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  1. It Aint Necessarily So

    By the way -- if you claim to be a Christian...

    I don't know what you mean by a common manner, but metaphor and metaphorically have specific meanings. And if your purpose was to "avoid issues with many other terms," you picked another term that caused an issue. The stories are myths, not metaphors or allegories. Metaphors and allegories are...
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    2024.10.09 - Trump Has Edge in Top Battleground States

    Dictionary.com defines xenophobia as, "dislike of or prejudice against people from other countries," whereas Merriam webster uses stronger verbs and defines xenophobia more broadly as, "fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign." I also find much of...
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    Evolution My ToE

    Agreed. You've got two populations here that you can learn from, one from their insights and the other from their lack of insight - what I frequently call the lecture and lab portions of this "class." You referred to the latter as the Dunning-Kruger set, and I agree. What I've learned about...
  4. It Aint Necessarily So

    2024.10.09 - Trump Has Edge in Top Battleground States

    I can't tell you what methodology RCP uses to weigh those polls or how it compares with that of other aggregators, but if their results are different, then either their data or how they evaluate must be different. That was a reply to a post that contained, "To be clear, I am not trying to...
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    Evolution My ToE

    Yes, but only if one becomes a Jehovah's Witness, correct? As an unbeliever, my future doesn't contain better times, correct? Defying natural law is pretty much what magic is. No. The theory is not about all of biology - just the transformation of the last universal common ancestral population...
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    Building Bridges to the Unity of Humanity

    It's clear to me that the religions of the world are not the answer to human strife and division. They fuel it. None of their gods or scriptures have answers. If man is to see any problem remedied, he will need to find a way to fix it himself. If we are to be "guided from our perplexities,"...
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    The Pursuit of Knowledge vs. The Pursuit of Wisdom

    Wisdom is a specific kind of knowledge. I define intelligence as the ability to identify and solve problems to obtain one's immediate goals and wisdom as the knowledge of what goals to pursue to bring lasting satisfaction. Thus, an "intelligent" fool is somebody who succeeds in achieving goals...
  8. It Aint Necessarily So

    A concern I have with churches…

    Vetted to do what? Sunday school as I remember it was a place to put children during the hymns and sermon to segregate them and their noise from the adults. It was a baby-sitting service, and as long as the kids were there, they might as well indoctrinate them. What does one have to know to do...
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    2024.10.09 - Trump Has Edge in Top Battleground States

    RCPs is a conservative outfit. From Wiki: "The site has shown a conservative inclination in its content and commentary, as noted by various sources over the years.[21] In early interviews and articles, founders McIntyre and Bevan openly discussed their conservative viewpoints and criticism of...
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    Building Bridges to the Unity of Humanity

    If the religion were appealing, its naysayers couldn't prevent it from growing. Even your god, if it exists, hasn't helped implement this call for world peace. As you know, I have a different answer for why this god doesn't intervene in the affairs of man and why it seems nonexistent. I...
  11. It Aint Necessarily So

    Building Bridges to the Unity of Humanity

    Sorry, but I don't see wisdom there, just flowery exhortations to be pious, which means be good and be religious. We don't need the religious part to be good, and Abrahamic religions are not as ethically sound as humanistic values, which feature none of the Abrahamic bigotries for example...
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    Evidence That the Absence of a God is Not Possible

    Not so. It works to a greater or lesser extent on anybody not equipped to recognize and reject it. It sounds like you're excluding yourself as a critical thinker. Critical thinking is about evaluating claims. From AI: Me: "Define critical thinking skills" AI: "Critical thinking skills refer...
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    By the way -- if you claim to be a Christian...

    That was a response to, "I limit myself to God's word the Bible," which as you well know means assigning whatever meaning one likes to those words. If one likes them, their God's literal word. If they've already been disproven, then they were never meant to be believed. They were allegory or...
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    Evidence That the Absence of a God is Not Possible

    Agreed. Self-improvement is active: "self-actualization, in psychology, a concept regarding the process by which an individual reaches his or her full potential." I would modify that. That's actualization, which isn't necessarily self-directed, as with "Be all you can be in the Army," where...
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    The last post is the WINNER!

    Ajijic, Mexico. Pretty steady and temperate. Presently (9 AM) 65 deg F (18 C) outdoors and 76 deg F (24 C) indoors. Blue skies and sunny. Shorts and a cotton shirt. This week (in Fahrenheit): And centigrade:
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    Trump sent scarce COVID-19 tests to Putin for his own personal use

    Who knows how far he would go? I'll bet you do. I do. Trump, though pathological, is simple for that reason combined with being foolish and low information. His motivations are few, his values are well known and though corrupt, are few in number, and his agenda is one word: "Me!!!" There is no...
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    Evidence That the Absence of a God is Not Possible

    They both are relevant to the choices you make, which is what affects you and others. What you call good reason is not what is considered good reasoning. You have your own rogue logic that confirms your faith-based assumptions (confirmation bias). There's a saying: "Hypocrisy is the...
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    Why Is There No Fossilized Evidence For First Life?

    Abiogenesis is neither a theory nor dogma. It's a tentative hypothesis. The conceptual flaw is yours in thinking that nature ought to give you what you demand of it. Scientists are constrained to work with the evidence they have, not the evidence that you or they would prefer to have. Science...
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    Trump sent scarce COVID-19 tests to Putin for his own personal use

    You have zero interest in facts that denigrate Trump. Look at how you just wave them off here. Most of the rest of us don't, which is why we shake our heads at Trump and his little black heart, and you're like the guys with the brushes in curling smoothing the path for him blind and indifferent...
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    Trump using hurricane Helene devastation for political aims, lies about the administration

    And where do we suppose that people learn to think like that? Aren't those also the ethics of the church, but targeting evil sinners rather than leftists? Look at how the three Trump SCOTUS appointees all lied about their intention to overturn Roe to get confirmed. They consider that pious fraud...
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