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Recent content by Jipsah

  1. Jipsah

    It is near

    Depends on how pessimistic I am at any given time. I generally tend to go with universal reconciliation, since in any other scenario, God's stated will ends up coming to naught. That's a hard one to conceptualize. The Will of God, omniscient, omnipotent, who speaks endlessly complex universes...
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    It is near

    Infinite torture can’t be a just punishment for finite crimes.
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    Nuclear weapons in the Bible?

    I think you're betting on a three-legged horse there.
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    Nuclear weapons in the Bible?

    It was originally an artifact of the Cold War when everyone expected the US and the Soviet Union to nuke the world into the stone age. It was Just Too Obvious: the Final Battle would be the Evil East and the Good West slinging ICBMs at each other, and the Bible was interpreted accordingly...
  5. Jipsah

    Nuclear weapons in the Bible?

    Space aliens with ray guns. I mean, as long as we're making stuff up...
  6. Jipsah

    It is near

    The churches I was dragged to in my youth thought of little else. The "old time hellfire preacher" was the kind of minister most in demand in the churches where I grew up. It was all strictly "get Jesus to save you from being tortured forever".
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    The Final Experiment (Flat Earth Bites The Dust)

    I managed to keep a valid PE license for a good many years. <Laugh>
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    Can I ask about "Aliens"?

    That doesn’t have any bearing on whether God created people in every postal code in the universe or not.
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    Can I ask about "Aliens"?

    That's why I lean toward the belief that there isn't anyone there. There's no real logical basis for it, and if some-card-carrying aliens show up tomorrow in an intergalactic yacht, I won't be the first to say I was wrong (my anti-hogwash instincts will take some getting though, and there's no...
  10. Jipsah

    Can only a Milky-way type of galaxy hold life at this age of the universe?

    Just like water circling a drain, right? Very scientific.
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    Can I ask about "Aliens"?

    It just means "foreign". Yep. I'd assume so. The notion that "the universe is sooooo biiiiiig thst there must be extraterrestrial aliens" is simply goofy. How large an area must a universe cover before it's required/necessary to have space foreigners? It may be that this universe if too...
  12. Jipsah

    There is only 2 options, Life formed because of God, or by random chance from non-living matter

    BTW, apropos of absolutely nothing, my grandkids are now a in school that's on the Columbia Pike right at the northern base of Winstead Hill. Just a few blocks toward town is the new (well, new by Franklin standards, anyway) county library at Columbia and Strahl streets. Strahl runs west into...