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Admiral Rickover interviewed sailors to work on his nuclear submarine project. One of the candidates was intelligent and well-credentialed but Rickover couldn't get a good enough read on him through the interview and frustrated, gave him a weird challenge instead, "You have 10 seconds to make...

This is true but not without qualification. The Septuagint translation was literally quoted in the New Testament here and there, so at least those passages actually are authoritative translations from Hebrew to ancient Greek. If you disagree with that, then let's have it. The Septuagint was...

This's from Greek philosophers. They're the ones who first taught that God and the Good are the same being or entity, that Goodness isn't just an attribute of God but that God is Goodness itself (whatever that means). It's an idea derived from, conjectured, deduced from just reason. The...

If the chamber was pressurized instead of evacuated, would the scale have said the object is now lighter? What does the scale do if there's nothing on it to weigh (empty and zeroed) would it go negative?

God seems to pull things toward mass, the mathematical model of what God's doing we call gravity, a "force." But God's actually the force.

We agree that this is supposed to be a picture of the kingdom of Heaven, right? This is a parable about the kingdom?

Do you think He told them that because it was arbitrary, or do you think He told them that because morality is objectively true and real? iow did God just make up the law about abstaining from that one tree? as a sort of test maybe? or did He merely tell them the morally necessary truth, which...

Satan whispered to Eve, whereas Cain killed Abel. I'm just saying the latter is the violence which resulted from the former. I don't necessarily think we're at odds.

When someone says "war" without qualification (iow not like Ephesians 6:12) we're permitted to think of flesh and blood warfare. Also even spiritual warfare can and often does manifest in the physical World as violence.

It began with Cain. But I get that you don't trust these people. I've learned to trust the process. Salute the rank, not the man.

This is lascivious, why are we doing this?

He's not bad to listen to in the background, I'll give you that.

Does he teach authoritative, canonical Dispensationalism? I'm still looking for that.

idk if Duffy said this but the map makes it look like the seven churches here are just like on the edge of Asia, but in fact they are pretty well dispersed throughout the whole Roman province or territory which was called Asia. It's not like Asia was Russia and China and India, it was like just...

From the first time I looked at a map I always thought the locations of these churches was interesting. I did not ever know what to make of it, but it was provocative:

Yes. I see the steward loving himself, and I see the master loving the steward.

So you are a Seventh Day Adventist then. I mean it's either that or a Messianic Jew I guess? Wow. OK. I'll drop it.

That's an interesting passage. So the servant is thinking, "I love my master, plus, if I go, he's going to keep my wife and kids for himself. So I'll stay." That's an interesting choice. I'm sure culturally it was different then and usually people would just up and leave their wife and...

So your concern all along has been the invasion of religion into politics? iow you believe in the separation between Church and State, and when Constantine made his edict of Laodicea or whatever it was is ... what? to you? Is that like when the Church lost her purity or innocence in history...