On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 15:32:31 -0400, "Ken Collins"
<KPaulC at email.msn.com> wrote:
>i stand on what i posted.
Good. Then no one will be able to read it.
>>K. P. Collins
>>Malcolm McMahon wrote in message <37a95903.38994641 at news.demon.co.uk>...
>>On Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:11:45 -0400, "Ken Collins" <KPaulC at email.msn.com>
>>wrote:
>>>>>i'm sorry, too, that it's not obvious to you, and, aparently, not anyone
>>>else, but there's a deep, and concise, rationale for the communication
>>>'style' i use publicly... it's the same reason Jesus spoke in 'parables'.
>>>>>>>Jesus spoke in parallels because it made things _clearer_, not as a form
>>of concealment, or of speaking only to the elect. He taught by giving
>>examples, rather than by using obscure terminology. (And he seems to
>>have had no interest in conveying any information he might have had
>>about spiritual matters).
>>>>For deliberately obscure language you have to go to, say, the alchemists
>>or other exponents of magic.
>>>>People, in fact, who wanted to be part of a secret elect.
>>>
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