Rule
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ORIGINAL: farglebargle
I'm not spiritually blind.
Of course you are.
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ORIGINAL: farglebargle
I believe in TRADITIONAL INTERPRETATIONS of the Bible.
Oh?
I have long pondered the difference between an animal and a cognitive being (i.e. various humans). I finally defined both concepts - thus per my definition - in this way: An animal is unable to change its instinctive and/or conditioned behavior; a cognitive being on the contrary can.
As populations evolve, their perception of reality changes. If yours hasn't, then there is something seriously amiss with the population that spawned you.
Ponder that, Mr. Tradition.
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ORIGINAL: farglebargle
That means that the Messiah hasn't come
Oh, but he did: a small number of centuries before the birth of Jesus.
But your Messiah won't come in a billion years, not ever. And why is that: because no one, no human being, nor the various pagan gods, including the pagan god of most of the time of the Old Testament, nor the Divine (obviously), nor the Flying Spaghetti Monster, nor the Creator himself, yea nor even a supergenius like myself, can meet the characteristics required from your Messiah.
You would be wise to read R.A. Lafferty's short story "Continued on the Next Rock" - but then, I doubt that you would understand it.
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ORIGINAL: farglebargle
Jesus Christ ain't the messiah.
According to your norms.
But those do not matter. According to his norms and those of his time he fullfilled all the requirements as laid down in the scripture, thereby freeing any Jew who so desired from the stupidity embodied by the concept of the not ever coming Messiah.
Some biologists once did an interesting experiment with a group of caged chimpansees.
Above the cage they installed sprinklers with (ice cold?) water. At the top of the cage they hung delicious foods (a banana), easily reached by means of a ladder. Now whenever a chimp climbed the ladder and took the food, the sprinklers automatically drenched all the chimps in the cage.  They did not like that.  But what caused the drenching?  As it happened those apes were not dumb. They pretty soon figured that when the food got taken, they got drenched. So whenever one of them made as if to climb the ladder, all the others jumped on top of him/her to prevent him from doing so.
Then the biologists replaced one of them with a chimp who did not know about the food and the drenching. So of course he concluded that the other chimps were stupid not to take the food and that he, being a lot smarter, would profit from the situation. So he made to climb the ladder. And before he knew what hit him, he got jumped by all the other chimps. And thus it dawned on him that the ladder was not to be climbed and that the food was not to be taken.
Then the biologists replaced another chimp with one who did not know about the food and the drenching. And the history repeated itself. And again and again they replaced the chimps until none of the chimps in the cage knew about the food and the drenching. And still new chimps got jumped on when they tried to ascend the ladder.
Now please tell me what difference there is between you and those chimps.
< Message edited by Rule -- 11/23/2012 7:52:53 AM >
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