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[quote=""Greatest I am""] Note here: An agnostic is the exact opposite of a Gnostic. A Gnostic is one who claims to have special knowledge. Get the quote where I di such. Regards DL[/QUOTE] I don't believe you can speak for all gnostics, any more than one orthodox christian can s...

[quote=""Greatest I am""]If you need a life with a purpose to your writing, instead of this waste of time, I can help you.

A human without purpose to what he does is not much of a person.

Regards
DL[/quote]

We determine or own purpose.

To some, universalism means eventual reconciliation with god or the trinity, rather than equality among people. Even Satan and the fallen angels according to some. Human equality is a different matter, though we tend to believe in it. Do gnostics reject the old testament? Universalist tend to try to...

Well, some universalists are what I call punishment universalists. they believe in hell as a place of punishment or purification, but not one a being stays in forever. But they believe in the Fall and a need for redemption. This gets back to the problem about why a triple O god would create people t...

False. I think Universalist Christians are good. Deluded, but good.

And maybe good/evil is an illusion.

How many have them running all the time?

I'm hearing a fair amount about cops being being caught lying by surveillance cameras. Also about cops turning off their body cameras. Should the public start wearing their own body cameras?

Here in Texas I can vote in any primary I want to. But only one.
So last election I could have voted for Trump in the Republican primary, thinking there was no way he could be elected.

[quote=""Hermit""] I think this is going to be a serious problem for the remainder of our democracy; we seem to only want celebrities, CEOs, or exciting new "fire-brands" for president. Calling someone a "politician" in a presidential debate is considered to b...

Coral Springs officers and a few others were the ones who entered the school

https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/politics ... index.html

There are now reports that 4 cops were at the Parkland shooting that didn't go inside until another department showed up.

Blue Lives Matter!

Lions eat their food raw, so he wouldn't be poached......
I'd be lion if I said I like poached eggs.......

[quote=""Greatest I am""]
A good God would be a good teacher and the world sorrowfully needs a good moral teacher.

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This sounds an awful lot like "Since god doesn't exist we need to invent him", to mangle a saying.

Hmmmm. Using a hybrid car as an emergency generator for when power goes out.

BFR. Falcon. Uhuh. Sure.

Fromthe article quoting her : "We’ve already had our shot, He bore our sicknesses and carried our diseases. That’s what we stand on."

Sure as hell sounds like she's talking about all diseases. Sounds like standard faith healing logic.

Does nothing for me. Since I got laid off I've been paying my own insurance.

Any bets about whether they will get tax subsidies for it?

Depends how far it is taken. I can see a child in the church who develops type 1 diabetes dying from being deprived of insulin. It has happened before.

She's not saying it just about the flu.

Do other alphabets have an equivalent of cursive?
Arabic, Hebrew, Japanese, Chinese?

Actually I prefer Fraktur, which I taught to myself, to cursive.

[quote=""Loren Pechtel""] Braindead Trump supporter actually asks a Native American if he is in the country legally. More like completely missing brain. The guy should have added "and my ancestors weren't immigrants either. Of any kind. Did your ancestors enter the country l...

Depends on the time frame. Some of my ancestors have been here for a few thousand years.
Newcomers who have only been here for a few hundred or less have no bragging rights.

Gods, good or evil, are an unnecessary complication.

Is it evil to settle in a land of hurricanes, or earthquakes? Or just maybe unwise?

What makes you think the government will let you turn them off?

Especially it they are listening to your thoughts.....

Come to think of it, hasn't there been some concern cell phones are always broadcasting your location?

I'm probably not explaining myself well.

There is no good or evil outside of our interpretation of it. The universe just is. Evolution just is. Both are mindless and uncaring.

It's bad enough when Amber Alerts go off on my cell phone at night. Imagine them going off in you head while sleeping.