Why ask me? You’re the one who’s so confident about what meanings I have in mind.
Hint: you’ve spent much of your afternoon Well Actuallying a silly tweet from an absurdist humor account. Start there.
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So first we’re going to need a lot of paper towels
Now, what have we learned so far about God? Let’s review, and write all our answers in the form of comments on a comment card addressed to the manager:
1. Bigger than the Beatles
2. inordinately fond of Beetles
3. Sings Brahms’s lullaby at bedtime
You might say this is nothing, but it’s a start!
STEP 2: THE RECKONING
…oh, we didn’t tell you there was going to be a reckoning? Awkward.
Well, there’s nothing for it, things must be reckoned.
I reckon we’re going to get some rain pretty soon.
There, that wasn’t so bad, now was it?
Ext, put on a playlist of your favorite podcasts and roll for initiative. You will roll a 17, even if you only roll a 6-sided die, so it’s a nice trick if you can manage it. Impress all your friends! Bewilder your enemies! Dazzle small children! That’s how you win at winning.
If you *don’t* want to be eaten by a wolf, you’ll need these several things:
- ukulele
- mandolin
- banjo
- fiddle
- washboard
Wolves hate hootenannies and will go to many lengths not to have to deal with them. You can bargain with him in exchange for your soul. Or your r&b, whatever you prefer.
Next, take one peach cobbler or apple pie, it doesn’t matter which unless you value your life. Oh you do? Well it’s about time. Your life, I mean. It’s about time because we only get a certain amount of it. You used some of it to bake that pie, and now you’re going to be eaten by a wolf. Funny that.
Then, and this is unportant, don’t let it bother you. I repeat, you must remain unbothered no matter how much the wolf taunts you or tries to goad you into playing electric guitar in a progressive rock band. Resist these temptations! For the urge will be strong, and the demiurge will be half strong.
Coup coup cachoo, Mrs. Robinson.
I’m saying OP’s tweet is funny because he doesn’t see how it’s self refuting.
You’ve mythologized that into a whole bunch of claims I didn’t make here about the historicity of the gospels.
Your mythical version of what I didn’t say sounds more fun for you to debate.
Enjoy!
Shakespeare’s Globe theater goes counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere, thanks to the Coriolanus Effect
Another tough day for team “there’s no point in complaining about AI, just accept it.”
Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world ... but for clown shoes?
As per the first post you responded to, I’m just ribbing OP for saying the evidence is “scarce” while describing what in historical terms is evidence that’s “overwhelming”.
But I’m convinced: since you believe in a mythologized version of what I said, I must not exist as a historical person!
Bye 😇
"i think he bought the wrong size"
You’re welcome to keep debating the imaginary version of what you think I might have in mind though if that’s more fun 😇
I thought we were discussing the historical proposition “there lived an actual person named Jesus of Nazareth whose teachings were developed by his followers into Christianity, contra mythicist claims.”
I can see where we might have been at cross purposes though!
If we agree there are actual events underlying these beliefs then we can dispense with mythicism and go on to the much more interesting field of source criticism. I thought that was the point?
But, by your own analogy, you just said that John and Sally (Clement) describe the nature of Jesus from different points of view. So, we do have that. QED.
How is the simplest explanation not “there was an explosion for them both to describe”?
Independent as in they don’t all reflect the same beliefs about his nature? Because you just said we had that.
We can’t do both special pleadings at once!
The pope is bad, according to the Father of Lies? Big if true
> “literally nobody but cult members wrote about Him for 70 years after he died”
So we have multiple sources?
From people within his own movement?
Writing about him as a historical person?
Dating to less than a century after his death?!?!
And OP thinks this is *scarce* evidence?
“Many strong men coming up to me with tears in their eyes, saying Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my mama please, it’s Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size…”
So the shoegate I understand it is this:
1. Trump equals shoe size to dick size
2. Trump asks Rubio, Hegseth and the rest of the ilk about their shoe size.
3. They all yell, like 10, 11, big, huge.
4. Trump buys those for them, and they shamble around in shoes twice their size.
Who is Mia Hamm-And-Eggs?
I wonder what size shoes the Historical Jesus wore
hmm
