tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post3550261131364397029..comments2024-03-28T11:33:16.271-05:00Comments on Adventus: The art (and necessity) of cross-examinationUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-37916069641634183302014-11-23T09:34:01.517-06:002014-11-23T09:34:01.517-06:00The funniest part was the parishioners who would t...The funniest part was the parishioners who would try to "defang" me by telling me not to act like a lawyer (mean, vicious, argumentative, powerful).<br /><br />Compared to the people I met in churches (laity and pastors), the lawyers I knew were pussy cats, were Sunday school teachers, were naive innocents. I never met a lawyer who tried to conduct the kind of character assassination I experienced in ministry.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-5939307597663604002014-11-22T20:43:55.817-06:002014-11-22T20:43:55.817-06:00Sounds like every music department I was ever invo...Sounds like every music department I was ever involved with. I always figured it was because we spent too much time together. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-21969982737572453052014-11-22T09:54:33.406-06:002014-11-22T09:54:33.406-06:00"O brave new world, that has such people in i..."O brave new world, that has such people in it!"<br /><br />Unfortunately, it's the same people, on-line or off.<br /><br />Something about churches and seminaries, though (and here I fuel the atheists, I know): I've never seen people get so nasty and vindictive and tell such lies about themselves and others, in any other setting.<br /><br />Fighting over the smallest things, true; but as the inscription over one door at my seminary said (Carved in stone in the original Greek): "The things unseen are forever."<br /><br />It was on a dormitory. Gossip flowed from that place like water from a mountain stream. We all figured the original builders knew something deeply true.Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-84499110994673716822014-11-22T09:08:41.979-06:002014-11-22T09:08:41.979-06:00Oh, I've had people make things up about me. ...Oh, I've had people make things up about me. And they've blown up into mythical hatred of me. Fortunately, it's just online.ntoddhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01068160577299501895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9479398.post-13465449973414228802014-11-21T19:34:03.621-06:002014-11-21T19:34:03.621-06:00For me it was watching the infamous Fells Acre Day...For me it was watching the infamous Fells Acre Daycare case unfold in the Boston media, watching an elderly woman, her daughter and her son destroyed by the obviously coached fantasies of young children aided and abetted by the ambitious prosecutors, the media, the psych industry, the indifferent judges, the outrageous indifference of the Supreme Judicial Court that overturned lower judges who, citing the glaring flaws in the prosecution "evidence" including stuff that was physically impossible, had tried to get Mrs. Amirault out of prison before she died there and where she obviously never belonged, how they terrorized her and her children in her last days with the possibility of sending her back on the basis of the flimsiest and most cruel of technicalities. <br /><br />I learned a lot from the Geraldo Rivera inspired ritual pedophile scare of that period about the kind of stuff that the internet has made worse. I think that when someone like Atrios can claim that it's a "fact that he's probably a serial rapist" not hearing the incoherence of the idea that this is a serious problem that will only get worse. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.com