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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Is attacking definitions not allowed in PPR? |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2011, 2:41 pm
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| @Orwell This must be your way of dodging the point I made. How is it not overly legalistic to state: that a premise which always renders an argument invalid cannot be described as an invalid premise? Tell me, is this an improper inference? Please note, that I am probably about to be attacked for us... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Why do Christians like to fixate so much on homosexuality? |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2011, 2:21 pm
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| If 'fixation' means 'obsession' (pandabear): most Christians don't fixate on the issue. However, most Christians, and indeed most people, will match intensity for intensity on an issue once it's been raised. My take is that it's a generational thing: for my age group (speaking generally again), hom... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Book of Daniel and Revelation |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2011, 2:17 pm
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woodss82 wrote: [img][800:673]http://www.raptureforums.com/ClarenceLarkin/images/10-seventy.gif[/img]
do you believe that the rapture will occur before or after the rise of this "antichrist?" |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Attention Lutherans. Please read this |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2011, 2:13 pm
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| "perhaps i should just discuss the book without even reading a synopses. i feel this would more appropriately fit your style. perhaps the reason you doubt whether either of us would reformulate our current position in light of new data or different viewpoints is that you don't expect to read/watch/... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: This is likely best new thread |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2011, 1:44 pm
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| The participants in the recent threads which have prompted me to post this will easily see the relevancde. This is more from Sir thomas Brownr: I cannot fall out or contemne a man for an errour, or conceive why a difference in opinion should divide an affection: for controversies, disputes, and arg... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Things Bill O'Rly Can't Explain |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2011, 1:40 pm
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Philologos wrote: ...I make a lot of use of homeopathy...
you do have a sense of humor! |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Book of Daniel and Revelation |
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Posted: 10 Feb 2011, 1:11 pm
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| *facepalm* i love when xtians, especially several who are from different sects, talk about "the antichrist." the following is as it appears in the NIV. go ahead and look up your own chosen translation and see if it's much different. (18) Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard th... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Best of all possible worlds and atheism |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2011, 9:47 pm
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| ok. :roll: good luck on your quest to clean up our dirty mouths. I am only asking for civility. and i'm only asking for you to pay restitution to my cats in the form of treats. there's a great quote, from an old prussian general, if i'm not mistaken, about the making of laws and the making of sausa... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Things Bill O'Rly Can't Explain |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2011, 9:36 pm
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and this. |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Things Bill O'Rly Can't Explain |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2011, 9:33 pm
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| Thanks for the insight. You can't tell the players without a scorecard. Do not watch TV. Quit quite a while back. If we did, we would likely not watch the news. Little of it new or useful. If we did we would likely avoid the commentators - got sick of that while we still watched news before we drop... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Attention Lutherans. Please read this |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2011, 9:23 pm
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| If you wanted to discuss - not debate, not restate - some of the very interesting issues in these various quotes, including the question of donations, the question of calling, the roles in religious orders of poverty, chastity, obedience, stability and if there be any other .. - I could not guarant... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Things Bill O'Rly Can't Explain |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2011, 9:14 pm
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| Okay. It isn't videos. Is this guy anybody? Should we care? Why should we care? What was his point in making these posters? What was your point posting his posters? he's a political commentator on fox news. an enormous number of americans watch him and subscribe to his views. he has famously (and r... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Best of all possible worlds and atheism |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2011, 8:24 pm
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| @Orwelll Your statement Learn to read, (edit, ljo). Oops ... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dolt Let us all now go back and make some edits ... that's the most offensive attempt at a definition i've ever read. Possibly so, and everyone can pick their own ... but the word "dolt" will... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Attention Lutherans. Please read this |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2011, 8:13 pm
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| Well, I found some prose - which I CAN download and CAN read. Some extracts: The spending of the charity money received has been criticized by some. Christopher Hitchens and the German magazine Stern have said Mother Teresa did not focus donated money on alleviating poverty or improving the conditi... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Best of all possible worlds and atheism |
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Posted: 09 Feb 2011, 7:23 pm
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| @Orwelll Your statement Learn to read, you dolt. Oops ... http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=dolt Let us all now go back and make some edits ... that's the most offensive attempt at a definition i've ever read. no doubt, the dolt who wrote it was proud of that. dictionary.com gives "a d... |
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Forum: Politics, Philosophy, and Religion Topic: Difference between left and right? |
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Posted: 08 Feb 2011, 8:00 pm
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| Another way to look at it: Left is to Right as Modern Man is to Neanderthal. Actually, Left is to right is the same as totalitarianism is to a Constitutional Republic. ouch. my brain. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/okeefe-pimp250.jpg are you james o'keefe? do you wish you were? do you h... |
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