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    Women, math, and the Monty Hall problem

    But isn't the key, as @PureX said, that the first door eliminated is ALWAYS a NO? That is, at no stage in the game are the true odds ever 1 in 3.
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    Which Book is the true word of God, Quran, or Bible?

    Exactly. Hence my question.
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    Jesus is not God

    You can't have read your own text critically, too busy making sure it says only what you want to hear. But only after the adoption of the Trinity doctrine, which as you appear to agree, is incoherent, in the 4th century CE ie NOT in the NT, I've already twice invited you to win the argument by...
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    Why So Much Trinity Bashing?

    I haven't looked at the question with much depth, but in the Tanakh the spirit of God is called the ruach ('breath') of God (just as 'spirit' is from Latin spiritus, 'breath'). I'm not aware of any suggestion that the ruach is a different entity to (the single Jewish) God, but simply one of...
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    Pam Bondi next up for Attorney General.

    Oh, you ain't seen nothin' yet! A rapist and convicted fraudster in charge, surrounding himself with a circus of grotesques ... Fasten your seat belt and lock your doors and windows and check you have enough ammunition.
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    Jesus is not God

    The NT has five models of Jesus, each of which disagrees at key points with the other four. The trap about trying to invent a single Jesus by picking and choosing the characteristics you like is that all you end up with is a sixth model that disagrees with the other five. That doesn't alter...
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    Evolution, maybe someone can explain?

    Aahm ... well .... ahm ... good luck with that ...
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    Evolution, maybe someone can explain?

    I'm saying that the present state of medicine is that everyone dies; and as the author of Ecclesiastes (9:5-6) put it ─ For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward; but the memory of them is lost. Their love and their hate and their envy have...
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    Jesus is not God

    As your NT will readily affirm, the Jesus of Paul and the Jesus of John ─ unlike the Jesuses of Mark, Matthew and Luke ─ pre-existed in heaven with God and (regardless of what Genesis says) created the material universe. Both Paul and the author of John were influenced by such gnostic ideas...
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    A Christian must have a full beard

    As you know, God never appears, never says, never does, and the only manner in which [he]'s known to exist is as a concept, notion, thing imagined, in an individual brain.
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    Evolution, maybe someone can explain?

    Or we'll cease to be alive, to be aware, to know, and become the past.
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    How did the Egyptians build the pyramids?

    I'm already sufficiently informed.
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    How did the Egyptians build the pyramids?

    Don't bother. Whenever I did that in the past, I found nothing coherent and I have no reason to think it'd be different this time.
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    A Christian must have a full beard

    Jesus was a Jew. His God was the Jewish god. Jesus was circumcised ie Jesus was within the Jewish God's covenant (explicitly in Luke 2:21, implicitly in Mark, and thus the synoptics. The author of John however is keen to distinguish Christians from Jews, so that case is a tad less certain). The...
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    How did the Egyptians build the pyramids?

    Indeed it does. Especially that one of my core beliefs that says that conclusions are best drawn from impartial assessment of facts. (And just to be clear, by 'fact' I mean an accurate statement about a real state of affairs. And by 'real' I mean, found in the world external to the self, which...
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    How did the Egyptians build the pyramids?

    Magic frequently seems more likely than your alternatives. I don't thereby suggest that magic is found in reality, of course.
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    How did the Egyptians build the pyramids?

    I'm reminded that Amphion built his share of the walls of the citadel of Thebes, moving the stones simply with the power of his music and the golden lyre that Apollo had given him. I say (respectfully, of course) that this method is vastly more likely than anything @cladking may propose...
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    How did the Egyptians build the pyramids?

    Okay. Stand clear.
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    A Christian must have a full beard

    Yes, I've already apologized for confusing the Christian God with either the God of the Tanakh or the God of the NT ─ which is to say, as to the former, (and regardless of Matthew 5: 17 “Think not that I have come to abolish the law and the prophets; I have come not to abolish them but to fulfil...
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    Evolution, maybe someone can explain?

    If ─ BIG if ─ divinity was involved, it was either Aphrodite or Ganesha ─ on that occasion, I'd guess the latter. (If I'm put to the test, I like gods who like to party.)
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