’s prayer backwards. Yeah, it was kind of an annoying jackass thing to do, but hey, I was a teenager. Anyway, I’m pretty sure I was exorcised at least half a dozen times.
[QUOTE=Captain Amazing]
Well, see, souls tend to be panicky. The body starts to die, the soul says, “That’s it, I’m outta here!”, and then the body gets better and the soul sneaks back redfaced and saying, “Yeah, I just left to go get a beer. I was coming back all the time.” That’s my theory, anyway.
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[QUOTE=Sampiro]
Continuing (or starting) a hijack, let us not forget this lady also burned by Mary, Ms. Perotine Massey and her mother, sister, and newborn, a rather fiery “madonna and child” scene that, as I’ve mentioned before, I suspect led to the invention of an American fun snack centuries later.
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This is just sick and wrong, and I should not have laughed nearly as hard as I did.
I know I should heed the advice of people who say I should just not reply to lekatt. I’ve vowed before not to do so, but I always backslide. As they say, “I wish I could quit him.” :eek:
I will try to maintain as a resolution that instead of arguing with lekatt in GD, I will just link to this thread, as I have said here all that really needs to be said about lekatt, his intelligence, and his arguments.
[QUOTE=Sophistry and Illusion]
I know I should heed the advice of people who say I should just not reply to lekatt. I’ve vowed before not to do so, but I always backslide. As they say, “I wish I could quit him.” :eek:
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There are some posters here whom I regard somewhat like cat toys. Sure, it’s fun to bat them around for a little while, but in the end, it’s pretty unsatisfying and ultimately loses its charm. But, leave GD for awhile and come back, and it’s hard to resist not starting it all over again.
I guess I can’t argue with the impulse. We want to fight brazen ignorance - it’s not a bad thing. But, yeah, lekatt is dumb as shit. I don’t think we’ve ever seen a troll with that level of persistence and consistency.
[QUOTE=hotflungwok] lekatt is the worst thing to happen to Great Debates.
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Posted by an obvious Newby who wasn’t here for the **JDT Tugahoy ** threads.
I’ve came close to dying several times and all I felt was sinking into a warm calm blackness. Until my pacer kickstarted my heart. Does that mean I’m going to Hell :eek:
I had never taken much notice of this poster before, but a few simple Google searches came up with an article that says he had a near-death experience when he had heart surgery in 1987.
[QUOTE=SteveG1]
I’m voting for TROLL. Yes I said it. Nobody, and I mean NoBody could possibly that consistently idiotic, nonsensical, and flat out ridiculous except on purpose.
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I’m usually the first guy to start leaning towards the “troll” explanation (I guess that despite my general misanthropy I still have too high expectations of other humans), but if lekatt is a troll, he has been a consistent, prolific troll for over a decade, running his own (pretty big) website simply for the purpose of trolling, trolling message board after message board and newsgroup after newsgroup, never a chink appearing in his armour. I just can’t see it.
[QUOTE=riker1384]
I had never taken much notice of this poster before, but a few simple Google searches came up with an article that says he had a near-death experience when he had heart surgery in 1987.
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Actually, he’s mentioned that a few times around here.
We can solicit volunteers for a clinical trial* evaluating spirit liberation achieved through various punishments - being burned at the stake, broken on the wheel or required to engage lekatt in a prolonged debate.
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I´ll take the first two one after the other; heck, I´ll strap myself on the garrote chair, , but by mercy, spare me the last.
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal]
Actually, he’s mentioned that a few times around here.
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I thought that it was (or so he says) that he had a heart attack in his sleep, and that then he came back. Not that he just had a dream.
You know, if he would just stop being an ASS, I don’t think people would get nearly so pissed at him. If that’s what he believes, hey, more power to him. But I’m tired of hearing that he has all the answers. If he volunteers at hospitals, does he just tell people in excruciating pain that it doesn’t matter, because they’ll be with God soon, and they’ll leave their pain behind, and forget it?
(Because that is what he believes, right? Is it just me, or do his answers change every week?)
[QUOTE=Guinastasia]
Is it just me, or do his answers change every week?
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Actually, I find that he has a very high consistency for someone that crazy. He’s had a slipup or two (I remember asking him in thread after thread to explain why he had both said that there’d be a judgment and that there wouldn’t be a judgment - he eventually responded, doing a retcon/handwave), but in all, I think he stays on message.
His standard bio on many woo web sites says that he had his NDE during heart surgery, but never goes into any details. Through discussion here and elsewhere, we get the story that he had his supposed NDE after a particularly bad dream, and that he self-diagnosed that he had had a heart attack at that time. If you want to make a attempt at gathering further details, ask him.
Here is one of his latest pearls of wisdom:
[QUOTE=lekatt]
The building block of the universe is a thousands times smaller than any particle discovered by science. I will call it a unit. This unit is self-aware, and very curious about everything. It’s attracting force is love, and since it is self-aware (conscious) it can use thought. The sum total of units is God, hence God is love. In the absence of love everything falls apart.
The whole of everything is consciousness, which uses thought to create form, it is like a hologram, each part contains the whole and the whole contains each part. The only thing that is real is consciousness. God, or the whole, constantly expands, creates, and looks for ways to define itself. We were created as “helpers” in this journey of discovery.
So our universe is Love creating itself over and over in a multitude of forms and frequencies and densities. Whatever can be thought of can be created.
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