Author: margolies,marc
Date: 14:37:25 04/07/03
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Dear Sandi, I expect you can fly and look through brick walls... I suspect this post is just your way of being modest. - -marc n April 07, 2003 at 12:28:21, Sandi Ordinario wrote: >In answer to one of your posts about Nabokov, after I quoted what could have >been a famous quote for perversions. You said that that is why i had a >propensity for young(er) women (my paraphrase of course) is out in left field of >course. I will give you a background of my reading of Lolita. I was 16 working >for a bachelor's degree in engineering in Manila. Two of my cousins, Rachel and >Ruth were studying in the University of the Philippines and knowing that i could >do literary criticism fairly well, asked me to read a novel for them and write a >criticism. The most popular book at that time was Lolita. So I read it, wrote >the criticism and gave it to them to submit to their respective professors in >English. They each got a 1. As explained by Thorsten in one of his posts our >grading in the RP as in Germany, at that time was 1 is excellent while 5 is >failure following a descending scale from excellence. > >Well if your assertion is right, why is it that since boyhood I had been reading >DC Comics until its bankcruptcy and have not learned to physically fly or look >beyond walls or even become affected adversely by kryptonite? > >If you read 4 chapters of the Good Book a day, you would finish it in a year. >This i had been doing since i was 22 after a spiritual experience that shattered >my delusions of being dyed-in-the-wool agnostic. But that is another story. If i >was going to quote YHWH by saying, "...I have tested you at the bitter waters of >Meribah..." does that make me God or god-like? I think it would not even >guarantee my becoming godly in the least. We cannot change or sinful nature by >ourselves by works, not even observing the 10 commandments which is also a form >of works. It would take faith in the sacrifice of the Son of God to reconcile us >back to the Family of God. Nothing else not even intercession of the priestly >class. Only by grace, God's love gift to very few takers. I guess Paul says only >those predestined, another sticky subject, I won't yet discuss until I hear >Matthew Hull's point of view. > >Or perhaps if I quoted from the Gospel of John and say, "Love one another as I >have loved you." Would this make me develop attributes of Jesus? No. It would >only show that I have read the Book so much I can quote verses from memory >nothing else. > >So your assertion does not hold water. > >Ciao, >sandi
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