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by olavk 12y ago
I wouldn't say "obviously divine". He certainly performs healings, exorcisms and miracles - but his disciples are also granted these powers, and they are not considered part of the trinity. So more like blessed with some supe
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by olavk 12y ago
I'm not convinced that Jesus didn't make any divinity claims. We have unreliable and contradictory accounts of what Jesus said, so I consider it an unsolved mystery if Jesus actually believed or claimed he was the Messiah and&#x
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by olavk 12y ago
Only if you already have decided that this is the conclusion you want to reach. Which is totally fair as a kind of religious meditation over the biblical texts, but it not likely to convince anybody not yet convinced. For example Jesus stat
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by olavk 12y ago
This is a really interesting question! There is a development through the gospels, where the oldest focus on the actions, saying and prophecies of Jesus, while the newest (John) is much more focused on the divinity of the person Jesus. Paul
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by olavk 12y ago
Yeah, John is the latest gospel where he is presented as much more "divine". Compare to Mark, which is the earliest gospel.
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by olavk 12y ago
Yeah, agreed. I just wanted to make clear that you could believe in the historicity of Jesus without having to accept the Liar/Lunatic/Lord dilemma, since Jesus never claimed to be "Lord" in the first place.
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by olavk 12y ago
There are no evidence that Matthew was originally written in anything other than Greek. But Jesus probably spoke in Aramaic (not Hebrew), so the sayings in the text would be a translation, but probably translated while still an oral traditi
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by olavk 12y ago
It is even more likely that he was just an ordinary legitimate child of Mary and Joseph, and the whole virgin-birth story developed later (after the death of Jesus) among Greek-speaking early Christians, in order to tie in to the Isiah-prop
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by olavk 12y ago
Even taking the eyewitness accounts in the Gospels at face value, they are highly dubious. Note that the disciples don't even recognize him when they meet the resurrected Jesus (or they guy claiming to be the resurrected Jesus), and ha
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by olavk 12y ago
Among historians it is generally believed that there was a preacher called (something like) Jesus which was crucified by the Romans. But looking at the only available sources (the Gospels) it is not even clear that he claimed to be the Mess
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by olavk 12y ago
Note though that the ambiguity is in the translation of Isiah, the prophet in the Old Testament, NOT in the translation of the gospels where it is unambiguous that Mary was a virgin in the sense that she had not had sex with a man. However
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by olavk 12y ago
There are multiple archaeological proof of Norse presence in Canada - L'Anse aux Meadows is the remains of a whole village. Furthermore we also have historical evidence in the form of the Vinland Sagas, which is Icelandic tales about
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by olavk 12y ago
How did they change the ending in the dub? I have only seen the subtitled version.
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by olavk 12y ago
Yeah, OO design patterns are typically not relevant in functional languages, but functional languages have their own share of patterns.
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by olavk 12y ago
You state that leading cause of suicide is basically that the youth of today (the "millenials") are spoiled and weak compared to previous generations. Right. So how do you explain that the highest increase in suicide rate is among
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by olavk 12y ago
But Oscar Wilde was an accomplished writer and playwright. Some of his plays have become classics and are still played around the world. While a celebrity due to his charm and extravagant demeanor, he wasn't just famous for being famou
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by olavk 12y ago
"Mostly taken from..." is really stretching it. Yeah he was inspired by those movies, but to say "mostly taken from" is ignoring all the things which is original about the movie. And Star Wars really was an original movi
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by olavk 12y ago
Maybe they can imagine - writing movies is also hard work, believe it or not. But they also know that sitting at a desk and calculating for years is not very entertaining to look at.
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by olavk 12y ago
Well, arguments of the form 'if we allow X then we must also allow Y' is a fallacy in the strict sense that it does not follow with logical necessity when X and Y are different things. While if you accept the premises that say X l
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by olavk 12y ago
Terseness at different levels. Avoiding boilerplate syntax is good. Obscure abbreviated names of functions and operators just to save a few keystrokes is bad. Btw. the definition of terseness in the essay seem specifically chosen to favor L
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by olavk 12y ago
The purpose of the nuclear bomb was the same as the purpose of strategic bombing in general - to destroy buildings and infrastructure and kill people indiscriminately. The nuclear bomb was not fundamentally different in that aspect - strate
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by olavk 12y ago
A repeating field is a field that contains multiple values of the defined type - eg. the column is of type integer, but the field contains multiple integer values. Mainstream relational databases does not support repeating fields, so any ta
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by olavk 12y ago
I'm not totally sure what you are getting at, but are you suggesting that the business rules described in the example (that salesmen are limited to selling certain products for certain brands) is not realistic in a real-world car deale
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by olavk 12y ago
Normalization might actually take up more space, e.g. if you have to break out a column into a separate table and introduce a new primary key. The reason for normalization is to preserve integrity of the data. If the same information occurs
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by olavk 12y ago
That is somewhat misleading, since the optimized versions use different algorithms. There is also an optimized Python version that runs 30 times faster. It is a combination of better algorithms and closer-to-the-metal language that gives th
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by olavk 13y ago
OK I don't know anything about why he supported the campaign, and AFAIK he haven't spoken publicly about it at all. But even if it was because of religious beliefs, he is not being forced to resign because of his personal religiou
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by olavk 13y ago
He was not forced to resign over a religious belief. He was forced to resign because he supported a political campaign for a legislation which had real tangible effects for many peoples lives.
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by olavk 13y ago
How do you state with confidence that he is not homophobic and does not hate gays? What is your basis for believing that? I agree that support for Prop.8. does not prove homophobia, but certainly it does not support a lack of it either!
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by olavk 13y ago
How did sacking Constantinople prevent Christians from becoming muslims?
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by olavk 13y ago
Totally agree! Interesting though that Denmark has better social mobility than the US, even though Denmark has historical attitudes like the Law of Jante, while the US have "The American Dream."

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