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"Smiler" <Smiler@Joe.King.com> wrote in message 
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> "Alex W." <ingilt@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message 
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>> <hhyapster@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>>> On Jul 5, 6:53 pm, "Alex W." <ing...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> "rbwinn" <rbwi...@juno.com> wrote in message
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>>>> On Jul 4, 9:37 am, "Steve O" <nospamh...@thanks.com> wrote:
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>>>> > For the umpteenth time, we cannot tell Jesus anything.
>>>> > If he existed at all, he died nearly 2,000 years ago.
>>>> > Apart from an alleged brief visit shortly afterward, he hasn't been 
>>>> > seen
>>>> > since.
>>>> > How can we tell him anything, huh?
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>>>> > - Show quoted text -
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>>>> Well, it is called prayer.  Christians are commanded to pray.
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>>>> And you're sure your prayer gets through ... even though no-one in the
>>>> history of Christian prayer has ever answered.  You know, if I dial a 
>>>> number
>>>> and get no connection, I may try a few more times, but sooner or later 
>>>> I
>>>> realise that there's no phone at the other end ....
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>>> The real trouble is, Alex, the loon never even try to dial.
>>> Worse, a lot of them dialed but no tone or connection and still think
>>> the number is right.
>>> They tried and tried and tried.....until the last breath, still no
>>> connection.....sad.
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>> That's not the real trouble.
>> They do try to dial.  Again and again and again.
>> And then they dial their own number and end up speaking to themselves --  
>> a closed loop that will always deliver the answers already present in the 
>> questioner's mind.  It's the perfect conversation ....
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> I would hardly describe talking to oneself as the "perfect conversation".
> It's more like the perfect description of lunacy.

Ah, but it is.  You always get the answers you want to hear, the other end 
is always in agreement, you have perfect understanding ....