[tomdstone]

Re: False Religions And Cults

... we often get people here who are in their cups...

I am not sure what you mean by "in their cups", except perhaps you mean drinking an alcoholic beverage such as vodka. I generally recommend that people stay away from alcoholic beverages, except possibly at special occasions, such as weddings, etc., when I consider it acceptable to drink a very small amount while congratulating the newly wed couple. My doctor, who is a Mormon, recommends total abstention from alcoholic beverages.

[tomdstone]

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FTFY, unless of course you were there and watched him create them (and verified that the equipment that he uses to communicate actually does what they claim it does, and isn't simply being remote controlled thereby allowing the possibility of putting a brain-dead chimp in the chair and achieving the same result), and you recorded all of this going on, and you are willing to submit all this evidence to a panel selected by and including the esteemed Dr. White?


#amateurhour

You might read a Biography of Stephen Hawking by Kristine Larsen .

[Alvin Moss]

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His many outstanding books and articles as well as a biography written by his first (I think it was his first?) wife.

Did you mean this to be an answer to my question? The reason I ask is that this is a pretty lame excuse for a response and on Saturday nights we often get people here who are in their cups or high on the dope.

[Didymus Much]

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Hismany outstanding books and articles attributed to him...

FTFY, unless of course you were there and watched him create them (and verified that the equipment that he uses to communicate actually does what they claim it does, and isn't simply being remote controlled thereby allowing the possibility of putting a brain-dead chimp in the chair and achieving the same result), and you recorded all of this going on, and you are willing to submit all this evidence to a panel selected by and including the esteemed Dr. White?


#amateurhour

[tomdstone]

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Stephen Hawking is a lump of flesh with some teeth sticking out of it. He is borne about in a motorized wheel chair and a box "speaks" for him. What makes you think he knows where he is, much less agrees to be there?

His many outstanding books and articles as well as a biography written by his first (I think it was his first?) wife.

[Alvin Moss]

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Stephen Hawking had no problem appearing together with Father Spitzer on the Larry King show.

Stephen Hawking is a lump of flesh with some teeth sticking out of it. He is borne about in a motorized wheel chair and a box "speaks" for him. What makes you think he knows where he is, much less agrees to be there?

[Basilissa]

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No. Right now I have too many books. I have two whole garages filled with books from wall to wall. (Including several Bibles, about 10 different translations). For cookbooks, I get my recipes online so, no, I would not buy another cookbook. There are so many good recipes available online but I don't need to eat that much food. Uncooked fruit and steamed vegetables are best anyway.

Seriously,

You wouldn't recognize sarcasm even if hit in the head with it, would you, sweetie?

[tomdstone]

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If this Spitzer person published a cookbook based on his experience of having eaten food, would you buy it?

No. Right now I have too many books. I have two whole garages filled with books from wall to wall. (Including several Bibles, about 10 different translations). For cookbooks, I get my recipes online so, no, I would not buy another cookbook. There are so many good recipes available online but I don't need to eat that much food. Uncooked fruit and steamed vegetables are best anyway.

[handmaiden]

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If this Spitzer person published a cookbook based on his experience of having eaten food, would you buy it?

[Dolores de Barriga]

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No. He lets his escorts know where he wants to go and he wanted to appear on the Larry King show with the Jesuit priest Father Spitzer.

And this is supposed to address the Jesuit's actual academic credentials as related to physics/astrophysics/cosmology/any other real science how, exactly...?

[tomdstone]

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Mr Dstone, at the risk of appearing callous, it occurs to me that Stephen Hawking doesn't have a great deal of choice in the matter, does he? I mean, given his physical condition, he pretty much has to go where he's taken and do as he's told.

No. He lets his escorts know where he wants to go and he wanted to appear on the Larry King show with the Jesuit priest Father Spitzer.

[Dolores de Barriga]

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Stephen Hawking had no problem appearing together with Father Spitzer on the Larry King show.

Agreeing with Mrs. Lytton-Vassey, I am uncertain how does that address my question.

If you were in my class and tried to weasel your way out of a question on the exam by answering a different one, you couldn't count on receiving an A for the class. If you know what I mean.

[handmaiden]

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Stephen Hawking had no problem appearing together with Father Spitzer on the Larry King show.

Stephen Who? I doubt he is someone to whom we would turn as an authority on religion and science.


Brother Doctor Professor White is our go-to source for understanding the Bible from a scientific perspective.


Have you met Dr. White? Lovely man, so modest given all his accomplishments. I heard he won a prize for origami in his youth, but then learned of its demonic symbolism. He gave up the folding of any kind of paper because of his devotion to the Lord; won't even gift wrap a box. Such a sacrifice.

[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

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Stephen Hawking had no problem appearing together with Father Spitzer on the Larry King show.

Mr Dstone, at the risk of appearing callous, it occurs to me that Stephen Hawking doesn't have a great deal of choice in the matter, does he? I mean, given his physical condition, he pretty much has to go where he's taken and do as he's told.


But, leaving that aside, your little anecdote really hasn't dealt with "Ms" De Barriga's point, has it?

[tomdstone]

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Hello Mr. Stone. Please explain to me, since when a theologian can be an authority in physics?

I realize he also got a degree in business administration, which means at least he knows how to sell stuff which may or may not be useful. Anyhow, him selling stuff which is mildly plausible as "proof" is great salesmanship, but definitively unscientific.

In the future, I would like to request that, when talking about science, you cite only works which are peer reviewed and written by scientists, rather than things written by random people with no scientific background.

Stephen Hawking had no problem appearing together with Father Spitzer on the Larry King show.