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2023-11-06 14:05:33

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@npub192y…7pyw @npub1pcn…zf7l @npub1ccn…czwu
I'm just saying, understand the arguments you are making, and evaluate their relative strength.

2023-11-06 14:03:50

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@npub192y…7pyw @npub1pcn…zf7l @npub1ccn…czwu
Why aren't you asking that question about the consuls? They're the type of person you expect to have contemporary records for.
Logically, there had to be literally thousands of carpenters in Judea of that time. The existence of these ruins proves that--even if it does not prove the existence of any specific carpenter.
Are you trying to tell me that none of those carpenters had names because we don't have a robust contemporary record?

2023-11-06 13:54:29

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@npub192y…7pyw @npub1pcn…zf7l @npub1ccn…czwu
Well, here's my take: Atheism is not an unreasonable position in and of itself. There are lots of good arguments for it. But selectively misapplying standards of historical attestation is not one of them.
Nobody is challenging the historicity of these men's consulships just because the available evidence is not unambiguously contemporary instead of just ambiguously near-contemporary.
I mean: carpenter vs aristocrat. Who leaves more records?

2023-09-27 09:26:13

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I doubt Putin is that smart. He can't even manage his own country without resorting to transparent murder.
I think we have to accept that the US has some foundational flaws in its own system that are finally catching up to it.
Not that the flaws in the US and the Russian system are equal. I mean, Russia has undergone like 5 revolutions in the time the US has had 2 civil wars.
But that's not the point. It's that we can't blame everything on one man.

2023-09-01 06:04:56

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@npub1lrv…tth9 Really? Everybody knew Trump was full of shit for like a generation before he even announced his run for the GOP nomination. Doesn't seem like being known as a problem is his problem.
Like, Trump's problem is that he's stupid. Like the kind of stupid that documents a conspiracy in extremely detailed memoranda.

2023-09-01 06:01:12

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@npub1lrv…tth9 When was the last time calling somebody "liar", even when factual, was an effective political strategy?
To me, Ramaswamy is more offensive as being a cheap little fuzznuts knockoff of Trump. It's so cringe when you see kids trying to mimic "adult" behavior.