Calling my 'ilk' is name calling slander. You are being reported.
Be my guest. In fact, I insist you do so. If I don't hear anything from Darat (or another admin) in the next short while, I'll ask them about this myself. I request only that whatever actions an admin takes, they make it public.
Davidjayjordan said:
And yet surely shall be protected, we shall see. darat's wants proper discussions, obey the rules.
Your first sentence here has no subject.
You consistantly fail to address any of the issues anyone brings to your attention. Too inconvenient to be addressed, are they? Dang that external world for being so intrusive and disruptive of your fantasy realm.
The Failure of Prophesy as a Method
When it comes down to it, all you do is offer reams of fluff and nonsense with the conclusion, "We will see." But, and of course you consistantly fail to understand this, we simply reply, "We HAVE seen," to the nonsense that is prophesy. Prophesy, as a means to knowledge, has failed and failed and failed and failed. It has a consistant history of failure. It's only success is that it fails so predictably. See? I am addressing the issue.
Of course, Prophesy always points to the future, doesn't it, Djj? We'll never be able to verify it as true, because the future never arrives, does it, Djj? So you think you can claim anything and never have to accept responsibility for the claim, don't you, Djj? You think this makes you look transcendent and wise. It doesn't.
Efficacy vs Helplessness
The sad thing is, even if we were to accept what you say is true, it still offers us absolutely nothing. Do we then have a way in influencing this mass slaughter you so gleefully anticipate? Does it empower us in any way whatsoever? There is a choice to be made, Djj. That choice is between being efficacious agents, empowered with a methodology that allows us to act, or being pawns of prophesy, helplessly blown along on the winds of fate. That, Djj, is the heart of the matter (just in case you didn't notice). Science and verificationism empowers us, provides choices and options and the potential to influence results; it gives us, in a word - efficacy. Your way of thinking offers us nothing, but superstition, stagnation, terror and helplessness. There I go again; addressing the issue.
Intuitionism and its Ilk
Your way of thinking is not new or profound, Djj. Intuitionism is age-old and has been put paid to pretty forcefully by verificationism. Verificationism puts paid to intuitionism in countless ways on a daily basis. Making claims that are neither verifiable nor refutable has been done so many times before it evokes little but a yawn nowadays - and rightfully so. We have better ways of thinking now. Ways of thinking whole orders of magnitude more effective and empowering - based on reference to external referents, less subject to the randomness of personal (shall we say) interpretation. Oops! Did I address the issue again?
Walk the Walk
Your dirty, little contradictions are showing, Djj. You are only too happy to use modern technology (technology science has provided us) to push your fluffy nonsense. God reveals to You so that You can post his word on a website - the very idea is ludicrous in the extreme and thoroughly laughable. Why don't You just use prayer and Your prophetic Jedi mind powers to make us all "understand" Your glory? The answer, I suspect, is fairly obvious...
A Plan for the Future
I have a recommendation for you, Djj. Look both ways before you cross the street, because two thousand+ pounds of onrushing plastic and steel doesn't give a flying how you feel about being run over. That's reality. The external world WILL impose itself upon you, whether you like it or not, just as it imposes itself on me and everyone else. There are two ways one can try to deal with it. One can try take it into account, or one can try to wish it away.
Honestly, who do you imagine will fall for your little game?