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    Thread: Need A Good Metal Fabricator
Post: Need A Good Metal Fabricator

One of the school airplanes is getting its engine reassembled by the students and I thought it'd be cool to grind the word "Continental" off the valve covers and replace it with a plate with the words...
airportkid Off-topic 2 29 10 hours ago
    Thread: A Cumulative Case for Christianity
Post: RE: A Cumulative Case for Christianity

(11 hours ago)Dancefortwo Wrote: Zues is untestable. Zeus. By the way, his cousin Dzus is very much real, and like all religious figures, can be bought for practically nothing.
airportkid Atheism & Theism 904 8,179 11 hours ago
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

Take a look at some of the pictures of Trump today in the courtroom. Trump at court That is not the face of an innocent man determined to prove his innocence, that is the face of a terrified 5 year ...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 16,296 304,374 Yesterday, 03:37 PM
    Thread: A Cumulative Case for Christianity
Post: RE: A Cumulative Case for Christianity

(Yesterday, 12:39 PM)epronovost Wrote: (Yesterday, 12:23 PM)SteveII Wrote: You could disprove the supernatural by showing it is illogical (impossible)--but you would be the first to do that. Isn't...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 904 8,179 Yesterday, 03:22 PM
    Thread: A Cumulative Case for Christianity
Post: RE: A Cumulative Case for Christianity

(Yesterday, 11:48 AM)SteveII Wrote: For Christians, the belief that God is an integral part of their daily life goes beyond imagination; it's a deeply personal and profound experience. It means that...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 904 8,179 Yesterday, 02:07 PM
    Thread: A Cumulative Case for Christianity
Post: RE: A Cumulative Case for Christianity

(10-01-2023, 06:55 PM)Cavebear Wrote: ... concerns about the genuineness of faith in God if solely motivated by potential benefits and losses ... Except why else believe in a god if not for perceive...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 904 8,179 10-01-2023, 07:31 PM
    Thread: A Cumulative Case for Christianity
Post: RE: A Cumulative Case for Christianity

What SteveII and theists don't get is that many atheists reached atheism reluctantly, against their intuition, against their desire, forced there by a process alien to theism:  learning.  There's anot...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 904 8,179 10-01-2023, 12:52 AM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

(09-30-2023, 07:26 PM)Bucky Ball Wrote: ... it makes me wonder if "democracy even works".  We probably need a voter qualification exam, of some sort ... That's the point of representative democracy,...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 16,296 304,374 09-30-2023, 09:04 PM
    Thread: Sadly, this doesn't suprise me.
Post: RE: Sadly, this doesn't suprise me.

(09-30-2023, 05:07 PM)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:They did not understand we are all one race, that we are all simply human.  A lot of them still do not understand that. You should say at lot of US.  S...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 10 133 09-30-2023, 06:51 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

(09-30-2023, 05:46 PM)Bucky Ball Wrote: He poses an existential threat to the entire country. Not by himself.  The true threat is that a figure like that can amass wide support, which says something...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 16,296 304,374 09-30-2023, 06:43 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

(09-30-2023, 01:34 AM)pattylt Wrote: However, they are such idiots that some may try. I truly think the idiots with the WILL to try already did so Jan 6, and are now locked up.  The proportion of a ...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 16,296 304,374 09-30-2023, 02:56 AM
    Thread: A Cumulative Case for Christianity
Post: RE: A Cumulative Case for Christianity

It must be horribly frustrating to SteveII and the theists that we're not seeing the obvious:  miracles CANNOT be distinguished from otherwise natural phenomena because natural phenomena is what they ...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 904 8,179 09-29-2023, 11:08 PM
    Thread: A Cumulative Case for Christianity
Post: RE: A Cumulative Case for Christianity

(09-29-2023, 07:48 PM)SteveII Wrote: Except for all the people that do detect him daily. Describe just one such "detection".  Since it sounds like there are millions daily, finding one particularly ...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 904 8,179 09-29-2023, 08:23 PM
    Thread: Sadly, this doesn't suprise me.
Post: RE: Sadly, this doesn't suprise me.

It's interesting that we're becoming sensitive to slavery within our own species but still insensitive to it outside our own species.  If slavery is a crime against any sentient being, we'd have to ab...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 10 133 09-29-2023, 02:44 PM
    Thread: A Cumulative Case for Christianity
Post: RE: A Cumulative Case for Christianity

It's hard to believe that if SteveII, or any hard core theist, were accused of a serious crime, they'd accept the same kinds of "evidence" being used to prove their culpability as they insist is proof...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 904 8,179 09-29-2023, 01:48 PM
    Thread: A Cumulative Case for Christianity
Post: RE: A Cumulative Case for Christianity

(09-28-2023, 10:15 PM)pattylt Wrote: ... Every claimed supernatural event that has been examined has fallen apart upon examination ... Every claim that something is supernatural is an admission of i...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 904 8,179 09-29-2023, 02:06 AM
    Thread: A Cumulative Case for Christianity
Post: RE: A Cumulative Case for Christianity

(09-28-2023, 09:39 PM)Inkubus Wrote: ... you could fill an Excel spreadsheet with the horrors Christianity has inflicted upon mankind ... You're right.  But none of them are any different than depra...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 904 8,179 09-28-2023, 09:56 PM
    Thread: A Cumulative Case for Christianity
Post: RE: A Cumulative Case for Christianity

Give the religionists what they claim.  Jesus was real, looked as depicted in most western depictions, performed miracles as described, said every word ascribed to him.  It all happened, exactly as cl...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 904 8,179 09-28-2023, 08:53 PM
    Thread: My philosophy of good and bad
Post: RE: My philosophy of good and bad

I think the point of the OP is simply that, like beauty being in the eye of the beholder, whether something is "good" or "bad" is entirely in the mind affected by it.  There's nothing in the OP about ...
airportkid Philosophy and Ethics 25 252 09-28-2023, 05:12 PM
    Thread: A Cumulative Case for Christianity
Post: RE: A Cumulative Case for Christianity

(09-27-2023, 10:48 PM)Thethingaboutitis Wrote: Personal experience. When my sister died aged 50 leaving behind five children.. God did absolutely nothing. If SteveII has any interest whatsoever in e...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 904 8,179 09-27-2023, 11:20 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

(09-27-2023, 12:28 AM)Dancefortwo Wrote: Gawd, I really despise that traitorous lying piece of shit! So out 'n' about on the street, D, right in front of you Trump gets knocked flat by a transit bus...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 16,296 304,374 09-27-2023, 10:33 PM
    Thread: Rapture tonight! Sept. 22, 2023!
Post: RE: Rapture tonight! Sept. 22, 2023!

(09-27-2023, 10:07 PM)pattylt Wrote: My poor spelling noted…sorry… That took your credibility right down, PattyL, coupla million, from 9,999,999,999,999,999,999,999  to  9,999,999,999,999,997,999,99...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 43 423 09-27-2023, 10:24 PM
    Thread: Rapture tonight! Sept. 22, 2023!
Post: RE: Rapture tonight! Sept. 22, 2023!

(09-27-2023, 05:42 PM)pattylt Wrote: D I S S A P O I N T E D… D I S A P P O I N T E D about the misspelling. ANYWAY - here's a pop quiz:  On Sep 27, how many hours is it Sep 27 somewhere on earth? ...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 43 423 09-27-2023, 05:52 PM
    Thread: Rapture tonight! Sept. 22, 2023!
Post: RE: Rapture tonight! Sept. 22, 2023!

(09-26-2023, 07:38 PM)Dancefortwo Wrote: I wonder if hell has youtube videos. Youtube videos is the entirety of hell.  Appealing on its surface, but the true degradation increases logarithmically wi...
airportkid Atheism & Theism 43 423 09-26-2023, 08:42 PM
    Thread: The trump chronicles (topical thread)
Post: RE: The trump chronicles (topical thread)

There's apparently a fear among the judges presiding over Trump's criminal cases that jailing the thug for violating the terms of his "freedom" might spark an outright civil war, or some major violent...
airportkid World News, Politics and Current Events 16,296 304,374 09-26-2023, 08:28 PM