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  1. halbhh

    Stranded 2100 miles from Madagascar...

    (illustration from the 1850 edition) John Nunn (1803–1860) was an English sailor and author. During his time as a sailor, he was shipwrecked at the uninhabited Kerguelen Islands, which led to a three and a half year stay there. People tend to think they have more time than they do. That the...
  2. halbhh

    Stranded 2100 miles from Madagascar...

    Narrative of the Wreck of the 'Favorite' on the Island of Desolation (Kerguelen Land) -- John Nunn, 1850
  3. halbhh

    Stranded 2100 miles from Madagascar...

    "...Yet, trusting in a far higher power, we hoped all would end as we wished! Casting off the lashings, by which the boat was made fast to the try-pots, we hauled her down to the water's-edge and once more launched her into the sea: all got on board, and pulled down to the Mount Campbell shores...
  4. halbhh

    Stranded 2100 miles from Madagascar...

    "...From the contents of the stomachs of some albatrosses, which we examined, we had reason to suppose some of them had been in the neighborhood of whaling ships, and we had an idea that we might make our situation known on board some of them if we were to catch an albatross and attack a light...
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    Stranded 2100 miles from Madagascar...

    1825, they didn't return to the ship, and finally were presumed lost, on one of the remotest islands in the world, about 2,100 miles from Madagascar. They have a story.... Just the 4 of them. (Ultima Thule: Kerguelen, remote but magnificent sub-antarctic islands (ultima0thule.blogspot.com)
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    I love dharmic religions

    What causes that reincarnation? That's God. Another name for God is the "ground of being". Or simply existence itself -- "Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I...
  7. halbhh

    The new Athiest Humanities downfall?

    More like following. Ideology has the typical operation in most of simply their repetition of tenets/dogmatic following. Only a relative minority actively invent new ideological stuff (more harmful sorts like Ayn Rand or in the populist political instance Trump for example, who can invent...
  8. halbhh

    Christians only; How literally do you take the Bible?

    What metric is used in deciding what is to be literally believed and what is not? Here's the metric: true, real listening to scripture. Christ said that His sheep will listen to Him. (John 10:27) If I came to the Bible intending to prove or support a doctrine, and then looked up a passage or...
  9. halbhh

    I'm Cold

    If it's above 20F or 30F (like above -7C) outside ours is usually before sleep time at 70F (21C). But on really cold days we just wear sweaters and I turn it to a lower temperature, like the same as we use for sleep, 67 or 68F. (19 or 20C) This year natural gas price has more than doubled...
  10. halbhh

    Is it ever going to end?

    It's because of an urge to sex that they were trying to suppress that they ended up breaking and taking advantage of other people sexually. The cause: the urge toward sex which they though to suppress. But in actual reality that urge can only be suppressed to the level of being truly celibate...
  11. halbhh

    His dad died and 3 weeks later he nearly died.

    If a Job like experience is a set of circumstances that together in total make a person wish they could die, then I suppose probably some of us have, and I remember a crisis I had in childhood (under age 10), and a divine intervention that saved my life (and which is so surprising and...special...
  12. halbhh

    Is it ever going to end?

    Pedophilia -- that's an important 2nd thing. But it's not actually the first cause. And I'm talking from direct experience. I actually dated a woman in her late 20s I found very attractive, but who was strangely hard to connect with.... And found out that during those months she was having...
  13. halbhh

    Is it ever going to end?

    It's not up to us whether we are given that specific gift from God. See? Or see the remainder of my post above, which I tried to reword on my edit into a more clear explanation. When someone that might be able to be a pastor is also artificially pushed to be celibate but didn't receive that...
  14. halbhh

    Is it ever going to end?

    To me the endless examples of sexual predation from around the world point that the Catholic denomination has a key profoundly mistaken idea -- and that seems to me to be the idea that 100% of pastors should be celibate, which has doesn't fit scripture when read carefully, as celibacy is a...
  15. halbhh

    Theology/Theologies. Are they all harmful by default?

    By the way, that attitude (judging and condemning) would be very much the opposite of what Christ instructed us to do. He went out of His way to find the sinners and mainly associate with them, and not the self righteous. So, that attitude of judging some for their sins and excommunicating...
  16. halbhh

    Theology/Theologies. Are they all harmful by default?

    First, while I'd have an instant answer to the significantly different question: "Theologies -- Harmful?" -- just 'yes'. But you added the word "all"..... And that "all" gets to a less likely thing then: every instance in all cases. And that would be a stretch even for me to agree with, as...
  17. halbhh

    If Religion is About Belief...

    Well, for me, the reason to believe after an initial leap of faith (momentary provisional faith) is because of some kind of confirmation, which I have a lot of, and much of it is observational fact, like when I factually fell off a 2nd story roof about 20 feet above large rocks, and factually I...
  18. halbhh

    If Religion is About Belief...

    Since you're responding to my example of the moon orbiting the earth (I'm assuming you meant to respond to my post above), then does this mean you see my understanding that the moon orbits the earth as a belief that I just 'happen to believe'? Is that what you are suggesting? To me, an...
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    If Religion is About Belief...

    We certainly can agree on that last part. It's sophistry we see much of the time when people try to construct arguments against a religion. As to my understand/viewpoint that we orbit a star, you could call that merely my 'opinion' I suppose, but to me personally that would be a mislabeling...
  20. halbhh

    Studying Mathew

    Hello, this is such a great topic, and I've tried so many ways, and so some of ya'll may also be interested in what I've found over much time and trying many ways of reading/studying scripture, things you all have pointed out, helpful things, and one more thing so helpful to add. I've tried...
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