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    I don't find belief to be volitional and I don't understand why the majority does

    Frankj post 51 - Apologies that I didn't cotton on because you didn't cite "why can't I travel" (which he can) He is not a humanist because he clearly says we less supremacist members than him, are not human beings. He's also raising himself above site rules. He's malicious towards...
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    I don't find belief to be volitional and I don't understand why the majority does

    Making out forum members who are more bona fide than you, are dishonest, like you did me, falls outside "acceptable beliefs". Also you are disputing administrator decisions and there is a rule about that, aimed at protecting forum members smaller than and more honest than you.
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    I don't find belief to be volitional and I don't understand why the majority does

    I provided the answer to you (which is still there) but you gave up reading, or pretended to. I as ordinary member was testing you and (then) hoping you wouldn't fall. That's how the meaning of "discuss" was made perfectly clear enough. In any case there is no point registering, or...
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    Here's why the "free will" argument cannot be justified if God is all good

    from Mercury's 38: Overall I find this practice of having to be an apologetic for a chosen god to be damaging for humanity and society as a whole. Your finding, accurate in itself of the teachers you follow and their "god" - whom I have never had but that's just me - is because you are not...
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    Discrepancy between Esther 4:16 and 5:1?

    In one case we have a paradox (very commonplace occurrences throughout nature and culture) and in the other two we have a contrast. Since a very long time ago, I understood these things - as a quite slow infant. So did secular agnostics around me. Your own elders and betters prevailed on you...
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    Discrepancy between Esther 4:16 and 5:1?

    I'm in a stirring mood this morning! Amplified 50 slew, 51 killed "slay" means action of a fatal sort, without particular emphasis on any very short term outcome RSV has kill both times. From which I always understood what I understand, and so did the people around me. What D. did once he...
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    "My existential angst is sky high"

    What has "free will" got to do with apologetism (the only reason people go on about it)? Why doesn't theology have anything sensible to say about constraints, contingencies and providence? What's the connection between us and providence (sensible answers only please)?
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    Getting round to saying (sort of) hi

    i ) My favourite parable of Jesus - the shortest: A scribe who enters the Kingdom of Heaven is like a householder who fetches forth from his storeroom things both old and new. I love how the scribes get their own showcase! ii ) Fun factoid: I seldom engage in threads with more than about 30...
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    "My existential angst is sky high"

    Speaking in the screen persona of Uncle Sol, "my existential angst is sky high". I thought of Elijah when so-called "society" was just gangs of hoodlums. An angel brought a scone and told him to sleep some more. And then the same a second time. It didn't "solve" anything: all that happened...
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    Problematic verses?

    On the specific theme you mentioned and that of posts 3-7: The Bible used to say dogs by which we knew it didn't mean dogs. Colloquialisms Paul cites can mean "tops" or "bottoms" as subculture and in those days people really did take their subcultures more seriously than we do now. "Passion"...
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    Ask Me (Almost Anything)

    Your favourite parable of Jesus, including short ones?
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    Getting round to saying (sort of) hi

    Hi (sort of) :D Key: very wide experience (only started deepening very recently) For the rest, my posts describe me (unevenly) :ROFLMAO:
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    Solved How to register and / or display my age?

    It worked! Thank you brilliant people! :) :) :)
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    I don't find belief to be volitional and I don't understand why the majority does

    On post 66, if I might be permitted. What was false? First I touched on whether or how much we honour the thread starter and those who appear to attempt to address them in it. Secondly and arising out of that, and out of life in general, when someone doesn't attribute to us a faculty of...
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    I don't find belief to be volitional and I don't understand why the majority does

    Building on what I take as the main essence of what you are saying, and trying to help you put it into practice most effectively, some thoughts occurred to me. Please find out what imagination is and use it in how to interact with fellow non-administrators who are morally of supreme importance...
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