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jar
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Message 61 of 122 (568848)
07-18-2010 9:55 AM
Reply to: Message 60 by bluescat48
07-18-2010 9:43 AM


Re: Cleveland
"Better here than Philadelphia".
Extra points to the first person to identify that remark.

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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jar
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Message 63 of 122 (568904)
07-18-2010 8:06 PM
Reply to: Message 62 by ramoss
07-18-2010 7:59 PM


Re: Cleveland
And still true today.

Anyone so limited that they can only spell a word one way is severely handicapped!

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jar
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Message 107 of 122 (873536)
03-16-2020 4:56 PM
Reply to: Message 106 by Tangle
03-16-2020 4:31 PM


Tangle writes:
It's certainly an argument that you will fail to understand because, I suspect, you just don't like it. To the rest of us it's blindingly bloody obvious.
It was blindingly bloody obvious to the author of Genesis 18 too as has been pointed out repeatedly to Phat.

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jar
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Message 112 of 122 (873699)
03-18-2020 4:13 PM
Reply to: Message 110 by Phat
03-18-2020 3:57 PM


Re: Genesis 17 Revisited
Phat writes:
My questions begin with this one: Was Abraham really talking with God?
It's a story Phat, just a story.
Just as with the Genesis 1 fable and the Genesis 2&3 tale, there is nothing really related to reality or GOD. They are all about rules for a given society and Just So Tales to explain why important things were. Since the Genesis 17 tale was written hundreds or even thousands of years before Islam existed of course it has absolutely nothing to do with Islam. Only fools and conmen would make such connections.
But the tribes were a reality and each tribe related to a particular patriarch who may even have actually existed.
Tribal associations often tend to try to create some order and patriarchy or matriarchy are two paths.
There's little there to ponder Phat.
Edited by jar, : appalin spallin

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jar
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Message 114 of 122 (873709)
03-18-2020 5:24 PM
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03-18-2020 4:21 PM


Re: Genesis 17 Revisited
Phat writes:
There is only little to ponder if you believe that the God of the book and his son were simply human creations.
What does the evidence show Phat?
It really is that simple.
Asking if the character in a story was really talking to some other character in the story makes no sense whatsoever. And as I said, trying to claim that something that did not even exit for hundreds or thousands of years after some story was written was what the author was talking about is just plain stupid.
The stories can tell you how the author thought his listeners and associates should react but to claim the author was writing to an audience several thousand years in the future is unsupportable.

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jar
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Message 116 of 122 (873822)
03-19-2020 6:24 PM
Reply to: Message 115 by Phat
03-19-2020 6:03 PM


Re: The Origins Of The Isaac & Ishmael Mythos
Think Phat, think.
What you are posting is simply more stupid Apologetics, after the fact made up stuff to justify marketing some ideology or snake oil.
It all carny and nothing but carny.

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jar
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Message 118 of 122 (873832)
03-20-2020 7:35 AM
Reply to: Message 117 by Phat
03-20-2020 3:54 AM


Re: The Origins Of The Isaac & Ishmael Mythos
Phat writes:
Think jar, think. I simply do not believe your evidence. I have seen examples of Christians who actually have transformed lives.
Even if that were true Phat it has absolutely no relevance to the post you to which you are replying.
Phat writes:
It seems silly to believe that every Biblical Christian Apologist and Pastor, of which there are well over a million, are all fantasy deluded and/or willful con artists and shysters.
What does the evidence show? To claim that the author of a story is pointing to something that will not even exist for hundreds or thousands of years in the future is just silly.
Phat writes:
And I would never trust a Bible "teacher" who explains the book as merely a history of the patriarchs and their mythos.
But that is not what I have said. Do not underestimate the power of myth.

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jar
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Message 121 of 122 (874181)
03-26-2020 11:42 AM
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03-26-2020 10:54 AM


Re: Gods Existence Is Crucial To My State Of Mind
Phat writes:
Phat, having experienced several episodes that would confirm his longstanding belief that God is living and active outside of the book and that he discovered this revelation personally and not corporately, though the church also preaches such things.
So how did you determine that it was actually God that you experienced? What tests were used?

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