You already know the futility of taking "coals to Newcastle," but indubitably it's Bristol that's left cleaning up all that coal spilled on the road and laybys, as we see in Picturesque Antiquities of Bristol by John Skinner Prout, 1893.

"'Absurd, indubitably absurd,' he said.  'Absurd' was the word for today.  'Indubitably' was yesterday's word.  Mr. Phelps said that if you used a new word three times, it was yours." —Ernest Hebert, The Dogs of March  [If you wish to know what Friday's word was, highlight to view: peruse.]

Debate over the Bible's facticity indubitably misses the crucial question: "Is it art?"

Joedirtrules disagrees:

That’s simply not true. Examining the text (in conjunction with archeological finds) to research the origins of the Bible, and thus, subsequently asses the authenticity of it’s purported accounts, had lead to discovering the contrasting rhetoric employed by the authors–amalgamated into the old testament.  They are: J (or Yahwist), E (calling God “Elohim”), P (priestly), and D (deuteronomy). J, is characterized by the vast detail and emotion, and the fact that God speaks directly to people. While, E, writes of mediation between God’s words and the intended recipient.   Point being, it was the very admission of the Bible’s artistic aspects that was asserted in discussions of its facticity.

"Indubitably."

"The world is indubitably one if you look at it in one way, but as indubitably is it many, if you look at in another."

"We would pass a joint and suddenly everything about this world and our place in it seemed hilarious. Simple observations became impossibly profound. Indubitably so."*
—John Grogan, The Longest Trip Home: A Memoir (2009)

Can you guess the subject of this sentence?


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"YOU are indubitably the most important person you will ever meet in your world, in your lifetime.  No one nor anything will ever have as much impact or influence on YOU as YOU."*
—Jeanne Dolphus Cotton, Getting It Together: You, Life and Living (1995)

"Facts are indubitably facts, and wish-thinking has no place in science."*
—The Rotarian (Jan. 1938)

"Iceland is indubitably one of the most interesting spots on the face of the globe."*
—The St. James's Magazine and United Empire Review (1862)

"Consciousness manifests itself indubitably in man and therefore, glimpsed in this one flash of light, it reveals itself as having a cosmic extension and consequently as being aureoled by limitless prolongations in space and time."*
—Frank Herbert & Bill Ransom, The Ascension Factor (1988)

"It is indubitably true that 'God is.'"*
—The Historical Constitution of St. Bonaventure's Philosophy