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Here Ye Here Ye
This court is now in session
The Honorable King Cat presiding
Our first case, the arrest and trial of a local serial thief
Your Honor for the past several years, ending about a year ago, someone has been burglarizing homes and stealing small items totaling tens of thousands of dollars
The crimes seemed to stop about a year ago, and now we have arrested a man who were are certain is the perpetrator of thee crimes. We are seeking the maximum sentence upon his conviction which we are certain you will grant. It is the opinion and belief of law enforcement and the local community that this man should be sent away for 15 years.
OK well present your evidence.
Your Catness, we present along with the suspect, this notebook, which contains a hand written description of the thief, hence our suspect, and a section stating that he is in act guilty. This notebook has been circulated around the community and is believed to be an accurate account of this persons crimes.
And where did you obtain this book?
We found it, Your Honor.
And where did You find it?
Well, someone gave it to us, your Honor, but it has several pages stating that our suspect is the thief who committed the crimes in question
.
I see And who wrote this ?
well, your honor, we are not sure, but it is believed to have been passed around and read by many members of the community who will verify it's accuracy and truthfulness.
And these people ..who can verify this book..are they here today?
No Your Honor But we are told that many people believe it, although none were available to state WHY and HOW they know it to be factual
And you do not know who wrote it?
No, your honor.
Has anyone who wrote it appeared to take credit for it?
Not exactly, no, but it has to be Right and this man HAS to be guilty!
Well, you are asking me to take a man's freedom for 15 years based on a book that no one claims to have written, no one who read it can come and defend it, and for all I know, is just a myth, heresay, an opinion......I cannot do that.
But Your Honor, many people believe that this man is guilty!
And where is your EVIDENCE? I need evidence, not some random book that hs no facts and no reason. Do you have any of the goods he supposedly stole?
No Your Honor
DO you have fingerprints of him or DNA of him from any crime scene?
No your Honor
Do you have any eyewitnesses who actually saw this man who will come forward and verify these stories?
No Your Honor We do not.
SO You have not convinced me. You pass around some book, you wave it around and say that it is true, but you have presented zero evidence, reasonable argument. Just saying that people believe in something does not make it true. !!!! r Get outta Here!
Very good. of course, His Honor has the advantage that he is in charge of the court. If not he would be told that he is being irrational and biased because he believes the accused in Not Guilty and his protests that he doesn't claim to believe any such thing but he hasn't been convinced (because that book presented as evidence is not proof i.e persuasive evidence) will fall on deaf ears.
'You are probably lying - biased people like you always do'. Appeals to the rules of law will be dismissed 'That is not what the law says.' No it isn't - look here...
"Well, that is only the opinion of lawyers. They are subject to bias too. And they take a lot of things on faith - so do you."
"What do i take on faith?"
"Well - that you car will start."
"That isn't faith! I understand the reason it works and I have experience that it starts. That isn't like a notebook that I know nothing about."
"Well, you believe other books."
And so on...
And the bottom line of course (facing the US right now) is - is this Honor in charge of the court or is the 'Mojo' or religion going to replace him with the Judge who wanted to overrul the jury because he thought God had told him different.
I mean, needing proof to say a guy died and rised for our sins literally is pointless.
it didn't happen.
period.
it doesn't matter if guy named Jesus lived or not.
Jesus taught us that our "sins" were "missing the mark" - really failures to have agape love (mercy and compassion, etc.). We missed the mark so Jesus did it perfectly for us. In that sense, He died for (because of) our sins. A physical rising from the dead was a necessary deception for our ancestors who were absolutely terrified of Spirits. That is why Jesus said there were things they could not yet handle and could only be fed "carnal milk." But we ALL will rise from the dead and be born again as Spirits upon our death, so it isn't as far fetched as you think, Arach.
Jesus taught us that our "sins" were "missing the mark" - really failures to have agape love (mercy and compassion, etc.). We missed the mark so Jesus did it perfectly for us. In that sense, He died for (because of) our sins. A physical rising from the dead was a necessary deception for our ancestors who were absolutely terrified of Spirits. That is why Jesus said there were things they could not yet handle and could only be fed "carnal milk." But we ALL will rise from the dead and be born again as Spirits upon our death, so it isn't as far fetched as you think, Arach.
I am strictly talking about that person dying and that person rising from the dead as some of them teach.
as you know, if a group of proteins act like Jesus, or you and me, then for all intensive purposes it is Jesus.
we literally, are a more complex protein. we don't have to sit in a fluid and wait for the reactants, we can go get them. its so frigged simple and yet most people can't keep up.
its why "believing"will always out number trans' sect of atheism. his sect of atheism deny's basic understand based on a statement of belief about god. trans=omega.
Here Ye Here Ye
This court is now in session
The Honorable King Cat presiding
Our first case, the arrest and trial of a local serial thief
Your Honor for the past several years, ending about a year ago, someone has been burglarizing homes and stealing small items totaling tens of thousands of dollars
The crimes seemed to stop about a year ago, and now we have arrested a man who were are certain is the perpetrator of thee crimes. We are seeking the maximum sentence upon his conviction which we are certain you will grant. It is the opinion and belief of law enforcement and the local community that this man should be sent away for 15 years.
OK well present your evidence.
Your Catness, we present along with the suspect, this notebook, which contains a hand written description of the thief, hence our suspect, and a section stating that he is in act guilty. This notebook has been circulated around the community and is believed to be an accurate account of this persons crimes.
And where did you obtain this book?
We found it, Your Honor.
And where did You find it?
Well, someone gave it to us, your Honor, but it has several pages stating that our suspect is the thief who committed the crimes in question
.
I see And who wrote this ?
well, your honor, we are not sure, but it is believed to have been passed around and read by many members of the community who will verify it's accuracy and truthfulness.
And these people ..who can verify this book..are they here today?
No Your Honor But we are told that many people believe it, although none were available to state WHY and HOW they know it to be factual
And you do not know who wrote it?
No, your honor.
Has anyone who wrote it appeared to take credit for it?
Not exactly, no, but it has to be Right and this man HAS to be guilty!
Well, you are asking me to take a man's freedom for 15 years based on a book that no one claims to have written, no one who read it can come and defend it, and for all I know, is just a myth, heresay, an opinion......I cannot do that.
But Your Honor, many people believe that this man is guilty!
And where is your EVIDENCE? I need evidence, not some random book that hs no facts and no reason. Do you have any of the goods he supposedly stole?
No Your Honor
DO you have fingerprints of him or DNA of him from any crime scene?
No your Honor
Do you have any eyewitnesses who actually saw this man who will come forward and verify these stories?
No Your Honor We do not.
SO You have not convinced me. You pass around some book, you wave it around and say that it is true, but you have presented zero evidence, reasonable argument. Just saying that people believe in something does not make it true. !!!! r Get outta Here!
I don’t understand
Why should anyone convince you?
the best evidence we have is that we re surrounded by a system of life. that system not only influences us, it made us.
that is the best starting point we have. I will certainly listen to people that claim different. although the best I have gotten is "Thats a straw-man" or "Thats apologetic". lmao ... straw man.
so when we are starting a god/no god line of logic, thats the starting point.
only my religion saves, I don't like religion, religion hurt me, ... are such a far less valid starting point I can't believe people with IQ's over 100 start there.
I don’t understand
Why should anyone convince you?
Because convincing one person is a metaphor for convincing everyone. if you can't convince people, they will not be convinced. And the people will not believe what is not convincing and demands that they should just believe will get the ones who want them to believe nowhere. And then they will wring their hands over the increase in unbelief and wonder what they didn't do right. And you will be able to tell them.
They asked why they heck they should bother to convince anybody.
Here Ye Here Ye
This court is now in session
The Honorable King Cat presiding
Our first case, the arrest and trial of a local serial thief
Your Honor for the past several years, ending about a year ago, someone has been burglarizing homes and stealing small items totaling tens of thousands of dollars
The crimes seemed to stop about a year ago, and now we have arrested a man who were are certain is the perpetrator of thee crimes. We are seeking the maximum sentence upon his conviction which we are certain you will grant. It is the opinion and belief of law enforcement and the local community that this man should be sent away for 15 years.
OK well present your evidence.
Your Catness, we present along with the suspect, this notebook, which contains a hand written description of the thief, hence our suspect, and a section stating that he is in act guilty. This notebook has been circulated around the community and is believed to be an accurate account of this persons crimes.
And where did you obtain this book?
We found it, Your Honor.
And where did You find it?
Well, someone gave it to us, your Honor, but it has several pages stating that our suspect is the thief who committed the crimes in question
.
I see And who wrote this ?
well, your honor, we are not sure, but it is believed to have been passed around and read by many members of the community who will verify it's accuracy and truthfulness.
And these people ..who can verify this book..are they here today?
No Your Honor But we are told that many people believe it, although none were available to state WHY and HOW they know it to be factual
And you do not know who wrote it?
No, your honor.
Has anyone who wrote it appeared to take credit for it?
Not exactly, no, but it has to be Right and this man HAS to be guilty!
Well, you are asking me to take a man's freedom for 15 years based on a book that no one claims to have written, no one who read it can come and defend it, and for all I know, is just a myth, heresay, an opinion......I cannot do that.
But Your Honor, many people believe that this man is guilty!
And where is your EVIDENCE? I need evidence, not some random book that hs no facts and no reason. Do you have any of the goods he supposedly stole?
No Your Honor
DO you have fingerprints of him or DNA of him from any crime scene?
No your Honor
Do you have any eyewitnesses who actually saw this man who will come forward and verify these stories?
No Your Honor We do not.
SO You have not convinced me. You pass around some book, you wave it around and say that it is true, but you have presented zero evidence, reasonable argument. Just saying that people believe in something does not make it true. !!!! r Get outta Here!
Where you mess up is seeing the assessment of theological books as a trial.
It isn't. It's an election...and they win in a landslide.
And even if it was a trial...objective/hard evidence is not the only evidence that is presented...overwhelming indirect/anecdotal evidence and personal testimony of billions would probably sway a jury of peers.
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