A few posts back, I noted the fact that a counter-accusation against The Washington Post was circulating, and linked to it. The story said that WaPo had paid money to women to testify against Moore. I said that I didn’t know if there was anything to that or not — but I now do. A friend sent me a link about the source cited in that story which shows definitively that the source is a huckster, a con, a mountebank, a fraud. The link he sent me is here. And if you go back and watch the news story I originally linked to, you can see that there was more than a little prestidigitation going on. And now back to our regularly scheduled programming.
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I can’t figure out which source Doug is referring to as the fraud – the one who says WaPo is paying for dirt, or the one who says the people who say WaPo is paying for dirt is a fraud?
The source cited in the story that claimed the Post made a payoff, seems to fit the grammar, as well as the content of the linked article. IOW, there’s no credibility to the story of the payoff, due to the entire lack of credibility of the person who first promoted that story.
There seem to be some dirty tricks going on, including the robocall from someone pretending to be from WaPo offering cash for stories on Moore. The fake reporter’s name was Bernie Bernstein–I guess they figured that everyone who works for WaPo has a name like Jewie McJew.
Jane, I wanted a theology check. As you may have heard, Charles Manson is reportedly on his deathbed. I announced to a group of friends that we should pray for a deathbed repentance. Their view was (1) our prayers are pointless (2) he is too evil and (3) repentance on his part would be unfair to his victims who met their deaths without time to seek forgiveness.
I am right, though, aren’t I?
Parable of fair wages. You’re pretty clearly correct Jill.
I’m not as wise as Jane, but I would say that you should pray for his soul, but that you should pray also for the souls of those who still live who are his victims, and even moreso for the souls of those who say what he did was not deserving of death and punishment.
Jill, as some of your own poets have said:
Qui Mariam absolvisti
Et latronem exaudisti
Mihi quoque spem dedisti.
Sing it to your friends in your best Pavarotti.
Thank you, Indighost, that’s from Dies irae! I think I will sing it in mournful plainchant to make them think of holy things (at least, that plus slumber is the effect plainchant has on me!)
I always hear it as sung in Verdi’s Requiem. I don’t know how many times I heard Pavarotti singing those words as I was growing up, but now whenever I meet a ‘Mihi’ (which is also a Maori name) I have to suppress the urge to burst into song.
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So, you are a Kiwi? I believe bethyada is, too. Just curious. I am not, but lived there for ten years (and my brother has lived there for forty years now).
Hi Rick, yes I’m a kiwi. Where were you stationed?
So many Kiwis here
it is kinda cool!!!!!!!!
Where and where
You are correct.
One small addition. We have this life to follow Christ. We need to repent before death. But I think it is feasible that some have come to the place of no repentance prior to death; they will never turn.
Well everyone else beat me in but I agree. Now, however, the time is past. But while he lived, yes, that was appropriate. The people who say that our prayers are pointless don’t have a biblical view of either prayer or salvation; those who say he was too evil don’t understand what Jesus saved THEM from, and Justin’s reference to the parable of the workers in the vineyard dispatches #3 nicely, plus that also being a problem with those who say it not understanding their own sinfulness vis a vis God’s holiness.
Okay. Doug’s post seems very confusingly worded to me, for some reason.
It’s fine.
Claim and counterclaim. Seems the counterclaim had zilch substance.
If you sort it out, it’s comprehensible. But it could have been more clearly expressed with a few more words, and fewer pronouns.
Thank you much for this Pastor Wilson!
Reading the story that Pastor Wilson linked, the amount of power the guy had was incredible. He regularly just made up stuff that fit a certain political agenda and put it on a Twitter account, with no evidence to back it up at all and no reason for anyone to trust him on the matter. Yet he managed to get followed by tens of thousands of people, retweeted thousands of times, and actually influenced the narrative in certain circles…solely because he made claims that people wanted to believe, with literally nothing else behind the claims at all.
This is way too common now. It may be a bit daring of me to say in light of all the outrageous stuff that is now being normalized, but this ubiquitous, sometimes even almost conscious, preference for validation over truth may be the single scariest leading indicator of our culture these days.
It’s certainly up there.
I actually have to laugh out loud at the irony of my comment being downvoted too…I almost wonder if someone did that on purpose, just to be ironic. Or did they not read the article?