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Witness Evidence
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#241
RE: Witness Evidence
December 6, 2015 at 1:58 am (This post was last modified: December 6, 2015 at 1:59 am by IATIA.)
I guess an alien space must have truly crash landed at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. We have eyewitness reports, even the military said so and it was in the paper.
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#242
RE: Witness Evidence
December 6, 2015 at 2:39 am (This post was last modified: December 6, 2015 at 2:41 am by bennyboy.)
I guess we should accept the witness of David Berkowitz (the Son of Sam) when he told us that a Demon told him, through his neighbor's dog, to commit murder. We have no evidence whether the dog could or couldn't talk to those of a particular spiritual mindset, and so his testimony is the "best" evidence to which we have access.
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#243
RE: Witness Evidence
December 6, 2015 at 8:44 am
Wow, you sure write a lot of word salad. If someone "witnesses" something so incredible that no one else has ever seen before and seems too unbelievable to be true, no one has any reason to believe what they're saying is true unless they can demonstrate their claim.  I love this quote by Christopher Hitchens: "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence". 

You know what gets me about those claims about people who were on LSD who "saw god"? That's a hallucinogenic substance, so by definition, the reason you "saw god" is because you hallucinated. Are you not satisfied with my proposal, OP? Thinking
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#244
RE: Witness Evidence
December 8, 2015 at 5:27 pm
See you when you get back DFM, remember to not misuse the report feature.
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#245
RE: Witness Evidence
December 8, 2015 at 7:55 pm (This post was last modified: December 8, 2015 at 7:55 pm by bennyboy.)
(December 8, 2015 at 5:27 pm)Evie Wrote: See you when you get back DFM, remember to not misuse the report feature.

I'm kind of disappointed he got banned-- seemed like he was turning the corner and making some better contributions. Hopefully he'll come back.
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Edwardo Piet Away
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RE: Witness Evidence
December 8, 2015 at 8:07 pm
Hopefully he will have a personality transplant if he decides to come back.
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#247
RE: Witness Evidence
December 9, 2015 at 3:59 pm
"The weakest ink is better than the strongest memory."
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#248
RE: Witness Evidence
December 17, 2015 at 2:23 pm
Three men exonerated for arson/murder after 33 years. One of the men died in prison.

[quote]As she was dying, Ms. Quick told her daughter that she had lied about the men’s involvement in the fire.[/i]
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/nyregi...ottom-well
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RE: Witness Evidence
December 17, 2015 at 7:23 pm
(December 17, 2015 at 2:23 pm)Cato Wrote: Three men exonerated for arson/murder after 33 years. One of the men died in prison.

Quote:As she was dying, Ms. Quick told her daughter that she had lied about the men’s involvement in the fire.[/i]
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/17/nyregi...ottom-well
Yes, but this thread is implicitly about RELIGIOUS testimony, though it's pretended that it isn't.
And we know RELIGIOUS people would never give false testimony. . . right?  Cuz they're so honest and stuff?
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