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    Italian Artist Sells Invisible Sculpture for More Than $18,000

    It tells us that an idea can be sold if its wit is resonant enough, no? It warn't my bucks and I dare say waren't your bucks, but they were someone's bucks, and as long as there are people who think like that, there's the potential for a buyer later on.
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    Who should Biden pardon?

    The two guys who unsuccessfully fired at Donald.
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    Evolution, maybe someone can explain?

    An infinite number of ways? Really? Then you'll have no trouble setting out five distinct, necessary and sufficient (and non-overlapping) definitions of an 'atom'. Please do so before we continue the discussion.
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    Italian Artist Sells Invisible Sculpture for More Than $18,000

    In what sense do you say it's 'phony'? That it never happened in reality?
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    Israeli soccer fans attacked in Amsterdam for being Jewish

    Parts of the Israeli military program look military. Parts of it have gratuitously killed serious thousands of Gazan citizens, and also killed aid workers and medical workers from the UN and elsewhere. Have you seen the photos? They've done a very good job of flattening the whole area, and...
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    Israeli soccer fans attacked in Amsterdam for being Jewish

    I strongly dislike the practice of defending the policies of the present Israeli government by dismissing criticism as 'antisemitic'. Self-serving and grossly disproportionate violence is representative of Netanyahu, himself clinging Trumplike to power to avoid criminal proceedings against him...
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    True and False Prophets - Just and Honest Determination

    What do your Hindu and Buddhist friends have to say about that? The question requires a definition of 'Messenger' which informs the onlooker exactly what determines whether X is a Messenger or not, no? I don't know of any such definition. Instead, the test seems to be how good they are at...
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Goodness, can it be we agree on something?
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Science makes no absolute statements. Science is validated by the fact that it works. I suspect the function of gods was originally to explain inexplicable things like thunder and lightning, drought and flood, good and bad luck at hunting, war, love, the status of the dead who could appear in...
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    In that respect it hasn't changed since my days on the old Beliefnet, from around, what, 2002?
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Curious that you have all these comments on real evolution but only magic to offer as an alternative, no? And correct me if I'm wrong, but you have not the slightest idea how magic actually works, no?
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    To Be Superior or Not To Be Superior

    It's your faith, and you're free to believe as you please. My own view is that none of those quotes is referring to the risen Jesus, who clearly didn't establish the Kingdom on earth, then or since.
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    To Be Superior or Not To Be Superior

    You speak as though I'm somehow at fault for pointing to the actual text of the NT. All ancient texts are records of their time and place and the thinking of their authors. The NT is a set of documents written, it appears, in the case of Paul, between 50 CE and c. 57 CE (say in the third...
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    To Be Superior or Not To Be Superior

    It's your claim. It seems to me it's up to you to maintain it, rather than to claim someone else might be able to. The words are unambiguous and found in three of the four gospels. The Kingdom would be established in the lifetime of some of Jesus' hearers. And of course it wasn't.
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    To Be Superior or Not To Be Superior

    No, they're not. The Greek is as unambiguous as the English. Jesus said the Son of Man would establish the Kingdom on earth in the lifetime of some of his hearers. No one in the NT contradicts him, and Paul and John are merely silent on the point. Either that, or produce those still-living...
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    To Be Superior or Not To Be Superior

    You must be using an unusual edition of the NT. Mine (RSV) says, for instance, and with emphasis added ─ Mark 9:1 And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death before they see that the kingdom of God has come with power.” Mark 13:28 “From the...
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    There are five versions of Jesus in the NT, and those of Matthew and Luke are the only two who assert Mary's virginity ─ a minority view even within the NT, on that basis. I'll look forward to hearing from you about your research and the conclusions you draw from it. I gave an outline here...
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    To Be Superior or Not To Be Superior

    Yes, notwithstanding Jesus' promise in all three synoptic gospels that the Kingdom would be established on earth within the lifetime of some of his hearers (Mark 9:1, Mark 13:28, Matthew 10:23, Matthew 16:28, Matthew 24:32, Luke 9:27). That looks like a thoroughly demonstrated lemon to me ─ or...
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    The Four Dirty Secrets Against Darwin Evolution

    Indeed. It can't even be a case of parthenogenesis, were such possible in humans, because the offspring was male, meaning (according to the story, but not to the ordinary listener in the bar) Jesus got his Y-chromosome from God. Of course, Mark's earlier version has the great advantage of being...
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    To Be Superior or Not To Be Superior

    For me, truth is a quality of statements and a statement is true to the extent that it corresponds with / accurately reflects the world external to the self. And I'm for truth. Since science proceeds by empiricism and induction, I'm likewise for science. But I think the important thing for us...
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