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by Chap
Tue Feb 06, 2024 11:54 am
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: A Billionaire Who Makes Sense
Replies: 27
Views: 2003

Re: A Billionaire Who Makes Sense

Why, for example, are fossil fuel companies, some of the most profitable companies in history, getting massive government subsidies? Because they would simply leave the country and take their wealth with them. [...] Excuse me? Companies that extract coal, oil and gas from US soil and rocks can leav...
by Chap
Tue Feb 06, 2024 9:09 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: DCP goes all-in on pseudo scientific quackery
Replies: 60
Views: 6405

Re: DCP goes all-in on pseudo scientific quackery

Well, exactly. You try not to go ad hominem on Smith and dismiss him just for living when and where he did. Great ideas can appear anywhere, at least sometimes. Michael Faraday was a contemporary of Smith who was mostly self-educated but the list of his scientific discoveries is ridiculous. Smith’s...
by Chap
Mon Feb 05, 2024 7:00 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: DCP goes all-in on pseudo scientific quackery
Replies: 60
Views: 6405

Re: DCP goes all-in on pseudo scientific quackery

Physics Guy wrote:
Sat Feb 03, 2024 5:18 pm
Spirit as tenuous matter, God having a body—that all just sounds like 19th-century hick thought, I'm afraid.
As one might have expected?
by Chap
Fri Feb 02, 2024 5:30 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: On being alone
Replies: 16
Views: 1728

Re: on being alone

The idea of an atheist minister going around death row just seems silly to me, even as an atheist. Really? As an atheist myself, if I imagine the possibility of facing judicially inflicted death in prison, and assuming I had the right to be accompanied by somebody other than a close relation or spo...
by Chap
Wed Jan 31, 2024 11:30 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: We Need More Immigrants, not Fewer
Replies: 96
Views: 6296

Re: We Need More Immigrants, not Fewer

I am certainly NOT an indifferent voter - but I certainly prefer the convenience of voting by mail, and usually do. Please tell me what I am doing wrong. Mail in voting allows for more potential fraud. It should be election day, not election year, paper ballots, and partisan polling observers. [......
by Chap
Wed Jan 31, 2024 4:15 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: We Need More Immigrants, not Fewer
Replies: 96
Views: 6296

Re: We Need More Immigrants, not Fewer

The election was rigged by changing the voting laws and procedures that produced a way higher voter turnout from indifferent voters by mail. I am certainly NOT an indifferent voter - but I certainly prefer the convenience of voting by mail, and usually do. Please tell me what I am doing wrong. Are ...
by Chap
Wed Jan 31, 2024 3:19 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: If Trump WAS Sent by God...
Replies: 93
Views: 6742

Re: If Trump WAS Sent by God...

Dr. Shades wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:34 pm
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:
Wed Jan 31, 2024 12:19 pm
Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. - Albert Einstein
That was Jesus Christ, not Albert Einstein.
Dr C may have been joking?
by Chap
Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:37 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Another false dilemma from DCP: Prophet or Fraud
Replies: 29
Views: 2581

Re: Another false dilemma from DCP: Prophet or Fraud

Shulem wrote:
Tue Jan 30, 2024 5:15 pm
The text proves that Smith *claimed* to receive commandments. The text also proves that Smith *believed* in a deity. The formation of that text along with other published statements leads me to believe he believed he was commanded of God.
You have a touching faith in Smith's veracity.
by Chap
Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:43 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: The Trump Criminal Case MEGATHREAD.
Replies: 338
Views: 111245

Re: The Trump Criminal Case MEGATHREAD.

Nicely put, I think, and wonderfully calculated to cause Trump to waste lots of energy and time in impotent rage: ‘He’s nothing’: E Jean Carroll says ‘we don’t need to be afraid’ of Donald Trump Former Elle writer says $83.3m defamation ruling shows Trump – who she compared to a walrus snorting – ‘c...
by Chap
Tue Jan 30, 2024 4:38 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Another false dilemma from DCP: Prophet or Fraud
Replies: 29
Views: 2581

Re: Another false dilemma from DCP: Prophet or Fraud

Cleverly put. In some sense, his acting as if he was above the law stemmed from his claims to authority as the prophet of a new dispensation. Of course we have no way of knowing whether he actually believed those claims himself, as opposed to finding them a really great way to live without working,...