Reg the Fronkey Farmer

My niece recently got her SAT results. She was in the top 0.7% in America. GPA 4.35 too with AP courses. Several offers from top Universities and not 18 years old yet!! OK Boomers the country is saved!

148 is enough to join Mensa.

fyi – Omni collection.

@Michael – I became a member of the 4 Sigma Society. 

Well done on passing that one. Did it take Kevin a long time to send you the test results?

I was once offered membership to “The 1000” but I declined.

Yes, think I got it but will not post it.

I don’t think you are one to lay traps for troubadours who get killed before they reach Bombay 🙂

@Micheal some anagrams take a little more work.

Psalm 19:1-6

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech. And night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language. Where their voice is not heard. Their line is gone out through all the earth. And their words to the end…[Read more]

Tell that to the good people of Vancouver. The Catholics ended up all red in the face.

Not only has the God of the Christians got an ass and a brain, it is also known that His blood type is AB.

If I ever meet a Catholic that actually knows that I will give them a box of Ferrero Rocher because they, like the chocolate, are just a gem!

There is a laundry list of preposterous ideas in mainstream Christian eschatological literature. I encountered 40 years worth of it.

I know how that feels Michael :-). I have occasionally despaired of the infantile mentality of adults that I share the planet with.   I have met a few who could not wait for the End of Days. Some of their laundry l…[Read more]

@Michael17 – I have tidied up a few repetitive posts for you.

I have Jean Claude Van Dammed that “Beast from Brussels” story a few times. Once we learn to think critically rather than to think magically we can almost “know” that a story is false. Not all swans are white so it can pay dividend to look for black ones.

Michael, you now say the story is preposterous but for how long have you believed it to be…[Read more]

So causality has no ontological status…

The lack of a question mark at the end of the above sentence has caused me to consider ransacking a library. Wittgenstein and his sentences on the meaning of words!! If only I had some a priori information of the question would its effect be lessened or if not would it have caused a greater lesson?

Anyway I think my point is, at the end of the day it doesn’t matter too much whether somebody is religious or not, as long as they have a good head on their shoulders, and have a sound philosophy for living.

But Simon a philosophy for living that is grounded in the existence of imaginary entities would not, in my opinion, be the best way of s…[Read more]

But WLC presents potential evidence such as “objective morality”.

No, he argues the case for “objective morality” and he argues that this objective morality is from God. Not “a god” but his particular God.

But Simon W.L. Craig does not offer any “evidence”. He only argues for his particular gods’ existence. He is famous for his Kalam Cosmological argument (i.e. not evidence but argument).  When his producer Kevin Harris posted on Think Atheist I had to correct the title of one of his post from “Evidences for the Christian God” to “Arguments for the…[Read more]

Michael – here is something in PDF format I recently stumbled upon. You might be interested in it.

Simon, as Jakelafort wrote – there is no evidence for or against any god ever existing. We would all be better off living our lives understanding that they don’t. It would not just elevate our species as a whole but also make us better and stronger as individuals. The less magical thinking we engage in, the more we engage with reality.

Hi Ivy. When you say you are confused about what you believe are you talking about belief in God or with something broader that involves trusting specific people and what they say?

A good place to start is with a pen and paper and write down what you think you believe and underneath write down why you hold those belief to be true. Does the reason…[Read more]

I guess the jury is still out since they are newly formed. Let’s assess their authority later.

There have been other attempts to re-establish the Sanhedrin over the years but they are always a fringe group of fundamentalists. Yes, the jury is still out because they cannot be both the judges and the jury. They have no legitimate authority.

I am not so sure about that Michael. I asked you what authority do they have. I do understand the differences between Reformed and Orthodox Judaism and I don’t think any of these modern iterations are the “real deal” as the only power they can exercise is over themselves in their own fringe groups. But they are not “the supreme court” of Jewish law. More.