08-26-2004, 04:34 AM
Otto is saying the same thing I was Chris.
Your doctrinal views and opinions are clouding the primacy issue, no matter how you try to slice it, spin it, or whatever. If you want to "really" promote aramaic primacy of some sort, then your gonna have to remove your views from it. It will only attract the wrong attention from people, and they will automatically focus in on that instead of the corrections the aramaic makes within the greek, which is one it's greatest points.
That is if you really wish to take responsibility for how you promote this in front of your peers and how people consider your work, as you say that you do.
You could, on the other hand, not really care about it, and just wish to promote your doctrinal issues instead, in a very stealthy manner. Or worse yet, just compile this book on the work that someone else did, say,......hmmmm,........ a former friend who actually knows what he is talking about, and fluently speaks the language, and oh, did all the work already and posted it on his site?! You could then just copy it, copywrite it as your own without telling him, and then call it your own. I mean, that would be easy for you to do and you could just drop their name at a moments notice whenever you wished your personality to appear bigger than it really was. Also, since your former friend who provided you all this work for free is a very esteeemed individual within the aramaic primacy movement, people would automatically associate you as one of the "bigtimers and bigwigs" in the primacy movement. Just say that the person who did the work you copied from them approves of everything you did on your site. Bingo! Quick and easy stealthy plagerism at it's finest in the 21st century! Instant celebrity status!
But of course, I don't know if you really could look yourself in the mirror after all that though, I know I couldn't. And I know people would see right through me no matter what did to try and justify it, if I did that sort of thing to one of my friends,....... and definetly, GOD is not mocked, I wouldn't be able to look upward and ask for anything from HIM anymore. I guess if you did that sort of thing, you wouldn't care what bridges you burn with your friends anyways, right?!
Anyways, just some fodder for you to chew on. But yea, people are interesting sometimes, and very predictable.
But back to the issue, I think people are trying to help you with your website Chris. The doctrinal issues mixed within it will only detract from anything good the peshitta would be viewed as though.
Your doctrinal views and opinions are clouding the primacy issue, no matter how you try to slice it, spin it, or whatever. If you want to "really" promote aramaic primacy of some sort, then your gonna have to remove your views from it. It will only attract the wrong attention from people, and they will automatically focus in on that instead of the corrections the aramaic makes within the greek, which is one it's greatest points.
That is if you really wish to take responsibility for how you promote this in front of your peers and how people consider your work, as you say that you do.
You could, on the other hand, not really care about it, and just wish to promote your doctrinal issues instead, in a very stealthy manner. Or worse yet, just compile this book on the work that someone else did, say,......hmmmm,........ a former friend who actually knows what he is talking about, and fluently speaks the language, and oh, did all the work already and posted it on his site?! You could then just copy it, copywrite it as your own without telling him, and then call it your own. I mean, that would be easy for you to do and you could just drop their name at a moments notice whenever you wished your personality to appear bigger than it really was. Also, since your former friend who provided you all this work for free is a very esteeemed individual within the aramaic primacy movement, people would automatically associate you as one of the "bigtimers and bigwigs" in the primacy movement. Just say that the person who did the work you copied from them approves of everything you did on your site. Bingo! Quick and easy stealthy plagerism at it's finest in the 21st century! Instant celebrity status!
But of course, I don't know if you really could look yourself in the mirror after all that though, I know I couldn't. And I know people would see right through me no matter what did to try and justify it, if I did that sort of thing to one of my friends,....... and definetly, GOD is not mocked, I wouldn't be able to look upward and ask for anything from HIM anymore. I guess if you did that sort of thing, you wouldn't care what bridges you burn with your friends anyways, right?!
Anyways, just some fodder for you to chew on. But yea, people are interesting sometimes, and very predictable.
But back to the issue, I think people are trying to help you with your website Chris. The doctrinal issues mixed within it will only detract from anything good the peshitta would be viewed as though.