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Why Christianity?
RE: Why Christianity?
I'm glad we agree. Hopefully, you've at least learned the error of your ways so you'll stop plagiarizing, but I'm not going to keep my fingers crossed.
Nolite te bastardes carborundorum.
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RE: Why Christianity?
(August 20, 2015 at 10:33 pm)Pyrrho Wrote:
(August 20, 2015 at 9:53 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: The alma mater does say one thing: some college grads ARE smarter than others. And the fact that some Christians went to really good schools suggests that not all Christians are stupid...a fact that is lost on the crowd here who didn't go to those same schools.

Just sayin'.


Maybe you were there for athletic abilities.  Georgia Tech has repeatedly violated the rules for using athletes who are not academically qualified:

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=2227377

http://espn.go.com/college-sports/story/...-probation

Not everyone who attends a school is a good student.  Regardless of the quality of the school itself.


Also, your willingness to plagiarize might be due to your experiences in school:

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/article/200...s-ga-tech/

In the article, one may observe that being caught cheating does not get one expelled from Georgia Tech.  Great school alright!

Right. Tech sucks. Go Dawgs! [Image: rotfl.gif]
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RE: Why Christianity?
(August 20, 2015 at 9:55 pm)lkingpinl Wrote:
(August 20, 2015 at 9:41 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I have a funny story about that GT bee of yours.  My brother-in-law who is an embezzler (don't worry his wife and Jesus forgave him), and more money oriented than anyone I know (his conversation is all about salary and cost of toys), but also an evangelical (he can't talk about his church without talking about money either) had your avatar in the form of a flag on his lawn.   Yeah, I don't like him much though I love my husband's sister.  But getting back to my story his bee caused me to Google image search it as I suspected a Christian symbol that I didn't know about.  Nope:  Georgia Tech, his alma mater.  It's a very good school.  But it didn't teach you to reason dispassionately or how to weigh evidence.  And it didn't teach him ethics or even how to go about embezzling very well.

I went to Michigan. What does that say about me?  J/K. Wink


You are able to survive cold winters.

"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
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RE: Why Christianity?
(August 20, 2015 at 10:15 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:
(August 20, 2015 at 10:02 pm)Jenny A Wrote:

You shrug off plagiarism.  "Big whoop." 




As a Christian, I'm interested in helping as many people see the truth as possible, right? I'm not getting paid for this, I'll never be famous for anything I post, I have nothing to gain from anything I say here, agreed? So, when some dolt asks about Osiris or Horus or God-knows-what kind of nonsense, do I really need to spend two hours crafting an original responses when two clicks and 30 seconds later I can put solid Christian answers into the minds of those who are dying for lack of truth? I mean, be serious.

If I post William Lane Craig, they go crazy. If I mention Habermas & Licona, they turn off their minds. And even if I cite Bart Ehrman, they discount everything that I post. How do you handle such "anti-EVERYTHING-remotely-supportive-of-Christianity-prejudice"??????

So, I posted an article WITHOUT referencing the original author. Big whoop. People who would not have read the post otherwise DID, in fact, read it because they did not have the NAME of the actual author as a presuppositional roadblock to prevent them from doing so.

"Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down"...as the old song goes, Jenny. If I helped someone get past their own biases to hear what Licona had to say by posting it without mentioning his name, GOOD FOR THEM.

Sorry, but no. It's still plagiarism. No matter how hard it is to make your argument or be heard without it, it's wrong. Basically, you are saying I'm not winning, so it's alright to cheat. Whether you will become famous, or make money by winning matters not.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: Why Christianity?
(August 21, 2015 at 12:08 am)Jenny A Wrote:
(August 20, 2015 at 10:15 pm)Randy Carson Wrote:



As a Christian, I'm interested in helping as many people see the truth as possible, right? I'm not getting paid for this, I'll never be famous for anything I post, I have nothing to gain from anything I say here, agreed? So, when some dolt asks about Osiris or Horus or God-knows-what kind of nonsense, do I really need to spend two hours crafting an original responses when two clicks and 30 seconds later I can put solid Christian answers into the minds of those who are dying for lack of truth? I mean, be serious.

If I post William Lane Craig, they go crazy. If I mention Habermas & Licona, they turn off their minds. And even if I cite Bart Ehrman, they discount everything that I post. How do you handle such "anti-EVERYTHING-remotely-supportive-of-Christianity-prejudice"??????

So, I posted an article WITHOUT referencing the original author. Big whoop. People who would not have read the post otherwise DID, in fact, read it because they did not have the NAME of the actual author as a presuppositional roadblock to prevent them from doing so.

"Just a spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down"...as the old song goes, Jenny. If I helped someone get past their own biases to hear what Licona had to say by posting it without mentioning his name, GOOD FOR THEM.

Sorry, but no.  It's still plagiarism.  No matter how hard it is to make your argument or be heard without it, it's wrong.  Basically, you are saying I'm not winning, so it's alright to cheat.  Whether you will become famous, or make money by winning matters not.

Winning? This is not a zero-sum game, Jenny.

And if someone reads something I post, and their eternal destiny is changed for the better, who is the loser?
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RE: Why Christianity?
As I said in another thread, any lie told for jeebus is ok.
Thief and assassin for hire. Member in good standing of the Rogues Guild.
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RE: Why Christianity?
(August 21, 2015 at 12:15 am)Randy Carson Wrote:
(August 21, 2015 at 12:08 am)Jenny A Wrote:


Winning? This is not a zero-sum game, Jenny.

And if someone reads something I post, and their eternal destiny is changed for the better, who is the loser?

If you have to lie and cheat to get the message across, chances are it's a bad message. There is really no such thing as eternal destiny. When you die you die. You might cheat them into wasting the one life they have though.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god.  If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.
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RE: Why Christianity?
(August 21, 2015 at 12:17 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: As I said in another thread, any lie told for jeebus is ok.

And you've been wrong twice.

I didn't lie; what I posted about the "dying and rising gods" nonsense was the truth.
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RE: Why Christianity?
(August 21, 2015 at 12:19 am)Jenny A Wrote:
(August 21, 2015 at 12:15 am)Randy Carson Wrote: Winning? This is not a zero-sum game, Jenny.

And if someone reads something I post, and their eternal destiny is changed for the better, who is the loser?

If you have to lie and cheat to get the message across, chances are it's a bad message.  There is really no such thing as eternal destiny.  When you die you die.  You might cheat them into wasting the one life they have though.

Jenny-

This is bad logic on your part. The message isn't bad - the prejudices of the audience are. If I start a post by saying, "Well, according to William Lane Craig...", half the forum tunes out before they read another word.

As for your "this life is all there is" view, well, another thread, another day.
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RE: Why Christianity?
(August 21, 2015 at 12:23 am)Randy Carson Wrote:
(August 21, 2015 at 12:17 am)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: As I said in another thread, any lie told for jeebus is ok.

And you've been wrong twice.

I didn't lie; what I posted about the "dying and rising gods" nonsense was the truth.

What the fuck are you talking about?!? I don't think I commented on your "dying and rising gods" but even if I did, that's not the other thread I was referring to. Try to keep us straight Randy.
Thief and assassin for hire. Member in good standing of the Rogues Guild.
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