Devil's Advocate (hoping Loki will edify, correct and expand)
Apr 12, 2015 00:02:22 #
Playing the Devil's Advocate is not a game; it is an earnest and uncompromising search for t***h that deeply and seriously challenges all our beliefs. But how is that possible or right or good? If I take the Gospel to be such and such as t***h, as proven in my mind by scripture, how or why should I argue against it unless to provide a foothold for Satan? Playing the Devil's Advocate seems a devil's game. One to create doubt or question. A liberal folly to undermine certainty in and support for reliable dogma and theology, tradition. The t***h shall set you free: why challenge it? Why not?
Apr 12, 2015 00:46:05 #
fiatlux wrote:
Playing the Devil's Advocate is not a game; it is ... (show quote)
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: Agreed! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:
Apr 12, 2015 01:39:40 #
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Apr 12, 2015 10:47:50 #
Coos Bay Tom
Loc: coos bay oregon
fiatlux wrote:
Wow that's heavy. I see you are a true intellectual. I can't think up stuff like that. I am just too simple. Read thru it a couple times to get your meaning and I think I got it. What is is what ain't ain't. You are allright.Playing the Devil's Advocate is not a game; it is ... (show quote)
Apr 12, 2015 12:45:04 #
Coos Bay Tom wrote:
Wow that's heavy. I see you are a true intellectual. I can't think up stuff like that. I am just too simple. Read thru it a couple times to get your meaning and I think I got it. What is is what ain't ain't. You are allright.
Si. She is AOK.
Apr 12, 2015 12:59:09 #
fiatlux wrote:
Playing the Devil's Advocate is not a game; it is ... (show quote)
Loki has to go to the grocery store. Edifications, expansions and corrections as deemed necessary in due course. First things first, and I have a pot roast to marinate. Oven or Crockpot? Shiraz or merlot? should I break out some of my frozen homemade Sauce Espagnole? It's tough when you have these earth-shattering decisions to make.
Apr 12, 2015 14:18:52 #
Loki wrote:
Loki has to go to the grocery store. Edifications, expansions and corrections as deemed necessary in due course. First things first, and I have a pot roast to marinate. Oven or Crockpot? Shiraz or merlot? should I break out some of my frozen homemade Sauce Espagnole? It's tough when you have these earth-shattering decisions to make.
Decisions, decisions, decisions. Yes, we are always confronted with having to make decisions. They are a bane to our existence. :cry:
Apr 12, 2015 14:41:26 #
Loki wrote:
Loki has to go to the grocery store. Edifications, expansions and corrections as deemed necessary in due course. First things first, and I have a pot roast to marinate. Oven or Crockpot? Shiraz or merlot? should I break out some of my frozen homemade Sauce Espagnole? It's tough when you have these earth-shattering decisions to make.
I say for a pot roast use Zinfandel - the spicy notes are great for that cut and the slow cooking. Or go for a Pinot Noir, which is the main grape for Burgundies, and essential for that French pot roast, Boeuf Bourguignon.
As a little addendum, I came across this little cartoon below, and of course thought immediately of our friend Loki and his extraordinary linguistic sk**ls!
Apr 12, 2015 14:50:10 #
PaulPisces wrote:
I say for a pot roast use Zinfandel - the spicy notes are great for that cut and the slow cooking. Or go for a Pinot Noir, which is the main grape for Burgundies, and essential for that French pot roast, Boeuf Bourguignon.
As a little addendum, I came across this little cartoon below, and of course thought immediately of our friend Loki and his extraordinary linguistic sk**ls!
As a little addendum, I came across this little cartoon below, and of course thought immediately of our friend Loki and his extraordinary linguistic sk**ls!
:lol: :lol: :lol: I sometimes feel the same when conversing with Loki. :oops:
Apr 12, 2015 16:07:56 #
fiatlux wrote:
Playing the Devil's Advocate is not a game; it is ... (show quote)
I mentioned previously; I used to be on a debating team in college. Theprofessor felt that if you expected a passing grade, you had to be able to mount a vociferous defense of a position or situation that you personally found odious. Due in no small part to my big mouth and natural truculence, I found myself being "Mr. Vociferous" frequently.
People who make an honest effort at playing "Devil's Advocate" frequently have pretty ironclad opinions, simply because they have honestly examined a subject from at least two different perspectives. At the risk of offending Hegelian affecionados, there is often much more than a thesis, antithesis and synthesis involved in reaching a satisfactory conclusion.
There can be no accurate conclusion reached if Devil's Advocacy is not practiced. I have, more than once, changed my mind from a first impression or opinion.
Doubts and questions are an integral and indispensible part of the process of arriving at the t***h. Thusly doth Loke render his opinion.
Apr 12, 2015 16:39:22 #
Apr 12, 2015 16:42:30 #
Loki wrote:
I mentioned previously; I used to be on a debating... (show quote)
Forget the philosophy. How was the pot roast? :-) :lol: :roll:
Apr 12, 2015 17:27:58 #
AuntiE wrote:
Forget the philosophy. How was the pot roast? :-) :lol: :roll:
Ask me about 8:00
Apr 12, 2015 17:34:02 #
Loki wrote:
Ask me about 8:00
Due to receipt of ducats in the mail, I am going to have Brunswick Stew provided by a barbeque restaurant. :thumbup: :D :-P
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