That's it? That's the best you can do?
Take one line that really had little relevance to my main point, and counter it with "Nu uh"?
As for:
Cedre writes:
the clear proof of this man's prophetic gift
I have yet to see any. I even provided you with an identical prophecy provided by me, and an explanation of how there are an almost infinite amount of ways it can be fulfilled.
No matter how you slice it, a few vague statements, and a couple of numbers does not equal a concise prophecy.
Cedre writes:
if you were really open-minded and after the truth, all the evidence I have brought forth thus far would have been enough for you
That's just the thing though, isn't it?
I am completely open minded, and accept that this individual could be right (I even at one point in my life believed in these con artists and their "gifts"). Trouble is, he doesn't really give me much to work with in proving him right. He doesn't even give me a reliable date... just some 2 digit numbers and some statement about a plane.
The difference though is you can't accept that he may be wrong. No amount of evidence placed before you will convince you. People with your dedication of blind faith typically won't even believe the conman's own confession of deceit and manipulation.
It
isn't the need for prophecy to be real that drives you.
It
isn't the need for God to be real that drives you.
It
isn't even the need for an afterlife that drives you.
It
is the
need to be the one lone voice that knows the "truth", and is willing to say that truth against all opposition.
In fact, the greater the opposition against your ever increasingly wild ideas, the better it makes you feel. It makes you "realize" that you really must be right, otherwise why would all these people seem to be so angry? I mean, it can't be because you are so blatantly wrong that words can't describe it, and you are completely unwilling to acknowledge even the slightest bit of skepticism... can it?
Cedre writes:
The short amount of time that elapsed for his prophecies to actualize would have already caused you to pause and wonder, really hard about a few important issues.
Perhaps, if I hadn't provided a direct example of how my own prophecy for you could possibly be fulfilled
tomorrow.
And what would those important issues be? The fact that there is yet another conman in Nigeria, and people believe him?
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By the way, I am still awaiting a response from the Nigerian FMOH on the "Prayer Healings" and whether people have really been cured of HIV/AIDS in their country. I probably won't have it for a couple more days, if they are anything like the bureaucracy we have in the United States.
How hard they must find it, those who take authority as truth, rather than truth as the authority.
-unknown
It's not
what you know, it's if you know
how to find it.
-Me
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