Oh, I know it's accurate. Usually my snide will be in regards to some foolish statement like "the god you serve...", "...the self salvationists around here...", etc.
You are wrong webdog. Everybody knows it but you. Some of your friends may not admit it. But you are a real smart alek most of the time.
If I were not a pastor, but I am, and were just a little less sanctified, but I am, and you did this kind of snarky mess in my presence I'd whip you like a red headed step child (but I wouldn't since these things and others are true).
The Holy Ghost in me, distance, ambiguity concerning your locale and the ministry have been all that has kept you from getting whipped like cream.
Oh, and concern for your wife and lovely children and probably several other things I might think of later.
And the fact that you are a child of God as best I can tell.
I'm steadily thinking of other reasons which is becoming quite amusing to me...
But you get the point. You can be a real smart alek.
Of course I wouldn't expect you to put those comments in context like you didn't...but at any rate, they were made in response to such tripe.
tripe... that's the kind of mess that's going to get a big boy like me (not me mind you, one just ever so slightly less sanctified) but one a lot like me on your head til' you cry, "YA'LL get off!" one day.
I don't care if you disagree with me but I am at the
VERY LEAST as smart as you and anyone who follows these posts can see it. That doesn't make me right, but for YOU to say MY comments are tripe is quite ridiculous.
This statement, like most of yours, is not an argument; it is just an insult. A real man would not say these kinds of things behind a computer screen. If you were a real man you would say it with your nose on the tip of mine.
Then you would go WAY up in my book.
I have a two dogs. One is a big pit bull dog (Casper) I keep on a thick cable. The other is a small collie dog (Casey) who runs free. While the pit bull is on the cable, the collie will torment the pit bull- barking and snapping a foot or so out of reach from the pit bull. Casey insults Casper and taunts Casper. But she only does it because she knows she can stay out of range. We laugh about what a low down coward she is. We let Casper off the cable once a day, and when we do Casey tucks her tail and runs for the holler.
You are Casey. I am Casper.
BTW, Casper loves Casey. Casper would not hurt Casey for the world. But Casper does enjoy reminding her when he lumbers off after her that her tadpole tail can not back up her alligator mouth. When he catches her, he tumbles around and frolics and plays. But for thirty seconds or so he chases her, and then he lifts that big broad neck in the air above her and casts an intimidating shadow on her frail frame. He'll stand bowed with that bull dog stance over her with her on her back between his front legs; he's just reminding her she ain't as bad as she thought she was when he was on the cable.
That's what you need. You need some big Casper to remind you that you bark like a bull dog, but you are really a little collie dog.
All of us need it, sometimes. Men do not bark at other men on a computer.
I guess you don't see that in yourself as much as you might have thought. Your recent exchange with rbell serves as proof of this fact.
I have no problem starting over. I won't pretend to start over, then gossip and insult the person I'm "starting over" with and not expect a reply as I gave.
I have been purposefully hard on winman and snow, but I don't recall being hard on rbell.
You are hard on ANYONE who disagrees with you no matter HOW stately an individual that may be.
And not on the arguments, btw, on the person.
Why don't we put all of this stupid junk behind us? All three of us. Why don't we start right now avoiding what sets each other off, we certainly know it by now, and start debating NOTHING but the subject matter and do so without all the cutting remarks.
This venue is for debating ISSUES not drive by posting and cowardly launching insults from a safe distance (by safe I mean so that you are never confronted face to face, not fighting).
raying: