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Old 08-09-2012, 08:37 AM   #11
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"This is a documentary about psychic kids..."

WTF? No, I will not watch a 44 minute so-called documentary about psychics. If these kids were truly psychic, they could claim Randi's one million dollar challenge.
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not in your case
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"This is a documentary about psychic kids..."

WTF? No, I will not watch a 44 minute so-called documentary about psychics. If these kids were truly psychic, they could claim Randi's one million dollar challenge.
have you ever actually read aa5874 posts and replies?

a lot of people believe in ghosts today in 2012. so what if the gospels speak of ghosts and demons?
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not in your case
I accept Josepheus and Philo as first century experts on sects of Judaism, and what they say about sects and healing.
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"This is a documentary about psychic kids..."

WTF? No, I will not watch a 44 minute so-called documentary about psychics. If these kids were truly psychic, they could claim Randi's one million dollar challenge.
a lot of people believe in ghosts
This does not prove that there are ghosts. It just proves that a lot of people are gullible.

What exactly is your argument? Is there a shred of logic behind it, or are you playing some strange game here?
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not in your case
I accept Josepheus and Philo as first century experts on sects of Judaism, and what they say about sects and healing.


They havnt got into any specific details of these sects to make any determination as to which jesus or Therapeutae consisted of, other then basic descriptions which were not definitions.


you have no evidence at all.



the scripture were left with clearly places the charactor of jesus as a peaceful Galilean zealot, knowing violence was suicide against the roman oppression.
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a lot of people believe in ghosts
This does not prove that there are ghosts. It just proves that a lot of people are gullible.

What exactly is your argument? Is there a shred of logic behind it, or are you playing some strange game here?
have you ever actually read aa5874 replies?
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But, before you get carried away, Jesus called by the name of Christ in gMark was NOT human--Jesus with the name of Christ was a PHANTOM--a Myth.
if there's any point in responding to aa5874. People in 2012 believe in phantoms and miracles and demons, no reason they wouldn't in 30 CE.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_people

Shadow people are supernatural shadow-like humanoid figures that, according to believers, are seen flickering on walls and ceilings in the viewer's peripheral vision.[1] They are often reported moving with quick, jerky movements, and quickly disintegrate into walls or mirrors. They are believed to be evil and aggressive in nature, although a few people consider them to be a form of guardian angel.[2]

In 2010, the apparitions were described as one of the most regularly reported paranormal phenomena in the United States. This is attributed to occasional reports on the Coast to Coast AM show, where paranormal researcher Heidi Hollis has been interviewed several times on the subject of shadow people. Hollis believes that shadow people have always existed, that they feed upon emotions of fear, and that they can be repelled by thinking positively.[2] Others believe that shadow people may be the extra-dimensional inhabitants of another universe.[citation needed]

The stories of shadow people have been compared to those of the Raven Mocker, a witch from Cherokee Indian mythology who sometimes appears as a shadowy phantom, and the Islamic Jinn.[2]

Several scientific principles can be used to explain reports of apparitional experiences such as shadow people. These include optical illusions or hallucinations brought on by physiological or psychological circumstances, drug use or side effects of medication, and the interaction of external agents on the human body. Another reason that could be behind the illusion is sleep deprivation, which may lead to hallucinations.
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This does not prove that there are ghosts. It just proves that a lot of people are gullible.

What exactly is your argument? Is there a shred of logic behind it, or are you playing some strange game here?
have you ever actually read aa5874 replies?
Unfortunately, yes.

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But, before you get carried away, Jesus called by the name of Christ in gMark was NOT human--Jesus with the name of Christ was a PHANTOM--a Myth.
if there's any point in responding to aa5874. People in 2012 believe in phantoms and miracles and demons, no reason they wouldn't in 30 CE.
Phantoms do not exist now, and didn't exist in 30 CE.

What is your argument?

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Several scientific principles can be used to explain reports of apparitional experiences such as shadow people. These include optical illusions or hallucinations brought on by physiological or psychological circumstances, drug use or side effects of medication, and the interaction of external agents on the human body. Another reason that could be behind the illusion is sleep deprivation, which may lead to hallucinations.
Shadow people are not real. Coast to Coast is not a scientific source.

If Jesus was a similar entity, he was not real.

What exactly are you trying to argue?
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Phantoms do not exist now, and didn't exist in 30 CE.

What is your argument?

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Several scientific principles can be used to explain reports of apparitional experiences such as shadow people. These include optical illusions or hallucinations brought on by physiological or psychological circumstances, drug use or side effects of medication, and the interaction of external agents on the human body. Another reason that could be behind the illusion is sleep deprivation, which may lead to hallucinations.
Shadow people are not real. Coast to Coast is not a scientific source.

If Jesus was a similar entity, he was not real.

What exactly are you trying to argue?
aa5874 talks about phantoms and ghosts and demons.

I point out that real people believe in it. Since real people believe in them in 2012 there's no reason that real people wouldn't believe such things in 30 CE

You had previous split off his and mountainman's replies as "hijacks" which of course I'm agreement with.

aa5874 likes to talk about phantoms and ghosts in every single reply and post I make so I'm obliging him.
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here is where you fail, besides that these two statements apply to almost every jew in existance in the first century
Your evidence? Josepheus, Philo, DSS are acceptable. otherwise you fail.
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