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I used to do some ‘magic’ and managed to impress some people. Nowhere near as good as this guy. But I do know how he did all of those things, being quite simple in concept. I am really impressed how smoothly he pulled them off. No I never give away magical secrets, basic rule of the trade.

When writing in Assembler (IBM mainframe) I prefixed all of my homegrown macro names with # to make them stand out when other people read my code. Around the time I retired, Microsoft was introducing the C# (C sharp) language. BTW the # is a pun as the back slash \ in the names of generations...

#octothorpe

...when people octothorpe a lot and don't even know it.

My Malamute used to give long lectures on the subject.

Of course it is different. And for the record I am not a Christian.

"Save the clock tower!"

Much of today's Christianity has its roots in Paul's letters which frequently talked about how flesh was evil and sinful and spirit was good and holy. That attitude is still deeply embedded.

I forgot about this thread.

They must have been brave tomcats. Why?

https://www.thedodo.com/daily-dodo/man-spotted-feeding-kitten-on-subway He found the kitten alone on the street. He is bottle feeding it.

Since Paul mentions that there is a Jesus movement before him and that the people he writes to appear to already know that there was a religious leader named Jesus who got crucified, this sounds like there really was a Jesus. Also the idea that someone hailed as the messiah should be killed by...

To begin with I do not believe a word of Acts. It seems to be all about resolving discrepancies, problems and even embarrassments in earlier scriptures. But that is a big story in itself. One quick example: Paul says that he got his gospel straight from Jesus and not from the disciples. There...

To go into it very briefly, I do not buy it. The change from 'not taste death' in a physical sense into 'never taste death' in a spiritual sense points to John being last. John ignores the Olivet Discourse as would be expected if he wrote last when that story was no longer credible since too...

If so, then the end of days as well. This is too coherent and explicit a section and ties into earlier passages too well to not have that meaning. If Jesus prophesied all of that, then he was wrong. If Mark made it up to suit his purpose of reviving faith, then it works very well even if it did...

As I have said earlier, Mark wanted to revive a fading faith in Paul's prediction of a near term return of Jesus, which would lead to a loss of faith in the whole thing. This explains why he bothered to write a Gospel at all. The punchline was that the recent destruction of the Temple, which...

All of the Gospel writers have their own agendas and do not appear at all leery of invention. Look at Matthew’s treatment of Mark’s resurrection scenario, and then Luke’s treatment of Matthew’s. We can easily see references to the earlier version in the later ones but changed for discernible...

Where's the fun in that?