Kylie's LP Challenge

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Your friend Bill shows you an LP. It looks to be in pristine condition.

Bill has a piece of paper that was written by someone neither of you has met (Bill thinks it was the guy who used to live in his flat but moved away before Bill lived there, although he can't be sure). This piece of paper says that the LP was once scratched, but brilliantly restored.

You want to know if the paper's account is accurate, so you subject the LP to tests, but you can find no evidence to support the claim written on the paper (as well as several things which seem to contradict the paper's claim).

Bill, however, is under the impression that the guy who used to live in his flat was completely trustworthy, and since he also thinks that this guy wrote the paper, the claim written on it must be true. Bill also says that the things you found that contradict the paper's claim must simply be a result of your own fallibility.

Here's my challenge:

Who has the most reasonable position? You, or Bill?
 

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Your friend Bill shows you an LP. It looks to be in pristine condition.

Bill has a piece of paper that was written by someone neither of you has met (Bill thinks it was the guy who used to live in his flat but moved away before Bill lived there, although he can't be sure). This piece of paper says that the LP was once scratched, but brilliantly restored.

You want to know if the paper's account is accurate, so you subject the LP to tests, but you can find no evidence to support the claim written on the paper (as well as several things which seem to contradict the paper's claim).

Bill, however, is under the impression that the guy who used to live in his flat was completely trustworthy, and since he also thinks that this guy wrote the paper, the claim written on it must be true. Bill also says that the things you found that contradict the paper's claim must simply be a result of your own fallibility.

Here's my challenge:

Who has the most reasonable position? You, or Bill?

First of all, I'm not sure what 'LP' stands for; sorry, I think it must be a cultural thing.

I would say in your scenario, I think you're trying to give an equivalent to the Bible, for instance. I would say the analogy probably falls flat for several reasons:

a) The number of extant manuscripts showing that the scriptures do exist and are accurate are more than to show the Shakespeare's works are in tact.
b) The number of authors for the Bible is 40 or so; in your analogy, we're talking one person.
c) If it is the actual existence of God you are trying to get at, eye witness testimony to the existence of a person or multiple things that person does is completely sufficient in a court of law; so why is it not sufficient to prove God's existence?

So while I don't know what an 'LP' is or what documents or verbal testimonies are vouching for it, but I suggest that while in the analogy - you may win hands down on the document for the LP is suspect ... it doesn't equal the testimony of the scriptures to God.
 
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Your friend Bill shows you an LP. It looks to be in pristine condition.

Bill has a piece of paper that was written by someone neither of you has met (Bill thinks it was the guy who used to live in his flat but moved away before Bill lived there, although he can't be sure). This piece of paper says that the LP was once scratched, but brilliantly restored.

You want to know if the paper's account is accurate, so you subject the LP to tests, but you can find no evidence to support the claim written on the paper (as well as several things which seem to contradict the paper's claim).

Bill, however, is under the impression that the guy who used to live in his flat was completely trustworthy, and since he also thinks that this guy wrote the paper, the claim written on it must be true. Bill also says that the things you found that contradict the paper's claim must simply be a result of your own fallibility.

Here's my challenge:

Who has the most reasonable position? You, or Bill?

By the way, it's nice to meet you no matter your position on theism or what not. :) Blessings - Peter James
 
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First of all, I'm not sure what 'LP' stands for; sorry, I think it must be a cultural thing.
LOL!!!!

Not cultural per se, but a time sensitive term. LP refers to a Long Play vinyl record, 12 inches in diameter.
 
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First of all, I'm not sure what 'LP' stands for; sorry, I think it must be a cultural thing.
This is an LP:


It stands for LONG PLAY.

As opposed to a 45 (rpm), which is a single song

 
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LOL!!!!

Not cultural per se, but a time sensitive term. LP refers to a Long Play vinyl record, 12 inches in diameter.
The old 78 rpm that was fun to play at 33⅓ for about 10 seconds, until it got tiresome. ^_^
 
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This is an LP:


It stands for LONG PLAY.

As opposed to a 45 (rpm), which is a single song.

Oh, I see. A record player. Why didn't you just say so! ;)

My son has a record player; and not a new one either. An old one from the 60s; he loves buying records at antique shops and listening to them; he's 17! Even I'm not that nostalgic! :)
 
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Oh, I see. A record player. Why didn't you just say so! ;)

My son has a record player; and not a new one either. An old one from the 60s; he loves buying records at antique shops and listening to them; he's 17! Even I'm not that nostalgic! :)
Sounds like he's got the old one, where you can stack records on the spindle.
 
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Your friend Bill shows you an LP. It looks to be in pristine condition.

Bill has a piece of paper that was written by someone neither of you has met (Bill thinks it was the guy who used to live in his flat but moved away before Bill lived there, although he can't be sure). This piece of paper says that the LP was once scratched, but brilliantly restored.

You want to know if the paper's account is accurate, so you subject the LP to tests, but you can find no evidence to support the claim written on the paper (as well as several things which seem to contradict the paper's claim).

Bill, however, is under the impression that the guy who used to live in his flat was completely trustworthy, and since he also thinks that this guy wrote the paper, the claim written on it must be true. Bill also says that the things you found that contradict the paper's claim must simply be a result of your own fallibility.

Here's my challenge:

Who has the most reasonable position? You, or Bill?

THIRD MESSAGE: Okay, now that I understand what the heck an LP is! :)

What claims of the Bible have been made that you tested that have not panned out and that you believe other Christians may have 'overlooked' simply because they trust that whatever God said is therefore true?
 
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This is an LP:


It stands for LONG PLAY.

As opposed to a 45 (rpm), which is a single song


There is also the rare beast, a twelve-inch single, played at 45 rpm. I have at least one of those, and it easily beats the CD version. But what is this thread really about? Who to trust?? I would tend to trust my own conclusions about the LP, and disbelieve the note unless it contained internal self-confirmation.
 
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There is also the rare beast, a twelve-inch single, played at 45 rpm. I have at least one of those, and it easily beats the CD version. But what is this thread really about? Who to trust?? I would tend to trust my own conclusions about the LP, and disbelieve the note unless it contained internal self-confirmation.
I was with you up until the last phrase. What do you mean by "internal self-confirmation"?
 
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Your friend Bill shows you an LP. It looks to be in pristine condition.

Bill has a piece of paper that was written by someone neither of you has met (Bill thinks it was the guy who used to live in his flat but moved away before Bill lived there, although he can't be sure). This piece of paper says that the LP was once scratched, but brilliantly restored.

You want to know if the paper's account is accurate, so you subject the LP to tests, but you can find no evidence to support the claim written on the paper (as well as several things which seem to contradict the paper's claim).

Bill, however, is under the impression that the guy who used to live in his flat was completely trustworthy, and since he also thinks that this guy wrote the paper, the claim written on it must be true. Bill also says that the things you found that contradict the paper's claim must simply be a result of your own fallibility.

Here's my challenge:

Who has the most reasonable position? You, or Bill?
Ok, I will be the first to comment on this mysterious note claiming the brilliantly restored RECORD. What is the other evidence, you did not state, that makes this note unreliable?
 
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What does that mean? What would it look it look like in this hypothetical situation?

It would simply mean that in the note was information that confirmed that the message was true, like before/after photos of the flaw in the LP, and a description of how the restoration was done.
 
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It would simply mean that in the note was information that confirmed that the message was true, like before/after photos of the flaw in the LP, and a description of how the restoration was done.
Well then I wouldn't use a phrase like "self-confirming." I'd simply say that the note provided evidence beyond a simple "say-so."
 
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