Author: Sandi Ordinario
Date: 15:39:33 04/07/03
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On April 07, 2003 at 17:37:25, margolies,marc wrote: Hi Marc, Somehow in our very limited interaction, you have come to know my nature even better than some of the posters in both CCC and CTF. Thanks for your compliment, I really dont deserve them. I still remember your reply about power supplies, I hope your compliment is not an extension of your sense of humor but even if it was, I would still appreciate it anyway. Thanks again. Sandi >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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