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| bio | website | home.arcor.de/hirnstrom |
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| location | berlin.de | |
| age | 47 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 8 months |
| seen | Feb 13 at 23:58 | |
| stats | profile views | 81 |
scala, java, linux
searching job in Berlin.
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Sep 21 |
awarded | Citizen Patrol |
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Sep 21 |
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Are Dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible? Taking into account the fact, that the question turned from the term 'dinosaurs' to living beeings, which must be dinosaurs. |
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Sep 21 |
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How do young earth creationists reconcile the age of the universe with the speed of light, and visible distant objects? A minor problem with your question is, that the age of the universe is ≈ 14 billion years, right? And it's size is 78 billion light years - isn't it? But according to your theory, it must be either 28 billion ly in size at maximum (if the material is travelling with the speed of light) or 39 billion years old at least, or both numbers are wrong, or something with your theorie :) . I asked myself for the explanation of this, but I can't reproduce the answer - it isn't easy to get into the mind. |
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Sep 17 |
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Why is the number three special? Yes. Smaller numbers occur more often than higher numbers, and two repetitions might be random, or be used, if somebody does not understand - it is repeated - once. 3 statements, one original with 2 repetitions are a ritual, but 3 repetitions start to be annoying and boring. In (1,2,3)(2,4,6)(1,4,9) you may find a pattern - in (1,4) - what pattern is it? But did you count the occurences of 2 (2 Emaus followers, 2 animals in Bethlehem, 2 criminals on other crosses) and 4 and 5, to compare them to 3? Maybe No. 3 is not so special? |
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Sep 11 |
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What is the Bible and Christian view on Astrology? Well - they interpreted some facts out of the observation of stars, which don't fit into modern science. I don't know how long they travelled to reach Bethlehem, but I guess it was more than a single day, but weeks or months. Due to the rotation of earth, a comet is not at a fixed position on the sky, so you can't just travel in that direction, and look, what you find. |
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Sep 11 |
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Exorcisms: effective remedy or historical curiosity? Can you tell us the name of the Bishop of Trier? |
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Sep 11 |
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Exorcisms: effective remedy or historical curiosity? Well - that could lead to a lengthy discussion, how mental illness is the product of a defining process of the society. I don't believe in an objective definition of health in the context of brain, consciousness and identity. I can recommend Michel Foucault, Histoire de la folie à l'âge classique – Folie et déraison, 1961 and Norbert Elias, Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation, Basel, 1939. |
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Sep 10 |
awarded | Quorum |
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Sep 10 |
revised |
Exorcisms: effective remedy or historical curiosity? added examples |
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Sep 10 |
answered | Exorcisms: effective remedy or historical curiosity? |
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Sep 10 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Sep 10 |
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What is the meaning of `holy` for Christians? I accept this as a competent and right answer, while it doesn't satisfy me, but that's my fault, in not preparing my question well enough. I updated it with some definition from a dictionary, which is very close to what you wrote, and emphasized my problem with the practical usage of the term. |
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Sep 10 |
accepted | What is the meaning of `holy` for Christians? |
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Sep 10 |
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What is the meaning of `holy` for Christians? But you don't have a citation, do you? What I found in a dictionary (see updated question), it is an absolute, which can't be raised. More perfect than perfect is not possible. So holier should either be ironical or slang. |
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Sep 9 |
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What is the meaning of `holy` for Christians? took a definition from a dictionary, and applied it to Christian practise |
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Sep 8 |
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Is praying for the wealth of the Stocks Exchange blasphemy? rolled back to a previous revision |
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Sep 8 |
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Is praying for the wealth of the Stocks Exchange blasphemy? rolled back to a previous revision |
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Sep 8 |
asked | Is praying for the wealth of the Stocks Exchange blasphemy? |
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Sep 6 |
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How can one overcome lustful desires?83% of college students - of US-college students, not, for instance, Iranian college students, and, 83% of the male college students or are female students included? |
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Sep 6 |
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If God controls our decisions, does this mean we don't have free will? Did I talk about meddling? No. I already tried to explain it elsewhere with the Mississippi. I know in advance, that the water will reach the sea in future. And the river has no free choice. But I'm not meddling with the water. |
