Subj : Re: Most memorable modern
To   : jimmylogan
From : Boraxman
Date : Tue May 20 2025 10:16 pm

 Re: Re: Most memorable modern
 By: jimmylogan to Boraxman on Mon May 19 2025 02:52 pm

> Moved to 'religion' ...
>
> -=> Boraxman wrote to jimmylogan <=-
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>  Bo>   Re: Re: Most memorable modern
>  Bo>   By: jimmylogan to Boraxman on Sat May 17 2025 08:02 pm
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>  > -=> Boraxman wrote to Jcurtis <=-
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>  >  Bo> In the end, it comes down to whether you believe a claim made by
>  >  Bo> another human being or not, and for me, I generally don't.
>
>  > Do you believe George Washington existed? Abraham Lincoln?
>
>  > Or another leader from your history that existed before
>  > photographs?
>
>
>  Bo> There are multiple sources which all corroborate their existence.  If
>  Bo> they did not exist, there would be problems explaning our world.
>
>  Bo> This is different to the Gods people have believed in, in which, if
>  Bo> they did not exist, would not cause any explanatory problems.
>
> We have eyewitness accounts that corroborate the existence of Jesus
> the Christ. He claimed to BE God and said He would die and rise again
> after three days in the ground. He did this - again, eyewitness
> accounts corroborate this.
>
> If He managed to do this, then His claim of being God is legit.
>
I understand the argument, but I have a book which has eyewitness accounts of
aliens.  So...
>  >  Bo> I'm not close minded, I have experienced things that defy e
>  >  Bo> myself, but I need to see/experience something myself to believe.
>
>  > I dare say you believe a LOT of what you have been 'taught' to
>  > believe, even though you didn't see or experience it... :-) Most
>  > of us do.
>
>  Bo> Not all of it.  There are some things people say are true, which I know
>  Bo> are not, and there are some things people say are not true, which I
>  Bo> know are.
>
>  Bo> As for things that I did not see, such as the Cambrian explosion, my
>  Bo> adherence to that truth is as strong as it needs to be.  The more doubt
>  Bo> I have, or more specifically, the more the possibility that there is

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