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Proof against an infinite past? Wade A. Tisthammer 01/ 9/04 5:47pm 97

Simply resolved -- Ben, 01/ 9/04 9:15pm

Not so simply resolved. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 01/ 9/04 10:52pm

Resolutions -- Ben, 01/10/04 12:14am

Good, I like resolutions. Where are they for this paradox? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 01/10/04 2:01pm

You are being by far too complex Wade... -- Don, 01/28/04 8:16am
A compendium of refutations -- Damoclese, 03/21/04 10:17am

Geeze... -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/22/04 10:57am

Foggy definitions -- Damoclese, 01/10/04 8:54am

Which definition is foggy? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 01/10/04 1:57pm

Making things simple -- Damoclese, 01/10/04 3:40pm

I hope so. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 01/12/04 10:14am

One ammendment -- Damoclese, 01/12/04 9:27pm

One question (or two) -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 01/14/04 10:13am

Comma -- Damoclese, 01/14/04 3:19pm

Math stuff. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 01/16/04 9:52am

It's "point"less to discuss it with THEM -- QUITTNER, 01/16/04 11:36am

Logic? -- Damoclese, 01/16/04 8:44pm

Re: Logic? -- QUITTNER, 01/20/04 11:19am

K -- Damoclese, 01/20/04 1:09pm

Maybe the messages were not properly reported -- QUITTNER, 01/22/04 1:54pm

God spoke to me, but I forgot what he said -- Damoclese, 01/22/04 4:21pm

Was it really God? -- QUITTNER, 01/23/04 2:51pm

Spirited away. -- Damoclese, 01/24/04 7:30pm

Experience is very important -- QUITTNER, 01/27/04 11:52am

Wow. -- Ben, 01/27/04 3:43pm

Ben is WOWed. -- QUITTNER, 01/29/04 1:37pm

uh huh -- Damoclese, 01/16/04 8:42pm

More math stuff -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 01/18/04 2:54pm

Less than -- Damoclese, 01/18/04 4:13pm

Logic. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/12/04 10:17am

Distinguish between "pure" and "applied" Mathematics -- QUITTNER, 02/27/04 1:22pm

Misunderstanding time -- Ben, 01/18/04 5:06pm

Understanding time -- QUITTNER, 01/20/04 11:54am

Supporting my point -- Ben, 01/20/04 10:05pm

Paradox... hm. -- Duane, 02/11/04 9:54am

Guess who's back (guess who's back (guess who's back)) -- Duane, 02/11/04 9:39am

Nobody wants Marshall no more -- Damoclese, 02/11/04 8:42pm
What day did he write about last year? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/12/04 10:29am

Infinity interrupted -- Damoclese, 02/12/04 12:14pm

Re: Infinity interrupted -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/13/04 12:02pm

dandy -- Damoclese, 02/13/04 9:01pm

The numbering scheme. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/15/04 3:15pm

Practicality -- Damoclese, 02/15/04 7:33pm

Actuality -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/16/04 8:07pm

? -- Damoclese, 02/16/04 9:29pm

! -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/20/04 10:43am

Looking Back... -- Damoclese, 02/22/04 9:44pm

Some clarifications. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/27/04 1:54pm

Answer -- Damoclese, 02/27/04 3:28pm

Infinity began? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/27/04 10:45pm

Infinity squared -- Damoclese, 02/28/04 7:19am

oops -- Damoclese, 02/28/04 7:59am
Splitting unnecessary hairs. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/ 5/04 11:59am

Giggle -- Damoclese, 03/ 5/04 3:34pm

My point exactly -- Ben, 03/ 2/04 7:34am

And what point would that be? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/ 5/04 12:03pm

Not absurd - only logical. -- Duane, 02/12/04 4:35pm

Logically absurd -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 02/13/04 11:56am

Invalid -- Baz, 03/ 4/04 1:49am

Invalid? Where? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/ 5/04 11:51am

Fallacious thinking. -- Baz, 03/ 5/04 8:39pm

And........ -- Baz, 03/ 7/04 4:56pm

I missed yesterday!!!! -- Damoclese, 03/ 7/04 5:11pm

Oh yeah? Where? Which premise? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/12/04 10:48am

I give up! -- Baz, 03/12/04 12:12pm

Why? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/12/04 12:54pm

Actually -- Damoclese, 03/12/04 3:27pm

Factually -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/12/04 3:39pm

This. -- Damoclese, 03/12/04 4:18pm

That. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 1:38pm

Premise pogo -- Damoclese, 03/13/04 1:51pm

Don't pogo around the premises, pick one! -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 2:23pm

twister -- Damoclese, 03/13/04 3:01pm

'round and 'round we go... -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 4:26pm

In the argument -- Damoclese, 03/13/04 7:29pm

I can do that too. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 10:17pm

But not as well -- Damoclese, 03/14/04 8:11am

Where are the assumptions? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/15/04 12:23pm

Confession of much apathy -- Damoclese, 03/15/04 5:29pm

If you're apathetic about this, why have you continued so far? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/18/04 9:55am

Oh. That's all it is? -- Duane, 08/12/04 5:10am

A Tristram Shandy argument proved invalid. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 10:11pm
A Tristram Shandy argument proved invalid. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 10:14pm

Sorry. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 10:22pm
Everyone nearly said as much -- Damoclese, 03/14/04 4:01pm

I don't think they did. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/15/04 12:07pm

You're right. -- Damoclese, 03/15/04 4:55pm

Your first premise actually proves an infinite past!!! -- Duane, 05/25/04 5:42am

I don't think so. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/27/04 2:46pm

Is "ETERNAL" the same as "INFINITE"? -- QUITTNER, 06/ 4/04 12:37pm

Huh? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 06/15/04 11:21pm

Re: Is ETERNAL the same as INFINITE? -- QUITTNER, 06/25/04 11:14am

I suppose not... -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 07/13/04 9:23pm

Relevancy to previous posts -- QUITTNER, 07/15/04 1:49pm

Where? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 07/15/04 9:17pm

Infinite Past? Eternal=Infinite? -- QUITTNER, 07/16/04 1:28pm

Are There Errors in the Bible? Jason Gastrich 05/19/04 1:21pm 20

Really? -- Duane, 05/25/04 11:22am

Well, consider... -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/27/04 3:20pm

God keeps communicating with people -- QUITTNER, 05/28/04 1:45pm

Re: Are There Errors in the Bible? -- Jason Gastrich, 05/31/04 10:42pm

Inerrent literature? -- QUITTNER, 06/ 4/04 12:08pm

Reply -- Jason Gastrich, 06/ 6/04 12:14am

Inerrancy??? -- QUITTNER, 06/11/04 1:26pm

What about it? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 06/15/04 11:20pm

Obeying a requirement? -- QUITTNER, 06/25/04 11:29am

What about it? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 07/13/04 9:11pm

Enforcing laws of religion -- QUITTNER, 07/16/04 2:03pm

Skeptic's Annotated Bible - Corrected and Explained -- Jason Gastrich, 08/ 2/04 4:05am

Subject: Enforcing laws of religion -- QUITTNER, 08/ 6/04 2:23pm

errors in the Bible -- Jaime X, 07/23/04 12:14am

Skeptic's Annotated Bible - Corrected and Explained -- Jason Gastrich, 08/ 2/04 4:02am

I found an error! -- ozboy, 06/28/04 7:23am
Errors -- Me, 07/ 2/04 3:48pm

Really? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 07/13/04 9:18pm
House -- Jason, 08/ 2/04 5:09am

Ballz Hugh Jass 07/25/04 9:10pm 1

With regards to Ben's new article Damoclese 07/22/04 11:04pm 1

How to speak fundamentalist Arthur 07/23/03 7:19pm 26

Enjoying Number Two -- Ben, 07/24/03 8:04pm

Are "christians" really members of Jesus' group? -- QUITTNER, 08/14/03 12:31pm

Some are. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 10/22/03 9:12pm

Some are -- QUITTNER, 03/ 2/04 2:53pm

That's what I said. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/12/04 1:16pm

Re parts of the gospel of John. -- QUITTNER, 03/19/04 2:26pm

Examining the gospel of John -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/20/04 1:23pm

Re: Examining the gospel of John -- QUITTNER, 03/22/04 12:45pm

Gospels. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/23/04 8:23pm

Re: Gospels -- QUITTNER, 03/26/04 2:33pm

More on Gospels -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/29/04 12:40pm

Thomas, Gospel of, and God's children. -- QUITTNER, 03/29/04 2:19pm

I have my doubts about Thomas -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/30/04 9:47am

It's Now Clear That Everything I Believed Was Wrong -- Biff, 08/19/03 10:29pm

Eh? -- Damoclese, 08/20/03 11:31am

Ancient texts are supersed by God's more recent communications. -- QUITTNER, 08/20/03 1:06pm

Bible is not the Word of God -- Joseph Lambert, 10/28/03 6:37pm

People may believe all sorts of things. -- QUITTNER, 11/21/03 2:29pm

What, are you a Canadian like Biff? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 10/20/03 7:23pm

Nope. No canadian bacon -- Damoclese, 10/26/03 9:12pm

God is the same in the second season as he was in the first -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 10/30/03 10:03am
It's BACKbacon. Canadian bacon is from Canadian pigs -- Biff, 02/25/04 9:21pm

The Biff is back -- Ben, 02/26/04 10:34pm

Gene Rodenberry is God -- Biff, 07/19/04 9:06pm

I guess that means God is dead? -- Damoclese, 07/20/04 12:12pm

Should we re-elect Bush? Ben 07/16/04 10:54pm 2

Beating around the... -- Damoclese, 07/17/04 11:51am

Post number 5,000 approaches! Ben 07/16/04 10:51pm 1

Sleeping with the enemy. Me 06/29/04 6:34pm 4

There are very many religions/versions/belief systems -- QUITTNER, 07/ 2/04 12:11pm

Many Religions -- Me, 07/ 2/04 3:24pm

Many denominations/versions of Christianity -- QUITTNER, 07/16/04 2:30pm

Water baptism. Robert 07/ 8/04 2:09pm 6

One of the most ludicrous assertions I've heard -- Ben, 07/ 9/04 1:10am
Webster's speaks out -- Ben, 07/ 9/04 11:57am

Bring on the ORIGINAL writings -- QUITTNER, 07/13/04 2:44pm

Huh? -- Ben, 07/14/04 4:17pm

Relation to Ben's posts -- QUITTNER, 07/15/04 1:08pm

Michael E.Schmidt- trumpet high notes Jason Powers 05/25/04 10:29am 2

God gets high -- Ben, 06/ 9/04 9:46pm

Wade was right (sort of) Duane 05/25/04 11:03am 3

Thoughts -- Damoclese, 05/26/04 9:17pm
Sort of. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/27/04 3:04pm

please pray for my freind paula whos not a christain theresa 05/18/04 11:19am 1

God violates ex nihilo Damoclese 04/ 1/04 11:42am 11

Misunderstanding. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/28/04 3:13pm

understanding -- Damoclese, 04/28/04 7:00pm

nothin -- Damoclese, 04/28/04 7:01pm
Much ado about nothing -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/29/04 12:58pm

nothing from nothing leaves...nothing. -- Damoclese, 04/29/04 2:37pm

Beware the fallacy of equivocation. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/ 2/04 3:20pm

Imagining -- Damoclese, 05/ 4/04 9:43am

Imagining ex nihilo -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/ 7/04 2:31pm

End game -- Damoclese, 05/ 7/04 4:42pm

Are ee ess pee ee see tee. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/10/04 4:09pm

The Cross David 05/10/04 1:23am 1

A page for all the wade's out there Damoclese 04/29/04 5:16pm 6

Why? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/ 2/04 3:29pm

Here -- Damoclese, 05/ 2/04 3:57pm

Where? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/ 3/04 9:09pm

because -- Damoclese, 05/ 4/04 6:15am

That reminds me... -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 05/ 7/04 2:33pm

A considerable waste of time???? QUITTNER 05/ 4/04 1:43pm 3

Then... go away? -- Damoclese, 05/ 4/04 2:20pm

QUITTNER's recent submissions in this forum: -- QUITTNER, 05/ 6/04 2:14pm

private jessie is a disgrace to West Virginia Shannon 04/14/04 8:27am 1

Deduction Baz 03/12/04 4:22pm 9

amen -- Damoclese, 03/12/04 4:27pm

The ultimate premise -- Baz, 03/12/04 8:30pm

Careful... -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 1:56pm

Misread -- Baz, 03/13/04 7:29pm

Misread what? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 10:03pm

I don't think... -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 2:10pm

Hmm... -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 2:08pm
you know... -- Damoclese, 04/ 8/04 7:56am

They can disguise a nuclear bomb as God. area 37 04/ 8/04 4:25am 1

Axiomatically true mathematical systems Damoclese 03/24/04 7:00am 10

IMAGINARY numbers -- QUITTNER, 03/29/04 12:43pm

I didn't say it wasn't useful -- Damoclese, 03/30/04 7:42am

The only way a deductively valid argument can fail. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/30/04 12:47pm

Passing calculus, flunking philosophy and logic -- Damoclese, 03/30/04 2:40pm

Actually, I did well in both philosophy and logic. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/31/04 12:45pm

Wade never admits, he slithers. -- Damoclese, 03/31/04 2:55pm

I've admitted mistakes before. What is there to admit here? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/ 1/04 9:54am

Falsity -- Damoclese, 04/ 1/04 11:36am

Truth -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 04/ 1/04 12:08pm

This really deserves its own thread--wade reflections and refutations Damoclese 03/21/04 10:20am 6

and one more thing -- Damoclese, 03/21/04 11:48am
If you want to refute the argument, please pick a premise and try again. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/22/04 10:55am

Presto -- Damoclese, 03/22/04 5:49pm

Chango -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/23/04 8:09pm

Change-o -- Ben, 03/27/04 9:34am

black+hole+detector area 37 03/22/04 6:26am 3

strange -- damoclese, 03/22/04 7:01am

WHATEVER CAN BE DONE WILL BE DONE -- area 37, 03/24/04 6:46am

Logical Proof of No God? Damoclese 03/12/04 4:04pm 27

and don't forget!! -- Damoclese, 03/12/04 4:19pm
Not here... -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 2:29pm

yes they do -- Damoclese, 03/13/04 2:55pm

No they don't. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 4:28pm

shakes head -- Damoclese, 03/13/04 7:26pm

Non sequitur -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 10:31pm

But it isn't. -- Damoclese, 03/14/04 8:01am

Oh yes it is. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/15/04 12:15pm

It's there -- Damoclese, 03/15/04 4:50pm

Non-being is the lowest form of being, not the greatest. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/15/04 8:05pm

er -- damoclese, 03/15/04 9:27pm

Err -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/15/04 10:38pm

A kingdom for a set -- Damoclese, 03/16/04 7:31am

Lack of coherency. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/17/04 3:26pm

The un cola -- Damoclese, 03/17/04 7:30pm
The un cola -- Damoclese, 03/17/04 7:31pm

7up. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/18/04 9:47am

Blinded by the light -- Damoclese, 03/18/04 1:43pm

Blinded by overzealous emotion. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/19/04 10:09am

This is how it seems to me -- Ben, 03/19/04 11:18am

You're right you ragamuffin -- Damoclese, 03/19/04 12:56pm
Logic terminology. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/20/04 1:09pm

Strongly doesn't equally emotionally -- Damoclese, 03/19/04 12:52pm

But strongly emotional does. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/20/04 1:34pm

I guess you even know what I'm thinking -- Damoclese, 03/20/04 6:54pm

Not necessarily. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/20/04 9:56pm

CHRIST'S COMMISSION FROM ABOVE THE MOUNTAINS Pastor J. C. O'Hair 02/ 7/04 6:48pm 3

Can it, Ok preacher man... -- Don, 02/ 8/04 2:32am

Can it, (R1) -- Don's Friend, 03/18/04 6:39am

Tristram Shot Down Damoclese 03/ 4/04 11:13am 13

Paradox unresolved. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/ 5/04 12:19pm

solved well enough -- Damoclese, 03/ 5/04 3:44pm

No it isn't. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/12/04 10:59am

Arguments aren't necessarily deductions -- Damoclese, 03/12/04 3:10pm

This one is. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/12/04 3:28pm

Nah -- Damoclese, 03/12/04 4:13pm

Sure. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 1:42pm

Yes you did. -- Damoclese, 03/13/04 2:01pm

Did what? -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 2:18pm

I don't think so. -- Damoclese, 03/13/04 3:09pm

I do. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/13/04 4:21pm

Go to it then -- Damoclese, 03/13/04 7:30pm

A Question for Wade Baz 03/ 7/04 2:27am 3

Answer from Wade. -- Wade A. Tisthammer, 03/12/04 10:53am

Cyril Burt -- Damoclese, 03/12/04 3:17pm

Whatever! BTL 02/25/04 1:45pm 18

Anything specific? -- BTL, 02/25/04 2:18pm

Now that you mention it... -- Damoclese, 02/25/04 2:24pm

Me Personally -- BTL, 02/25/04 3:57pm

hmmm.. -- Damoclese, 02/25/04 5:40pm

Prophecies -- BTL, 02/26/04 8:06am

Interesting.. -- Damoclese, 02/26/04 9:14am

Answer -- BTL, 02/26/04 11:13am

Yes they are. -- Damoclese, 02/26/04 1:48pm

Prophecy -- BTL, 02/26/04 4:21pm

Why don't you quote the verses? -- Damoclese, 02/26/04 6:40pm

second question -- BTL, 02/26/04 11:18am

Either way -- Damoclese, 02/26/04 1:51pm

Answer -- BTL, 02/26/04 3:26pm

Confusion -- Damoclese, 02/26/04 4:01pm

Finale -- BTL, 02/26/04 5:07pm

I'm glad I could be of service. -- Damoclese, 02/26/04 6:58pm

Prophecy -- BTL, 03/ 3/04 4:49am

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