My Lecture on Jesus at FSGP
You can watch the video of my presentation "Misquoting Scripture" at the Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia here.
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Please help me get my resources so I can finish my book more quickly.
Et suppositio nil ponit in esse.
"You act ridiculously," said Ion, "to doubt everything. For my part, I should like to ask you what you say to those who free possessed men from their terrors by exorcising the spirits so manifestly. I need not discuss this: everyone knows about the Syrian from Palestine, the adept in it, how many he takes in hand who fall down in the light of the moon and roll their eyes and fill their mouths with foam; nevertheless, he restores them to health and sends them away normal in mind, delivering them from their straits for a large fee. When he stands beside them as they lie there and asks : 'Whence came you into his body?' the patient himself is silent, but the spirit answers in Greek or in the language of whatever foreign country he comes from, telling how and whence he entered into the man; whereupon, by adjuring the spirit and if he does not obey, threatening him, he drives him out. Indeed, I actually saw one coming out, black and smoky in color." "It is nothing much," I remarked," for you, Ion, to see that kind of sight, when even the 'forms' that the father of your school, Plato, points out are plain to you, a hazy object of vision to the rest of us, whose eyes are weak." - Lucian, Lover of Lies
Right on, Rook. Thanks for
Right on, Rook. Thanks for this.
Good talk, Rook, good talk.
Good talk, Rook, good talk. I'm curious about about how the event itself came about, though. Who asked you to come and speak? Was this for a certain occasion? What was the audience like? Was there a Q & A? How do you feel it went? Planning on giving anymore talks?
A place common to all will be maintained by none. A religion common to all is perhaps not much different.
Thanks Rook for that 48
Thanks Rook for that 48 mins, you are a "savior", a healer , a doctor .... and all a bibull historian ..... but most of all, Rational !
..... Folklore, 40 days, troupes, midrash .... You are a friend of humanity ..... Thanks sincerely, ME god as you .
Archeopteryx wrote:Good
Thanks! =)
I was asked to give a lecture by the coordinator of the events for the FSGP.
Nope.
Mostly made up of freethinkers. I do not think everyone agreed, but they did not voice their objections during the Q&A. So, I either scared them, or they were contemplative.
There was. I only had about 15 minutes, but I had a lot of questions. I could have fielded another hour's worth. It would have been included...but we cannot seem to find that last fifteen minutes. o.O
It went very well. A lot of positive feedback.
Yes. Anybody willing to fly me to a location to give a lecture for a meeting?
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Please help me get my resources so I can finish my book more quickly.
Et suppositio nil ponit in esse.
"You act ridiculously," said Ion, "to doubt everything. For my part, I should like to ask you what you say to those who free possessed men from their terrors by exorcising the spirits so manifestly. I need not discuss this: everyone knows about the Syrian from Palestine, the adept in it, how many he takes in hand who fall down in the light of the moon and roll their eyes and fill their mouths with foam; nevertheless, he restores them to health and sends them away normal in mind, delivering them from their straits for a large fee. When he stands beside them as they lie there and asks : 'Whence came you into his body?' the patient himself is silent, but the spirit answers in Greek or in the language of whatever foreign country he comes from, telling how and whence he entered into the man; whereupon, by adjuring the spirit and if he does not obey, threatening him, he drives him out. Indeed, I actually saw one coming out, black and smoky in color." "It is nothing much," I remarked," for you, Ion, to see that kind of sight, when even the 'forms' that the father of your school, Plato, points out are plain to you, a hazy object of vision to the rest of us, whose eyes are weak." - Lucian, Lover of Lies
Rook wrote:There was. I
Ah, damn. I would have liked to see that part, too!
A place common to all will be maintained by none. A religion common to all is perhaps not much different.