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    Thread: SCIENCE FINALLY PROVES....
Post: RE: SCIENCE FINALLY PROVES....
As a semi-professional artist who has actually used a camera obscura, I can say with absolute certainty that the image on the shroud was not produced by using one. To suggest it was demostrates laugha...
 Neo-Scholastic Christianity 149 2742 September 28, 2023 at 8:18 pm
    Thread: God's omnipresence
Post: RE: God's omnipresence
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
 Neo-Scholastic Christianity 87 1304 September 27, 2023 at 9:05 pm
    Thread: Why are you (still) a Christian?
Post: RE: Why are you (still) a Christian?
(September 19, 2023 at 8:43 pm)Bucky Ball Wrote: There's all sorts of total nonsense "according to the Bible". It's not really a very reliable standard for validating what is true. https://lifeles...
 Neo-Scholastic Christianity 304 7275 September 19, 2023 at 9:24 pm
    Thread: Why are you (still) a Christian?
Post: RE: Why are you (still) a Christian?
Yeah well, @bucky Ball, I guess that all depends on whether holes exist in any meaningful way. Technically holes are just an absence, the lack of something, and yet it is still possible to quantify an...
 Neo-Scholastic Christianity 304 7275 September 18, 2023 at 10:21 pm
    Thread: Why are you (still) a Christian?
Post: RE: Why are you (still) a Christian?
(September 5, 2023 at 5:12 am)Belacqua Wrote: It seems to me that in most times and in most places, religion is more about ritual and performance than about assent to propositions. It's something pe...
 Neo-Scholastic Christianity 304 7275 September 9, 2023 at 12:50 pm
    Thread: Why are you (still) a Christian?
Post: RE: Why are you (still) a Christian?
@FruatratedFool - if you are truly interested in knowing why I personally recommitted myself to Christ after decades of atheism, then we could have that conversation by PM. :-)
 Neo-Scholastic Christianity 304 7275 September 7, 2023 at 3:43 pm
    Thread: Brevity Burns
Post: RE: Brevity Burns
They are different concepts. Eficiency focuses on achieving results quickly and with minimal resources, while clarity emphasizes ensuring that the message is easily understood by its recipients.
 Neo-Scholastic Philosophy 23 611 August 23, 2023 at 7:56 pm
    Thread: Brevity Burns
Post: RE: Brevity Burns
(August 22, 2023 at 9:29 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (August 22, 2023 at 1:20 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Brevity has it's place, so does meticulous instruction. Sweeping generalizations, even brief one...
 Neo-Scholastic Philosophy 23 611 August 23, 2023 at 7:32 pm
    Thread: Any Nihilists here?
Post: RE: Any Nihilists here?
...because you say so. :-(
 Neo-Scholastic Philosophy 351 4592 August 22, 2023 at 10:34 pm
    Thread: Any Nihilists here?
Post: RE: Any Nihilists here?
(August 18, 2023 at 7:34 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: -and that utterance failed the apparent nihilist test as soon as it employed the word "higher". Purposes cannot be higher or lower. Nor can they ...
 Neo-Scholastic Philosophy 351 4592 August 18, 2023 at 8:42 pm
    Thread: The Reason I'm Atheist
Post: RE: The Reason I'm Atheist
(August 18, 2023 at 3:53 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: It sucked to be religious. Because you have to live with cognitive dissonance. It sucks to be atheist. Because you have to accept psychological di...
 Neo-Scholastic Converts' Corner 58 1785 August 18, 2023 at 4:08 pm
    Thread: The Reason I'm Atheist
Post: RE: The Reason I'm Atheist
(April 12, 2023 at 4:48 pm)HappySkeptic Wrote: (April 12, 2023 at 12:41 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Right, lol?  There's a hell of alot of mileage between less miserable and perfect.  Best possible...
 Neo-Scholastic Converts' Corner 58 1785 August 18, 2023 at 4:05 pm
    Thread: One sentence scary stories
Post: RE: One sentence scary stories
No one was going to save him.
 Neo-Scholastic Off Topic 25 640 August 16, 2023 at 2:07 pm
    Thread: Top Book Recommendations
Post: RE: Top Book Recommendations
The collected short stories of Jorge Louis Borges. .... ... .. Heaven and Its Wonders and Hell by Swedenborg Divine Comedy by Dante . .
 Neo-Scholastic The Arts 17 454 August 14, 2023 at 10:36 pm
    Thread: Bucket List Ideas
Post: RE: Bucket List Ideas
I use to think I'd like to try LSD once before I croak. Now that my everyday reality seems increasingly like a bad trip...not so much.
 Neo-Scholastic Lifestyle & Personal Matters 10 290 August 14, 2023 at 10:25 pm
    Thread: Any Nihilists here?
Post: RE: Any Nihilists here?
(August 12, 2023 at 12:45 pm)Angrboda Wrote: (August 12, 2023 at 12:01 pm)FrustratedFool Wrote: To be somewhat controversial, I can't really see how one doesn't end up with a nihilistic set of bel...
 Neo-Scholastic Philosophy 351 4592 August 13, 2023 at 6:00 pm
    Thread: The power of Christ...
Post: RE: The power of Christ...
The power of Christ is the Grace to become more like Him.
 Neo-Scholastic Christianity 60 2074 August 8, 2023 at 10:22 pm
    Thread: What is/was your favorite arcade game?
Post: RE: What is/was your favorite arcade game?
Having had the pleasure of twice recently to replay many original cabinets at the Galloping Ghost arcade in Illinois, I can say that as a late middle age player, I mostly found the early iconic games...
 Neo-Scholastic Gaming 27 917 August 8, 2023 at 10:18 pm
    Thread: What is/was your favorite arcade game?
Post: RE: What is/was your favorite arcade game?
I like Qbert and Tempest.
 Neo-Scholastic Gaming 27 917 August 7, 2023 at 6:35 pm
    Thread: Superstitions
Post: RE: Superstitions
While I may notice when a price or phone number contains the digits 666, I also notice when the digits 69 appear. People see patterns, mostly stupid ones.
 Neo-Scholastic Off Topic 15 372 August 5, 2023 at 11:23 pm