That is not an answer. (Reply #4) - Democratic Underground

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Response to guillaumeb (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 29, 2018, 08:37 PM

MineralMan (145,738 posts)

4. That is not an answer.

I cannot compel you to answer, of course, but your non-answer speaks loudly.

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42 replies	Author	Time	Post
Thoughts on religion: [View all]	guillaumeb	Sep 2018	OP
What are YOUR thoughts, Guy?	MineralMan	Sep 2018	#1
You know what you personally believe.	guillaumeb	Sep 2018	#3
That is not an answer.	MineralMan	Sep 2018	#4
Much of what you say here to theists, and the manner in which you choose to say it,	guillaumeb	Sep 2018	#6
Hey, at least he's up front and honest about what he believes.	Act_of_Reparation	Oct 2018	#8
And upfront with insults and condescension.	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#9
I see you've dropped back in to talk about me.	MineralMan	Oct 2018	#10
I already did.	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#11
Are you a theist, Guy?	MineralMan	Oct 2018	#12
To help you:	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#13
That is not an answer.	MineralMan	Oct 2018	#14
I believe in the Creator.	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#15
Which creator? There are many.	MineralMan	Oct 2018	#16
I was raised in the RCC.	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#17
That is also not an answer.	MineralMan	Oct 2018	#18
My answer is consistent with the poem that is the subject of this post.	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#19
I cannot ask Rumi.	MineralMan	Oct 2018	#20
See #15.	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#21
Perhaps, then, you are simply a deist.	MineralMan	Oct 2018	#22
Again, as my posts make obvious,	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#23
Never mind, then.	MineralMan	Oct 2018	#24
We both have our own answers.	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#25
You love this shit!	PJMcK	Oct 2018	#29
He appears to be a deist who calls himself a Christian	marylandblue	Oct 2018	#28
Well, of late, it looks like he's branching out.	MineralMan	Oct 2018	#31
Many formerly liberal Christians went further, like Gil.	Bretton Garcia	Oct 2018	#32
Thank you, Guillaumeb, as always for getting to the heart of why we all matter.	cornball 24	Sep 2018	#2
Thank you.	guillaumeb	Sep 2018	#5
I am human. I am flawed. The life I've lived deserves no laud. So I pray	cornball 24	Sep 2018	#7
What a stupid premise in the poem.	bitterross	Oct 2018	#26
Names are critical.	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#27
You can't prove that.	Act_of_Reparation	Oct 2018	#30
Your last sentence was by far the best part of your reply. eom	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#33
Funny. The first two sentences are things you often say.	marylandblue	Oct 2018	#34
Look. See, they're not true when others say them.	MineralMan	Oct 2018	#36
Is that what the author meant?	Voltaire2	Oct 2018	#35
That is my interpretation of Rumi's poem.	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#37
Seriously?	Voltaire2	Oct 2018	#38
It means whatever I say it means at the time I say what it means.	MineralMan	Oct 2018	#39
What is a name?	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#40
I'm rubber and you're glue.	Voltaire2	Oct 2018	#41
No, it was your responses that did that.	guillaumeb	Oct 2018	#42

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