Would you care to share with us the EGYPTIAN source from which you "extemporaneously" quoted from?
I haven't quoted from ANY Egyptian source "extemporaneously," and from only one otherwise, but that was several pages ago. Nor have I quoted from the Islamic source you keep yammering about. All you're doing is another one of your ad hominem games of trying to spin SOMETHING, ANYTHING, because you have no REAL arguments to present. And you guys have been doing it since you arrived on this thread. First Alex, posting bizarre and meaningless lists like this one, and without any explanation why:
Kamatu
Cemab4y
Praisehymm
Dark Night
Glockenspeil
christainmason Jim
ghendricks63
Next it was you, interjecting "divine inspiration" into it and accusing me of trying to assert it, when the fact is, I had not even ONCE even MENTIONED the term.
When that went nowhere, it was Alex again, this time bringing in totally unrelated discussions from other threads, attempting a spin job similar to all the ones you have engaged in from the start on this thread.
The see-saw then went back to you, more yammering about the "divine inspiration" thing that YOU introduced and tried to attribute to me.
Back to Alex, who tried to spin the Egyptian angle he had introduced and then de-contexted, into an accusation of "looking to Egyptian text for truth," a moronic comment that had nothing to do with anything I had stated to that point, having reference only to things he had tried to distort.
Back to you, and THIS time, was the first one where you finally abandoned trying to attribute the "divine inspiration" thing to me, because this time you found a false angle you thought you could tweak, to create an even greater facade than the one you had been busily constructing since your arrival.
As anyone can see, it's been nothing but spin-spin-spin from BOTH of you. And interspersed in the middle of it all, were attempts by Skippy to create even more ad hominem false accusations, only his I mostly ignored, having my hands full at the time with the "I'm-going-to-derail-the-thread-with-ad-hominem-attacks-because-I-have-nothing-of-any-substance-to-add" twins.
I think it's probably eminently clear to everyone here, that you guys have nothing of any import to add, and are deliberately taking threads off-topic while trying to create imaginary accusations. For a while it was a tag-team effort, but that has mostly turned into the usual Mike-isms, as the other evil twin has kinda vanished. But nothing has changed, the ad hominem false accusations continue.
You really want us to believe you were able to recite 12 words precisely as they appear in a book you NEVER heard of?
No. That's what YOU wish readers to believe. I stated what I stated extemporaneously. I can't help what YOU happened to match it up to. Your source is not familiar to me. But your attempted character assassination most certainly is.
I had enough spiritual discernment to notice it wasn't a direct quote from the Bible
Bullpuppies. If that were true, then why did you not also have the spiritual discernment to "notice" the other three I posted which were "not direct quotes from the Bible?" Was it your "spiritual discernment's" day off when you read the others?
And the amazing thing is, anybody can do what you're doing. For instance, let's go back and take another of the ones I posted extemporaneously, and see what happens with it. From post #42:
"Always treat others as you would like them to treat you."
This was one of my extemporaneous versions of this truth. The first few pulls on this one had some very close similarities but no exact match. But, still on the first page, I came upon one with a title of "Treat others as you would like them to treat you." So naturally I investigated. There, under the title, I found what was listed as a Scripture reference:
"So always treat others as you would like them to treat you; that is the Law and the prophets." Mt 7: 12
Problem is, I was having trouble finding a version on any Bible version website that matches it. But one thing was for sure, it was a DIRECT hit, and match that pulled up. Since I have consistently been leaving off the "therefore" or "thus" which commonly appears on this truth as it appears in context in Matthew 7, then to be consistent with that, the "so" is in like manner to be dropped. Likewise, since I have consistently dealt only with the central truth itself, and not the latter part of Matt. 7:12 that also appears with it, then again, we drop the ending, and VOILA!
This is a direct match. Of what version (or external source, if it be such), I at first did not know. I found nothing on the site to indicate a preferred version, or any statement of any version cited as their chosen version for the site, and I found nothing at biblegateway or at biblios, the two online Bible sources I most often use, to match it.
Then I came across a hit at biblestudytools.com, "The Complete Jewish Bible." Once again, here I was, matching up with a source I'd never even heard of. I had to read the accompanying material on the site that explains what it is and how it came to be. But there's no doubt, your parlor game stands exposed for the false accusation it truly is--since it is now apparent exactly how easy a game it is to play--all you need are several versions of the Golden Rule, stated extemporaneously in your own words, and a web browser.
The count now stands at two. Care to locate and do searches on the other extemporaneous versions of the statement? Might be fun--especially if we get hits again, showing even further evidence of how easy it is to match SOMETHING when you post enough English variations.
It's one you can do, too, readers. Just re-state this truth in words that still capture its meaning, enter it into your browser, and see how many you can find!
Very easy to see what's going on here. Alex came here, dead set on ad hominem derailment. You came and joined him, and a tag-team of deliberate attempts at ad hominem attacks resulted. Why this began is uncertain, but apparently it had to do with the greatly abundant number of sources I cited showing Masonry stating that Jehovah, the God of the Bible, is the God affirmed in Masonry. Antimason tactics in the past have always been, try to bury such material that refutes their claims, by a flurry of sudden activity. Also, true to form, as noticed in many past instances, when Alex shows up, Mike is not far behind. But the real clincher? The rolling on the floor smiley face, that you never pull out until trying to ridicule, which is one of the surest signs of this false approach. Since the patterns fit the same patterns seen here before, and since this game is ad hominem just as always, this instance was just one more in the continuing string of them.
If you have anything genuine to post, or if you want some actual discussion, please do come on back, and let's do so. But any further continuation of this brand of sophistry from you will simply be ignored.
Readers, you have my apologies for even indulging him in his game this far, and I hope we can pursue a more profitable course from this point forward.