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You are mistaken. I did not claim that Jesus was "messiah" and nor did I say I "believed" he was "messiah." I have not done that for at least 12 months, perhaps even longer. Can you present evidence for such a claim or belief? If not, you have no business in making the above statement. Quite...

What does that mean?

Can you show me examples?

Really? You're forced to use a double negative? A language that does that has to be evil.:D

Let us not forget the context in which I said that. I was talking about the "confusion" in today's Middle Eastern politics regarding Israel. It's also not just any kind of "confusion," but confusion that involves violence and bloodshed. Many of the organisations meddling in Israeli and Middle...

Can you imagine all the scenarios where you might encounter double negatives? You are talking on the phone, filling out a survey, reading an essay or listening to a fantastic speech by a prominent person in your society and all of a sudden . . . oh no . . . they say the unthinkable. It may...

Why does it matter so much whether you state it positively or negatively? If you're not doing something, you're still doing something. You're simply doing something else. If you're not busy, then you're either idle and thinking, sleeping or lying in the grave rotting away. Even if your entire...

This does not deny however, that actions/behaviour taken in saving or losing one's life have much to do with the consequences of those actions/behaviour. To me it's the other way round. If you know how to act appropriately in this world, that is the same as acting appropriately in the next...

I thought I might comment on this. The origins of Replacement Theology are "Pauline," but I don't believe Paul was the one who created or invented Replacement Theology. What Paul proposed was Olive Tree Theology. It was the Later Christians who created Replacement Theology, which I think is...

It's more or less what I had been talking about up to that post -- but perhaps I didn't make that clear. The religion of Jesus (Christianity) has more or less been a religion for the Gentiles. Jesus' mission was to recruit followers among his own people who would then go out into the rest of...

The trouble with the way you're saying this is that you're finding fault in the individual without explaining why they should find fault in themselves. Sin must have negative consequences and if there are no negative consequences why should one feel guilty? People don't believe in futile guilt...

Why are we suddenly talking about the mad hatter?

Is it really that weird? I think Jesus' movement can be likened to today's Chabad. The attitudes that Jesus and his followers would have had to Gentiles would have been similar to those Lubavitchers have. I think many of us have fallen for the erroneous idea that Jesus is a super-nice guy...

Is it possible to overthink any situation?

The question would be, how is this physically possible? Perhaps there is a special vacuum cleaner out there with two hoses/pipes. One sucks air in. The other blows air out. Let's say this vacuum cleaner is so powerful it causes an implosion that exerts negative air pressure omnidirectionally...

I didn't at all mean that Shammai was corrupt, only that his ideology went a bit too far (well, perhaps for that poverty-stricken generation). Even if most of the damage was at the hands of its own followers, I think he was indirectly responsible for a lot of it. I'm aware that not all of the...

I find this shocking:

yes, if you think swearing, drinking alcohol or having sex before marriage is wrong, you've got to either try it out or do a thought experiment -- you have to convince yourself to accept that it isn't really that bad. After that you can go back to considering the negative consequences, that yes...

are you going to start doing something? we can't drink tea all day and we're going to run out of things to talk about ....... someone is going to excuse themselves from the table so they can go home and then you're going to be all alone pretty soon you're going to start thinking...

I don't believe in paradise. I actually think that the better life becomes, the less satisfied people become. Living conditions are pretty high in the West, but people don't give much to charity because they're always worried about what their next-door neighbour has. Bigger is never big enough...