No Evidence for 1st Century Nazareth

[angellous_evangellous]

Look! More Face-Saving Spam!

JEEZ. I was laughing with you and not at you for once, and I get that. haha

 

[godnotgod]

Spam deserves no response.

If you didn't take the time to write an intelligent post, why on earth would you expect an intelligent response?

You degrade yourself to spam - INCESSANTLY. You deserve nothing but the contempt that you show for yourself and your topic.

Firstly, what I post is not spam. What is spam is that the NT writers point to a Nazareth that does not exist.

Secondly, if I feel that someone else can make a statement regarding an issue better than I , then my posting it represents my agreement with it, and I agree with it because I see it as intelligent.

Once posted, the ball is in your court, so you should use YOUR intelligence to respond to the CONTENT of the post, whether or not it is my original content or my cut and paste of someone else's content. I point to the moon, but instead of looking at the moon, you choose instead to rabidly attack my pointing finger, which shows no intelligence at all.

The truth of the matter is that you have no intelligent response, and are just throwing up smokescreens. A truly intelligent person would point out WHY he thinks the cut and paste contains a faulty argument, paying attention to the CONTENT, rather than to the unimportant periphery.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Three words: therapy.

 

[godnotgod]

Three words: therapy.

You see? More diversionary tactics and projection of your shadow onto others in order to give you the semblance of an upper hand.

As I said, I am more than happy to be the first to contribute one US dollar toward your therapeutic trip to Vegas or Orlando, Florida. You should not be denied the sensation-fix you deserve.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

As I said, I am more than happy to be the first to contribute one US dollar toward your therapeutic trip to Vegas or Orlando, Florida. You should not be denied the sensation-fix you deserve.

Yes, people lying about Nazareth is completely the same thing.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

You see? More diversionary tactics.

As I said, I am more than happy to be the first to contribute one US dollar toward your therapeutic trip to Vegas or Orlando, Florida. You should not be denied the sensation-fix you deserve.

But if I ever catch you spamming my books, I'll rip your heart out through your ***. :yes:

I'm sure that the authors you're ripping off don't mind the free publicity though.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

You see? More diversionary tactics

Ha! No red-blooded American avoids free Spam. I eat it. :yes:

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Hey fallingblood -

I wouldn't accept an undergrad paper with that crap in it, would you? Just curious if my standards are too high. haha

 

[godnotgod]

Hey fallingblood -

I wouldn't accept an undergrad paper with that crap in it, would you? Just curious if my standards are too high. haha

You're dancing around the issue again. Why don't you just address it squarely and honestly, and if what I post is really spam, then that fact will be revealed as a result of your intelligent response.

See? It's not so hard, AE. Once you come down from your Sensation High and get sober, you will see the beauty of the direct approach, without having to be concerned with all the things that distract you, like fingers pointing to the moon.

It's not that your standards are too high; it's more like they focus on insignificant minutiae which you use in an attempt to disqualify the argument.

Oh, BTW, this is not a classroom, and I am not your pupil. This is a FORUM, where people have DISCUSSIONS.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Oh, BTW, this is not a classroom, and I am not your pupil. This is a FORUM, where people have DISCUSSIONS. [/COLOR]

No kidding. That's why I'm not treating you like one.

I'd make you take fallingblood's courses anyway.

 

[godnotgod]

But if I ever catch you spamming my books, I'll rip your heart out through your ***. :yes:

I'm sure that the authors you're ripping off don't mind the free publicity though.

That's it! Make sure we all know how intellectually superior you are. More ego-posturing, finger-wagging, and mental saber-rattlng.

(AE's coming apart, folks. It's time to send him to Vegas for that therapeutic fix he so badly needs. Elvis! Hallelujua! )

 

[godnotgod]

No kidding. That's why I'm not treating you like one.

Is that why you dutifully follow me around like a puppy dog tugging at my pantlegs?

I'd make you take fallingblood's courses anyway.

Both you and FB have serious fatal flaws in your intellectual makeup. Why would I want to take any course from either of you? Neither of you understand basic logic.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

That's it! Make sure we all know how intellectually superior you are. More ego-posturing, finger-wagging, and mental saber-rattlng.

(AE's coming apart, folks. It's time to send him to Vegas for that therapeutic fix he so badly needs. Elvis! Hallelujua! )

Dude, it doesn't take that much mental acumen to figure out whether or not Nazareth existed. Seriously.

I was shocked with how poor my master's students papers were, but when they spammed stuff from the internet at least it was good stuff. That I can work with.

But obstinately defending bad internet sources? That I've never seen before. Well, except for here of course -- I think because we're sitting at computers here online and it's easy to just google something?

Something I truly don't understand is the gullibility. Do you believe everything that a used car salesman tells you?

 

[godnotgod]

Dude, it doesn't take that much mental acumen to figure out whether or not Nazareth existed. Seriously.

You apparently do not possess enough of it to understand that it does'nt!

Something I truly don't understand is the gullibility. Do you believe everything that a used car salesman tells you?

So you sell used cars on the side, do you? I suppose carnie-barking and selling used cars DO have something in common.

 

[fallingblood]

Hey fallingblood -

I wouldn't accept an undergrad paper with that crap in it, would you? Just curious if my standards are too high. haha

Maybe if I was very tired. Very very tired. Probably not even then. However, I did see a paper by a Harvard professor (or maybe just through Harvard) which was peer-reviewed, that argued for Jesus being a Buddhist. But then again, he actually used pretty good methods to base his argument.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

Maybe if I was very tired. Very very tired. Probably not even then. However, I did see a paper by a Harvard professor (or maybe just through Harvard) which was peer-reviewed, that argued for Jesus being a Buddhist. But then again, he actually used pretty good methods to base his argument.

Yes, that's pretty implausible. Calling Jesus a Cynic is probably just as likely.

We actually had a discussion about the Buddhist thing in a doctoral seminar once. There were trade routes between Jerusalem and India at the time, so it's possible that some Buddhist teachings found there way around Jesus. It's a stretch. Seems like there would be some reverence for the Buddha in the Gospels or early Christianity --- not to mention some clear contact to Buddhist teachings.

But that's not like arguing that a city didn't exist.

 

[angellous_evangellous]

You apparently do not possess enough of it to understand that it does'nt!

Don't be blinded by the light rather than guided by it. :beach:

 

[godnotgod]

Something I truly don't understand is the gullibility. Do you believe everything that a used car salesman tells you?

What I fail to understand is how a person like yourself who thinks himself 'scholarly' can be taken in by obvious religious hype.

Does not the fact that a town of Nazareth which exists only in the vacuum of the NT alone give you a clue? That should be immediately apparent to any real scholarly mind. Or does dogma dictate what is 'scholarly'?

The same goes for the vacuum-sealed Resurrection, with its fabricated '500 eyewitnesses', (oooh, nice, round number!) none of which Paul bothered to interview, in spite of his claim that some were still living at the time of his writing.

 

[godnotgod]

Yes, that's pretty implausible. Calling Jesus a Cynic is probably just as likely.

We actually had a discussion about the Buddhist thing in a doctoral seminar once. There were trade routes between Jerusalem and India at the time, so it's possible that some Buddhist teachings found there way around Jesus. It's a stretch. Seems like there would be some reverence for the Buddha in the Gospels or early Christianity --- not to mention some clear contact to Buddhist teachings.

But that's not like arguing that a city didn't exist.

Right. Unlike a religious practice, a city is a physical thing. Thank God they have uncovered the ancient 1st century city of Nazareth as unmistakable proof of its existence. Today, one can walk down its pretend streets, and see for oneself all its pretend buildings and temples, complete with pretend people. Then there was that pretend fellow who pretended to rise up into the clouds after pretending to resurrect himself.

Well, folks. Alas, there is no trace of any 1st century Nazareth.

...But that does'nt mean there could NOT have been one! You can't prove that one COULD'NT have been built, just like you can't prove Jesus did not exist. So nyaaaah nyaaaah nyaaaah.

I can make a nice pretend pot of pretend tea and pour some into your pretend cup, and you could go along with the game and pretend you are drinking it. Children have such fun! To them, its all real. Until they hear their mother calling and they wake up. :sleep:

 

[angellous_evangellous]

If you knew something about ancient history, you wouldn't be so gullible.

Ironic that you don't fall for the truth by accident.

A mixture of luck and lack of skill I guess.