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  1. nikolai_42

    Can a Christian lose their salvation

    Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. Gal 6:7-8
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    Time doesn't exist.

    I believe that the concept of number is a concrete reality. I don't expect to find a "4" lying around somewhere, but that 4 apples lying on the ground is a concrete representation of an abstract concept. An abstract concept that, nonetheless, is external to my thought. I don't have to call it...
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    A little comedy break....

    You forgot Athens. And for those that want the Middle East thrown in, Palestine....
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    A little comedy break....

    Some of you may have already read this years ago. It's a distillation of a (slightly) longer piece of satire published by Umberto Eco (an Italian semiotician who also wrote novels such as The Name of the Rose and Foucault's Pendulum) in the mid-90's in a weekly column he published. The fuller...
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    Time doesn't exist.

    With this, I can't agree. Attaching names to measurements doesn't happen outside of a thinking mind - but measurement is a reflection of something that is actually real and valid - independent of mind. And trying to attach macro concepts to quantum "reality" is foolish since at the quantum...
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    Time doesn't exist.

    What would measurement (and quantification) of non-simultaneity look like if not time?
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    Time doesn't exist.

    So what's the difference between event A (the first vibration of the atom) and event B (the second vibration) and event N (the Nth vibration of the atom)? Frequency is measuring something. It isn't spatial. The specific atom vibrates at a specific (theoretically fixed) point in space. Vibration...
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    Time doesn't exist.

    I'm not talking about clocks....I'm talking about frequency (the inverse of time). What sense does it have if time doesn't exist?
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    Time doesn't exist.

    And apparently, MIT is wasting their....umm....er....intangibility? New type of atomic clock keeps time even more precisely
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    Time doesn't exist.

    Why use a Cesium atom to have hyperfine measurements of atomic vibrations if it doesn't mean anything, then? How does one know the vibrations are spaced out at all (let alone equally - since time is supposedly meaningless)?
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    Time doesn't exist.

    The nerve...(!)
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    Time doesn't exist.

    If time doesn't exist, what did I expend (besides a few precious brain cells) in reading that article? If a materialist scientist can't manipulate something, he wants to deny its existence. I propose that they are trying to deny time because it can be expressed very simply (Methuselah lived for...
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    A little comedy break....

    Nah...that's a Mazda. The scripture says they were all together in one Accord.
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    Can a Christian lose their salvation

    It's been ages since I've been on - and I'm afraid I haven't read all 46 pages of the thread, so if this is a repeat offense, please forgive the repetition. Ultimately, I think the answer is no - but there are probably a lot fewer people who are/will be saved than claim it. Whosoever is born...
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    Quotations of the day

    Maybe not an inspirational quote, but every now and then you run across something someone has said (or written) that is so bang on that you just have to remember it : “Sorrow is knowledge, they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of...
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    Is Mr. Jordan Peterson a false prophet or ravenous wolf?

    I think much of their authority comes from their supposed understanding of the self. If they are recognized as superiors in that realm, the individual doesn't take much convincing that the Psychologist understands you and what is best for you. So if they understand (more or less) all the "you"s...
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    Is Mr. Jordan Peterson a false prophet or ravenous wolf?

    My opinion - for whatever bit that might be worth - is that he's one of the best examples of a modern day Stoic that we have. Most of popular psychology comes across to me as Stoicism-lite that uses a rather convenient understanding of destiny ("favorable fatalism" is what it looks like to me)...
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    Have you ever noticed...

    Okay....so isn't He Lord of Israel? Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, They which are the children of the...
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    Have you ever noticed...

    How many thrones does Christ sit upon? To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne. Revelation 3:21 For thus saith the Lord; David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne of the house of Israel...
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    Daniel 11:37

    Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all Dan 11:37 I have had a thought about this passage that ties in with the identification of it with a final days Antichrist. I don't necessarily agree with the...
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