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RE: Random Thoughts
March 24, 2026 at 7:52 pm
I have reduced my social media to the occasional visit here and to a nerdy game forum, also occasional.
I have a linkedin profile but it's out of date and I haven't bothered to update it.
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RE: Random Thoughts
March 29, 2026 at 7:47 am
I don't know how true this is, but it would explain a lot.
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RE: Random Thoughts
Yesterday at 8:53 am
If the witch wasn’t completely incinerated after Gretel pushed her into the oven, how do you explain the empty oven? Where is the witch’s body?
The Empty Oven is one of those historical facts that skeptics just can’t explain.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: Random Thoughts
Yesterday at 1:36 pm
(Yesterday at 8:53 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: If the witch wasn’t completely incinerated after Gretel pushed her into the oven, how do you explain the empty oven? Where is the witch’s body?
The Empty Oven is one of those historical facts that skeptics just can’t explain.
A skeptic’s explanation:
You can cremate at human body in 2-3 hours at less than 1000C. I typically exceed that temperature in my smithy.
If we assume that the witch’s oven was lined with good quality firebrick, coated with refractory cement, fueled with anthracite, and equipped with some sort of air blower, Witchy Poo would be reduced to ashes within the time mentioned above. Easy peasy.
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