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  1. Town Heretic

    if God can do anything, can he lie?

    God can't do all sorts of things if we understand Him as the perfection of all good, as its root. In fact, the most limited being in existence, morally speaking, would be God.
  2. Town Heretic

    Why Did God Create Humanity?

    Love requires an object upon which to express its nature. Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friend.
  3. Town Heretic

    What Mythological Creature Are You?

    Mine came back "Ethical Congressman".
  4. Town Heretic

    PersonalDNA Personality Test

    I'm apparently a benevolent creator. Highly extroverted (98), masculine (92), trust in others (90), Imaginative (6, which for some reason is an inverted high on their scale). The rest of the values were midrange. want to save your report to a personaldna account?
  5. Town Heretic

    I'm entitled to my opinion, and you are also . . .

    Let me get this straight, if your car breaks down you'll take the opinion of a physician over a mechanic's provided your stomach hurts? That's crazy talk. What?
  6. Town Heretic

    Speaking of Television...

    I wanted to create a more open-ended thread about what's on, tech, whatever. Last night I watched another episode of Life in Pieces. It's uneven, but well cast and when it hits it can be very funny. The Thanksgiving episode is an example of that, mostly being redeemed by the less sentimental...
  7. Town Heretic

    NFL 2015: mid-season through the Super Bowl

    Made my final picks on ESPN today. I'm changing my GB pick. I'll take the Vikings in a close one. So, we differ on four games: Jets @ Hou, KC @ SD, GB @ Min, and Cin @ Arz.
  8. Town Heretic

    NFL 2015: mid-season through the Super Bowl

    If I've learned anything over the past two or three miserable weeks of failure it's that this year neither numbers nor logic are to be tusted. So I'm just going to cobble a best guess and hold on for dear life... Week 11 1. Ten @ Jac: in a game only a mother could love, the Jaguars are a 2.5...
  9. Town Heretic

    NFL 2015: mid-season through the Super Bowl

    Never seen a season like this one. I had the one 14 win week and have been tanking since, at a point where I'm normally at about twelve wins. This is just...beats me like drum. What have we learned else? Baltimore is simply awful. Chicago is getting better on offense and SL is a streak team...
  10. Town Heretic

    NFL 2015: mid-season through the Super Bowl

    Horrible day. Apparently the foot and rib injuries had him putting up ducks...but here's my problem with that...I get it. I get that a guy with an average arm needs the full throwing motion and the ability to plant or he's going to sail passes, but why is he on the field in that condition? I...
  11. Town Heretic

    Figuring Out Your "Like" Quotient

    (mulls) ...well, my quotient was 62.96 before this post...so I should probably just quit now and call it a career.
  12. Town Heretic

    Terror attacks in Paris.

    Said the fellow who lamented the passing of Christian Turkey and Egypt? Again, I invite anyone disinterested in cherry picked attempts to make as orthodoxy a thing refuted by the larger Islamic community, by scholars like Oxford professor Tariq Ramadan and an outpouring of semilar condemnation...
  13. Town Heretic

    Terror attacks in Paris.

    How many Christians impact what Westboro does? How many anyones impact extremists? And that's a billion and a half world wide. This isn't Germany before WWII, though being concentrated doesn't always appear to be much of a help depending on the particulars. Nothing for a very long time...
  14. Town Heretic

    Terror attacks in Paris.

    You need to read the full thing for context. Justification for holy war is pretty specific. Well, no. That's not a valid/orthodox understanding of the application. That's why Muslims, both laymen and scholars, are condemning the violence done in Paris. I know and it's noted in that article I...
  15. Town Heretic

    James Bond: Who's Best/Who's Next?

    I really like the idea of Elba as Bond. Before Craig it was Connery...then the first couple by Moore, then I liked Dalton. Wasn't a Brosnan fan, though to be fair he wasn't given much to work with. He had one, Goldeneye, that I really liked. I think Craig's material and approach is just...
  16. Town Heretic

    Terror attacks in Paris.

    Do nothing in what sense? Some are fleeing with the families they mean to save. Some are fighting. Most are condemning. What are we doing? What are you doing? What could you do if your country wasn't doing anything? It's just too easy to suggest that every Muslim is obligated to somehow, in some...
  17. Town Heretic

    Terror attacks in Paris.

    Empirical observation makes me believe it along with an understanding of how Islam functions and has, historically. Now you can cherry pick the Quran without context if it makes you feel better and someone could do the same with the Old Testament to scare the crap out of someone who didn't...
  18. Town Heretic

    James Bond: Who's Best/Who's Next?

    Liked him as Horatio...his recently defunct television series would work against him and he's played into a type now that would make it a tough transition. . .still beats Vin Diesel. I'd vote Samuel Jackson, if only to see the writers work in the line. . . "I said shaken, not stirred...
  19. Town Heretic

    Terror attacks in Paris.

    Islam has over a billion adherents. Anyone who mistakes what some are doing in its name with the rule are either unpardonably ignorant or essentially dishonest. The problem where Islam has radicalized is similar to the problem of Nazi Germany early on...there are a lot of people who are afraid...
  20. Town Heretic

    James Bond: Who's Best/Who's Next?

    Additional horrible ideas for Bond. Actors...Ricky Gervais, Rowan Atkinson, Russell Brand. Opening song? Byork , Wheezer, USC marching band.
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