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Post by geode on Oct 24, 2018 12:02:33 GMT
Although there have been some notable scientists who also happened to be Catholic that have been responsible for achievements in various fields, the Catholic Church as an institution has been more responsible for the suppression of science than its advancement. Giordano Bruno and Galileo immediately come to mind as prominent examples.
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Post by geode on Oct 24, 2018 1:25:00 GMT
I'm very sorry to hear he is gone. He surprised me some years ago on the old board. I don't think we had at that time much interaction. He explained that I had supported him about something when he was Waylon, and now as Cash he agreed with something I had posted. It was actually quite friendly. We always got along. I started quiz sets based on logical reasoning questions of LSAT on 4 or 5 occasions. He got all the sets 100% correct and gave detailed answer of every question. He was always the first to reply and within minutes. His background was in maths and he had taken mathematical logic course so that explains a bit but his answers were even better than those provided by companies like Kaplan. Yes, he seemed to be very bright. I saw that in several posts he made. In thinking about it, he was one of only a few that actually directly told me that he was glad I was around and posting.
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Post by geode on Oct 23, 2018 15:39:54 GMT
Oh, no, Cine, how sad. He was always so protective of his family, I hope they are surrounded by support right now. May he rest in peace. Yeah I hope the nieces are OK. It's sad news indeed. He was very close with some of the older Pitters. I'm very sorry to hear he is gone. He surprised me some years ago on the old board. I don't think we had at that time much interaction. He explained that I had supported him about something when he was Waylon, and now as Cash he agreed with something I had posted. It was actually quite friendly. We always got along.
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Post by geode on Oct 21, 2018 3:06:22 GMT
And in honor of the upcoming midterm election...
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Post by geode on Oct 16, 2018 17:49:07 GMT
I have a huge fan base of this film living in my house. Unfortunately they are termites and they are such avid fans that they ate the cover off of my laserdisc copy.
So it would seem.
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Post by geode on Oct 16, 2018 14:01:55 GMT
Try and get taken seriously by Young Earth Creationists using these ideas. I tried years ago at the worst administered site I have ever encountered, "Evolution Fairytale" where arguing valid science will get one banned. "Flood Geology" is a favorite topic there. I got banned for destroying a crearionist argument about the Grand Canyon. Sure there are extremists of the fundie kind. But most Christians do in fact believe the Bible is allegorical. Most Christians accept evolution and don't take the Bible literally. But my point is that even a literal interpretation of the flood does not say the Hebrew's "world" was the entire earth. If you're going to refute theism in general and Judeo-Christianity in particular, you're not seeing the forest for the trees if you think refuting Noah's ark is important. Actually those holding to a literal interpretation of the Bible usually assume a global flood. Worldwide Flood
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Post by geode on Oct 15, 2018 15:32:43 GMT
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That is exactly how it was reported to me on the EWTN TV news channel. I suggest that you take it up with them. What do the Mormons have to do with this thread?
You appear to have made the same mistake here as with the Mormon thread you started, posting without even checking the content first. So now you are attempting to say that you saw a news broadcast that claimed 35 saints were canonized this past weekend? This of course did not happen. Why not just admit that you made a glaring mistake?
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Post by geode on Oct 15, 2018 10:01:39 GMT
#39 What about a worldwide flood for which there is no geologic evidence? #40 An ark could not be big enough to contain all forms of animals, let alone the food needed for them. I love the flood and ark ones because they're easy to explain with common sense. The world to them was the Tigris-Euphrates and it floods often. 'World' is a relative term. The Ark preserved land animals in the area. Kangaroos in Australia weren't affected. Try and get taken seriously by Young Earth Creationists using these ideas. I tried years ago at the worst administered site I have ever encountered, "Evolution Fairytale" where arguing valid science will get one banned. "Flood Geology" is a favorite topic there. I got banned for destroying a crearionist argument about the Grand Canyon.
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Post by geode on Oct 15, 2018 9:51:38 GMT
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Click the second link. NEWS FLASH: There are two links. Yes, you posted two links, but only the first one was current with only seven canonized as saints. Not News Flash : Your second link is from a year ago. You appear to have been suffering from a lack of attention again, as with your Mormon video link.
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Post by geode on Oct 15, 2018 6:24:45 GMT
Your joke no longer works as there is no Mormon church and there is no Mormon Tabernacle Choir. ***taps microphone......Helloooooo!! Is that you Debbie Downer?***Oh dear, it appears you may have not heard the news a week ago.
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Post by geode on Oct 14, 2018 20:09:13 GMT
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Click the second link. NEWS FLASH: There are two links. That's pretty confusing. Why does one release list seven and the other thirty-five? Is the total forty-two? And why do all other news sources list only seven?
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Post by geode on Oct 14, 2018 19:55:12 GMT
Your link indicates that only seven saints were canonized, not thirty-five.
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Post by geode on Oct 14, 2018 14:34:59 GMT
Do you hold this belief as a Christian, or just in an academic way in explaining the Bible? Actually I was most interested in what the Catholic who posted the OP believes, since the video appears to have criticized the beliefs of Catholics as well as Mormons. I don't believe the OP actually saw the whole vid. Something against a sect that I dislike is fine enough so I just gottta do random vid search of people mentioning faults in the sect that I don't like. If I administered the boards I would not allow mindless posts like the OP as there is no content explaining why the link is being made. One has to wonder if she watched any of it since part can be aimed as much at the Catholics as at the Mormons. She appears to also not know that the Catholics and the Mormons were equal partners in the anti-gay initiative in California a few years ago.
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Post by geode on Oct 14, 2018 14:15:49 GMT
This has been a matter of debate. Officially only coffee is banned. Is it time to tell my Mormon joke on here yet? To my knowledge I only told it a couple of times on the old Boards and not on here yet! Oh stuff it! Here goes. I love to lift peoples' spirits! OK. A talented choirmaster was hired by Mormon Church to assist in the entertainment and education at the 'Home for the Mentally Disabled' set up by a Mormon charity. He was having difficulty getting the group to sing together, so he came up with a genius idea. He got a box of apples and a box of pencils and he taught the choir to tap along with their pencils in time to the music on their apples. It worked a treat. He had 'tapped' into something miraculous and their talent knew no bounds. They became so good that they were invited to a local choir competition and the choirmaster took up this challenge as a positive for his choir. The only problem was that they required a name so that they could be included in the programme for the competition... so they became the 'Moron Tapanapple Choir'. Your joke no longer works as there is no Mormon church and there is no Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
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Post by geode on Oct 14, 2018 14:12:57 GMT
#38 If Adam and Eve were the first humans, what about fossil evidence of other humans that lived much earlier? As for Adam & Eve, they represent the first humans who passed the threshold of beasthood to self awareness and critical thinking. The fruit of knowledge marks that point. Beasts have no shame of nakedness and no knowledge of good and evil. Science even recognizes there was a "Mitochondrial Eve". Do you hold this belief as a Christian, or just in an academic way in explaining the Bible? Actually I was most interested in what the Catholic who posted the OP believes, since the video appears to have criticized the beliefs of Catholics as well as Mormons.
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Post by geode on Oct 13, 2018 22:38:22 GMT
Aren't they against drinking caffeine? I'd go insane without my morning coffee. This has been a matter of debate. Officially only coffee is banned.
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Post by geode on Oct 13, 2018 22:37:05 GMT
I post on a couple of other message boards where this sort of OP is not even allowed because there is no thought at all involved with just linking a video. Be that as it may, I usually have a problem with somebody that is an adherent of one Christian sect attacking another sect. It comes across as a sales pitch for their own outfit. Often it also opens up a general attack on Christianity as a whole. I believe I have only criticized the sect I grew up within and left. Some of my reasons for leaving were over issues listed in this video. This video contains questions that were posed to the head of the Mormon educational system by a Mormon. It has come to be known as the "CES Letter" and its author Jeremy Runnells ultimately had his membership on trial after he kept pushing for answers and never got them. He resigned from the church during a hearing about this a couple of years ago. However, there are some items in this list of 50 that are criticisms of Christianity in general and not specific to Mormons. So I think it only fair that since this video was posted in an apparent attempt to descredit the Mormons by somebody who will defend her own sect when it is attacked, that she should comment upon item #38 to #42 which are about beliefs not only held by Mormons, but by other Christians including the Catholics. #38 If Adam and Eve were the first humans, what about fossil evidence of other humans that lived much earlier? #39 What about a worldwide flood for which there is no geologic evidence? #40 An ark could not be big enough to contain all forms of animals, let alone the food needed for them. #41 The Tower of Babel, 600 year old humans, and a person being turned into a pillar of salt are not scientifically possible. #42 Jesus Christ's behaviour is at odds with the God of the Old Testament that seems to favor genocide, slavery, rape and racism.
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Post by geode on Oct 12, 2018 17:29:16 GMT
Does your dog dig movies? Of course That is good.
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Post by geode on Oct 3, 2018 10:58:25 GMT
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Post by geode on Oct 3, 2018 10:57:16 GMT
Is that a live orange cat to the right of your TV or is it stuffed or ceramic? I couldn't figure this out in the two blink of an eye appearances in your swish pans. Could be my dog Does your dog dig movies?
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