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by Physics Guy
Sat Oct 29, 2022 3:47 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Pelosi's Husband Attacked in Home
Replies: 55
Views: 3131

Re: Pelosi's Husband Attacked in Home

If this wacko was a Berkeley hemp artist, I feel let down by hemp art. I guess I had a little bit invested in the idea that art, and for that matter hemp, might pull against violence and magical thinking.
by Physics Guy
Sat Oct 29, 2022 11:11 am
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Belief in God
Replies: 224
Views: 16525

Re: Belief in God

If Christian apologists jump too quickly from an ultimate being to their specific deity, then I think this criticism can be applied to a lot of assertive atheists, too. They make the same jump, just in the opposite direction. Oh - them. That weird straw-man sect of atheist people. Try me, on the ot...
by Physics Guy
Sat Oct 29, 2022 10:14 am
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Hebrew Gospel of John & Luke!?
Replies: 7
Views: 391

Re: Hebrew Gospel of John & Luke!?

If you google "Hebrew gospels" you learn some interesting things. Some early Christian writers mention a "gospel of the Hebrews", and even quote a few passages from it. Although purportedly used by early Jewish Christians, this gospel text was not in Hebrew, but Greek. There may have been as many as...
by Physics Guy
Thu Oct 27, 2022 8:05 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Belief in God
Replies: 224
Views: 16525

Re: Belief in God

If Christian apologists jump too quickly from an ultimate being to their specific deity, then I think this criticism can be applied to a lot of assertive atheists, too. They make the same jump, just in the opposite direction.
by Physics Guy
Thu Oct 27, 2022 7:48 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Royal Skousen and textual criticism
Replies: 8
Views: 601

Re: Royal Skousen and textual criticism

Royal Skousen is a linguist. From a web page somewhere I once learned that he spent a sabbatical at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, in Nijmegen, shortly after my wife finished her post-doc there. That made me think that my second-hand impressions from chatting with my wife's colleagu...
by Physics Guy
Thu Oct 27, 2022 3:18 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Simon Southerton debunks latest LDS apologetic “discovery” on horses
Replies: 12
Views: 1281

Re: Simon Southerton debunks latest LDS apologetic “discovery” on horses

Presumably the limited geography school of Book of Mormon interpretation would be happy to assume that the Nephite civilization stayed small and isolated, and then collapsed back into the Stone Age before merging into the older Native American populations. They would just say that the breeding and u...
by Physics Guy
Mon Oct 24, 2022 9:23 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Way Off-Topic: Question for RPGamers
Replies: 260
Views: 84716

Re: Way Off-Topic: Question for RPGamers

In the early days of tabletop RPGs everybody seemed to be making up their own house rules all the time. To sell more rulebooks, perhaps to a younger audience with less previous experience in gaming, the publishers of D&D started ranting about how important it was to follow the letter of the—that is,...
by Physics Guy
Wed Oct 19, 2022 4:06 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Coercive persuasion at work
Replies: 14
Views: 593

Re: Coercive persuasion at work

Paul goes on immediately to say what he means by calling Peter "condemned": Peter was (in Paul's view) being blatantly hypocritical. For before certain men came from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they arrived, he began to draw back and separate himself from the Gentiles because h...
by Physics Guy
Wed Oct 19, 2022 3:13 pm
Forum: Spirit Paradise
Topic: Coercive persuasion at work
Replies: 14
Views: 593

Re: Coercive persuasion at work

Perhaps you could refer to the nonconformity among the original apostles.
In Galatians 2:11, Paul wrote:But when Cephas came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.
Equally faithful Christians have apparently always been able to disagree strongly.
by Physics Guy
Sun Oct 16, 2022 3:45 pm
Forum: Terrestrial Forum
Topic: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness
Replies: 341
Views: 26160

Re: Mopologist William Schryver Continues His Descent Into Madness

1. As to the question of whether the surrender video recording was staged, I would vote “no”. The Ukrainian troops started shouting orders to halt as soon as the BMP-2 passed the first or second dismounted soldier who was hidden from view. However, the BMP-2 didn't stop for more than 100 meters or ...