Opinion of jmfcst

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

My “Texas as a country” thread is a typical case – instead of me being able to yank someone’s chain by making a single “arrogant Texan" comment, I had to act as if I actually cared by making an entire thread on the subject, which only served to waste my time as well as the time of others. But, I digress.)

Why would you feel the need to post an "arrogant Texan" comment just to "yank somebody's chain"?  Can you see how that would be considered trollspam no matter how much effort you put into writing it?

chain-yanking shouldn't be infractionable - it's simply psychological warefare:  All warfare is based on deception.  If your enemy is superior, evade him.  If angry, irritate him.  If equally matched, fight.  And if not, split.  Re-evaluate.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

My “Texas as a country” thread is a typical case – instead of me being able to yank someone’s chain by making a single “arrogant Texan" comment, I had to act as if I actually cared by making an entire thread on the subject, which only served to waste my time as well as the time of others. But, I digress.)

Why would you feel the need to post an "arrogant Texan" comment just to "yank somebody's chain"?  Can you see how that would be considered trollspam no matter how much effort you put into writing it?

chain-yanking shouldn't be infractionable - it's simply psychological warefare:  All warfare is based on deception.  If your enemy is superior, evade him.  If angry, irritate him.  If equally matched, fight.  And if not, split.  Re-evaluate.

Dis is syrs businness, pple.

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chain-yanking shouldn't be infractionable - it's simply psychological warefare:  All warfare is based on deception.  If your enemy is superior, evade him.  If angry, irritate him.  If equally matched, fight.  And if not, split.  Re-evaluate.

Dis is syrs businness, pple.

actually, chain-yanking occurs in every facet of life, even in a pick-up game of basketball.

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chain-yanking shouldn't be infractionable - it's simply psychological warefare:  All warfare is based on deception.  If your enemy is superior, evade him.  If angry, irritate him.  If equally matched, fight.  And if not, split.  Re-evaluate.

Dis is syrs businness, pple.

actually, chain-yanking occurs in every facet of life, even in a pick-up game of basketball.

The Bible said so.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

chain-yanking shouldn't be infractionable - it's simply psychological warefare:  All warfare is based on deception.  If your enemy is superior, evade him.  If angry, irritate him.  If equally matched, fight.  And if not, split.  Re-evaluate.

Dis is syrs businness, pple.

actually, chain-yanking occurs in every facet of life, even in a pick-up game of basketball.

The Bible said so.

are you attempting to say the bible is against chain-yanking?  you have a problem with what the bible clearly says, yet now you're attempting to invent your own rules:

Mat 23:24 "You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel."

(for some odd reason, once again I am referring to a camel in discussion with you.)

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

chain-yanking shouldn't be infractionable - it's simply psychological warefare:  All warfare is based on deception.  If your enemy is superior, evade him.  If angry, irritate him.  If equally matched, fight.  And if not, split.  Re-evaluate.

Dis is syrs businness, pple.

actually, chain-yanking occurs in every facet of life, even in a pick-up game of basketball.

The Bible said so.

are you attempting to say the bible is against chain-yanking?  you have a problem with what the bible clearly says, yet now you're attempting to invent your own rules:

Mat 23:24 "You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel."

(for some odd reason, once again I am referring to a camel in discussion with you.)

What is bible saying about basketball?

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

chain-yanking shouldn't be infractionable - it's simply psychological warefare:  All warfare is based on deception.  If your enemy is superior, evade him.  If angry, irritate him.  If equally matched, fight.  And if not, split.  Re-evaluate.

Dis is syrs businness, pple.

actually, chain-yanking occurs in every facet of life, even in a pick-up game of basketball.

The Bible said so.

are you attempting to say the bible is against chain-yanking?  you have a problem with what the bible clearly says, yet now you're attempting to invent your own rules:

Mat 23:24 "You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel."

(for some odd reason, once again I am referring to a camel in discussion with you.)

What is bible saying about basketball?

it says, "Take Kalwejt to the hoop, for he lacks a point, both in debating and in playing basketball."

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

chain-yanking shouldn't be infractionable - it's simply psychological warefare:  All warfare is based on deception.  If your enemy is superior, evade him.  If angry, irritate him.  If equally matched, fight.  And if not, split.  Re-evaluate.

Dis is syrs businness, pple.

actually, chain-yanking occurs in every facet of life, even in a pick-up game of basketball.

The Bible said so.

are you attempting to say the bible is against chain-yanking?  you have a problem with what the bible clearly says, yet now you're attempting to invent your own rules:

Mat 23:24 "You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel."

(for some odd reason, once again I am referring to a camel in discussion with you.)

What is bible saying about basketball?

it says, "Take Kalwejt to the hoop, for he lacks a point, both in debating and in playing basketball."

Cite?

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

chain-yanking shouldn't be infractionable - it's simply psychological warefare:  All warfare is based on deception.  If your enemy is superior, evade him.  If angry, irritate him.  If equally matched, fight.  And if not, split.  Re-evaluate.

Dis is syrs businness, pple.

actually, chain-yanking occurs in every facet of life, even in a pick-up game of basketball.

The Bible said so.

are you attempting to say the bible is against chain-yanking?  you have a problem with what the bible clearly says, yet now you're attempting to invent your own rules:

Mat 23:24 "You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel."

(for some odd reason, once again I am referring to a camel in discussion with you.)

What is bible saying about basketball?

it says, "Take Kalwejt to the hoop, for he lacks a point, both in debating and in playing basketball."

Cite?

it may be between Genesis 1 and Rev 22.  Read it and get back to me.  In the meantime, did you hear the one about the Pollock and the camel:

There was a Pollock on vacation in Syria riding through the desert on a camel. He had been travelling so long that he felt the need to have sex. Obviously there were no women in the desert so the man turned to his camel.
He tried to position himself to have sex with his camel but the camel ran away. The man ran to catch up to the camel and got back on and started to ride again. Soon he was feeling the urge to have sex again so once again he turned to his camel. The camel refused by running away. So he caught up to it again and got on it again.
Finally after riding the camel through the whole desert the man came to a road. There was a broken down car with three big-chested beautiful women sitting in it.
He went up to them and asked the women if they needed any help.
The hottest girl said ,"If you fix our car we will do anything you want."
The man luckily knew a thing or two about cars and fixed it in a flash.
When he finished one of the three girls asked, "How could we ever repay you Mr."
After thinking for a short while the Pollock replied, "Could you hold my camel?"

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Brainwashed by religion. I'm not voting either way because we don't know what his real views are.

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Brainwashed by religion. I'm not voting either way because we don't know what his real views are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATueZADngJM&#t=0m16s

[Phony Moderate]

HP, because of his views.

[Phony Moderate]

He and Al are the two longest-serving members of this forum (other than Dave Leip), correct?

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He'll always be an Atlas legend for breaking the news on Sarah Palin being McCain's running mate hours before the MSM reported it.

well, I didn’t myself discover the flight logs filed for her secret flights, rather I was just passing on information from someone else.  I simply was tuned into a blog on the palinforvp site (run by Adam Brickley) where an insider (probably Drew Zahn from WorldNetDaily) was giving us info.  Drew told us how the whole night would unfold and everything happened exactly as it said it would.  The Palin campaign was simply providing leaks to the palinforvp blog as payback for its support of her.  Both Sarah and Todd personally sent Adam Brinkley a big thank you for raising awareness of her.  

But, I do take credit for my prediction of her selection a week prior to the event.   Of course, if she wins the 2012 GOP nomination, I will regret her political existence.

Though, it was cool how I not only predicted her selection, but also found a blog with a reliable source and also provided the first news link (from cnbc) to the forum confirming her selection.  I basically had a royal flush that week...I also found a reliable source for leaks on the RedState blog during the Alito selection, I believed the poster was a true leak because a few weeks earlier he insisted 72 hours before Miers was announced that he was in the know and that she had been selected because the other women in the running had reasons (skeletons in their closets?) why they didn't pass the vetting process, which I immediately discounted thinking no way Bush would chose Miers.  But when Miers was selected, I started trusting in that blogger who would then relay the info that Alito was the new choice.

…just goes to show that real news can be gleaned from the internet well before the MSM has a clue.  Also, just goes to show how much leaking is going on, and it is probably tolerated because it is very hard to tell who knows what they're talking about and who is just guessing.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

About a year ago or so I probably would have voted FF.

This irresistable urge in the last year or so to quote bible passages on every thread from religion to hot or not is just ridiculous, and he's smart, he knows exactly what he's doing, and to me, sadly, he's become worse of a troll than any we've had, including that troll, Kyle Mercado.  Maybe that is is goal who knows.

I hope he goes back to the way he was when he was drooling all over Palin and not quoting the bible.

[angus]

"Could you hold my camel?"

ba-da-boom!


I bet all the chickens cross to the other side of the road when they see that guy coming down the sidewalk.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Brainwashed by religion. I'm not voting either way because we don't know what his real views are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATueZADngJM&#t=0m16s

Winston Disraeli, you need to elaborate on your comment:  A) are you saying I am brainwashed and therefore even I myself don't know what my real views are, or B) are you saying I am hiding my real views from the forum?  

because B makes no sense at all considering the level of detail I have revealed over the last 8 years on the forum

and A is like Twilight Zone type of weirdness, not to mention it doesn't even fit my history since I basically acquired 95% of my beliefs within the first 5 months of becoming a Christian, and during those 5 months I was a rogue Christian with no church and only a bible.

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during those 5 months I was a rouge Christian with no church and only a bible.

Rouge Christian?  Perhaps you meant rogue Christian?  I'm thinking that there's a huge difference. 

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during those 5 months I was a rouge Christian with no church and only a bible.

Rouge Christian?  Perhaps you meant rogue Christian?  I'm thinking that there's a huge difference. 

well, I was a bit pale at the time

[angus]

Glad you cleaned it up.  I love that line.  Sounds like the intro to a western movie.

Open with a pair of dusty boots walkiing slowly through in the desert.  Slowly pan up the body of a weather-worn maverick, who steps on a scorpion.  Cue guitar solo--or better yet, theme from "Fistful of Dollars."  Raspy, cigarette-enhanced baritone voice starts talking..

"I'd killed more men than I can remember.  Been upstairs with every whore in the territory.  Drank about a gallon of whiskey before breakfast every day of my miserable life.  My face was posted on the walls of every two-bit tavern west of the Pecos. 

I didn't give a damn about anybody or any laws.  Till one day when I found Jesus, that is.  I found him at the bottom of a well, where I'd been pitched and left for dead after my gang found my map and stole my gold.  Damn near suffocated down there, till a Mexican priest named Arturo Fernandez saved me.  He brought me up out of that well and nurtured me back to life like I was his own child.  Taught me to love and to forgive.  But I wasn't into that political Jesus.  I wasn't into Jesus Christ, Inc.  I wanted to find my own truth. 

During those first five months, I was a rogue Christian with no church and only a bible."

Cut to bloodstained bible.  Pan out to show lone maverick standing in deserted mining town.  Sound brass fanfare in A-sustained-2 with the title "The Rogue Christian" in Times font fading in quickly.

Voiceover:  "The Rogue Christian is brought to you by State Farm Insurance, and by Phillip Morris and company." 

Cut to commercial.

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

I suppose I have editing rights over my own life story:

Glad you cleaned it up.  I love that line.  Sounds like the intro to a western movie.

Open with a pair of dusty boots walkiing slowly through in the desert.  Slowly pan up the body of a weather-worn maverick, who steps on a scorpion.  Cue guitar solo--or better yet, theme from "Fistful of Dollars."  Raspy, cigarette-enhanced baritone voice starts talking..

"I'd killed more men than I can remember.  Been upstairs with every whore in the territory.  Drank about a gallon of whiskey before breakfast every day of my miserable life.  My face was posted on the walls of every two-bit tavern west of the Pecos.  

I didn't give a damn about anybody or any laws.  Till one day when I found Jesus, that is.  I found him at the bottom of a well, where I'd been pitched and left for dead after my gang found my map and stole my gold.  Damn near suffocated down there, till a Mexican priest named Arturo Fernandez.  But in that well I found a bible some woman gave me, and when I opened that bible, Jesus stepped out of it and into my life. Christ saved me.  He brought me up out of that well, lifting me up to the heavens in front of the whole universe, consumed my flesh with fire and nurtured me back to gave me a new life, setting his mark upon me as like I was his own child.  Taught me to love and to forgive.  But I wasn't into that political a legalistic version of Jesus.  I wasn't into Jesus Christ, Inc.  Rather Jesus was now living inside of me, I wanted to find my own and God commissioned me to go tell others about unclutered faith in his truth.  

During those first five months, I was a rogue Christian with no church and only a bible."

Cut to bloodstained bible.  Pan out to show lone maverick standing in deserted mining town.  Sound brass fanfare in A-sustained-2 with the title "The Rogue Christian" in Times font fading in quickly.

Voiceover:  "The Rogue Christian is brought to you by State Farm Insurance, and by Phillip Morris and company the Power of the Word of God."  

Cut to commercial.

Now, since I am a business man, my normal cut is 75%.  But I’ll leave all the profits to you.  Go in peace, just spread the word.  Some will accept my testimony, others won’t.  As it is written:

2Cor 2: 15 “For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task? 17Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God.”

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I don't have much of a problem with him. Sure I don't agree with him 100% on biblical debate but it doesn't make me have an overwhelming dislike of him.

[angus]

I suppose I have editing rights over my own life story:

Glad you cleaned it up.  I love that line.  Sounds like the intro to a western movie.

Open with a pair of dusty boots walkiing slowly through in the desert.  Slowly pan up the body of a weather-worn maverick, who steps on a scorpion.  Cue guitar solo--or better yet, theme from "Fistful of Dollars."  Raspy, cigarette-enhanced baritone voice starts talking..

"I'd killed more men than I can remember.  Been upstairs with every whore in the territory.  Drank about a gallon of whiskey before breakfast every day of my miserable life.  My face was posted on the walls of every two-bit tavern west of the Pecos.  

I didn't give a damn about anybody or any laws.  Till one day when I found Jesus, that is.  I found him at the bottom of a well, where I'd been pitched and left for dead after my gang found my map and stole my gold.  Damn near suffocated down there, till a Mexican priest named Arturo Fernandez.  But in that well I found a bible some woman gave me, and when I opened that bible, Jesus stepped out of it and into my life. Christ saved me.  He brought me up out of that well, lifting me up to the heavens in front of the whole universe, consumed my flesh with fire and nurtured me back to gave me a new life, setting his mark upon me as like I was his own child.  Taught me to love and to forgive.  But I wasn't into that political a legalistic version of Jesus.  I wasn't into Jesus Christ, Inc.  Rather Jesus was now living inside of me, I wanted to find my own and God commissioned me to go tell others about unclutered faith in his truth.  

During those first five months, I was a rogue Christian with no church and only a bible."

Cut to bloodstained bible.  Pan out to show lone maverick standing in deserted mining town.  Sound brass fanfare in A-sustained-2 with the title "The Rogue Christian" in Times font fading in quickly.

Voiceover:  "The Rogue Christian is brought to you by State Farm Insurance, and by Phillip Morris and company the Power of the Word of God."  

Cut to commercial.

Now, since I am a business man, my normal cut is 75%.  But I’ll leave all the profits to you.  Go in peace, just spread the word.  Some will accept my testimony, others won’t.  As it is written:

2Cor 2: 15 “For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing. 16To the one we are the smell of death; to the other, the fragrance of life. And who is equal to such a task? 17Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God.”

LOL.  Okay.  And I'll resist the urge to point out that many televangelists don't seem to have taken seriously the second epistle of Paul to the Corinthians (especially verse 17!), because you probably have noticed that as well.  But I was going to have a character-development ploy in which Father Arturo reveals that he, too, had been a gunslinger, but found Christ and was saved.  That the only blood he ever wanted to see now was the transubstantiated wine of the Holy Communion.  That sort of thing.  It'd be necessary when the the Padre shows up in Fort Worth one day to get you out of a jam.  We have to make it believable that he knows his way around a six-shooter.  Of course you still don't buy into his hierarchical, corporate version of Christianity, and ultimately forego his Spanish bible in favor of a stodgy, Shakespearian English version which is about 14 or 15 books shorter, but you're still grateful to him.

But we don't have to go that way with it.  Anyway, that was my (somewhat romanticized) version of the story of jmfcst, the poster.  I suspect that in the real story, it wasn't a Mexican priest, but a woman who was involved with your salvation.  Maybe she was a Mexican, maybe she was Lebanese, maybe Greek or Italian.  She's definitely a brunette--your posts suggest that you favor the raven-haired beauties.  I understand that Jesus of Nazareth bore the burden of your sins, and it was your decision to accept that, but there had to be a catalyst.  Whatever it was, a cultural warrior was made.  

But don't turn down Father Arturo's help when he shows up here one day as a poster.  Other than opebo, he'll be the only Democrat you haven't completely alienated.  

[Swing low, sweet chariot. Comin' for to carry me home.]

Excellent!  Though I prefer a Father Guido type, but it might be hard to paint him into a western.

and, yeah, 2Cor 2:17 is a major topic of discussion in my pastor's sermons, he shudders at the vast majority of Christian TV.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

He has my respect.  If I were ever charged with a crime, and was allowed to pick my jury from among the regular members of this forum, he'd be one that I'd choose.  He strikes as intelligent, impartial, sober, and a man of great integrity who would judge me only on the facts of the case. 

lol

lol

He represents something though.