Thy Plague Doctor

Actually flying spaghetti monsters shrink as they get older. So in fact, that isn’t the baby flying spaghetti monster lying in a cradle next to his parents…because he is really old and when flying spaghetti monsters are born, they immediately eat their parent. So  his parent hasn’t been around for a long time! In fact they are having a goodbye…[Read more]

I’ve always lived in quite secular countries so the really really religious bit about Christmas has always been background noise. And the secular parts of Christmas (tree, gifts, food etc) dominate the holidays. I’m sure if I was in Folktown, Alabama and an atheist, I’d wear ear plugs and find excuses to avoid family events or else I might go…[Read more]

We have adult children who have their own children in some cases. In order to avoid clashing invitations with other sides of family, we invented Cranksgiving. We choose a Saturday somewhere between Christmas and Thanksgiving, and combine the traditional turkey dinner with all the gift giving.  This year it’s 15th Dec.  And somehow ‘Cr…[Read more]

Nobody actually likes eating raw fish embedded in vinegar rice and seaweed. The fad will be over before New Year’s

michael17 wrote:

 To receive the new birth is a blessing, but I have not received it. So far, I’ll have to stand on Judgement Day, like everyone else. “The books were open and the dead were judged” Only how my life broadcasts my belief can be evidence for mercy since all men have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

Yeah well, that’s like t…[Read more]

michael17 wrote:
Well gentlemen you have a conundrum. There are artificial structures on the moon, including buildings, glass domes and towers.

That’s a misreading of the evidence.

Concrete evidence that your paradigm may be wrong. I can’t even make heads or tails out of it. Was there an advance race on earth billions of years in the past c…

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Michel, every response you give helps you descend into greater and greater intellectual death. I quoted 5 quotes from three different books. And those five quotes are a fraction of those in the bible that unambiguously describe hell as burning agony, eternal torture. Your only defense has been to claim I only gave two quotes (I gave five) and that…[Read more]

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I suspect it is our old theist friend from Think Atheist.

I don’t believe for a second Dr. Bob was a philosopher. I’ve never met a PhD philosopher who would avoid a straight forward questions. Dr. Bob claimed to be a professor of physics, one who studied the strange empirical world of physics yet still believed in Go…[Read more]

michael17 wrote:
Well the pagan interpretation of hell is as such. Scripture speaks of the second death after the resurrection to Judgement.

They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might

2 Thessalonians 1:9

This is how it will be at the end of the age. The angels…

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Damnit I did forget about the curve. You’re right. I have to add a lot more factors into my formula. I also forget about lightening strikes which are more likely to hit you if you are alone on a big sidewalk far as possible from the building as otherwise its almost certain the building would get it. And while on the subject there are also…[Read more]

@davis but don’t forget to factor in the kerb of the road where deadly traffic could swerve and catch you unawares as you swerve to avoid the ladder

Strega wrote:
I would just have taken the easiest route.

If no one is on the ladder then in general (not always) it’s ever so slightly safer to not walk under it as there is the tiniest chance it may fall down while you go under it. Another bonus with walking around the ladder is you are less close to windowsills where thing may fall down from…[Read more]

The content of the bible has nothing to do with serious attempts to record events at the time they took place, and everything to do with Paul creating a religion for political purposes.  It’s nothing freaky. The Mormon religion has the same development history. Again a made up tale of magic and empty promises. I can’t trivialize the contents of h…[Read more]

David Philpot wrote:
The illusion of a shared spiritual vision is created by special pleading, as a way to unify the personal experiences of  the congregants, in much the same way the disparate messages in the Gospels are harmonized in the minds of believers.

Which is all sort of fine as they sit around in isolation (though I still feel bad for…[Read more]

PopeBeanie wrote:
we’ve been completely ignoring the probabilistic effects of quantum entanglement between these supposed perfect copies of each other.

If a startrek replicator replicates a person and then it replicates a new replicator and the replicated replicator replicates the new copy of the person…does that mean Wesley Crusher grows in…[Read more]