>>>>That is simply ridiculous. That something cannot be proven empirically does not in any way imply equal weight to all possibilities. I've never seen you, but I don't think the odds of your being 10 feet tall are 50-50
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>>>Funny, now that you bring this up, I am indeed 10 feet tall. I would send you a picture, but there was an article in the local Newspaper yesterday that mentions my name and that I am the record holder of the biggest person in Aruba.
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>>>But although I am telling you this, and even if you would find the newspaper article, it would only be a 50% chance that this is true, unless you would see me with your own eyes.
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>>okay, you got me interested. I don't know anyone 10 feet tall and the Cleveland Cavaliers really need a center so I did a little research.
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>>You said you are not a Protestant and identify as an independant Baptist so I decided to get a fuller understanding of what that meant.
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>>Are we talking about this :
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>>http://www.swordofthelord.com/beliefs.php
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>>or are you independant from that? I was picturing Hutterite or Mennonite but in the world but I am rather fascinated by Separation etc. Living in Ohio we have many such follks of one variety or another. I am always fascinated by people who *really* believe and actually live it in a personal rather than evangelising fashion.
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>>(by the way I am sure various threads of dissent are responsible for my even being here. I am a direct descendant of a woman named Deliverance King who was born in Salem MA in 1641 ( I hope she will forgive my reference to the "Cavaliers" ) and a whole lot of Pennsylvania Germans who came in the late 17th and early 18th centuries)
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>Baptists are not a homogeneous group. There are the southern baptist along with various other versions. I *think* that typically the southern baptists are more conservative - no drinking - no dancing - no no no (basically anything that might result in someone actually having "fun"). Some of the other variants might not consider these things unacceptable (ya know - trying to get with the times).

I thought you might get a kick out of the line I stuck another posts about how Southern Baptists disapproved of intercourse while standing because it could lead to dancing.

There is actually a percentage of Baptists who identify as independent Baptists (which is what Christian mentioned) and they are outside the Southern Baptist Convention or the American Baptists USA.

But I think the independents see themselves as the successors of John the Baptist and are therefore not Protestants and they were never Catholics to protest against but their stand on adult baptism - their defining belief - has always put them outside of the Petrine church.