
Journal tomhudson's Journal: Final score: Faith/pudge:0, Jerry Springer: +5 128
since pudge supports the idea of arbitrarily rejecting axioms and a priori knowledge without proof, we're entirely within our rights to apply the same (il)logic, and arbitrarily deem all his claims, and himself, to be without standing unless he can prove them. We're also within our rights to claim that any such "proof" is invalid because it contains an a priori assumption that pudge has the right to present such proofs.
Sorry, pudge, but an argument that makes the argument of rejecting logic as one of its foundational arguments is no argument. You lose. No argument.
Final score: Faith:0 Jerry Springer +5
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proof that pudge hasn't got a clue as to what he is spouting about
Me: if something DOES interact with physical objects, then it IS theoretically possible to measure it
pudge: That's false, of course. If there is such a thing as a spiritual being who can interact with a physical one -- which you have no way of denying the existence of except by making up definitions no one else agrees with -- how would you even theoretically measure that spiritual being?
ne: if something DOES interact with physical objects, that it is no longer "outside" the realm of physics, or "meta"-physical.
pudge: That too, is, of course, false. It's odd you don't see how stupid this is: you're attempting to deny the existence of a soul by saying some definition says it can't exist. Even if you were right about the definition -- and you're obviously not, as thousands of years of usage by billions of people have viewed souls and spirits as being nonphysical, yet still able to interact with the physical -- it wouldn't matter, because definitions do not control reality. Appealing to definitions to prove your point in this regard is retarded.
me: I never said that "because we cannot measure something, that therefore it does not interact with physical objects".
pudge: Yes, you did. You said if something interacts with physical objects, we could measure it; that necessarily implies that if we cannot measure it, it does not so interact. It was not until this post you added the word "theoretically." Not that it changes much, because you're still wrong.
I don't suffer fools - time to add a foe. If we can measure it, or if we could devise, in theory, some way to measure it, by definition it IS interacting with the physical universe. The only reason I added the word "theoretically" is because we may not have the necessary tech to measure certain physical phenomena.
And people wonder why atheists don't have much respect for fundies.
Thanks to Morosoph for this link.
and a bit of fun http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178776&cid=14863199
Like I said elsewhere, we'll go to the source (or is your God so scared he won't show his face for something as simple as a TV interview? Or maybe he's like a vampire - doesn't show up on cameras or mirrors. Or maybe the Beatles had it right - he's dead):
"Next up on Jerry Springer - God, David, Solomon - we ask God to give his take on Solomon's hundreds of wives and concubines".
Followed by "Jesus Christ, why didn't you condemn slavery, dude?"
And don't miss our closing interview where we ask the Holy Spirit "Why do you keep calling liars, cheaters, thieves, pedophles and adulterers to serve God? Can't you find someone better? Like maybe a few honest women? Or do you still mostly approve of that sexist thing going on in God's name...?"
And next week - we talk to Satan, and ask him why he's losing in the "sheer evil" category to God's people, and what, if anything, he plans to do about it.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178776&cid=14863262
Lets put it to the test. Since your god is such an awesome god, lets get him to do Springer
... or is he too much of a chickensh*t? Next, on Jerry Springer: You've go Questions, Gods got Answers
... sort of. Find out what God meant when he said to put all the people "to the sword" - did he really mean it, or did his followers over-react?
Is God gay? we look at the secret sex life of God, and his special intimate relationship with his son.
Jesus Saves. We've all heard it. We look at the link between that famous slogan and the savings and loan industry.
The Holy Spirit - is the fire out, because we certanly don't see any smoke.
And finally - God lets us in on the truth about what really goes on in heaven, and why its not considered such a hot spot any more compared to the competition.
All this and more, on your next Jerry Springer.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178776&cid=14863541
Next on Springer:
"Did Jesus die to save the Whales?" We put the question to "da man hisself"!
"Sex and Censorship" - we interview 4 theologans and find out what's behind the opposition to an "Illustrated Song of Solomon"
"Paul for Pot" - why the supreme court may rule in favour of legalizing drugs based on 1 Cor 6:12 "All things are lawful unto me", and dispelling people's fears that it will be the slippery slope leading to legalized cannibalism: 1 Cor 6:13 "Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats"
"What God REALLY thinks of George Bush" - and why George may need to pack asbestos underwear.
... all this and more on your next Springer Come on. You want to watch it. You know you do. So why not be a good Christian Soldier and get on your knees and PRAY like you've never prayed before, and ask God to make time for an interview? Or is he still pissed off that the last guy he sent really got nailed?
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=178776&cid=14863711
Next week on Springer:
The Alien God - NASA proves Jesus, like life, began on Mars
Why its not "really" an abortion if you're a Christian and the father is your father - a guide for South Dakotans.
Hurricane Katrina - Gods punishment for gay bashing?
The New Testament 2.0 - "Love Thy Neighbour" means Adultery is Okay in the New New Testament.
God in the New Era - God 2.0 announces joint venture with Paypal for tithing, ebay for indulgences.
... all this and more on your next Jerry Springer! Come on, set it up with "the Big guy" and I'll cut you in for a percentage. Tell him its his chance to tell his side of the story. Big audience. It'll make those 5,000 at the sermon on the mount look like chickenfeed.
Fundamental problem with such arguments (Score:2)
The question is, 'Why are we here?', and the answers range from a case of beer to shelf-loads of unintelligible prose to ideologies, none of which escape a subjective character.
It would be swell if any one answer could be proven unambiguously and undeniably. The grave itself comes closest to such an answer.
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1: To grow and experience
2: To have a bit of fun and material pleasure
3: to reproduce and allow a new generation of souls to join the fun
4: well perhaps keep the big man informed on our progress
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-To what end?
2: To have a bit of fun and material pleasure
-Unless endorsing a pure hedonism, how do you manage individual/societal/inter-societal conflicts?
3: to reproduce and allow a new generation of souls to join the fun
-Again, is there an origin to things, and are they headed in a direction? If not, why, and how can you justify a purely chaotic reality?
4: well perhaps keep the big man informed on our progress
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We need some Hedonism , not all , but it would be really boring and depressing without any, we need to keep ourselves sane , nothing quite like physical pleasures.
Pure Chaos is unscientific , but there is a certain amount of random variation.
number 4 sucked , I forgot the original number 4
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It is. However, they cannot be *proven.* That is where tomhudson went so wrong. He was trying to prove -- incredibly, by using English definitions (incorrect ones, but I digress), which of course do not themselves control reality -- that human souls, the Id of man, cannot exist unless they are physical. This cannot be proven at all, let alone with definitions.
This was my point. This is what I stated. This is obviously tru
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Anything.
Oh, you can't - because it's physically impossible.
Awww.
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I can't physically "show" it to you, but I can prove it exists: my consciousness. There's certainly nothing physical about it, at least, not that you can prove, except by relying on a preconceived linguistic definition that has no actual bearing on reality (which, of course, does not constitute "proof" to an intelligent person).
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Quite the contrary, we can map out the areas of consciousness - we can even follow individual thoughs as they are created, and translated into physical action.
May you be well.
May you be happy.
May you be free from suffering.
May you one day realize that women have the right to make their own decisions without men interfering.
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Nope. You mean, "in addition."
we can map out the areas of consciousness - we can even follow individual thoughs as they are created, and translated into physical action.
Well, almost. We can do all those things, to some degree, except we do not know when or where those thoughts are created. We only know that they appear in a certain area of the brain, but we do not know how they got there. Science cannot tell us that, at this point, and it is unlikely it ever will be able to, and there
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Justice.
Beauty.
Faith.
Roundness.
In gengeral, CONCEPTS. IDEAS. They exist apart from the "physical". Show me a "physical" roundness. You can only show me objects which share that quality. Show me a "physical" justice? You cant. You can only define it then provide examples.
I think you're a little too locked in the Newtonian universe. News flash -- we don't live there.
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Beauty - they've already done a LOT of work on measuring it - faces, for example. And it's tied into sume physical characteristic.
Faith - psychologists can tell you a LOT about that - but lets face it, "faith" is just a chemical state of the human mind. There is no such thing as "faith" outside that mind - again, attached to a physical object.
Rou
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You are playing "word games" with no real attempt to understand what you are discussing. Attempt to define justice. Try. You'll leave holes. There will not be universal agreement. It can't be DEFINED, yet EVERYONE understands the CONCEPT.
You are like Thrasymachus... you just don't see it. A rock is physical -- a c
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Thanks for playing, hava a nice day, and no, it was pudge who was playing th
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Well, actually, no. Words do not have meaning. Ever. This is an axiom underlying communication theory. Words have no meaning. People have meaning FOR the words.
What does a swastika "mean"? Nothing. It just sits there. It's just some lines. A word has no meaning.
I say to you, "dog." You think "great dane." I think "labrador." Jhon thinks "hot dog."
Now, what if I say to you, the sun rises and sets in the sky because
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Well, you got one thing right - "words have no meaning" - when they come from you.
Pudge, you're just confirming that you're an even bigger loser than anyone else here thought.
Tsk tsk tsk.
Your words have no meaning. Zero semantic content.
Loser.
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This is funny, because this is just what you are doing. You are making up definitions then basing your arguments on the definitions you made up.
Again, this is funny. The way you are using them, words AREN'T the tools, but the RESULT of t
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So, since you seem to think that words have no underlying meaning, but always have to be "proven" or "agreed to" beforehand in any debate, you won't be offended if anyone tells you to go p*ss up a rope. After all, there's no agreement as to what it means ...
Same as everything else you posted. More mental masturbation - which means I should adjust Jerry Springers score upwards. And you're in no position to argue, because, according to YOUR logic, words can have any meaning I choose. Hence:
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Since *I* seem to think? Words HAVE ONLY the meanings we've agreed to assign them. If I say tomhudson is a pindle, you've no idea what I'm calling you unless we assign meaning to the word "pindle" and both agree to the meaning. "...always have to b
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I'm on a quest for 1,000 freaks [slashdot.org].
Your contribution is gratefully accepted.
YHBT HAND
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tomhudson: I dont care how language, arguments and logic REALLY work. They'll work the way *I* say they do! Anyone who disagrees, I'll make fun of them!
Way to go, sport!
gah (Score:2)
One of the Reasons I decided to go back to my Sephardic routes(although I can speak Yiddish , well some and no Ladino , Ladino never picked up in comedy) is the deep study in Judaism . You need to study the texts and work it out for yourself , not just follow the party line .
Following the Party Line... (Score:2)
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Alternate solutions (Score:2)
I don't suffer them, either. I just ignore them. :-)
Cheers,
Ethelred
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Cheers,
Ethelred
PS: For daring to question your Fearless Lord, you are hereby commanded to do one push-up, one sit-up and to poke out your own eye with a spork.
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God forbid! (pun intended)
But its pretty much degenerated into me just throwng out any random stuff, because he reacts to ALL of it. So easy to troll.
Like this [slashdot.org]:
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I didn't foe pudge based on disagreement, but on his shameless total lack of knowledge of what he's talking about. Trying to claim that something can interact with object in this universe and yet can never be measured "because its metaphysical", when, if it interacts with objects it by definition ISN'T "outside the universe", then continuing to blather on and on - I'm left with one conclusion - when it comes to pudge, there's "nothing to see here - move along".
If any of his arguments are correct, its pro
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Indeed. In fact, I've been having my own set of disagreements with him, without even being aware that he was failing to understand logic and science with you at the same time, too, elsewhere in the very same journal. I don't believe in foeing people unless there's a really good reason (which this isn't, IMHO), but I do find it sad that pudge, and many others, have their vision so clouded by re
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It was time to make a public statement, because a LOT of people are having the same problem.
Religion can be a very supportive institution, or an enslaving one. While I'm an atheist, all my friends are Christian, but *none* of them demonstrates the level of illogic that pudge does. If I thought all Christians were like that ...
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I hear you. The problem, I think, is that when someone has indefensible beliefs into which they've heavily invested, they can't afford to question them, so they pre-emptively attack anything that *might* be in some way a slight.
Its the whole "He might hit me so I better hit him first" scenario. Childish, but what can you do. Anyone who knows you would know you were trying to be civil, and didn't deserve to get a slap in the face in return.
It says more about him than anything he actually wrote. I guess
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Oh, bullshit. You were being a total asshole to me, and now your crocodile tears are not fooling anyone.
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I love it. I think it bears repeating :-) I've used it to reply to a certain pudge character ...
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Still with the Internet psychoanalysis? You really suck at it.
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Why don't you?
Try to figure out why you're so angry.
I'm not. Again, you're terrible at this.
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You are. Your resentment at people rejecting your positions over and over is apparent to a lot of people. You need to understand that rejection of your position is NOT rejection of you as a person. While you may have "accepted" that on an intellectual level, it shows through in your responses that, emotionally, you're *very* angry - with yourself.
Not with Sammy. Not with me. Not with the pro-abortion side. Not with women. Not with atheists. But with yourself, because, no matter how hard you try, you can'
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So tell me again how your English definition of a word is so powerful that it determines physical reality.
And about how the Gospel of Thomas was widely accepted by the early Church.
And about how our oldest copies of the New Testament are several hundred years removed from the originals.
Heh.
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Because I do not wish to. You are obviously a big fat troll, and don't take the question seriously, as you were rude to me before I was ever rude to you. In noting this fact I am not interested in justifying my rudeness; I am merely pointing out that your question posed to me is disingenuous, and thus I won't answer it.
What is it that I'm terrible at?
Telling me what I am thinking or feeling.
Wanting to see you release your need to have long, drawn
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No. It is, however, why are you disallowed to post on my journal entries, as you well know.
Why not send me an e-mail offline and we'll get to know each other
Because you're a troll that I do not wish to get to know.
I'm trying to figure out why you persist in your rudeness and attacks against me and others.
And you are entirely incapable of doing so.
I would guess that you don't believe in psychoanalysis anyway, based on that comment, but I could be wrong.
Noth
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The sad fact is, you bore me. Much as I TRY to, all I can find in your posts is stuff rooted in religious dogma.
Even Jesus had more of a sense of humour and proportion than you. Lighten up! Maybe if you weren't so determined to make everyone conform to your views people would actually get to see something other than "pudge".
It's not hard.
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Whoa!
I've had plenty of email correspondence with people who disagree with me in public, sometimes vehemently. Its been VERY constructive. We've almost always been able to find common ground (and yes, a lot of those discussions involved religion). Sammy's willing to discuss things via email. So am I. I'm pretty sure that most people in this particular circle are. Its one of th
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I couldn't care less.
Much as I TRY to, all I can find in your posts is stuff rooted in religious dogma.
That says a lot more about your lack of ability to understand than it does about anything I actually wrote.
Even Jesus had more of a sense of humour and proportion than you.
I would hope so. He IS God, after all. He would have a greater sense of proportion than any other person. And he had a great sense of humor. That bit about the log in your own eye is incomparable.
Maybe if
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Me too. It is not disagreement that makes me reject his advances. I disagree with lots of my friends, often. I have many off-line or private discussions with people about things I disagree with them about, and some of them become my friends. Hell, I disagree far more than I agree with most people I have discussions with. Disagreement is beside the point: trolling is the p
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As you pointed out, you've had some of them become your friends. It can and does happen.
Doesn't the potential benefit outweight the cost?
I've had one person who has tried to make my life miserable for a couple of decades, and yet last week I offered to help resolve a problem they're having. There's no benefit to me, and it'll probably be another of those "no good deed goes unpunished" things, but its the right thing to do.
Why not give it a try? You might be pleasan
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You are either playing his game with him, or he's snowed you. Dude, he's a troll.
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Even if you're right about him being a troll (which I don't think is the case), why not give it a try?
Heck, I've even changed the JE title to reflect it. "pudge, email sammy".
A little constructive dialog never hurt. Right?
As a further show of good faith, I'll unfoe you (I know, its not much, but what the heck, its a start, and we've got to start somewhere, and honestly, I think the only other person I've foed is in a different category).
He's made an offer to discuss stuff by email. I think it was m
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Wrong question. The correct one is: why give it a try? There is no reason to.
As a further show of good faith, I'll unfoe you (I know, its not much, but what the heck, its a start
See, I could not care less that I am your foe. And there is nothing to have a "start" to.
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Okay, let me try to make a list.
Top ten reasons to give it a try when someone extends an offer to dialog ...
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You did succeed in making a list. It is a list. But it does not contain any valid reasons for me to bother.
He's a jerk. I don't want him as a friend. I don't care how he sees my position; he is a troll. I don't care to "try" so I won't look back and say I tried. I don't care to "jaw-jaw" with him. I am not in the least bit curious about what he might have to say. The medium won't change the fact that I don't care what he has to say. That "it won't kill me" is not an
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There are two possibilities. Either it is, or it isn't.
If it IS a troll, what is the harm in sending him an email, in essence saying "put your money where your mouth is. let's talk"?
If it ISN'T a troll, again, what is the harm in sending him
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Okay, obviously I'm missing something here. Just what IS the deal between you two?
You don't have to answer ... and if you do, you don't have to do it here. Just to be clear to both sides, if its a "he said / he said" thing, I'd like to think that both of you can "get over it" as not being all that important in the great scheme of things, because who started it, and who's right, is pretty immaterial at this point.
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Again, wrong question. What BENEFIT is there?
the upside is what you choose to make it
You've not told me what any upside could possibly exist. I have no reason at all to do this. You're not getting that. Why should I run around the block three times real fast? Why should I roll around in the mud? Why should I watch American Idol? I don't do these things, because I have no reason to.
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I know Randal pretty well, and I can say with authority that this is not evidence you're not a troll.
There's two points of common ground right there.
I do not care about any common ground between us. I have no interest in you, and I have no interest in gaining an interest in you.
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Okay, you got me with the "Why should I watch American Idol?" bit. That WAS funny.
As for reasons, I gave you some that work for me. If they don't for you, at this time, in this instance, that's okay. That's your right.
Still ...
I guess "couldn't hurt to try ..." is kind of lame. Still,
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I only know you in regards to your discussions here with and around me, in which you have been a troll and a jerk. *shrug*
You slander me by saying that I'm a troll
No, I do not. It is not slander, as slander is spoken, though you could call it libel, which is written (although some spoken defamation can also be libel, if it is recorded/broadcasted). It's not that either, though, for various
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I hopped back over to the journal in question and the very last phrase was:
This is such a hot-button issue that everyone comes to it with all sorts of views, expectations, opinions, experiences, etc., and we all know the usual arguments for both sides, and quickly, sometimes too quickly, make assumptions.
So, maybe we can agree that we all should have worn an extra layer or two of nomex, and try one more time to understand each others point of view a bit better?
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So what? Do you want to be surrounded by people who agree with everything you say?
BTW, Sam's not trolling you. While he can give as good as he gets in a flame war, he's the first to admit that he's not very good at trolling. On Lawn was the exception, not the rule. Then again, when On Lawn posted saying he's not On Lawn or "the other anonymous poster", and forgot to check the "post anonymously" box, he became fair game for everyone :-)
This is the Internet. Sometimes it gets a bit rough, then everyone b
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Pull the other one.
You're doing nothing to further any conversation or discussion, and you keep replying to me when I've politely asked you to stop.
And the fact that you keep replying to me proves your request for me to stop replying is disingenuous.
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I said nothing about agreement.
BTW, Sam's not trolling you.
Yes, he is.
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So admit it - you like trolling. There's nothing wrong with that.
Its certainly not like the editors on slashdot haven't been caught trolling before - its part and parcel of the whole package.
So, now that its obvious ... are you in for Tuesday?
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Sammy, don't worry about it.
He's been trolling, and he lost [slashdot.org].
As I updated at the top:
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If he had bothered to look around, he'd have known you're "good people".
Unfortunately, he's at that stage of his life/journey/whatever where he's more interested in mental masturbation than in any real interaction with people. As you say, its his loss.
Debating can be fun, and so can a bit of harmless trolling, but ultimately, there are real people behind the keyboard. You know that. I know that. Everyone in the circle knows that - that's why they're in the circle. We're very much aware of each others h
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I am utterly uninterested in "civility." I am interested in ideas. You offered none. You only offered to
I was brought up with tolerance and kindness.
Then why are you such an asshole?
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Gee, pudge - people are right. You are an asshole.
You're not interested in ideas, except when they stroke your ego.
You're not interested in people, except they THEY stroke your ego.
I guess that's why people don't find you all that interesting as a human being.
Oh, right - you're a neocon supporter. That explains it. Check your humanity and common sense at the door.
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Words never have meaning, coming from anyone. This is -- stay with me now -- a fundamental axiom of communication theory. Read a book.
It's funny how I completely demolish you on every point you make. You think you "won," and I easily demolish you on that. And then you, predictably, resort to ad hominems again.
Gee, pudge - people are right. You are an asshole.
Yawn.
You're not interested in ideas, except when they stroke your
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Then, why do you respond to anything Sam or Tom post?
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You think merely replying and discussing constitutes relating? OK. But I don't.
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My question is simple: what is your motivation in replying to or discussing or responding to anything Tom or Sam post on Slashdot?
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I say what I mean, when I can, and expect others to say what I mean too, when they are restating my position.
My question is simple: what is your motivation
I don't care enough about the answer, let alone whether anyone else knows it, to bother saying it.
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Time for a poll:
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Not that it bothers me. On the contrary, it satisfies me that you have so willingly proved that I was right when I called you a troll.
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OUT
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I have no problem being civil when I'm trying to help two sides get together. But the milk of human kindness goes sour when you keep p*ssing into the container ...
Sam was not trolling you. If you had bothered to check, you would have known that. As you've seen from others, they also don't think Sam was trollig you.
It was in that context that I laid off for a while, and tried to encourage you to take a second look. We all know what happened with that ... you made it quite clear that you don't give a sh*
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Yes, he was.
You asked for a reason to try to strike up a friendlier conversation with Sam - I gave you more than a dozen.
No, about half of those were reasons not to not do it, not reasons to do it. And those reasons to do it were begging the question, as you said things like "it's the right thing to do" without saying WHY it was the right thing to do, or "you could make a new friend" without saying why I would want to do so.
You insist on being a stickler - then bitch and moan when
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I can, and I have. Most people do, once in a while.
Never been a parent, have you?
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You never have, and neither has anyone else.
Only one example is sufficient to prove the point.
So why would you take them in, rather than the alternative? You say you have no self-interest in doing so, but that's an illusion. You do it ONLY because of self-interest. Broadly, you do it because you do not want them to be put down. It's because of what YOU want. It's your desire t
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So, what is the benefit to me having donated blood 30 times? Its inconvenient, it actually ends up costing me time and money, as well as waiting in line, then being questioned, and examined. And there was NO possibility I would be receiving any of that blood, and there's no compensation paid, AND they try to make me lie down for 10 minutes afterwards, which I can't stand!
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The King James was made from texts from the Byzantine line (there are 4 lineages of text for wht we call the Bible, based on their history - who copied who, the earlies texts, etc). The Byzantine only trace their lineage back to the 9th century. The Alexandrian and Caesarean texts go back to the 3rd century (we've obviously done some archeology since King James assumed room temperature), and are thus considered more accurate by most.
there are still people who think that the King James is the best - they'
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You could buy the pimsleur Hebrew 1 course for 230 odd Euros (about 400 Canadian)
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I always do things the "hard" way.
Its probably for two reasons:
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You're entirely wrong. I explained this; what don't you get? Maybe this will help: my beliefs are that I should not make such judgments, because I (like you and everyone else) lack the moral authority and wisdom to do so. I am not refusing to evaluate my own beliefs, I am clearly stating my own beliefs.
The other thing I found interesting about that thread was the mentioning of differe
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How is this determined?
Almost entirely philosophically.
Has it been measured?
No, with a caveat: some near-death experiences tend to support the notion of souls existing, such as a person flatlining, then seeing things in other locations, then waking up and knowing those things happened. Not "measured" in the sense of physical measurement, but measured in causes and effects.
Of course, the data on this is extremely limited, and I don't trust what there is of it.
How much does a so