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Author Topic:   Anglo-Israelitism , End Times and the misuse of scripture
dwise1
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Message 22 of 61 (921916)
02-04-2025 4:01 PM
Reply to: Message 20 by Taq
02-04-2025 3:30 PM


Re: Anglo-Israelitism debunked. Now for the End Times
There's a reason Jews don't accept Christianity. Their misinterpretations of Daniel and other books is amongst those reasons.
There was a line in the movie, Mein Bester Feind ("My Best Enemy", 2011 -- It's on YouTube now, but without English subtitles), where the Jewish son of an art dealer had to explain to his life-long Gentile best friend (who went on to become a Nazi, hence the title) why a Renaissance sketch of Moses depicted him with horns, that it was because the Christian translator didn't understand what the Hebrew said. The Jew then added something like (from memory): "Christians don't know how to read the Bible."
Truer words were never spoken.
I think one of Lewis Black's bits touches on the same problem: Lewis Black's Christian interpreting the Tanakh (Old Testament):
[ I think this link is inccorrect and that the YouTube video I have embedded is what dwise1 actually intended. --Admin ]
utube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di4TySxfZ7E (would not embed)
Referring to TV preachers, he points out that all those preachers' interpretations of "my book" are wrong, adding: "It's not really their fault; it's just not their book."

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Message 43 of 61 (921957)
02-06-2025 12:28 PM
Reply to: Message 36 by AZPaul3
02-05-2025 2:48 PM


Re: Anglo-Israelitism debunked. Now for the End Times
Candle3 writes:
Punctuated equilibrium is another theory because you all
clearly understand that the fossils do not support evolution.
Then you don't know evolution. PE is a well known, documented mechanism of population dynamics firmly explained within the Modern Synthesis.
My emphasis added above. Typical of creationists, he doesn't know what a theory is:
quote:
Definition of "theory":
A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspects of the natural world based on a body of facts that have been repeatedly confirmed through observation and experiment.
Theory might win the prize for the most commonly misunderstood word in science. In everyday usage, a theory is a hunch. A guess. Speculation. For example, I have a theory about why my cat yells (sings?) at night — he’s calling on the spirits of his ancestors to free him from the captivity of his luxurious life.
But in science speak, a theory is almost the complete opposite — it’s a broad explanation for a wide range of phenomena that’s supported by a vast amount of evidence. As science progresses and evidence accumulates, related ideas are combined into a clear and powerful explanation.
Theories form the basis of our scientific knowledge and are used by scientists to make predictions for further testing, and as such are continually subjected to scrutiny.
Examples include gravitational theory, plate tectonic theory, evolutionary theory, cell theory, germ theory, foraging theory, the sliding filament theory of muscular contraction, atomic theory…
The bottom line is that the ultimate goal of science is to understand and explain the natural world, and theories are about as close to the “truth” as we may ever get.
So don’t be fooled when someone doubts science because “it’s just a theory.”
Also:
quote:
"A scientific theory is a broad and well-supported explanation of a natural phenomenon, established through substantial evidence, repeated experiments and observations. It is not simply an outcome of a single experiment.
A scientific theory is defined as a well-supported explanation of why a natural phenomenon occurs. It is not merely a proposed explanation, but heavily reliant on a broad range of confirmed evidence from multiple, repeated observations and experiments.
For instance, the theory of gravity, or Darwin's theory of evolution, are not just ideas or hypotheses. They were developed through substantial evidence, and have been tested and re-tested over time.
The outcome of a single experiment, however, does not constitute a scientific theory. Scientific theories are broad and comprehensive explanations, supported by a plethora of evidence."
Candle3 was obviously trying to disparage PE by calling it a "theory", but instead he is doing the opposite. Yet again he has demonstrated the depths of his profound ignorance.
Also, his assertion that it shows that "the fossils do not support evolution" (problematic since he does not know what evolution is -- go ahead, ask him to tell you what it is and watch him run away) is completely wrong. I came into this issue c.1981 on the coattails of PE being a common topic of discussion.
Nobody proposing PE ever said that the fossil record conflicted with evolution, but rather with gradualism, the idea that evolutionary change is at a constant gradual uniform pace -- formally described as phyletic gradualism. PE says that the rate of change varies characterized by periods of very little change interspersed with periods of "rapid" change (rapid in the geological sense) -- that "rapid change" was still gradual change over thousands of generations.
So the only conflict is over the rates and patterns of change. Ironically, although Darwin proposed gradualism, he did know that the rate of changes was not uniform. He emphasized gradualism to distance himself from the saltationists (Lat. salto = "jump"; sudden and large change in a single generation, AKA "single-step speciation", which appears to be how creationists think speciation works). Huxley reportedly strongly warned Darwin away from gradualism.
If we examine it at the generational scale, we will see that evolutionary processes work like a negative-feedback loop (an analogy would be how a power supply tracks and maintains the output voltage level) with the population mean trying to track an optimal. When the population mean is far from optimal then that mean will move faster towards optimal, when closer then it will move more slowly, and when at optimal it will be held at optimal. That means that stasis is an expected consequence of evolution along with change.
 
So then, yeah, Candle3 has absolutely no clue what PE or evolution or just about anything is, nor how anything works. Least of all his theological nonsense.
Two words that describe him:
quote:
Fractal wrongness -- You are wrong at every conceivable level -- ie, zoom out for the whole picture and you're wrong, then zoom in to any part down into the finest details and you are wrong there too.
intrarectalcranialitis
A pseudo-scientific word for the condition of having ones head up their ass. Also known as cranial rectal inversion. IRC for short.
"Wow, Johnson, I think I know why you can't get anything done right, you're suffering from intrarectalcranialitis! You've been walking around with your head up your ass all day!"
On that last, years ago I heard of a surgical procedure that would help Candle3. They would replace his sternum (AKA "breast bone") with a transparent material so that he can at least see where he's going.
will be driven

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dwise1
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Message 44 of 61 (921958)
02-06-2025 1:56 PM
Reply to: Message 41 by Candle3
02-06-2025 9:37 AM


Re: Anglo-Israelitism debunked. Now for the End Times
What Percy actually said:
Percy writes in Message 40:
Phat writes in Message 37:
A nonbeliever cannot make a judgment on a faith-based argument.
You're a non-believer of all religions and sects but one, so you do it all the time.
The nonsense you just blathered has nothing whatsoever to do with what you are "replying to".
Yet another attempt to avoid the topic?
During the Gulf war Iraq fired missiles at Israel. Witness have
stated that they had seen missiles miraculously change
course and land in the sea.
It's called "going stupid." It's what happens when guided ordnance loses lock on the target that they're tracking and they try to reacquire the target. What would cause a guided missile go stupid? Countermeasures, which are a very important part of a ship's or aircraft's defenses against ... wait for it, wait for it ... guided ordnance.
To a clueless JAFO like yourself it would appear to have been a miracle, but to a Countermeasures Officer it would be just another day on the job.
You've never served, have you?
God stood with England when Germany was sending their
might against them. Day and night they rained bombs and
missiles down on them. France folded in no time. God was
protecting them.
Wrong yet again! It's called "boots on the ground." Everybody familiar with military matters knows that you cannot conquer territory solely from the air, but rather you need to use ground forces, AKA "boots on the ground."
France folded because German ground forces rolled in all over them. That's "boots on the ground"; what part of that do you not understand?
All the attacks on British territory (outside of the occupation of the Channel Islands by ground troops) were from the air and so did little more than to cause civilian suffering and to increase the populace's resolve to resist the enemy. We were getting the same results in our air campaign against Germany.
And you seem to be crediting God with those bombs and missiles raining down on the Brits day and night. Whose side was God actually on? Just look at the belt buckle of any WWII German soldier: "Gott mit uns" Obviously, God was on Germany's side! As you just acknowledged.
Analysis of the air war (in which the Army Air Forces (USAAF) suffered far more casualties, mainly fatal, than the US Navy and Marine Corps combined, so the Air Force has paid its dues in blood) shows the effects of heavy bombardment (termed "terror bombing" by its proponents like Gen Curtis LeMay, later commander of the Strategic Air Command (SAC)) on the enemy's ability and resolve to wage war to have been largely negligible.

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dwise1
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Message 48 of 61 (921968)
02-06-2025 3:51 PM
Reply to: Message 26 by Candle3
02-04-2025 4:32 PM


Re: Anglo-Israelitism debunked. Now for the End Times
First, thank you for admitting defeat in this topic by abandoning any attempts to defend your position and instead changing the subject.
It looks like you approach your religion like you do creationism: you simply accept and memorize whatever you are told, regardless of how false or nonsensical, and then practice at simply regurgitating it in public "discussion" (there have to be at least two participants on a discussion and you are not one of them).
You seem to have the same problem that creationists have. I came to realize it around 1986 shortly after I started participating in online discussions with creationists ... or at least tried to. A creationist would make a claim, so, taking his claim on face value, I asked him for more information about that claim, to explain it to me. I was not prepared for the immediate angry response that always followed. Here I was taking his claims seriously and he would have none of that!
What I came to realize was that the creationist didn't even understand his own claim. In order to explain something, you need to understand it yourself. In order to answer questions about it, you need to have knowledge about it, knowledge outside of a script that you had memorized. You see, my questions were always off-script, so they had no idea how to respond. So, not knowing anything about their own claim, they would resort to anything they could to change the subject away from that claim. Including angrily attacking the person asking a simple question.
We see the same thing happening here. All you know about "Anglo-Israelitism" is what you have been told by your church, along with all the "supporting" Bible passages with the necessary interpretations (no "Bible-believer" believes what the Bible says, but rather what he's been told that the Bible says). Outside of having memorized that, you know nothing about it, nor have even given it any thought, obviously. You know your script and nothing more.
As such, you are woefully unprepared for any actual discussion, which is why, the moment any of us go off-script on you, you almost immediately try to change the subject. As you just did, trying desperately to switch it to evolution, something else you know nothing about.
Hence, you have conceded defeat on the stated topic. At least try to accept defeat gracefully.
 
Now to the latest public display of your astounding ignorance about "evolution" (scare quotes since whenever you say you're talking about evolution, you're actually talking about something entirely different -- and since you're just repeating the stupid lies creationists have told you, you don't even know what their fictional "evolution" is supposed to be). Everything you just posted has been refuted many times already and those refutations have been explained to you as many times already, so the sad fact that you still have learned nothing speaks of you possessing a very grave learning disability. You really should seek professional help for that affliction.
Taq, you have no idea how life came from non-life.
So what? What possible bearing should that have on anything?
We have been over this so many times and you still don't understand? Indeed, the last time was in Message 77 where it was the origin of matter and I demanded:
dwise1 writes:
Please explain COMPLETELY why I "must first explain how the material came to be" and why it's supposed to matter!
To which your only "reply" was an angry personal attack in order to avoid that and several other questions I asked you.
Whenever you make a demand/challenge of us, you must be ready and willing to explain the importance of that demand/challenge! Failure to do so exposes your demand/challenge as a wholly dishonest empty bluff. We're calling your bluff, mister!
Also, as we've told you so many times (again, most recently repeated in that same Message 77), abiogenesis has nothing to do with evolution, nor does evolution depend on abiogenesis, so what the actual F**K are you talking about? Again from Message 77:
dwise1 writes:
  • Matter exists and behaves as it does regardless of how it came into existence.
  • Life exists and behaves as it does regardless of how it came into existence.
  • Evolution is an integral part of life, basically the complete set of the consequences of life doing what life naturally does; ie, populations of individuals surviving and reproducing, etc.
  • REGARDLESS OF HOW LIFE GOT HERE, be that naturally or supernaturally, EVOLUTION STILL STARTS UP WHEN THE FIRST LIVING THING COMES INTO EXISTENCE. Life works as it works regardless of how it got started.
    Therefore, THERE IS NO CONFLICT BETWEEN DIVINE CREATION AND EVOLUTION. The only conflict that could possibly exist is if idiots like you create that conflict by telling lies about Creation and evolution, which is exactly what you keep doing.
  • And just because things are caused by natural processes, that does not conflict with "God", since according to Creation the Creator also created those natural processes to do what they do. So no conflict unless you create a conflict with stupid lies; eg, creationism.
What part of that are you too willfully stupid to understand?
I know that you don't.
So what? The fact that there are a lot of things we as individuals don't know. Eg:
  • When pocket electronic calculators first came on the market (c. 1968) my father said that he knew how they worked: "They use chips!" Of course, he had no idea what chips were nor how they worked; I learned the basics of integrated circuit design (AKA "chips") in junior college electronics class and then how that could be applied to perform calculations in Air Force tech school, 3ABR30534, Electronic Computer Systems Repairman).
    Of course, the fact that the vast majority of calculator uses had no idea how or why they worked had absolutely to effect on the simple fact that they did indeed work.
  • You have no idea how a computer works (whereas I do), but that does not mean that computers do not exist nor that the ones that do nonetheless exist cannot possibly work. Again, that does not prevent millions of people from using computers all the time.
    Oh yeah, you just have a puny useless phone that is too small for you to read anything on.
  • You (unlike me) have no idea how TCP/IP works nor, I'm quite certain, what it even is. Yet that does not prevent us from being here on this forum. Does it?
Explain why you think that "I know that you don't" is supposed to have any kind of importance.
You have a belief (secular faith) that it happened by chance.
No, nobody thinks that except for stupid lying creationists.
But, unless you can prove it, it ain't worth a dime.
Prove your stupid bullshit nonsense? Nobody can prove nonsense and presenting someone with stupid nonsense and demanding that he prove it is an act of deception.
And, no, your stupid bullshit ain't worth a dime. It ain't even worth a mill (1/10 cent; handled with stamps that banks used to carry).
Evolutionists like to say that creationists live in a fairy tale, but
actually it is the evolutionists that believe in fairy tales.
Again, we have explained to you so many times why you are completely wrong about that. Why are you so incapable of ever learning anything?
From Message 81 (my reply to your bullshit non-reply to my Message 77 referenced above):
dwise1 writes:
Candle3 writes:
If you honestly believe this propaganda crap that you spew,
then you are indeed very gullible.
You're projecting again. YOU are indeed very gullible since you actually seem to believe the PROPAGADA CRAP THAT YOU SPEW.
What I have been posting are corrections to your propaganda crap. You keep spewing crap and I keep having to clean up after you. And what makes matters worse, regardless of how many times I correct you and explain to you how things work, you keep returning spewing the exact same tired old stupid propaganda crap as if you had never been informed of what's wrong with it.
Your sheer inability to ever learn anything is mind-boggling!
As is your gullibility. I mean, just look at your fascination with such total idiocies as "giant mud fossils" and that magic tricks are caused by demons!
Please do yourself and us a big favor: start asking questions about what you are told.
Asking questions about what you are being told is an essential skill when reading creationist claims, because creationists constantly lie. For example, when a creationist quotes a scientist or scientific article (he's actually quote mining so he can lie about it), get that reference and read the original article. Forrest Valkai's favorite advice is "Go to the original source and read the next sentence." Erika "Gutsick Gibbon" loves to display the source being "quoted" to point out that the creationist only quotes from the first sentence or two of the abstract, where they state the problem being studied, but leaves out the concluding sentences which states that they had solved the problem and this is how, just so the creationist can lie that "the paper admits to this huge problem that has no solution", THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF WHAT THE PAPER ACTUALLY SAYS.
I even came across a creationist "single-sentence quote" from a scientific paper from the 1920's or 1930's with an ellipsis ( ... ) in the middle. When I went to the original article I found that that ellipsis had replaced FOUR FULL PAGES of text, such that the two halves of that "single sentence" were from two different sentences in two different contexts saying different things. Kind of like that bird fossil that a Chinese farmer had codged together from two different fossils. Yet another object lesson to always go to the primary source.
IOW, creationists always lie, so we must always investigate and verify a creationist's claim instead of just being very gullible and accepting it at face value.
The same goes for scientific claims. If you have questions about a scientific claim, then investigate, study, and verify it. The difference between scientific claims and creationist claims is that scientific claims will stand up to scrutiny, whereas creationist claims fall completely apart the moment you start poking it with your finger.
Create life for me and I will deny creation.
Why would you ever think of doing that? Why would you even begin to think that to be a necessary choice? That makes absolutely no sense at all!
EXPLAIN TO US WHY YOU WOULD THINK THAT TO BE A NECESSARY CHOICE!
Indeed, as a creationist you have already denied the Creation. Do I also need to explain that to you yet again?
For the lurkers (AKA "visitors" whose numbers used to be displayed here): Assuming that the universe was created, then that means that we are living in and are a part of the Creation which is all around us. We have studied it intensely; ie, science. It is as it is. But creationism teaches that if the Creation is as it actually is, then that disproves God; eg, John Morris, ICR, "If the earth is more than 10,000 years old then Scripture has no meaning." so since the earth is much older than that then, according to creationists, Scripture has no meaning.

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dwise1
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Message 49 of 61 (921973)
02-06-2025 5:23 PM
Reply to: Message 45 by Phat
02-06-2025 2:10 PM


Re: Anglo-Israelitism debunked. Now for the End Times
Even non believers have to reference my "god" to show me my hypocrisy.
Part of the very strong fan reaction against the series, Star Trek: Discovery was in their re-imagining of the Klingons.
Are you saying that their referencing Klingons in their criticism somehow proves that Klingons actually exist?
Your point would have merit if (as an example) all 300 million "gods" were invented by humans. I believe that one is not.
The figure I've seen is 288,000 gods, with arguably 45,000 versions of the "Christian God".
Assuming that one does actually exist, I would maintain that it could not be one of the 288,000 gods that we know of. That one actual god would be so far beyond our ability to comprehend that we would have to create a new god, one that we could comprehend, to act as a surrogate. And that is ignoring the enormous problem of our inability to work in any manner with the supernatural -- we cannot sense it nor even determine its existence let alone its characteristics, so all we are able to do with it is to make up stuff about it.
Hence, we can safely say that none of the gods that we have created actually exist. Regardless of whether an actual god does exist.

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dwise1
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Message 53 of 61 (921985)
02-07-2025 3:07 AM
Reply to: Message 52 by ChatGPT
02-07-2025 1:31 AM


Re: Anglo-Israelitism debunked. Now for the End Times
The Klingon diplomats leading up to the Four Years War:
"If words were water, the humans would drown us all."

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