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1 | Hell/Lake of Fire | Rev 20:14 | DocTrinsograce | 171766 | ||
Dear Alanh, Over the years we notice that some forum participants prefer to use the words of others rather than invest the time, energy, and effort in smithing their own words. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. For example, bringing a particularly well written quote from someone with greater authority than our own can often be a valuable exercise for us all. Of course, when we fail to attribute to the rightful owner the words we use, it becomes a different matter. This is what is called plagiarism. Plagiarism is a fancy word for stealing. Its a bit worse than that, however, because it is also an effort to elicit admiration for prowess of intellect, creativity, and academic industry that rightly belongs to another. Consequently, this sort of behavior is rooted in violations of at least two and more probably three of the Ten Commandments; i.e., it is sin. Alan, nothing rooted in sin will bring benefit, either to ourselves or to those around us. On the contrary, underhanded behavior can often detract from the argument. I certainly understand your tenacious and unyielding embrasure of Campbellism. That is your right. I doubt, however, that even folks in the group known as the "Church of Christ" would want you to promote their denominational perspective in anything but an honest and forthright fashion. Some of them might even take umbrage at your using their words as your own. Please, in the future, show greater respect for the Lord, the Lockman Foundation, and your fellow forum members by employing the highest standards of intellectual honesty that you can muster. Take the following aphorism from a man who knows wells from his own bitter, past experience: Character is more easily maintained than restored! In Him, Doc |
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2 | Hell/Lake of Fire | Rev 20:14 | alanh | 171780 | ||
Doc, I appreciate your concern, but as of yet I have not plagiarized. If you believe I have then please by all means state the work from which I plagirized. |
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3 | Hell/Lake of Fire | Rev 20:14 | Morant61 | 171783 | ||
Greetings Alanah! The exact text of your post can be found at: http://www.mwchurchofchrist.com/pages/articles/aftdeath.htm It is copywrited by the Mineral Wells Church of Christ. Do you hold the copywrite on this material? Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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4 | Hell/Lake of Fire | Rev 20:14 | DocTrinsograce | 171785 | ||
...of course, someone else might not hesitate to post the URL. :-) | ||||||
5 | Hell/Lake of Fire | Rev 20:14 | Morant61 | 171787 | ||
Sorry! ;-) p.s. to all - If you ever think that your child, or someone else, may have 'borrowed' someone else's work, simply pick out a distinctive sentence and using quotation marks, enter it into your search engine. Usually, you will find the work 'borrowed' right away. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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6 | Hell/Lake of Fire | Rev 20:14 | Hank | 171793 | ||
Hi Tim: Of course the suspected "borrowing" of someone else's work could turn out to be pure "coincidence," wherein two minds just happened to produce two identical pieces of creative work, as illustrated by this story my favorite English professor told me long ago. This professor, as part of a course in creative writing that he was teaching, assigned each member of the class to compose an original poem and read it to the class at the next session. On the appointed day, a young lady stepped up and read her poem to the class. The professor immediately recognized the poem as being a published work of celebrated poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. After class he summoned the young lady to his office and from his library picked a volume of poetry, turned to the poem and read it aloud to the young lady -- the very poem she had just read in class claiming that it was her own original composition. "What have you to say to that, young lady?" asked the professor. The young student squirmed in her seat and asked coyly, "Can I help it if Edna St. Vincent Millay and I happened to think up the same poem?" This incident, according to my professor who, until his death a few years ago, remained one of my closest friends, is true. It happened in his class. --Hank | ||||||
7 | Hell/Lake of Fire | Rev 20:14 | DocTrinsograce | 171795 | ||
Well, you know, Brother Hank, there are, after all, only a finite number of words and a finite number of combinations in which they can be arranged! :-) Good anecdote, by the way! |
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