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crashfrog
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Message 17 of 68 (64516)
11-05-2003 8:28 AM


Let me get this straight:
We're talking about an entity that creates life, nurtures its children, has a son with no mate, and has enough unconditional love for every being in the universe.
Are these truly masculine qualities to you, Buz? Isn't it just possible that the Bible mistakenly refers to God as "he" because it was men who wrote it? No, of course, it's not possible for the Bible to be mistaken about anything, even when it is.

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crashfrog
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Message 45 of 68 (64698)
11-06-2003 8:36 AM
Reply to: Message 34 by Buzsaw
11-06-2003 12:01 AM


Ah, now we get down to it. "Woman" = "worse" to you and the Bible, so naturally God must be male, because male is better.
Well, you can think like that, if you like. That's just one more thing that drives me away from religion.

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crashfrog
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Message 56 of 68 (65117)
11-08-2003 10:02 AM
Reply to: Message 55 by IrishRockhound
11-08-2003 9:56 AM


Don't forget that women tend to have much tougher constitutions than men, as well as higher pain thresholds.
That's a myth, I think. For the first part I don't know how you would even begin to measure "constitution", except by looking at somebody's character sheet.
As for the second I'm familiar with research that indicates the opposite - men have a significantly higher threshold before they'll characterize a stimulus as "painful" than women do. If you were referring to some kind of upper pain threshold, that's not something I'm familiar with. What is supposed to happen past that threshold? How would you recognize if somebody had passed it? Via what metric would you quantify "pain"?

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crashfrog
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Message 57 of 68 (65119)
11-08-2003 10:09 AM
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11-07-2003 12:15 AM


The fairer sex is overall physically weaker than the male.
The average woman, being physically smaller than the average man, would be physically less strong, yes. On the other hand if you compared a man and a woman of the same build and size, they'd be about equally strong, I suspect.
Is that enough to characterize all women with such a loaded word as weak? Not hardly. And nothing in your previous statement indicated that you meant "weak" to refer to just the physical. Indeed, since God has no body, and therefore physical strength would be irrelevant, we can assume that when you referred to women as "weak", you meant in other ways besides the physical.
I find such a deception rather distasteful. Or if you deny it, then why would you refer to the physical aspects of women in a discussion about whether a non-physical entity has male or female characteristics? Of what relevance is physical strength to this discussion?

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crashfrog
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Message 60 of 68 (65294)
11-09-2003 6:36 AM
Reply to: Message 59 by joz
11-09-2003 2:51 AM


Is that the same study that showed that womens ability to endure pain was improved by caffeine while mens stayed the same or is it a different one?
I don't remember.

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