dimreepr

You shouldn't conflate a poll, in the public eye, with a fake, or anti-democratic process; it's ill informed... 😉 Much like your hero 'the Trump', or how history may remember him, 'the anti-democrat'.

If you want it to be sci-fi then it has to have an internal logical consistency, that at least correlates, however loosely, to current scientific thinking; otherwise it's just another story, in which magic happens... I think the current Dr who writer, has forgotten the rules...

It depends on the context the teacher provides, clearly... If a child grows up in a war zone, it has to be taught 'how to survive a war zone'... 😉

Jane Austen sums us all up quite succinctly in "Pride and Prejudice"

Look at how much funding fusion gets, can you blame them...

Indeed, so saying something like 'it's absolutely not meant for children.' is clearly false... History is humanities Achilles heal, we never learn from it; I contend that bibles are attempts to fix the wisdom, they know will be lost, for as long as possible. I also contend that best way to transpher wisdom between generations, is orally.

You haven't presented any physics and you clearly don't speak the language, so even 'if' you're right, you have no capacity to make yourself properly understood; you may as well be pissing into the wind.

"The Bible was not put together till the 4th CE and those OT stories were absolutely not meant for children!" Just to be clear, I'm an atheist and my argument is, how can you know?

Indeed, but it's still not much of an argument... 🙄

Just after and painlessly, no wait... 🤑

Why are you so keen to be right?

OK, Donald Trump is a rich man's version of Forest Gump In modern time's, we use a purple dinosaur... 😉

But it is part of the bible. Don't forget, my hypothesise includes most other Bible's and thus is mostly immune to cherry picking, esspecially a specific tribe; and given the millenia of time the book covers. IOW no single tribe can write our history or educate us directly, but their wisdom can be inferred and woven into our tribe... 😉 Objectively, you're conflating philosophies with people. Science doesn't care about people, a true (Scotsman) scientist doesn't care what a godophile say's, bc it's irrelevant to one's goal. Policy has infected the religious philosophy so it's more difficult to understand.

Your cherry picking is not a good argument, I didn't say they were "just for kids", but what about Noah's story? If you accept they were intended to educate, then you're suggesting they waited for them to grow to full maturity, before they started the education process; that seems unlikely, even for primitive savage idiots... It work's for some scientists too, for most of us the truth is ugly, unappealing and difficult to understand. We mostly want to be validated, as to our correctness, and we often get angry when asked to justify our beliefs logically, which is why a PhD is difficult to obtain.

Literally, de facto was your first clue. I'm suggesting that the bible, as in the written word, was an attempt to freeze the understanding of the elders and we all know how quickly text book's go out of date. A secondary point, which I think further supports my supposition, is that oral and story telling (metaphoric), transfer of valid information, is far more effective at bridging the generational gap, bc the teacher of the spoken word is capable of filling in the gaps of societal evolution. You've got google, look it up... 😉 I disagree, the biggest difference is the similarity of the people who just want to be right...

How are you qualified?

You could try for PhD, what makes you think my hypothesis is wrong?

Scholars are taking a best guess and you're treating them as purveyors of absolute truth; do you understand?

Here we go... 😇 You have the magic ability to understand, in fine detail, a culture whose language you can't possibly understand... 🙄

I think it might be cultural noise that's distressing you. There's nothing inherently wrong with pleasing one's brain, as long as it's not at the cost of other's; IOW drink what you want, but don't hit anyone. People find solice in many different way's, don't let the army of the righteously indignant bully you into hating your choices.

The bible/s aren't meant as a de facto description of history, it's a teaching aid and some of the stories are meant for children. The conflict from both side's always gravitate around the litteral value, rather than just accepting the value of the recognisable part's, that are clearly 'trying' to convey a message, that we all could benefit from; if we stopped to think about it.

I think the word your seeking is obtuse...

Indeed, being tolerant automatically means you don't like it. I'd say it's anti-Darwinian, in that societal tolerance allows the weaker amongst us to also survive the anger of the intolerant.

So what's your definition of happy, and how does it differ from being content?

doesn't it just...