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(...) I like that proof just fine, but when I've presented it here before (in prior discussions) it's usually been dismissed off-handedly in terms of "His mysterious purpose" or the like. For variety's sake, I thought that I'd try this perfect = (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Holy crap! (was Re: The partisian trap in California)
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(...) Did you think the usual proof was to trite? The Problem of Evil A good God would destroy evil. An all powerful God could destroy evil. Evil exists and is not destroyed. ~~~...~~~ Therefore, there cannot possibly be such a good and all powerful (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Holy crap! (was Re: The partisian trap in California)
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(...) Well, the chain works like this: To "want" something (such as fellowship), is to imply a lack of that thing (or a desire to prevent the negation/removal of that thing). A being who lacks something is incomplete, and incompleteness indicates (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Holy crap! (was Re: The partisian trap in California)
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(...) I don't think that follows from what I said. Any attempts (even Biblical) to describe the infinite will fall woefully short, and attempts to describe God will inevitabley start sounding like anthropomorphizing. Using the third person musculine (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Usagi Yojimbo. To address stuff you go into below regarding eBay, I noted that CGC graded comics went for considerably more than those that weren't graded, though the cost of grading meant you had to have a relatively expensive comic in the (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: (Re: It will be a long, hard slog) or, Why Christine Amanpour is My Girlfriend!
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Koudys wrote: <snip> (...) And the DU made the point clearer: " What's worse than a bumbling idiot? Why, a bumbling idiot who surrounds himself with bumbling idiot advisors, of course. Our Great Leader must have (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | Re: Holy crap! (was Re: The partisian trap in California)
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(...) Then you're asserting that God is finite and imperfect? Dave! (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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9/11 Commission Could Subpoena Oval Office Files (URL) "It's obvious that the White House wants to run out the clock here," he said in an interview in Washington. "It's Halloween, and we're still in negotiations with some assistant White House (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) What kind of tulip madness was this? Are we talking "Samurai Bunny" comics? Where, when, and why? Do they maintain this absurd value? One of my better killings in comics -- of stuff with which I was actually willing to part -- was for the (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Always a gray area. I have three Ansel Adams photos. Taken from his original negatives, printed by his assistant according to his instructions (Alan Ross, by the way, still the only person approved to make new prints), but they are not (...) (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) hehe.. (...) Me as well! I've done it a few times myself. (21 years ago, 27-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) o-t.snip! The isue is that I still enclose my 'snips' in < >, which, in FTX, leads to a hyper-link... Old habits die hard for me. :) Dave K (21 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) I swear, I'm going to put a page at off-topic/debate/snip... (1) (...) That's what's so great about theology, you can use the "evidence" for anything! 1 - changed this post to plain text but Dave's is in FTX, go look at it and try following (...) (21 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote: <snip> (...) Or that God does exist and has a keen sense of humour... That's how I'm taking it. ;) Dave K (21 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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Warhol 'copy' row engulfs art world (URL) Andy Warhol often left assistants to "mass produce" many of his most famous pictures, among them images of the Campbell soup tin. edt: snip The irony in the row is that Warhol himself questioned the idea of (...) (21 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I'm not sure this particular picture is on topic for off-topic.debate (1) but it's certainly a very interesting picture. 1 - unless we somehow managed to divert into "purple frogs are proof that god doesn't exist" or something... (21 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) I was out of the country when this latest twist happened but I'm shocked and dismayed. It seems a clear breach of separation of powers to me. Also, laws are not supposed to be made to apply to a single person. (...) I understand that of the 1M (...) (21 years ago, 26-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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(...) Many thanks! I guess I didn't closely proof that reposted section, now did I? Looks like kaka...and I don't mean a New Zealand parrot either! -- Hop-Frog (21 years ago, 25-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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(...) Richard, you can get non-proportional "code-like" text in FTX usint the | character: | Japan 11 times | Germany 12 times | France 15 times | Italy 20 times | Canada 20 times | S. Africa 21 times | Britian 22 times | Hong Kong 41 times | Mexico (...) (21 years ago, 25-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| | "By Their Fruits You Will Know Them"
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Transcript: Bill Moyers interviews Joe Hough (URL) MOYERS: You recently did a very radical thing. You called on the children of Abraham ? Muslims, Christians and Jews ? to engage in an act of refusal. HOUGH: Well, my perception, Bill, is that there (...) (21 years ago, 25-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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