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All correct Ron but you're missing the crown jewel of the illogic: if God is omniscient then he knows ALL. Every millisecond of existence from the begining of time to the end. But more importantly, he's known ALL of that from the very FIRST millisecond of time, perhaps even before (as we reckon...

Yep, just like the French and British file dumps. Same level as the hick-in-the-cornfield type repots just with a nice shiny "official" governmental stamp on it, like it matters.

Then by that criteria it is 50% bullshit at least. Like I said, a quasi-historical volume.

People get confused because Egypt, Isreal, Babylon, Sumeria, and Ur are/were real places, the Tigres and Euphrates are real rivers, etc.That doesn't make the stories written about them in the Bible real. That something is older doesn't make it more likely to be true. Quite the opposite in...

That's not fair, Angel, the Bible is most certainly an historical text... in the sense that it exists and was cobbled together over several centuries, that is. Other than that it's quasi-historical or historical fiction. Like Robin Hood, England's a real place, John and Richard were really...

No Angel, he's got a point... so long as you ignore archeology, anthropology, astronomy, geology, etomology, geneology... and so forth.

Actually, it doesn't come from the Bible, which is the really odd thing about the whole "anti-christ" concept. The term only appears three times in the entire volume in the gospel of John and he's referring to people (not a person) who deliberately go against/speak out against the teachings of...

No man, just checking don't worry about it. Like I said, I'm on four hours sleep here... comprehension levels at minimum... coffee requirements urgent... As yet another aside though (there's a lot of them in this thread) I don't really get why some people still crap on TV in this day and age...

Okay, still not firing on all cylinders yet but did you just suggest that the only way someone would know about NAMBLA was if they were themselves either gay or a pedophile? At this point in history NAMBLA's pretty goddamned infamous. They were the subject of an entire episode of South Park...

Freedom of speech being what it is, NAMBLA can say whatever they want. Whether it's them, Neo-Nazis, Black Panthers, Fred Phelps or whoever, their right to speak must be granted no matter how wretched and vile the words. They have the right to speak, we have the right not to listen. That said...

Maybe it's because I'm functioning on four hours of sleep but I don't get this. How exactly is any of this "precognition" in the classical sense? I've seen stuff about the brain "pre-thinking" things before and sure it's fascinating and all but it's always a fraction of second before the thing...

Ball lightning doesn't strike me as particularily solid, metallic or prone to leaving impressions in the soil.

I'm likely to regret this but okay, I'll bite: by whom, for what purpose to what end?

Not really. As before, nothing above secret clearance was leaked.

To my knowledge, none. "Validity" may not have been the right word to use there however, perhaps I should have said "... added more weight to". And what I meant was things like radar data for UFO cases, anomalous video footage from areas reputed to be haunted, etc. Granted, these things aren't...

It's not totally hopeless. In the tug-of-war between the camps something interesting occaisionally shakes loose. New insights come forth, long held beliefs are challenged, some cases are debunked, still others gain new-found validity. It's just really, really, REALLY freakin' slow. I hear ya...

Still not buying it. But thank you for sharing.

That's not completely fair, Phil. There are plenty of scientists involved in researching the paranormal. The problem is half of them are trying to prove something and the other half are trying to disprove those exact same things, effectively nullifying each other and resulting the highly...

I really enjoyed this week's show. The discussion was far-ranging but not rambling, serious but not stuffy and open without being uncritical. Thumbs up all around. What I found most intriguing oddly enough had nothing to do with the paranormal but with the idea that FOX had some issues with...

OOOoooh! I LOVE these! Pray tell, what is this nefarious "agenda" you think I have? Really, never heard that one? It's a rarely used but not uncommon expression in my neck of the woods. For future reference the analogy breaks down as follows: you're a kid, you have a sandbox, you like to play...