Oh Shoot

Night Owl territory. Generally on after midnight in most markets. Sort of Alex Jones but including off the planet, too. You can see some content streaming on the site: Home - Coast to Coast AM - OS

Besides a life long interest from being brought up Baptist and investigation into all things religious, I also took and later taught a course on the Bible as literature, so wound up doing a good bit of research; all my ravings are not pasted from Wiki or something! Just in case anyone wondered. And of course, in a Shakespearean sense, the King James Version is the ONLY one to read aloud. But it's also the most flawed translation-wise. Tell the truth, had I been born/raised a Jew, I'd probably still adhere to Judaism (short of keeping kosher, that is). And why not convert? Well, because it's as much a cultural heritage as a religious one; I don't think Sammy Davis Jr. was really a Jew. - OS

I'll risk it. I, for one, think that alien intervention is as logical a thesis as any other at this point to explain the quantum leap in the brain of what homo sapiens came to be. Twice even. Once about 50,000 years ago and again 5,000 - 10,000 years ago. Evolution alone just doesn't seem to account for the rapidity in that department. If the rest of our evolution had kept up, our spine should be three times thicker to support the weight, we wouldn't have an appendix, etc etc. Von Daniken was part charlatan and part scholar (and yes, I know he's been in prison a couple of times), but he was the first to throw the proposition out to the mainstream. But there's been a lot of supporting "evidence" since. The full blown emergence of Sumer is amazing and completely inexplicable in the sense of natural evolution. The first full blown culture on earth, complete with agriculture, industry, law, etc, and POOF, it just sprang up, with no even remote similar previous examples ever found. Read Sitchin's stuff about that - fascinating. Although I doubt if he has any more of it right than Van Daniken. The 12th Planet was his first, I think. Then again, maybe it wasn't really carefully planned by an alien influence. We may just be the result of a Zygotean grammar schooler's science experiment. And he's only now entering college. - OS

To echo RobTattoo, you're really just embarrassing yourself here. Obviously, only life forms capable of selective, accidental, or interventional mutation in a reproductive cycle evolve. - OS

I think you have "gospels" and "epistles" confused. 6 to 13 (depending on the scholar of choice) of the books were attributed to him (the "epistles") but none of the Gospels. Indeed, Paul never claimed to have met Jesus. His Damascus Road conversion was a vision of the resurrected Christ, after the fact of Jesus' death. - OS

Sounds like "Coast to Coast Overnight" stuff. I think if it had any credibility, would be widely espoused. - OS

Those are accepted by some sects and in some Bibles. Bel and the Dragon is my fav. There are MANY books that were never made the cut at all. Gospels by "Mary Magdelene" and "Judas" among many others. Look up "Gnostic Scriptures" - OS

Exactly. Josephus wasn't even born during Jesus' supposed lifetime, and wrote the Christ era "history" when he in his fifties. He likely got his material from the same source lore as "Matthew" and "Mark". (I use quotes on the names, as all the gospels are generally acknowledged as being written anonymously). - OS

Bzzt. There is no contemporary historical account of Jesus. No mention at all. Nada. First mention would be "Mark", maybe 40 years after the supposed crucifixion. First "secular" mention would be Josephus, a decade or so after Mark. There are no writings from the time of Jesus' supposed life span. However, there are plenty from the time of the Alamo. - OS

Nah, 'fraid can't concede that...God's omnipotent, so certainly he could be in the presence of Satan, as he appears in Job. Unless you specify some illogical rule, like "God can make a rock too big for him to lift"? Yaweh is the Big Cheese, the only Cheese. Jews don't believe in a Duality, and they certainly didn't bite on a Trinity. - OS

He sure used to be, if you believe the Old Testament. And he was usually pissed off when he chose to act. - OS

Point 2 has some validity, I admit. - OS

Assuming that were possible, I fail to see how discovering a life time of self-delusion would be a psychological boost. - OS

I don't see what atheists or agnostics stand to gain by their arguments, but certainly, "religion" began when that first wily biped discovered he could be fed and clothed by "interpreting God" for the rest of the tribe, rather than going out and risking life and limb to kill the mammoth himself. - OS

Geology also shows that the entire world was never ocean covered at the same time, however, at least after land based life evolved. The has never been "The" flood. Just an example of regional lore being ascribed as "world wide". - OS

Concepts of heaven, hell, salvation ... ARE all emotional. The whole religion thing is man's individual and collective response to the loneliness and fear of being a transient speck in the total scheme of things -- and an ego that can't accept that his ever so grand consciousness likely simply ends. - OS

Do I miss Slick Willie? Hell, I still see way too much of him. And he's likely to be First Lady in 2012. - OS

The underlying melancholy of any free-thinking individual is that he has the imagination and wonderment to ask questions that will never be answered in his short span here. Though I don't reasonably believe in one, should there be an afterlife with access to a supreme being, I'd sure have lots of deep questions. Like, how did it all begin, what about other life in the universe, and what's the story on that duck-billed platypus thing? "Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me." - R. Frost - OS

They're not even Christians, so they're all going to hell anyway, right? So what's God's point of view here? Maybe that there Yahweh is a different god feller from that there New Testament god feller. - OS

I've never understood the psychology of the "end of the world" mentality. The world already ends for each of us, always has. So the only thing that could possibly be a little different in a mass extinction is that everyone got snuffed a bit early. - OS

I daresay that at least half of the folks who would hum along to "Short People" on the radio had no clue as to it's message either. - OS

Never made it to a vote. - OS

Laws don't generally state what's legal but rather, what's not legal -- except for legal exceptions or defenses to an illegal act. You won't find a law saying it's okay to wear shorts in public, only that it's illegal to be naked in public. - OS

I know they make an onion, too. So what's with all the bulbed veggie names? - OS

Methinks you just don't want to see them, Strick. HP has been posted for a good long while, last trip down in late June was still in the "mall rules" at each main entrance (with small gunbuster sign and legal wording)...now those are gone, and there's a regular Gun Buster sign with all the legal wording. At entrance next to Pickadilly's and at the one next to Dillard's around the side, were the two I looked at, just today. Aren't these the only two main entrances? None of the anchor store entrances posted still, though. Phone cam: - OS