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<div class=Section1><pre><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The Princess Tushi Wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>The level playing field of the internet is creating what is really a <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>different world. The kinds of "hierarchical, patriarchal, and exclusive <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>modes of story telling that have gone on in homes and churches" are getting <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>hammered. If the people who are reveling in (or perhaps I should say, <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>*rebelling in*) all this get their way, there will no longer be a hierarchy <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>in either the family or the church. They think this is a good thing, because <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>they are at least as talented as, if not smarter and better than, the people <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>who have been placed over them as rulers, but the rulers refused to <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>recognize that by sharing power with them. The idea is, "If the existence of <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>the hierarchy means I have to submit to *that* idiot, it is better that the <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>hierarchy be destroyed. A hierarchy that refuses to put me at its apex is <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>inherently unjust."<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Of course, they can't take this approach vis-a-vis the last remaining <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>government institution -- the institution of the State -- because the State <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>carries a bigger gun than any individual could wield. The family and the <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>church don't have guns to enforce their authority, so it's open season. Thus <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>protected, every knave feels confident in attacking knights with their <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>words, calling it "leveling the playing field."<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>How noble.<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Princess Sushitushi<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Me: I wanted to note that the Princess is quoting me, and she/he/they are referring to Wilson’s kicking me off his blog, his spiritual abuse towards me and my family, and Christ Church’s expelling my family and I from the church without judicial procedure or justification. Ironically, one of the explanations for doing this is that I’m really an idiot who can’t read a book and is suffering from the illusion that I should pursue a master’s degree. So that’s the broad context of this interesting quote (I have noted before the Princess’s quoting from me without citation). Often, when a kirker tries to criticize me they do so by yanking a quote from me out of context. I have called this lying. The context here is close enough, so I won’t call the Princess a liar here – but it certainly tip toes to the line. The immediate context of this quote was a SLAPP lawsuit from an apparently corrupt CEO of a not for profit, $10million/year company. Last year they spent $64,000 on attorney fees and have now sought to silence a friend of ours Frank Vance for making allegations against this CEO. This CEO has called my site and others pure “slander.” Frank’s site is professionally done and his investigative journalism caused the CEO to do precisely what some of the allegations predicted him to do: try to get a prior restraint on some nobody laymen’s website, file a law suit against his freedom of speech, and clamp off all exposure of their inside practices. Frank only pursued setting up this web site in such a way after getting pursued by this CEO and after getting censored from another site. One of the things Frank Vance has trying to do during all this was exposing Douglas Wilson’s injustice and deceit regarding the defrocking of his buddy RC Sproul Jr. Now we have another pastor, Tim Bayly (another buddy of Douglas Wilson), who is arrogantly trying to clamp off communication and hurl moral smears against those who disagree; Tim removed a post from a woman on his blog after expressing perplexity of what to do with women who disagreed with him, since he is, as he told me explicitly, a “patriarchalist.” That woman was banned from another similar discussion group and found a place to give her side of the story at Pooh’s Think. On the internet, arrogant and powerful men can’t silence publicity and dissent, unless of course Ligonier Ministries convinced the Supreme Court of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> to silence Frank Vance – and I have a hard time believing they will do that. <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Noble indeed. Irony the name “Princess” here, no?<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'>Michael Metzler<o:p></o:p></span></font></pre><pre><font
size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a
href="http://www.poohsthink.com/">www.poohsthink.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></font></pre>
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