Meaning no disrespect, could you give a heads up on when you’re going to publish this bio post? I’m as curious as anyone, and while wading thorugh 9 Messiah-free pages hoping for a name wasn’t a complete waste of time thanks to the high quality of discussion around here, I’d kinda like to know when and where to expect the big unveiling.
I suppose the next question to address is, “What kind of a nutjob do you think you are to believe that you and you alone know what God has planned?”
I’d have to point out that I’m in pretty good company – Hal Lindsey, the Left Behind co-authors, and folks from Luther to Billy Graham have written in extensive detail about what’s supposed to happen in the Last Days.
Uh, maybe I need to back off from claiming membership in that group…. 
I don’t feel like I’m off the wall in suggesting that a sequence of quite natural events will occur that will be seen in retrospect as something comparable to the Second Coming – not the “End of the World” scenario but the return of a Jesus figure who will teach as He taught, and call people to proper behavior toward each other.
I make no apologies for the kid’s website no longer being up – I’ve sought for copies of it, archived or something. I suspect strongly his family insisted it be taken down, as it reveals stuff that they might not appreciate having public knowledge.
As for why I and so far I alone have this hunch – I read the website, I drew some conclusions from its contents, and realized what his real identity (as a human being, member of a family) probably was. So it doesn’t surprise me to find it gone these five years. I used my insight as to what he could bring to bear on the problems he saw as needing change, given who I think he is, and therefore arrived at the conclusions I did.
But what he said he had as a dream, a vision of the future he wanted to see, and what his father said in response, suggested to me that he would end up being the person to call us to our best selves, when he reaches full adulthood and decides to undertake making his dreams real.
“Biography” post follows.
“Is Jesus returning again-quite likely not”
sad.
(Yes, He is.)
You know, you’re quite welcome to get pissed off at me for saying things that contradict your beliefs – but at least do me the honor of disagreeing with what I said – which is not what you quoted.
That’s not what he said, vanilla. He said, “Is this guy Jesus Himself come back? Quite likely not – though ‘with God all things are possible.’”
Finally. I’ve been waiting for the reveal with 'bated breath.
Haj
Try www.archive.org . They have an enormous number of web pages from long ago archived. (click on “web” at the top, and go to the “wayback machine”, and enter the URL in there)
So Poly would you say my post from a couple of pages ago would be a close approximation of what you’re saying?
Arrrggghhhh!!!
I returned from work, saw that Poly had posted and read ravenously through it waiting for the reveal only to find one final tease.
What the hell, I’m going to guess Sean Ono Lennon.
Oh! That’s a good guess Diogenes. Except he’s not blonde. THough Iguess he could have dyed his hair…
Well.
This pretty much sums it up for me.
You don’t sound real convinced that there is a God, period, let alone one who is “active”.
[now opting out of this discussion, as one thing I have learned in Great Debates is that there’s no point in trying to convince agnostics that a God exists Who cares about His creation]
Sean Lennon was born in 1975; wouldn’t he be too old?
DDG, no offense, but I think you need to re-read the paragraph. Or read the paragraph part the small line you quoted. He’s establishing his parameters (that there is an active God), not stating that he’s unsure.
I think classifying Polycarp as an agnostic is as ridiculous as classifying me as a Fundamentalist Christian.
Diogenes writes:
Well, I am pretty confident that if my car levitated 11 feet up in the air, a baboon would definately fly out of my ass.
So, Poly, do you now see that there are sometimes wider gaps between us liberal Christians and our more literalist brothers and sisters than there are between us and some Jews, Muslims, Hindus, etc? Those who Rev Lovejoy would describe as “miscellaneous” often more accepting of other beliefs.
Been lurking here for the last 10 pages. I find it an extremely… interesting example of human tendencies to see people who are so sure they are right and Polycarp is wrong that they have quit reading what he says and only see what they think he would say, now that they have plonked him into a particular catetgory they’ve got for people who say the sorts of things they imagine him to have said.
Heh. Carry on.
There’s some stiff competition in this thread, but that line is definitely the funniest one here. Good work dropzone.
Judas!
I think we need to conduct an experiment. Who can we get to levitate a car…
Poly
Thank you for taking that step and sharing. 
I get it and my heart is smiling. Need I say more to you?
For others
You can only speak for where you’re coming from. I understand that. It would be nice if you in turn showed the respect I give you, to others, too.
Was that really Edlyn? wow. It’s a Garbo sighting. Not quite as rare as Cecil but pretty damned elusive.