beowulf
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The problem you have is that you can't except the fact that I don't care what you base you life on or what you think. We are different. Read the Gestalt Prayer by Fritz Perls. That's nice, but when you claim that what you believe is real and true then I will ask for evidence to support your claims. As I have stated many, many times for your benefit, my evidence is personal and I am sharing testimony. So, just to be perfectly clear in the future, any redundant inquiries from you will be not be granted a reply. However, feel free to ask me something else. I may or may not respond. Your evidence can not be tested or repeated, because no two people experience anything in the exact same way. So your evidence is useless and doesn't prove anything. All anyone can tell from your testimony is that you are imagining things. And for the record you don't have to respond to any of my posts or even read them if you so choose not to.
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Actually - they don't need to 'provide evidence' (that's a silly way to respond to them, it's non-productive and confrontative), what is needed is a discussion why any "absolute claim" is a non-starter and doesn't even fit the bounds of any discussion on faith or spirituality. Essentially, they are exagerating the verbage in an attempt to show the strength of their personal (and unprovable) belief. That part can be called out - but asking for 'evidence' is just kinda jerky since, by definition, it can't exist. in that, I agree - Winsor stated it pretty nicely and pretty much exactly my position on it. I don't buy that. They make claims and say they have evidence. I am just asking them to produce said evidence. If they don't make the claim then I won't ask for it. Defining that something has no evidence doesn't help the crediblity. It only hurts it. BTW, I am an asshole and I know it. I don't like it when people throw bullshit claims out there as if they are scientific fact.
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Another way to look at this is I can imagine a unicorn and I could get scientists to measure my mind while imagining a unicorn and see the state it's in, but that isn't evidence that unicorns exist.
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That's nice, but when people make claims that spirituality is a real thing outside their imagination then that's where they need evidence to support their claims.
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Unless you think that spirituality is just in the mind, then yeah I suppose you could consider that evidence. From what I gather people consider spirituality to be more then just in their mind. Happiness is an emotion and doesn't exist outside the brain and no one claims it does unlike spirituality.
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Measuring an emotional response to the idea of spirituality is not evidence that spirituality exists.
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The problem you have is that you can't except the fact that I don't care what you base you life on or what you think. We are different. Read the Gestalt Prayer by Fritz Perls. That's nice, but when you claim that what you believe is real and true then I will ask for evidence to support your claims.
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What evidence is there?
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They are based in spirituality. There is nothing to even suggest that spirituality exists. I believe that for you it is 100% true. The problem is you have no way to confirm that what you believe is real. I base my life on reality that can be confirmed.
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That is not true. With the proper equipment scientists have been able to measure emotional responses in the brain.
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They are based in spirituality. There is nothing to even suggest that spirituality exists.
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It's very sad that reason and critical thinking are suspended based on this mythology. Your beliefs are not rooted in reality.
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It would be awesome if you could drive by and take some pictures! I am thinking of driving down from Dallas just to see this myself!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNCyEC9r_mk&feature=colike This the best explanation of why the Supreme Court was wrong.
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There are no original manuscripts.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQw9sNmNEeA&feature=colike
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It would be really cool to see some pictures of the construction. I am anxious to see it built. It means I would be driving down to Austin a lot!
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You are reading too much into it. The only thing I thought was that my opinion would offend you.
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Not really, I just don't think you would like my opinion of how you interpret the scriptures, so it's better off left unsaid.
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I am just curious to find out how you think. I won't bother you with my opinion.
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When you say powers are you meaning something supernatural?
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It's interesting how you see this quote differently then I do. When I read this it looks to me like the author says that rebellion is like the sin of witchcraft and that he is not equating witchcraft to rebellion. So in reading this I think that the author considers witchcraft to be something similar to rebellion but not the same.
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When you say witchcraft exist in some cultures are you still defining witchcraft as rebellion?
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One author for 1 Samuel. I accept that one. Rebellion = witchcraft. I wasn't trying to say there was two authors for the scripture. What about the other quoted passage?
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Did I get your definition of witchcraft correct? So you are saying the authors of both the scripture and the other quote are using the definition of witchcraft as you define it? As rebellion?