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> Biblical lifespans seem nice, but only if you wholly believe the stories. Given how often the same stories come up across different civilisations, I'm sceptical they're accurate.

WTF? "Skeptical", probably not "accurate"?

You have to be absolutely nuts to think that they're even remotely true.

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I think you're taking a humorous tone[0] too literally. The poster you answer to was saying that they think the biblical stories are myths/legends.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understatement

I'm usually very good at detecting irony, tongue-in-cheek and similar "humorous tones". I see nothing indicating it here.

I'd call it understatement. Rather than write it all off as fabrication, I'm open to believing there's elements of truth mixed in.

I don't believe Noah lived for 1000 years and had 2 of every animal on a boat. But I could believe there was a tsunami that killed thousands. I could also believe it was rationalised as a an act of god and eventually became the great flood that appears in the Bible.

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