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1 | Lure or Norse demon? | Rev 19:4 | charis | 997 | ||
Dear dlnash. Great answer! You had more courage than I to study about the Urantia baloney (bologna?). Thank you. By the bye, How did you mean 'troll?' I suspect you meant 'lure.' Bring it to the light, friend. (could you have meant Norse demon?) In Christ Jesus. | ||||||
2 | Lure or Norse demon? | Rev 19:4 | dlnash | 1023 | ||
It doesn't take courage to study something like the Urantia Book enough to recognize it as heresy. You just have to be secure enough in your faith not to be led astray. Being sceptical about supposed "new revelations" and downright cynical about the base motivations of mankind also helps. :-) "Troll" as I used the term refers to someone who enters into a discussion forum with the purpose of disrupting it by posting messages which are likely to provoke highly emotional or off-topic responses. This usage originated on Usenet, I believe. It refers to a type of fishing wherein the hook is pulled through the water in the hopes of snagging something, a process called "trolling." Trolling in the sense I'm using here is done by people who enjoy stirring up anger and hostility for their own amusement (it is unfortunate that such people exist, but sadly they do). A person who engages in trolling is, naturally, called a troll. The pun of this against the meaning you cite (a demon of Scandanavian mythology), is no doubt intentional since people who fall for a troll's bait and respond to him are said to be "feeding the troll," and are admonished not to do so. When I said that I suspected bobmoy of being a troll, I said that not as an attempt at name-calling as he claims, but as a concise description of what I suspected his behavior to be. I will grant that this is not a very flattering thing to say, but it does seem to be a plausible explanation. But I must say in all fairness that it is equally plausible that bobmoy is sincere but badly misled. I still don't understand how he can claim to believe everything the Bible says about Jesus but still believe in the Urantia Book as well. |
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