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    Thread: How's the weather treating you today?
Post: RE: How's the weather treating you today?

Spring apparently saw its own shadow and ran away screaming - temperatures have dropped, and yesterday's rain turned into snow overnight (it's already melted, fortunately). Winnipeg's unofficial mott...
Astreja Off Topic 59 700 April 17, 2024 at 5:57 pm
    Thread: Elon Musk
Post: RE: Elon Musk

Fireball, that's a gorgeous truck!  Beautifully maintained.   :great:
Astreja News & Current Affairs 93 3527 April 17, 2024 at 5:52 pm
    Thread: Elon Musk
Post: RE: Elon Musk

(April 17, 2024 at 10:31 am)Jackalope Wrote: I bet I can cram more junk in the back of our Kia. I know I can cram more junk in my Corolla!  At times I've carried four or five 50-pound bags of limest...
Astreja News & Current Affairs 93 3527 April 17, 2024 at 4:24 pm
    Thread: Some Thoughts on the Goodness of God
Post: RE: Some Thoughts on the Goodness of God

(April 2, 2024 at 2:27 pm)God_is_Good Wrote: Please hear me when I say that God loves you so much. I don't believe you. Not much of a god if it can't tell me that to my face. Quote:Jesus literally...
Astreja Christianity 49 1371 April 5, 2024 at 7:52 pm
    Thread: The Real Easter
Post: RE: The Real Easter

(Springy G enters stage left, munching on a piece of chocolate) How are you gentlemen!! All your Easter are belong to Us.
Astreja History 26 660 March 31, 2024 at 9:39 pm
    Thread: What's your stance on bringing back extinct species?
Post: RE: What's your stance on bringing back extinct sp...

Organisms exist in ecological niches. Very often they go extinct because that niche is no longer available. I think it's ill-advised to bring a species back just because it's possible. Where is it ...
Astreja Life Sciences 80 2161 March 9, 2024 at 11:41 pm
    Thread: IF There Was God...
Post: RE: IF There Was God...

(February 2, 2024 at 12:41 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Worship a bigger god and get her to sort the little prick out. I'm on it!   :great:
Astreja Christianity 36 1236 February 5, 2024 at 11:01 pm
    Thread: IF There Was God...
Post: RE: IF There Was God...

(February 4, 2024 at 8:53 pm)ronedee Wrote: That curse is broken, by His act! And all we need do is believe that He paid our way: Love Him for it. And Love ourselves and one another as His faithfil...
Astreja Christianity 36 1236 February 5, 2024 at 10:59 pm
    Thread: If you're really a spektic then explain this:
Post: RE: If you're really a spektic then explain this:

(January 14, 2024 at 8:21 pm)jasonstackhouse Wrote: But did Stalin say that you need to drug the people too? And aren't our youth today drugged? I know I am. Possibly you're thinking of the Karl Mar...
Astreja Atheism 142 5630 January 15, 2024 at 2:47 am
    Thread: If you're really a spektic then explain this:
Post: RE: If you're really a spektic then explain this:

(January 13, 2024 at 10:02 am)jasonstackhouse Wrote: Do you believe in the word? Are you into Christ? No, and no. I see the Bible as mythology and pseudohistory, and if there ever was a Jesus he di...
Astreja Atheism 142 5630 January 13, 2024 at 7:08 pm
    Thread: If you're really a spektic then explain this:
Post: RE: If you're really a spektic then explain this:

Thump, your point is blindingly obvious - Why is anyone considering China as a possible player in any Israel-versus-the-world showdown? They have much larger Christian and Muslim minorities to worry ...
Astreja Atheism 142 5630 January 10, 2024 at 2:33 am
    Thread: The Kalam Cosmological argument.
Post: RE: The Kalam Cosmological argument.

What I find interesting about the Testimonium Flavianum is that it doesn't fit with the "bookend" passages 18.62 and 18.65: Quote:...there were a great number of them slain by this means, and others ...
Astreja Atheism 113 4449 January 10, 2024 at 12:38 am
    Thread: The Kalam Cosmological argument.
Post: RE: The Kalam Cosmological argument.

(January 9, 2024 at 2:14 pm)GUBU Wrote: Not one single copy of Antiquities had a single mention of Yeshua of "Nazareth" in them, up until Eusebius got his grubby little plagiarising hands on a copy....
Astreja Atheism 113 4449 January 9, 2024 at 4:19 pm
    Thread: Do you have any interest in the philosophies of introflection pioneered by Buddhism?
Post: RE: Do you have any interest in the philosophies o...

At one point I identified as Buddhist, but the only thing I still value in it is a handful of meditation prompts. None of the cosmology or mythology does a thing for me. In particular, I find the i...
Astreja Atheism 67 2623 January 9, 2024 at 4:16 pm
    Thread: Atheists how much do you hate God?
Post: RE: Atheists how much do you hate God?

(January 8, 2024 at 6:00 am)Authari Wrote: Now you might say that you can't hate something that doesn't exist (from your perspective) but the fact of the matter is you can hate something you don't b...
Astreja Atheism 136 5268 January 9, 2024 at 3:13 am
    Thread: A 21st Century Ontological Argument: does it work.
Post: RE: A 21st Century Ontological Argument: does it w...

(January 9, 2024 at 1:47 am)JJoseph Wrote: Fair Argument, Astreja. But if I recall, Saint Thomas Aquinas answered it like this. Paraphrasing and adapting the archaic language of the Angelic Doctor s...
Astreja Atheism 23 1169 January 9, 2024 at 2:41 am
    Thread: DeSantis vs Newsom.
Post: RE: DeSantis vs Newsom.

(January 8, 2024 at 11:17 pm)Astreja Wrote: I know very well, and have known virtually my whole life, that my own gender is atypical (very close to the midpoint of female and male).  I don't perceiv...
Astreja News & Current Affairs 28 1127 January 9, 2024 at 12:29 am
    Thread: A 21st Century Ontological Argument: does it work.
Post: RE: A 21st Century Ontological Argument: does it w...

(January 8, 2024 at 9:32 pm)JJoseph Wrote: So here's my own version of the Ontological Argument, borrowed indeed from St. Anselm, and Alvin Plantinga, who's been dubbed "St. Al", at least partly for...
Astreja Atheism 23 1169 January 8, 2024 at 11:24 pm
    Thread: DeSantis vs Newsom.
Post: RE: DeSantis vs Newsom.

(January 8, 2024 at 10:06 pm)JJoseph Wrote: Let's take a quick poll here at Atheism Central. How many Parents here want their children "informed" that their gender is "fluid" and a "choice", and tha...
Astreja News & Current Affairs 28 1127 January 8, 2024 at 11:17 pm
    Thread: What's everyone up to right now?
Post: RE: What's everyone up to right now?

Got home from my clarinet lesson a couple of hours ago, and read most of the first chapter of an anthropology textbook for one of my winter-session courses.
Astreja Lifestyle & Personal Matters 56407 3467253 January 8, 2024 at 11:11 pm