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Recent content by Mr. Mephisto

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    Should Parents Spank Their Children?

    On the contrary, I found you. This conversation can be as protracted as you wish; give the word, and I'll consider it concluded. Until then... I derived this from inference, not a forth-right declaration, to be sure. When you said, "...negotiate with them to get them to obey the rules," I...
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    Should Parents Spank Their Children?

    Very interesting. This conversation has not ended yet, I hope, for there are a few more things to be said. In response to my comment regarding behavioral modification, you said, I have detected an ideological error in your thinking - your approach is "off base." The purpose of...
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    Should Parents Spank Their Children?

    I regret that I did not arrive sooner before the conversation shifted off-topic. I will assume that my advice is indispensable and therefore, I can completely disregard the last few posts. ("He that spareth his rod, hateth his son, but he that loveth him, chasteneth him betimes") Proverbs...
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    Do Non-Messianic Jews Go To Hell?

    You know a tree by the fruit that it bears. In the first quote you supplied, Matthew 18, Jesus is using a figure of speech known as the hyperbole. He obviously never intended anyone to castrate themselves, or bore out their own eyes. "To hang a millstone about a man's neck, and drown...
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    Do Non-Messianic Jews Go To Hell?

    "It is interesting, that termites don't build things, and the great builders of our nation almost to a man have been Christians, because Christians have the desire to build something. He is motivated by love of man and God, so he builds. The people who have come into (our) institutions (today)...
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    SI Swimsuit Suspension Thread

    "The trouble with [pornography] . . . is not that it corrupts but that it desensitizes; not that it unleashes the passions but that it cripples the emotions; not that it encourages a mature attitude, but that it is a reversion to infantile obsessions; not that it removes the blinders, but that...