Text 5008, 87 rader
Skriven 2009-04-21 01:31:05 av Ed Hulett (1:123/789.0)
   Kommentar till text 5006 av Ross Sauer (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Cognitive difficulty.....
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Ross Sauer -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 RS> "Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer" <1:123/789.0> wrote in
 RS> news:9105$HOLYSMOKE@JamNNTPd:

 EH>>>> And that dragons may have really walked the earth along with
 EH>>   sasquach.

 RS>>> Prove either one doesn't/didn't.
 RS>>> Guess what? You can't.

 EH>> What's with you idiots? First you claim you can't prove a negative and
 EH>> then you expect other to do it.

 RS>>> Now ask me to prove they DO, and that's where the scientific
 EH>>   method comes RS> into play.

 EH>> Yes, and science says they only existed in the imaginations of the
 EH>> people.

 RS> As far as we know, to date.

Keep on believing.

 RS>>> *I* would have to find and show confirmable evidence.

 EH>> Better men have tried and failed.

 RS>>> 200 years ago, if someone described an animal that had a body
 EH>>   like a RS> beaver's, a duck's bill, poison spurs on it's hind legs
 EH>>   and laid eggs, RS> you'd say that's bullshit.

 EH>> Hahahahahahahahahaha!!!!

 RS>>> Yet the Platypus does exist, live specimens and other evidence
 EH>>   has been RS> found.

 EH>> So, the platypus prove that dragons existed?

 EH>> Hahahahahahahahaha!!!!

 RS> No, stupid.
 RS> It merely illustrates a point, namely that simply saying "Take my word
 RS> for it" doesn't work.

Uh... sure it does. Keep on believing.

 RS>>> Now apply these same standards to your claims about what Joseph
 EH>>   Smith said RS> he saw and encountered.

 EH>> I knew you were going to try to attack my religion.

 RS> Because all you have is "Take my word for it."

That shows how little you know or understand.

 RS> That's all you were given, and you bought it, hook, line and sinker.

You have no earthly clue.

 RS>>> Ask me or Dan to prove Smith didn't have those experiences, and
 EH>>   we can't.

 EH>> Exactly. You aren't required to believe he did, either.

 RS> So why did you convert from whatever faith you were, to LDS?

I didn't convert "from" any faith.

 RS> You just liked the teachings?

You don't and will never understand.

Ed

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