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So Michael, we are nearing end days? Do you have a date in mind? What will become of us heathens?

Michael, you wrote…BEFORE MY EYES. Your eyes only? Are you a messiah or prophet?

Unseen, we all make appear to make choices and judges for whom conscientious decision making is characteristic will react to the revelation. I don’t see anything in my hypothetical that is inconsistent with the absence of free will. Lets suppose you love chocolate ice cream but then you discover chocolate ice cream has a carcinogen that greatly…[Read more]

But having awareness of physics and philosophy changes everything. If and when the judge fully appreciates the implications of science and philosophy the judge is no longer the judge of the past handing down verdicts and punishments as the river of life leads on inexorably in the only way it can. At that point the judge resigns unable to fulfill…[Read more]

Unseen, that legal issue is a big one although it won’t be tackled for some time if ever. But boy would it be fun being the defense counsel who asserted that defense! Beats the hell out of the twinkie defense.

I think dualism will be scrapped. There is a lingering notion that the psyche is somehow spiritual. As i recall psychology was on track in the 19th century but it was derailed by Freud and Jung and others. It will become a universal assumption that any and all psychological disorders have physical bases. If the etiology of a disorder is not known…[Read more]

Yeah, being wrong about something, lets say whether to act on the advice of virologists and epidemiologists, can be worse than a mere mistake; failing to act will result in the deaths of tens of thousands and untold suffering or something really serious like not being reelected.

Don’t forget the Jesus Lizard..fun to watch that lizard skitter.

Simon, how is a substantial body of legends relevant? Oral traditions is all that was possible. Oral traditions are or were universal. Robin Hood is an example. Legends simply become more distorted as time marches. Do you think there is a chance that such legends would be admissible in court?

The virginal accounts make sense in terms of creating…[Read more]

Okay Reg, you da raconteur. Had to check to see whether Healdsburg is real. Tiz, seems like it is bucolic outside the city. Those are fine coincidences particularly the first. I have some doozies too. What bugs me is the all too common tendency to impute meaning. One of your grrr sunday school articles suggests that atheists are guilty of this…[Read more]

Reg, excellent critique.

I once spoke to a Hindu about his monkey god. It was such an effort to repress a laugh. But i sincerely believe that the Christians got this shit spot on.

But Reg it is clearly written in the Pegasus Rex that the chosen at Cheltanham choose chastity. On the other hand a neigh might mean neigh but sometimes when you win they whinny.

I am into horse racing more than a little bit. I have an equine religion which holds in the highest esteem the virgin mare and the holy horse hoof. Let me tell quote you passages from Pegasus Rex, the holy text.

For he who lacks that studious and analytical approach and wagers without having poured over the data in the daily racing form is a…[Read more]

Davis, in fairness to Michael, he did say…the atheist perspective that I HAVE BEEN HEARING.

But you are of course correct that it is far from a monolithic perspective. I don’t know that it is true but i hope that in general atheists are more apt to question authority, to be skeptical, to eschew faith and insist on reason, and to have a greater…[Read more]

Michael, tell us how the occurrences at the ranch align with prophecy.

Unseen, i think you are testing us…seeing how far out you can get and yet have a serious discussion ensue.

Saint Pete is gonna be pissed dafuq off when the time comes.

I got nuthin negative to say…glad to know there is a good rationale for the name…any ballyachin is idiosyncratic.

That is okay Reg, shoot me in the nuts, kick me up the ass. i am good like that. Hey, it is only recently and grudgingly have begun to read ANY sunday school articles. That is how religious i am about not being religious. I have turned it into a religion. Just the association (sunday school) is enough to have me retch.

Saw a video that followed…[Read more]

Good story Reg…bang bang finish.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200410162410.htm

It is funny how anti-vaxxers are skeptics in this one area but they are all-in on God!