Hanover

I would suspect that all traditions have ways in which rules are to be interpreted, amended, and modified. The actual text is not necessarily changed,...

Where we agree is that neither of us believe the Bible was written by God and we both likely agree it was written over a long period of time by a good...

I take the rabbinic period to have begun after the fall of the second temple, which I also take to be the beginning of the Talmudic period, which is w...

Could be an AM/PM error. My father always used a wind up alarm clock in fear of a late night power outage. I tried that, but the ticking kept me up, e...

It doesn't. But it's not because I so firmly hold to my beliefs I can't be shaken or some such other nonsense. It's because you make no meaningful poi...

Quite a stretch don't you think? We can't understand the thought processes of the Jews by looking only to the OT, and that's their sacred literature, ...

But this is so painfully irrelevant to the question of what the passages mean to those reading it. It is a side conversation ignoring the fact that me...

I just saw a play today. Unfortunately no actor broke a leg. I mean literally I wanted to see a complex displaced femur fracture. Unfortunately no ort...

The literal text of the Bible, taken in isolation without other traditions, texts, and cultural norms has not been the way any major religion has trea...

Cite?

This is just incorrect. Fundamental literalism is a reactionary response to perceived threats of the scientific revolution. It's a modern phenomenon. ...

For God to be an ogre demanding obedience, you have to take a very literalist definition and you must assume he decrees without being subject to inter...

If God is interpreted as Good, then where is the secular/religious distinction you make here?

Biblical interpretation has to be contextualized. If the document is held out as a guide for life, offering a literalist interpretation to derive it's...

Thank you Rabbi Banno for that comprehensive and contextualized analysis. Thousands of pages and hundreds of years of interpretation crystallized.

The interpretation I offered that interpreted the story as offering opposition to child sacrifice isn't a new fangled liberal interpretation, which yo...

If that's what you learn from the parable, then it is. Others suggest it stands for the proposition that human sacrifice is prohibited. Others as a fo...

Religious debate doesn't lead to absolute rules. Much is debated and remains debated. Rules are also subject to change. But you know this, so I don't ...

It fell out the window and landed on the mailman. I'm now trying to watch Netflix on a broken TV on a dead mailman. It was better when it was static. ...

That is so kind of you. All I can say is that if the sun refused to shine, I would still be loving you. When mountains crumble to the sea, there will ...

So let me see if I follow what's going on. You own a couple of hamsters and you gave them nonsense names, probably so you could have something to talk...

The prior posts indicated that reliance upon godful rule was bad. One such argument was that godful rule was intolerant, as opposed to godless rule, w...

You've not described the decision process of either atheists or theists. There is not a univeral forum of atheists where they gather to debate and the...

We all have our views on what is right and what is wrong regardless of whether we anchor them in religious reasons. Secular views can be as firmly hel...

https://youtu.be/12KbOAc8vmk?si=elnHG7VYcESe1NQ9 The only way I can get this song out of my head that has been repeating over and over is to post it h...

Do Atheists all not agree as to what is moral and yet still proclaim to know it too?

This is quite the broad statement, describing the essence of all Abrahamic religions, from Shia Muslims, to Mormons, to Church of Christ, to Reconstru...

But isn't this a question of who's ox is being gored? You dismiss the right's claims of threats coming from the left as irrational, but you declare th...

He looks to be around 12 years old in that photo and he already spoke so eloquently of the fleeting joys of success and the demands of hard work. I've...

I can't read your handwriting. Is the group of people on the left "Hannity," as in Sean Hannity from Fox News? Why is he represented by a group of fou...

I keep moving the antenna around, but I can't get Netflix to come in.

I would only eat the pill if I could still get scurvy. It's the only pleasure I have.

I don't watch TV. Ever since they stopped using antennae, I've not been able to figure out how to rig them up. I'll look on Youtube and see if it'll s...

That photograph does provide conclusive proof of at least one rejection (and that is indisputably the shadow of Jesus' prominent chin), but I don't ho...

Thank you for providing its location.

I did a past life regression analysis using your basic statistical formulas for such things and it turns out that prior to being Hanover of Hanoveria,...

I suspect the vast number of doctors, lawyers, accountants, computer programmers, financial analysts, upper level managers, insurance underwriters, en...

I forgot, but maybe the most disgusting of all time, those orange circus peanuts.

The following are disgusting candies: Peeps Candy corn Those wax mini soda bottles Necco wafers Black liquorice

Happy Purim to everyone. Enjoy your hamantashens and green beer.

I logged in at 5:30 eastern on Friday and no one was online.

It is difficult not to question the grace of our heavenly creator when we see his erasure of the multitude of shades of beige with the bothersome colo...

Yeah Ravi Shanker, all I'm hearing is a box of toys from you. You want to read and write? I'm short of a sheet with a ship in full sale in my hand wit...

I just need to point out the ongoing absurdity of the English laying claim to proper English. They might have invented it, but we perfected it.

I like this thread. It presents a good death watch so we can be on the look out and not be surprised when someone drops off. My fear though is that on...

I had never heard this term "ropey" before. It is apparently British English, which is a corrupted form of the accepted American standard.

I read Traction, which provides a formula for running a successful business. I read it for work. What motivated me was I wanted to win the race of who...

I'm ready to get started on your project. I was thinking about a hamster falling in love with a gerbil, and we all know the fued between those two in ...

I said old people are stupid to be self depreciating, putting myself into that class. I didn't mean to insult anyone. But now I find myself head to he...

The number of English words has increased over time and its grammar has simplified over time for this very reason. Old people are stupid. If you inser...