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Thread: Life is meaningless and why that's a good thing.
Post: RE: Life is meaningless and why that's a good thin...
| (July 11, 2026 at 12:02 pm)Twiggy Wrote: we are free to live according to our own values, and own interests, we decide our own meanings for our own lives.
In my experience discussions about free wi... |
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Thread: How it is Supposed to Work
Post: RE: How it is Supposed to Work
| (July 1, 2026 at 7:08 pm)Angrboda Wrote: [Image: https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.92684197...0x1000.jpg]
At least one Edda and several Norse sagas have dragons in them. They don't need more. |
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Islam
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July 2, 2026 at 12:56 am |
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Thread: How it is Supposed to Work
Post: RE: How it is Supposed to Work
| (July 1, 2026 at 4:39 pm)Leonardo17 Wrote: What if these people truly saw what’s happening to our world today and wanted to warn us about it?
I don't think it's reasonable to say that the authors of... |
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Islam
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July 2, 2026 at 12:53 am |
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Thread: How it is Supposed to Work
Post: RE: How it is Supposed to Work
| (June 25, 2026 at 5:10 pm)Leonardo17 Wrote: [...]
We can even say (for instance) that Christianity has already abandoned all concepts of “holy war” already.
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The Wikipedia article on "religi... |
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Islam
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June 26, 2026 at 8:45 pm |
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Thread: What causes Atheists to convert?
Post: RE: What causes Atheists to convert?
| (June 14, 2026 at 7:00 pm)Twiggy Wrote: [...]
As for the one's who were actually atheists under the "lack of belief in a god(s)", from what I have seen, including a recent conversation I have had, ... |
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Atheism
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June 24, 2026 at 7:38 am |
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Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
Post: RE: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
| (June 18, 2026 at 6:26 pm)Leonardo17 Wrote: - Since even Netanyahu was in a way betrayed by D. Trump like this (despite the very powerful pro-Israel lobby in the US) I think something is going on th... |
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Belacqua |
News & Current Affairs
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June 18, 2026 at 8:26 pm |
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Thread: What causes Atheists to convert?
Post: RE: What causes Atheists to convert?
| (June 14, 2026 at 7:00 pm)Twiggy Wrote: So every now and then I come across people, usually christians, who claim to have at one point been "Atheists".
My theory is that many of these people were n... |
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Atheism
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June 14, 2026 at 8:29 pm |
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Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
Post: RE: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
| (June 13, 2026 at 5:30 pm)Leonardo17 Wrote: I mean: a Super-power needs to assert itself as a moral entity too. There is no such world order. What world are we living in if the Qataris and Omanis ar... |
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Belacqua |
News & Current Affairs
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June 14, 2026 at 4:55 am |
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Thread: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
Post: RE: US Strikes on Iran (Operation Epic Fury)
| (June 11, 2026 at 11:32 am)Leonardo17 Wrote: We don’t really know what’s happening there. But in Iraq they gradually weakened the regime for decades with many bombing campaigns. Than they conquered ... |
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News & Current Affairs
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June 11, 2026 at 6:33 pm |
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Thread: The deal with Melchizedek
Post: RE: The deal with Melchizedek
| (June 10, 2026 at 9:10 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: .....but we do know about the interpretation you chose to chastise the boards with. The idea that the jahwist source was a secular folklorist writi... |
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Belacqua |
Christianity
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June 11, 2026 at 5:09 am |
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Thread: The deal with Melchizedek
Post: RE: The deal with Melchizedek
| (June 10, 2026 at 1:39 pm)Angrboda Wrote: Calling it fiction allows one to pivot to making points about the unknown concerning authorial intent.
I don't think we have to be strict about naming a gen... |
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Belacqua |
Christianity
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June 10, 2026 at 7:23 pm |
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Thread: The deal with Melchizedek
Post: RE: The deal with Melchizedek
| (June 7, 2026 at 9:08 am)GrandizerII Wrote: So the king himself would not have been intended to be a mysterious figure to the ancient Israelites but part of their lore. It is only later that he is m... |
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Belacqua |
Christianity
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June 8, 2026 at 7:10 am |
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Thread: Adam's original company?
Post: RE: Adam's original company?
| (June 7, 2026 at 3:46 am)GrandizerII Wrote: maybe not as much as that other author who was of the belief that J had sexual relations with S (the author of Samuel).
Wow, I'd never heard this one. Som... |
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Christianity
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June 7, 2026 at 5:59 am |
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Thread: Adam's original company?
Post: RE: Adam's original company?
| (June 5, 2026 at 9:48 am)GrandizerII Wrote: I am curious now why Bloom believes J is a woman, let alone one individual, so looking that one up now.
I don't think his reason is particularly persuasiv... |
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Christianity
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June 6, 2026 at 1:19 am |
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Thread: Adam's original company?
Post: RE: Adam's original company?
| (June 5, 2026 at 7:03 am)GrandizerII Wrote: Rather, the argument by Angrboda and others is that it’s likely J treated God as an anthropomorphic being, while other sources treated him in a more abstr... |
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Christianity
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June 5, 2026 at 8:03 am |
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Thread: Adam's original company?
Post: RE: Adam's original company?
| (June 4, 2026 at 8:14 am)GrandizerII Wrote: there are multiple relevant layers here that do need to be considered when having this debate.
Bloom was an immensely erudite reader, who had a number of... |
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Christianity
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June 5, 2026 at 6:13 am |
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Thread: Adam's original company?
Post: RE: Adam's original company?
| (June 3, 2026 at 7:22 am)Angrboda Wrote: I am pointing out that besides any allegorical dimension, these writings also have a literal dimension.
Yes, of course they do. The words are not just abstra... |
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Christianity
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June 3, 2026 at 8:47 am |
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Thread: Adam's original company?
Post: RE: Adam's original company?
| (June 2, 2026 at 10:52 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: J wasn't writing anything those people weren't already familiar with, if j was an identitarian folklorist. I think the more salient observation her... |
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Christianity
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June 3, 2026 at 12:30 am |
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Thread: Adam's original company?
Post: RE: Adam's original company?
| (June 2, 2026 at 10:02 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: There are two questions here. Whether the source was compiling folklore and whether or not the places and people the source got that folklore from ... |
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Christianity
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June 2, 2026 at 10:44 pm |
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Thread: Adam's original company?
Post: RE: Adam's original company?
| (June 2, 2026 at 9:54 pm)Angrboda Wrote: (June 2, 2026 at 8:27 pm)Belacqua Wrote: That's right! All the ancient texts are myth, allegory, fable, and just-so stories. (Up until Herodotus, and even ... |
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Christianity
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June 2, 2026 at 10:40 pm |
