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What exactly do you think I "do not understand"? I think you don't understand why the homeless person in the story mentioned may possess wisdom. You're a idiot. Takes one to know one, eh? According to "proper" English you should use the indefinite article "an" instead ...

never mind...

I have no wish to interfere in a private spat, doc, but I find your position baffling. Are you suggesting that only those who accept the bible as the word of god will be able to find any meaning in its parables? Now I'm confused (not a difficult accomplishment I admit). Where are you getting the id...

Just heard about this belatedly this morning when I caught the headline on my email provider. Haven't had the desire to watch whatever horrible videos may exist. A tragedy to be sure, but so is the quality of much mainstream journalism in the US. Families and friends of the murdered journalists have...

I have no wish to interfere in a private spat, doc, but I find your position baffling. Are you suggesting that only those who accept the bible as the word of god will be able to find any meaning in its parables? Now I'm confused (not a difficult accomplishment I admit). Where are you getting the id...

You said I "probably believe the Bible too". What exactly does that mean then? Should I disregard everything the Bible says?

Yeah, nice little parable. I bet you believe the bible too? He's still a fool to refuse the cash. Maybe you should look for a decent reference for the story? The Bible has some good parables in it. I don't believe in the genesis account of origins and what not but that doesn't mean the Bible doesn'...

I was being quite genuine I assure you. Can you justify the comment? If we take the story at face value, he has already fulfilled his civic duty by handing in the cash. As the cash remains unclaimed then it is rightfully his. If he is truly a man of reduced means, and wise he would take the money a...

Sorry, I sort of thought maybe your question was disingenuous so I was replying in kind. It's a little hard to believe that you of all people (a philosopher I suppose) would genuinely ask what could possibly be wise about a homeless person declining the opportunity to make off with $2000 in cash th...

Sorry, I sort of thought maybe your question was disingenuous so I was replying in kind. It's a little hard to believe that you of all people (a philosopher I suppose) would genuinely ask what could possibly be wise about a homeless person declining the opportunity to make off with $2000 in cash tha...

. I sort of wonder, if this guy was the wisest man in the world, would any of us even be able to spot it? Well duh - why? And... I am also a little skeptical about the veracity of the story. It all seems a little too down pat. Narratives often mask, ignore and embellish: for the sake of brevity, cl...

(NEWSER) – A community in British Columbia is feeling warm and fuzzy after a homeless man's generosity inspired residents not once but twice over the past two weeks. First, the unidentified man with little to his name found a suitcase with $2,000 in it on a street in Victoria, but turned over the c...

In what is perhaps my own romanticism I sort of imagine him giving up on society as if to say to us all that we're all nothing more than fools. Is he perhaps a modern day Diogenes? :?: I think u'r conclusion is waaaayyyy off, if had given up on society he wouldn't donate to it, as in donating to a ...

The benefits of free-market capitalism have been proven over and over again. That's why Hong Kong economics today is more like the United States than China. You mean the same Hong Kong where roughly 50% of the population lives in public housing provided by their government because they couldn't aff...

HexHammer wrote:

Gary Childress wrote:I would be very surprised if the genesis story in the bible is a factual account of what it purports to be a factual account of. But I also don't necessarily believe that if the Bible isn't factual that therefore there is no god.

Joan of Arc was a reasonable proof of God.

Why do you say that?