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Hi Peter!

Peter Merel <pete@zip.com.au> wrote:

>pspat@opera.iinet.net.au (Patrick Canion) writes:



>It's not for me to tell you how to relate to your God, but if it were me
>who believed in him I'd have a truly immense swag of questions with
>regard to him carrying on like a drunken swineherd throughout the OT.
>It may be a good thing for you that I don't share your faith :-)

Haha!!  No, I don't have any problems with being asked difficult
questions - it stretches me, stops me from getting rusty.  I don't
always know the answers, mind.

>>Peter, I have the greatest respect for your opinion and arguments.

>Likewise, Patrick, I have long admired your self-restraint.

Thank you, but *that* is the evidence of the Spirit of God in my life
- left to my own devices I would descend into a pit of recriminating
pejoratives faster than even they!

>>From memory, I recall that you are involved/practice/ teach psychology
>>(forgive me if I've used the wrong terms).  

>Actually, no, I'm a software architect.

Now that's interesting!  I'm a software buff too, having done Intro to
Basic 101 back in 1983.  It's a load of rubbish though, cause
everytime I try to program Windows with it nothing happens.  I thionk
the person who designed it is a liar and a cheat.

It's like HTML.  I bought a book that promised to teach me how to
write my own web-page.  But it was full of lies - I read it, but still
didn't understand it, and I certainly don't have a Web page yet.  I
think these people write these things just to line their pockets and
to force us all to believe that they're smart, just to cover over
their own insecurities.

I'm surprised a bit Peter - you seem like a really nice guy, and yet
you can associate with all these charlatans!  Still, as long as you
all keep it to yourself.....


<big grin>

> The only thing I can tell you about
>psychology, having studied it a few years at university, is that 90% of it
>is rubbish. Only trouble is that no two psychists agree on which 
>parts are the remainder.

Hurray - we can wholeheartedly agree on one thing!  :-)

>Oh, if you don't like that passage,

No, I love that passage - I just didn't like the way you mangled its
interpretation.


>Doubtless it's not, and seeing that I'm not terribly interested in any
>particular Bible passage, shall we say, end of thread?

Eek - you know it so well, but you're not terribly interested in
understanding it?  Fair enough, end of thread!  Till next time, my
friend!

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God Bless,

Patrick Canion
Pastor, Manning Assembly of God, Western Australia
pspat@iinet.net.au