ButImNoExpert

19305 pts · May 8, 2018


Smarttube is definitely the way if you have Google TV. Even skips most of the in-video ads that the hosts present.

4 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Great question. All of those floating figures are completely baffling, including the three whatevers that are hovering beneath the eagle on the right. I have no idea what any of those floating figures are supposed to represent.

4 hours ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Some argue he does actually kind of say that in Mark 7:1-23, (18-19 in particular):
18 “Are you so dull?” he asked. “Don’t you see that nothing that enters a person from the outside can defile them?
19 For it doesn’t go into their heart but into their stomach, and then out of the body.”
This same story is repeated in Matthew (because Matthew copies Mark).
Some think this is Jesus stating that all foods are clean, but the passage was focused upon the Pharisees' washing regimen, so who knows...

4 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And John 3:13 quotes Jesus as saying "No one has ever gone into heaven except the one who came from heaven".

5 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

At no time do I say that my comments should be taken charitably. Quite the opposite. I say that my first statement is not sufficiently clear, and ambiguous in meaning, which demonstrates that it cannot be relied upon.

The two statements can be considered contradictory, which is exactly what I said in my comment. And that's why I don't recommend basing a religion upon my imgur comment posts. This underlines the exact thesis of the point I was making about contradictory statements in the gospel.

10 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He said "of course you can have slaves - here's how to do it, here's where to get them, here's how to keep them forever, and here is how to much you can beat them."

1 day ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yes, but only in reference to "Heaven" and earth passing, and uses the word which most commonly means "sky" (οὐρανὸς), as is used throughout. There is no other description provided.

1 day ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That mistake dates back to the Septuagint, which began in about 300-250 BCE, though this mistranslation is in the Prophets (Isaiah), which was translated in the 2nd century BCE. The Septuagint is the attempted Greek translation of the Hebrew old testament.

1 day ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

What you've shown is that my first comment is literally false when interpreted broadly.
That means it would be foolish to try to base a religion on my writings or declare them as the inerrant word of a god. That means my writings can't be taken as factual without independent external corroboration.
However, there is a solution to my two statements - not within 2 or 3 decades.
If I claimed 1 angel and then claimed 0 angels and then claimed 2 angels helped me write this, that is irreconcilable.

1 day ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Inverse Monaco

2 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So, again, look at the four gospels and see what each one says for:
- Who went to the tomb (you barely scratched the surface here)
- What time of day
- Who or what did they see
- Was it open or closed
- Who first saw Jesus
- What were they told
- Who did they tell
- Where does Jesus then appear
- What were his final instructions

2 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Lol. There are major, direct contradictions of key events across all of these items listed (and more). There is no way to reconcile these contradictions, which is why they REMAIN contradictions, and this is just looking at the one pivotal story. Without the resurrection narrative, Jesus is just another itinerant preacher who was killed by the Romans

If any single gospel is accurate, the other three are necessarily wrong.

Either the Bible is accurate or it is not. Contradictions show it is not.

2 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Surely you must be familiar. These are rather well-known contradictions, so feigning ignorance just makes you appear disingenuous.Who went to the tomb, what time of day, who or what did they see, was it open or closed, who first saw Jesus, what were they told, who did they tell, where does Jesus then appear, what were his final instructions...

2 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Only in two of the four gospels. He's supposedly quoting David's opening lament from Psalm 22, to help paint a picture that this crucifixion scene echoes that of Psalm 22. A bit of forced perspective, if you will.

2 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

There are Christian churches that work to embrace the LBGTQ community, and Christian churches that work to demonise and villify the LBGTQ community, just as one example.

That is fundamental, not dogma, and that same sort of difference can be extended to a considerable number of similar issues.

2 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Sure - let's start with the resurrection stories. Which one is right? They contradict one another on key details of a rather important story, so which one is correct?

2 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Can you perhaps be a tad more specific and point out where?

2 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Nope, they're just quoting Deuteronomy.
Stop telling lies.

2 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Contradict. Directly contradict.

Maybe take a peek at some of the COPIOUS research from biblical scholars on the myriad contradictions.

"Safely in living memory" - for whom? At least four decades after the pruported events, with unknown authorship.

2 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Jesus supposedly said a lot of contradictory things and claimed to fulfill prophecies which he clearly didn't understand nor fulfill (in many cases, the supposed prophecies he fulfilled are not prophecies at all). You are cherry picking to justify your belief.

2 days ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not even close. No writings are within decades of the time of Jesus, and they contradict one another on key details of supposed events.

2 days ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No, two of them are though to be copies of Mark, with some unique artistic flair added to each, and the fourth is just way off. They don't agree with one another, and get things wrong throughout.

2 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

Typical of Trump, these are cheap shitty shoes that might look like ok shoes from a distance to people who don't know any better and don't care.

Might as well just paint them gold as well.

Working in the city (London) and lower Manhattan, I wore black Oxfords like all of the others in my field and level because thats what you needed to do, but no fucker wore this ugly cheap-ass Florsheim garbage.

Generations of Northampton cordwainers are collectively turning in their graves.

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Love it! Milton Keynes was my home with Red Bull. So many roundabouts. I lived in Middleton, and passed many gravestones on the walk to our local.

Then I sold out and moved to the City. Booo me

1 month ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thats the Buffett Indicator for those playing at home, though it's stock value over GDP.

It's not a good indicator because it ignores international revenue (which is a huge and growing chunk of the market valuation revenue).

Also the 2008 crash had nothing to do with inflated equity market valuation, 2000 is a better example.

1 month ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

The software operates with the inputs it has at the time, regardless of whether one of those inputs is from a fleet operator.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If you tell a human driver "Take the next left" or "use the other lane", you are not "controlling the car". It's the exact same with fleet response.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Yes. And cars somehow just have one person controlling them. Often, drop outs. So your analogy fails even for regular cars. However, Waymo has SOFTWARE controlling it, not prople, with the ability to request and receive decision input from remotely. Not commands, not control, decision input.

2 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You know a train is on tracks, right?

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