tom sarbeck

Love me some lawyer rap 🙂

I occasionally wonder if the Christians that come to this site, do so for some alternative titillation, since masturbation is a mortal sin for them.

Lol rhonjon- this is exactly what a Christian apologist sounds like.

Apropos of the child abuse aspect, the Catholic Church has a Captive insurance company (captives do not have public accounts) up here in Vermont that holds a $600 million reserve to pay off abuse victims with so they don’t go to court.
There are no other ‘child-abuse con…[Read more]

There was something akin to Science before the method was more frequent adopted for inquiry about the natural world during the Enlightenment. Even Aristotle had a psudo method for verifying information and the Greeks had worked out something along the line of critical thinking. To say that the Bible was written in a time when or even during a time…[Read more]

rhonjon at least you’re trying it. Thanks, Unseen – very helpful.

You may notice I don’t use the right way to quote. I just copy and paste and put ordinary quote marks in the text itself.

Unseen does it properly

Be like Unseen 🙂

No, they’re opposite as in not caring whether you want to be a Sikh or not 🙂

Rhonjon, wasn’t there some kind of basic ‘green’ tutorial in those Bible verses?  Something about burning a bush that spoke in voices?

Simon,

Have you ever heard of ‘Crime of Passion’ laws?

In France in the 19th century a killing done in a jealous instant rage, for example, like catching your lover in bed with another and killing them, was actually a valid defence and you’d get off altogether.

Ahh the good old 19th Century, when jealous men were entitled to kill their betra…[Read more]

‘Disowned’ sounds a lot better than stoned to death or another sort of ‘honour kill’. And I imagine if you choose not to have an arranged marriage which is a core expectation in your family, it’d be you rejecting them.

Sikhism is not evangelical. It’s the opposite. They give whatever you need and don’t ask your religion. If you want to know about their religion, you can ask, and a teacher will be found. It is not exclusive – all are welcome to believe in the Sikh way. They’re one god, reincarnation believers.

If I was going to choose a religion, I’d pick the Sikhs.

These guys live by the standards their religion proclaims. They feed the hungry and clothe the needy of any or no religion. They have enclaves where food is given to everyone, no questions asked.

They literally live their lives the way their religion tells them to. They’ll give shelter to…[Read more]

Matthew Vines gave an incredible speech about this very subject. The link below is a transcript which is well worth a read.

Transcript

I’m most certainly not a scriptural expert, and I’ve no inclination to become one. I think that interpretations of any kind of scripture have been given credibility based on whoever happens to have the power to bestow authority to those interpreters or to theirself. So, I don’t feel too short on wisdom by being ignorant of this kind of history.…[Read more]

Simon, how was it condemned in  the OT?

Unseen wrote:
I think the fact that there’s little apparent interest in investigating the matter is the best indication that we did do it.

My intention is to withhold conclusions until there’s sufficient evidence. All “evidence” so far is circumstantial. I’m so disappointed with the online trend to draw conclusions without evidence, while c…[Read more]

I’ve objected to the misuse of the word hallucination enough to just ignore writings that center around it, unless it’s about imagining something that’s actually not there. Even though “red” is a human construct, it has meaning when communicating to other humans, and it seems meaningless to argue that “red” is not there. As Autumn said, a…[Read more]

TheEncogitationer wrote:
Well, if all you had to read as an introduction to Philosophy was Thomas Nagel, you would have to ask: “Well, what does it all mean?” and you would think it was a waste of time.

Fortunately, I had some better texts to introduce me to Philosophy. Frederick Copleston’s Philosophers and Philosophies (I think that was the n…

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michael17 wrote:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRth17BJ/

An unmanned Tic Tac UAP shot down with no visible signs of propulsion

I’ve mentioned a possible answer before, but in this case there’s a chance we’ll get to study this thing if it’s found. I’m not jumping to any final conclusion, in spite of masses of people who tend to do that.

I thought of…[Read more]