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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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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)?

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...

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...

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"...

Your favourite parable of Jesus, including short ones?

Hi (sort of) :D Key: very wide experience (only started deepening very recently) For the rest, my posts describe me (unevenly) :ROFLMAO:

It worked! Thank you brilliant people! :) :) :)

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...

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...

As touched upon by several of the others, there was the straightforward wariness among His honest colleagues such as Nicodemus around the possibility of false teachers and we know where this led Nicodemus. Beyond that, He was daringly personal. All usually warring factions united to bring to...

from Lees: See my 48, God's revelation is His offering to our capacity, it doesn't compete against it

Picking up on your assertion of critical thinking which I emphatically support, we were "given" (a synonym for somehow find ourselves with) a mind with capability. The logic, a vast tool for exploring honesty, in ourselves mysteriously turns out to accord with respective logic in things. Thus...

from post 18 by Mercury: any deity that operates thus is completely bogus and certainly not remotely omnibenevolent but rather is a tyrant and malevolent. This is simple critical thinking. Such thinking should identify to any sane person that something is not at all right with the Christian...

Not sure of the weight of "we can". There is a minority of us for whom the browbeating media hogs are not an authority. Your wording in this half-sentence seems like offering an extreme case (which they as usual insufficiently argue) in the hope that some of us would emerge with more...