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you should leave iamasuckerforthemediaville and then you may find that not everything you see or hear is "reported" how it happened It is only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything

i think philh is thinking of God knowing the future in a peculiar way. CS Lewis explains it this way. God is not in the same space and time that we are as humans. He is in a 4th dimension so to speak. So when we call yesterday our past, today our present, and tomorrow our future, to God they are all the present for him. he knows what im gonna have for breakfast tomorrow because my tomorrow is present to him. I'll come back tomorrow with exerpts and referrences for it is very late here. Or if you cant wait, read Mere Christianity i think the chapter is Beyond Space and Time or something to that effect. It is only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything

since you know me oh so well, i dont feel the need to explain to you what kind of professional i am. In that respect, youve got it all figured out i suppose so have another guinnie on me. It is only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything

spoken like a true nimrod. Probably never heard of Micheal Durant have you? you should have....ask him if SERE was irrelevent during his time in captivity or a better bet would be Andy McNabb, at my suspitions that you are British. He underwent similar training with the SAS and im sure he'd tell you it was pretty damn relevent training during his captivity It is only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything

I have completed level C SERE school through USAJFKSWCS, so allow me to clarify: although i cannot say much (a lot is classified) as far as the "big three" go, it is all you are required to give as a POW. The problem is you can be a prisoner of war, a prisoner in other-than-wartime-conditions, or a hostage (being captured by a terrorist group, non military/gov't group, etc). The course motto was "Survive and return home with honor" COL Nick Rowe, the founder of SERE and a POW with the VC for 5 years understood this. In his book "Five Years to Freedom" he explains how one of his mates that was captured with him, Captain Rocky Versace, played the hard ass and only gave the big3 and NOTHING else. He was executed about two years into captivity. Although i cannot delve into resistance techniques, i can assure you, that "only your name rank and serial" is not what is taught in this course. What sets level C apart from level A and B is the Resistance Training Lab (RTL), basically a 4 day mock POW camp. We are captured, physically and mentally assaulted, and brought to the lowest places of the human psyche. During this time is when you painfully realize that reciting the "big three" will not suffice and that we must fall back on the techniques taught to us. Read any number of books authored by POW's and you wont see the hollywood hero spitting in the face of his captors and saying, "SGT John Duffy, 123-45-6789. You want anything else, you'll just have to kill me". Rather you will see men and women striving to survive both physically and mentally all the while standing on their honor. The POW's we got to meet and talk to after being "liberated" from the RTL and debriefed were among the most honorable and upstanding men i will likely ever meet. Being a captive at the enemies hand is quite possibly the darkest place a human can go, and those men and women survive on their hope and their honor. It is only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything

whats interesting to me about the Orbiting Purple Monster argument, is it was conjured up as a rebuttal to the Christian argument that God cannot be disproven so therefor he is likely to exist. So lets compare the two, the monster and religion. Since man has been able to wonder, there have always been religions of all makes and models. Most of these are passed on through thousands and perhaps millions of years......this monster in space has been around for a decade or so. I find the latter to be laughable at best. Honestly a better rebuttal for the "disprove" argument would be Santa Clause or something that has been a part of human culture worldwide for a substantial amount of time. It is only after we have lost everything that we are free to do anything

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