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Panda Member (Idle past 2466 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined: |
Or we can look at what you actually said:
I expect none from you and you have never failed to meet that standard. "There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god." J. B. S. Haldane
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Faith ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 197 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
So the fact that we recognize the statue as the woman who rides the beast means to you that we see ten heads and a cup and all that. Funny, to me it just means a statue of a woman riding a beast which just because it is a woman riding a beast reminds us of the one in Revelation. But of course it MUST be what YOU think it is, not what WE think it is.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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Panda Member (Idle past 2466 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined: |
Yes, yes. Best to gloss over your lies and pretend you didn't say them. You are fortunate that honesty is not something that your god requires of you. "There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god." J. B. S. Haldane
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Faith ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 197 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
What I SAID and what you think I meant are two different things and you are merely insisting on YOUR idea of what I said and haven't the basic integrity to admit the difference.
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PaulK Member Posts: 16685 Joined: Member Rating: 3.7 |
So, is it that your knowledge of the Biblical image ends with "a woman riding on a beast" or do you just choose to ignore the parts that don't fit ?
Anyone familiar with the actual images would recognise the statue as being Europa and nothing to do with Revelation.
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Faith ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 197 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Look, I never said and none of the people I referenced said that the statue was a replica of the creature in Revelation, it's a simple equation of a woman on a beast with that idea. The statue could be a woman riding a lion, a woman riding a dragon, a woman riding a bear, the same idea would occur to us if not to you. You can insist all you want that it SHOULD be something else but that's again just you insisting it should be something else when it's merely what I said it is. And really, that should have been obvious from the first, simple and obvious. You wouldn't make that connection but we do whether you like it or not.
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PaulK Member Posts: 16685 Joined: Member Rating: 3.7 |
quote: So when you said that they "recognise" is as the woman riding a beast from Revelation, you mean that they know perfectly well that it is quite different in every other respect, but choose to make the identification regardless. I'd class that under choosing to ignore much of the Biblical description. quote: I don't insist on the statues being anything. I do suggest that people who are actually familiar with the Bible can't honestly recognise either statue as an image from Revelation because they obviously aren't.
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Faith ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 197 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
I can concede that my wording could have been better but that doesn't give you license to insist I meant something I didn't mean. Obviously the statue immediately reminds a bunch of us of the image in Revelation and you are just getting all nitpicky about my use of the word "recognize." Is "reminds" better or do you want to pick that to death as well?
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PaulK Member Posts: 16685 Joined: Member Rating: 3.7 |
quote: I can only go on what you say. I can't read your mind and decide that you meant something else. Now I can guess that people might be vaguely reminded of Revelation and yet dismiss it because of the obvious differences - and the far better match with Europa. But that isn't what you mean at all.
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Panda Member (Idle past 2466 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined:
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I quoted what you said. Carry on with your lying - you seem good at it. "There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god." J. B. S. Haldane
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Faith ![]() Suspended Member (Idle past 197 days) Posts: 35298 From: Nevada, USA Joined: |
Still no honesty from you. How simple it would be to merely concede that I meant what I meant and not what you think I should have meant, but I guess that's just too hard for you.
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Theodoric Member (Idle past 72 days) Posts: 7051 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: |
What does he being a historian have anything to do with biblical interpretation?
Well if you post crap it will be pointed out to you.
Oh the Queen of misrepresentation strikes again. You did not write "three big paragraphs". You wrote 3 tiny sentences. Two of which extolled the writing of Josephus. Everything else was cut and paste.
Edited by Theodoric, : Pointing out more of Faiths misrepresentations Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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Theodoric Member (Idle past 72 days) Posts: 7051 From: Northwest, WI, USA Joined: |
What are you claiming? What is wrong with my summation of Josephus? Why should we give his biblical interpretation any weight?
Oh please stop being so cryptic. What are you trying to claim I am doing? Facts don't lie or have an agenda. Facts are just facts "God did it" is not an argument. It is an excuse for intellectual laziness.
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Panda Member (Idle past 2466 days) Posts: 2688 From: UK Joined:
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I can't read your mind so I'll go by what you wrote: quote:
What you wrote was a lie. If it was just a case of it being "mis-wrote" then you would have simply corrected it. If your god likes liars then he must fucking love you! "There is no great invention, from fire to flying, which has not been hailed as an insult to some god." J. B. S. Haldane
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ringo Member Posts: 18854 From: frozen wasteland Joined: Member Rating: 3.8 |
I'm not a Bible debunker. I'm simply pointing out what the Bible says, as opposed to your baseless made-up version.
But not in the Bible. Edited by ringo, : Spellinge.
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