I’ll be announcing the events along the Richard Carrier Exists Tour as they are finalized. Next in is Reno, Nevada. That’s my first stop on the move across country. And that’s Tuesday night, May 24. Come verify my historicity! Feel free to seek pictures & signatures.
Sponsored by the Reno Atheists, I’ll be speaking on The Existence of Jesus as a Critical Thinking Exercise. Description:
The debate over the historicity of Jesus offers many examples of how to apply critical thinking skills to all debates in history, or about recorded events of any kind. Dr. Richard Carrier will summarize the arguments for and against the existence of Jesus and point out the critical thinking skills exemplified in each and how they can be more broadly applied.
The whole event starts at 5:30pm at the La Fuente Mexican Restaurant on 790 Baring Boulevard, in the city of Sparks (right nextdoor to Reno). Come order dinner and hang out for some interesting ideas.
I’ll also be doing Q&A, and selling and signing books after.
Donations will be asked at the door, and please do give them ten bucks or something. More details and updates here.
I hope to catch that talk! La Fuente is well known among people of limited means for their cheap and mostly adequate food. Will you be hitting up the sports books in Reno while you are here? Someone with your knowledge of probability could make a killing there, although it might be hard to save up an adequate bankroll on $15k a year income. Hope to see you here soon!
$21k last year. Net. $42k gross.
That’s typical. I make between 15-25k net every year.
But no. Only fools invest in sports betting.
From a previous post you made:
“All refuted in chapter 10 of OHJ. Scores of peer reviewed articles and monographs cited. Scores of examples given. Try reading the book instead of spewing ignorant shit that doesn’t even acknowledge much less address the actual evidence carefully accumulated and documented by a qualified expert and published under peer review by a respected biblical studies academic press.”
Except, that none of my points or contentions made showing the stronger probability of Jesus existing are addressed sufficiently in Chapter 10 of OHJ. You won’t address the arguments I make, because either you can’t or you are unwilling. I wouldn’t be raising this evidence and these arguments if they were properly addressed in your book. You discuss the evidence I mentioned, but not the reasoning or the arguments.
As for the Gospels, you know very much that they are written on a base of historical events, and possibly sayings, recounted by the earliest apostles and Christians, especially Mark, with embellished, mythologized or euhemerized narratives written into it.
This is the same case with the historical Moses. Moses, 100%, was based on an actual historical figure. I can’t believe you actually claim he was again, purely concocted and invented as a completely fictional person. Scholarship is moving even more now towards a historical base for the Moses person, and its widely excepted that there was a historical events as the basis for the narrative written in Exodus. This will likely be more so the case if the Hyksos capital at Avaris , in easter Lower Egypt or where “Goshen” would have been, is properly excavated. It’s known there were proto-Israelites and other Semitic Canaanite populations who were in Egypt during the Hyksos period, between 1750 – 1400 BC, with some there possibly later than this. There were Egyptian princes at the time named “Moses” when the Exodus/Hyksos expulsions were occurring: Ahmose-ankh and Rah-mose circa 1525 BC, or less likely the Thut-mose, brother of Akhenaten/Amenhotep IV, circa 1360 BC. It’s known there was the massive eruption at Santorini (Thera) around this time which would have produced similar conditions to that mentioned as plagues. It’s known the Semitic Canaanites were expelled in a series of events by the native Egyptian rulers. It’s known that account would have remained in the collective memory of the people of Canaan for centuries (Finkelstein and Silberman: The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, 2002). It’s known Israel existed as a polity by at least 1200 BC to the east of Egypt (Merneptah Stele).
Yes, everything you said, is already refuted in OHJ.
I leave it to honest people to actually read it and see.
I will not debate with liars like you.
You lied, claiming to have read my book, and proved conclusively you didn’t. You never apologized. That makes you an immoral person. You are done here.
As for the Gospels, you know very much that they are written on a base of historical events, and possibly sayings, recounted by the earliest apostles and Christians, especially Mark, with embellished, mythologized or euhemerized narratives written into it.
This is the same case with the historical Moses. Moses, 100%, was based on an actual historical figure. I can’t believe you actually claim he was again, purely concocted and invented as a completely fictional person. Scholarship is moving even more now towards a historical base for the Moses person, and it is widely accepted that there was historical events as the basis for the narrative written in Exodus. This will likely be more so the case if the Hyksos capital at Avaris , in eastern Lower Egypt or where “Goshen” would have been, is properly excavated. It’s known there were proto-Israelites and other Semitic Canaanite populations who were in Egypt during the Hyksos period, between 1750 – 1400 BC, with some there possibly later than this. There were Egyptian princes at the time named “Moses” when the Exodus/Hyksos expulsions were occurring: Ahmose-ankh and Rah-mose circa 1525 BC, or less likely the Thut-mose, brother of Akhenaten/Amenhotep IV, circa 1360 BC. It’s known there was the massive eruption at Santorini (Thera) around this time which would have produced similar conditions to that mentioned as plagues. It’s known the Semitic Canaanites were expelled in a series of events by the native Egyptian rulers. It’s known that account would have remained in the collective memory of the people of Canaan for centuries (Finkelstein and Silberman: The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, 2002). It’s known Israel existed as a polity by at least 1200 BC to the east of Egypt (Merneptah Stele).
The evidence is strongly in favour of a historical base for the mythologized or euhemerized biblical Exodus/Hyksos expulsions and for the figure of Moses.
Proving again you don’t even know what I argue in OHJ.
My advice to you is to stop embarrassing yourself like this.