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» 21/12/2012 1:16:53 PM David G and George, Thanks for your interesting comments. A bit busy at the moment. Shall.....
» 17/12/2012 2:02:08 PM Dear George, Excellent article. Agree... we need to see if reality is concrete or amorph.....
» 17/12/2012 12:41:08 PM The US founding fathers wanted a break from England and the consequence was the Revolution.....
» 12/10/2010 11:48:09 AM Dear Squeers, Some people would say culture does not exist. I might agree with them. Othe.....
» 11/10/2010 4:33:26 PM Culture? Depends who one asks. Kerr (anthropologist) makes the point that culture can be .....
» 24/09/2010 11:26:58 AM Dear OUG, The comparison pointed to application programmes sharing a common operating sys.....
» 22/09/2010 7:41:42 PM OUG, I was once a mainframe systems analyst/programmer. It may have required specialist k.....
» 22/09/2010 2:43:58 PM Dear OUG, Busy. Back in a few days. Perhaps someone else will comment in the meantime. S.....
» 22/09/2010 10:44:15 AM OUG, Your comparison between DNA instructions and computer programming is instructive but.....
» 21/09/2010 12:10:16 PM Dear Philo, Referring back to an earlier post by you: Both Yahweh and Mars were gods of .....
» 21/09/2010 11:46:12 AM "i wish you would quote sources" - OUG I did: the programme The Cell by BBC Kno.....
» 20/09/2010 12:35:02 PM "its not evolution..at best its only grafting" - OUG If one were only grafting,.....
» 20/09/2010 10:18:37 AM Dear OUG, You are correct: The study was quite old. The programme was about the developme.....
» 19/09/2010 12:53:42 PM Hello George, Please excuse my delayed replies too. Words can be facinating yet too oft.....
» 16/09/2010 9:15:45 AM Dear Dan, I just saw your response to my age of the universe question. Thanks. My undsta.....
» 16/09/2010 9:07:59 AM Dear Dan, "Perhaps we can retrace a steady progress in scientific advancement rather.....
» 15/09/2010 3:32:50 PM Dear David, Thanks. I am quite happy with this century. Being born about now would be go.....
» 14/09/2010 6:54:14 PM Dear George and David, Early references allude to entering a the state of Christiandom th.....
» 14/09/2010 3:37:40 PM OUG FYI: Jew: Late 12c. (in plural, giwis), from Anglo-Fr. iuw, from O.Fr. giu, from L. .....
» 14/09/2010 11:13:59 AM .../ A dictionary is a lexicon of the every day use of words. Sometimes, etymologists dis.....
» 14/09/2010 11:08:25 AM Hello George, Heisenberg. I wrongly decided on "i" before "e, which is, of.....
» 13/09/2010 10:55:07 AM The above unreferenced quote was from Albert Einstein. O......
» 13/09/2010 9:04:51 AM Dear George, Sorry if I was unclear about the Enlightenment. The West took off and surpas.....
» 13/09/2010 8:39:25 AM Dan, There is no best theory on tentative theories. One tries to prove a proposition then.....
» 12/09/2010 4:02:18 PM Dear George, My super-spectulation was a little tongue in cheek ... true ;-). When one o.....
» 10/09/2010 3:29:47 PM Hello again George, The posit of history splitting to multiple realities would present ch.....
» 10/09/2010 12:31:53 PM Hi George, The thing with Constantine ans Theodosius is they were a means to a significan.....
» 9/09/2010 9:46:28 AM Dear Dan, Thanks. Is the universe older than the 6-10,000 year old earth? If not, to put.....
» 8/09/2010 8:34:06 PM ALGOREisRICH, The only catch is any name can be substituted before the historical tome: .....
» 8/09/2010 5:17:50 PM Peter, You have discovered the Enlightenment. Good. The problem is in the debate between.....
» 8/09/2010 4:30:13 PM OUG, No reason to apologise. I was not taken back in the least. The experience did allow .....
» 8/09/2010 8:37:08 AM OUG, About three years, ago I was diagnosed with stage four cancer. The treatment was rad.....
» 7/09/2010 3:00:07 PM Hi George, I understand your point but would add science does necessarily agree with scie.....
» 7/09/2010 11:27:43 AM CORRECTION: George W. Bush (as the non pardoning Governor of Texas) Dan, If others and .....
» 7/09/2010 9:27:59 AM Hi George, "I had a direct experience of Stalinism as well as an indirect one of Naz.....
» 6/09/2010 9:17:00 AM Hello George, Yes, we are still going strong. Please read link around 384-389 period. (I.....
» 5/09/2010 2:09:32 PM Let's try again: Constantine and the first Christian emperors acted like Hilter and Stali.....
» 5/09/2010 1:15:47 PM OUG, I feel no pain over the Evolution issue at all, its just a matter of pragmatism base.....
» 5/09/2010 10:11:37 AM OUG, What do you think about Dan not believing in micro-evolution, I am representing him .....
» 4/09/2010 6:05:11 PM Dear OUG, "clearly/oliver...dosnt read/replies.." I have interacted here many .....
» 3/09/2010 2:18:57 PM Dan, Thanks. "You suggest I was the messenger not the source of the quote. On this.....
» 2/09/2010 11:04:41 AM OUG, The sound was fine on my computer. Being busy I just sampled the content here-and-th.....
» 2/09/2010 8:05:18 AM Dear Dan and OUG, Some interesting videos when you have time to look: http://www.youtube.....
» 1/09/2010 2:46:14 PM Dear Dan, As I replied previously, I feel you are the messager not the source of the quot.....
» 1/09/2010 12:09:42 PM Dear Dan, I was commenting on Rusty's content and experience. I tand to read over the mor.....
» 31/08/2010 7:09:03 PM Dear Dan and Rusty, Carl Sagan on evolution: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-52.....
» 31/08/2010 5:29:01 PM Dear Dan, I am astonished and taken back. I was referring to our friend's Rusty's lab sto.....
» 31/08/2010 1:41:05 PM Correction: If Satan is NOT playing around with telescopes, particle accelerators and bio.....
» 31/08/2010 11:41:57 AM Dear OUG, Thanks. Physical evidence is available of the re-writing of the OT, e.g., Dead.....
» 30/08/2010 5:53:11 PM Dear OUG, The OT was occasionally re-written over the centuries. Even in the Dead Sea scr.....
» 30/08/2010 8:05:34 AM "The environment selects those few mutations that enhance survival, resulting in a se.....
» 30/08/2010 7:51:02 AM Dear OUG, So there is symbolism in the Bible; i.e., Nebuchadnezzar's dream? Why not alleg.....
» 29/08/2010 4:28:57 PM Hello Dan and OUG, Flat Earth: Daniel: 4.11 The tree grew, and was strong, and the heigh.....
» 29/08/2010 4:05:26 PM Dear Dan, I think what is interesting about the original topic is that it has shown segme.....
» 27/08/2010 7:01:52 PM Dear David, Thanks. I am feel I am making no headway with OUG. I think you will find stu.....
» 27/08/2010 3:29:39 PM Dear OUG, Science does not claim to have all the answers. It is premise of science that h.....
» 26/08/2010 3:04:11 PM OUG, If there is decoherence from multiple (infinite?) states in superposition, there is .....
» 26/08/2010 12:05:01 PM OUG, FYI: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/abioprob/abioprob.html Moreover, if superposi.....
» 26/08/2010 7:53:28 AM Dear Rusty, Moreover, on average, in humans, there are thirty mutations per genome per ge.....
» 25/08/2010 8:37:36 AM Dear OUG, "where the bible says earth is the center of the universe does not treansl.....
» 24/08/2010 8:18:17 PM Dan, Related to Bugsy's post please note my earlier comments on genetic Adam and genetic .....
» 23/08/2010 12:11:33 PM "and mine/is...that as long as one survives... it will be food..for the smartest..&qu.....
» 23/08/2010 8:42:28 AM OUG, The coachroach was an example. Whether a coachroach would survive would depend on ex.....
» 22/08/2010 11:53:01 AM OUG, When I used the term species, I simply meant humans, I was not addressing any phylog.....
» 20/08/2010 11:40:03 AM Dear OUG et al., -"Mutation is this continuance/of said creation." (Oliver) - .....
» 20/08/2010 8:43:02 AM Dear Dan, I think Sagan and I are using different contexts. Yet, a mutation that provides.....
» 18/08/2010 12:09:03 PM Hi Dan, Please excuse brevity. Classical and non-classical are commonly used terms in ph.....
» 17/08/2010 6:40:38 PM Dear OUG, Will see your remarks on another thread no doubt. I could be offline for a whi.....
» 16/08/2010 10:05:03 AM Re: Posted by Oliver, Thursday, 12 August 2010 4:03:22 PM Dan, I trust my attempt an exp.....
» 15/08/2010 2:32:32 PM Dear Squeers, Yes, please. Howver, for the next few months, I will be very busy too. My p.....
» 15/08/2010 12:35:30 PM Dear OUG, Tillich and Kierkegaard provide interesting propositions ouside of tradition di.....
» 14/08/2010 6:57:04 PM Dear OUG, "The comments/about.."puppets"..were based/more on/our..own prim.....
» 14/08/2010 10:05:33 AM Hi all, Please be aware there are several insights going back a few pages prior to OUG's .....
» 13/08/2010 3:39:00 PM Dear OUG et al, Kierkegaard I understand is an existentialist. He would feel that all we .....
» 12/08/2010 6:21:35 PM Corection: "Being reminded of Tillich's schema* begs Kierkegaard's opposite to the M.....
» 12/08/2010 4:03:22 PM Hi George, Being reminding of Tillich's schema begs Kierkegaard's opposite to the Meno. A.....
» 12/08/2010 3:07:43 PM Hi again Dan, Sorry I missed your ealier post. Regarding: "Does god exist? and &quo.....
» 12/08/2010 2:13:08 PM Dear Dan, From your perspective can Christian scrupture be scientifically and/or historic.....
» 11/08/2010 4:52:08 PM Squeers, The Freud lecture was an excellent cite. Thank you......
» 11/08/2010 2:58:44 PM Hi George, By Biggies, I meant "big issues". My proper noun might have been mis.....
» 10/08/2010 5:00:08 PM Hi George, Some "a priori fixations" I would suggest Sells accommodates are Jes.....
» 10/08/2010 1:22:29 PM Hi George Continued from yesterday: The reducibility of the tens of thousands of religio.....
» 9/08/2010 7:31:33 PM Dear George, Thank you for keeping me thinking. I enjpoyed your last OLO post. With doub.....
» 9/08/2010 5:59:23 PM Dear Dan, " think that your version of the universe coming into being is more ready .....
» 9/08/2010 1:04:43 PM Hi Dan, No problem. Sorry too. Often , I am rapidly toggling between OLO and work delive.....
» 9/08/2010 8:37:38 AM Hi George, An interesting reply. I will need think about it. Albeit, in the meantime, ple.....
» 8/08/2010 4:23:56 PM Hi David, Thank you for sharing your experiences here at OLO. I think I was in my teens w.....
» 8/08/2010 3:31:45 PM Hi George, Thanks. To a skeptic doubt is a stable state of mind. I understand want you a.....
» 7/08/2010 4:12:31 PM Dear Severin and david f., Yes. It is hard to accept scripture as literal because of the .....
» 7/08/2010 9:26:55 AM Dear OUG, The comment about the universe being bounded was made in the context of some co.....
» 7/08/2010 9:18:23 AM Hi George, A bridge cable is very thick. A strand of a spider's web very thin. What I am .....
» 6/08/2010 2:46:45 PM Dear David, I did not wish to imply Pilate was non-historical. I hadn't realised he had b.....
» 6/08/2010 11:17:55 AM Peter a.k.a. Sells?.....
» 6/08/2010 9:47:22 AM Dear George, This has been an excellent thread with many thoughtful contributions. As pr.....
» 6/08/2010 9:07:26 AM Dear Banjo, Unlike AJ, I can "conceive" of a historical Jesus historical or som.....
» 5/08/2010 1:59:42 PM cont/ ... George may need correct my loose metaphor: 1. How many prime numbers are there.....
» 5/08/2010 1:40:44 PM Hi Dan, History holds theew is no standard trinity. Moreover, trinities are not unique to.....
» 5/08/2010 8:10:02 AM Dear George, Welcome to a new day. In police shows sometimes the good guy returns fire a.....
» 4/08/2010 6:58:44 PM Dear George, Your agreement with concept of God creating a self-creating universe I would.....
» 4/08/2010 2:10:33 PM Dear Peter, Excuse my typing. My fingers and mind are too often out-of-phase :-).I meant.....
» 4/08/2010 12:11:46 PM Dear Dan, "For example, for roughly 50 years, from the time the planet Pluto was dis.....
» 4/08/2010 8:33:33 AM Dear George, Sorry to confuse. Penrose uses the terms "weak" theory and "s.....
» 4/08/2010 7:51:02 AM Dear Dan, " 'Let's assume that a supreme being set in to motion a self-creating (per.....
» 3/08/2010 6:31:27 PM Dear Sells, "Those who become “in Christ” will act out of who they have become. It i.....
» 3/08/2010 1:10:17 PM Hello Severin, Thanks for your interest and important comments. Before, I was trying to .....
» 3/08/2010 11:19:24 AM Dear George, Further clarification: With non-classical explanations we have scientific e.....
» 3/08/2010 8:25:33 AM Dear George, "measure the claims of say Hartle-Hawking (weak theory) to a (diminutiv.....
» 2/08/2010 7:46:13 PM Dear Dan, Yes, there have been issues with regards to the mass of Pluto. Please don't for.....
» 2/08/2010 10:57:52 AM I am certainly prepared to accept there may be causation factors beyond classical physics .....
» 2/08/2010 10:44:27 AM Hi George, Thanks for your comments and reply. I have evolved some of my thinking from ou.....
» 1/08/2010 12:58:59 PM david f, I stand corrected on the point you make: "Converted" Idumaeans would b.....
» 1/08/2010 12:24:30 PM Hi Banjo, An articulate summary. Good one. It raises the question of what may have been .....
» 1/08/2010 10:24:22 AM Dear George, I took/take the view that we respect each other's view on indwelling (Polany.....
» 31/07/2010 12:30:30 PM Dear Squeers, "You do realise I was being facetious above?" I had hoped that w.....
» 31/07/2010 11:42:30 AM Hello Severin, Hope you have covered and are feeling better. Dear Squeers, Apart from t.....
» 31/07/2010 11:40:05 AM Dear George, Excellent quote. Truly excellt. Yet, what if Edison gave up on his 56th atte.....
» 30/07/2010 3:37:13 PM Dear David, The entanglement with Mithras has also been said to include blood sacrafice a.....
» 30/07/2010 10:35:01 AM Dear Dan, Loooking from the centuries towards the Resurrection, rather back before the fo.....
» 30/07/2010 10:28:19 AM /.... A new theory of Religion which accounts for the many religious beliefs must, I posi.....
» 30/07/2010 10:04:36 AM Dear George, I agree to disagree, yes. Of, I do respect our beliefsm though different to .....
» 28/07/2010 6:23:13 PM Dear David, Very interesting, as always. Good topic. I could be offline for a few days w.....
» 28/07/2010 12:48:36 PM Severin, We all learn from each other. Cheers......
» 28/07/2010 12:45:11 PM david f, Would you agree from the time of the seventeen century the founding fathers unti.....
» 28/07/2010 9:31:32 AM Hi George, I agree we have been applying Occam's Razor in different ways, with me seeing .....
» 28/07/2010 8:17:29 AM As noted by several OLO friends, the historical dialectic was very important to Marx. As a.....
» 28/07/2010 7:53:04 AM Hi Foxy, Love your posts here and elsewhere. I'm also amuzed Billy Connelly now is the f.....
» 27/07/2010 7:27:11 PM Stern, So, it would seem that some tolerance and/or preference of illegal activity in the.....
» 27/07/2010 2:10:41 PM david f, "Marx advocated getting rid of the bourgeois mechanisms which protect us fr.....
» 27/07/2010 11:01:42 AM p.s. On reflection, it could be added that the religious among the framers of the US Const.....
» 27/07/2010 9:11:27 AM The secularism of Thomas Jefferson can be contrasted with the Defender of the Faith under .....
» 27/07/2010 8:53:11 AM Stern, Thanks for your comments. I agree with essentially everything you say. Only to ad.....
» 27/07/2010 8:18:03 AM Dear George, " (b), Sagan’s maxim, with (a), belief in God irreducible to the physic.....
» 26/07/2010 4:22:44 PM Dan, Of Calvin: "...the church does not have the authority to impose penalties for c.....
» 26/07/2010 3:31:21 PM Severin, Not a problem. All contributions are welcome here. I read your posts with inters.....
» 26/07/2010 2:29:23 PM Stern, /cont... ... and the limited companies controlled by the Nominee companies. Happy.....
» 26/07/2010 12:29:12 PM runner, I was about to make the same comment as david f. After Constantine the Pagans we.....
» 26/07/2010 11:01:29 AM Stern, "Limited Liability protects the investor, not the entrepreneur" Yes, I .....
» 26/07/2010 10:40:07 AM From the perspective of a sceptic, I see gods in history and an external a-historical Crea.....
» 26/07/2010 10:30:27 AM Hi George, The Venn diagram (some of A is in all of B?) was an illustration to suggest th.....
» 25/07/2010 11:30:38 AM Stern, When Elizabeth I and other rulers created monopolies this was under the flag of Me.....
» 25/07/2010 11:20:32 AM "... limiting of liability to the subscribed value of 'share' the liability of the in.....
» 25/07/2010 10:10:35 AM "Squeers, do not underestimate yourself, I need your contributions they are very welc.....
» 24/07/2010 5:25:48 PM Dear Dan, I assume you are Christian. What makes your world-view (George) different to th.....
» 24/07/2010 4:07:34 PM The Catholic Church it would seem is a long way from having women priests. Ordination of w.....
» 24/07/2010 1:05:34 PM "The simple answer is “we don’t know“ ... I personally believe that the differences b.....
» 24/07/2010 10:15:13 AM Dear George, I am happy with BEYOND. Yet, to do so brings the two realms; viz. heaven and.....
» 23/07/2010 5:57:48 PM Correction of above: "A 'Limited' company becomes an artificial whipping boy, so the.....
» 23/07/2010 4:52:12 PM Dear Poirot, Yes. Owen advocated a reduction in the working day to twelve hours, the proh.....
» 23/07/2010 3:11:24 PM Dear George, "... a self-sustaining Universe could also have a place in theology.&qu.....
» 23/07/2010 10:27:39 AM Dear Poirot, Thank you fo your kind offer. Truth is I am way behind in my reading and wor.....
» 23/07/2010 9:08:18 AM The so called "revolution" was an unfortunate but necessary intermediate step, b.....
» 23/07/2010 9:07:32 AM All I've been trying to rationalise is the fact that Karl Marx spent most of his life writ.....
» 21/07/2010 7:26:45 PM Serein, The light in the photo, at the following link, left its source 13 billion years a.....
» 21/07/2010 3:35:05 PM Stern, A society needs a strong Middle Class to create demand. Demand leads to innovation.....
» 21/07/2010 12:34:10 PM "tooted in the nineteen century" Let's try rooted :-). O......
» 21/07/2010 12:31:08 PM "Again, separating “Marxist Theory” from the practical application of Marxism is the .....
» 21/07/2010 7:43:23 AM Poirot, What you report is psychological time which seems to flow forward and is experien.....
» 20/07/2010 10:47:37 AM Custard, It seems to me police perjury and police verbals are known to the judiciary yet .....
» 20/07/2010 10:18:03 AM Dear George, Thank you for your comprehensive relpy. I enjoy our exchanges. I find it in.....
» 20/07/2010 9:31:52 AM StG et al, Despite his much reported "opium of the people" quip, Marx felt reli.....
» 19/07/2010 7:15:36 PM "...it is thinkable to believe in both a self-sustaining Universe and God, who “creat.....
» 19/07/2010 2:56:59 PM Dear George, Being omnipotent suggest boundlessness. Penrose twice, as you did, mentions.....
» 19/07/2010 12:29:53 PM Dear George, Thanks. I will come back to you on the main points in your excellent post. B.....
» 19/07/2010 12:18:20 PM Piorot, We surly see change. Do you remember the clothing window Rod Talyor (?) sees from.....
» 19/07/2010 9:47:53 AM Poirot, Interest concept. In physics the nature of the reality of a particle is unclear,.....
» 18/07/2010 1:08:07 PM Dear Geroge, Appreciate the feedback. Agree the comment I have have been presenting have.....
» 18/07/2010 11:49:09 AM Hi Severin, "Without which we would just be reactionary and fail to learn and have n.....
» 17/07/2010 5:10:14 PM Hello Squeers, Sorry to be vague. I have been toggling while working on something else. .....
» 17/07/2010 2:35:40 PM Severin, I once had a dream, where I knew I was dreamming, and, where I debated with anot.....
» 17/07/2010 2:14:31 PM Dear George, "dynamical equations are ordinary differential equations" Yes. P.....
» 16/07/2010 2:53:16 PM Severin, Hi. I didn't see that Catalyst. Must have been a good episode. Even decades ago,.....
» 16/07/2010 10:52:06 AM Correction: "Roger Penrose has raised the issue of mathematics in discribing the ea.....
» 16/07/2010 10:47:54 AM Dear Severin, Agree: Time is a really interesting opic. Roger Penrose maintains that the.....
» 16/07/2010 10:05:13 AM Dear George, Thanks. Addressing some of your points out-of-order: The idea of Jesus dyi.....
» 15/07/2010 4:47:26 PM Dear George, By the two epistemologies, I meant two separate theories of knowledge as you.....
» 15/07/2010 2:39:03 PM Thanks Squeers, Please excuse brevity: 1. Though still speculative there are theories in.....
» 15/07/2010 1:12:33 PM Dear David, "I don't see the self-organising principle of matter proposed by Stuart .....
» 15/07/2010 9:13:06 AM Dear George and David, By a non-divine driver I was alluding to self-organising physical .....
» 14/07/2010 7:54:52 PM "So if space and time structure/facilitate/translate/cognise reality for us, our perc.....
» 14/07/2010 3:09:25 PM Correction: "The challenge for science is to explain the universe without recourse to.....
» 14/07/2010 11:12:21 AM -cont- Science may soon be able to make new prodictions based on the Higgs particle to re.....
» 14/07/2010 11:04:53 AM Dear George, An intersting post and OLO link. Thanks. Reflecting on what I believe you a.....
» 13/07/2010 8:25:39 PM Dear George, I think that "old time religion" has made it very difficult for co.....
» 13/07/2010 2:54:59 PM Stevnlmeyer, "If you travel at close to the speed of light you personally would noti.....
» 13/07/2010 11:37:27 AM Hello Philo, There may have been no beginning, as space and time might not wind back to a.....
» 13/07/2010 10:37:13 AM rehctub, "My understanding is that if one were to travel at the speed of light, then.....
» 5/07/2010 12:11:00 PM Hello Severin, "...I really like the idea of two objects in the same place at differ.....
» 5/07/2010 11:11:20 AM Dear Severin, "...but two objects can exist in the same space in different times.&qu.....
» 5/07/2010 9:56:44 AM "... yet there is no past, now or future in an absolute sense.".....
» 5/07/2010 9:53:15 AM Given the character of his contributions, I think Einstein is saying that there is no “now.....
» 2/07/2010 4:55:14 PM Dear OUG, Assembly of groups of short-peptides would be still be in our realm. Where QM i.....
» 2/07/2010 4:32:59 PM expatmanger, Yes, the universities have improved support and empathy. I recall some decad.....
» 2/07/2010 2:04:07 PM OUG, The creation of amino acids is not an issue, rather it is the assembly of amino acid.....
» 2/07/2010 12:30:16 PM Foxy, Income is related to need, access and demand. In medicine in particular, we find ve.....
» 1/07/2010 1:11:39 PM Steven, Before entering academia, I worked in the Head Office of a bank in the areas of s.....
» 1/07/2010 12:31:04 PM Dear david f, Thanks for your post. I will need to learn more about Stuart Kauffman. T.....
» 1/07/2010 10:49:25 AM Dear Dan, I am sceptical about the current interpretations of QM and see these interpreta.....
» 30/06/2010 6:28:32 PM Dear Dan, I recognise that sometimes folk don't get things right the first time around an.....
» 30/06/2010 12:11:30 PM Dear George, By the "mathematics of the multiverse" I was meaning that every po.....
» 29/06/2010 4:56:38 PM Dear Banjo, My recent sojourn into QM was to suggest to George; though a sceptic, I am no.....
» 29/06/2010 4:36:01 PM Dear George, I am not adequately informed to be dogmatic about QM interpretations. Yet, y.....
» 28/06/2010 5:58:01 PM George, Another correction: “… While my understanding is (counter intuitively) that an IN.....
» 28/06/2010 4:57:09 PM Dear George, The above is a correction. Cheers, O......
» 28/06/2010 4:25:54 PM tomw, The issue is broader than technical writing, as buliding arguments requires sound w.....
» 28/06/2010 2:37:25 PM Dear George, "does not seem substantial and does NOT explain how god exists." .....
» 28/06/2010 12:46:08 PM Dear George, When I compared religion and QM, I did so with insufficent clarity. I was re.....
» 28/06/2010 11:13:06 AM pelican, I fully agree with the CAEs should not have been gone. Moreover, there are too m.....
» 27/06/2010 3:26:16 PM Dear George, In my 26 June post, I was trying to demonstrate that I am am willing to to a.....
» 27/06/2010 3:23:58 PM Please excuse mispost. Unitended......
» 27/06/2010 3:17:53 PM Dear George, In my 26 June post, I was trying to demonstrate that I am am willing to to a.....
» 27/06/2010 2:30:30 PM CJ Morgan, Yes, I agree with you, there can be a sense of entitlement over passing subjec.....
» 26/06/2010 5:08:28 PM "..., I am cautious about the possibility of 10 to 32nd power universies required to .....
» 26/06/2010 5:06:13 PM Many Australian universities also offer programmes offshore through private providers many.....
» 26/06/2010 3:41:52 PM Dear George, Thanks. I try to externalise science not only the study of theism. For exam.....
» 25/06/2010 8:48:29 AM Dear George, Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Yes, I would say that as an Australian.....
» 24/06/2010 3:18:50 PM All, "One of the problems with religion is an attitude of clergy. I have a friend wh.....
» 24/06/2010 3:12:39 PM Dear George, Perhaps the New Testament, as a selected works, is a clearer example of a Pr.....
» 23/06/2010 1:28:00 PM Correction (above): "... Constantine’s helpers had a pre-existing Egyptian model, whi.....
» 23/06/2010 11:39:12 AM "because by definition that is a 'miracle' and cannot be touched by science." - .....
» 23/06/2010 11:01:19 AM Dear George, I know I have mentioned the Nicean Trinity vis-à-vis other trinities before,.....
» 21/06/2010 2:55:03 PM OUG, Re: Your Comment on Water into Wine The Bible says that Jesus changed water into wi.....
» 21/06/2010 12:53:19 PM George, From before and after Newton there have been many academic theists, I am sure. I .....
» 21/06/2010 12:16:55 PM Otokonoko, Welcome to this discussion. I would take the view we should take religion ser.....
» 20/06/2010 3:53:49 PM Dear David f, I agree with all the points you make. Carroll Quigley noted that Western ci.....
» 20/06/2010 11:37:09 AM Dear Dan, Genetics would go a step further and say that the Kingdoms (of Life)share a com.....
» 14/06/2010 10:48:21 AM Dear Dan, The single handedness suggests that the event occurred only once and was replic.....
» 11/06/2010 4:38:37 PM OUG, My reply to Dan was on the basis that, if I recall correctly, he believes his God wo.....
» 11/06/2010 2:08:54 PM Banjo, Reality can be elusive. Karl Popper used the example of looking at an object throu.....
» 11/06/2010 9:03:08 AM Dan, Perhaps we can compromise on a common (organic)creation. What it does not suggest is.....
» 10/06/2010 8:49:06 AM Ancient Greek democracy also had a system of ostracising politicians from Office by the Pu.....
» 9/06/2010 6:43:05 PM OUG, There is nothing in nature stopping the creation of left-handed DNA. This point is.....
» 9/06/2010 3:19:18 PM Dear Julie, David f is correct: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/work-choices-ads-co.....
» 9/06/2010 1:26:32 PM OUG, The point is that the handedness od DNA indicates a common ancestor. Go back and re-.....
» 9/06/2010 9:02:27 AM Dan, The laws of physics would have chirality of complex molecules to be 50:50. Life (DNA.....
» 8/06/2010 4:30:40 PM Nigel, In the NSW Royal Commission some years ago, the bad eggs were given an amnasty. Do.....
» 8/06/2010 11:17:00 AM OUG, I was suprised by the links you presented and hope that you are "NOT", rep.....
» 8/06/2010 10:51:21 AM OUG, What I was saying if one tries to hold a detatched view of the researcher in an expe.....
» 8/06/2010 9:27:37 AM TAC, I would suspect that most Christian schools would teach Genesis on the basis that it.....
» 7/06/2010 11:34:05 AM OUG, I wont even open those anti-semitic links......
» 7/06/2010 8:49:00 AM OUG, p.s. The first specimen within a new genus will be a new species......
» 7/06/2010 8:10:29 AM OUG, That is what I said they classified the genus as “new”. All, The idea of the exper.....
» 6/06/2010 12:35:06 PM OUG, The claimed new genus has been classified on the basis of its divergence using means.....
» 5/06/2010 3:26:28 PM OUG, "CREATED...by by definition..." - OUG Of course, pertaining to the defini.....
» 5/06/2010 12:28:15 PM Trav, In the fifteenth century, in Germany, when the Churches were held more charge the a.....
» 5/06/2010 10:41:40 AM Dear George and Banjo, On reflection, I think the situation is that by being observed by .....
» 5/06/2010 9:34:37 AM Dear Banjo and George, I am aware of the issue of the effect of observation on an experim.....
» 4/06/2010 5:36:12 PM Dear OUG, A new genus: http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/50/1/191.pdf But that is .....
» 4/06/2010 3:57:48 PM Trav, I was in Apex for five years, where I came across hundreds, if not, thousands of pe.....
» 4/06/2010 11:50:15 AM Dear OUG, AS you well know, Genus sits inside a classification scheme, which is open to i.....
» 4/06/2010 9:49:57 AM Hello Banjo, "If, as you both seem to finally agree, the enquirer cannot be independ.....
» 3/06/2010 3:17:32 PM OUG, Thanks. My point was did God knowing, with His free will, create Satan knowingly re.....
» 3/06/2010 12:53:22 PM "In addition, many HIV scientists believe that if a person is knowingly living with H.....
» 3/06/2010 11:15:23 AM Dear David, I agree with you. I do appreciate and accept the concept of the experimeter b.....
» 3/06/2010 7:56:06 AM Pynchme and suzeonline, Much has to do with the relationship between the enquirer and the.....
» 2/06/2010 1:51:27 PM Correction: Yes (OUG), it is a taxonomy designator to classify the products of evolution .....
» 2/06/2010 11:39:59 AM Hello OUG, "genus may be a manmade label" Yes, it is a taxonomy designator to .....
» 2/06/2010 10:25:24 AM Yuyutsu, There difference I was highlighting was in the semantics of the subjects of sent.....
» 2/06/2010 8:10:55 AM Dear Rusty, On two threads, I have used th example of what is known about the HIV virus w.....
» 1/06/2010 7:40:02 PM Dear OUG, Did God exercise free will when he created Satan? Dear Pericles, - Charlton H.....
» 1/06/2010 7:18:57 PM Dear AJ, Carnap (something of a rival to Popper) comments that there is a difference betw.....
» 1/06/2010 12:44:37 PM Grim, Polanyi is a tricky guy to read even with book in hand. He definitely uses unfamili.....
» 30/05/2010 2:52:41 PM OUG, You say God is not a dictator with regard Satan's will, yet, surely he can set param.....
» 30/05/2010 10:36:19 AM (Correction) Can God create a better designer, more capable than himself? Or is god const.....
» 30/05/2010 10:32:45 AM Banjo, Paradise Lost was also a new begining, as Milton alludes. Your points are clearly.....
» 30/05/2010 10:01:26 AM Grim, When you have the time would please responde to my reply. Thanks. Dear Dan and Dav.....
» 29/05/2010 10:53:01 AM -cont.- If unobserved, beauty, trips in a forest, then the infinite indeterminate states,.....
» 29/05/2010 10:04:46 AM Hi Grim, Sorry to confuse. Polanyi is a little harder to grab a few lines from than say K.....
» 28/05/2010 7:43:13 PM OUG, David f said that the speed of light does not vary in relation to its source; not th.....
» 28/05/2010 7:29:14 PM Dear David, No problem about Jean Astruc. I’m probably miss details too when toggling qui.....
» 26/05/2010 2:26:02 PM Squeers, Many thanks :). I don't think my remarks will find there way to any theist cala.....
» 26/05/2010 10:23:43 AM "One does not need the invention of a God to appreciate the earth’s wonders." da.....
» 26/05/2010 9:52:12 AM Dan, 1. OT writers: http://www.religioustolerance.org/chr_tora1.htm 2. Dead Scrolls 4.....
» 25/05/2010 4:06:47 PM Dear Dan, According to a friend with a Masters in Theology, who researched this very topi.....
» 25/05/2010 1:26:44 PM Hi Dan, I am a little busy now. Please excuse brevity. Citations can be provided later. .....
» 25/05/2010 9:38:10 AM -cont- Hamlet subsisted. We can be almost ceratin Shakespeare lived/existed. Many would c.....
» 25/05/2010 9:32:55 AM Hello runner, Thank you for your clarification and attending comments. Appreciate your pa.....
» 24/05/2010 4:18:21 PM The amount of profit made by the Big Miners is small compared to a trillion dollars plus e.....
» 24/05/2010 3:04:32 PM runner, Very quickly because Dan and I tring to ascertain if there are Biblical literalis.....
» 24/05/2010 12:50:31 PM Dear Dan, 1. There is some history going back to earlier related OLO threads on "fun.....
» 24/05/2010 9:30:23 AM Dear Dan, I have gained the impression that there are there are OLO posters who believe t.....
» 23/05/2010 4:27:09 PM Vanna, What is Man or "human" is not straight forward. Only ten percent of cell.....
» 23/05/2010 1:55:47 PM Dear OUG, "Energy in ergs = 1 gram x( 30,000,000,000.0 cm/sec) x (30,000,000,000.0 c.....
» 23/05/2010 12:24:53 PM The US saved our skin while our own soldiers were off fighting Romel. Churchill, the archi.....
» 23/05/2010 9:50:54 AM OUG, Still pleased to learn you don't believe that the Creation can be accurately dated f.....
» 23/05/2010 9:16:57 AM Vanna What I trying to do is look at the fundamentals of the archetype. We know pure wate.....
» 23/05/2010 7:58:11 AM Dear Banjo, Dear Banjo, "The whole world saw God's chief representative kneel down .....
» 22/05/2010 5:12:59 PM "Unfortunately, Oliver, I doubt that it will happen in our life time." I fear y.....
» 22/05/2010 3:58:50 PM Trav, Millions of people are known to have believed in Apollo and Zeus. Below are some cr.....
» 22/05/2010 12:50:31 PM Dear Vanna, “Atoms are matter, and of course matter and energy are interchangeable (E=MC^.....
» 22/05/2010 8:59:48 AM Trav, "This isn't an 'a priori assumption' it is simply creating a discussion from t.....
» 22/05/2010 8:51:46 AM Dear Davidf, Thank you for the further explanation and meeting link. I think we are at cr.....
» 21/05/2010 3:07:35 PM runner and OUG, Please tell davidf that you believe the earth is over 65 million years ol.....
» 21/05/2010 12:31:58 PM FYI: http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/05/first_replicating_life_from_artific.html A.....
» 21/05/2010 8:15:50 AM Vanna, Photosynthesis is a localised highly phenomenon. The sun is very hot and the earth.....
» 20/05/2010 4:40:24 PM Banjo, If priests are collecting monies their diocese and not "The Church", tha.....
» 20/05/2010 11:24:03 AM Vanna, Please excuse my earlier typo (vana). You should think in terms of probability an.....
» 20/05/2010 8:28:40 AM vana, 1."According to the laws of entropy, life should reduce in time as disorder in.....
» 20/05/2010 7:06:22 AM Individual, Not sure what you mean by lower currencies to the Aussie dollar? Many Asian c.....
» 19/05/2010 5:55:47 PM In some Chinese dominated societies (e.g. Singapore) it is legislated that children must c.....
» 19/05/2010 11:43:59 AM vana, The light elements which constitute human bodies formed in the Big Bang. The heavy .....
» 19/05/2010 8:49:36 AM Dear Banjo, "You are right. Benedict is a crafty old devil. He certainly seems to ha.....
» 19/05/2010 8:17:00 AM Trav, "On a theological level, my amatuer understanding is that it is definitely pos.....
» 18/05/2010 7:51:25 PM Bob9000, Younger people are often better networked and have friends in different compaies.....
» 18/05/2010 7:35:46 PM OUG, I assumed you would be aware of Bishop James Ussher's calculations based on Biblical.....
» 18/05/2010 3:15:18 PM Mary, Seems you don't think the issue is as important, as when you wrote the article. You.....
» 18/05/2010 2:37:57 PM benk, PH didn't contribute a thing. She only gave voice to the Red Necks, whom most of Au.....
» 18/05/2010 11:45:18 AM runner, "Only the gullible or deceitful can truely call this science. With the billi.....
» 18/05/2010 9:18:27 AM Africa: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6372E620100408 Australia: http://www.abc......
» 17/05/2010 8:45:44 PM Carter, At 39, between working at a Bank, where I was the senior manager of a $40 billion.....
» 17/05/2010 7:34:09 PM FYI: George asked about Australian abuse cases: From ABC: "Last year another vicar.....
» 17/05/2010 6:41:54 PM Banjo, "Leave them a flower, some grass and a hedgerow. A hill and a valley, a view .....
» 17/05/2010 3:09:57 PM The Blue Cross, My recent post was a little tongue-in-cheek suggesting that if the Bible .....
» 17/05/2010 12:25:35 PM Ozbib, The catch is to religionists,with the "God of the gaps", gaps are held i.....
» 17/05/2010 12:06:55 PM The Blue Cross, If intelligent design is to be taught in Queensland schools, it should no.....
» 16/05/2010 8:50:18 PM Yuyusuta, In IT, high tech is being able to write in machine language, JCL or ADA or writ.....
» 16/05/2010 6:42:25 PM pelican, "In some departments within the public service if you are older and not alr.....
» 16/05/2010 3:45:56 PM Mary and Pericles, It would seem that the Catholic Church, under pressure, may over made .....
» 16/05/2010 9:35:14 AM Hi George, Many thanks for your comments and insights. I do recognise the Catholic Churc.....
» 15/05/2010 2:20:18 PM Hi George, Thanks. You might find the following interesting regarding Church and State i.....
» 14/05/2010 5:54:40 PM Hello George, I guess it is a coincidence that we (mainly me) have been comparing Catholi.....
» 14/05/2010 9:35:57 AM Hi George, A Church or a Bank is not a family. If I protected my wife or brother (I have .....
» 13/05/2010 10:49:42 AM Hi George, Thank you for your reply. I understand your your point that Canon Law (probab.....
» 12/05/2010 7:10:46 PM Geoff, "If you are fixed on GDP growth as the purpose of the economy, then some of w.....
» 12/05/2010 2:27:49 PM Peter Hume, Thanks for an interesting post. I recall an old "z" grade movie c.....
» 12/05/2010 1:09:03 PM Peter the Believer, As I have tried to point out to you before: The Pagans (Pagani) were .....
» 12/05/2010 11:09:40 AM George, "The greatest persecution of the Church doesn’t come from enemies on the out.....
» 12/05/2010 10:53:43 AM Hi George, To comment more fully I need to do some revision of past posts. At the momment.....
» 11/05/2010 7:36:20 PM "Cardinal Schönborn, 65, seen as a possible future Pope, accused Cardinal Angelo Soda.....
» 11/05/2010 9:27:15 AM Peter the Believer, The Dark Ages was the legacy of the fall of the West Roman Empire (47.....
» 11/05/2010 8:52:27 AM Dear George, “I do not think US Church representatives deny this…” The secular press foc.....
» 10/05/2010 9:17:59 PM Hi George, Thank you for your comments and interesting links, which I visited. Herein, I .....
» 8/05/2010 4:07:54 PM TTM,x Many hanks for your comments :-). Each new born is an original genome having appro.....
» 8/05/2010 9:58:40 AM Thanks,George. I will reply in a few days. Work commitments. Regards, Oliver......
» 7/05/2010 1:36:26 PM PTB, "65% of Australians are Christian. We want the pagans who currently govern us t.....
» 7/05/2010 8:56:17 AM -Cont- 4. “Can you give an example where a bishop was formally charged, e.g. by Australia.....
» 7/05/2010 8:48:43 AM Dear George, I do see evidence of repetition, too. Maybe, because I haven’ been clear en.....
» 6/05/2010 6:11:28 PM p.s. Peter, I know Muldoon and were not Australians. p.p.s. I have a friend who relates .....
» 6/05/2010 6:07:15 PM PTB, "It must be lonely for our good friend Belly. He must be the last man in Austra.....
» 6/05/2010 10:41:19 AM Hi George, So you would prefer bishops sould rendef unto Caesar in the instance and not h.....
» 5/05/2010 8:46:06 AM Above, "Most of the problems which have arisen seem to have been “operational”, perh.....
» 5/05/2010 8:33:00 AM The Government had little option than to spend given the GFC. In th1930s, the US and other.....
» 4/05/2010 9:33:03 AM Business “Masters” courses are an interesting topic. Again, standards have shifted downwar.....
» 4/05/2010 8:30:20 AM Thanks. I think we agree on most matters, except, perhaps, the status of an “employer” vis.....
» 3/05/2010 11:25:23 AM Gavin, What is happening in industry is that several associations accept a university deg.....
» 3/05/2010 9:17:15 AM George, p.s. As think I mentioned some time ago, when I was around 11-12 years of age, my.....
» 3/05/2010 9:01:56 AM George, Thanks. As you suggest, I will stop covering old ground. So let us try new perspe.....
» 3/05/2010 8:53:18 AM Squeers, I agree with much of what you say and by implication what you might predict shou.....
» 2/05/2010 4:33:23 PM Dear George, I fully appreciate that the substratum of Canon Law pertaining to the Crimen.....
» 30/04/2010 9:46:04 AM Gordo Pollo and George et al., If this documentary has any truth about it -and the BBC in.....
» 30/04/2010 9:20:35 AM Thanks George, I am aware of the letter: http://www.multiline.com.au/~johnm/ethics/crimi.....
» 29/04/2010 6:38:10 PM Peter: i.e, Peter Sells......
» 29/04/2010 12:03:30 PM Hi Peter, You make a few valid points, including the distinction when the domains of myth.....
» 29/04/2010 11:15:14 AM The Blue Cross, What is also curious and I have touched on it several times over many thr.....
» 29/04/2010 8:43:39 AM Shadow Minister, Having reviewed this thread, thus far, what are your thoughts?.....
» 29/04/2010 8:39:43 AM Thanks Ozandy for your support and for your recognition that bringing “evil-does” to justi.....
» 28/04/2010 10:51:32 AM It is up to Courts to “wade through” the legalities not Churches. When churches do not pla.....
» 28/04/2010 9:10:32 AM Godo Polo, "Justice will not be served if we are prepared to conduct a trial 'by med.....
» 28/04/2010 8:52:26 AM Dear George, Thank you for your views, which I appreciate are sincerely held. I will agre.....
» 27/04/2010 6:16:26 PM The New York Times considers observers reviewing Benedict's behavour something like a Rors.....
» 27/04/2010 5:44:03 PM Mary and Webby, A key issue is that the bishops, who were "minders" of the cove.....
» 27/04/2010 10:34:04 AM soctratease, "Which ever way you want to put it,The pope and his cohorts all sinned .....
» 27/04/2010 10:03:29 AM Dear Geroge, Thank you for your reply. I would certainly agree (i)-(iv) are not equivale.....
» 26/04/2010 2:37:27 PM Ben M., How many times have educators used the word pedagogy (children) when there mean a.....
» 26/04/2010 1:37:37 PM Well, I guess Law did have dodge "bulletins", but he didn't have to dodge ".....
» 26/04/2010 11:48:05 AM Francis, I suspect the church heirarchy has polical cliques evident in strenghth, like al.....
» 26/04/2010 10:11:08 AM Hello George, The Bishop Law Case was carried-forward from a recent thread on the Church .....
» 23/04/2010 2:10:49 PM -cont- George, Is it rational to defend the “Holy Father” when said Father protects wayw.....
» 23/04/2010 9:54:22 AM George, One does not need to be in the legal professional to appreciate Arch Priest Law s.....
» 23/04/2010 8:40:53 AM Francis, Though a skeptic, I appreciated much of you your post. The primiive church of th.....
» 22/04/2010 3:22:37 PM The term paedophilia has found common usage in the public domain. Likewise, many people us.....
» 22/04/2010 3:04:41 PM OLO folk, might also be interested in a parellel thread which is discusssing the Benedict,.....
» 22/04/2010 11:39:40 AM OUG, "here we have holy men raping children..forgiving their own..when their betraya.....
» 22/04/2010 10:14:50 AM George, “Should” was the keyword. As I noted in examples no Bank Manger or common laboure.....
» 21/04/2010 2:16:44 PM -- “Blessed, he said, are the persecuted. Persecuted? Law wasn't even prosecuted, despite .....
» 21/04/2010 8:20:03 AM Dear George and mpjb, Thanks for your posts. As best I can make out Cardinal Law did ski.....
» 20/04/2010 12:50:48 PM [Please excuse unintended earlier cross-post to Creationist thread. I apologise] mjpb, .....
» 20/04/2010 11:18:10 AM mjpb, It was some tine ago which has challenged keyword searches. However, I have found t.....
» 20/04/2010 10:15:34 AM OUG, My comments were sourced from a biology books. I can have a search of journal articl.....
» 20/04/2010 9:49:48 AM Dear George, If you read Gibbon on the first three centuries of the primitive church, one.....
» 19/04/2010 7:29:21 PM Hey Grim, I first came across The Hitch Hicker's Guide on the radio. It was curious first.....
» 19/04/2010 5:49:29 PM Grim and Severin, I guess one main difference between the Beatles, including the fifth, a.....
» 19/04/2010 11:16:23 AM “If you have evidence of a PARTICULAR case of criminal cover-up (involving or not a bishop.....
» 19/04/2010 10:21:14 AM Dear George, “I included the two quotes because I thought they were relevant and interest.....
» 18/04/2010 12:31:38 PM WAU, Severin has said nothing like you clim from my reading. I somehow think that some ri.....
» 18/04/2010 10:47:10 AM Cornflower, Thank you. Sorry, I missed your earlier post. So, I hope I am not misrepresen.....
» 17/04/2010 3:20:59 PM Cornflower, What cost should the RC clergy pay to fix* the Catholic Church? Do you agree .....
» 17/04/2010 10:59:06 AM Grim and Severin, It begs the question: Was llya Kuryakin an intermediary or was Duckie s.....
» 17/04/2010 9:03:29 AM we are unique, "All of the catholic family, friends and colleagues I communicate wit.....
» 16/04/2010 7:24:33 PM Suze, Thank you for your efforts and the thread. Regrettably, I suspect we will end up .....
» 16/04/2010 10:38:32 AM Grim, I don't know if you have seen previous other thread posts on the Ark animals topic:.....
» 16/04/2010 10:13:48 AM The Blue Cross, Have read my posts heer and other threads you would have realise that fir.....
» 15/04/2010 5:01:36 PM Severin, :-), What can More I say? Except: http://en.videowasi.com/yt-L1Cunxy68uo/outer-l.....
» 15/04/2010 2:32:51 PM runner, The Australian government has acted against child abuse in indigenious communitie.....
» 15/04/2010 12:34:14 PM The solution is largely in the Catholic Church's own hands as suzeonline's comments allude.....
» 15/04/2010 10:57:55 AM What is interesting is how often the aliens have to be ugly to counter-balance being smart.....
» 15/04/2010 10:29:47 AM runner, The issue Suzeonline has brought to the Forum for discussion is, “Paedophilia in .....
» 14/04/2010 10:52:22 AM runner and Richie10, Genetic evolution has been studied between HIV-1A and HIV-1E. The in.....
» 14/04/2010 9:45:20 AM Opinionated2, Before entering academia, I was a national product manager with a Bank. Whi.....
» 14/04/2010 9:36:03 AM Opinionated2, Before entering academia, I was a national product manager with a Bank. Whi.....
» 13/04/2010 7:17:21 PM runner, According to your reasoning God does not exist. Why? Because The Shroud of Turin .....
» 13/04/2010 3:39:25 PM It's not a cover-up: It's Gays and the Jews: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/.....
» 13/04/2010 12:24:51 PM Hi Philo, With dino-chicks, the scientists were able to (re-) turn-on existing genes that.....
» 13/04/2010 9:35:58 AM "seizing weapons" - above - Don't what neuron misfired. Should read, "sei.....
» 13/04/2010 9:03:08 AM The discourse on orientaion is interesting and perhaps certain groups/institutions attract.....
» 12/04/2010 2:31:37 PM runner, When geneticists turn-on ancient bird genes, as recorded for all to see on video,.....
» 12/04/2010 12:07:06 PM Hi Foxy, I enjoy you posts too. Not only are your post insightful: Also, well written, di.....
» 12/04/2010 10:54:13 AM MCMorgan et al., Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens should know very well that Pope.....
» 12/04/2010 9:41:01 AM "by the standards of the time..." - Vatican Lawyer http://www.theaustralian.com.....
» 11/04/2010 2:41:19 PM runner, You have offerred an opinion. Where is your counter argument? Hi Foxy, I was su.....
» 11/04/2010 2:22:53 PM Severin, Governments I suspect would not have to push too hard to receive an apology. The.....
» 11/04/2010 10:26:27 AM CJMorgan, Please refer my earlier post/link on Benedict (page 14). Given Benedict is a t.....
» 10/04/2010 6:10:41 PM "Less than a third of young people gain university qualifications so it's important s.....
» 10/04/2010 1:09:36 PM Opiniated2, “Suffer” in context with the first century mendicant, Jesus, and “suffer litt.....
» 8/04/2010 5:51:08 PM mjpb, The scripture you quote refers to absolution methinks, not directly to Confession a.....
» 8/04/2010 1:02:02 PM Suzieonline and Jack from Bricton, When I was kid it was pointed out me that one makes a .....
» 7/04/2010 10:30:52 AM Jack from Bicton, Perhaps the Christian churches generally should better recognise histor.....
» 7/04/2010 9:54:17 AM Foxy, Sorry to learn you have been unwell if this is the case. mjpb, I don't think crit.....
» 6/04/2010 12:50:11 PM Proxy, I would suggest that kernel of the condemnation of abuse by guilty Christian leade.....
» 5/04/2010 5:11:47 PM Pericles, With regards the widespread paedophilia and cover-ups in the Catholic Church su.....
» 5/04/2010 4:32:14 PM suzeonline, Yes, the individuals in the Christian Churches, notably the Catholic Church m.....
» 23/12/2009 4:11:21 PM As previously noted the word Fascism and its derivations should not be applied to the envi.....
» 23/12/2009 9:48:30 AM Justin, State Capitalism not Fascism. Intervention by the State is State Capitalism whic.....
» 23/12/2009 8:08:34 AM Dear George, Thanks for your comments. I will reply in a few days. Best wishes for Chris.....
» 20/12/2009 11:15:19 AM George, I try to avoid a priori assumptions. Instead I see competing hypotheses to which .....
» 17/12/2009 8:58:36 AM George, From my perspective, Russell would be wrong to conclude a definite from and an in.....
» 16/12/2009 2:05:11 PM It might prove worthwhile for Churches to consider the probable "life" of the or.....
» 16/12/2009 12:19:36 PM George, I think Russell would be happy with, “Jesus lived in Galilee,” as an atomic sente.....
» 15/12/2009 9:00:57 PM George, I do follow your syllogisms. I have all along. The terms are logical as you have .....
» 15/12/2009 2:14:32 PM What goes hand-in-hand with this practise are salutations: - Her Majesty - His Honour - .....
» 15/12/2009 9:57:02 AM George, FYI. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-atomism/ Moreovever, Popkin else.....
» 14/12/2009 5:16:43 PM trikkerdee, Thanks. Interesting article. Breaking new frontiers is error prone and costly.....
» 13/12/2009 4:58:40 PM Steven, No, no. It was Axivandodo, Axivantoto's elder brother, whom became exitinct in hi.....
» 13/12/2009 4:37:24 PM George, Thank you for your reply. I will return to it soon. Busy, again. In the meantime:.....
» 11/12/2009 9:39:10 AM George, Explaining the creation of matter from nothing is of considerable interest to sci.....
» 10/12/2009 8:46:05 PM Hi mjpb, Thanks. I too have learned from Foxy, yourself and others......
» 9/12/2009 5:35:36 PM plantagenet, Yes, we went close to a full-on conflict ("Confrontation") protect.....
» 9/12/2009 5:15:37 PM mjpb, According to Zias, Essene communities had a disproportion number of male graves, su.....
» 9/12/2009 12:10:32 PM Australia is an arid land and perhaps not really suited to farming despite the peaks of Au.....
» 9/12/2009 9:30:45 AM Dear Foxy, Though a skeptic, I was Confirmed a Catholic. Holding back the Eucharist is no.....
» 9/12/2009 8:53:27 AM George, A few days back, I was saying that we cannot defintitely know anything beyond or .....
» 8/12/2009 6:16:54 PM Squeers, I wonder what the Buddha would have made of Quantum Mechanics and notions of par.....
» 8/12/2009 12:52:26 PM If Global Warming is a not reality, as farmers en-mass believe, one would hope other taxpa.....
» 8/12/2009 8:30:24 AM runner, The Catholic Church must uphold community standards. Any autonomy is held on the .....
» 8/12/2009 8:15:00 AM TheMissus, "Moving forward" Moving forward and being constructive makes sense .....
» 7/12/2009 11:14:09 AM mjpb, "Toowoomba Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist said the principal had complied with h.....
» 7/12/2009 9:12:46 AM All, http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iUCy5wlXsFvcyRaltsnQAfVoKgTQD9CE2M.....
» 6/12/2009 2:38:48 PM George, The notions of presence, action and consciousness are difficult to assign outside.....
» 6/12/2009 10:00:19 AM Shadow Minister et al., Yes. And the paying of hush money and covering-up crimes is not p.....
» 5/12/2009 7:35:50 PM Aboriginals, other Australians born here and recent immigrants all receive the leagacy of .....
» 5/12/2009 2:32:40 PM All, When will it end? http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,1,26440237-3102,00.htm.....
» 4/12/2009 12:50:17 PM Hi Pete, As Samuel Huntington pointed out Australia tends to hitch its wagon to the super.....
» 4/12/2009 11:20:30 AM OUG, I was not stating my position: I was providing feedback to relda on my interpretati.....
» 4/12/2009 7:45:11 AM relda, Thanks for that. Is this how you think? You do believe in God, yet see manifest.....
» 3/12/2009 2:10:55 PM plantagenet, The situation you allude to has been studied, wherein when comparing societi.....
» 3/12/2009 11:10:50 AM csteele, Being able to explain romantic love biologically is no different to explaining c.....
» 3/12/2009 8:06:02 AM relda, You are missing (or I am mis-communicating) what I asking. I am not requesting fur.....
» 2/12/2009 11:14:11 AM Shadow Minister is correct. A PhD is a training exercise, wherein one is meant to write a .....
» 2/12/2009 9:36:57 AM runner, Science is honest where its core methodlologies are followed and its findings are.....
» 2/12/2009 7:59:58 AM relda? Hope you are still around. I will check again later. Cheers, Oly......
» 1/12/2009 6:34:28 PM Hi Foxy, I agree that religionists will find gaps and occupy spaces, where science can’t .....
» 1/12/2009 11:10:17 AM Grim, It is a noteworthy topic you introduce. A few times, when we have continued away .....
» 30/11/2009 5:58:07 PM Thanks, trikkerdee. There were several interesting youtube sites. Cheers, O......
» 30/11/2009 3:17:23 PM mjpb, You make some interesting remarks. Your biblical citations do not sit well with th.....
» 30/11/2009 12:11:20 PM runner, I have commented in the past on OLO that with say a million priests world-wide th.....
» 27/11/2009 9:37:55 AM Dear All, "Three Dublin archbishops — John Charles McQuaid (1940-72), Dermot Ryan (1.....
» 23/11/2009 4:50:41 PM relda, Please excuse my delay in not responding sooner. I missed your latest post, even t.....
» 23/11/2009 12:23:04 PM Philo, So you would readily accept that the formation of a zygote is the marriage of gene.....
» 22/11/2009 6:35:59 PM Philo, I too admire most of the folk whom open their homes and families to orphans.Loving.....
» 22/11/2009 10:32:33 AM Philo, I agree, the abuse will not stop, yet we can increase awareness and try to diminis.....
» 20/11/2009 1:59:10 PM Peter Hume, My observation of Banks from the inside before leaving for academia is, ".....
» 20/11/2009 1:09:53 PM Foxy, What you say about healing is so very true. And it would seem the Christian churche.....
» 20/11/2009 12:10:32 PM "Christian Spain expelled Jews in 1492..." - david f. Pope Alexander VI was esp.....
» 19/11/2009 8:14:19 AM Relda, So, you admire Tillich's approach to Christianity, rather than actually believing .....
» 18/11/2009 3:12:53 PM Dear Suze, I do recognise the concern you make. Having representatives of the culprit rel.....
» 18/11/2009 1:58:17 PM Relda, I assume you are busy. I will check for your response in a few days......
» 18/11/2009 11:35:41 AM The enlightened Uniting Church is to be commended in supporting Human Rights leglisation, .....
» 17/11/2009 10:45:38 AM CJM, It is very good to see some effort was made by the Churches to apologise for wrongdo.....
» 16/11/2009 4:49:20 PM Today, almost 1,000 men and women travelled from around Australia to hear Kevin Rudd and O.....
» 16/11/2009 12:47:54 PM "The emperor (Hadrian)founded, under the name of Alia Capitolina, a new city on Mount.....
» 16/11/2009 7:47:30 AM relda, Thanks. With my earlier post, I was asking for your perspective on Pandora and Ev.....
» 15/11/2009 10:04:34 AM relda, So the justification of religions globally is permitted even if the fabricated sto.....
» 14/11/2009 4:37:43 PM relda, I didn't mean privilege in terms of wealth or giving up the same. I was inquiring .....
» 13/11/2009 7:41:27 PM Dear Relda, My "notion" gained regarding Christianity vis-à-vis other religions.....
» 13/11/2009 9:22:45 AM Relda, I wonder if others experiencing the horrors of war would have had similar thoughts.....
» 12/11/2009 10:13:52 AM Relda, “… the catch is, we don’t know if a given fabrication is aligned to God or is just.....
» 11/11/2009 1:07:05 PM Relda, Taking Tillich’s approach, I see any symbolism used and errors in the Bible exampl.....
» 11/11/2009 8:53:01 AM Sells and Relda, Where Jung and Tillich might find some common ground is the significance.....
» 10/11/2009 10:48:56 AM Dear David f, I agree. Perhaps, I should not have given the “finch” example. It can confu.....
» 10/11/2009 7:44:50 AM Sells, My comments regarding religions (including trinities) and elements suggested that .....
» 9/11/2009 8:06:34 AM George, I do agree we should be respectful to Sells’ worldview, yet I see OLO as a forum......
» 8/11/2009 3:57:08 PM Relda et al, “ Pantheism is clearly incompatible with the Great Tradition of Christian th.....
» 7/11/2009 3:37:47 PM George, Thanks for your reply. What I am saying is that Sells writes as if the Ace of He.....
» 7/11/2009 11:44:50 AM Relda, Do you see evidence of religions as societal memes or similar? Christian pantheism.....
» 6/11/2009 5:34:49 PM Pericles, Agreed. Perhaps we might have to accept that if we paint OUG into a corner, he .....
» 6/11/2009 2:10:49 PM George, In the present debate it is not the case that I am trying to find the strongest c.....
» 6/11/2009 12:10:33 PM OUG, If you genuinely find it hard to write using traditional paragraphs and sentences, w.....
» 6/11/2009 9:08:10 AM OUG, You know very well my reference to the Zotarians was a hypothetical device to show S.....
» 5/11/2009 2:08:05 PM OUG, Unwanted insults aside, what you have written is totally incomprehensible. Would you.....
» 5/11/2009 1:40:29 PM George, The basic idea behind laying all the trinities and other characteristics out on t.....
» 5/11/2009 11:50:58 AM OUG, The link you provided has to do with cell death not how God's breath created the fir.....
» 5/11/2009 6:53:24 AM OUG, Looking to life and at ourselves in the mirror to prove the creation of the same is .....
» 4/11/2009 12:40:54 PM OUG, On re-reading, you do drop a hit, "god's breath". Herein, I add: - How di.....
» 4/11/2009 11:15:00 AM (To OUG) Please provide your evidence that your god created first life as you are claiming.....
» 4/11/2009 8:40:52 AM George, No problem with regard the comment. I have on more than one occasion said somethi.....
» 4/11/2009 7:20:01 AM Some interesting sites: - http://www.earthlife.net/prokaryotes/welcome.html - http://www.....
» 3/11/2009 6:55:25 AM OUG, 1. Your "retard" comments are not appreciated. I thought OLO had rules abo.....
» 2/11/2009 7:04:41 PM David (AFA) and OUG, One small step for Science, one great problem for Creationists. UT.....
» 2/11/2009 9:54:00 AM "If theodicy is a new word for you you should be more careful with suggesting simple .....
» 2/11/2009 9:20:27 AM George, You asked me a direct question. and I did my best to provide a direct reply. Said.....
» 30/10/2009 11:47:47 AM All, especially Sells, The following is the newspaper article suggesting to me the relati.....
» 30/10/2009 9:59:58 AM George, Being a Christian does not prevent one from being an anthropologist. However, I w.....
» 29/10/2009 9:05:18 AM Sells, I have posted several times and you have not replied regarding Nicaean Christianit.....
» 29/10/2009 8:58:51 AM George, Thanks. (1) "What you describe is more comparative religion than anthropolo.....
» 26/10/2009 2:46:38 PM Dave, Thanks for the kind invite to email to learn more about David and Zeus. However, li.....
» 26/10/2009 2:18:43 PM Trinitarianism, “is affirmed by the church councils of the fourth century after some contr.....
» 25/10/2009 6:51:21 PM Sells, Subsititionary ransom and belief in the same is at the centre of post-Judaic Chris.....
» 25/10/2009 11:47:42 AM Gee Suss, You are not alone. Unless I've missed them, OUG hasn't answered my Zeus questio.....
» 23/10/2009 5:54:37 PM OUG, So you were referring to our OLO friend, David, not the House of David. What does Da.....
» 23/10/2009 12:29:20 PM OUG, Pls return to: Oliver, Thursday, 22 October 2009 9:58:19 AM You haven't fully addre.....
» 22/10/2009 3:00:12 PM George, I liked the verse (which I understood) and enjoyed the joke :-). Martins S, Goo.....
» 22/10/2009 1:51:39 PM George, 1. Any anthropologist, theist or otherwise, would classify civilizations, tools, .....
» 22/10/2009 10:04:10 AM OUG et al, 1. Above, should be "meat" not "meet", of course. 2. Tree.....
» 22/10/2009 9:58:19 AM OUG, I don't understand the connection between my above questions regarding God (Zeus) an.....
» 21/10/2009 5:39:27 PM OUG, You say: We should not judge Zeus and Zeus is forgiving. Yet, if Zeus is forgiving, .....
» 21/10/2009 2:58:31 PM - Greetings all: Martins S, David f’s citation of Isaiah 45:7 seems emphatic: According .....
» 20/10/2009 7:23:17 PM Trav, The difference is science endeavours to explain/know how the universe exists or may.....
» 20/10/2009 3:17:00 PM OUG, My loose use of the term null hypothesis went to he idea that one should challenge p.....
» 20/10/2009 9:47:04 AM George, Are you saying Dawkins and Sells are alike, except they have different causes? W.....
» 20/10/2009 7:11:48 AM Dear David, Of course, I do recognize that a 6,000 year old Earth would turn science, the.....
» 19/10/2009 11:24:23 AM "For me to be convinced there may be something in the 6,000 year old earth story, evo.....
» 19/10/2009 7:46:37 AM Martins S, Does an effective Creator create Satan with fore-knowledge? If so, it is probl.....
» 19/10/2009 7:04:08 AM Sells, An interesting contribution. One problem though; you assume the Creator to be the .....
» 15/10/2009 4:49:05 PM Pericles, I see where you are coming from. You are warning about the danger of being reli.....
» 15/10/2009 4:10:33 PM David, Good luck with your Conference. I would like to see Richard Darwkins work with oth.....
» 29/09/2009 3:44:59 PM Appendum: Maybe survival is hard-wired, spirituality firm-wired and religiosity soft-wire.....
» 29/09/2009 11:13:59 AM Steven, An interesting thread. Yes, MZ and DZ twin studies provide a good comparison to .....
» 25/09/2009 11:47:40 AM Dawkins acknowledges that his position is fallible in the God Delusion – hardly doctrinair.....
» 24/09/2009 3:43:37 PM The contribution of the Greeks to knowledge was not merely practical, it was also their ap.....
» 23/09/2009 12:16:21 PM mjpb, "The orderly Yahweh who set up the world and likes rules where everything is o.....
» 23/09/2009 9:22:39 AM Steve, One reason why the Western world would have had difficulty transitioning from the .....
» 22/09/2009 2:35:25 PM Dear George, I was pondering to theologians, whether or not Jesus would have had knowledg.....
» 22/09/2009 10:05:47 AM Steve, Does Rodney Stark have peer reviewed journal articles? Key civilizational writers .....
» 21/09/2009 1:55:45 PM Relda, Sorry, I have replied to you under Constance. Constance, Excuse me, for mis-pos.....
» 21/09/2009 1:27:53 PM Constance, You make some highly interesting comments. One might contemplate as to where.....
» 20/09/2009 10:44:01 AM jakkelaas, May we have a citation please? The commentary I have seen is to the effect tha.....
» 18/09/2009 5:35:33 PM “While paganism could only seek to escape from the material world of the body, Christianit.....
» 18/09/2009 4:13:59 PM "Do not make the mistake of bundling all religions or belief systems together. The Ta.....
» 18/09/2009 11:08:48 AM Dear Constance, This is a Forum where we discuss rant-free issues and exchange ideas. I a.....
» 17/09/2009 3:10:50 PM Dear George, Empedocles was merely a FYI add-on: An historical titbit. I think he conside.....
» 17/09/2009 9:42:36 AM Constance, Please go back read my post again. I said that I could not deny that the Musli.....
» 16/09/2009 6:11:27 PM Dear George, "Hate does not complement love, it is its negation and I doubt whether .....
» 16/09/2009 1:21:42 PM Dan, OT: “These were the visions of my head while on my bed: I was looking, and behold, .....
» 16/09/2009 11:40:28 AM Constance, Intolerance of others was also known to early Christians: http://forums.skadi......
» 15/09/2009 4:25:27 PM Sells, Muslims would have difficulty in accepting a “reciprocal” loving relationship betw.....
» 15/09/2009 11:49:24 AM George, I think you will find that Yang-Yin complementarily does not work the way you hav.....
» 14/09/2009 4:56:37 PM Dan, The notion of history as an illusion was an extrapolation from your comment saying w.....
» 13/09/2009 4:03:41 PM AJP, Thanks for some very interesting posts. I tried a few Google searches and see where .....
» 13/09/2009 3:22:16 PM Dan, "It may seem reasonable, but could never be definitive." - Dan It might s.....
» 9/09/2009 10:42:29 PM George and Relda, We also have the Great Schicism (1054) between the Eastern and Western .....
» 6/09/2009 10:58:57 AM Sells, Via The Cardinal Prefect of the Vatican, The Pope asserts that, “Lord is exalted a.....
» 3/09/2009 5:11:35 PM George, “There were times when the role of religion as ersatz-science was needed and just.....
» 3/09/2009 4:46:55 PM Dan, Newton was a Deist and he believed intelligent design. Also, he held to two alternat.....
» 2/09/2009 2:14:41 PM Dan, Above: Should read "do not recall Newton" my fingers sometimes slip-up and.....
» 2/09/2009 12:35:19 PM Dan, I have read Newton believed that Ussher used 4,000 years before 4 BC (Herod the Gre.....
» 2/09/2009 12:08:20 PM MaryE, 1. Does the universe have any innate qualities? If intelligent life did not exist .....
» 28/08/2009 4:32:06 PM Hi Grim, "What would happen if a handful of individuals (say 5%) tried to monopolise.....
» 27/08/2009 7:59:13 PM Oersted not Oested. Sorry I, should have looked it up. Hans Christian Oersted......
» 27/08/2009 5:38:09 PM George, Thank you. A good and accurate summation. One might say Oested set-out "sp.....
» 27/08/2009 1:54:28 PM Grim, According to Richard Leakey, of the famed family of anthropologists, humans consume.....
» 27/08/2009 10:35:04 AM Grim, Interesting topic. To learn about how the “little guy” lived in ancient times arc.....
» 26/08/2009 8:04:32 PM Dear Foxy, I appreciate the effort you put into your quality posts. Thank you. I was rai.....
» 26/08/2009 5:25:15 PM Hello George, I do agree that Christianity provided models, only I would add that “design.....
» 26/08/2009 4:36:36 PM Hello Foxy, Please excuse my brevity. I’m midst developing a mathematical model to help e.....
» 25/08/2009 6:24:35 PM Prompted by Foxy's accurate statement; "no Christian CHURCH ever advocated exterminat.....
» 25/08/2009 1:02:47 PM Thanks OUG. I am tied-up a bit with work stuff at the moment. Hope to catch-up with you ag.....
» 25/08/2009 12:47:00 PM " think the time is coming when we will be able to revisit Nicaea." - waterboy .....
» 25/08/2009 9:31:56 AM George, In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Deism seems to have been the compromi.....
» 24/08/2009 7:09:38 PM Zen? That might be refreshing after reviewing Our Christian Origins: "The whole appr.....
» 24/08/2009 1:48:51 PM Foxy is correct. In history, Christians usually gave the Jews the option of converting to .....
» 23/08/2009 8:29:11 PM "Faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of mo.....
» 23/08/2009 1:39:40 PM waterboy, You make good points. Geert Hofstede, a scholar of cultures notes,vis-à-vis the.....
» 23/08/2009 12:13:47 PM Pynchme, Your description of Hilter is reminiscent of Pope Gregory VII. I wouldn’t unde.....
» 23/08/2009 11:28:36 AM OUG, 1. Then you hold that Jesus did not die on the cross. He transitioned for our sins, .....
» 22/08/2009 3:23:26 PM Sells, Please let OLO readers know of I have misrepresented your Protestant views vis-a-v.....
» 22/08/2009 12:46:43 PM George, Thanks. I did not regard Sells’ interpretation of history as insulting, just so .....
» 22/08/2009 11:53:15 AM OUG, 1. Did Christ “die” on the Cross before he changed his state and went away for three.....
» 22/08/2009 11:33:23 AM Foxy and david f, The NAZIs dressed the local German Socialists as Communists as a part o.....
» 21/08/2009 7:48:42 PM Foxy and david f, FYI: A brief account by the Amercian Israeli Cooperative: http://www.j.....
» 21/08/2009 2:44:57 PM OUG, 1. Even taken for argument god makes the first (mother) fly and the first fly of the.....
» 21/08/2009 12:33:26 PM George, Across several OLO posts Sells seems to prefer a pre-Enlightenment humanity with .....
» 21/08/2009 11:54:54 AM OUG 1. The issue here is, is the solution in biology “compassionate” intelligent design? .....
» 21/08/2009 11:37:14 AM With Konfrontasi (Confrontation) over Malaysia still very fresh in the minds of Indonesia,.....
» 20/08/2009 6:31:31 PM foxy and david f, The popes have much to answer for with regards to Christian Wars. In th.....
» 20/08/2009 3:37:59 PM My assumption is that the writers of the OT wrote an allegorical story the same vein of si.....
» 20/08/2009 2:23:58 PM OUG, 1. I appreciate that biology of the fly the eating its own mother; both the genes an.....
» 20/08/2009 12:16:58 PM "For instance, when I read the New Testament, I get a picture of a good bloke; a carp.....
» 19/08/2009 9:19:56 PM Freedom of the Third Estate (Common Man) was freedom from the Church and State, with its a.....
» 19/08/2009 8:18:07 PM “For paganism, individual human beings had no faces, they were resources, wives were incub.....
» 18/08/2009 12:44:33 PM Richie10, Are you sure you intend to address me? If so, you may need to expand your comme.....
» 17/08/2009 7:41:07 PM Richard, Christian Diet and the Third Crausade: “This lighthearted Christian attitude to .....
» 17/08/2009 1:32:28 PM Dear OUG, - Genes aside: Is having an offspring eat it's own mother from the inside out, .....
» 17/08/2009 1:28:37 PM Philo, The Romans objected to the Eucharist because it symbolised cannibalism. Herein, I .....
» 17/08/2009 12:17:10 PM Dear Foxy, Agree that something must be done at a greassroots level too. Perhaps, Catholi.....
» 16/08/2009 12:39:59 PM OUG, Here we are discussing Intelligent Design, not just “one bug”, as you suggest. It is.....
» 16/08/2009 11:43:39 AM A recalcitrate Catholic Church is, of course, fully aware of community condemnation of the.....
» 14/08/2009 3:47:57 PM Another alleged paedophile in the Catholic Church: http://www.smh.com.au/national/sydney.....
» 14/08/2009 3:06:11 PM TYPO ABOVE: Trucks, cars and planes have SIMILAR parts but only planes fly. The same sol.....
» 14/08/2009 12:13:14 PM OUG, Several posts back you stated that complexity into today’s universe exceeds the comp.....
» 11/08/2009 12:36:30 PM Shadow Minister, OUG also holds that the Holy Spirit created God, whom, in turn, created .....
» 10/08/2009 12:56:27 PM OUG, Thanks. Let me ty to summarise. You hold that the Holy Spirit created a God, who is .....
» 10/08/2009 9:56:33 AM "<<..why would a lesser state..(the universe)..need to be created?>>..we .....
» 9/08/2009 7:21:51 PM Examiner, I haven't seen the copy for some time. The copy was probably from the late 1970.....
» 8/08/2009 4:12:03 PM Exterminator, I haven't seen the copy for some time. It was probably the late 1970s. It h.....
» 8/08/2009 11:49:11 AM "I think that all the huge design flaws in the human physiology, social and mental st.....
» 7/08/2009 7:03:28 PM OUG, What about the alternatives presented in my earlier posts about intelligent design? .....
» 7/08/2009 3:47:50 PM OUG, God stuff reminder, Sir... Questions on Intelligent Design. Please refer: Posted .....
» 6/08/2009 5:09:58 PM Squeers, http://www.biopsychiatry.com/bgcharlton/peak.html STRANGE STUFF Closest I have.....
» 6/08/2009 4:11:42 PM Jon J. You make a strong point on the modern day apprceiation of debate. Olde Endland wou.....
» 6/08/2009 2:21:05 PM OUG, - SCIENCE STUFF Good. I think you have found the answer to your question about what.....
» 5/08/2009 3:29:55 PM If the historian Caroll Quigley is to believed, civilizations fall, when those in power ac.....
» 5/08/2009 3:14:14 PM ERROR ABOVE: Should be: “What I find interesting is Christians accept Jesus without first.....
» 5/08/2009 9:56:57 AM Sqeers, I used the term null hypothesis a little loosely. Basically, what I was saying is.....
» 4/08/2009 4:36:33 PM ASymeonakis, I suspect that many refer to the United States, as "secular", beca.....
» 4/08/2009 1:28:15 PM Squeers, I try to run Religionist ideas through by mind. To be fair to their ideas I test.....
» 4/08/2009 12:44:11 PM Dear OUG, The Laws for the Conservation of Energy and for Mass/Energy equivalents apply &.....
» 3/08/2009 7:33:40 PM Philo, Thank you for taking the time to give such a comprehensive and well articulated re.....
» 3/08/2009 5:26:27 PM Dear OUG, The six thousand years age of our liitle blue planet is reportedly "derive.....
» 3/08/2009 3:19:53 PM Philo, Thanks. OUG, I think we may have been here before. If there are preditors and pr.....
» 3/08/2009 9:12:44 AM Philo, Usery in NT "And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what .....
» 2/08/2009 5:58:03 PM Philo, Genetically, what is your understanding regards origins of the Jewish race? Syriac.....
» 2/08/2009 2:32:43 PM Stevenlmeyers, Thanks for the Birmingham link. I have read the Goldilocks Enigma, but hav.....
» 2/08/2009 2:11:28 PM Two areas require our attention. One is time and the other is summation. We, in our univer.....
» 1/08/2009 1:54:35 PM 1. “The probability seems vanishingly small that, by chance alone, a universe can come int.....
» 31/07/2009 12:28:19 PM david f, "However, many distrusted the recently-converted 'New Christians,' calling .....
» 29/07/2009 9:27:25 PM Shadow Minister, Apart from his famous "opium of the peple comment", it can be .....
» 29/07/2009 2:53:01 PM Grim, What is implicit in the crap is, that, if all good is in heaven, then by default hu.....
» 29/07/2009 10:16:53 AM Philo, "...social conscience and judgment based in love are a divine construct.".....
» 28/07/2009 7:08:04 PM teatree, I think the difference is a theologian might advocate rather than teach. Somethi.....
» 22/07/2009 10:34:23 AM PtB, Do civilian Justices of the Peace, who are not lawyers, have reserve powers to arres.....
» 21/07/2009 2:24:01 PM Leigh, China needs to be only one-third as productive as the US, to equal the American GD.....
» 21/07/2009 1:33:31 PM Dear david f, An informative post. Thank you. The First Jewish-Roman war is very signifi.....
» 20/07/2009 7:44:41 PM PetertheBeliever, Coronation Oath or Coronation Affirmation? To be true to Christian scr.....
» 20/07/2009 7:08:10 PM david f, Is it your understanding that Herod the Great was appointed by Julius Caesar and.....
» 20/07/2009 2:41:56 PM All, One particular aspect on which science and religion differ is questionability. In sc.....
» 11/07/2009 7:07:26 PM Constance, Thank you for your comment. I have replied on the wrong thread. Sorry. Please.....
» 11/07/2009 6:58:52 PM david f. Actually it was what Oliver quoted not said. My remark to Constance was that in.....
» 11/07/2009 5:17:37 PM Cont... Are you able to differentiate between the lives of Jesus and Mohammad...?” - C Y.....
» 11/07/2009 5:14:35 PM Dear Constance, “Are you now dismissing even your own ethnic clannish background?” – C -.....
» 11/07/2009 3:58:26 PM George, Thank you for the the Definition of Atheism link posted 9 July 2009. I will offli.....
» 9/07/2009 7:41:51 PM Master, One should be careful in using the term “primitive” to describe the abstract and .....
» 9/07/2009 2:54:02 PM “Philo, atheism is the "NON WORSHIP" of, and non "belief" in, a deity......
» 8/07/2009 2:21:24 PM Hi George, Yes, the quotation is from Parker-Taylor's book. I may originally had a longer.....
» 7/07/2009 10:05:41 PM Hi KatieO, Bad, bad typo above. Sorry. Should read that I have priests and ministers as f.....
» 6/07/2009 9:50:18 PM ... KatieO, I am not saying that mythos and "storey telling" doesn't have a pl.....
» 6/07/2009 8:56:39 PM KatieO, "Postmodernists are dismissive of history as it is based on the personal int.....
» 5/07/2009 1:30:34 PM Hi Constance, We are citing from different time lines. The persecution of the Muslims and.....
» 4/07/2009 7:59:15 PM KatieO, An interesting post/link. Parker-Taylor's, Yahweh: The Divine Name in the Bible.....
» 4/07/2009 6:20:49 PM Constance, Please see above. It would interesting to learn of your citation(s. My history.....
» 2/07/2009 11:36:42 AM "A useful dialectic on the problem of the modern thirst for security and perfection i.....
» 2/07/2009 11:20:45 AM George, KatieO mentioned that the Syriac account of Yahweh was an Arabian fairy tale. Yes.....
» 1/07/2009 4:58:40 PM Hi George, Thanks for the clarification and the excellent Toynbee citation. From my pers.....
» 1/07/2009 3:50:15 PM Constance, 1. “The Pope at the time of the instigation of the Spanish Inquisition did not.....
» 1/07/2009 3:50:09 PM Constance, 1. “The Pope at the time of the instigation of the Spanish Inquisition did not.....
» 30/06/2009 4:31:28 PM Perhaps, the Courts' "relation back" power to reverse transactions should be cha.....
» 30/06/2009 1:46:52 PM Error: *Hence, Isra-"El". The suffix is from Elohim......
» 30/06/2009 1:43:54 PM George, Re: Quotations (above) Hope you realise no disrepect was intended. The remarks/q.....
» 29/06/2009 12:24:07 PM Hi George, You have made the point several times - and I agee; there is a mature and reas.....
» 29/06/2009 12:13:02 PM Dear KatieO, "BTW: ' that we associate no partners with Him;' [The Koran is blasphem.....
» 29/06/2009 8:39:40 AM Dear Constance, Thank you. I will need a litte time before I can reply appropriately. Bus.....
» 26/06/2009 12:24:40 PM Hi George, - "Do you mean statements like “I dont want to understand muslims or jews.....
» 26/06/2009 11:57:11 AM KatieO, "Oliver, calling Christians hypocritical in their teachings of love and kind.....
» 25/06/2009 9:40:34 AM KatieO, Both Islam and Christainity have a murderous, shameful history. When the faiths c.....
» 24/06/2009 9:24:05 PM KatieO, “Islam is inferior to Christianity in the same way that a lie is inferior to the .....
» 23/06/2009 7:55:28 PM "Anti-Christian sentiment is rife on this thread. Bigoted, fabricated statements such.....
» 23/06/2009 3:39:28 PM Exclusivity does not partner easily with compromise. The older religions were much more to.....
» 23/06/2009 9:56:49 AM "Sell's human of faith in Christ, who lives life in wholeness as creature and gift&qu.....
» 22/06/2009 6:11:35 PM cont... "Today, almost 95% of world’s leading scientists are the sons of Christians......
» 22/06/2009 12:15:30 PM Constance, Your latest post was very interesting. My mention of the Islamic achievements.....
» 17/06/2009 9:35:04 PM Relda, Islamic scholarship has deep roots. The Islamic “House of Wisdom” was established .....
» 17/06/2009 5:30:51 PM The arrogance: Politicians are no more talented than average middle managers in government.....
» 17/06/2009 5:06:14 PM George, My trek into mathematics was an endeavour to relate to your interests. I did so, .....
» 16/06/2009 6:08:18 PM Relda, Karen Armstrong (The Battle for God) presents the reign of Isabella and Ferdinand .....
» 16/06/2009 4:05:11 PM George, By an abstract God, I meant something other worldly or super-mundane.Perhaps this.....
» 16/06/2009 2:19:56 PM Where students coming from disadvantaged backgrounds are handicapped is high school. These.....
» 16/06/2009 11:27:45 AM Pericles, The primary meaning of the word “suggest” is “to call an idea to present itself.....
» 14/06/2009 2:04:55 PM " There's also a case to be made for cognitive dissonance in explaining atheist belie.....
» 14/06/2009 1:36:18 PM Trav, One might say: a. "The wide spread belief in a Personal God 'posits the propo.....
» 11/06/2009 3:50:40 PM Thanks Relda. Any problem with science is not within science itself. Science has brought .....
» 11/06/2009 10:26:38 AM “People don’t believe because they “repeat” something, they believe it because they experi.....
» 9/06/2009 9:05:28 PM Hello Relda, “The Enlightenment along with Western modernity could only have occurred as .....
» 9/06/2009 11:22:02 AM Error (above): Repetition does NOT negate falsity. RObert, Thanks. That discovery is ve.....
» 9/06/2009 9:55:59 AM Trav, I see subtle difference between: 1. "The wide spread belief in a Personal God.....
» 8/06/2009 10:18:05 AM Trav, A widespead belief neither "suggests" or "proves" or "show.....
» 7/06/2009 4:02:41 PM Trav, "The wide spread belief in a Personal God suggests that God actually exists&qu.....
» 6/06/2009 4:11:34 PM "So you view theism as unreasonable, and atheism as unreasonable. What are we left wi.....
» 5/06/2009 6:28:36 PM Policies need work. 1. Maintaining trade balances is not always possible as there are ext.....
» 5/06/2009 4:52:48 PM Hello bushbasher, Not as funny (or embarrassing) as the time I left the "l" pub.....
» 5/06/2009 10:47:35 AM waterboy, Churches allow their members to experience a performance and have orthodox idea.....
» 3/06/2009 3:35:53 PM Trav, 1. “Firstly, it's absurd to claim that most Christians think they ‘can't be wrong’......
» 3/06/2009 10:30:40 AM KatieO, Thank you for your helpful and informative post. There was not meant to be any g.....
» 2/06/2009 8:09:13 PM Trav, You are being a bit mean-worded towards TR. This is a Forum for discussion. Besid.....
» 2/06/2009 6:53:55 PM Bushbasher and Sancho thanks for your clarifications for Trav’s benefit. "In promisi.....
» 2/06/2009 2:34:53 PM Sells, Drawing on revisionist Christian theology, eschatological events need not be merel.....
» 1/06/2009 5:36:07 PM Trav, I suggest that Richard Dawkins has the right to say he is not an atheist. The point.....
» 1/06/2009 1:24:05 PM Trav, Please see: http://www.futureofthebook.org/mitchellstephens/archives/2006/10/dawki.....
» 1/06/2009 12:29:44 PM "... assimilation separates Aborigines from their Aboriginality and hence any specifi.....
» 1/06/2009 12:29:17 PM "... assimilation separates Aborigines from their Aboriginality and hence any specifi.....
» 1/06/2009 11:55:16 AM rstuart, "Surely is guiding principle here is we are all Australians. We conduct our.....
» 31/05/2009 12:14:43 PM Trav, I said that theism and atheism play with infallibility. Even Richard Dawkins admits.....
» 30/05/2009 4:05:46 PM Webby, Catholicism was not the Church of the early Christians. The early Christians were .....
» 30/05/2009 1:34:14 PM Horus, Thank you for your post. Yes, I agree my cite was the passive eye-of-tornado, wh.....
» 29/05/2009 7:28:54 PM Trav, I see the actions of Mao & Stalin and Ivan the Terrible & Hitler detestable. I am n.....
» 29/05/2009 6:35:07 PM Trav, With refence to your earlier comment: "However, the point is Zeus makes more .....
» 29/05/2009 2:29:00 PM Hey Trav, Christianity did not build the Western democracies. After the fall the Wester.....
» 29/05/2009 1:19:08 PM Christ's ascension is problematic. Where did he ascend to? If his body left space-time, t.....
» 29/05/2009 11:34:01 AM runner, Medieval Spain: "Spain developed three different literary traditions during.....
» 28/05/2009 4:30:45 PM KatieO, Thank you for the Biblical references. I will look them up and think about them. .....
» 28/05/2009 4:30:21 PM KatieO, Thank you for the Biblical references. I will look them up and think about them. .....
» 28/05/2009 11:06:11 AM Trav, The point I am trying to make is that Christians belong to a despicable organisatio.....
» 27/05/2009 8:21:42 PM Peter the Believer, The Magna Charta was signed by King John in 1215 but it wasn't enacte.....
» 26/05/2009 4:53:06 PM Hello Trav, I gained from your early post a claim Hitler denounced Catholism in his youth.....
» 26/05/2009 2:36:07 PM Trav, 1. As an adolescent Hitler maintained the Jews invented Christianity. However, Hit.....
» 25/05/2009 4:13:52 PM Trav, Bugsy is correct.My citation was conservative given a quick review over the Interne.....
» 25/05/2009 3:56:03 PM waterboy, Thank you. I did appreciate your comment regarding Dualism or rather non-Dualis.....
» 25/05/2009 12:36:02 PM "So, if you're not a church-going Christian, you're not fully human?" Clownfish .....
» 24/05/2009 9:10:02 PM Sells, Would you agree with waterboy's explanation regarding Jesus having a soul because .....
» 24/05/2009 12:29:20 PM Hello KatieO, Thanks for your comment. I was referring to Mathew 12:31-32 "Therefo.....
» 21/05/2009 7:26:57 PM waterboy, Thank you for your reply. O......
» 19/05/2009 5:30:47 PM Runner, "He (Man) thinks he can have sex with who he wants, mock his Creator as he p.....
» 19/05/2009 5:05:55 PM Relda, In Broca’s Brain, Carl Sagan suggests religion fundamentally mystical and “…the my.....
» 17/05/2009 6:04:20 PM OUG, My recent post was endeavouring to suggest OT Laws were likely borrowed from the Bab.....
» 17/05/2009 12:19:00 PM Relda, Thank you for an excellent and informative post. “A sharp distinction drawn betwe.....
» 16/05/2009 3:31:05 PM OUG et al, The Laws of the Hebrew God are reflected in the Chuiqq and Torah, long before .....
» 15/05/2009 9:54:50 PM Relda and Sells, Polanyi does argue that at the Christian Church saw itself the custodian.....
» 1/05/2009 10:38:47 AM Another error of mine (above): Sells & Co., do NOT apply a healthy skepticism is religiou.....
» 30/04/2009 11:38:19 PM Pericles, Over many months typing away and participating at OLO, I have found a few theis.....
» 30/04/2009 6:00:01 PM Trav, Re: Your comments on oral lore and literacy. It depends on what means literate. Th.....
» 29/04/2009 8:37:11 PM Peter the Believer, The same British Empire that quashed China in the Opium Wars of the n.....
» 29/04/2009 6:19:08 PM The Police should treat these incidents, as they would drug dealers, prosecuting cover-ups.....
» 29/04/2009 4:38:43 PM Aga, The Catholic Church’s position on the Turin Shroud follows: “…suggestion made of b.....
» 29/04/2009 10:00:17 AM Dear relda, It is an interesting point you raise about creation; where, if I am permitted.....
» 28/04/2009 3:53:19 PM aga, The Catholic Church now admits the Shroud of Turin to be a fake. When I was growing .....
» 27/04/2009 3:27:46 PM Correction of above: Even then, Mark, the earliest Nicaean gospel, does NOT really give a .....
» 27/04/2009 12:34:32 PM One can say that it historically true the Herodians delegated the role ministering to Gent.....
» 26/04/2009 9:26:48 AM Trav, Sorry wasn’t clear about Jesus’ ability to pull crowds. I was referring to events, .....
» 25/04/2009 3:13:44 PM Trav, One argument put is that Josephus remained an orthodox Jew and did not convert to t.....
» 24/04/2009 7:22:45 PM On the road to Damascus Paul is temporarily blinded by the resurrected Jesus... We all kn.....
» 24/04/2009 5:49:01 PM rehctub, If other small businesses didn't pay their workers penalty rates, you would have.....
» 24/04/2009 5:22:35 PM Cancer1, My understanding is that if your are not a taxpayer, you receive nothing. It is .....
» 24/04/2009 2:56:17 PM Peter the Believer, The Coronation Oath also requires incoming the Monarch to declare he/.....
» 24/04/2009 12:29:30 PM Phil, It would also be interseting to include the countries' Gini Co-efficents. Also, it.....
» 24/04/2009 11:07:11 AM Bugsy, I suspect the main sources of relda’s research measuring individualism are the HER.....
» 23/04/2009 12:07:35 PM david f, I think individualism, when manifest with self-actualisation, can co-habit with .....
» 22/04/2009 3:29:58 PM relda, You make good points. Were Rudyard Kipling alive today, he would see serious attem.....
» 21/04/2009 3:28:45 PM Sells, Not so. Although, the Greek citizen saw their democracy in terms of the self, wit.....
» 21/04/2009 1:26:24 PM relda, Hofstede's studies though dated are informative. There are a few things to be awar.....
» 20/04/2009 8:38:33 PM OUG, I am unsure whether my last posting on thermodymics was responsible for your most re.....
» 19/04/2009 11:48:59 PM 14,000/7,000 Seems be true again. Let's hope so. The intersting thing is that the floor s.....
» 19/04/2009 7:51:43 PM OUG, The following might prove informative. http://theory.physics.helsinki.fi/~cosmology.....
» 19/04/2009 10:53:36 AM George, Thank for your perspectives. Older Catholic doctrine aside, the Christian Churc.....
» 18/04/2009 4:48:55 PM OUG, One should not think of the Big Bang as a “bang” or even an expansion. It is the dis.....
» 17/04/2009 11:13:41 PM Error Above: ". Again, in the case of the Christian Trinity, other religions have tri.....
» 17/04/2009 6:39:56 PM "Sells obviously has a very narrow definition of Christian if it is limited to those .....
» 17/04/2009 4:23:31 PM Dear George, “those who wish their self to cease to exist when they die - usually atheist.....
» 16/04/2009 8:08:56 PM George, The Bible tells me that the only unforgiveable is against the Holy Spirit. “… he .....
» 16/04/2009 2:52:19 PM "The Jews cannot be placed on the same footing as Muslims in this because their under.....
» 16/04/2009 2:45:44 PM "The Jews cannot be placed on the same footing as Muslims in this because their under.....
» 16/04/2009 12:28:51 PM OUG, The elements in the Periodic Table combine to form molecules. Organic molecules are .....
» 15/04/2009 6:53:41 PM Trav, Hitler was a Christian. Queen Victoria was a Christian. Tzar Nicholas II was a Chri.....
» 15/04/2009 6:48:59 PM Trav, Hitler was a Christian. Queen Victoria was a Christian. O......
» 15/04/2009 12:40:03 PM Sells, David f is correct, Jews and Muslims are not pagans. In Roman times, persons, whom.....
» 15/04/2009 10:14:02 AM OUG, There are three known forms of selection: natural, sexual and genetic. Research in s.....
» 14/04/2009 9:27:47 PM OUG, There is no such thing as a half-man, half-ape intermediary. Contemporary primates.....
» 14/04/2009 12:10:58 PM "There is also a strain in theology that does say that man is deified in Christ, that.....
» 14/04/2009 10:51:42 AM OUG, I doubt Pilate, as the Prefect of Judea, would allow 5,000 people congregate to list.....
» 14/04/2009 10:23:11 AM ERROR: "I will try again. Evolution does work the way you think. There is are series .....
» 13/04/2009 8:58:59 PM KMB, 1. I will try again. Evolution does work the way you think. There is are series of s.....
» 13/04/2009 8:22:55 PM What motivates atheists and agnostics to comment on the divine repertoires of the theists?.....
» 13/04/2009 2:19:11 PM "Christians (and Muslims and Jews) are every bit as ego-driven, narcissistic and supe.....
» 13/04/2009 11:36:27 AM Our ancestral past can be traced in the same manner trackers use broken branches and footp.....
» 12/04/2009 5:21:02 PM KMB, It doesn't work like you have posted for Monkeys or 747s. There are a series of sele.....
» 11/04/2009 6:45:07 PM Dear Glorfindel, 1. The persecution of the Christians was not unrelenting between Augustu.....
» 10/04/2009 2:55:22 PM Peter the Believer, Yes, the Christians burnt William Tyndale at the stake, because Tynda.....
» 9/04/2009 8:51:58 PM " This is where the thick narrative of Christianity comes from; history." - Sell.....
» 3/04/2009 10:38:44 PM Daviy, “At one point they where murdering 1 in 14 of the population under their control. .....
» 3/04/2009 2:39:12 PM Hi Daviy, Mussolini, said “Fascism is a religious conception in which man is immanent rel.....
» 2/04/2009 8:25:15 PM Dear runner, Christians, not secularists, persecute the weak. Christians burnt the mental.....
» 2/04/2009 9:57:09 AM david f, Hilter believed in Jesus, with a passion, as is evidenced by his writings and sp.....
» 1/04/2009 7:51:16 PM Sells, Liberalism has its origins in a time earlier than you mention. Liberalism as a you.....
» 27/03/2009 4:20:22 PM Dear Belly, When I worked in the Sydney CBD, I was well placed to see the regular cerimon.....
» 26/03/2009 11:56:15 AM The half of the index of previous high of the DOW seems to be a resistence point, as throu.....
» 24/03/2009 6:28:10 PM Above, that is, Peter the Believer, not Peter Sellick. O......
» 23/03/2009 7:50:39 PM Peter, Suspect you could be cobbling thingss together best left apart. According to Chris.....
» 21/03/2009 7:01:04 PM Hello Daviy, Sorry, I haven't replied to your question on women's role within the early .....
» 20/03/2009 3:46:09 PM Growing from the 1950s until the present time, we have developed several multinations the .....
» 19/03/2009 6:31:22 PM Foxy, You have raised an important issue. We must all be active to prevent paedophila in .....
» 18/03/2009 2:58:05 PM 1. FYI: http://business.smh.com.au/business/swan-to-curb-obscene-salaries-20090318-91lr.ht.....
» 18/03/2009 11:39:16 AM Op2, As posted above, I hold secular Law needs to come down not only on the priests but t.....
» 17/03/2009 5:48:14 PM "Historically and symbolically the British Throne is a Christian Throne. It clearly i.....
» 17/03/2009 9:58:14 AM Ajay, The Incubi whom visited Medieval parishioners often took the form of the local prie.....
» 17/03/2009 9:34:36 AM Jon J, Major companies would simply pay them off-shore in low tax havens.....
» 16/03/2009 5:30:14 PM "But it does beg the question - Why don't the churches tell their people that the cal.....
» 16/03/2009 5:05:29 PM Foxy, I did not see the programme. Just the same, it has been my long held belief that th.....
» 16/03/2009 4:58:36 PM Ozandy, I'm not fully convinced about Banks being too big to fail. While shareholders can.....
» 16/03/2009 11:44:14 AM In a previous career I worked with the Bank of New South ales. In the early 70s, the GM (T.....
» 13/03/2009 5:50:16 PM Jon J, In Australia, the nationalisation of Banks has not been under consideration since .....
» 13/03/2009 2:08:16 PM The sum value of 69,000 cheques will be small compared with the wealth to eventually go of.....
» 12/03/2009 5:14:15 PM I lived in Singapore in the 1990s. At that time, other Expats and I could feel the "c.....
» 11/03/2009 12:55:46 PM StG, I put it to you that the Royalty remained significant in Australia into the 1950s an.....
» 11/03/2009 10:11:05 AM Dear OP2, My comments were not pretence, but history. That is, historians' history not th.....
» 10/03/2009 6:51:47 PM Daviy, Insightful quotes. My comments primarily were not from the Bible but from the soci.....
» 10/03/2009 4:35:31 PM Hello Philo, True. Women did have an equal place in the early church. "Not only wer.....
» 10/03/2009 2:44:37 PM Hi Daviy, Yes, the description does read as a spacecraft orbiting Earth. Also, it is note.....
» 8/03/2009 5:17:59 PM Noah and Enoch were both Righteous and apparently had authority to instruct. Conversely, S.....
» 8/03/2009 5:08:56 PM Hi Daviy, On Enoch; According to Eisemann & Wise, the Book of Giants was extensively re.....
» 8/03/2009 1:57:53 PM Peter the Believer, Would it not have been more powerful had the Christian trinity not de.....
» 7/03/2009 9:36:22 AM Hi Daviy, Yes, there could have been a Gospel of Daviy, were the true writer inclined to .....
» 6/03/2009 3:56:36 PM Correction: Herod the Great's Palaces (Not Temples).....
» 6/03/2009 12:02:59 PM Daviy, The gospels are spread throughoit place as well as time. Communities after the Ora.....
» 6/03/2009 10:03:36 AM "They pay 10 percent of their earnings to the church, and spend most of their time he.....
» 4/03/2009 9:05:27 AM Leigh, Unfunded demand in the form of acquisitions which cannot be paid-for ultimately ac.....
» 3/03/2009 9:10:28 PM waterboy, Is original Greek source to which you refer Koine Greek? I think this Koine G.....
» 3/03/2009 5:21:53 PM Clarification: "I'm an academic and encourage students to address and find fault in t.....
» 3/03/2009 1:01:23 PM Ted, I'm an academic and encourage students to address and find fault in the Creed (if yo.....
» 2/03/2009 4:32:07 PM Eckadimmock, Does it concern typical Christians that Jesus event occurred in the first ce.....
» 2/03/2009 2:14:00 PM Re: Oliver 1 March post I have provided several histories very recently and over time man.....
» 2/03/2009 8:18:35 AM ..Cont./ Also, the corpus callosum is not merely a traffic cop saying go to right lane or.....
» 2/03/2009 8:13:47 AM “My goodness! The book of Genesis has been studied and written about for almost 2000years .....
» 1/03/2009 12:50:54 PM On centres of learning: Immediately after Nicaea, Christians destroyed not only pagan stat.....
» 1/03/2009 12:39:35 PM “While the humanists cherry pick the events that appal us all they ignore the social trium.....
» 23/02/2009 1:24:11 PM Dear Daviy, I will need a little time to think things through. Midst my own research toda.....
» 23/02/2009 1:21:22 PM SJF, Thank you for an interesting post. While it is not universally so, countries’ princ.....
» 23/02/2009 9:12:27 AM nwick, The originally Canaanite God of the OT, Yahweh, was a preferred god of “landless a.....
» 21/02/2009 4:34:21 PM Dear SJF, An intersting post to which I shall give some thought. Regards theism the Eygp.....
» 21/02/2009 12:09:35 PM Dear Richie, Thank you for your explanation. Regards, Oliver.....
» 20/02/2009 7:32:56 PM Dear Richie, Thank you for your post. Above, my comments were mindful of Christian teach.....
» 20/02/2009 1:54:50 PM Foxy, Thank you. I was took a test and maxed the left-brain scale. I hope their is suffi.....
» 20/02/2009 10:28:16 AM Dear Philo, The commonly used expression “persons” seems problematic because the term cre.....
» 19/02/2009 4:26:30 PM Greetings Philo, The Christian Trinity has its origins in Rome, as you state. Yet, it mig.....
» 19/02/2009 12:45:23 PM /Cont. Foxy, 5. I tend to agree with you and Fractelle folk don’t choose their beliefs f.....
» 19/02/2009 12:44:26 PM Dear Foxy, 1. It is interesting how very many religions there are across place and time w.....
» 18/02/2009 5:22:28 PM colinsett, Sometimes it is refreshing is test what theologians say against broader human .....
» 18/02/2009 1:16:23 PM Opinionated2, Christian scriptures are inconsistent because in ancient times these text w.....
» 17/02/2009 9:15:19 PM Let's makes this a little easier to swallow: There are many gods. Ancient Egyptians worsh.....
» 17/02/2009 3:25:33 PM George, FYI. On the definition of Atheism, from a Theist perspective (Catholic): http://.....
» 17/02/2009 3:12:10 PM Sells, I suspect Daviy was merely recognizing researchers adopt inferential frames and th.....
» 17/02/2009 9:05:00 AM Dear Paul and Daviy, "Christianity does not have a monopoly on Genesis and your inpu.....
» 16/02/2009 8:46:18 PM waterboy, Thanks for the reply. What manner of philosophy would have it that one should.....
» 16/02/2009 1:34:05 PM Ancient Egyptians worshipped, Ra. Pidias built an enormous statute honouring Zeus. Histori.....
» 16/02/2009 12:12:08 PM Waterboy, As with Sells' belief, I can appreciate your belief in a god is genuine and is .....
» 16/02/2009 11:28:30 AM Washington was a revolutionary, a traitor, an opportunist, a mediocre general and a slave .....
» 14/02/2009 11:23:22 PM Error Above: “… Divine Jesus senscario. ” should read … “Divine Jesus scenario”. Sorry. … .....
» 14/02/2009 4:12:30 PM Daviy, I do not have a copy of “Jesus the Man”. I was thinking of “Jesus of the Apocalyps.....
» 13/02/2009 11:03:24 AM Hello Foxy, Good succinct post. Some post-Russell philosophers would say the theist gods .....
» 12/02/2009 9:19:22 PM Daviy, My recent posts in this thread refer to the religious interpretation, wherein, Jes.....
» 12/02/2009 2:52:18 PM Daviy, For modern religionists, it was not so much Jesus criticised the Laws of Pharisees.....
» 11/02/2009 11:52:55 AM “Judaism and Islam it originated from the law of Abram. The Abramic system is the Church c.....
» 9/02/2009 8:08:19 PM Gods are made, even without their consent. Consider one very human priest-king claimant .....
» 9/02/2009 1:33:00 PM They can’t leave Israel, even it would be a good idea . For them, it would be blasphemy. R.....
» 9/02/2009 11:01:57 AM Sells, I wonder if you are aware that, you walk with generic atheism with one leg and Chr.....
» 7/02/2009 5:08:39 PM When the idea of a Christian godhead emerged (second century to fourth centuries CE) in ha.....
» 7/02/2009 4:54:22 PM You claim that Christianity shares patterns found in other religions. Many times I’ve hear.....
» 7/02/2009 1:49:46 PM Arthur, Thanks for your reply. "Get used to operating in a country where "half.....
» 6/02/2009 7:11:38 PM IanC, The Gini Co-efficient is a common measure of the level of economic equity. It might.....
» 6/02/2009 12:13:32 PM Dear Peter, Please note, I didn't claim you have dyslexia. I said I have dyslexia. Howeve.....
» 5/02/2009 8:28:10 PM Arthur, My own experiences in China revealed to me that many an entrepreneur is not your .....
» 5/02/2009 7:48:15 PM Relda, Thanks for your interesting post. I will reflect on your remarks and reply soon. .....
» 5/02/2009 7:53:42 AM "Christians believe that God’s revelation of himself to mankind is adequate. Though n.....
» 4/02/2009 3:38:23 PM Peter the Believer, Atheists don’t believe in “god”, because alternative explanations are.....
» 3/02/2009 11:02:42 AM "From Galileo onwards the (Christian) church has consistently fought against the find.....
» 2/02/2009 10:17:42 AM Boxgum, George et al, To the Romans the Christians were Atheists. The Pangi were social p.....
» 1/02/2009 5:03:58 PM A difficulty for the objective observer reviewing Sells’ comments is, having chided atheis.....
» 21/12/2008 11:16:09 AM Faustino, Thanks for that. Yes, post-WWII, the World was in a mess. England, because, it.....
» 21/12/2008 8:18:16 AM Poly, If God gave the power of speech to a snake to bring down Humanity, it follows, that.....
» 21/12/2008 8:12:56 AM Hello Peter, The Vatican quashed the Magna Carta. Please check your history book. O......
» 19/12/2008 3:49:01 PM "Ideally, everyone involved in these corrupt transactions should be imprisoned. I’d l.....
» 19/12/2008 3:36:04 PM mil-observer, Mossolini was the Head of Government, the Head of the Party and Head of Cor.....
» 19/12/2008 3:30:06 PM The political scientist, Louis Wasserman, asks that ask ourselves; "In whose interest.....
» 19/12/2008 3:19:43 PM david f Oops. A God canNOT even approximate the imperfect. That is, cannot be human and .....
» 19/12/2008 1:21:24 PM Dear david f, There are philosphical objections to humans being made in the image of Man .....
» 19/12/2008 1:09:53 PM Poly, There are several factors to looks, wherein in-kind there several perceptions. I re.....
» 19/12/2008 9:44:13 AM Hi Poly, I have read translations of the Dead Sea Scrolls. What is interesting those docu.....
» 18/12/2008 8:16:24 PM Dear Houellebecq, Talking snakes? I don't think Poly is that fundamentalist. Albeit, some.....
» 18/12/2008 11:07:55 AM Poly, Deuteronomy 1: Reads well, as a land grab. Even if the land was their's by divine .....
» 18/12/2008 10:52:49 AM Poly, 1. I will check-out Deuteronomy. 2. Just to show I can see both sides of an argum.....
» 17/12/2008 2:59:49 PM Poly, -Above- 1. Annointed, of course, not appointed :). But guest one can follow the ot.....
» 17/12/2008 2:49:26 PM "Following these socialists is similar to following a blind person as they navigate t.....
» 17/12/2008 2:25:02 PM "OLY....I'm aware of your view of history :) we disagree but that's ok. Rock sharpens.....
» 15/12/2008 6:13:28 PM Dear Poly, I suggest orthodox Western historians of the early centuries would on balance .....
» 15/12/2008 3:08:22 PM Yabby, If the US automative companies fold, it is certain, as you say, there would be a m.....
» 15/12/2008 2:24:36 PM Dear Gibo, I think you will find that Hilter was a Catholic and the Germans of the NAZI r.....
» 15/12/2008 1:50:37 PM Col, I have no argument with what you say about the Roaring Twenties and the borrowing fo.....
» 15/12/2008 11:55:52 AM runner, Thanks for your reply. I am opposed to corporal punishment except perhaps by a p.....
» 15/12/2008 9:20:01 AM David et al., The point on applying reason (to history) and staying in bed on Sunday is a.....
» 14/12/2008 7:54:31 PM All, Be Ye Theist or Be Ye Atheist, it logical to triangulate knowledge sources to confir.....
» 14/12/2008 7:13:15 PM Poly, The free market acts, as you allude. but didn't fully articulate - by meeting consu.....
» 14/12/2008 6:59:50 PM Hi Foxy, When I posted, it was about the same time that the Senate blocked the Bill. I di.....
» 14/12/2008 5:55:25 PM runner, I lived in Singapore for four years. The country is not as free as crime as you t.....
» 14/12/2008 10:11:50 AM Gibo, I was of the generation when the cane was permitted. In fact, I received the can on.....
» 12/12/2008 11:47:10 AM The biggest pitfall in a depression is protectionism. One must not diminish trade and one .....
» 12/12/2008 7:51:47 AM A personal obseration is that if Jesus, being born and crucified in March: He was born 6.7.....
» 12/12/2008 7:42:37 AM David, Why an atheist symbol? A fish with a dash through it? As you might recall my beli.....
» 11/12/2008 7:07:51 PM David, Best of luck with your case. [Technically, we should sleep in on Saturday. cite De.....
» 11/12/2008 3:54:48 PM Who has the correct approach given the US has just decided to bail-out its automotive indu.....
» 10/12/2008 1:09:40 PM Col, The other side to protecting, say GM in the US is; protection makes it harder to rew.....
» 10/12/2008 12:20:50 PM Dear One Under God, Dogs, cat and humans all descend from a common ancestor. We and oth.....
» 10/12/2008 10:31:47 AM bushbred, Only catch is that Government invention tends to be selective, to reward of pee.....
» 9/12/2008 11:22:30 AM The related danger with Super Funds (Units) and much more so with Provident Funds (Garante.....
» 3/12/2008 4:28:26 PM Yabby and one under god, There are at least two forms of capitalism: i.e., market capital.....
» 3/12/2008 3:03:27 PM lorry, Of the 23 civilizations Anold Toynbee identified commencing with Sumer, Caroll Qui.....
» 3/12/2008 10:24:38 AM Sir Vivor et al., What has been occurring over recent decades is a shift from market capi.....
» 2/12/2008 12:59:22 PM Don't see our senior executives doing this: http://www.domain-b.com/companies/companies_u.....
» 2/12/2008 12:13:25 PM Unfortantly, we could pump money into the two big US auto makers in Oz, only to have the A.....
» 2/12/2008 10:53:58 AM The situation extends beyond the CEOs to the Boards and across industries. And there is an.....
» 1/12/2008 7:20:33 PM Dear Philo, 1. Would you then say in a spiritual dimension that the RIGHT HAND OF GOD is .....
» 1/12/2008 5:11:37 PM one under god, So you would you object to the sign on a chariot circa the first century o.....
» 1/12/2008 3:29:45 PM I see David's organization valid, if only to have the general public, both believing and n.....
» 1/12/2008 3:02:09 PM Music and the arts would posit that males tend to admire their sexual complement. Just thi.....
» 27/11/2008 11:17:26 PM waterboy, I agree that righteousness exists in a humanistic sense, amongst peoples of fai.....
» 27/11/2008 11:04:16 PM OneunderGod, Yes, there must be daemons, Richard Baxter (1691) notes that so many incubi .....
» 27/11/2008 4:34:38 PM david f, In the early centuries of the current era, erotic dreams where a real concern fo.....
» 27/11/2008 11:31:34 AM Yuyutsu, So you would not have the various scriptures' descriptions of God valid. The cap.....
» 26/11/2008 7:48:33 PM "God's nature (for lack of words - please do not imply that I say here that God has a.....
» 26/11/2008 4:31:04 PM runner, Thanks. It was a COBE photograph of the Universe "at" 300,000 of age, .....
» 26/11/2008 1:48:45 PM Wow, what an error. Sorry. I would have NO objection to a cross on a bus......
» 26/11/2008 1:47:19 PM Philo, You have an interesting point. We have faith in travelling an elevator. But we kno.....
» 26/11/2008 12:25:26 PM David, Does the Foundation have the resources to lease a Bus or buy an old bus paint a me.....
» 26/11/2008 12:17:49 PM Yuyutsu, Given infinite indeterminancy, proability and the nature of entropy and thermody.....
» 26/11/2008 12:09:21 PM David, I would have thought the action unconstitutional. Why don't you request an ajudida.....
» 26/11/2008 10:10:36 AM DreamOn, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibiters are used to alleviate depression, which .....
» 26/11/2008 9:27:09 AM Philo, Would you adopt the position that non-Christians even pagan Roman and Creeks of an.....
» 25/11/2008 7:46:18 PM Poly, Above you draw the metaphor of the various Christian denominations seeing the one e.....
» 25/11/2008 2:10:17 PM Dear Ludwig, Dare I suggest that there exist two elements (a) the neurologically penchant.....
» 25/11/2008 10:21:53 AM Poly, Mass might not have existed in the early universe, only energy. When the temperatu.....
» 24/11/2008 5:49:37 PM Dear Philo, Your description suggests a manifestation through all things created, having .....
» 24/11/2008 2:07:34 PM runner, "Do not murder, and any one who murders will be subject to judgment. But I t.....
» 24/11/2008 11:59:55 AM If one wishes to establish posit, it would seem to be rationale and systematic to adopt a .....
» 24/11/2008 8:31:13 AM Poly? runner? Loose theads above. Cheers, Oly.....
» 23/11/2008 4:23:24 PM Hello Poly, "Doctor" Greenleaf was awarded an "Honorary" Doctor of La.....
» 23/11/2008 1:01:07 PM Dear Poly, "Dr. Simon Greenleaf further concluded that according to the jurisdiction.....
» 23/11/2008 12:43:34 PM Maybe a new prize catgory should offerred for Personal Dedication to Life-Time Philanthopy.....
» 22/11/2008 7:29:55 PM Celivia, Just a little friendly comment with our OLO friends. No intention to leave God u.....
» 21/11/2008 6:08:11 PM david f. My older brother tells me, I invented a character called Mr Rich Pussy whom owne.....
» 21/11/2008 3:01:30 PM Celivia, Maybe not only Monkeys err at typing. Perhaps, being taken from Adam's rib, shou.....
» 21/11/2008 10:05:40 AM Dear Poly. As previously noted. You may have missed it? "To become PM, one doesn't .....
» 20/11/2008 11:50:30 PM Thanks Foxy. Its amazing is isn't it? AJ, I have read and seen on TV documentary that th.....
» 20/11/2008 6:51:45 PM runner, Thanks. If by faith you mean (qualified)"reliance or trust ... found on aut.....
» 20/11/2008 12:38:37 PM Dear runner, Your response my previous post, above on this thread, designated to your att.....
» 19/11/2008 5:42:26 PM Dear runner, We have photographic evidence of the Big Bang back to 300,000 years ago*: h.....
» 19/11/2008 11:01:25 AM Dear Runner, Scientists "test" their posits with regard to Creation. The CERN H.....
» 18/11/2008 9:57:43 PM Runner, It is not irrational test falsifiable hypothises, which are tentatively held. A.....
» 18/11/2008 2:02:42 PM Hello Runner, I have replied to your post on the other thread. Please return. Oly......
» 18/11/2008 1:56:53 PM Poly, To become PM, one doesn't need to compete against 22 million folk. Maybe twenty peo.....
» 17/11/2008 7:10:17 PM All, Christina is a Senior Lecturer ("C", I assume) with doctorate. That seems .....
» 17/11/2008 7:03:04 PM I have three post-grad degrees including a PhD an undergrad studies with a triple major. W.....
» 17/11/2008 6:28:11 PM Dear Runner, Did I say that killing was morally wrong? I was drawing a parallelism. I poi.....
» 17/11/2008 2:35:55 PM waterboy, If justification is perfect then salvation is a fait compli. Even for atheists!.....
» 17/11/2008 2:20:40 PM "Unless you compare it with the fundamentalist secular humanist who can murder the un.....
» 12/11/2008 12:19:32 PM Typo: Couch, that is. Sorry Dr Freud. Poly, Okay, for now, but I will raise the issue.....
» 12/11/2008 12:12:11 PM waterboy, The iissue of righteousness was very important centuries later with Luther whom.....
» 11/11/2008 1:55:55 PM Hello Poly, I don't think we achieved finality. Suicide is bringing about one's own death.....
» 11/11/2008 8:09:28 AM Celivia, I have seen terminally humans take days to die and pets mercifully "put to .....
» 11/11/2008 6:53:32 AM FYI: http://www.hindu.com/2008/10/17/stories/2008101757661200.htm Not sure if this the s.....
» 10/11/2008 6:55:14 PM waterboy, I think it would depend on how far back the Christians were prepared to go. The.....
» 10/11/2008 6:27:07 PM "Does ASIO australian secret intelligence organistion work for the public, government.....
» 10/11/2008 1:41:44 PM Max, Interesting article. Is Elizabeth II as, "Queen of Australia," also Defen.....
» 10/11/2008 9:23:58 AM Poly and wobbles, Christians did kill other Christians during the Crusades. Likewise, the.....
» 10/11/2008 12:36:04 AM Poly, A very bad situation indeed. Will we ever be without situations like this? Tragic. .....
» 9/11/2008 9:45:16 PM Hi Ajay, The World Bank's measure of wealth is assets/population. Oz and Canada are well .....
» 9/11/2008 4:47:56 PM waterboy, Please excuse the above typos. I think you should still follow. Sells and Poly.....
» 9/11/2008 1:38:19 PM Australia needs ASIO to protect all its interests. It needs to work in secret for obvious .....
» 9/11/2008 1:05:28 PM Dear Philo, The contruct of the Holy Spirit is a tricky one. Early notions of God of the .....
» 9/11/2008 11:47:53 AM Dear Poly, Would he please complete the outstanding thread on suicide. You have not have .....
» 8/11/2008 6:04:11 PM Dear waterboy I will come back with more detail on your last question. But succincly put,.....
» 8/11/2008 2:25:47 PM All, Please excuse the intrusion. [Dear Poly. You have left unanswered two key questions.....
» 8/11/2008 1:15:19 PM waterboy, My understanding is that Thomas and Mark were written ejust after a period oral.....
» 7/11/2008 4:58:17 PM - Sells? - Poly?.....
» 7/11/2008 11:51:26 AM Hello Forrest, I will check, but I am in the middle of marking. Could be a few days. Hero.....
» 7/11/2008 9:04:11 AM Sells, I have provided atgument and addressed the issue of Jesus commiting suicide head o.....
» 6/11/2008 2:18:55 PM Graham, 1. I haven't changed my position on supporting secularism. However, researching f.....
» 6/11/2008 11:48:08 AM Histotically, Ada Lovelace (Byron) was very significant to the work of Babbage and the use.....
» 6/11/2008 11:31:06 AM Shafi Goldwasser, perhaps. However, are her contributions as signicant as say, Murray Gell.....
» 6/11/2008 8:53:18 AM Greetings Poly, To understand original Christianity, one needs to look at the Christian-J.....
» 4/11/2008 5:30:56 PM mjpb, Constantine was trying to holt the slide of the failing Roman Empire. Religion is a.....
» 3/11/2008 8:42:29 PM Sells, "Who stains with blood religion's sacred word, And kills, or gains new conver.....
» 3/11/2008 7:00:05 PM Dear Sells, -Your comment- The secularism evident in many threads is certainly in opposi.....
» 3/11/2008 3:28:28 PM John, You cite several alledged failings. What are your solutions? What must Australians .....
» 3/11/2008 3:11:51 PM Runner I don't hate Zeus or Ra.....
» 3/11/2008 1:12:15 PM And on the eleventh day, we rested. All was not reconciled......
» 3/11/2008 11:17:05 AM Richie 10, I think your marine species are fossils of creates whom died millions of years.....
» 3/11/2008 11:01:06 AM Gibo, In fairness, I did follow your link, and read through the cited Creationist present.....
» 2/11/2008 7:55:35 PM Kalweb, A thoughtful post. Sells, Did Jesus commit suicide? Did the Son of Man, with fo.....
» 2/11/2008 5:54:18 PM Candide, “There has been much discussion about the legal basis of the capital charge. Som.....
» 1/11/2008 4:50:05 PM Candide, I will to check it out, but now understand that ranking citizens were exciled an.....
» 1/11/2008 4:02:36 PM Fractelle, I wonder what the bio-mass of the sum of two of every animal on Earth would be.....
» 1/11/2008 12:27:22 PM undidly, An interesting suggestion but the tau shape T is known to history, especially in.....
» 1/11/2008 11:44:28 AM Gibo, Thank you for your answer, which I shall contemplate, after re-visiting Genesis, wh.....
» 31/10/2008 5:46:05 PM No one has addressed Celivia's excellent question; " 'Why doesn't God heal amputees?'.....
» 31/10/2008 1:03:56 PM Constantine is likely to have seen a plurality with Sol Invictus. The Tau cross is assoc.....
» 31/10/2008 10:34:40 AM Gibo, Why did god rest? Please see my early comment on the second law of thermodynamics. .....
» 31/10/2008 10:26:41 AM Peter, In your view, does a country have the right to send its citizens to war, when the.....
» 31/10/2008 10:18:47 AM wobbles and one under god, The Vatican recognized that the Sun is at the centre of the so.....
» 30/10/2008 2:03:32 PM Thanks, EVO. Enjoy your posts too. Home Tutor, "I think all will agree we have yet .....
» 30/10/2008 12:42:40 PM Gibo, As noted in a parrellel post, the Creator was subject to the second law of thermody.....
» 30/10/2008 11:20:45 AM McFly, Both scientists and historians accept the notion of the possibility of error. Cons.....
» 28/10/2008 5:32:02 PM examinator, Enjoyed your post. A good read. p.s. It is interesting that Switzerland was .....
» 28/10/2008 10:26:51 AM Good one Foxy, but I guess it wasn't at the time. I must have led a boring life, just goi.....
» 28/10/2008 7:56:28 AM Creationism would be hard to debate on OLO, as perhaps, we wont find anyone who beleives i.....
» 28/10/2008 7:30:56 AM DIPLOMAN, When a teacher our local priest flew at me fow attending the neibouring parish......
» 27/10/2008 5:35:16 PM Dear Foxy, If I read correctly, the Cardinal Prefect’s letter, on behalf of the Pope, one.....
» 27/10/2008 9:10:53 AM Oops: It would NOT be very interesting Adam lived to be 47 and snakes didn't talk. Sorry......
» 27/10/2008 7:40:33 AM palimpsest, 2.7 degrees Kelvin. Redshift. Stratified Carbon-14 dating. The Second Law of .....
» 26/10/2008 7:31:27 PM Yabby and Belly, Intersting posts, both. At times, in the GD, the Banks did hold the su.....
» 26/10/2008 3:31:14 PM keith, Thank you. Also, if the going gets tough the corporates will side-step the banks......
» 26/10/2008 3:15:01 PM Philo, others, Does the Celebration of the Eucharist necessarily require an ordained pers.....
» 26/10/2008 2:13:20 PM Richie 10 I look forward to your response to my question regarding who (human) can start .....
» 26/10/2008 11:10:27 AM Herein, I posit, it is "probable", that the alternative hypothesis god does not .....
» 26/10/2008 11:01:01 AM Rich 10, Do you or I have the commission to commence a church or a denomination of a chur.....
» 24/10/2008 9:49:18 PM Dear Foxy, I will re-read the direction and provide you and our friends more detail. Migh.....
» 24/10/2008 3:12:30 PM While Banks are being made more liquid using taxpayer dollars, I wonder whether the Moguls.....
» 24/10/2008 3:02:47 PM "you seem quite to accept actions by taken by royals under the auspices of this title.....
» 23/10/2008 11:16:02 PM Cont.. So, to lend balance: "The Greek-Roman world was not...converted to a new rel.....
» 23/10/2008 10:49:44 PM Poly, Romany, Philo & Foxy, Responding to Romany's comments: The Reformed Church of Engl.....
» 22/10/2008 8:25:52 PM Philo, My source is correspondence between the Vatican and an Australian Archbishop. It m.....
» 22/10/2008 2:21:57 AM Philo, It is actually more detailed than I have related. My copy of the high-level Church.....
» 21/10/2008 8:06:41 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks for your comments. I think the Vatican are working from the perspectiv.....
» 21/10/2008 9:25:15 AM Poly, The angels said no L, however, poy might not work. Poly & Oly: "IF...you beli.....
» 21/10/2008 7:20:39 AM Polly, The source is The Pope, via the Congregation for Worship & Divine Sacraments. Many.....
» 20/10/2008 8:35:43 PM The Vatican has directed that YHWH must not be used in lithergy or service, that Christian.....
» 20/10/2008 8:02:29 PM Polycarp, Are the Christian churches, Christian; i.e., Christian to the word of Christ's .....
» 20/10/2008 10:48:32 AM Belly, Agree, we are along way from the demise of capitalism. Yet, we are not letting mar.....
» 19/10/2008 8:46:43 PM The question is, government, when assumes power; does it use said power mainly assist the .....
» 19/10/2008 5:59:29 PM Belly, Also, don't assume that Banks will report accurately to RBA. In the early '90s, a .....
» 19/10/2008 12:21:40 PM "An asset can be illiquid for several reasons, including genuine uncertainty about it.....
» 18/10/2008 3:41:04 PM "The only aspects of religion that puzzle me - I can very easily see why some people .....
» 18/10/2008 3:12:17 PM "Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!" - RC Shelley's powerful poem was la.....
» 18/10/2008 2:32:23 PM Ajay, We have been drifting away from the Free Market for decades towards State Capitalis.....
» 16/10/2008 4:14:04 PM Col, Moby Dick has resurfaced. At the moment, there is an argument in keeping the USD .....
» 16/10/2008 3:46:04 PM Yabby, Because it would wipe-out thousands of thirty-something YUPPIES with $600K mortgag.....
» 16/10/2008 3:36:33 PM Saul, A balance sheet has two sides. In the GD many people "did" have money but.....
» 15/10/2008 1:30:57 AM In coming times, we need to be careful not drift from Market Capitalism into State Capital.....
» 14/10/2008 7:39:06 PM wobbles, The system you describe was turbo-charged in 1974, when the World moved from Bre.....
» 14/10/2008 8:27:41 AM Col, Let us all hope the rebound is sustainable. On the other hand, have you read Moby Di.....
» 13/10/2008 9:27:09 PM beenie, Amenhotep IV would agree with you. His monothesism predates Christianity by over .....
» 13/10/2008 12:16:09 PM Shadow Minister, Both fixed absolute religionism and absolute atheism claim infallibility.....
» 13/10/2008 11:25:51 AM Protecting inter-bank loans, interlaces companies over varying performance abilities. It i.....
» 12/10/2008 9:05:19 PM Saul, Post Script: Banks didn't always rely as heavily on wholesale funding, instead on r.....
» 12/10/2008 8:55:23 PM Saul, With maturity transform in times of lowing interest rates Banks will hold billions .....
» 12/10/2008 10:53:55 AM Sells, "Drivel" The critiques of religions often have a sound socio-anthropolo.....
» 12/10/2008 10:16:41 AM RobbyH, Monotheism is problematic, when we have more than one monothesistic player on the.....
» 9/10/2008 12:52:21 AM Greetings Polycarp, I would be included towards Occam's Razor. That is, accepting Moses a.....
» 7/10/2008 10:16:49 PM Sells, "He (Greg) draws a picture of secularisation as the transformation of Judeo/C.....
» 5/10/2008 7:00:58 PM JW, Nothing in life is a certainty. Yet, we do know protectionism had a multiplier effect.....
» 5/10/2008 7:00:57 PM JW, Nothing in life is a certainty. Yet, we do know protectionism had a multiplier effect.....
» 3/10/2008 6:36:48 PM Anansi, Intervention is State Capitalism not Market Capitalism. All, Prudent Banking p.....
» 3/10/2008 11:32:57 AM Ajay, I agree with you on both points. The US economy/wealth huge and eonomists now much .....
» 2/10/2008 7:41:30 PM Ajay, The World Bank calculates national wealth based on national assets over population......
» 1/10/2008 4:19:42 PM Yabby, Interesting comment about Westpac. It has learned a lesson. It nearly went under t.....
» 1/10/2008 4:03:26 PM Paul L., Thanks for your comments. China and Japan are sitting on huge USD and other cur.....
» 30/09/2008 6:52:49 PM Correction: Moreover, given their chants of independence from Government over interest ra.....
» 30/09/2008 6:42:19 PM What is happening in the US Markets has been foreseeable for years. Two years ago at a wea.....
» 28/08/2008 1:38:39 PM Good article to which one might add that middle-aged, middle management can be specificall.....
» 28/08/2008 12:12:31 AM Why does Sir John Eccles not make a mark on the Australian identity? What is more importan.....
» 26/08/2008 11:05:35 AM Pericles, The me and we: The affirmation of the warrior and hero as good, being superior.....
» 23/08/2008 2:41:22 AM Apologies are apt when wrongs committed and the enslavement of the African-Americans was b.....
» 12/08/2008 6:28:47 PM The dark history of practised Christdom [along side some good], would seem to be an aside .....
» 12/08/2008 6:18:04 PM Yes, it is reassuring, when once tentative knowledge is validated. Especially hard with th.....
» 4/08/2008 5:51:48 PM An assignment?.....
» 2/08/2008 4:01:48 PM IamJoseph. I am following your points, I think, including the wide time-line spread of th.....
» 1/08/2008 8:12:31 PM IamJoseph, "There are 100s of pheonecien bits of alphabetical writings, not historic.....
» 31/07/2008 9:45:52 PM IamJoseph, Please excuse brievity. Moorehouse (1953) refers to the Ugaritic phonic-alpha.....
» 28/07/2008 5:04:57 PM For the reason you state, I have not been inclined to introduce Homer until seeing the TV .....
» 25/07/2008 6:58:06 PM IamJoseph, I didn't make to the Phoenians but I did see a documentary on Ancient Greece: .....
» 25/07/2008 5:25:55 PM According to the World Bank [cited Kolter et al., The Marketing of Nations], the two wealt.....
» 25/07/2008 2:52:53 PM "Our culture has long moved from Hellenistic concepts such as omnipotence, eternity, .....
» 23/07/2008 5:08:12 PM "Anyone who serves the public should be a part of their community rather than APART f.....
» 22/07/2008 4:17:08 PM Hi Foxy, Absolutely! I know, as friends, at least two Church of England ministers, two gu.....
» 21/07/2008 2:50:06 PM mjpb, Some interesting points, upon which, I shall reflect. Thank you. Were I, a secular.....
» 21/07/2008 12:08:29 PM George, [Alleged*] Deviants: Handed-over. Given-over to the police. As you will have hea.....
» 21/07/2008 12:02:34 PM George, Thanks for your perspectives. The idea posited is not to catch the Church out s.....
» 20/07/2008 2:36:10 PM Rohan, Western business people do not really understand the of Chinese entrepreneurship. .....
» 19/07/2008 5:01:52 PM waterboy, Do you believe that a Church is necessary? That is, absolutely necessary for ev.....
» 19/07/2008 2:30:49 PM The Pope is to be commended for his apology. Proper. Thankfully, Benedict sees how seriou.....
» 18/07/2008 4:54:08 PM rsuart, No, unfortunately, I don't know John Ness. Agree. The bigger the organization, .....
» 18/07/2008 4:33:57 PM IamJoseph, I agree. Jesus was ethnically and religiously a Jew, perhaps trying to make a .....
» 18/07/2008 2:05:29 PM George, Thank you for your reply. George et al, Actually regarding these cases, interna.....
» 17/07/2008 6:23:48 PM Good, I am allowed a second post. http://www.smh.com.au/news/world-youth-day/stop-dwellin.....
» 17/07/2008 2:46:13 PM Foxy, A sad story you tell. I have heard of similar cases with regards the "transfer.....
» 17/07/2008 2:39:25 PM Steel Mann, Your words read true to me......
» 17/07/2008 11:02:39 AM "The ASX Disciplinary Tribunal (“the Tribunal”) has determined the following:Westpac .....
» 17/07/2008 9:47:54 AM George, You make a good point regrading legal advise. Most people in his position would s.....
» 16/07/2008 9:08:42 PM Polycarp, Boazy, as a student of North Indian clans, you might be aware that, historicall.....
» 16/07/2008 8:53:49 PM "Genetic modules in the mind are intrinsic to being human, we would never fall in lov.....
» 16/07/2008 6:21:12 PM Fred, I think the cultural dimensions you allude to include horizontal altruism between f.....
» 16/07/2008 10:44:43 AM Philo, I agree there is much positive morality and compassion presented in the the Gospel.....
» 15/07/2008 8:25:10 PM Hello Philo, You know where I stand on matters of religion: My histographical & scientifi.....
» 15/07/2008 4:18:19 PM "Genetic modules in the mind are intrinsic to being human, we would never fall in lov.....
» 15/07/2008 4:05:07 PM Peter, Para One: Other cognitive science would agree with the evolutionary psychologists......
» 15/07/2008 2:07:42 PM "'Linear B tablet from Knossos' is not an alphabetical script, which I did stress con.....
» 15/07/2008 1:33:30 PM Morality or Compassion? No Christianity is an anomoly. Great goods and horrific bads achi.....
» 14/07/2008 6:55:38 PM Translation: “ To Athena [missing], to Enyalios, to Paian, to Poseidon” [Ventris & Chadwic.....
» 14/07/2008 6:53:02 PM About nine months ago, I emailed Pells' Office several times and requested his support to .....
» 14/07/2008 2:58:17 PM Philo and Boazy, "nisi credideritis nin intelligitis" - [Confessions, St. Augus.....
» 14/07/2008 2:29:41 PM Boazy, You will have us all wondering whether or not you have converted to Islam? Come ba.....
» 14/07/2008 2:21:31 PM IamJoseph, [1] In considering Ionian and Attic Greek, I have also looked towards pre-Hell.....
» 13/07/2008 5:21:17 PM Pericles and Spikey, The return of Boaz_David? Look-out for "Obed_Salmon". Come.....
» 13/07/2008 4:03:53 PM Correction: NOT: "Religionist or non-Religionist, we have a cognitive process at wo.....
» 12/07/2008 1:19:02 PM socratease, A succinct and compassionate post. Well said. O......
» 11/07/2008 7:34:50 PM Leonie, I did not know this history. Tragic. Sad. O......
» 11/07/2008 4:23:04 PM Crasby and Foyle, I would posit a religionist belief is as Polanyi might put it indewllin.....
» 11/07/2008 2:15:52 PM IamJoseph, I will have a look. There was some early Greek poetry and Greek plays. Regardi.....
» 11/07/2008 1:58:23 PM "But another letter showed Cardinal Pell was aware of a second allegation of sexual a.....
» 11/07/2008 11:18:22 AM RobP and Foxy, Defiance of the Pope is not unknown to history. Innocent III demanded Fred.....
» 10/07/2008 7:57:42 PM T.Sett, Euthanasia is a difficult issue. On one hand, is the unconditional respect for th.....
» 10/07/2008 6:58:51 PM mjpb, Thanks. I didn't necessarily have this one case in my cross-hairs. But it is topic.....
» 10/07/2008 6:42:05 PM Foxy, Sadly, I know you are correct. Kind regards, Oly. p.s. I am saying there is enou.....
» 10/07/2008 5:54:09 PM Locke & Newton and Whiston % Newton were correspondents, regrading the gospels, especially.....
» 10/07/2008 12:06:39 PM Foxy, Thank you for the time taken for a considered answer. I pretty-much agree with all .....
» 10/07/2008 11:45:57 AM JonJ. "Suffer" in the old meaning of the word meant "to allow". &quo.....
» 9/07/2008 6:47:32 PM huffnpuff, The Pope's email address is: benedictxvi@vatican.va With hundreds of thousan.....
» 9/07/2008 4:28:59 PM "The Greeks did apparently borrow the basics for their alphabet -- or alphabets, sinc.....
» 9/07/2008 3:32:05 PM Hi Foxy, Do you feel that "where proven" bishops and their superiors cover-up i.....
» 9/07/2008 11:22:34 AM GrahamY, Yesterday, I submitted a very, very similar to the first post of this thread. Se.....
» 9/07/2008 11:14:37 AM Q&A, Correction: [2] Please notice the title of the article, "Walker Ciculations&quo.....
» 9/07/2008 10:24:29 AM But what about those in the hierarchy of the Churches that protect their own. Jury, If gui.....
» 8/07/2008 6:00:48 PM What should the Christian bishops be saying to the Pope about this: http://www.smh.com.au.....
» 8/07/2008 5:58:30 PM Peracles, In Cash We Trust. I recall seeing on American CCN an American preacher compla.....
» 8/07/2008 4:04:10 PM Were it proved that any hypothetrical Cardinal covered-up a major crime and said Cardinal,.....
» 8/07/2008 2:45:52 PM IamJoseph, "What I do know is that the Hebrews did AVOID vowels, but NOT [TYPO] abso.....
» 8/07/2008 2:34:43 PM RobP, You were just ahead of me with your post, which I missed. In the US, I understand .....
» 8/07/2008 12:03:30 PM Dear Q&A, Such passion. I will try to be more detatched. [1]"Some meteorologists c.....
» 7/07/2008 8:51:47 PM Dear Q&A There are three principal geophysical regions "affected" by Walker Cir.....
» 7/07/2008 12:23:30 PM IamJoseph, Thanks for your post. I will need to check a few matters and plan to come to .....
» 6/07/2008 5:21:17 PM IamJoseph, While did post to another thread, please excuse me for the delay in replying. .....
» 6/07/2008 4:41:04 PM Clive, Sadly, you have put your pride, before honest debate. Your dispassion for science.....
» 6/07/2008 4:22:25 PM Clive, The social economists Frank Stillwell, Stuart Rosewarne and the Late Ted Wheelwrig.....
» 5/07/2008 3:55:20 PM gecko, Look at my posts on the Clive Hamilton complementary tread. I asked Clive for a mo.....
» 5/07/2008 3:19:56 PM Graham and all, Clive Hamilton was whining and reporting, when he should analysing and co.....
» 3/07/2008 7:20:03 PM Does a citizen being charged for refusing a Police order to work on a farm [US, 1940s] or .....
» 3/07/2008 6:59:10 PM Clive, - What is the abovementioned Earth-Sun system’s tipping point, explicitly? Data. .....
» 3/07/2008 6:18:05 PM Clive and friends, “The polar temperature is positively correlated with the SC, with a st.....
» 3/07/2008 12:52:32 PM Regarding the denigration of the US Thirteen and Fourteenth Amendments: "In short, t.....
» 3/07/2008 11:22:55 AM I thought special police powers were "a once only" for APEC. It's a bit like the.....
» 2/07/2008 5:57:57 PM Clive, I just re-read your post and link. Honestly, friend, you should put your argument .....
» 2/07/2008 5:29:15 PM Clive, My posit is that you did not use your final article present a case pertaining to c.....
» 2/07/2008 2:38:01 PM Gibo, Do you see God, Jesus, each Christian Church, as separate constructs, each with the.....
» 2/07/2008 12:46:11 PM Gibo, Of the Old Churches, it has been said that, "the only difference between the C.....
» 2/07/2008 1:44:30 AM Retired Keith, With a little more searching actually did find some tilt towards history: .....
» 2/07/2008 1:33:27 AM Dear Retired Keith, [1] "They [The Jews] were forbidden even to set foot in Aelia Ca.....
» 1/07/2008 6:19:30 PM "Rather, longevity in association with The Clan is why our ancestors survived. We liv.....
» 1/07/2008 4:06:56 PM Pelican & Gibo, "Oliver don't aske the 'good' police officers to resign, we need the.....
» 1/07/2008 3:34:43 PM “This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection o.....
» 1/07/2008 2:57:03 PM Correction: "Wells, writing in the first half of the twentieth century, suggested tha.....
» 1/07/2008 2:36:38 PM IamJoseph and Peracles[?], Thank you. Tallying does not represent productivity: Product.....
» 1/07/2008 11:46:54 AM Gibo, When I was the Director of Studies at an Asian university I found myself under pres.....
» 1/07/2008 11:15:03 AM Joo-Cheong, When I have heard Australian politicians justify their non-acceptance of the .....
» 30/06/2008 2:54:16 PM Sumer: "The period from 3200 to 3100 BCE saw, as we have observed, the beginnings of.....
» 30/06/2008 2:50:46 PM IamJoseph, Wells was addressing a proto-language but didn't provide details. Prehistoric.....
» 27/06/2008 10:58:23 AM Retired Keith and Friends, The citation of the Catholic Encyclaedia was limited to Protes.....
» 26/06/2008 6:24:21 PM All, From the Catholic Encylopaedia: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/12495a.htm The Bib.....
» 26/06/2008 5:17:23 PM People: Herein, your posit is, that we should look towards the Brain’s software rather th.....
» 25/06/2008 6:31:49 PM Boazy, Also, my very best wishes, if you are leaving OLO. I just took it that you were in.....
» 25/06/2008 4:04:44 PM Boazy, Don't miss my post on Page 8, please. Mark 9-10, largely addresses the transfigur.....
» 25/06/2008 12:40:04 PM IamJospeph, I have reconized the the significance of Bishop Usher's 4,004 BCE date for ov.....
» 25/06/2008 10:53:58 AM Clarification of Above: * " Its complicated, but basically Jesus could play to the .....
» 25/06/2008 9:19:51 AM Good morning Boazy, I am not arguing the Catholic position for myself, but from the stren.....
» 24/06/2008 4:40:56 PM Boazy, MARK 8:31 I read as Jesus' ministry on Earth and, an allusion to suffering and sub.....
» 24/06/2008 12:37:25 PM Steel Mann, I, personally, am not worried about Bibles in hotels, either. Nor would I be .....
» 24/06/2008 11:05:22 AM IamJoseph, Interesting argument. I had noticed the "later" element of the cita.....
» 24/06/2008 10:29:08 AM A well written article. A little while back my wife and I had a visitor stay with us from .....
» 24/06/2008 9:53:02 AM Dear Boazy, [1] Thank you for the explanation. [2] What Joanne and Webby are referring i.....
» 23/06/2008 8:22:07 PM IamJoseph, I have found a name, but not of a person, as yet. http://www.ancientanatolia......
» 23/06/2008 6:08:38 PM Boazy, I must have read the posts to quickly and missed something. Are you saying that no.....
» 23/06/2008 3:58:04 PM IamJoseph, Good post. Art is indicative of representational thought, i.e., higher cognit.....
» 23/06/2008 3:34:13 PM Hi Boazy, Bible or Koran in a hotel. It is a religious article occupying space in the pub.....
» 23/06/2008 2:05:26 PM IamJoseph, Still looking. There would be human art from the Neolithic perios: [Online] h.....
» 23/06/2008 1:23:04 PM PaulL? Ginx?.....
» 23/06/2008 10:12:04 AM Helllo Boazy, "As I said before, I focus on the resurrection of the Lord. Everything.....
» 23/06/2008 9:44:51 AM Hello Boazy, Should the Bible be available in hotel rooms? [Please rejoin interpretation.....
» 22/06/2008 2:53:50 PM Foxy, Touché! O......
» 22/06/2008 2:50:45 PM IamJoseph, I would not concede to Bishop Ussher's 4,004 BCE claim. Yet, that date would a.....
» 22/06/2008 12:31:11 PM Peter, No problem. Happy to help. socratease, A complement to "The Body of Christ&.....
» 21/06/2008 7:05:32 PM - PaulL?.....
» 21/06/2008 6:48:27 PM RobP, I think the high "tax-fee" salary reflects the statue of the Office, not .....
» 21/06/2008 6:44:04 PM Sorry, I was distracted working within the word limits, leaving the main item out. Blocked.....
» 21/06/2008 6:12:50 PM Rainbows: An interesting challenge, friend. The Epics of Gilgamesh & Atrahasis mention a.....
» 21/06/2008 1:04:57 PM IamJoseph, Thank you for an interesting reply. So, you are saying that prior to the crea.....
» 20/06/2008 5:42:22 PM -cont.- "Their veneration for apostolic origins drew them towards a history of the p.....
» 20/06/2008 5:26:43 PM Peter, Block quote: “The Church of England that took shape after the Restoration of 1660.....
» 20/06/2008 2:50:25 PM Gibo, On another thread I cited the distruction of of the Alexandrian Serapeum by Cristia.....
» 20/06/2008 12:51:09 PM Steel Mann, Good reply. Thank you. Just the same, it is not unusual for secular business.....
» 20/06/2008 11:25:10 AM Is not the tax-free status for non-charitable work of the Churches, a form support against.....
» 20/06/2008 10:32:14 AM Hello Boazy, I feel that this thread is incomplete. Suspect we should go for depth in our.....
» 19/06/2008 8:04:22 PM Paul L., "Much of this upheaval can be linked to the massive reparations requirement.....
» 19/06/2008 7:10:44 PM Steel, The catch with direct election, as you probably have heard before, is the Preside.....
» 19/06/2008 4:39:53 PM "... From the perception of a dual threat to established English Protestantism there .....
» 19/06/2008 4:24:45 PM Peter, Check out: Elations: The Poetics of Enthusiasm in Eighteenth-Century Britain (1999.....
» 19/06/2008 3:14:11 PM Pericles, Boaz stated the NT, in John, shows the NT godhead [Trinity] was developed in th.....
» 19/06/2008 12:28:01 PM Hello Boazy, A little tied-up crushing numbers for my own research. Happy to compare th.....
» 19/06/2008 11:55:28 AM Mr Right, "Wrong." - Mr. Right Yep. Have to admit it. I was wrong. Should have.....
» 18/06/2008 6:49:00 PM Boazy, "116. The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, .....
» 18/06/2008 5:45:10 PM Hanson supporters should read "The Nazi Seizure of Power" by William Sheridan Al.....
» 18/06/2008 12:45:24 PM "I have been a critic of liberal democracy because the much vaunted individual cannot.....
» 18/06/2008 11:39:03 AM -cont- On the topic of claims :-): "On pulling round the shores of the sea, we saw .....
» 18/06/2008 11:38:10 AM Hello Boazy, We now know, either, the Bible or Christian Church interpretion is fallible......
» 18/06/2008 10:27:02 AM -3- Hypothetically, if the Queen left England and became an Australian citizen, I would be.....
» 18/06/2008 10:09:35 AM plerdsus "Firstly, there is an error in the article. Her Majesty's representatives i.....
» 17/06/2008 3:23:13 PM Error: Did NOT have UBDs. It makes a difference. :-).....
» 17/06/2008 3:17:33 PM Romany and Sells, The historical background to the rise of Liberalism is seen in the reje.....
» 17/06/2008 1:25:37 PM Boazy, Thanks. So we are agreed the Bible is wrong in fact or the Churches are represent.....
» 16/06/2008 7:16:32 PM "These outbreaks could indeed be regarded as an outcome of the religious persecutions.....
» 16/06/2008 6:59:42 PM Boazy, There is nothing bad about the Bible document being wrong. Ptolemy was proven wron.....
» 16/06/2008 5:45:55 PM Boazy, VATICAN - PROTECTING BISHOP OF BOSTON The sanctionary matter was only mentioned i.....
» 16/06/2008 1:19:11 PM IamJoseph, Agree. Sumer-Western society does owe a debt to the Hebrews and the Greeks. Th.....
» 16/06/2008 1:07:39 PM Philip, Over-breeding also threatens a species, when/where there are scarce resources. Re.....
» 16/06/2008 1:03:46 PM Peter, "That might be why I had so much trouble writing the article and my dissatisf.....
» 16/06/2008 10:24:21 AM -cont- IamJoseph, My repetitive mentioning Herod [The Great] relates the conflict betwee.....
» 16/06/2008 10:10:04 AM Boazy, Herod: When did he die? Was Herod alive when Jesus was born? We have the opport.....
» 15/06/2008 6:33:11 PM Dear Peter, "Frenzy" - OED The root of the word enthusiasm, is possession and .....
» 15/06/2008 3:31:25 PM IamJoseph, Contrary to the NT, multiple sources 4 BCE. Christians believe, 1 CE. Christ.....
» 15/06/2008 11:55:26 AM Hello Peter, I am reminded of Ralf Walso Emerson: “Enthusiasm is one of the most powerfu.....
» 15/06/2008 11:02:56 AM Hello Bozy, - Was Herod alive, when Jesus was born? It is a straightforward question? .....
» 15/06/2008 10:58:40 AM post script: On today's "Insiders", on TV, it was mentioned the Pope, presumabl.....
» 15/06/2008 9:01:58 AM Boazy, One first needs to establish the Bible, as an authority on sexual orientation and .....
» 14/06/2008 3:47:38 PM Boazy, [1] Was Herod alive when Jesus was born? [2] "Oly.. regarding sources outsid.....
» 14/06/2008 12:14:51 PM IamJoseph, Thank you for your contribitutions. I think most Christians brought up on Ch.....
» 14/06/2008 12:12:21 PM Boazy, Greetings. "The old 'look what the cat dragged in' theory of Gnostism and th.....
» 13/06/2008 6:49:57 PM IamJoseph, I doubt Boaz will accept authorship of the quotation you cite. But I will. I.....
» 13/06/2008 2:25:17 PM Boazy, [1] “Christianity was developed centuries latter.” – O “very subjective, if you .....
» 13/06/2008 9:21:37 AM Dear Boaz, "Oly.. to much for this thread mate (your list of God questions; keeeep f.....
» 13/06/2008 1:23:06 AM Hi Boazy, Been busy into late at night. I do worry about you. That is, please don't let .....
» 12/06/2008 9:30:44 PM david f, For me Jesus was a first century Jew. Christianity was developed centuries latte.....
» 12/06/2008 5:22:59 PM Spikey, I don't know about you, but, perhaps my family and friends are simply boring. No .....
» 12/06/2008 3:08:31 PM Pericles, What also intersts me is; why Jesus and the Christian godhead? Unlike Boazy, w.....
» 12/06/2008 1:13:29 PM Boazy, “Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, .....
» 11/06/2008 8:36:20 PM Dear Boazy, Thanks for your above reply. Cow [2.62] Surely those who believe, and those .....
» 11/06/2008 4:55:15 PM TurnRightThenLeft, Yep. Agree text has meaning. Here, I have mentioned at least twice to .....
» 11/06/2008 2:28:03 PM Boazy, "So, even if I regard 'all Muslims' as 'enemies'.. it does not mean any ill f.....
» 11/06/2008 1:53:03 PM Hello Boazy and Peracles, Good joke. Good retort. Why would God wait until Peracles' se.....
» 11/06/2008 12:56:21 PM Hello Boazy, Do presume that each Muslim you met is an enemy? Muhammed's political situ.....
» 10/06/2008 3:35:51 PM socratease, We, in the West, owe a debt to the Muslims for preserving Greek science & phi.....
» 10/06/2008 3:04:58 PM Hello Boazy, Hope you don't start with the premise that every Muslim you meet is your ene.....
» 10/06/2008 1:51:32 PM Further to my comment on China: I have worked not only in China, but also Hong Kong and Si.....
» 10/06/2008 11:57:28 AM China has managed its face to the World and entry into herself, centrally. The cities and .....
» 10/06/2008 11:26:47 AM [3] Jesus’ Illegitimacy. My point was not biological; rather it was political. Jesus’ clai.....
» 10/06/2008 11:15:55 AM Curaezipirid et al., [1.] Josephus. I have not read any Josephus cover-to-cover, yet, I c.....
» 9/06/2008 2:53:17 PM Curaezipirid, Thank you for your comment. I look forward to re-reading it and responsing .....
» 7/06/2008 3:22:12 PM Boazy, According to one of my favourite Philosophers, Michael Polanyi, all personal meani.....
» 7/06/2008 1:22:40 PM Is this truncated poem, written by Lucretius, first century BCE, easier to understand the .....
» 7/06/2008 10:49:53 AM "The opening verse of Mark appears straightforwardly simple in the usual translations.....
» 7/06/2008 10:00:48 AM viking13, I recall reading the Guiness Book of a few decades ago that the tallest man in .....
» 6/06/2008 9:24:40 PM Hasbeen, post script: I am not trying to dump on Ms Gillard before she has a had a go. B.....
» 6/06/2008 9:18:22 PM Boazy, there is a wealth of religious literature there for study. Sells I think makes the .....
» 6/06/2008 5:39:16 PM Hasbeen, 1. That Committee is effevctive. Nelson called for submissions about four years.....
» 6/06/2008 2:43:27 PM Hello Boazy and CJ, Anthropologists seem to lean towards the Tsimshian worshiping Light a.....
» 5/06/2008 10:49:42 PM Error Above: $4OOk P.A. PLUS The above data are for Americans who are about to complete a.....
» 5/06/2008 9:07:02 PM All, Is the myth or legend borrowed/stolen? The Word was as it meant be read or spoken? .....
» 5/06/2008 8:35:11 PM cont. What about Genesis, why in the West does it have standing above a thousand other cr.....
» 5/06/2008 8:27:37 PM All, Is Mark a Myth or a Legend. What class of literature are we interpreting? Or is it u.....
» 5/06/2008 7:43:02 PM gavrilo, I have re-read in minute detail. Good one......
» 5/06/2008 7:40:30 PM gavrilo, One could hardly call the Central Coast [NSW] the "Bush". Many people .....
» 5/06/2008 6:52:45 PM Julia Gillard has put together a Committee to look into various issues involving Higher Ed.....
» 5/06/2008 2:52:31 PM What about speed zone lanes to encourage the purchase of smaller cars, wherein on dual hig.....
» 5/06/2008 2:38:48 PM Steel, Yes the contest wasn't quite what the media made it out to be. Would have prefer.....
» 5/06/2008 2:29:51 PM mhaze, I remember a cartoon involving one of the Viking Landers on Mars. Two strange look.....
» 5/06/2008 2:18:44 PM Here endth the thread? The findings might re-emerge as a new thread sometime. George, if .....
» 5/06/2008 2:13:46 PM Hi Graham, This is a good forum as evidenced by its popularity. Thanks. In theology and .....
» 4/06/2008 7:57:13 PM Boazy and friends, Always, I am leaving the most important word out. The Jews attacked t.....
» 4/06/2008 5:57:55 PM Peracles and George, Plato's of the Good is supposed to be an objective entity or princi.....
» 4/06/2008 4:57:46 PM [6] I think you will find the largest genocide in History was the Russians against the Pol.....
» 4/06/2008 2:36:20 PM Stephen, Sorry about the earlier mispelling of your name -just noticed it. I fins it ama.....
» 4/06/2008 2:06:40 PM Curaezipirid, Off thread, but, can't let your comments stand: [1] Mary was a Nun in trai.....
» 4/06/2008 11:33:03 AM StG, Your are right of course. I didn't what seem to be defending a point against, you wh.....
» 4/06/2008 12:06:04 AM "It is well-known that on average Blacks score poorly on IQ tests when compared to As.....
» 3/06/2008 11:59:22 PM Stg, Maybe a thousand year. The power source? :-) Albeit, some have suggested that the F.....
» 3/06/2008 11:54:16 PM Peracles, Monetheism is dangerous in that it exclusive and often intolerant. The Egyptian.....
» 3/06/2008 11:31:02 PM Dear John Dorey, Excuse my late reply. I still need to revise my knowledge of the KMT fro.....
» 3/06/2008 10:57:23 PM Stephen, This venue is not a Bulletin Board it is Forum. You are meant to partipate. Same.....
» 3/06/2008 10:49:15 PM Boazy, With: Posted by Oliver, Tuesday, 3 June 2008 12:45:57 PM I did try to exclude con.....
» 3/06/2008 7:23:06 PM IamJoseph, I am not refuting the persecutions. But it was a case the Christians would not.....
» 3/06/2008 5:05:56 PM "You will ALWAYS need air superiority." StG. Agree. A point made by Westmoorela.....
» 3/06/2008 3:51:31 PM "Oliver is it also true that there are more odd numbers then even in infinity? I know.....
» 3/06/2008 3:32:02 PM GPS/computer guided intelligent schapnel would render aircraft obsolete......
» 3/06/2008 3:28:17 PM Peracles and Curaezipirid, Please see my post: - Oliver, Monday, 2 June 2008 7:52:25 PM .....
» 3/06/2008 2:16:00 PM Loadmouth, Loudmouth for one who wants to jump through the screen and attack me you are s.....
» 3/06/2008 12:45:57 PM c Boaz, Mark 1.1-1.4 & Nero I put there are similarities between the exchange between .....
» 3/06/2008 12:40:33 AM Thanks Peracles, I still need to read George's recommended paper. I do have access. On th.....
» 3/06/2008 12:20:21 AM Boazy, There would have been 150 years of written gospels between 80 CE-325CE. The Lore b.....
» 2/06/2008 8:41:25 PM Many a powerful person between 1900-1950, believed in a fabricated document called the Pro.....
» 2/06/2008 8:17:37 PM Gibo, No. But the fear of communism or calling socialists communists could be used by an .....
» 2/06/2008 7:58:41 PM Loudmouth, “Black Hawk cast his eyes upon cornfields” “which the Sauks have . . . culti.....
» 2/06/2008 7:52:25 PM "'just' with the text given" - Boaz Mark 4.1. The beginning of the gospel of.....
» 2/06/2008 6:51:59 PM Boazy, "On your post saying Jesus is coming to fulfill the 2nd covenant re the OT........
» 2/06/2008 2:16:48 PM Boazy, "When the Armenian king visited Nero in the year 66, he knelt and addressed th.....
» 2/06/2008 12:32:54 PM Boaz, The author is claiming that a Messiah will come to fulful the Second Coventant with.....
» 2/06/2008 11:55:54 AM Peracles, Thoughtful answers. If neither god nor plutonic forms exist or subsist [Batman .....
» 2/06/2008 11:22:58 AM "Where money is needed help aboriginals, it should be given; But money should not be .....
» 1/06/2008 7:13:02 PM "Is there any evidence the universe or even the planet (or even a little bit of the p.....
» 1/06/2008 6:48:20 PM Loadmouth, By hybrid, I meant one does not acculturate aboriginal traditional culture wit.....
» 1/06/2008 5:34:17 PM George, Peracles, Boaz, Foxy, one under god, - Philo? I had the Theology & Science arti.....
» 1/06/2008 4:10:09 PM " recall you asked me to read outside the loop once.. and I did, but when I responded.....
» 1/06/2008 3:57:59 PM Peracles, Following on from post to your attention above I mention that in some computer .....
» 1/06/2008 3:13:06 PM "The POINT.....I'm laboring is.. 'WHAT DOES the 'text' SAY and what does it mean in e.....
» 31/05/2008 10:31:08 PM One under God, "as god-[logus]- is the-logic/law underpinning the-universe it-is-not.....
» 31/05/2008 9:48:07 PM Boazy, Suppose when claiming Mout Everest, I come across a volume, containing related two.....
» 31/05/2008 1:50:59 AM Boazy, There are many different styles in the Bible written by different people for vario.....
» 31/05/2008 12:52:11 AM George, Thank you for your prayers and good wishes. The after-effects of the chemo. could.....
» 30/05/2008 9:07:07 PM csteel and Ludwig, The mice claim it is not .31830988618379067153776752674503, rather its.....
» 30/05/2008 7:38:04 PM Horus, "Three centuries ago the trend was for power to move from the few to the many.....
» 30/05/2008 7:25:11 PM John Dorey, Democracies are hard to come by. We are lucky to be living in time in a spher.....
» 30/05/2008 7:01:44 PM Boazy, I hope you have merely people in opposition not enemies. Trigulation of disciplin.....
» 30/05/2008 3:25:48 PM "it", your thread: Not, the Movie. Albeit, regarding the Movie, there are some t.....
» 30/05/2008 3:02:20 PM Agree, ''terra nullious'' was nonsense. To say it was "owned" is equal nonsense .....
» 30/05/2008 2:30:04 PM Pericles, I am keeping the Universe and God separate, as soft-constructs. Yet, I wish to .....
» 30/05/2008 1:00:33 PM stevenlmeyer, You would enjoy "The Man who sued God", then. I took it seriously.....
» 29/05/2008 7:38:09 PM Hello George, What about my post, as restated, after reading Schrondinger's attempt at a .....
» 29/05/2008 5:17:07 PM So we stay on track: Would the Domain of Formulae "play to an empty house" [but.....
» 29/05/2008 5:08:58 PM Correction: "Is logos material or immaterial? Neither? ... in a theist's world view? .....
» 29/05/2008 3:06:27 PM Romany, In another thread I looked at Faith. My research found that at the time Moses fai.....
» 29/05/2008 2:38:40 PM "Why can't non-Indigenous people just say that they support Indigenous people in the .....
» 29/05/2008 2:21:23 PM Joe & Steve, I am not drunk animist treaties will try and recocile the parties as part of.....
» 29/05/2008 1:32:51 PM "If you're going to subject religions to the Trade Practices Act you ought to subject.....
» 29/05/2008 1:02:44 PM Generally the TPA refers to trades and services involved in trade and commerce. - Is conf.....
» 29/05/2008 12:42:39 AM Hi Romany, I think why it is hard for us to perceive boundaries to ths universe is that w.....
» 29/05/2008 12:32:57 AM Easy Times, Your are correct that univserse is expanding at a speed faster than c. The va.....
» 28/05/2008 6:54:27 PM Romany, And time and space may have been smeared before Planck time. Weird stuff. Greeti.....
» 28/05/2008 5:52:49 PM -cont- One Under God, cont. Appreciate your contribution. Some later uses of Logic: 1.....
» 28/05/2008 5:22:06 PM Pericles, Gretings friend. Yep, I am guilty of a little deliberate side-stepping, but I a.....
» 28/05/2008 1:47:59 PM ... So, yesterday, I did some research. Philosophers/Physicists sometimes use the term Re.....
» 28/05/2008 1:47:08 PM One Under God Thank you for your efforts with the equation. You are correct, I was playin.....
» 28/05/2008 12:47:46 PM Easy Times. I know not all organism need oxygen : e.g., anaerobic bacteria in the Earth's.....
» 27/05/2008 4:52:10 PM Hello Foxy, Could one 1 or the other 1 exist to make zero? :-) I posit a true null can't .....
» 27/05/2008 4:35:10 PM Pericles, According to Richard Leakey the average life space of a species on Earth is fou.....
» 27/05/2008 3:18:15 PM Philo, George, Foxy, Pericles, Boaz, et al., Restated: Can 1 + 1 = 2 exist, as a hypothic.....
» 27/05/2008 1:40:54 PM Hello Easy Time, A trilobite would indicate the presence of oxygen in the air - just coul.....
» 27/05/2008 1:04:20 PM Vanilla, It is tough when the mice don't know......
» 27/05/2008 1:01:58 PM Pelican, Hi! The notion of Design as might apply to god is essential. As Dawkins points o.....
» 27/05/2008 12:41:44 PM "The broading of men's views that resulted cannot be exaggerated. Before the cylinder.....
» 27/05/2008 12:15:45 PM In a null-realm, would 2 + 2 still equal 4, if god did not exist? Moreover, as a hypotheti.....
» 26/05/2008 7:29:51 PM runner, I am not saying sodomy is okay nor any perversions. I said that some society's do.....
» 26/05/2008 5:14:20 PM Thanks under one god. O. Stephan, Even you rarely participate in discussion. You post or.....
» 26/05/2008 4:48:51 PM Freediver, Agree. UQ and its partners need all the help government provide. I suspect the.....
» 26/05/2008 1:40:49 PM Stephen, You make some excellent comments I think and some more doubtful ones: http://ww.....
» 26/05/2008 1:09:32 PM Some cultures cover-up: some cultures don't cover-up. Especially, say three hundred years .....
» 26/05/2008 12:19:35 PM Hi Foxy, All is forgiven. In a bit of a rush today. Will look forward to reading your las.....
» 26/05/2008 12:15:37 PM Hi freediver, I am a aware of its civil applications and referring, on behaviour of UQ [I.....
» 25/05/2008 5:43:03 PM Jin, I think contributors deserve some feedback from you given there effort and comments......
» 25/05/2008 5:09:08 PM Error" Been there... Cut and paste error. I have worked on Artifical Intelligence pr.....
» 25/05/2008 4:57:25 PM Gibo, We should speak-out but through secure channels [DFAT]. The scramjet thing is harml.....
» 25/05/2008 3:00:37 PM The Ptolemic model was largely wrong, yet it did give us the idea of circle, to be read, a.....
» 25/05/2008 2:41:47 PM Mcjoy doesn't seem to have much conviction by not coming back to the site. This will be my.....
» 25/05/2008 2:39:01 PM Voltair, It is not my usual practice to discuss military strategy or materiel on an Inter.....
» 24/05/2008 12:12:42 AM Philo, "God is about working with individuals in their situation rather than nationa.....
» 23/05/2008 8:30:13 PM Hey, please lighten-up on Foxy, albeit the URL should been acknowledged, especially for su.....
» 23/05/2008 5:08:03 PM Gibo, What would be China's motive? With cross-listings on stock exchanges, transnations .....
» 23/05/2008 4:06:36 PM The end is neigh: On another post One Under God thinks China is about to cause the end of.....
» 23/05/2008 2:56:06 PM One under god, Revelation? Nothing to do with China, methinks. Revelation is an echo eve.....
» 23/05/2008 12:55:03 PM david f, Moreover, there is a distinction between Attic Greek and Koine Greek. Much of th.....
» 23/05/2008 12:12:18 PM Nic., A correspondent is emulation aptly described by Thoresin Veble c. 1915-1919. Herein.....
» 23/05/2008 11:30:16 AM pcannon, My late father (1911) said the [Shepparton, Vic.] farmers really exploited the i.....
» 23/05/2008 11:19:20 AM Evo, Yep, And it has happened before. Sol is a third generation star. But look on the br.....
» 22/05/2008 4:15:24 PM Error: Gell-Mann is a an Atheist. Being a dyslexic, who can't type, on chemo., is hard .....
» 22/05/2008 3:57:47 PM Error: Posted by Oliver, Thursday, 22 May 2008 1:06:06 PM Veblen: twientieth century [c.1.....
» 22/05/2008 2:45:27 PM "You feel up lifted with your experiences of Jesus, and you think that was grand, wai.....
» 22/05/2008 1:06:06 PM Hello Jin, By democracy, I assume you mean liberal democracy. The West's democracy grew o.....
» 22/05/2008 12:32:04 PM Evo, Greetings. " 'In the beginning there was an all-mighty bang"', one hell .....
» 22/05/2008 12:03:24 PM mcjoy, You have provided too little information. O. Sydney.....
» 21/05/2008 6:05:16 PM "What if Dawkins is really an unethical theist just seeking to make money from books .....
» 21/05/2008 5:36:57 PM Dear Foxy, Thank you for your kind words which are readily reciprocated. Appreciate your .....
» 21/05/2008 3:47:51 PM "Would better regulation have saved Bear Stearns? What has saved that disaster so far.....
» 21/05/2008 3:26:31 PM Usual Suspect, You can also take your perception of misrepresentation to the TPA tribunal.....
» 21/05/2008 2:52:21 PM When analysing why the West is different; it is necessary to regard dmocracy, liberalism a.....
» 21/05/2008 11:44:25 AM Dear Evo, The link is my own OLO. "Faith"; ithe link deals with the etymology o.....
» 20/05/2008 9:29:12 PM Faith? See: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=1804&page=8 Posted b.....
» 20/05/2008 9:18:18 PM Stephen, I am sure you are genuine in your beliefs and I also hope indigenous peoples rec.....
» 20/05/2008 8:20:37 PM mortgageinsider, An interesting read. Good. Thanks. GE is a credit agency not a Bank. Th.....
» 20/05/2008 7:48:59 PM Hello Foxy, When posting time permits will you please a look at my recent post on the Dea.....
» 20/05/2008 7:08:51 PM Were an Australian politician to claim he/she came under potentially mortal gun fire in a .....
» 20/05/2008 4:43:13 PM Ellen, In my re-read, I do note you did mention Plato and alluded the significance of Rom.....
» 20/05/2008 4:17:40 PM "A basic theory of randomness and chaos? Is that supposed to be the alternative to an.....
» 20/05/2008 1:43:49 PM Ellen, Excellent article. I will need to come-back and have a closer look. A few quick .....
» 20/05/2008 12:25:26 PM Dear Boazy, I can't comment on Jesus - The Man. I haven't read it. But I have read some T.....
» 20/05/2008 11:45:38 AM One under God, May point was we "do" confabulate. [I don't practise Psycholog.....
» 20/05/2008 10:56:46 AM Arjay, Your thread has reached in my subconscience. Last night I dreamt that organisation.....
» 20/05/2008 10:33:12 AM "The first year “s” will be used for soft “c”. Sertainly, sivil servants will resieve.....
» 19/05/2008 10:49:42 PM I have haven’t read the Book. I have three years of Psych. From Sydney U., and, understand.....
» 19/05/2008 10:39:08 PM Pericles, you might be interested: Love and God; Part Abstract Scientific American Book .....
» 19/05/2008 2:11:33 PM Henriette, Hello. I have read that Humankind lost or had deferred significant knowledge, .....
» 19/05/2008 7:52:00 AM one under god, Will come back to you. Have a good day. Yours faithfully, O......
» 18/05/2008 10:14:35 PM "evolution - that somehow the ever-improving organism can transform into an entirely .....
» 18/05/2008 9:51:05 PM BD consider Judea has a Greek foundation and Rome a Latin foundation. Herein, the Jews wer.....
» 18/05/2008 9:22:57 PM Boaz my good friend, The idea of Pesher and the Quell document/construct are devices to d.....
» 18/05/2008 8:26:56 PM Theists commonly refer to “Faith”; Let us have look at the word. It means “belief, trust a.....
» 18/05/2008 7:03:37 PM "With QM [sic. In Cosmology] it migt be possible to draw some sort of model, as with .....
» 18/05/2008 4:57:31 PM I believe that Roger Penrose has tried to develop a model of Phase Space before planck, it.....
» 18/05/2008 4:16:32 PM Hello there... You might care to take a peek at Five Questions for Theists posts: http:/.....
» 17/05/2008 8:38:00 PM -Error, reposted- I'm open argument from Theists' case. But my positive heuristical is in.....
» 17/05/2008 8:30:29 PM In parallel there were the Gnostic gospels. After Hellenisation of The Word,subsequently.....
» 17/05/2008 8:22:50 PM Steel, My Answer: I believe the Bible is made up of two distinct books one [OT] about pro.....
» 17/05/2008 7:48:07 PM Hi All, Thank you for your contributions. I tied up with some work involving the media fo.....
» 16/05/2008 2:53:16 PM Philip, A major initial problem is that most teachers leaving high school after 1975 don'.....
» 16/05/2008 1:36:19 PM All, Question one does not ask about the existence of god, but an explanation for god’s e.....
» 16/05/2008 10:28:38 AM david f, Yes, before we jump to a belief in Jesus or Zeus we need to is ask there a need .....
» 16/05/2008 8:16:10 AM Correction: Thank you for your comments which I see take a Theist perspective. I was hopi.....
» 16/05/2008 7:58:35 AM Early posters, Thank you for your comments which I see take a Theist perspective. I was h.....
» 15/05/2008 10:46:36 PM "Actually HRS, in my callow youth I set up a course called Political Economy and Tax......
» 15/05/2008 9:52:11 PM Joe in the US, In Oz if a politician lied about coming under potential mortal fire in a W.....
» 15/05/2008 7:46:23 PM Five Questions for Theists: 1. How do you "explain" the existence of God? Pe.....
» 15/05/2008 7:29:38 PM Sells, "Congratulations on an excellent article. Your exposure of the use of the the.....
» 15/05/2008 2:37:37 PM Good one Foxy! We are community and we care of each other. Hello Divorce Doctor, Copyigh.....
» 15/05/2008 1:39:13 PM "Instead we find the politics exemplified by the Young Liberals of trying to coalesce.....
» 14/05/2008 8:30:29 PM On Wealth: A communist? Mao Revisited Perhaps? “…among the ancient Romans, the lands of .....
» 14/05/2008 4:55:42 PM Gibo, There is a presumption of copyright and is not fully necessary protocol to have the.....
» 14/05/2008 2:49:17 PM Divorce Doctor: -Quote- UNIVERSAL MUSIC AUSTRALIA PTY LTD & ORS v SHARMAN LICENCE HOLDIN.....
» 14/05/2008 1:40:59 PM Graham, Hi. Did you notice my comment on Michael Ruse's OLO article being duplicated from.....
» 14/05/2008 12:14:48 PM Arjay and friends, The polies will just shelf the petition with all the others. It would .....
» 14/05/2008 11:46:30 AM Usual Suspect, It would normally take only one day for a between banks cheque to clear th.....
» 14/05/2008 12:16:18 AM Goodthief, CJM; Did you read my post? This well written article is not original, self-pla.....
» 13/05/2008 7:58:22 PM GrahmY et al, Important Note: The Struggle between Evolution and Creation: An American P.....
» 13/05/2008 5:03:53 PM [5] Social welfare falls short of socialism and socialism falls short of communism; market.....
» 13/05/2008 5:00:40 PM "One student was told in an industrial relations class that if she wrote a paper argu.....
» 13/05/2008 4:19:04 PM Good article but I think many settled immigrants are quite happy. I live in inner Sydney s.....
» 13/05/2008 3:17:42 PM "We have to recognise, despite political protestations to the contrary, that we are n.....
» 13/05/2008 2:20:24 PM "The Chinese have always been extremely defence oriented. If you want aggresive, look.....
» 13/05/2008 1:51:32 PM "a supreme IQ? or maybe just a good sense of humor?" - evolution. I saw the Pre.....
» 13/05/2008 12:33:45 PM 'From the moment we're born, society's rules and regulations are imposed upon us. What thi.....
» 13/05/2008 11:58:36 AM SUMMARY In sum, I think we saw some double-standards visa~a~vis publised victims [indige.....
» 13/05/2008 11:46:21 AM After a re-read: "In the near future due the the present financial crisis,we could s.....
» 13/05/2008 11:39:59 AM Greeting mortgageinsider and Arjay, Arjay, I agree that one should do everything that is .....
» 12/05/2008 6:56:45 PM "I see no point in any of this 'interfaith' stuff to be honest." Boazy What abo.....
» 12/05/2008 6:44:20 PM "That's a big 'if' Oliver. It is difficult to see how consolidation of power helps th.....
» 12/05/2008 5:25:34 PM Every decade or so, the HSBC looks at taking over Westpac. St. George would help Westpac's.....
» 12/05/2008 5:07:09 PM Col, Thank you for your informed post. I am aware of most of that history. When writing,.....
» 12/05/2008 5:03:48 PM Usual Suspect, If you feel the advertising is misleading you can take a director to the C.....
» 12/05/2008 9:23:42 AM With depsot accounts, consider actual bonds/inscribed stock instead of IBDs/Term deposits......
» 12/05/2008 8:40:10 AM Many of the Major Bank core systems date from the 1960s-1970s. At Westpac when I was there.....
» 11/05/2008 8:33:39 PM mortgageinsider, What needs to be looked is whether Banks are providing unused limits [am.....
» 11/05/2008 3:04:58 PM Boaz, If you wish to study any religion you need look at third party histories of the tim.....
» 11/05/2008 2:54:21 PM Sancho, You started this thread. Why not make further comment?.....
» 11/05/2008 2:49:26 PM Dear Steel, Thank you for your reply but your two liners are hard to address. If you rea.....
» 11/05/2008 2:25:31 PM Sells. Despite despite your bad manners being a Humanitian I will not reciprocate. Stay w.....
» 10/05/2008 6:56:23 PM Wobbles, "We will never see another Snowy Mountains scheme or even an Opera House. T.....
» 10/05/2008 6:06:29 PM Col, I have thought interesting Britain attacked Hitler/Germany, over the latter's invasi.....
» 10/05/2008 5:38:22 PM "Must say the last line in Ciaran’s essay added with a suggestion by John McCain that.....
» 10/05/2008 5:14:28 PM Boaz & CJM, I am hapy to listen to argument from both Theist and Atheists sides. nly, for.....
» 10/05/2008 4:41:21 PM "Isn't the government heavily, if not ultimately responsible for social and economic .....
» 10/05/2008 3:56:55 PM Evolution, Not from ABC sources; I have heard of a late Justice, who had the nick-name &q.....
» 10/05/2008 2:38:28 PM Sells, Unless, you are on holiday, caught at work or facing a crisis, it would seem you j.....
» 10/05/2008 2:32:10 PM Boaz my Friend, The Christian Church has the same History of wars, invasions and changing.....
» 9/05/2008 10:25:10 PM What is up with you Sells do you totally lack courtesy?.....
» 9/05/2008 10:23:06 PM Hello Foxy, My Headliner was meant to bring out issues and not at first state my point-of.....
» 9/05/2008 8:12:48 PM Horus, "Nuke Teheran?. Not likely. Since Dresden , Nagasaki & Hiroshima the West has.....
» 9/05/2008 6:05:39 PM "If wealth was aquired by an earlier generation by doing harm to others is it then OK.....
» 9/05/2008 2:52:00 PM "All religions are merely opiates for the masses too dumb to think for themselves.&qu.....
» 9/05/2008 2:08:49 PM 1. Hate speech or propaganda is used frequently by all sides in War or Confrontation. As a.....
» 9/05/2008 1:25:08 PM Urilities should run down in bank money to repair them in twenty years. But politicians do.....
» 9/05/2008 1:04:44 PM I really wonder if Sells just posts sermons here, and lacks the spirit of OLO debate. He.....
» 8/05/2008 10:39:09 PM "Our system of Government and laws were beased on the will of the people. That is why.....
» 8/05/2008 10:00:08 PM Foxy and Runner, I lost a longer reply and now becoming tired. So, please the brevity: A.....
» 8/05/2008 9:39:33 PM Sells, Of John Locke: "Virtutes si quas habuit, minores sane quam sibi laudi ducere.....
» 8/05/2008 6:17:29 PM Romany, Thanks for those valuable sources, I will certainly check each out. I usually use.....
» 8/05/2008 3:27:40 PM Stephen, From a short piece I wrote on whether the Queen should apologise for for the pas.....
» 8/05/2008 2:08:30 PM US, AS withn the tobaccp industry one most semonstrate actual cause and effect to the sat.....
» 8/05/2008 1:33:47 PM Foxy, Please note, that the Trading Kings I refer anre not British, rather Black African .....
» 8/05/2008 12:42:52 PM "PROBLEM... as usual there is one. IF.. as Iemma says "we need the money" i.....
» 8/05/2008 2:16:38 AM Arjay, Why the attack? I agree with everything you said, except we are not as exposed as .....
» 8/05/2008 1:54:43 AM Charles, "I see that child who lay upon her bosom..." [sic whom lays upon...?] .....
» 8/05/2008 1:41:26 AM Robert, "The point where it becomes more complex is where the current generation ben.....
» 7/05/2008 9:42:19 PM Boaz, I was once in a Rostrum club with a senior [had a PhD] manager wityh electricity co.....
» 7/05/2008 8:31:48 PM "One of these is education, which can serve to reinforce early sociocultural conditio.....
» 7/05/2008 8:19:09 PM Sells, Golgotha in literature: Given you haven't replied I assume you might not have und.....
» 7/05/2008 8:02:31 PM Steel, Please develop your argument with apt citations. Hello Foxy, "Britain aboli.....
» 7/05/2008 5:28:28 PM Arjay, Australia since at least the 1980s has been the wealthiest nation on the planet [n.....
» 7/05/2008 4:28:22 PM Usual Suspect, You show me any post of yours' that is well researched at the following to.....
» 7/05/2008 4:03:40 PM "Pelican, taxing luxury goods is a bad idea once you consider the economic implicatio.....
» 7/05/2008 2:32:52 PM Steel, Because you really didn't understand my ruse about the Queen apologising matter an.....
» 7/05/2008 2:32:48 PM Steel, Because you really didn't understand my ruse about Queen apologising matter and my.....
» 7/05/2008 1:13:56 PM So all of you agree that the Office of Prime Minister of Australia should NOT have apologi.....
» 6/05/2008 10:21:18 PM -2- Dickens: “ Bring it back, afore the day comes when even his Bible changes in his alt.....
» 6/05/2008 10:16:45 PM "You must know that in 1941 they were seeking and won independence for their country .....
» 6/05/2008 9:33:48 PM Foxy & CJ, So, by extrapolation, you feel it is silly discuss an apology to indigenous pe.....
» 6/05/2008 7:42:23 PM Sells, You didn’t to reply to me. Nonetheless, being Humanist, I will “turn the other che.....
» 6/05/2008 7:22:23 PM The baulding Paul Keating didn't like from-above shots. A friend of mine from the ABC sai.....
» 6/05/2008 7:04:43 PM All, It is meant be an open question. We have apologized retrospectively for our wrongs, .....
» 6/05/2008 3:45:58 PM Given Australia's Prime Minitser has apologised for the poor treatment of indineous Austra.....
» 6/05/2008 12:15:22 PM Philo, I think we can learn from the Ancient Greeks and develop a system to ostacize Ieem.....
» 5/05/2008 9:51:02 PM "The debate between evolution and scripture in the English-speaking world was won by .....
» 5/05/2008 7:39:52 PM Sells, "Thus Austen’s characters live at ease with God in that God has no place in t.....
» 5/05/2008 6:43:04 PM "Over two HUNDRED nation-states must face the twenty-first century and globalisation......
» 5/05/2008 5:52:35 PM "It's stupid to try to maintain an ancient culture and protect it from the realities .....
» 5/05/2008 5:45:47 PM Sells, Surely, you have something to say on the notion of rites being a transnational in.....
» 5/05/2008 5:44:04 PM George, On Polanyi: "Because participation at the highest level required for an un.....
» 5/05/2008 3:50:33 PM [1] We can help children in aboriginal communities by addressing situations like in the be.....
» 4/05/2008 8:27:25 PM Foxy and others, The notion of 'terra nullius' was absurd even earlier cases distinguishe.....
» 4/05/2008 6:19:15 PM Foxy, Thanks. See you on another post, I hope. Cheers. All, When the Yirrkala Reserve w.....
» 4/05/2008 5:27:45 PM Hello George, My academic interest in Polanyi is more to do with implicit & explicit know.....
» 4/05/2008 2:56:49 PM Foxy, I am a direct but distant descendant [IGI Index] from an historical Scottish family.....
» 4/05/2008 12:41:56 PM "In 1837, a House of Commons Select Committee conducted an investigation into the con.....
» 4/05/2008 12:09:40 PM "I know of no external power which did not exploit the indigenous people for colonial.....
» 4/05/2008 11:58:58 AM Waterboy, "Gods word is not singular in meaning and indeed we should read it looking.....
» 4/05/2008 11:07:46 AM All, Please don't drop the ball by moving on to a new topic. We have an on-going debate h.....
» 3/05/2008 7:02:03 PM Foxy, "Unless you give us back our nationhood, you can never claim your own." .....
» 3/05/2008 5:18:07 PM Ajay, Yes teachers all-to-often "life experiences". Perhaps, a year or two in i.....
» 3/05/2008 3:26:29 PM Foxy, There is no such thing as personal ownership of land for whites or blacks. Even wit.....
» 3/05/2008 2:29:03 PM waterboy, Whose/Which God and on what basis do you choose? Did Jesus die for the Antecs o.....
» 3/05/2008 1:19:18 PM Foxy, Only a few would disagree the aborigines have been poorly treated and perhaps some .....
» 3/05/2008 12:15:52 PM "is continent's original inhabitants had an existing and longlasting sovereign system.....
» 3/05/2008 12:14:45 AM Boaz, Thanks for your reply. I think it was a cleric who said "I don't believe in Go.....
» 2/05/2008 3:11:35 PM Natasha, The Parliament does not follow the wishes of the people and probably never has s.....
» 2/05/2008 2:47:40 PM Hello Boaz, Unfinished debate 29/4 - 1/5: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?d.....
» 2/05/2008 2:46:08 PM Freedriver, Hi! You have junped track woth unfinished busines 29/4 - 1/5: http://forum.o.....
» 2/05/2008 1:58:47 PM Dear Sells, I have wondered why you post and rarely debate the issues you raise? I wonde.....
» 2/05/2008 1:41:59 PM George; The following might interest you. Use JSTOR via your university’s databases, as mo.....
» 1/05/2008 5:48:10 PM Individual, Moreover, only the top 10%-20% should be able to go to university, else in is.....
» 1/05/2008 4:43:51 PM Freedriver et al, Please don't truncate this thread. There is still more to be said. More.....
» 30/04/2008 8:47:06 PM Sells, Dogma, Etymology: [a 1600 HOOKER Eccl. Pol. VIII. ii. §13 [tr. D. Stapleton] Power.....
» 30/04/2008 8:24:05 PM "Well, what went wrong?" -indivudal Dawkins and Nelson. The former vertically i.....
» 30/04/2008 5:29:43 PM Greg, What is the situation with CCDs at the momement? Circa 1974, I recall the Bank of N.....
» 30/04/2008 4:13:52 PM Relda, In academe some degree deference remains even after a PhD. One can be isolate jump.....
» 30/04/2008 2:35:40 PM Interesting article. The difference between spirituality and religion is the former is bi.....
» 30/04/2008 12:52:31 PM Ooops. Immediately above, I didn't give a citation: Moris S.C, Nature, Jan. 21, 1993:vOL 3.....
» 30/04/2008 12:28:26 PM All, The eukatyote radiation [i.e., spread] of the ealy metazoans appear subsequent to th.....
» 29/04/2008 5:19:00 PM Hello Boaz, I was picking-up on Kuhn's assertion, we should not compare one theory to the.....
» 29/04/2008 4:48:16 PM -cont- Likewise, Pilate according historians was Praefectus of Judea, hereafter, proconsu.....
» 29/04/2008 3:11:31 PM George, "You are entitled to interpret the OT and the NT your way, but so are people.....
» 28/04/2008 4:10:40 PM George, [1] I think I would not be aong in seeing Kuhn overemphasing ontology and underes.....
» 28/04/2008 3:24:54 PM Boaz, Thanks for your reply. No I was not referring to WWI and the "shot that was h.....
» 27/04/2008 6:27:10 PM Freediver, [1] "Does your conclusion compare one or many theories with "the wo.....
» 27/04/2008 5:06:09 PM Jolanda, "FOI is corruptable as they can change information and destroy information.....
» 27/04/2008 4:22:22 PM Hello Relda, Have enjoyed your posts. George's too. "A great motif is, we strive to.....
» 27/04/2008 4:00:29 PM The problem with an elected President is that there is a public mandate outside of the pol.....
» 27/04/2008 2:50:06 PM Boaz, 1. I hope you found some comfort in your ANZAC day, met old friends and enjoyed rem.....
» 27/04/2008 2:45:51 PM Freediver, Boaz and Sells, - Can you expplain the existence of God? Evolution, I will t.....
» 27/04/2008 2:25:26 PM Good greetings, George, "GR and QM are well understood (mathematically) and verified.....
» 27/04/2008 11:54:36 AM Jolanda, FOI is a problem. I know a person [a well known TV personality] who could not ev.....
» 27/04/2008 2:17:37 AM Jolanda, I wish you success and agree Government can be a problem. I can feel for your fr.....
» 26/04/2008 8:26:23 PM Jolanda, Hello again. You been through too much no doubt. Have you tried the Weschler I.....
» 26/04/2008 6:52:08 PM Evolution, " jesus just thought he was a god." Thinking himself divine, perhap.....
» 26/04/2008 6:01:39 PM johncee1945, Nauru once (c.1965) had the highest per capita income in the world. Living o.....
» 26/04/2008 3:07:10 PM Boaz, [1] “For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into th.....
» 26/04/2008 2:32:51 PM Freediver [Sells and Boaz], Your response to the above would prove interesting. O......
» 26/04/2008 2:02:20 PM Hello George, Greetings friend... "Multiverse, if it exists apart from our universe.....
» 26/04/2008 1:12:58 PM Relda, Thanks. Another interesting post. I do read Thiering critically. She does referen.....
» 26/04/2008 12:37:06 PM Dear Dr Clark, 1. If this happned at school and you have witnesses be aware that in NSW, .....
» 26/04/2008 11:36:47 AM Managing slack government: An ostracism system where the leader not necessarily the party.....
» 25/04/2008 10:09:38 PM Freediver and others: [1] My Error corrected, should be instead of the above: "In th.....
» 25/04/2008 8:24:17 PM " 'To Kuhn, confirmation, and I am typing with a Kuhn journal aticle [Isis , Vol. 52,.....
» 25/04/2008 5:55:40 PM US mortgages were hit hard. Low income earners and high credit risk clients suffered under.....
» 25/04/2008 5:51:24 PM Pericles, - Part One Addressing your question: - As a first approximation, let us consi.....
» 25/04/2008 4:58:03 PM Hello Philo, "There is no dichotomy between natural science and Christian faith.&quo.....
» 25/04/2008 1:44:25 PM Ludwig, Are companies constituents? In a democracy the Elected and instrumentalities [c.....
» 25/04/2008 1:04:29 PM Sells: HI Peter, George's post Monday, 7 April 2008 1:33:10 PM fits well in with my tho.....
» 25/04/2008 12:08:10 PM Sells, Kuhn, I think makes an interesting point about the need to not have just one model.....
» 24/04/2008 9:11:28 PM Evo., Enjoyed your comment. Freediver, Popper and Kuhn use the terms confirmation diffe.....
» 24/04/2008 5:53:03 PM Evolution, I am much in agreement with your most recent statement on religion, except I t.....
» 24/04/2008 4:46:02 PM Hello Relda and Waterboy, I think the Jews were essentially expelled to Pella: As the Je.....
» 24/04/2008 12:38:19 PM Evolution, The capture of God(s) by a religious priesthood would go back about 6,000 B.P......
» 23/04/2008 3:02:02 PM Sancho, From Internet browsing one draws the possibility that skin colour "is" .....
» 23/04/2008 2:24:39 PM Sancho, 1. I will reflect on the pigmentation situation. I can see why short giraffes wou.....
» 23/04/2008 1:04:07 PM Freerider, 1. Yes, I did mean refute. A typo. 2. Human skin colour in situation stated a.....
» 22/04/2008 8:04:53 PM Freediver, " 'I thought I had explained in an earlier post, how proto-humans evolved.....
» 22/04/2008 7:33:52 PM johncee1945, Also, when non-US MNCs expatriate devalued US dollar assets, this impacts on.....
» 22/04/2008 7:05:40 PM Relda, Hello: Ooops. 322 BCE is indeed the date taken as the fall of Ancient Greece but .....
» 22/04/2008 2:32:03 PM Banks will also find it hard as they come off high interest [say 2010] rates to lower rate.....
» 22/04/2008 1:15:21 PM Boaz, I think the 4,004 BC thing has to do with clerics working the OT geneologies back t.....
» 22/04/2008 11:52:55 AM "we need to give tangible evidence that we value their [indigenous] cultures as much .....
» 21/04/2008 8:38:36 PM Hello George, I never heard of 6-D, nor of Penrose’s model of space-time that would diffe.....
» 21/04/2008 5:56:09 PM In Australia we see many peole with one foot in the Australian culture and another foot in.....
» 21/04/2008 4:30:10 PM Hello relda, Thank you for an interesting reply. When thinking of the the Ancient Greeks,.....
» 20/04/2008 4:27:19 PM CJM, In my experience working into China from HK, both the Chinese side and the other sid.....
» 20/04/2008 4:13:24 PM John Greenfield, How do you we get past the All Indigenious People Victim Industry and m.....
» 20/04/2008 3:21:37 PM Non-theistically, the thin edgeof the wedge regarding the House of David starts the father.....
» 20/04/2008 3:02:35 PM "... the Second Council of Constantinople ... - relda I suspect that very few Christ.....
» 20/04/2008 12:20:05 PM "In my opinion it puts light on the fact that pay increases MUST be linked to either .....
» 20/04/2008 11:48:18 AM My understanding is the with public service jobs, the applicant would have had to address .....
» 20/04/2008 11:01:32 AM "The reality is, for 230 years, the Australian Government has forced genuine Aborigin.....
» 19/04/2008 5:21:28 PM Gibo, I have translations of the Dead Scrolls. There is not much there on the Beast or 66.....
» 19/04/2008 12:25:14 PM We need to be careful with this one. In 1960s, it would have been been popular to learn In.....
» 19/04/2008 12:02:28 PM Foxy, My thoughts are with you and your loved one. Ask your GP or Specialist about Respe.....
» 18/04/2008 6:13:37 PM Freediver, I drawing a distinction between natural selection and evolution; wherein the s.....
» 18/04/2008 5:27:52 PM Gibo, BT also mentions Simon Magus [Median/Gnostic Priest] as an anti-Pope and leader of .....
» 18/04/2008 4:50:49 PM Freediver, Observation is part of the experiment [Schrödinger]. Cheers, O......
» 18/04/2008 2:55:20 PM "Recommendation: provide first home owners with a higher first home owner’s grant (20.....
» 18/04/2008 2:12:47 PM Gibo, "666" or Taw, Resh, Samekh - Waw refers to grades in the ancient Jewist m.....
» 18/04/2008 1:53:48 PM Repatiation of US profits or disclosure of US Assets on non-US multinational consolidated .....
» 18/04/2008 1:49:20 PM Bugsy, Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin [palaeo-antropologist] make forward predictions on .....
» 18/04/2008 1:30:10 PM Freedriver, [1] I am happy to accept that experimentation is the means to test theory, a.....
» 17/04/2008 9:49:07 PM Dear Foxy, Thanks. O......
» 17/04/2008 4:48:30 PM I think Anubus would agree. History will certainly judge him positively. O......
» 17/04/2008 4:33:36 PM Error: Should read pick-up above. Stephen, good luck......
» 17/04/2008 3:40:27 PM Further to Oliver, Thursday, 17 April 2008 11:32:41 AM above: Freedriver, Would you plea.....
» 17/04/2008 1:36:27 PM Mr. Right, I suspect USQ will pick on the travel tab. If I recall my sociology correctly.....
» 17/04/2008 11:32:41 AM "Abstract: Beneficial mutations are the driving force of evolution by natural selecti.....
» 17/04/2008 9:39:30 AM Hello Foxy, Churchill also used body doubles. So in a way be was a fabrication required a.....
» 16/04/2008 8:10:59 PM Boaz, The concept of The Son of God refers to the Righteous [to Man] and the Pious [to Go.....
» 16/04/2008 7:12:26 PM Hello Foxy, This appears to be unbiased comment from standford.edu: http://www.stanford......
» 16/04/2008 6:28:34 PM Foxy, Thank you. No one in their right mind would dispute King's valuable contribution t.....
» 16/04/2008 6:02:45 PM "Universal common ancestry is not falsifiable because it is a question of history, no.....
» 16/04/2008 3:35:40 PM King the Plagiarist: Boston University concluded that Martin Luther King, Jr. had plagiar.....
» 16/04/2008 3:01:37 PM A double dissolution was not required. A half-senate election brought forward would have s.....
» 16/04/2008 2:50:18 PM Bugsy, According to the display labeling at the Australia Museum in Sydney we "are&q.....
» 16/04/2008 12:23:37 PM Hanson and Fear: Read William Sheridan Allen's, The Nazi Seizure of Power: The Experience.....
» 16/04/2008 10:55:16 AM George and Sells, I suspect Einstein still had one foot back in Classic Mechanics, wherea.....
» 16/04/2008 10:04:01 AM The notional date for the use of scientific method is 1760 [The Great Divergennce]. Here, .....
» 15/04/2008 6:59:46 PM Both the ALP and the Liberals have a stake in maintaining a status quo of government fundi.....
» 15/04/2008 5:01:10 PM Bugsy, The History of Science society would oint to The Great Divergence as a time when H.....
» 15/04/2008 1:51:45 PM BOAZ_David, According to the Dead Sea Scrolls the term "Son of God" can apply t.....
» 15/04/2008 1:32:52 PM The human brain matures at 25 [case against?]. Teenagers rate higher than most adults on L.....
» 13/04/2008 11:11:06 PM Religiosity is cohesive but it is not necessary to recognise morality. Secular humist do j.....
» 13/04/2008 10:24:47 PM One needs to be careful not confuse the Jesus Mission with Christianity: The former goes .....
» 13/04/2008 9:29:12 PM A shameful situation against the indigenous Aussies involved. A little reminiscent of fami.....
» 29/01/2008 10:57:22 PM Philo, West & David; Thanks. Early flight tomorrow. O......
» 29/01/2008 5:44:55 PM It makes wonder what some people want to read? Some depth, seemingly not. Remember; The Na.....
» 29/01/2008 5:34:52 PM All, To iterate: "Matthew 12:30-32 "He that is not with me is against me, and h.....
» 29/01/2008 5:25:44 PM David, Thanks. Progress towards reformation is slow, yet, "the journey of a thousa.....
» 29/01/2008 1:27:30 PM "agree with the new atheists, religion is a problem, it distorts our view of the worl.....
» 29/01/2008 12:27:50 AM Loose ends: Some key Logical Fallacy definitions [Source: Popkin et al] Argumentum ad hom.....
» 28/01/2008 5:55:25 PM David, “You [Kennedy] and I should not now pull on the ends of the rope in which you have.....
» 28/01/2008 4:42:21 PM David, "It is questionable if you are winning the minds of doubters and in fact, you.....
» 28/01/2008 4:04:27 PM Sells, There are also significant issues regarding a comon ousia, if the Holy Spirit is s.....
» 28/01/2008 3:58:18 PM Between the 1950s-1970s with the internationalisation we moved a away from Bretton Woods [.....
» 28/01/2008 2:24:25 PM David, -- Example of my "testing" the concept of the Nicaean godhead with an An.....
» 28/01/2008 2:09:32 PM Hi Sells, Above when I mention Trinity in the NT, I mean direct reference to the Godhead,.....
» 27/01/2008 11:20:44 PM ”You are getting your knickers in a knot. If you wish to share the burden of proof on popu.....
» 27/01/2008 5:49:21 PM David, "You did leave an important word out of the quote and one that your case rest.....
» 27/01/2008 4:09:00 PM David, Quick p.s. "As a final comment, I have been annoyed at your referral, on a c.....
» 27/01/2008 3:36:04 PM Sells, Where in the NT is the Trinity explicity defined? [The OT has a different godhea.....
» 26/01/2008 9:36:52 PM All Sells [Peter Sellick]: http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/author.asp?id=118 Selected Se.....
» 26/01/2008 8:07:36 PM "Galileo was not testing the supernatural no matter how many people believed his find.....
» 26/01/2008 4:38:35 PM Anti-Green, Thanks for your comments. EARTH & SPACE “The Copernican system displaced t.....
» 26/01/2008 3:05:32 PM “Galileo etc are not examples of testing the supernatural; they are testament to the testi.....
» 26/01/2008 2:04:49 PM runner, Kin altruism and familialism are certainly tribal traits, which would have existe.....
» 26/01/2008 1:20:34 PM "Galileo etc are not examples of testing the supernatural; they are testament to the .....
» 25/01/2008 9:24:15 PM Potty, Yep. A 1975 Passat TS [c.1490cc] will out accelerate a light V8 of the same vintag.....
» 25/01/2008 4:46:50 PM Sells and Pericles, The Vatican astronomers whom examined Gallileo's telescope had faith .....
» 25/01/2008 4:23:48 PM David, TESTING THE SUPERNATURAL When Galileo improved the telescope, the device was exam.....
» 25/01/2008 3:53:15 PM David, NULL HYPOTHESES A null hypothises is, "a statement in which no difference of.....
» 25/01/2008 3:16:58 PM Pericles, "Oliver, unfortunately you have raised some interesting points." Tha.....
» 25/01/2008 6:59:38 AM "'if I drop a brick, aimed at my toe, using all known physics, to create a null hypot.....
» 24/01/2008 10:53:58 PM All, It pays to research from reliable sources and in part manage your illness: I returne.....
» 24/01/2008 9:38:34 PM David, Get real. "Wikipedia"! It is a bit like playing Russian Roulette,as reg.....
» 24/01/2008 2:01:29 PM "I’m sorry, but that is a lot of waffle. Allow me to ask the question again that you .....
» 24/01/2008 1:44:21 PM Hi David, Thanks. It's not waffle. It is how a scientist applies hypotheses. Null hypot.....
» 24/01/2008 1:11:43 PM Sells, Like me, you are probably very busy now. When you have some time your comment woul.....
» 24/01/2008 3:42:51 AM West, "Magic does not exist and so God also does not exist. Nobody can substantiate .....
» 23/01/2008 10:53:28 PM Sells and others; Source for definitions: OED [Unabridged) REASON: --c1374 CHAUCER Boe.....
» 23/01/2008 9:04:52 PM Corri, Please let me try again: -- Unfortunately, increasingLY medical practitioners ex.....
» 23/01/2008 5:02:49 PM OOps. "interrational marriages" interracial of course. Only last weekend a Chi.....
» 23/01/2008 4:39:26 PM Corri, "after all, as Demos points out - it's a business. " - Corri Yep, a bus.....
» 23/01/2008 12:18:21 PM "An uncritical and positive view of the Enlightenment is orthodoxy at Australian secu.....
» 23/01/2008 11:40:36 AM "The only way to change is for all of us to finally realize that racial prejudice is .....
» 22/01/2008 10:12:16 PM "caught between two worlds" Arnold Toynbee notes Peoples in this position forms.....
» 22/01/2008 9:38:33 PM David and West, Thanks. I lost a fairly comprehensive reply on trying to post. My own fa.....
» 22/01/2008 4:37:01 PM Sells? -re- Oliver, Monday, 21 January 2008 6:15:39 PM. What do you think? Individualism .....
» 22/01/2008 3:18:05 PM My story relates to a Medical Centre in Hong Kong, yet I suggest the same events could hav.....
» 22/01/2008 11:26:05 AM "666" was a reference in numerology to Caesar. A few years ago preachers were cl.....
» 22/01/2008 10:59:45 AM Dear Stickman, As an athiest, I have read Dawkins and was unimpressed. I have edited an a.....
» 22/01/2008 1:27:41 AM Being PC... God or Godo? :-) "[Com. Teut.: OE. god (masc. in sing.; pl. godu, godo .....
» 21/01/2008 11:05:42 PM --Religicles, Scepticus and Inquirius— Religicles: I think we are in basic agreement abo.....
» 21/01/2008 7:10:14 PM Hi Foxy, I recall a Chinese restranteur complaining on Oz TV about racism. At the time, I.....
» 21/01/2008 6:15:39 PM "I regard the queen as the head of the Anglican communion to be a historical accident.....
» 21/01/2008 3:18:42 PM /... The way you phrased the sentence made it appear that each side had equality in holdi.....
» 21/01/2008 3:16:39 PM Conviction; (Pertinent Oxford Dictionary definition) Act of convincing; settled belief. -.....
» 21/01/2008 12:39:15 PM David, “Either party can merely have a conviction.” I do not have a conviction; I am wait.....
» 20/01/2008 4:24:02 PM David, "Conversely, those who do remain religious should not be hassled by governmen.....
» 20/01/2008 3:54:53 PM In the early 1970s the Bank of NSW [Westpac] was borrowing several billion dollars a day v.....
» 20/01/2008 3:45:47 PM I have a friend who once worked with the ABC, where they put/spliced together a reel of D-.....
» 20/01/2008 3:40:29 PM Racism in Australia...does it exist? Yes... especially in restraunts in Sydney's China To.....
» 20/01/2008 12:57:44 AM Further … Too often dialogue between Athiests and Thiests involves Physical Science vs. .....
» 19/01/2008 10:05:38 PM Sells, Where does the British Monarch sit? Is it rational that there be a Defender of the.....
» 19/01/2008 8:09:23 PM David, Didn't think I would have an other chance to post today: Bound be reach a post lim.....
» 19/01/2008 4:37:36 PM HarryG, Please see: http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=1374&page=30.....
» 19/01/2008 4:11:38 PM ...Cont. --- “Troy does not exist”. People in the nineteenth century felt that Troy did n.....
» 19/01/2008 3:29:28 PM “ ‘Atheists need to adopt a more investigative approach maintaining and testing tenative h.....
» 19/01/2008 12:27:48 AM "Too be honest, I'm not sure what you're getting at in that last post. I don't see ho.....
» 18/01/2008 4:19:16 PM AJP, "If we are to build axioms from our constructs we must define our constructs ca.....
» 18/01/2008 3:34:30 PM "Our focus can no longer be on the survival of the Church, but on how the Church, wea.....
» 18/01/2008 1:41:52 PM Error: "the Hewbrews didn't move from polythesism to henothesism... -O. Should be: .....
» 18/01/2008 11:31:15 AM I am a non-religious person and happy to be called an atheist: I did smile at a few sente.....
» 17/01/2008 11:12:52 PM AJP, I agree with that which most atheists state and would wear the label atheist myself......
» 17/01/2008 7:46:28 PM "Davids point I think is Christians try and exclude everybody who is not part of thei.....
» 17/01/2008 6:54:54 PM Thomas Aquinas saw the true light when prompted by Peter Abelard he took the message from .....
» 17/01/2008 6:08:05 PM Cont… David, To threaten people, especially children, with eternal damnation for not bel.....
» 17/01/2008 3:20:07 PM Davis, "As you may be aware, the original draft of the Declaration condemned the sla.....
» 17/01/2008 2:01:23 PM David, Thanks for your insights and review. “I agree also, that the Founding Fathers may.....
» 16/01/2008 6:24:12 PM -Cont-- are a bit fuzzy... Similarly, I feel that the faithful to their faith, wherein, .....
» 16/01/2008 6:05:55 PM "The fatal mistake made by those who initiated the so called “Age of Reason” was that.....
» 16/01/2008 4:52:08 PM David: I'll try again :-)... I agree that [religious]dogma should not enter politics. De.....
» 16/01/2008 3:16:29 PM David, I agree that [religious]dogma should not enter politics. Democracy should represen.....
» 16/01/2008 1:19:38 PM Philo, I appreciated your last posting here. Thank for your effort and ability to build c.....
» 16/01/2008 12:42:22 PM Parliament developed over the past five hundred years to protect Commoners from Monarchy a.....
» 15/01/2008 2:43:46 PM Philo, Thank you: Son of Man: "This is the term Jesus constantly used of himself an.....
» 15/01/2008 12:21:13 PM My Error [Above]: Pluto not Plato. The idea that there is no toaster orbiting Pluto is som.....
» 14/01/2008 7:00:16 PM David, Based on the evidence, as I now it, God does not exist. Nonetheless, re-modelling .....
» 14/01/2008 2:46:13 PM David and Philo, BERTRAN RUSSELL ON THE CLERGY "It is not so much that the creed of.....
» 14/01/2008 1:13:53 PM "Oh dear - Oliver, and the well-named Plantagenet - don't seem to notice that nuclear.....
» 14/01/2008 12:00:49 PM Philo, Thank you for your contributions to this Forum. I am not anti-religionism, rather.....
» 14/01/2008 11:38:29 AM Nuclear weapons are the ultimate equaliser. A simple fact that scares the US. Moreover, t.....
» 13/01/2008 9:56:49 PM Sounds like the case should be appealed and the woman's mental stability determined......
» 13/01/2008 5:47:01 PM West, I think thank Philo has point to the extent that Christians "believe" the.....
» 12/01/2008 4:50:22 PM Matt. 10:34 "Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth, but a sword.....
» 12/01/2008 12:41:38 PM If this thread id indicative of the total population, there seems to be strong view in com.....
» 11/01/2008 5:26:07 PM When I was Bank Teller some decades ago, we were told never to use our revolvers unless th.....
» 11/01/2008 2:08:53 PM Judeo-Christian religion can be explained in context of history and the Axial Age and late.....
» 10/01/2008 4:58:17 PM One theory put forward by paleo-anthropologists for the supemacy of homo sapiens over homo.....
» 5/11/2007 12:01:33 PM "By the 'Kingdom of God,' Jesus meant a new state of affairs on earth, which God woul.....
» 4/11/2007 6:55:07 PM Foxy, The Concept of The Kingdom of God breaks done to the limitations familialism and ex.....
» 4/11/2007 5:54:27 PM Western History owes much to the Greeks, Roman Law and the British parliamentary system. T.....
» 4/11/2007 12:05:37 PM The Royals of Europe going back to at least the tenth century were basically MAFIA on hors.....
» 3/11/2007 1:42:01 PM haygirl, Many countries have benefited from the judicial and partliamentary systems force.....
» 2/11/2007 12:53:27 PM palimpsest, I was addressing individual's what vs why. Distinctions are not always clear......
» 2/11/2007 12:26:06 PM The advantage of the Great Divergence was that Hunmankind learned how to learn. Apply theo.....
» 1/11/2007 11:00:50 PM individual, Have you read Lawrence Kolhberg: http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kohlber.....
» 1/11/2007 2:24:17 AM Read Jonathon Glover's "Humanity - a moral history of the twentieth century. How WWI .....
» 1/11/2007 2:04:53 AM Tony Abbott promised on the 7.30 Report that he would release details on making more PET s.....
» 1/11/2007 1:50:05 AM When we were married 25 years' ago, I managed the agenda of the dinner. We toasted Austral.....
» 31/10/2007 6:34:12 PM Learn from the Ancient Greeks, we can ostrasize Ministers from the party of our leaning. D.....
» 31/10/2007 6:23:57 PM untutored mind, When I worked with Westpac c. 1991: The Bank claimed four billion dollars.....
» 31/10/2007 2:00:36 PM One needs to treat Jesus, God and the Church as separate constructs. All are dynamic and t.....
» 31/10/2007 1:38:45 PM Mulder, a sociologist from the 1970s, observed that as people are elevated socially they w.....
» 30/10/2007 6:50:54 PM Hope heeded my advice about the US economy and a repeat of the 1973/74 resources boom and .....
» 30/10/2007 5:16:44 PM Sells, Through contacts, I was able to flip the pages of some theology books in English a.....
» 30/10/2007 10:57:36 AM Australia has only one PET scan for every 1,312,500. Abbott knows said he would fix it wit.....
» 30/10/2007 10:48:43 AM Garpet1, Thanks for the reply. My feeling is that not only cancer patients need some assi.....
» 29/10/2007 10:14:05 PM Mulder, a sociologist, more prominent daid of Power Distance that people will tend work to.....
» 29/10/2007 5:31:56 PM Australia has a $1.1 trillion dollar economy and a $100 billion budget: Some of the larges.....
» 29/10/2007 5:13:34 PM Sells, Thank you for your kind words and compassion......
» 29/10/2007 5:12:44 AM - Should Tony Abbott ensure all major radiation oncology units have a PET Scanner at an af.....
» 28/10/2007 2:02:36 PM Sells, I am now be treated for a stage three cancer. So there is seventy percent chance, .....
» 26/10/2007 5:01:20 PM ABBOTT BREAKS PROMISE TO PORK BARREL FOR ELECTION "The outlook for recovery from rec.....
» 26/10/2007 4:51:34 PM Gibo: The "mark of the beast" was [Hebrew?] code of the Roman Emperors. The old.....
» 26/10/2007 4:34:26 PM Erratum: "I've been sent to Coventry, Sells? I ONCE taught Philosophy and Psychology .....
» 25/10/2007 3:23:56 PM Even before today's Iemma proclaimation, the Police Commissioner indicated that he would i.....
» 24/10/2007 1:35:45 PM I've been sent to Coventry, Sells? I was taught Philosophy and Psychology at its Universit.....
» 23/10/2007 1:00:28 PM Funding approaches towards MRIs and PET scanners as ill managed by about continue to be ne.....
» 23/10/2007 12:57:44 PM Citing Chalmers, Facts are required through observation anf laws ans and theories fomulate.....
» 23/10/2007 12:39:20 PM Two letters to today's SMH are typical of many others: http://www.smh.com.au/letters/inde.....
» 22/10/2007 8:58:18 PM ...cont... 1. Please my immediately above last posts, 2." ...a consistent polemic a.....
» 22/10/2007 2:54:59 PM JamesH, Moreover, many middle managers were retrenched in the 1990s to that companies cou.....
» 22/10/2007 12:53:45 PM We voters are to often affixed to a party and to our right through the vote to ostrasize p.....
» 22/10/2007 12:21:06 PM EMERGENCY ROOMS Praise can rightfully assigned to most medical carers. Unlike a recently .....
» 22/10/2007 10:47:46 AM Spanky, If you have access to an online database just flip through Scientific American fo.....
» 21/10/2007 10:56:25 PM …cont… The origin of the term Enlightenment however is not French but German; from Emanua.....
» 21/10/2007 6:56:51 PM Higher Education is not Higher Education if ALL can pass the exams. At a university level .....
» 21/10/2007 2:02:11 PM Peter (Sells), The foundation of the Elightenment is founded the Scientific Revolution a .....
» 20/10/2007 9:29:55 PM Peter, The Journal of the History of Science Society might have an article to help you le.....
» 20/10/2007 9:12:57 PM Graham, Dropping interest rates while banks still hold tens of billions in fixed deposits.....
» 20/10/2007 8:59:10 PM Philo, I see no problem with a Christian marrying an atheist. It is no different than one.....
» 20/10/2007 8:32:59 PM Spanky, THOUGHT I WAS ON TRACK My point about Darwin was that his work lead to more prec.....
» 20/10/2007 11:43:01 AM Bugsy, My "gibberish" is drawn from Roger Penrose, and developments from Paul D.....
» 20/10/2007 5:02:58 AM "The US has been able to foster and create regional industries that DONT rely on a fa.....
» 20/10/2007 4:48:47 AM Please note the following: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2007/s1973995.htm It se.....
» 20/10/2007 4:09:40 AM Bugsy, Would you build your points to paragraphs and support your retorts? O......
» 19/10/2007 9:55:16 PM Time is enjoined with 3-D space in our experience. If we regress entropy backwards, we fin.....
» 15/10/2007 1:59:56 PM People are afraid to speak out because of the lack of "Whistle Blower" legislati.....
» 15/10/2007 10:57:35 AM "Also, the danger of placing any reference in the Preamble regarding Aboriginals may .....
» 15/10/2007 10:45:12 AM individual, FRONT BENCH I guess we can look at your web namesake "individuals".....
» 15/10/2007 10:23:50 AM jillham, When a Pych. student back in he 70s, one lecturer could not receive funding for .....
» 14/10/2007 12:04:50 AM johncee1945, What is not usually rewritten in Western textbooks about Pearl Harbor is tha.....
» 13/10/2007 4:24:56 PM Sir Vivor, My point was identified by you. The aged find it hard to gain funding especial.....
» 13/10/2007 3:43:45 PM StG, I have just emailed the NSW police to establish the protocols to hold a 1,000 to 2,0.....
» 12/10/2007 9:16:19 PM huffnpuff, Cover-up is big buness in Government. However, perhaps your comment deserves i.....
» 12/10/2007 11:28:08 AM gypsy, If the purpose of the loan is consolidation of debt it must used for that purpose......
» 11/10/2007 9:14:57 PM johncee1945 and others, I think we should stop thinking in terms of parties and focus on .....
» 11/10/2007 5:50:37 PM “Many aspects of children's health care have no parallel in adult health services" - .....
» 11/10/2007 4:04:07 PM Having set interest rates for a Bank and Chaired an ABA Committee advising Bernie Fraser, .....
» 11/10/2007 11:30:02 AM "An assault on his fax, email and phone sure wouldn't do any harm. Excuse my ignoranc.....
» 10/10/2007 5:23:00 PM STG, Thanks for your comments. Your sincere wishes are reciprocated for your family facin.....
» 10/10/2007 12:53:43 PM Recently I was diagnosed with a stage 3C cancer [T3C01M0] and will have an operation in a .....
» 25/07/2007 9:00:45 PM "alternative measures to the GDP" - Article The World Bank has an interesting w.....
» 25/07/2007 9:00:30 PM "alternative measures to the GDP" - Article The World Bank has an interesting w.....
» 25/07/2007 3:05:48 PM Sir Vivor. See my last post on this thread. I know I am dealing with sniper, and after to.....
» 24/07/2007 4:51:08 PM "A less [stable] US economy, moderately high oz interese rates and a resources boom c.....
» 24/07/2007 3:35:11 PM BOAZ, - What do you understand by The People of The Book? KR, O......
» 24/07/2007 3:30:02 PM Kartiya Jim - Three changes aboriginal communities must make? Regards, O......
» 24/07/2007 11:45:37 AM stickman, Thanks. The Forum is an excellent venue for exchanging ideas. Unfortunately, it.....
» 23/07/2007 4:55:52 PM BOAZ, Can't say didn't try :). Regards......
» 23/07/2007 3:55:18 PM Hello Philo, Agree with most of your post. Islam was constructed to unify the Arabs, firs.....
» 23/07/2007 1:46:17 PM Mr Gerrit H Schorel-Hlavka, Thank you for some interesting comment. I was unaware of the .....
» 23/07/2007 10:37:33 AM Sir Vivor, I rarely use Google [nor wikipedia]and didn't on this occasion, preferring mor.....
» 22/07/2007 8:29:23 PM HELLO BOAZ, I am feeling a bit like that legendary spider who tries and tries and tries a.....
» 22/07/2007 4:02:08 PM “After a brief search, does not allow me to draw the same conclusions as you seem to draw”.....
» 22/07/2007 10:16:13 AM S-F, Is William British or Australian, first? Would/Dooes he admire Churchill or Curtin? .....
» 21/07/2007 9:31:40 PM My Dear BOAZ, Above, I was asking, on what basis the author you cited could support his c.....
» 21/07/2007 3:18:23 PM Rainier, My comments were addressing essentially popular misconcepts not accountabilities.....
» 21/07/2007 2:11:45 PM Acquarivs, In preface, I would say that any society, group or individual must not be at t.....
» 20/07/2007 9:21:54 PM BOAZ, " 'Except for 7 verses, the WHOLE New Testament can be reconstructed from quot.....
» 20/07/2007 8:38:50 PM All, On balance, for me, the evidence would suggest Jesus is not God. A well educated asc.....
» 20/07/2007 4:23:23 PM Branding and related issues with product management are common. The Bank of New South Wale.....
» 19/07/2007 10:29:31 PM Western society has progressed in the way it has because of its emphasis on logos rather t.....
» 19/07/2007 7:56:10 PM Sir Vivor, "Can you kindly state these Laws of Ecology? I am not familiar with them .....
» 19/07/2007 7:09:06 PM Fellow_Human, I too would be uncomfortable with the idea of "foundation documents&q.....
» 19/07/2007 4:34:27 PM BOAZ, Is suicide by Cop, suicide? The point is the suicidal person, on a mission, here, i.....
» 19/07/2007 4:27:28 PM Aquarivs, "... main issue with multiculturalism is we have all these societies to ca.....
» 18/07/2007 8:10:31 PM "Eye witnesses were present as 'consultants' so to speak for many years after our Lor.....
» 18/07/2007 6:53:40 PM kartiya jim and aquarivs, Thanks. Busy: Will come back. However, kj: If the points you l.....
» 16/07/2007 7:13:27 PM Pericles, Thanks... that is an apt answer for a Christian church position, as if you were.....
» 16/07/2007 6:20:34 PM Aquarivs, Contrarily, I agree with much that you say, but feel one can highlight one side.....
» 15/07/2007 9:06:10 PM Aquarivs, Yes, I would include Australia in my definition of “the West”, wherein by heter.....
» 15/07/2007 5:14:40 PM Stickman, Thomas Malthus [1766-1834] tried to understand the relationship between populat.....
» 15/07/2007 1:39:39 PM 4 JSP1488, I am not avocating we return to polytheism, rather I was saying that polythies.....
» 14/07/2007 10:13:27 PM Hello BOAZ, - I re-put the question, “Would Jesus approve of Christianity”? Still plenty.....
» 14/07/2007 6:40:24 PM "It's time the Aborigines took their lives back and began to function as independent,.....
» 14/07/2007 2:06:02 PM FrankCol, Thank you for your interesting comment. I was not lobbying for igoring past w.....
» 14/07/2007 1:07:54 PM With Crusades or Jihads the problem is active monotheism. Here, we have white haired guys .....
» 13/07/2007 3:50:50 PM BOAZ, While you are contemplating my above post, I have fond the following on the suicide.....
» 13/07/2007 3:25:21 PM Frank Col, "What does that say about how we should have acted in Australia between t.....
» 13/07/2007 6:01:52 AM Correction: As you may have discovered Hofstede's work hit the public domain in 1990. - M.....
» 12/07/2007 9:35:06 PM JohnJ, My fingers and mind were out of synch. I meant to type "before" 8,000 BP.....
» 12/07/2007 1:33:36 PM King Canute, Genetic studies should provide stable answers in the next 5-10 years. Not on.....
» 12/07/2007 1:27:27 PM Johnj, Thanks. Reworking Hofstede is a difficult task. It is expensive research, and gene.....
» 12/07/2007 1:05:11 PM BOAZ, I was not referring to the word “Christian”, but the essence of actions of the Chri.....
» 11/07/2007 8:16:09 PM King Canute, Genetic studies should provide stable answers in the next 5-10 years. Not on.....
» 11/07/2007 1:20:27 PM BOAZ, Thanks. The further point is what is true of the Churches is largely true of the S.....
» 11/07/2007 12:54:19 PM King Canute, --ALL’S WELLS THAT ENDS WELLS-- Your sarcasm is noted. Wells … Dr Spencer W.....
» 10/07/2007 2:11:11 PM King Canute, I am out of Australia at present. If memory serves the claims were made by a.....
» 10/07/2007 12:16:17 PM kartiya jim, The invaders were invaded by the Norman French in 1066 and Nomandy itself in.....
» 10/07/2007 11:41:23 AM BOAZ, Both, you see, if he were not god, as genuine teacher or pretender, Jesus did not t.....
» 10/07/2007 11:16:45 AM Hello BOAZ, "... all you need to show is how the 'Church' of the day in question, re.....
» 9/07/2007 2:46:36 PM Robert, We are agreed on the matter of Jesus in the godhead and the OT horrors. Well, wha.....
» 9/07/2007 10:42:39 AM "Regarding the crusades etc.. that was 'geopolitics with a religious side salad' at w.....
» 8/07/2007 8:06:30 PM "The bow and arrow was more accurate than the spear and woomera. Otherwise, the North.....
» 8/07/2007 8:06:17 PM "The bow and arrow was more accurate than the spear and woomera. Otherwise, the North.....
» 8/07/2007 2:32:54 PM Romany, As you may have discovered Hofstede's work hit the public domain in 1990. If memo.....
» 7/07/2007 7:53:02 PM BOAZ, Greetings. Above, I provided horrific account of Christians persecuting the pagans.....
» 7/07/2007 5:29:40 PM Hofstede's data may contain some valuable truisms but one should be aware the data were co.....
» 7/07/2007 2:58:21 PM Hello BOAZ, 1. The fig tree thing: Matthew 21:18-22; Mark 11:12-14, 20-21. Some scholars .....
» 6/07/2007 2:31:50 PM George, You are spot on. I subscribe to ISIS via my membership of the History of Science .....
» 6/07/2007 11:23:57 AM TEMPTATION OF JESUS If Jesus were God and was tempted by the devil, who would have suppli.....
» 6/07/2007 11:20:47 AM BOAZ, ME A RACIST? "I note you 'religio/racism there too 'Russian Orthodix' " .....
» 5/07/2007 10:09:22 PM …/ Here, I feel religionists and fundamentalist atheists become stuck on their default se.....
» 5/07/2007 7:46:20 PM "It’s hard to imaging the faith having survived without some type of institutionalisa.....
» 5/07/2007 1:44:43 PM MODELS George, I don't disagree with you, but suspect you disagree with me. Strange? Not.....
» 4/07/2007 9:43:51 PM Else stated, if some orginal design/state(s) caused cosmological events and quantum events.....
» 4/07/2007 2:12:34 PM Hello Rhian, Thanks. Like you, I do appreciate the Church(es) has provided a means of es.....
» 4/07/2007 12:05:26 PM Hello George, No concerns able your explanation. You are an very able writer. More likely.....
» 3/07/2007 9:16:45 PM Think it is still, a watch this space moment. A less US economy, moderately high oz intere.....
» 3/07/2007 7:37:55 PM George, Greetings. "The reason for the choice of the name [string] was that the mat.....
» 3/07/2007 3:03:46 PM Rhian, Thank you. I wonder how the Quelle reconstruction dealt with the Baptism of Jesus?.....
» 3/07/2007 10:48:25 AM "Does his God evolve?" - Ajay Yes. From the God of Abraham to the God of Moses.....
» 2/07/2007 5:23:57 PM Rhian, Why would the [divine] Son of God need to be Baptised? Presumably, no original sin.....
» 2/07/2007 4:03:42 PM CJMorgan, Thank you for your kind words. I think History sometimes can help to gain a mea.....
» 2/07/2007 12:23:12 PM George, Thank you. Interesting comment......
» 1/07/2007 3:18:07 PM ... Not before the fourth century theists gave him a promotion. The idea of Jesus as a g.....
» 1/07/2007 1:36:45 PM George, 1. I suspect we may have the same belief in the existence of numbers / latent val.....
» 30/06/2007 6:55:17 PM "Newton belongs to 18th century and we are in the 21st when both physics/science and .....
» 29/06/2007 8:35:50 PM MLK, Thanks for the clarification. I have been on the editorial board of an academic jour.....
» 29/06/2007 2:44:46 PM George, “…. there are indeed people with both scientific and theological qualifications, .....
» 28/06/2007 9:36:54 PM Hi George, 1. Scientists will test their theories and posit null hypotheses. Pride and ob.....
» 28/06/2007 7:40:46 PM MLK, Pat's letter was too long and too poorly organised. No Australian Letters Editor wou.....
» 28/06/2007 2:36:46 PM Patrimonalism and kin altruism are cultural constructs that pertain to ealier forms of soc.....
» 28/06/2007 1:27:15 AM George, The catch for traditional Islam is ruling politics is a commandment in that it is.....
» 27/06/2007 7:21:39 PM Stickman, :-) George, I will keep a look out for the book. I know of the Templeton Foun.....
» 27/06/2007 7:01:49 PM Aime, Would have you given the Paris Hilton the cane/strap? What about John Howard for no.....
» 27/06/2007 3:45:40 PM ASEAN is the weak link. Pressure should be applied to Singapore and Malaysia over the comp.....
» 27/06/2007 2:07:32 PM Celivia, Good post. Michael Polanyi, physical scientist turned philosopher, would add an .....
» 27/06/2007 1:06:42 PM BOAZ, Thanks for the reply. Regarding your earlier reply, I did follow the link, but it s.....
» 26/06/2007 7:28:46 PM BOAZ, Thank you. 1. In what ways can his sinless life be known and articulated? Wasn't h.....
» 26/06/2007 3:17:34 PM Hey C.J., In ancient times resinning after Baptism was an issue. Many waited until their .....
» 26/06/2007 1:06:15 PM George, Thank you for your thoughtful words. At the moment, I aim involved in some data c.....
» 25/06/2007 7:07:25 PM "Those that recognise that the very character and attitudes of Jesus exactly express .....
» 25/06/2007 11:54:04 AM BOAZ, How are "we"? [Christians?] The Romans called the Christians "athies.....
» 25/06/2007 11:24:05 AM Stickman, Don't hold your breath, if you are expecting BOAZ to answer. Well, at least tha.....
» 24/06/2007 9:43:31 PM [Pell and] now Kamal Mousselmani [head of the Supreme Islamic Shia Council of Australia] s.....
» 24/06/2007 1:15:12 PM Try as an Australian to by land in Singapore. Try to sell Australian manufactured cars. Wi.....
» 22/06/2007 6:03:31 PM George, Thank you for your comments: I was primarily addressing the sentences I quoted. T.....
» 22/06/2007 2:51:01 PM DavoP, Even if a god(s) did exist: The various religions are different constructs to said.....
» 22/06/2007 12:16:33 AM F-H & George, “there are those who follow the laws out of love and conviction, and other .....
» 21/06/2007 6:26:07 PM CORRECTION: King was an adulterer and a plagiarist [even his doctorate].....
» 21/06/2007 5:28:33 PM F-H, Have the Christian Churches been spiritual or even moral? For me, the teachings of J.....
» 21/06/2007 12:10:18 PM Charles Perkins was a character of sufficent historical significance to justify some form .....
» 20/06/2007 8:46:49 PM George and Fellow-Human, No-one wants misrepresentation. That said, the religions can be .....
» 20/06/2007 6:52:33 PM West, The Christians would not have us flying from Earth to Mars. We would have to break .....
» 20/06/2007 2:04:02 PM GYM-FISH, Do the multple interpretations of the following say what is said or not. If not.....
» 20/06/2007 11:01:39 AM West, Good post. Also had Pilate acted some strange way and wanted to it keep out of the .....
» 19/06/2007 7:07:26 PM Coach, Would you look at the link I shared with George. http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/11.....
» 19/06/2007 5:59:47 PM BOAZ_DAVID, Earlier, I did ask away when you invited me to ask you a question, because yo.....
» 18/06/2007 7:51:24 PM GYM-FISH Thanks for your reply: http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/11-24.htm Please pay spec.....
» 18/06/2007 3:25:43 PM George, Again we agree to disagree, my friend. But in closing, please consider: http://b.....
» 18/06/2007 1:39:33 PM Brian, Many, on occasion, myself included, point the horrors of Christianity for over 1,5.....
» 18/06/2007 10:18:58 AM George, The introduction of non-indigenous species into Australia [rabbits, frogs] are ex.....
» 17/06/2007 7:59:57 PM George, Thank you for your reply. Put simply, I distinguish between Citizen Pell and Card.....
» 17/06/2007 3:04:38 PM George, "The imagination and the spitital strength of Shakespeare's evildoers [in Ma.....
» 17/06/2007 2:36:07 PM GYM-FISH, Pell acts inappropriately if he "threatens" politicians from taking c.....
» 16/06/2007 7:04:42 PM George, Pell has the write to express his personal opinion in a letter to his representiv.....
» 16/06/2007 6:01:36 PM Dear TR. Cont... Presumably, the Lutheran Minister eho blessed the Atomic Bomb on Hiros.....
» 16/06/2007 4:23:17 PM "The cry for 'free thinking' which allows pornography, drugs and free sex to be freel.....
» 16/06/2007 1:30:34 AM Thanks for the links George. I will have a read. I think the problem for some is the inte.....
» 15/06/2007 5:24:32 PM DEMOS, A trench digger is a machine, which improves human performance. Improving our brai.....
» 15/06/2007 1:49:10 PM A basic rule of Economics is limited resources and unlimited demand. At least in while cos.....
» 15/06/2007 2:18:28 AM "In Australia "Defence" is spelt with a "c" and not an "s&qu.....
» 15/06/2007 2:08:21 AM B-D, Thanks for your response. Just one for starters, it is midnight here and its been a .....
» 14/06/2007 1:57:37 PM AvS, I would add the above that athiests should they choose take a communin meal in remem.....
» 14/06/2007 12:03:45 PM "If you followed my threads you will see above statement is far from true. I am contr.....
» 13/06/2007 3:37:20 PM " Catholicism is a way of life, beyond a religious identity. In order to live the way.....
» 13/06/2007 1:44:10 PM Admiral von Schneider, It is not as straight forward as you present. The Cardinal should .....
» 12/06/2007 6:56:42 PM K£vin, Over population is a significant problem. The human biomass takes several times it.....
» 11/06/2007 6:17:50 PM With the F-35 the US will not be giving buyers the key codes to kernel computer systems. A.....
» 11/06/2007 5:13:49 PM goodthief, Thank you for your reply and perspect on things. I find terms like Father, So.....
» 11/06/2007 4:52:36 PM BOAZ-David, Priesthoods go back to Shamanism. In our path of history priesthoods evolved .....
» 11/06/2007 4:29:24 PM Stephany, Thanks. I had look at those interesting URLs. The cosmological issue in Galile.....
» 10/06/2007 4:52:17 PM bushbasher, The difference between science and religionism is that science will maintain .....
» 10/06/2007 3:29:43 PM "I realise this is hard for you to believe, Stephany, but civilisations actually borr.....
» 10/06/2007 2:21:42 PM DB, "Upon this rock... I will build my Church" understanding this to mean Peter.....
» 9/06/2007 5:25:39 PM "The Catholic Church does have an authority structure which is mean't to effect every.....
» 8/06/2007 9:12:33 PM Quick response, These clerics like the spot light. In the US, Al Shapton has somehow even.....
» 8/06/2007 6:38:49 PM coach, If God is all powerful, why was substitutionary ransom even necessary? Would say G.....
» 8/06/2007 4:28:05 PM Ifran, HELL'S PELLS One would hope that any religion will keep its theocracy out of demo.....
» 8/06/2007 4:10:28 PM Mr Pell like the rest of us can hold to his beliefs and write to his representives under b.....
» 5/06/2007 4:58:30 PM Demos, Apologise the typos. My mind races ahead of my fingers and I am usually online for.....
» 4/06/2007 11:13:20 PM I always enjoy my trips to the States. Perhaps, a little more provincial than most countri.....
» 4/06/2007 3:20:31 PM "Even the 'old school tie' doesnt count for much any more." - waterboy I have b.....
» 4/06/2007 9:58:17 AM "The [sic. Christian] Church’s long decline during the past few hundred years began w.....
» 3/06/2007 7:53:48 PM "This means that bodily life is to be taken seriously and never as a preparation for .....
» 1/06/2007 1:35:53 PM thinks4self, The government ultimately funds the Australian student per capita. In this s.....
» 1/06/2007 11:44:30 AM Bushbred, Thank you for the feedback. Happy birthday for Sunday. Pericles, The relation.....
» 1/06/2007 11:15:37 AM Problems with the economic management of farms is long standing from the improper introduc.....
» 31/05/2007 3:09:28 PM "Certainly Western cultural intrusion is shown in places like Dubai, where there is c.....
» 31/05/2007 11:34:52 AM Jolanda, Having writing 25 curricula in three countries,I would posit that there does nee.....
» 30/05/2007 3:40:21 PM waterboy, Cemy litter eight lysdexic, acutually. :-( OOPS, :-) [The children are safe. W.....
» 29/05/2007 4:37:26 PM West, Good post. I was reading Susan Greenfield [neurologist and university resident th.....
» 29/05/2007 3:25:46 PM ...Consquently, we must look more towards a model of the secularisation of Islam and the f.....
» 29/05/2007 3:19:14 PM "There is a rising tension between the traditional guardians of Muslim orthodoxy and .....
» 29/05/2007 1:39:24 PM ant, Good comments. 1. Pych tests are important. For example, an under performer with hi.....
» 29/05/2007 1:21:22 PM "This does not mean that I am less smart, less wise, less educated." - Fencepost.....
» 28/05/2007 11:13:37 AM "But Christian revelation includes the revelation that the world is not the habitat o.....
» 28/05/2007 10:51:54 AM A life lomg education model needs to the continuing learner from pedagogy to andragogy [ad.....
» 28/05/2007 10:51:40 AM A life lomg education model needs to the continuing learner from pedagogy to andragogy [ad.....
» 27/05/2007 9:59:47 PM DB and All, The silence suggests that DB cannot differentiate Jesus. This would seem prob.....
» 27/05/2007 9:51:22 PM aqvarivs, "Dancing is just dancing if your not holding the one you love but, should .....
» 27/05/2007 9:43:32 PM psychstudent: Please note your survey times out [8-10 minutes/around wind power] Survey .....
» 25/05/2007 11:08:06 AM DB, Can you please see earlier post? Please articulate those characateristics which made .....
» 23/05/2007 9:40:04 PM Ridd makes good points. Further, my understanding is, if, we were to proceed, third genera.....
» 23/05/2007 2:17:13 PM alanpoi, Can't argue with that; good advice too. Yep: You have tagged the eleventh comman.....
» 23/05/2007 1:52:22 PM DB, What did the historical Jesus do that justifies the attention given him? In histiory,.....
» 23/05/2007 1:43:56 PM aqvarivs, I walked into that one ;-). Actually, I wasn't promoting frequent trips to th.....
» 18/05/2007 6:05:22 PM Peter, What would say us a good Gini Coefficent for Australia?.....
» 18/05/2007 4:29:38 PM Lee Yuan Yew once was a Fabian. Watch out Pete, Kevin might leap frog the Libs and become .....
» 18/05/2007 12:04:07 PM Post Script: "These feet were made for walkin'", but they can dance too. [metaph.....
» 18/05/2007 11:16:28 AM Good post Yabby, No doubt the brain itself is conditioned for pleasure too, via target-br.....
» 17/05/2007 3:26:21 PM Hammerlet, God(s) subsist in fictions that do exist, like any artform. Audiences "in.....
» 17/05/2007 3:12:10 PM "Pastor 'Apollo' C. Quiboloy, in all likelihood, is a fraud in exactly the same way a.....
» 17/05/2007 3:04:32 PM alanpoi, --Rocks of Ages-- The story of Moses is about the Law being received by Moses f.....
» 17/05/2007 11:06:53 AM Belly, "America is not the only country in the world continuing mans habit of manufa.....
» 16/05/2007 3:05:24 PM Our trajectory is known, we live-we die, our atoms are reassigned. In five billion years t.....
» 16/05/2007 3:02:16 PM "The scientific mind has become exclusively naturalistic; the rainbow is seen as Newt.....
» 16/05/2007 11:10:57 AM Stephen, Hope you are about read this on time. I do appreciate that you have the opportun.....
» 15/05/2007 8:52:19 PM waterboy, A modern clergyperson would condemn the incest and pack rape in the Bible. The .....
» 15/05/2007 12:18:18 PM ... Relatedly, Church and Religion are separate constructs. Perhaps, the Universe was inte.....
» 15/05/2007 12:16:27 PM George, Thanks for your post. I agree with most of all first two paragraphs. When I was .....
» 15/05/2007 11:14:33 AM goodthief, "That’s fine, it was the technical language of 'null hypothesis or negati.....
» 15/05/2007 10:56:20 AM Stephen, What is the role of the family? Why don't parents povide better familial models .....
» 14/05/2007 6:44:45 PM goodthief, Thanks. Sorry if my typing is poor and poorly coordinated with my mind which t.....
» 13/05/2007 7:21:07 PM George, - The Bible is a facbrication [meaning one]. It is a syncretion. Relatedy, Many o.....
» 13/05/2007 12:30:08 PM goodthief, Thanks. I also appreciated Dawkins admitting that he was "not" an a .....
» 12/05/2007 6:29:55 PM Rhian and acqviuvs, You both display an insight to your religion, I can respect. You adop.....
» 12/05/2007 4:39:43 PM Stephen?.....
» 12/05/2007 4:36:15 PM “The theologian may indulge the pleasing task of describing Religion as she descended from.....
» 12/05/2007 1:07:21 PM George, Would you accept confabulation? In Psychology with age-regression hypnosis adult .....
» 11/05/2007 6:45:58 PM West, The Bible/Christianities has different meanings because its kernel has five gods, g.....
» 11/05/2007 6:00:25 PM aquarius, "Oliver, thank you for your post. I don't believe many Christians actually.....
» 11/05/2007 4:07:35 PM END NOTE: I can assume from the silence and the nature of much of the engagement over thi.....
» 11/05/2007 3:55:18 PM RELEVANT NEWS NOTE FROM YESTERDAY'S "THE AUSTRALIAN"; In the Australian it was .....
» 10/05/2007 7:30:34 PM aquarivs, Morality is morality. You are correct. Please forgive me. I had just come-off c.....
» 10/05/2007 5:15:26 PM The debate over liturgy is not new. Around the time of Justine the Martyr, the syncretion .....
» 10/05/2007 2:20:10 PM In contemporary society, the problems with prostitution involve exploitation, dishonesties.....
» 10/05/2007 1:26:15 PM "Government forms demand people accept racial identification as a basic requirement b.....
» 9/05/2007 6:24:08 PM Stephen, Of course the same Law should apply to everyone. Moreover, a Law that discrimina.....
» 9/05/2007 1:55:46 PM Sells, You don't love your neighbour, you categorise your neighbour. And, either, offer p.....
» 9/05/2007 1:45:10 PM Yabby, An interesting post. Primatologists state that Chimps are quite promiscuous and so.....
» 8/05/2007 6:15:37 PM "Under a misunderstanding about the ministry of all believers, all distinction is era.....
» 8/05/2007 5:57:32 PM Sells, Are you a 1.0 on the Dawkins scale? That is, an entrenched absolutist? Infallible?.....
» 8/05/2007 5:30:49 PM Country Girl, Good summary points. O......
» 8/05/2007 12:27:42 PM Philo, Hope you are now happily re-established in your new home. Troy [above] is an inte.....
» 8/05/2007 12:08:32 PM "What do we have against the British soldiers? We somehow forgive the Turks, yet some.....
» 7/05/2007 3:06:54 PM "And thank you for mentioning Churchill's part in the whole saga." - yvonne -- .....
» 7/05/2007 11:53:48 AM As noted above, bravery and sacrafice was made "as a Nation". However, it was no.....
» 6/05/2007 6:52:00 PM Sells, As asked, elsehere, if God exists, what is the greatest probability, God Exists [i.....
» 6/05/2007 6:44:41 PM Country Gal and Michael K., Thanks. Busy. Will come back. In the interim: CG: There is a.....
» 6/05/2007 5:56:40 PM Sells, Postscript to the above post: The other thing is that when looking at something li.....
» 6/05/2007 2:03:35 PM Sells, It is interesting that Christians wont revisit the architecture of theoocrasia,tha.....
» 4/05/2007 4:49:22 PM Donnie, My comments on History go vack several threads to Sells' article on "How doe.....
» 4/05/2007 1:46:56 PM Country Gal, Good, interesting posts. I had forgotten about the Pitt Street Farmers. My c.....
» 3/05/2007 9:39:39 PM George, In the US 35% of [hard?] scientists is a significant minority. I have finished .....
» 3/05/2007 9:03:28 PM MichaelK, Playing money-flow games resolves nothing but an illusion of “healthy economics.....
» 3/05/2007 12:48:19 PM Kirrily or Frank, What do either of you feel would be a fair Gini Co-efficient for Austra.....
» 3/05/2007 12:12:17 PM ... Instead working from Creation? Gods? God? Jesus? Sells, takes the a priori position t.....
» 3/05/2007 11:55:28 AM "You fail to recognise that you as well as Philo and waterboy and myself are all beli.....
» 2/05/2007 6:36:20 PM Keiran, Thought we had lost you! A bigger clanger was when I was studying psychology at .....
» 2/05/2007 5:55:28 PM Country Gal, Thanks for your post... INCOMES AND FARMERS Regret, I misread your post to.....
» 1/05/2007 10:49:37 PM Oliver, I think you mean "The God Delusion" described e.g. on amazon.com as a &q.....
» 1/05/2007 5:28:49 PM George, Trust Keiran has gained some insight into how Science works. Beliefs must always .....
» 1/05/2007 5:08:34 PM West, I think we have been left agreeing each other and reading Dawkins? Hope we were a.....
» 1/05/2007 4:59:51 PM Frank S., Please note, above request/comment on Oz Gini Co-efficient. What would you aim .....
» 1/05/2007 4:57:35 PM Country Gail, The people who are really hit hard with taxes are the Middle Folks, $80K-$2.....
» 30/04/2007 10:15:14 PM "I do not expect Christians to be capable of seeing or understanding an exterior poin.....
» 30/04/2007 11:54:53 AM "...economic power and political power are not the same, but if you have more of one,.....
» 30/04/2007 11:26:32 AM Frank, What would you see to be a fair Gini Co-Efficient for Australia given our people a.....
» 29/04/2007 11:31:05 PM Keiran, With E2 = [(c2+µ2) + c2p2]½, you have postive and negative solutions, including s.....
» 29/04/2007 11:11:52 PM Keiran, Answer: Mass Better still, “µ” represents the rest mass of a relativistic quantu.....
» 29/04/2007 7:08:06 PM West, I think waterboy is all leaked out. I expected a comment or two on the Dai Li Lama .....
» 27/04/2007 7:23:13 PM Philo, Institutionalists... that is :-) o......
» 27/04/2007 7:21:29 PM Philo, "I prefer Abelard and Luther, to Origen and Augustine." - O. Would you .....
» 27/04/2007 2:38:04 PM George, Thank you for that clarification. I did not have Reinmann in mind, nor, Euclidean.....
» 26/04/2007 5:42:53 PM waterboy, I would posit that if the Western Da Li Lama entered Tibet, and, a High Priest .....
» 26/04/2007 4:09:39 PM Keiran, You probably know the formula for a straight line: y=a+bx. With several procedure.....
» 26/04/2007 12:57:40 PM Keiran, The BB is an improbable [not impossible] thermo-entropic event given certain para.....
» 26/04/2007 1:12:38 AM Philo and waterboy, I have always regarded "The Church" and "Christ" .....
» 25/04/2007 2:53:37 PM Keiran, An interesting post, but suggest you misrepresent science. If a better model is a.....
» 25/04/2007 1:44:57 PM waterboy, But it is the Church of Paul, Constantine, Origen and Augustine. Doctrine was i.....
» 24/04/2007 6:29:10 PM George, Thank you. I take your point. And smiled at your story. I have a treasured copy.....
» 24/04/2007 2:05:58 PM tRAKKA, Thanks, I will have a search. George, I have enjoyed your music metaphors in re.....
» 23/04/2007 7:10:24 PM "Christianity is in a continuity with pre-exilic Hebrew faith (quite antithetical to .....
» 23/04/2007 1:15:47 PM Kieran, Just re-read your post. Readshift is a doppler-like effect, but not a true dopple.....
» 23/04/2007 1:08:44 PM Hello Keiran, I thought we touched on this before, because you felt that the Solid State .....
» 22/04/2007 6:44:30 PM waterboy, "Christianity is in a continuity with pre-exilic Hebrew faith (quite antit.....
» 22/04/2007 6:23:47 PM Donnie, "Should a few Bishops be gaoled for shielding pedaphiles? [I would!]" G.....
» 20/04/2007 8:09:26 PM "West I think that is where our basic disagreement lies on this topic. When a priest .....
» 19/04/2007 8:44:31 PM waterboy, Thanks. The "facts" did not all relate to mystery cults. Some did, .....
» 19/04/2007 5:39:43 PM waterboy, Mystery cults have several characteristics, not only secrets. My comments about.....
» 18/04/2007 7:31:23 PM waterboy, Happy to discuss more specific matters, but you need first to show me, where I .....
» 18/04/2007 12:03:30 PM "Exactly what point are you trying to make about Christianity? Once you make that cle.....
» 17/04/2007 10:25:38 PM "Our problem in this is the great turn to the self initiated by Descartes that places.....
» 17/04/2007 10:11:33 PM Why Latin? Jesus would jave used [Attic] Greek and Arimaic? Jesus' Cheraei are Greek and m.....
» 17/04/2007 7:18:19 PM waterboy, Thank you: But, I find your posts to me and West confusing. My comments over s.....
» 17/04/2007 3:02:00 PM Winston "Churchill" wanted to dig ditches using machines because that would more.....
» 16/04/2007 7:14:59 PM Waterboy, Thanks for your reply. I will go though it again more carefully. In the interim.....
» 16/04/2007 6:13:51 PM Leigh, I think most here would agree with you. We also have treaties and alligences and t.....
» 16/04/2007 3:15:25 PM PaulJP, What you say makes good sense to me. Bombers and revamped F-111s. Nuclear subs w.....
» 16/04/2007 2:56:16 PM "Sells is quite wrong to say that Arianism produces dualism and Trinitarianism isthe .....
» 16/04/2007 12:57:26 PM tRAKKA, Thank you. I liked your reply. It was balanced and recognised many historical rea.....
» 16/04/2007 12:25:43 PM PaulJP, The air solution is posited as the F-22, but the US wont sell these aircraft. Sur.....
» 15/04/2007 6:18:33 PM Dave, Indonesia I suspect would see the F-35 as offensive in more ways than one, because .....
» 15/04/2007 6:05:47 PM George, "Liturgy has an important psychological stimulant dependent on the cultural .....
» 15/04/2007 11:51:03 AM tRAKKA, Do you not see a problem with leaving interpretation to a third party? Some say t.....
» 14/04/2007 7:59:51 PM ... cont. So, would you say, when a troupe of chimps make war against rival chimps, knowi.....
» 14/04/2007 3:55:34 PM Philo, Thank you for drawing those distinctions. Apes can recognise their own reflectio.....
» 13/04/2007 7:00:19 PM Donnie, Moreover, "religionists" are "R"eligionists. Many tend to sit.....
» 12/04/2007 7:32:06 PM "Think about what 'you' are suggesting." - West Trust you address religionist F.....
» 12/04/2007 12:40:38 PM Is Mise, Both Christianity and Islam have reli-political origins. The former involved the.....
» 11/04/2007 10:51:32 PM Thank you, Netab. Busy at the moment and will come back. [Regarding Herod and Joshua (aka.....
» 11/04/2007 8:13:55 PM George, Thanks. Those of the Western tradition probably appreciate pews and the the right.....
» 11/04/2007 5:58:51 PM West, In the end, did some research and have much summarised an article in the Catholic E.....
» 11/04/2007 12:01:46 PM Sells, What religion reminds me of is the TV adaption of William Golding's, "Lord of.....
» 10/04/2007 11:54:34 PM Netab, Some interesting comments. Thank you. 1. I don't know about Pilate under Augustus.....
» 10/04/2007 8:14:31 PM GZT, "...gulf of difference between humans and non-humans, a difference that science.....
» 10/04/2007 6:53:18 PM Runner, 1. As previously mentioned, I was referring mainly to the actions of Christians. .....
» 10/04/2007 5:35:53 PM Q: Why is the insect world so cruel? - Oliver A: "Life is dependent upon devouring o.....
» 9/04/2007 5:11:45 PM Philo, 1. I will need to print-off your answers and have a think. Thank you. I do have a .....
» 8/04/2007 7:35:21 PM Runner, Thanks for your reply. Primarily, I was referring to the Christian Church and th.....
» 8/04/2007 3:54:23 PM Bugsy, If you have not read Lawrence Kohlberg on Morality already you might find him inte.....
» 8/04/2007 3:38:23 PM "... which is why i say it is also foolish not to constantly challenge materialist in.....
» 7/04/2007 3:14:42 PM People, who know history, can explain history directs politics, movements and theocrasia; .....
» 7/04/2007 3:03:15 PM " [1] Christian worship is serious holy play that reveals the world as it really is r.....
» 5/04/2007 7:30:09 PM Sells and Christian religionists, Trust you find psychological comfort based on what you .....
» 5/04/2007 12:26:17 PM Sells, Your notion that a Protestant priesthood should be preside over a laity confirms w.....
» 5/04/2007 11:56:28 AM Philo, Thanks. So you are saying that the Body of Jesus lived for 33 years [renewal of c.....
» 4/04/2007 4:56:48 PM Donnie, Not "Faith", rather a commitment towards a proposition, that needs to v.....
» 4/04/2007 11:12:21 AM Donnie, Thanks for your post. In 1615, when Harvey realised the heart is a "pump&q.....
» 3/04/2007 12:29:57 PM "It raises the question that if our bodies are robots and our brains are computers, w.....
» 3/04/2007 12:27:55 AM Bugsy [and Philo], I looked back on a few posts between Philo and yourself. I gained the .....
» 1/04/2007 6:55:09 PM Philo, Re-read your post: " The spirit afterlife we inhabit is the nature and chara.....
» 1/04/2007 4:47:22 PM Philo, Soul: Is your posit, the soul is closer to the concept of psyche, rather than some.....
» 30/03/2007 7:42:20 PM West and Donnie, "Harm in the name of Jesus is not deviancy as far as practitioners .....
» 27/03/2007 10:24:05 PM "If religion was good then it would be impossible for it to cause harm." -- West.....
» 27/03/2007 2:33:34 PM Donnie, Knowing whether a god or gods exist is a taller order, than explaining the presen.....
» 26/03/2007 4:40:35 PM West, I guess when it comes to spritulaity, rationality doesn't have a ghost of chance. .....
» 23/03/2007 1:38:27 PM --Anyone out there? Perhaps, it is just that everyone is busy. But I think we have a few .....
» 20/03/2007 9:07:12 PM "Not all countries exempt the clergy from war service." -- I did not know that......
» 20/03/2007 6:12:43 PM Sells and Philo, If in the first case, one accepts that the existence/non-existence of go.....
» 20/03/2007 3:26:18 PM ...And which institution would not turn off the lights of the Vatican in WWII, allowing bo.....
» 20/03/2007 12:59:02 PM "I think it is important to differentiate between the institutions that man puts in p.....
» 19/03/2007 3:27:15 PM West, Good one. We, or at least our atoms, return to the Sun [or the next generation of .....
» 16/03/2007 5:00:39 PM Errata: "held", "neuroscientist". Lakatos, and, less directly, Kuhn w.....
» 16/03/2007 4:14:35 PM Donnie, If you look back on earlier posts, it is noted that the [primitive] Limbic System.....
» 16/03/2007 1:32:51 PM Church and Absolution: If a Jesus character did died for our sins [subsitutionary ransom].....
» 14/03/2007 4:21:02 PM Philo, Welcome back. Who is your alternative authority to Woodhouse [1910], regarding the.....
» 14/03/2007 1:58:11 PM A MATTER OF TENSE " 'Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.'”.....
» 13/03/2007 6:49:12 PM " 'Arab culture tends to promote a rather severe deference to authority which discour.....
» 13/03/2007 6:09:50 PM "I am always grateful for the prayers of confession and absolution in the Sunday Litu.....
» 13/03/2007 5:46:12 PM Waterboy, Welcome to the thread. If you stay around like me for 4-5 threads initiated by .....
» 12/03/2007 11:55:23 AM Philo, Thanks again for your contributions. We still have the matter of your sources, reg.....
» 12/03/2007 11:10:44 AM What goes hand-in-hand with lack of funding for research is poor financial management of f.....
» 12/03/2007 10:34:27 AM aqvarivs, No offence taken. But SCience treat information and knowledge discovery in the .....
» 10/03/2007 9:01:06 PM Aquarivs, "What I see is you equally dependent on someone else's work, someone else'.....
» 10/03/2007 3:27:26 PM aqvarius, What is Science and what is Technology? Sharping a stick to use as a spearing t.....
» 9/03/2007 6:02:11 PM "Scientist may shout from amongst their beakers, "It's alive. it's alive." .....
» 9/03/2007 1:12:59 PM THE APPRENTICE - SCIENCE OR RELIGION? "The problem with Newton and Whiston’s approac.....
» 8/03/2007 5:04:30 PM Philo, "Demon" in Ancient Greek means, "evil spirit" [of whch one can.....
» 8/03/2007 4:32:19 PM MOHAMMED THE PROPHET OR ALEAXANDER THE CONQUEROR? Today, when many examine the experience.....
» 7/03/2007 4:52:47 PM I would do believe in higher powers, e.g., gravity and nuclear binding. Yet, I will mainta.....
» 7/03/2007 4:40:32 PM Aqvarivs, Yes, I did read your post to imply the religions maintained a monopoly on moral.....
» 5/03/2007 10:45:28 PM "Healthy values and habits are acquired through personal satisfaction, practice and p.....
» 5/03/2007 7:53:36 PM Philo, "The spirits of 'Satan' (Satan a Hebrew term identifying opponents of pure an.....
» 2/03/2007 4:33:20 PM Mark, When I built a Crdedit Scoring Systen for a Bank, what I did was, I took a large sa.....
» 2/03/2007 12:22:47 PM aqvarivs, I fully agree that I was using the term "agnostic" very loosely. [I a.....
» 1/03/2007 7:01:37 PM "Agnostics can not honestly contribute on the subject of spirituality in regards to a.....
» 28/02/2007 9:18:27 PM Thanks Keiran. Last night, on CNN, Christians were citing scientists, historians, statis.....
» 28/02/2007 5:34:44 PM Well said. Thanks Keiran. Last night, on CNN, Christians were citing scientists, histori.....
» 27/02/2007 7:26:43 PM DOUBLE STANDARDS? WE WILL SEE. West, as usual, I appreciate you post. Thanks. Sells and.....
» 27/02/2007 2:39:56 PM BURIAL TOMB OF JESUS Often in these threads, I have posited need to Christians adopt a &q.....
» 26/02/2007 7:13:37 PM ..cont./] With a macro system incorporating the input of quantum processes would there no.....
» 26/02/2007 7:12:04 PM Peter, Interesting article. I see the quantum realm as indeterminate and the macro realm .....
» 26/02/2007 12:32:44 PM West, Agree with your comments about wolves and dogs. There is some debate on this matte,.....
» 26/02/2007 12:17:36 PM Hawaiilawyer, Psalm: 82 Thanks. I understood God singluar to refer to El the Head of the.....
» 24/02/2007 8:25:29 PM BOAZ, Humans are animals. Mammals, in fact. Moreover, the Australian Museum exhibit in Sy.....
» 24/02/2007 6:24:03 PM Hawaiilawyer, Thanks for your post. The Ten Commandments are more likely to have their o.....
» 23/02/2007 5:51:22 PM West and Pericles, "... guided only by people who have an absolute and overt interes.....
» 22/02/2007 5:49:44 PM Philo, I think what Pericles is asking is, why does a Christian believe God did not commu.....
» 20/02/2007 6:37:38 PM LIMBIC SYSTEM Above comment has been made on the Limbic System, herein, I cite: "Th.....
» 19/02/2007 7:55:57 PM Philo, Gnostic metaphysics describes, Monad, father of all, and the nature of God: “It i.....
» 12/02/2007 5:13:45 PM I see some truth in George's point about faith chasing understanding versus understanding .....
» 10/02/2007 8:05:14 PM George, I once worked for two years with IBM (Washington) on AI. Historically, I was a pr.....
» 10/02/2007 6:50:30 PM Thank you for your post. "That Peter has wiped the dust from his feet and moved on f.....
» 9/02/2007 7:11:33 PM cont./ I have never attempted to denigrate Peter. Although, he [and Boxgum] are not so, a.....
» 9/02/2007 6:11:57 PM Seeking God and seeking Christianity are not the same. God and Jehovah and Jesus and Isis .....
» 9/02/2007 2:47:28 PM Politics is an oligarchy. The major parties block independents by making it hard to enter .....
» 8/02/2007 10:46:21 PM How could he? He has been dead for 2,000 years......
» 8/02/2007 2:43:04 PM /cont. Worship, of Aten, Zues or Jesus, is centripedal. Analysis of the Architecture of t.....
» 8/02/2007 2:25:57 PM "Oliver, I think I finally understood your point about theocracy (defined in my Merri.....
» 7/02/2007 6:03:09 PM Good posts here. What is fightening is climate warnings were made in 1970s, presumably bas.....
» 7/02/2007 12:26:20 AM The above suggests anomalies and theocrasia pertaining to the Christian faith, using the s.....
» 7/02/2007 12:14:40 AM George [and Kieran], I agree, interest in Flat or Round Earths would not encourage a simi.....
» 5/02/2007 5:12:25 PM George, Thank you for you reply. I will repond again a little later. [Aside on seeing co.....
» 5/02/2007 5:12:10 PM George, Thank you for you reply. I will repond again a little later. [Aside on seeing co.....
» 4/02/2007 3:35:22 PM Rainier, Thank you. I did not know about these matters. Suspect, many city people would b.....
» 4/02/2007 3:35:08 PM Rainer, Thank you. I did not know about these matters. Suspect, many city people would be.....
» 2/02/2007 11:07:26 PM George, Caught-up with some analyses of my own for a time. Impressed by your site. Good q.....
» 2/02/2007 4:55:24 PM "Aboriginal people are now at the mercy of lawyers, CEO`s and mining companies like n.....
» 2/02/2007 4:45:32 PM Rainier, "He was held [there] until the freeing up of laws in the 70's which allowed.....
» 2/02/2007 11:42:28 AM Divorce Doctor, Viet-nam was not about Communism. Rather, it was a remnant of the Far Eas.....
» 2/02/2007 11:10:08 AM "Universalism is challenged everywhere today. Human rights and cultural values are ex.....
» 1/02/2007 8:17:11 PM Good heart felt points. But true on the treatment of underclasses generally. I can recall .....
» 1/02/2007 3:39:11 PM In the contemporary scene, Asian Values, have been addressed by S. Gordon Redding and Robe.....
» 31/01/2007 4:01:29 PM aqvariovs, "I thought it might even go back further. To the warrior/hunter eating th.....
» 31/01/2007 3:01:22 PM Thank you for your considered post. I will need to think about it and come back later. “Y.....
» 29/01/2007 5:51:40 PM George, Testing "religiosity" in the Popperian sense is difficult. However, acc.....
» 29/01/2007 1:11:51 PM Paul, Good article. Let’s put on a wider angle lens. America is an interesting study: .....
» 28/01/2007 6:46:10 PM "A few in this thread have mentioned Hitler and Stalin as examples of the evils of se.....
» 27/01/2007 10:31:45 PM ERROR: Oops. Berlin 1936......
» 27/01/2007 10:19:40 PM ["Mr Sagigi said that his people felt the time was now right for a name change from T.....
» 27/01/2007 3:27:59 AM Rainier, I should hope your Oz history students WOULD eat me alive. I haven't even read F.....
» 26/01/2007 7:43:21 PM Epilogue: All, Discussed and ratified in intent in the 70s. The "actual" Treat.....
» 26/01/2007 6:37:02 PM Rainier, -- WHY THE MOCKING TONE? -- [1] "Oliver, the Treaty of Waitangi was in 184.....
» 26/01/2007 11:54:10 AM Rainier, Thank you. Interesting legal history. There seems to have been an attempt toward.....
» 25/01/2007 4:33:13 PM CG, -- YOUR IDEAS -- Generally agree. Good common sense. The large sum suggested, in a .....
» 25/01/2007 4:00:03 PM Rainier, Will have a look at link. Thanks. CG, Can see your point to a degree. But, the.....
» 25/01/2007 11:45:07 AM Ranier, What is "your" plan to change manage: 1. The invaders' sense of superi.....
» 24/01/2007 12:22:19 PM "Nationhood is about perceptions-if Aboriginal Australians consider themselves to hav.....
» 22/01/2007 8:50:50 PM -/Cont/- Anthropology 101 3a- The front end of my PhD involved developing cultural antec.....
» 22/01/2007 4:44:34 PM CJ Morgan, "Put more simply, 'clans' are an anthropological concept used to describe.....
» 21/01/2007 9:10:15 PM Herein, we have Conquest and disenfranchisement, which begs the question of compensation. .....
» 21/01/2007 8:30:45 PM "Aboriginal people in Australia have continued to argue that just as British sovereig.....
» 20/01/2007 2:56:29 PM Relda, Good luck with finding the underpinnings of “spirituality”. I think QM and Phase S.....
» 19/01/2007 11:41:41 PM George, Greetings… With Sells, I was not adopting Argumentum ad Hominem in that I was di.....
» 19/01/2007 7:36:40 PM ."...represented the different Aboriginal nations." - Ranier To the best of my .....
» 19/01/2007 7:36:28 PM ."...represented the different Aboriginal nations." - Ranier To the best of my .....
» 18/01/2007 9:33:40 PM /Cont…. -- This will be my last post to you-- Sells, you can come out of the closet, now.....
» 18/01/2007 9:03:12 PM TWO UN-CHRISTIAN CHRISTIANS Sells and Boxgum, Two self-supposed still Christians wont p.....
» 17/01/2007 12:22:44 PM Hello George, 1. THEOCRASIA "Because even the rationally most sophisticated (religi.....
» 15/01/2007 5:57:13 PM Relda and George, With myth, storytelling and spirituality, should we regard these entiti.....
» 15/01/2007 1:10:50 PM I am puzzled about Barry Jones. He seems to be a walking encyclopaedia, but is reknown for.....
» 15/01/2007 12:50:16 PM Maybe China should be encouraged to accept the Kyoto Protocol as a developed country for i.....
» 13/01/2007 7:49:55 PM Boxgum, My interest in the past few threads goes back to Sells' questions, "How Does.....
» 13/01/2007 6:37:33 PM George, Thank you for your thoughtful response. I have read Popper. Some kinks but a good.....
» 13/01/2007 6:00:27 PM As mentioned, in Scandinavia, farmers train to work in industry “and” work on the farm. As.....
» 13/01/2007 5:52:53 PM (1) ”We did not know in the 1970’s that we would experience the warming that we have had t.....
» 12/01/2007 9:28:40 PM West, Good post. Martin, If I have swamped you, we can have you answer one or two of my.....
» 12/01/2007 1:48:25 PM Country Gal et al., We have known about climate change for decades. I recall in the 70S r.....
» 11/01/2007 5:07:32 PM Boaz, Simple, - I beleive in the basic tenents of the Ten Commandments and dozens of oth.....
» 11/01/2007 4:34:54 PM George, -- Math can throw-up surprises. Dirac c. 1929., did not believe his own discovery.....
» 11/01/2007 4:04:37 PM George, (1) CIRCLE: You are correct, I was thinking of Plato. What I am alluding to is, .....
» 10/01/2007 5:06:43 PM West, Thanks I will look for that one, when next in bookstore or will send to amazon. I h.....
» 9/01/2007 9:19:15 PM George, Welcome to the thread. 1. Why do you see theology as antecendent to spirituality.....
» 9/01/2007 8:37:07 PM Relda, -- "My God, my God! Why have you foresaken me?" Popkin et al., through .....
» 9/01/2007 8:24:14 PM Martin, (a) Please check my replies to Sells' latest article. I have very clear and succi.....
» 8/01/2007 6:11:05 PM Relda, THE STRONG INHERITED THE EARTH Nietzsche, Hilter and Machiavelli, methinks, would.....
» 8/01/2007 4:56:16 PM Martin, Paul, not Jesus, broke the mould of traditional Judaism, towards its Hellenised c.....
» 8/01/2007 12:33:40 PM Relda and West, Judaism, Christianity, Mithraism and Zorarstianism all are theocenric rel.....
» 7/01/2007 3:14:26 PM WHAT ABOUT ME? We plebs also have the issue becoming spirits OR raptured at the Eschaton.....
» 7/01/2007 2:46:42 PM BODY AND SAUL Sells provides very interesting posts and for this, I feel he should be com.....
» 6/01/2007 6:15:22 PM …Abandoning the Godhead would have been a much greater sacrifice than crucifixion, and, is.....
» 6/01/2007 6:09:02 PM ~~THE GOSPEL ACCORDING OLIVER~~ 1. Histographies do seem to challenge the religions. A r.....
» 5/01/2007 1:10:04 PM [some loss because of the word limit] Architecture states Yahweh was married to Asherah (.....
» 5/01/2007 12:24:15 PM Martin, Trust the first week '07 is proving interesting and productive. I am still very .....
» 3/01/2007 3:15:15 PM West, Suspect that in broad terms the evolved brain is flexible to meet the varied demand.....
» 3/01/2007 12:38:02 AM Martin, Neural networks: The notion of neural clusters is posited by neuroscientist and t.....
» 2/01/2007 4:01:53 PM Grey, Can you say with absolute certainty, absolute, mind you, that not one innocent pers.....
» 2/01/2007 3:47:13 PM "Ask the Indians how many died due to Quran based Islamic invasions. Ask the Assyrian.....
» 2/01/2007 1:17:27 PM "The complexity of the brain does not create god." - West True, not a real god,.....
» 1/01/2007 3:51:05 PM Hope Sells' NY resolution is to write less and proselytize less, and be less aloof, when i.....
» 1/01/2007 2:30:14 PM Sells, Hope your NY resolution is have some courage in your convinctions and engage in to.....
» 31/12/2006 8:01:55 PM Have always admired Freud, as a brilliant model builder. Given his era, he probably could .....
» 31/12/2006 2:40:02 PM Relda, "Modern science suggests that the conscious and unconscious each possess the .....
» 30/12/2006 2:43:21 PM --IF WE ADOPT A PHYSICAL POLE-- The correct state of affairs leaves rationalists on the f.....
» 30/12/2006 1:26:07 PM "God must be proved before you speak of him because proof is a presentation of truth......
» 26/12/2006 4:25:22 PM Boxgum, 1. Do you maintain Papal infallibility in matter ex cathedra? 2. Is the Bible inf.....
» 26/12/2006 1:20:04 PM "For the Hebrews, God’s greatest victories were not cosmic but occurred on earth.&quo.....
» 25/12/2006 6:09:16 PM typo: Feeding secularism to religionists, is like giving water TO a THIRSTY person TOO mu.....
» 24/12/2006 8:15:04 PM Relda, Your last post, like others, was interesting. My NY's resolution will be to spell.....
» 24/12/2006 5:00:26 PM aqvarivs, Feeding secularism to religionists, is like giving water to a person to much, a.....
» 24/12/2006 11:52:43 AM All, Seasons greetings......
» 24/12/2006 11:45:52 AM Relda, "Religious belief is not detached from reality: It is about motivating behavi.....
» 22/12/2006 8:39:08 PM ... But, Greenfield, adds a darker side, to our supremo ability to create internal imagin.....
» 22/12/2006 8:27:22 PM Relda, Although your citing Sheldrake was of surprised to the Forum my dog tells me, she .....
» 22/12/2006 5:01:24 PM Schmuel, POST SCRIPT I am having some of my research instruments translated into Chinese.....
» 22/12/2006 2:30:12 PM Schmuel, Thank for your post. Theocrasia would have seemed to have societal goals when c.....
» 21/12/2006 7:43:16 PM Boxgum, Thank you for your post. I tend think of spiritablity, as an attractor of religi.....
» 21/12/2006 6:09:47 PM csteele. Agree. Seclarism has been evolved from the middle ages until into 1800s. Since t.....
» 20/12/2006 1:43:14 PM Yebiga, Logos, The Word of God's historical engagement ebbs and flows and ebbs again. The.....
» 19/12/2006 7:14:29 PM Civilisationalist, Caroll Quigley, notes, there is danger in wealth and power co-existing .....
» 19/12/2006 7:04:14 PM Relda, I feel you are correct. A reworked ALP with Rudd would stimulate debate. Also, one.....
» 19/12/2006 4:20:45 PM BD, Whether we follow natural humans or supernatural entities, we cannot certain of sound.....
» 19/12/2006 3:45:43 PM "HOW DOES GOD EXIST?" -OR- “THE SILENCE OF THE SELLS" For Sells (1), Pete.....
» 18/12/2006 9:39:01 PM West, "The fact that Job existed does not make Job in the Book of Job real." Tr.....
» 18/12/2006 2:26:22 PM Wells, Thanks for your reply. Suspect we have read the same or similar sources have drawn.....
» 18/12/2006 10:12:38 AM Marx's issue with the relationship to owning or not owning the means of production is inte.....
» 17/12/2006 4:42:06 PM Dear Boxgum, I feel no hostility towards you or Sells. Just the sames, were I to provide .....
» 17/12/2006 1:24:16 PM West, Thank you for your informative reply. When I have looked into the matter of sect, .....
» 16/12/2006 4:45:44 PM Cont... At no level am I out to "get" Sells. At some level, perhaps, I am guilt.....
» 16/12/2006 4:26:30 PM Hello BD, Simply put, I am trying to recommend to Sells and others, that, "a priori&.....
» 16/12/2006 2:44:13 PM Yabby, Any thinking athiest would appreciate the intellect of a Abelard, a Luther or an A.....
» 15/12/2006 6:10:56 PM Pericles, THE LITTLE BIG HORN "To most ordinary folk, the words "religious&qu.....
» 15/12/2006 3:14:20 PM BD et al., My apporach has been to emphasise the HOW, in "How does God exist?" .....
» 15/12/2006 2:26:00 PM Pericles, Thank you for your post. 1. Mao carried forward indigeous beliefs for his own .....
» 14/12/2006 6:07:26 PM BD, You have company in the waiting room. ;-) Sells, I feel, regreted his own post, afte.....
» 14/12/2006 5:04:02 PM Why "rising"? There is nothing new about secular religionism. China could be sai.....
» 13/12/2006 10:02:20 PM CJ, "I await another bleat about how hard it is to have a decent theological discuss.....
» 13/12/2006 4:26:30 PM DROPPING THE BALL BD, You are correct. Indications are Peter CAN'T answer the questions .....
» 13/12/2006 4:13:33 PM Re: How does God exist? Peter, before starting a new thread, it would have been helpful n.....
» 13/12/2006 12:04:36 PM Compared with other professions, the entrance bar into universities seems low. Should be a.....
» 12/12/2006 8:38:05 PM Tao, Sinologist, Lucian Pye, states, with China, the issue is not left and right (read so.....
» 12/12/2006 6:02:23 PM Col, I was simply referring to the opportunity of running two sets of books, cash economi.....
» 12/12/2006 3:29:59 PM Sells, The growth in knowledge in Western knowledge visa~a~visa did not come from theolog.....
» 12/12/2006 2:30:27 PM Sells, Thank you for your recent replies. If you are typical, the Christian theology col.....
» 11/12/2006 1:59:11 PM Sells, Thank you again for providing such an interesting title, which I guess many contri.....
» 11/12/2006 1:31:24 PM The manufacture of consumer and low tech products is problematic. Owing mainly to economie.....
» 11/12/2006 12:04:37 PM BD, THanks for your interesting comments. More later. Carried down from earlier post. Pl.....
» 9/12/2006 4:53:48 PM All, re: previous: I found this: "Many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth .....
» 9/12/2006 2:50:07 PM A QUESTION FOR THE FORUM: Before 350 BCE does the OT place any NT style emphasis on immor.....
» 8/12/2006 2:04:11 PM Roger is correct. One can choose. No different than being an organ donor. Surprised scien.....
» 8/12/2006 12:04:04 PM Cont... Sells, I encourage you not to adopt a priori positions in theology. You need to.....
» 8/12/2006 12:00:47 PM All, In his discussion on Science and Religion, Wells notes that during time of Ptolemy I.....
» 7/12/2006 12:48:08 PM ERROR: Would China accept two suns in the sky? The West is NOT going to lay down die......
» 6/12/2006 8:26:30 PM George, Whom are the entrepreurs? Would their genaelogies be Shang? Herein, Confucianism .....
» 6/12/2006 6:31:36 PM Sells, Above, I hope you see I am not "out to get" religion, rather my sights a.....
» 6/12/2006 6:13:10 PM TJ, I respect your superior knowledge in the area and regret if I have misled the Forum. .....
» 5/12/2006 4:23:44 PM "I claim the Koran 'culture' (early 7th century AD Arabian peninsula) the Christian(J.....
» 4/12/2006 1:47:55 PM Sells, Assume you have decided not to reply. Obviously, you can't refute my notion that.....
» 4/12/2006 1:34:11 PM BD, In the 1970s, Lawerence Kolhberg evaluated morlity, including the idea of "good&.....
» 2/12/2006 5:36:53 PM /Cont... BD, 1.4 Your question: Will think on your question. Busy now. Doing my own res.....
» 2/12/2006 12:09:00 PM BD, 1.1 General references: - History and Ethics within Organized Christianity, Hall, 19.....
» 1/12/2006 2:42:55 AM All, Sells sees Jesus vis-a-vis Zeus, as a "pure" human presence. But does not .....
» 1/12/2006 2:34:19 AM BrainDrain, "make mine a fixed half-pint thanks!" - BD [Should have read ".....
» 30/11/2006 12:35:41 AM ON MINDS Sells and religionists, "God is a fixed-pint concept surrounded by religio.....
» 29/11/2006 6:59:38 PM Trust Sells is just busy or working on a reply. Hope he will join in the debate. That is w.....
» 28/11/2006 5:57:14 PM Keiran, Your Glenn Borchardt quotes are informative. Nonetheless, infinities do exist in .....
» 27/11/2006 5:11:48 PM shmuel, When discussing Tutankamun with an Egyptologist at the Singapore Civilizations Mu.....
» 27/11/2006 4:49:01 PM BrainDrain and Haiwiilayer, 1. Relda is correct, Christianity didn't stablise until after.....
» 22/11/2006 5:32:28 PM Keiran, QM does not refer to the expadning universe(s)and is not apart of the Big Bang an.....
» 21/11/2006 9:18:37 PM PART 1 (/cont.) Will continue above later. Space problems. Hawaiilawyer: 1. Zeus. What .....
» 21/11/2006 4:34:36 PM TYPO ABOVE: This posit would represesent an alternative explanation to a God BRIDGING the .....
» 20/11/2006 9:48:59 PM Yung Yong, Interesting post. Thanks. 1. Do you feel traditional Chinese familialism and .....
» 20/11/2006 7:00:49 PM BrainDrain, Complex infinite vector-space in quatum mechanics allows for Hamiltonian flow.....
» 20/11/2006 3:16:54 PM Sells, You do exhibit that a priori mindset, I have referred to several times. Your ".....
» 19/11/2006 5:38:11 PM Legally, a University can be held accountable under the Trade Practices Act, as offering c.....
» 19/11/2006 5:14:47 PM Hawaiilawyer, What about the cruelty of the Insect World? Sells, Thank you for your con.....
» 17/11/2006 11:27:13 PM Sells, Your animus is unnecessary, I feel no ill-will against religionists, Christian or .....
» 17/11/2006 3:10:06 PM Pete: Desmond Ball? I recall his high profile [a frequent contributor to PDR], when writin.....
» 17/11/2006 12:46:05 PM Pericles, Good study in history. Note the Greek influence. A compromise to Roman pantheis.....
» 16/11/2006 7:08:16 PM Sells, You chide Boaz_David, but perhaps by (a) looking at only a theistic explanation of.....
» 15/11/2006 8:03:33 PM Pericles, And that's why Me (God)countinues to be, as observed by yours faithly, Tree. ;-.....
» 15/11/2006 2:37:38 PM Sells and Pericles, Nazareth was historically a Greek city state. Jesus, although a Jew (.....
» 14/11/2006 11:08:30 PM WE NEED A NEW MODEL FOR FARMERS Farmers need to learn to multi-task like in Scandinavian .....
» 14/11/2006 3:15:10 PM All, Please see my earlier post: Many interesting contributions to Pete's article, do; A.....
» 14/11/2006 2:25:25 PM I suspect one could encrypt phone lines but domestic phone taps would be comprised, and it.....
» 14/11/2006 2:05:25 PM plantagenet, Thank you for your comments and reply. I once worked for two years with IBM.....
» 13/11/2006 4:41:52 PM God or Gods exist as a perpetuating hypothetical construct of human contrivance. Human pen.....
» 13/11/2006 1:01:10 PM The problem of capturing data from cyber-space is too much data, i.e, too chit-chat, like .....
» 7/11/2006 9:19:03 PM Peter, What you call "Christian" is really, Morality. Have you read Lawrence Ko.....
» 6/11/2006 10:17:34 PM On the US Larry King programme, about one year ago, a Catholic priest and serious religiou.....
» 6/11/2006 2:18:11 PM Leigh and dw, Democracy is a fragile thing. It is easily lost. The classic civilizations .....
» 6/11/2006 2:00:01 PM Leigh, L-A-W-F-U-L,lawful. In one period in Ancient Rome, under the patria potestas, the .....
» 30/10/2006 4:41:07 PM Reg and Bushy, cLATIFICATION: "Come on guys; Humanity is bigger than both of you.&qu.....
» 30/10/2006 4:17:43 PM Wayfarer, "It used to be said a few years back that 'Australia rides on the sheeps b.....
» 29/10/2006 5:57:21 PM FRIENDS AND MODERATOR--SORRY, "IF" DOUBLE POSTED ABOVE, WRONG BUTTON, I THINK , .....
» 29/10/2006 5:21:17 PM I recall visiting relatives in a countrt house (800ks from Sydney). The women inside, were.....
» 29/10/2006 4:21:37 PM Pt2. There is a Chinese saying, "there cannot be two suns in the sky. However, there.....
» 29/10/2006 4:18:35 PM "Confucius was once said “one cannot see the face of the mountain from the inside”. G.....
» 26/10/2006 5:05:22 PM /CONT. Bushbred, responding to your contribution, I was contrasting the above in relation.....
» 26/10/2006 4:02:28 PM Reg and bushbreed, In no way was it my intention to malign Chinese society. Before 1700 i.....
» 25/10/2006 4:26:01 PM */cont. In the nineteenth century, the US expanded under the Manifest Destiny: The US fou.....
» 25/10/2006 3:35:25 PM Greetings bushbred, I could put that civilizations sustain themselves through expansion a.....
» 20/10/2006 12:17:03 PM Reg, Warm greetings. I will call you, today, 5.30-6.30 pm, Canberra time. Doesn't matter .....
» 18/10/2006 5:48:00 PM Hello Reg, You were one post in front of me. I would like to establish a more permanent c.....
» 17/10/2006 5:15:13 PM Reg., I worked with Westpac (National manager, Deposit Products) until 1992 and moved int.....
» 17/10/2006 3:48:55 PM Hello Reg., I believe I understand from where you are come. I too can see the need to thi.....
» 16/10/2006 12:27:16 PM ... /cont. China comes a tradition of being the Middle Kingdom with vassal states. Albeit.....
» 16/10/2006 12:23:23 PM "argued, very much against the otherwise consensus view, in the Australian Embassy in.....
» 15/10/2006 12:18:47 PM "This eternally dualistic subject-oject way of approaching the mototcycle sounds righ.....
» 14/10/2006 3:15:01 PM Hello Reg, Thank you. Interesting follow-up. “The Dao that can be explained is not the e.....
» 13/10/2006 5:16:47 PM "Chinese technological achievements generally overshadowed those of the West. I am co.....
» 13/10/2006 3:15:42 PM Harry, Are you going to engage your audience?.....
» 13/10/2006 3:04:54 PM Jolanda and Bondi Pete, There is a difference between pedagogy and andragogy. Young chind.....
» 13/10/2006 2:53:44 PM Reg, "Communism and capitalism are Western, not Asian, hang-ups, very much a secular.....
» 13/10/2006 11:58:58 AM TYPO: Tabla Rosa. We start with a blank slate. We learn our attitudes......
» 12/10/2006 1:04:16 PM “Veni, vidi, vici” … “I came, I saw, I conquered.” Roman Consul Julius Caesar (47 BCE), ac.....
» 12/10/2006 11:34:47 AM Reg, Your further comment on the above might stimulate this forum. Also, note that Chin.....
» 12/10/2006 11:17:28 AM TYPO (ABOVE): "... placing so much weight on one assessment instrument does NOT seem.....
» 11/10/2006 8:17:47 PM Jolanda, Sorry to learn that your daughter lost her appeal. You seem to have good support.....
» 11/10/2006 5:39:21 PM "Maybe, a new trade system (1933, 1944, 1973, now ?) or a war would save the West&quo.....
» 11/10/2006 12:42:19 PM Don Aitkin, 1. If more than say twenty percent of the population can handle university cu.....
» 11/10/2006 11:16:50 AM Reg, Interesting article but as noted above, why assume Confucianism to be at the locus o.....
» 11/10/2006 10:58:55 AM Jolanda, It sounds like you have loads of common sense. With my post I had WAIS in mind w.....
» 10/10/2006 5:37:55 PM Jolanda, Again, I agree with you, regarding streaming students. A selective school is an .....
» 10/10/2006 3:37:29 PM Harry, the situation is particularly bad in Asia, where I have seen the sweetheart commer.....
» 10/10/2006 10:57:17 AM Huntington's "Class of Civilizations" leans heavily on Carroll Quigley (1961), w.....
» 10/10/2006 10:38:08 AM Jolanda, Agree. Outcomes (sic. Competency) Based Education can be effective in its own ni.....
» 10/10/2006 10:20:08 AM Think I am talking to myself?.....
» 9/10/2006 2:05:02 PM Sebestian, University VCs and deans often have little real business experience, inclusing.....
» 8/10/2006 7:16:51 PM Iluvatar, I have tried to gain support/acknowledgement, taking the approach of writing to.....
» 7/10/2006 3:29:09 PM In the 60s/70s curricula were less modualarised and the courses harder and more intensive......
» 6/10/2006 6:00:03 PM Having historically been involved in a community service club in the Western suburbs, I ca.....
» 6/10/2006 5:23:38 PM I have seen the commercial Unicentre scene offshore, firsthad, and the situation is freigh.....
» 5/10/2006 4:25:43 PM Hello Kevin, Thanks. I am offshore, but will look-up the PM's speech. Take care. Kind .....
» 5/10/2006 4:15:55 PM CARBONARI, Thank you. I do know the title. I should read the book. ALL, In socio-biolog.....
» 4/10/2006 2:44:42 PM Kevin, Almost made 100. But I think attention wanes when there is a new kid (article) on .....
» 2/10/2006 9:39:52 PM Carbonari, "The very early social pecking order often put Irish Convicts below Abori.....
» 28/09/2006 7:10:38 PM Schmuck, ECONOMIC REFUGEES I had a look back. I saw my comment. Here, I was not making a.....
» 28/09/2006 1:45:11 PM Schmuck, I did not mean imply that all immigrants are economic refugees. The main point.....
» 27/09/2006 2:22:44 PM T800, Genetics suggest there were four migrations of pre-European, different from each ot.....
» 26/09/2006 9:04:23 PM Hi Relda, Thank you for your considered reply. I will print it off and think it through. .....
» 25/09/2006 7:42:03 PM Relda, Any comment on the suggestion of a larger model, as above? Herein, familialism is .....
» 25/09/2006 11:59:43 AM Natasha, Societies grow when its people engage each other. That requires, fusion. Yes, fu.....
» 24/09/2006 6:02:18 PM Kevin, Did you ever see the Australian JAG episodes (My wife loves JAG)? Well, twenty yea.....
» 23/09/2006 10:37:04 PM Hello Kevin, I'm in Hong Kong and have just come back the computer, because I can't find .....
» 23/09/2006 5:16:22 PM "After I submitted the article on values and what we hold in common, Steve Irwin died.....
» 22/09/2006 4:30:06 PM Relda and Shorbe, I think you need to reconcile the cohesiveness of the State with the le.....
» 21/09/2006 5:02:53 PM The Chinese are very spiritual. The Japanese are animists. The aboriginal clans have their.....
» 20/09/2006 3:25:04 PM Shorbe: Excuse me for not recognizing your question was rhetorical. How could I have misse.....
» 20/09/2006 1:01:42 PM Shorbe, (A)"Once again, why are so many Muslims so bloody fragile?" - Shorbe 1.....
» 18/09/2006 6:29:15 PM Stickman67, Your post reads as, Argumentum ad Hominem. Perhaps, this was unintended. If y.....
» 18/09/2006 11:56:54 AM During the early Qing (1644-1912), Kangxi 1678) had to deal with problem of old loyalities.....
» 18/09/2006 11:41:48 AM shorbe, You make a good point about Germany's contribution to the Reformation. Likewise, .....
» 17/09/2006 5:20:26 PM Clarification: "What TV calls 'fundamentalist' is probably more like some eighth-cen.....
» 16/09/2006 4:26:07 PM Shorbe, "I tend to think that what makes any belief system or culture attractive and.....
» 14/09/2006 9:43:49 PM Shorbe, "why is/are Islam/Muslims so fragile/special it/that they can't cop the usua.....
» 14/09/2006 7:49:18 PM shorbe, I was with you to the last paragraph. Why? Because that such a depiction of the M.....
» 13/09/2006 5:52:27 PM Blackstone: " In answer to your question, Aboriginal people weren't even included in.....
» 13/09/2006 5:07:05 PM shorbe: In the Roman's latter centuries it lost touch with Greek philosophy and Latin ove.....
» 12/09/2006 2:15:26 PM ERRATUM Generic [GENETIC] footprints suggest five migrations in the Ice Age......
» 12/09/2006 1:48:01 PM Marilyn, "Our history is as brutal as any other history but we refuse to face it. Re.....
» 11/09/2006 4:34:56 PM Religious doctrine should never be taught under a speartion of State and Church system. No.....
» 11/09/2006 12:59:50 PM Kevin and Leigh, “the reality is that Australia’s development as a nation and its legal, .....
» 11/09/2006 11:11:22 AM Kevin, Of the twenty-something civilizations that have exited since Sumer (4,000 BCE), We.....
» 7/09/2006 5:08:40 PM "Do you have ANY idea how long it'll take me to find a LAWYER [in heaven]?" It a.....
» 6/09/2006 5:49:14 PM If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. -Will Rogers.....
» 6/09/2006 12:50:14 PM Keiren, John? This week, I am busy with preps for some translators working on my research.....
» 5/09/2006 3:10:45 PM Depends on how the religionism is presented: e.g., "Five Approaches to Creationism in.....
» 4/09/2006 7:06:42 PM Keiran, "John wants us to get back to heaven.... perhaps all this talk of expanding .....
» 3/09/2006 7:36:31 PM --Part Two-- Vacuum states and solid matter have observed, quasi-observed quantum under-s.....
» 3/09/2006 3:08:08 PM --Part One-- Keiran, I am unsure if you have answered my questions. Definitely not as ant.....
» 2/09/2006 7:14:24 PM --Kieran's assertions to Oliver: 1. “Perhaps you can tell me how nothing could exist and .....
» 1/09/2006 8:25:56 PM Keiran, Postscript to the above: While redshift is a signature of recessional motional m.....
» 1/09/2006 7:01:14 PM Hello Keiran, Thanks for a prompt response. I am caught with my own research over the nex.....
» 31/08/2006 8:10:15 PM Keiran, This is a photograph when the universe was only 300,000 years old: http://www.na.....
» 31/08/2006 12:16:29 AM Keiran, Science: The evidence of the Big Bang is the uniform background radiation (2.7 de.....
» 30/08/2006 8:04:53 PM Philo, Thank you for your reply. Appreciated......
» 29/08/2006 6:29:05 PM Philo, 1. What is your take on: Luke 23:43 - "And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say .....
» 27/08/2006 6:58:30 PM --continued-- Where did the Habiru God live? Yahveh was originally a minor deity of the C.....
» 27/08/2006 2:14:01 PM John Warren, ”The ancients had a definite view of heaven. It was up there above the sky.”.....
» 26/08/2006 8:43:47 PM Hezbollah can be destroyed but it requires forcing a conventional war. The Romans had a si.....
» 26/08/2006 8:27:04 PM Austalian physicists were involved at Los Almos and in fact headed the British team. When .....
» 26/08/2006 6:18:40 PM Tao, What the Bible describes 6,000 years ago is the transition from Garden Cultures to t.....
» 25/08/2006 7:36:17 PM Boxgum, Nine absolutions for a dead Pope. Why so many?.....
» 24/08/2006 4:57:54 PM Boxgum, Your last post is well written and presents I sense an honest conviction. I respe.....
» 23/08/2006 1:57:11 PM Boxgum, This is Forum. People debate issues and posit various propositions. It is the nat.....
» 23/08/2006 1:37:41 PM MARX Stalin and Mao were not Marxists. They merely leveraged the notion of the peoples’ a.....
» 23/08/2006 12:30:10 PM Ajay, I do have feel for where you are coming from given, as I have heard of children bei.....
» 22/08/2006 1:46:37 PM There is no after-life Belief in an afterlife is what anthropologists see as magical thin.....
» 22/08/2006 11:27:26 AM Mickijo, Ageed. "The Shoes of a Fisherman" has never played well with the Cardi.....
» 22/08/2006 11:13:15 AM Arjay, Hi, "our society by selling us rights,rather than pushing the notion of pers.....
» 21/08/2006 4:31:40 PM What is biologically normative can be ecologically determined. If a species is heavily pop.....
» 21/08/2006 12:12:18 PM Mickijo, Religion isn't all bad. Historically, it has given the social framework for the .....
» 21/08/2006 11:29:36 AM Snout, Perhaps one could apply morality to the gay issue: Kohlberg comes to mind. Accepta.....
» 21/08/2006 11:09:50 AM Good points, but there is more to it. There also needs to be a fusion between scholarship .....
» 21/08/2006 10:59:30 AM Of course Education is a product. Universities in Trade and Commerce come under the Trade .....
» 1/07/2006 12:10:13 AM Anth, By the Greatest Generation, I assume you mean the BB's parents? That generation liv.....
» 26/06/2006 11:32:19 AM Steve, "Baby Boomers is a term commonly applied to people with birth years from the .....
» 26/06/2006 10:46:42 AM Yes, Australia is truly a country of immigrants. Recent DNA studies suggest that Aborigina.....
» 20/06/2006 7:30:48 PM saintfletcher, The NT is a selected work from different histories and somewhat different .....
» 19/06/2006 6:36:43 PM Hello Philo, I have responded/extended our discourse at the earlier site extending from t.....
» 13/06/2006 5:09:57 PM Philo, my friend, you have made my point, in so much as Constantine’s advisors would not h.....
» 12/06/2006 2:29:25 PM Philo, Some exiled Jesus people (Nazarenes) elected a Latin, Gentile Bishop called Marcus.....
» 12/06/2006 1:01:19 PM Hello Philo, BACKGROUND The Gospels are “exceptionally” Jewish in character. And as sugg.....
» 6/06/2006 1:33:16 PM Bazz: You are correct flat maps do create distortions. Canada's neighbour is the US. Ou.....
» 6/06/2006 1:20:30 PM Sage: In theory China needs to be only one-fifth as productive as the US, to achieve Ame.....
» 5/06/2006 1:25:39 PM Further to my earlier post. Nationalism and statism are out of date in a global world with.....
» 5/06/2006 10:51:40 AM Historical Australia has hitched its wagon to the West. When Britain was a power, we were .....
» 1/06/2006 11:58:14 AM Philo, Interesting information with some dates a generation earlier than I thought. Thank.....
» 31/05/2006 1:00:45 PM Philo, No problem regarding you commitments. I am in the same boat. John-tassie silence s.....
» 30/05/2006 2:21:52 PM Philo and john-tassie, Your letter to john-tassie "Building a personal relationship .....
» 30/05/2006 12:04:22 PM Philo and john-tassie, 1. The Gospel of John appears to have been written in Syria around.....
» 29/05/2006 2:35:23 PM HISTORICALLY: In opening up to the world, China faces many challenges steming from its hi.....
» 28/05/2006 1:31:32 PM Philo, MY HOMEWORK: In sum, I think what John is saying is the Son is within the Father .....
» 28/05/2006 11:16:29 AM Thanks Philo, I will revisit John. My point has to do with the source documents upon wh.....
» 27/05/2006 1:16:23 PM Philo and John-Tassie, I am sure J-T is correct in noting that as ancient documents come .....
» 26/05/2006 8:13:45 PM For people who want to own guns the issue is training its use and the security of the weap.....
» 26/05/2006 5:30:19 PM Kroeber and Kluckhohn. That's going back a bit. Kerr cleverly segments divides culture int.....
» 26/05/2006 11:22:03 AM Philo and all, It usually takes a PhD student 3-5 years to prove a new idea and an expere.....
» 25/05/2006 1:54:09 PM Hello Philo, When mentioning the DVC, I am not saying it is any threat to the church. Rat.....
» 25/05/2006 10:53:41 AM Bushbred: Sic et Non. Yes and No. My understanding is Abelard was concerned about Aristot.....
» 24/05/2006 2:05:09 PM Francis, I responded to you on the DVC Forum site. Suggest you look. I have tried to este.....
» 24/05/2006 11:56:23 AM Greetings Philo, I have been very involved with my research, but the DVC has peaked my in.....
» 23/05/2006 7:16:06 PM Francis, How can I reply to your smart crack? Are you saying the Council of Nicea did n.....
» 22/05/2006 6:24:49 PM Bill, --Part Two-- 8. Jesus legends and the Roman mysteries were also merged: e.g., Chri.....
» 22/05/2006 6:18:33 PM Bill, --Part One-- 1. The Da Vinci Code is fiction. It author agrees it is an adventure .....
» 22/05/2006 2:52:09 PM In the case of the Da Vinci Code, I think it is interesting, both protagonists see the deb.....
» 1/05/2006 5:46:38 PM Of course, motorists can speed too much. But perhaps the issue is not the "fixed".....
» 13/02/2006 12:34:19 PM Histographies (Quigley, Toynbee) support the author. Concentrations of power with wealth o.....
» 30/01/2006 1:32:19 PM Imagine a Venn Diagram with its circles like the Audi or Olympic emblems. Imagine two circ.....
» 9/01/2006 3:55:59 PM I believe it was a Roman Emperor, who said it best: "Give the people a circus...".....
» 3/01/2006 5:53:15 PM Sajo and Sam A., Teachers have been a pretty mixed bag for decades. In the sixties and se.....
» 3/01/2006 12:22:39 PM ALLOW STUDENTS TO REPORT EVENTS It is important the the bullied child have an avenue to .....
» 3/01/2006 11:59:08 AM Price justification is a related issue, methinks. Herein, physicians will charge a thirty .....
» 22/12/2005 11:02:32 AM Worldoflight, It has been said that "if the Chinese family centredness represents gr.....
» 21/12/2005 5:47:59 PM While Arab and Aboriginal communities are both basically tribal, Arabian historial enjoinm.....
» 20/12/2005 2:56:05 PM The point of the above is the same as my first posting: At Cronulla, we have a conflict be.....
» 20/12/2005 2:29:25 PM Ev, I have been living out of Oz for a few years and almost certainly less aware of the L.....
» 19/12/2005 8:11:14 PM Henry, I feel you are correct in saying that East Asian countries, principally South East.....
» 19/12/2005 2:14:15 PM LEBANESE KIN FAMILIALISM VERSUS INSECURE MARGINALISED ANGLOS --CONCLUSION-- Thus, Lebane.....
» 19/12/2005 2:12:25 PM LEBANESE KIN FAMILIALISM VERSUS INSECURE MARGINALISED ANGLOS --CASE-- Perhaps Kinship bo.....
» 4/08/2005 5:42:04 PM I think that even non-religionist biologists would agree with Philo that the emergence of .....
» 3/08/2005 6:50:53 PM Hello Philo, Just back from Oz. I would need to check the technical meaning of the word &.....
» 14/07/2005 7:50:03 PM Philo, I said in an earlier post to you "Maybe, this could push us back 12-15,000 BP.....
» 13/07/2005 7:24:10 PM Pericles, Your cited definition is very interesting. Herein, I understand that Krushchev .....
» 9/07/2005 1:52:14 PM Aslan, I have not before come across his poetry. He would seem to have held strong views......
» 8/07/2005 9:51:01 PM Aslan, I was just interested in your views on the socialism matter. Albeit, some of the p.....
» 7/07/2005 7:00:41 PM Aslan, I have not forgotten about the physics matters will reply in due course. But read.....
» 4/07/2005 1:23:56 PM Aslan, I too am very busy and no need to post this site. Nonetheless, I will address your.....
» 3/07/2005 5:28:25 PM Aslan, WHAT NO TIME? You said: Oliver, can you not see that a "preferred frame of r.....
» 2/07/2005 9:41:01 PM Philo, I think we should know more about the DNA matter in a year or two. The National Ge.....
» 2/07/2005 3:46:31 PM Philo, Thanks for your thoughts. It has struck me Bishop Ussher's 4004 BC date would be.....
» 1/07/2005 9:09:59 PM Aslan, You said: "If the component theories that make up evolutionary biology are fa.....
» 1/07/2005 1:54:17 PM Aslan, I am elsewhere very occupied at the moment but I feel am very able to provide furt.....
» 30/06/2005 7:38:50 PM Aslan, You [Oliver] clearly have not understood the articles I referenced. Humphreys' Whi.....
» 30/06/2005 11:39:54 AM Aslan and Pericles, Evolution Evolution is not a science as Popper defines science. None.....
» 29/06/2005 2:31:38 PM Aslan and Pericles, Evolution My take on what Popper is we should not take the “meta” pr.....
» 29/06/2005 12:47:06 AM Philo and Aslan, Islam as cited above alludes to the question, "Can God be fatigued&.....
» 28/06/2005 2:04:39 PM Aslan, CREATION I read the proposition God created a preferential timeframe for the Eart.....
» 27/06/2005 5:33:07 PM Aslan and Pericles, Evolution Without the resources at hand to confirm, I would take it .....
» 27/06/2005 12:32:56 PM Aslan, I agree with you Occam's Razor should not be universally applied. My fairly freq.....
» 25/06/2005 5:06:17 PM Aslan and Pericles (if you are still just reading), TENTATIVE AND NON-TENTATIVE, DOGMATIC.....
» 24/06/2005 8:31:53 PM Aslan and others, LIGHT The Robert Newtown postulation seems to be geometrically based......
» 23/06/2005 10:25:09 PM Aslan, "What about all the witnesses to his miracles and the people's desire to make.....
» 23/06/2005 2:02:27 PM Aslan, I will work through your replies with an open mind. However, over the next few day.....
» 22/06/2005 7:45:32 PM Thanks Philo, I will read your reply with interest......
» 21/06/2005 7:34:17 PM Aslan, " Not sure what you mean by prove the "religiosity" of the Bible........
» 21/06/2005 6:14:26 PM Aslan, DATING The age of planet can be dated from its physical elements as can the solar.....
» 20/06/2005 6:36:31 PM Philo, Thank you for your considered reply. You said: “For Christians we make no great d.....
» 20/06/2005 1:47:05 PM Aslan, THIS FORUM Pericles makes a good point when he highlights the real purpose of thi.....
» 18/06/2005 11:14:12 PM Neo, Do you mean Christian principles without a region and/or Church? Some who reveres th.....
» 18/06/2005 6:21:38 PM Aslan, BAAL “My comment about the historical development of Christian theism related to .....
» 17/06/2005 4:14:43 PM Aslan, Please note, I did not opt for a new category between relativism and absolutism. I.....
» 16/06/2005 10:49:07 PM Aslan, Humanity holds opinions about morality that are not absolute. Herein, societies do.....
» 16/06/2005 3:23:59 PM Philo, I am living offshore and have a very limited library on Plato. Plato seems to have.....
» 15/06/2005 10:46:02 PM Philo, I agree it is best to be open and honest. My comment to Aslan regarding God and ab.....
» 14/06/2005 3:53:55 PM Philo, Thank you for an interesting reply. I feel it good have developed your beliefs wit.....
» 13/06/2005 6:59:10 PM Philo, BIBLES The following is from the New International Version: ********************.....
» 12/06/2005 11:59:25 PM Aslan and Philo, I do not hold that absolute morals exist in an ethereal sense. Just the .....
» 12/06/2005 5:52:46 PM Aslan, SLAVERY I took only a quick read of Rummel’s work Herein, I gain the impression h.....
» 11/06/2005 10:04:10 PM Aslan, GENOCIDE Given you hold R.L. Rummel, as an authority on genocide, I quote your so.....
» 11/06/2005 4:09:09 PM My Dear Aslan, I engage this Forum for recreation from having to look things up in dictio.....
» 10/06/2005 1:49:57 AM Aslan, I said that I have never called myself an "ethical realist" but I do hav.....
» 9/06/2005 11:02:47 PM Aslan, "Under Biblical principles, there is nothing inherently wrong with 'owning' a.....
» 9/06/2005 12:01:43 AM Aslan, ONE: “ What Aslan does not seem to appreciate is that I am not attacking his righ.....
» 8/06/2005 8:07:50 PM Aslan, Karen Armstrong (A History of God) seems agree with Toynbee on Yahweh starting out.....
» 7/06/2005 11:57:54 PM Philo, EXODUS: 21:20 And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he di.....
» 7/06/2005 4:11:12 PM Aslan and Philo, SLAVERY I think over and beyond the economic system there are social an.....
» 6/06/2005 10:12:15 PM All, History would seem to support Neo on the matter of slavery. Herein, I quote Robin La.....
» 6/06/2005 2:06:02 PM Aslan and Pericles, Thank you Pericles. My understanding also is that a syllogism must h.....
» 5/06/2005 9:16:34 PM Neo, I have never described myself as an "ethical relativist", but, I certainly.....
» 5/06/2005 2:55:10 AM Aslan, "If" you are adopting a position of infallibility in the Church's tradit.....
» 3/06/2005 3:06:11 PM Good. We agree that there is such thing as a Locus of Power. Progress. Some Germans would.....
» 3/06/2005 1:48:36 PM Aslan, The point of my question about Mark is "if" it were now excluded would y.....
» 2/06/2005 1:52:00 PM OPINION From my recollection, the main defence during the Nuremberg Trials was, “I was ju.....
» 1/06/2005 10:21:15 PM Aslan, Had the Gospel of Mark been excluded from the mandated collected Biblical works in.....
» 31/05/2005 7:57:33 PM Aslan, BOOK BURNING GENERALLY: Thank you for the site. Nonetheless, I know much of this .....
» 30/05/2005 10:34:13 PM Aslan , PART ONE (Cont.) Actually that’s 150 degrees of the Earth’s rotation! Sorry, As.....
» 30/05/2005 7:30:28 PM Aslan, PART ONE I actually printed off Keenan’s paper and read it. You will note that t.....
» 29/05/2005 8:54:14 PM Philo, I just re-read an earlier post. Are you saying the poetry in the Bible can be meta.....
» 29/05/2005 5:51:08 PM Aslan, ANCIENT CHINA I did not say it East Asia History was not peer reviewed. I said th.....
» 28/05/2005 6:26:42 PM Aslan, SCIENCE Science being wrong all the time is what makes it so powerful. There is r.....
» 28/05/2005 5:44:40 PM Aslan, CHINESE ASTRONOMY Keenan’s article mainly relates to recording the solar eclipses.....
» 27/05/2005 5:13:24 PM Aslan and Philo, I find representations of God in the Old Testament to be far more right .....
» 27/05/2005 4:38:14 PM Aslan, ASTRONOMY I will try again: The pre-unification Chinese were capable of measurin.....
» 25/05/2005 10:29:15 PM Aslan. SABBATH :-). I agree with your interpretation. Also, I feel comfortable about my .....
» 24/05/2005 8:36:27 PM Alsan, JURY 1) Rape is prosecuted not merely because a court says so, but, because, in o.....
» 24/05/2005 7:15:24 PM Aslan. LUTHER You, Popper and I agree that the serial repetition of a fallacy is in appr.....
» 23/05/2005 8:22:30 PM Aslan, the Second, LUTHER I did some quick research about “table talk” more generally. I.....
» 23/05/2005 7:02:55 PM Aslan, ON MEN CREATING GODS Regarding the Habiru and Moses, I was extending on the “poss.....
» 21/05/2005 3:48:08 PM Aslan, With all heinous crimes – i.e., all sickening examples – all the jury can do is li.....
» 21/05/2005 12:51:32 PM THANKS Xena and Jane, thank you for your support. Anyone who will put up with my poor typ.....
» 20/05/2005 1:04:28 AM For those believe the Sun did stop in the sky: One: The Earth doesn’t “rotate” around th.....
» 19/05/2005 11:53:13 PM Kenny, Normally, when debating people with opposing views, I show them respect and will a.....
» 19/05/2005 1:01:44 AM Aslan, RE: The above 1964 was a publication date. The original work was is copyrighted, 1.....
» 18/05/2005 11:40:34 PM 1. Welcome on board Col. 2.(a) Aslan, Yes, I would try to prosecute based on my opinion......
» 17/05/2005 8:12:07 PM Aslan, (1) Abelard, I feel, would be happy with self-defeat. Progress is made by self-def.....
» 17/05/2005 3:32:25 PM Aslan and others (should you choose to join in): The key word in my more recent responses.....
» 16/05/2005 2:16:43 AM PART ONE Wow… That was a quick response. I used the word psychopath because the Diagnost.....
» 15/05/2005 11:32:53 PM Aslan, Thanks for your reply and reference, which I will read with interest. You asked, .....
» 15/05/2005 1:06:03 AM Aslan, TRUTH: Many popular Greek philosophers used, and, Greek influenced teachers, use,.....
» 14/05/2005 3:09:52 AM Xena, I liked your quantum physics reply and note your good efforts to keep us all on the.....
» 13/05/2005 1:59:32 AM Xena, Perhaps the discussion has ebbed and flowed with respect to the kernal of the topic.....
» 13/05/2005 1:23:53 AM Aslan, I applaud your scholarship and respect your considered argument. Nonetheless, I po.....
» 11/05/2005 11:58:36 PM Philo: Humanism, compassion and empathy are all high human values. Herein, you are correc.....
» 11/05/2005 7:51:28 PM Aslan, The raw data you quote cannot be disputed: Agreed. However, it is risky to assume.....
» 10/05/2005 8:24:23 PM PHILO: It has been said that "object of war is peace ... peace on one's own terms&qu.....
» 10/05/2005 6:30:09 PM PHILO: According to Thorstein Veblen (c.1919) societies rapidly modernising from a feudal.....
» 9/05/2005 2:52:43 PM Erratum regarding above: the FIRST "Catholic" Christian prelate was the Latin, M.....
» 9/05/2005 2:02:36 PM Fiona, historians can give us some insight into whom Jesus might have been. It is hard to .....
» 3/05/2005 3:07:44 PM At a tertiary level, I have administered or lecturered in two educational institutions in .....
» 11/04/2005 11:54:55 AM OFFSHORE PROVIDER PARTNERSHIPS - REVENUE BEFORE STANDARDS With university - offshore prov.....
» 7/04/2005 10:23:47 PM PART TWO: OFFSHORE PROVIDERS With university - offshore provider partnerships, the situa.....
» 7/04/2005 4:47:01 PM PART I MAN FRIDAY SYNDROME Enjay, about eight years back, I was told the very same thing.....
» 6/04/2005 8:30:45 PM My comment relates to an “embedded” normative private student population based on the like.....
» 5/04/2005 6:35:56 PM Rancid, you identify a relevant population cum classification "for some". But is.....
» 5/04/2005 4:19:58 PM To iterate one point, I made earlier, "academic" utility is best served by match.....
» 3/04/2005 3:06:25 PM I feel that commercial private for-profit schools should not be Government subsidised. The.....
» 2/04/2005 5:26:42 PM Pericles: You think that is bad. The financial arrangements and iffy goings-on of many off.....
» 1/04/2005 6:11:30 PM Ian, I think the time for what you describe being variable has now past. Were there a CANZ.....
» 1/04/2005 2:20:00 PM Ian, thank you, for your considered reply. I am under a little time pressure over the next.....
» 31/03/2005 2:57:19 PM Ian, I would have to agree with your historical comments because these are fact. Similarly.....
» 30/03/2005 10:03:18 PM Bozzie, of course you are right about the Australian Republic issue being much more import.....
» 30/03/2005 8:39:26 PM Arjay, I have taught at UWS, where I found no behaviour problems. Maybe, a few students st.....
» 30/03/2005 1:07:55 PM Britain is no longer relevant to a modern Australia, nor does it care much for us, except .....
» 29/03/2005 10:23:36 PM Current Australian university agency agreements with offshore private providers supplies u.....
» 28/03/2005 9:23:02 PM Boaz, THE WALLS OF JERICHO That's a hard one. I fear the ability to create sufficiently.....
» 28/03/2005 8:00:03 PM Cadiz, Genetically, promiscuity is a two-edged sword. Having many heterosexual and/or hom.....
» 24/03/2005 9:36:34 PM Boaz, I much enjoyed your studied and erudite post. I certainly will follow-up on the sugg.....
» 24/03/2005 3:54:07 PM Slammer, Obviously, politics and religion will interact in every society. Herein, please .....
» 21/03/2005 2:42:54 PM The recent history between Myanmar, ASEAN and the EU is complex. A few years back I was as.....
» 21/03/2005 1:43:02 PM Pericles, put simply, yes, I was trying to offer some advice. I now see that you seem expe.....
» 20/03/2005 9:27:26 PM Sams, you find strong support from civilisationalists, when saying education is joined by .....
» 20/03/2005 6:59:37 PM If he has not done so already, it might prove helpful, were Gavin to to engage this forum......
» 19/03/2005 5:06:27 AM Post script: Pericles, further to the above, my comment was not based on a "Western&.....
» 18/03/2005 8:49:49 PM The inability to perform calculations goes hand-in-hand with the inability to parse a sent.....
» 18/03/2005 4:51:39 AM All: The origin of the term Western is simply derived from the boundary of the Western Ro.....
» 14/03/2005 7:51:55 PM Pericles, I worked in Singapore for three years and have dealt directly with Chinese busin.....
» 14/03/2005 7:21:04 PM Many of the Chinese cultural antecedents Stephen mentions are well known to the academic l.....
» 14/03/2005 3:39:10 PM Australia should not be looking at either assimilation or apartheid, but, rather, accommod.....
» 14/03/2005 3:36:23 PM In sum, aboriginal communities need to drop tribal thought-sets. Australian Westerners nee.....
» 8/03/2005 2:42:48 PM BOAZ The very point of my posting was that the original author should be looking at his t.....
» 7/03/2005 8:15:16 PM The State-Religion question was more scope: Churches and priesthoods have their roots in .....
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