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  All criticisms are based on external behavior.  No one (except autist people) actually think it’s possible to judge/know someone’s thoughts. 


A “shameless grifter” is a great description of his behavior.  No one can know if he actually is and all normal people don’t speak as if they could know.  All name calling is based on behavior.

This clown is just full of crap.  I've already explained that internal forum is not the same thing as motivations or thoughts.  It has to do with culpability, and lies much deeper in the soul than any of us can discern.  In fact, at our judgment, God will call us out with some thing we ourselves were not entirely aware of.  "When you did this, see, you weren't acting with pure motives, but you had these mixed motives.  But when you did this, I was less offended because it was more out of weakness due to some trauma you experienced as a child and some psychological issues you had, and so you acted less out of malice than from a broken psyche.  But, in this case here, yes, you were ignorant, but your ignorance wasn't invincible, since on one level you really didn't want to know."" and so on and so forth.  THAT is the deep level at which internal forum operates.

Even the Church makes inferences and presumptions regarding motivation, e.g. presume that a priest has the requisite internal intention for the Sacrament if he follows the Rites, presumes that someone is a heretic if for 6 months he goes to religious services of heretics, so on and so forth.

Even what you're saying is not quite correct.  You certainly CAN know someone's "thoughts" ... see, that's called language, "Logos".  When Michael Matt says something, he's expressing his thoughts.

Yeah, sure, you can't have ABSOLUTE certainty, since Matt could be lying about any given thought, but in the external forum you just make the presumption and can consider that moral certainly unless you have other indicators of duplicity, aka just like the Church does with priests' intentions and the Sacraments.

centro is just wasting our time with snowflakish stupidity here

  All criticisms are based on external behavior.  No one (except autist people) actually think it’s possible to judge/know someone’s thoughts. 


A “shameless grifter” is a great description of his behavior.  No one can know if he actually is and all normal people don’t speak as if they could know.  All name calling is based on behavior.

He's characterizing this as if we were just making up random names and insults as kids do on the playground.

I stand by my judgment and opine, obviously without absolute certainty that Michael Matt is a "shamless grifter".

And if I'm wrong, no harm done, since Matt has zero right to any benfits of the doubt, since he's doing grave damage to souls.  HE put himself in the position of being an "influencer" and a public figure ... to be well know in order to rake in revenue, so when he has a PERNICIOUS influence, whatever backlash he gets is one him, since he entered hte public arena.

When I make posts here, I'm not snowflaking like some souther belle ("oh, I do declare") when someone attacks me for a post.  What did I expect?  I put myself into this arena, and so I should expect it.

If I walked into the East Side of Cleveland and started yelling the N-word, if I got my ass kicked or worse, I shouldn't be suprised by the consequences.

That's the tradeoff for Matt, that he poses as "influencer" and that inherently requires being a public figure, then he's got to deal with cricism.  On top of everything else, there's something eminently un-masculine and effeminate about this snowflaking about Matt, when Matt's the one who put himself out there.