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The West Wing
What is Rhetoric?
After coming home from church, President Bartlett explains the art of rhetoric, and how the minister failed in his rhetoric.
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definitely
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hi Charlie
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I'm sure
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it was
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fine stop it suck
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you're talking about church like I'm not already gone to [censored]
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what was the problem
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he feels the homily like Panache did like Panache was a perfectly lovely homily on Ephesians 5:21
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husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
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yeah she's skipping over the part that says wives be subject to your husband's as to the Lord
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for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church I do skip over that part why because it's stupid okay
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okay husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her that he might sanctify her having cleansed her by washing of water
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with the word
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that he might present the church to himself in something in splendor and I have no problem with Ephesians
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and anytime you want me to cleanse you with the washing of water you know I'm up for it the what is your problem hackery
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this guy was a hack you had a captive audience in the way I know that is that I tried to Tunnel out of there several times he had an audience and he didn't
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know what to do with
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you want him to sing Volare couldn't hurt words words when spoken out loud for the sake of performance are music they have rhythm and pitch and Timbre
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and volume
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these are the properties of music and music has the ability to find us and move us and lift us up in ways that literal meaning can't do you see you are
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an oratorical snob yes I am and God loves me for it you said he was sending you to [censored] for other stuff not for this
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you can't just Trot out a fusions which he blew by the way it has nothing to do with husbands and wives it's all of us
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Saint Paul Begins the passage be subject to to one another out of reverence to Christ be subject to one another
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in this day and age of 24 hour cable [censored] devoted to feeding the
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voyeuristic gluttony of an American public hooked on a bad soap opera that's passing itself off as important don't you think you might be able to find
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some relevance in verse 21
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how do we in the cycle be subject to one another so
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this is about you
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know it's not about me well yes it is about me but tomorrow it'll be about somebody else will watch Larry King and see who all hacks off the stage right
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now
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that's a national security or
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I'm going to the
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I'm taking a bath I'm turning on Sinatra how does mrs. Sinatra feel about that peaceful with you
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you make me egg foo young
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good morning mr. president you make me feel there were songs to Be Sung he's feisty please don't ask me about church no I won't I'm sorry mr. president
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Melissa Markey died
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okay
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damn
