Imagine this:
Two men are walking in an almost-empty parking lot. By this I mean there are approximately 60 car slots, and 7 cars. There is few enough cars to be at any point in the lot and be able to see every car. Suddenly, one man stops the other.
"There is the car," he says.
"I see no car," says the second man.
So we find ourselves in a predicament. Much like the question "does the tree make any sound?", I ask you: is the car really there? Which man is sane, and which is insane? This is a microcosm of the definition of truth. Because, isn't truth nothing more than popular acceptance? It is true that cells are the smallest unit of an organism. It is true that Columbus set foot on North America in 1492. Isn't it? What if there was another man there? A third party who says, let's say, the car really isn't there. Then the lone man is crazy and it is truth that that the car isn't there. But does that make the car's existence any more true or untrue? More probable, maybe, but truer... I don't think so. Now lets expand this microcosm into the real world, and perhaps the ratio of "crazy men" to "sane men" (who know the truth). Let's say one man claims that Christopher Columbus set foot on North America last year. All would say that he is insane. But what prevents it from being true? Or better yet, let's say all people agree on one thing, like Christopher Columbus landing in 1492. Does that make it true?
The answer is no. Truth cannot be defined as popular acceptance. Just as easily as something can be "true", it can be "untrue". These ideas form the basis of the theory known as Skepticism. That theory states that nothing can be for certain. However, I've come to realize that one thing can be for certain. That is love. Love between two people, or love between a man and God, is eternally true. That is because love is not something that can be known. That is, it is not something that can be explained. It is something that can only be felt. Knowledge is not truth. Only love is truth.
Afterlife, among other things, is the relief of ignorance and fulfillment of knowledge, as in most cultures. These cultures believe that when in the afterlife, a man knows all and his soul can rest. This is true. But people have come to regard this "fulfillment of knowledge" as knowing things, such as all aspects of Science, including the human mind, or more abstract, religious things like "what is God's plan?". The afterlife is nothing more than complete love. Love is the only truth and holding it completely will be complete truth. All aspects of the Universe are contained by love. They were created by love and are controlled by love. I'm not quite sure whether Jesus of Nazareth is indeed El Christo, but he certainly did carry the right message: God is Love. God is the ultimate, omnipresent power in the Universe. Love is that power, that we know exists, we know its power, yet is intangible.
Most importantly, you cannot know love. You can only feel it. It is truth, and all the power of the universe lies within it. Perhaps one of the greatest accomplishments of man is to not "know" love, but to know it exists.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 11:45 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
Thats awsome. You are awsome.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 11:47 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
My wrist really friggin' hurts. Does anybody have any idea what carpel tunnel feels like, or knows what it must feel like? Any information. I don't want to sound like a pussy, or a limp-wristed gaymo, but this really sucks. I got these numbing, stabbing pains when I was carrying my books at school, and I really want to know what this is about.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 11:47 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
you probably are just suffering from some sort of tendinitis. You can tell if the pain is coming from a tendon, somewhat near the joint of your bones. Another sympton is if appears to hurt more at night, than opposed to day time.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 11:49 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
you are suffering from a mild heart attack..However unlikely this may sound people from 0-30 have been known to keel over dead from a heart attack. It is a possibility. Still you should get checked out if it is (really hurting)
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Anonymous2007-04-08 11:50 ID:JXVz7EzN
Um. I'm 90% sure this is copy paste, but whatever good stuff I see, Even though I don't know what your asking. And there were people who set foot on North America before christopher columbus. They were native indians. When Chris colonized america they were kicked off their land. Hell that's the whole point of thanksgiving. Indians gathered all their spring food as a fest, and in return they were booted off. Shame huh?
anyway back on topic, we already know 4chan is full of atheist, so you might get bashed with stuff like " there is no god" and other bs.
I have reached a bad point in my life . I have my linux box torn apart and it is installing Windows XP. Because I think that may be my only option to save it at this moment. My 40 gig hard drive that was holding linux has confused the hell out of me. I mean I can't even get into bios when it is plugged in, I tried to put it in my other computer to fix it w/drive management or partition magic, it just trys to boot into linux, I cant boot into Windows to partition the hard drive, therefore I can't do anything with the 40 gig hard drive, what should I do?
I'm not really a technician, but why on earth are you asking that here of all places? You'd find much better support elsewhere..not 4chan..And since you are online you best go search and fix it instead of delaying it.
That's the nerdiest fucking thing I've ever seen. How bout you delete all that anime porno off of your computer, maybe then it will work? Lick my ass, I'll partition my hard cock into your anus. Format that, you unfunny, sack squeezing grundle gopher.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:22 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>12
My computer has been ridiculously slow lately.. and it is because the process "svchost.exe" is taking up 80-99% of my cpu processing. There is definitely something wrong there...know how to fix that, other than reformatting?
Yea, there is something terribly wrong I beleive. svchost is the thing that supports your internet connection or something like that, maybe you have too much spyware or are being hacked?? I dont know, maybe someone with some more knowledge can come here and clarify.
Ctrl+Alt+Del Then go to task manager. Next, go to the processes tab. There should be just one or two processes running. If you have a whole bunch, you need to just select them all and hit, "End Process" Processes can build up on your machien and slow it down alot.
Your computer might crash if you have a virus. If it does, then do this when it restarts:
Go to C:\WINNT\ or wherever your process files are kept. In this folder is a ton of junk that has built up on your system. Every megahurtz clock cycle has to run a sorting A* algorithim on all this stuff. So select it all, and delete it. It might give you warning messages, but windows is so user safe they just don't want a hacker deleting it all.
Hope this helps.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:26 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>14
I actually had this problem a while ago. It crashed my computer many a time while scvhost just kept running over and over again.
Two things you might wanna try are as follows.
-Download AVG anti virus. The best free virus program I have ever seen. Very good. Do a complete scan of your computer. You can download it at the following site. http://www.vnunet.com/downloads/1123822
-Look for a file named dll6dsys.exe
If you find this file on your computer, it is doubtful that you will be able to delete it. It's one hell of a sticky bug I can tell you. AVG can't even quarantine it. If this is the case, if the file is present, get zone alarm. Easily the best firewall out there that you can get for free. Be sure to deny "dll6dsys.exe" access to the web.
So if solution one doesn't work, try solution 2.
Also, the weakness for this problem cropping up is usually that the computer you are using doesn't have a password for when you log on. If you don't have a password for when your computer starts, try putting a password in the field to prevent a similar problem from cropping up.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:26 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>14
Probably your PC got infected by some new worm or virus.
Go to www.microsoft.com and download the latest security upgrades
and then go to housecall.antivirus.com/housecall/start_frame.asp and let them scan your PC.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:33 ID:/FaWyEoA
This shit is insane.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:38 ID:JXVz7EzN
Hm but number 15-18 are right. it didnt actually think they'd post how to do it though. Oo;;
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:38 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
Why is it that we get upset over such trivial thing as choice of words. Mentally impaired and retarded mean the same thing, whats the big deal.
I am getting sick and disgusted with censorship as well. In public, the other day I was joking with one of my friends who is black. Since we're all friends they don't mind when I say nigga, or nigger and I was just joking around.
One of those PC bastards that you see on the news all of the time whining about every little thing that can be seen and obscene happens to be walking behind us and then he goes off on me and says "HOW DARE YOU MAKE RACIST REMARKS!" then he turned to my friends and started babbling on about how they won their rights and all of that shit.
So okay, it's alright for black people to call each other nigga but if a white person does it, it all of a sudden becomes taboo? I will never understand the people of this world.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:39 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>21
I think it isn't so much the words themselves people use, but the connotations and meanings that are behind them (or meanings people believe they have).
But to address your point about mentally impaired and retarded being the same thing: You're wrong. Mentally impaired is a broad term that can even mean having a slight learning deficiency. If someone has a learning deficiency, they are not necessarily retarded.
As for nigger, ofcourse people are going to be offened by it, you fool. It is probably one of the most classic demeaning terms ever and older people will take its use to heart.
You cannot expect everyone to be as thick skinned and/or dense as you, especially when the words used are notoriously historically offensive.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:40 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>21
I think you're right about being pissed off about some guy heckling you for what you say to your friends because its none of his business or did he know the situation. But, if a lot of black people are offended by the term and say "White people, please don't call us this." I think thats fair, even if they want to call themselves that.
Complain about the guy heckling you because you were allowed, but don't think everyone of the black community wants to have that insult thrown upon them.
In conclusion, censorship can go overboard but it works both ways and is necessary for the public to choose what they want to hear/see.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:40 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>22
People get offended when they are called something that they know they are, but they can't help it.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:42 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>21
'How dare you use that racist word towards a friend?
Nigger, I'm hoping you realise, was used originally by white people to demean black people. Of course when a white person say that to a black person they may become upset.
Jesus, what's so hard to understand that some people find some words offensive when used by people?
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:43 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>25
Nigger is derived from the Latin word for the color black, niger. According to the Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang, it did not originate as a slur but took on a derogatory connotation over time. Nigger and other words related to it have been spelled in a variety of ways, including niggah, nigguh, niggur, and niggar. When John Rolfe recorded in his journal the first shipment of Africans to Virginia in 1619, he listed them as "negars." A 1689 inventory of an estate in Brooklyn, New York, made mention of an enslaved "niggor" boy. The seminal lexicographer Noah Webster referred to Negroes as "negers." (Currently some people insist upon distinguishing nigger—which they see as exclusively an insult—from nigga, which they view as a term capable of signaling friendly salutation.) In the 1700s niger appeared in what the dictionary describes as "dignified argumentation" such as Samuel Sewall's denunciation of slavery, The Selling of Joseph. No one knows precisely when or how niger turned derisively into nigger and attained a pejorative meaning. We do know, however, that by the end of the first third of the nineteenth century, nigger had already become a familiar and influential insult.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:45 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
I can't fucking stand political correctness. It annoys the living hell out of me. It bugs me to no end. Okay, you get the picture.
I've read about many bureaucratic issues in the media. Some are just plain crazy, especially things to do with lawyers cashing in on "human rights" issues. The European human rights act is seriously retarded and is nothing more than a money-grabber for these stupid bureaucrat twats.
It needs urgent reform to stop criminals appealing to the courts about how crappy jail is. Whose fault was it you're in jail anyway, you criminal arsehole?
If you ask me, if someone murders another person, they should be made to forfeit their rights. The EU can take their "human rights" law and shove it.
I know, every once in a while I turn on the TV and turn to stupid talk shows and I always hear them talking about how jails should be made more comfy, and how cerial killers shouldn't be given "cruel and unusual punishment". Wait a second, are people so pathetic that they stick up for cerial killers? He could have killed you, ya know.
I agree, I think criminals should have their rights taken away. If I could make the laws, first offense would be 1 year in jail. No getting off free for a first time offense period. We need to enforce the law here. I don't care if you rob a candy store, 1 year is the minimum. I don't care if we have to put 50 people in every cell.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:46 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>28
We need to reintroduce corporal punishment. If we have to execute killers and paedophiles, then that will do everyone a big favour if they aren't even in existence. None of this compassionate "human rights" bullshit. Every human has a right to live without fear of being killed. I think as soon as someone takes another's life unjustly should be denied the right to live, like the killer denied their victim.
Whatever happened to the days of when a punishment really did fit the crime and made the criminal reflect on their heinous acts?
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:46 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>26
The word "nigger" cannot possibly be exceed its level of harmlessness. Do you know how to say "black" in Latin? If you guessed "niger", then you are bloody fucking correct. I refuse to abide by politically-correct standards, and I frown upon those who compromise themselves for conforming to a social regulation.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:58 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
I've fucking well lost my wallet!
What a fucking rort. That's not all though. The fucking real pissing Mc shit arse ballsbooby of the whole lot of it... is that it may fucking well still actually be inside my room...
FUCK YOU SELF!
What sort of retarded fucking tool brained prat can't even find their own fucking wallet insise their OWN FUCKING ROOM? I seriously deserve to be smacked upside the head with an iron girder, a la Donkey Kong or some shit, and then forced to watch touched by an angel non stop for twenty years until I finally spontaneously combust and leave "AARRRGGGGHHHH MY EYE'S, MY EYE'S!" burnt into the ground as my only trace of ever existing. But, uhh, I guess instead of that actually happening, I'll just tell you losers the story of it all...
SO thursday night is my usual amusing evening of drunken stupidity at the club of goodness that I commonly refer to as Drunktrust. Last thursday though, I caught up with one of my mates who has just got back from a holiday with his girlfriend... heh, well as of the second night of the holiday, EX girlfriend, hahaha. This dude broke up with his girl while he was thousands of miles from home, with nothing but his wallet (cry) on him. She then proceeded crack the fucking shits massively, locks him out of her parents house (where ALL his stuff was - including plane ticket, hahaha) and he was forced to spend the night in a hostel, alone in a strange town. Is there any reason to wonder why this guy and I get on so well? Hell no.
So anyway, my mate (Yamez) and I meet up that afternoon and end up at my work, overlooking the city and sucking back cocktail after cocktail. So we paid our bill and were about to leave, when all of a sudden this fucking majestic bounty comes at us. One of the chefs has made us this glorious bruscetta, and thrown in a dozen oysters kilpatrick to boot. A quick wallet check reveals that my arse is still with it's trusty companion, and life is good.
An hour or so later, we stumble out of the place and hit the bar downstairs, that is staffed exclusively with ridiculously hot chicks. After flirting and hitting on a few of these chicks for a while, we find out that ther reason one of them looked so familiar is that she is the girlfriend of one of Yamez's ex's housemates (uhh, if you still follow that) and so we decide to beat a hasty retreat. We spend the next five or ten minutes pissing ourselves laughing at the small world we live in and coming up with all sorts of scenarios that involve Yamez getting the shit beaten out of him, first by this chicks boyfriend, and then by his ex. Quick wallet check, and again, the world is a good place to live in.
So anyway... Drunktrust. Yamez goes home cos he has to catch a plane at 9am to go to Brisbane and see his uncle get married or some shit. Who cares. I call him a fag and leave him to cry himself to sleep. I can still see most of the rest of the night in my mind, but it's like a Monet exhibition that hasn't been totally unpacked. Some walls are completely blank, and the ones that do have pictures on them are all bluured and hard to make out.
Here is what I can make out...
Lots of tequilla was consumed
I met up with a friend of a friend who I've been out with once before. The guy used to be an investment banker, so he's loaded, but he's not an uptight fuckwit, he's hilarious. He quit being an investment banker and started managing a pub. Our last encounter started off with ten or so people at his pub, and then quickly moved to a titty bar. heh, and hilarity ensued. Anyway, now I see him again and he's back to the investment banking. I tried buying him drinks, but he wouldn't let me, and kept buying round after round of tequilla, while we took the piss out of fat chicks, narrowly avoided getting slapped and then pretended to be the two old guys from the muppets. I'll take a stab in the dark and say I made another wallet check and everything is peaches and cream, but who really knows.
I spent a while talking to the girlfriend of some dude I know, and I can't for the life of me remember what I talked to her about, but I woke up with her phone number in my phone. uhhh... score? *shrug*
I also found the phone number of the bar MAN in my pockets when I cleaned them out the next day. hahahah what the fuck? Was I seriously THAT drunk? Damn.
Actually, scratch any homoerotic insinuation that I may have just alluded to there, I remember that it was his birthday and he wanted me to score him some speed, and if I did, he would sort me out good and propper, drink wise. Considering I had trouble remembering that, I guess I was right for drinks at the time.
Somewhere throughout all this shit I danced like a motherfucker all over the place, but who knows when.
Somewhere in all of this, one of the girls from work showed up, but I'm totally fucked if I know when she got there or even if we hung out that much, cos uhhh... the only reason I even know that she was there is because she ended up back at my place afterwards.
So the wallet, right? Yeah. Motherfucker. So we caught a cab home. I must've had the thing then, cos I payed for the cab with money that I keep inside my wallet. Now was I so fucking uber retarded that I can't even hit my own back pocket with a hand that is attatched to my own fucking arm, and dropped it in the cab on the way out? Maybe...
We went inside and hung out in my room for a while and spouted some drunken bullshit to each other before finally going to bed. I woke up the next morning and couldn't find the bloody thing anywhere. Hangovers suck fucking balls, and one of us, (it's me, not you just in case you're wondering) had to fucking go to work. Now I've got a pretty fucking messy room, so I didn't think too much of it. I get home from work, fully expecting to find the goodness amongst a pile of clothes or in a couch or something... but no. Fucking NOTHING. I turned the bloody place over
about three times. Nothing.
FUCKING NOTHING.
Where the fucking arse balls is my fucking wallet?! You stupid drunken fucking tool, how the fuck can you not have a clue of what went on between the cab and my bloody room?! It's the same damned routine every night. It's exactly like my wang, it either comes out straight away and gets rested on the table, or it stays on my arse untill it gets uncomfortable and I get up and pull it out before I go to bed. So it's either on the table, or on the couch, yeah?
SO QUIT FUCKING HIDING YOU LITTLE CUNT!
My couch is chock a block full of clothes, so it's totally feasible that it could be hidden in that mess somewhere, but I'm fucked if I can find it. It's not on my desk. That's easy to tell. So where then? Under the bed? Nope. Behind the couch? Nope. In my collection of porn magazines? Nope. Next to the picture of yo mamma? Nope. In my wall safe? Dude, you don't have a wall safe... ohhh yeah. SHIT! Where the FUCK then?
The cab? Probably. But a fucking ring around of every cab company in Sydney (cos we have fucking heaps, and I was waaaaaaaay too pickled to have any idea of what kind of cab we jumped in) revealed a big fat fucking zero in any of their lost property departments.
This totally sucks. I hate you brain. How fucking dare you let some sort of pussy arsed thing like alcomahol take advantage of you, like some sort of cheap slut and totally fuck you up the arse and not let you remember what the hell happened. You're so off the fucking team. Fuk you and fuck the world, I'm going to go and console myself with that letter the Queen sent me that I keep in my wall safe.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 12:58 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>31
I lost my wallet last year in dec. never found it. got my id, ss card, phone numbers I don't have anymore, I hate that shit. I checked everywhere from friends cars and houses to the pool halls we frequent. I feel your pain. hey bnose, how did you get to this site and respond to this post without eyes? I gotta know your secret. got skillz or what?
I have my little sisters well trained. They take turns reading and typing for me.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 13:00 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>30
You guys heard of Fred Hoyle before? This guy argued against the current interpretation of the Big Bang theory (he coined the term, Big Bang, by the way), but not the Big Bang itself... or something like that. I'm not paticularly sure, actually, but I found it interesting that he "cautioned that [the Big Bang] may not have been a chance happening." He said:
"The universe has to know in advance what it is going to be before it knows how to start itself. For in accordance with the Big Bang Theory, for instance, at a time of 10 [to the minus 43] seconds the universe has to know how many types of neutrino there are going to be at a time of 1 second. This is so in order that it starts off expanding at the right rate to fit the eventual number of neutrino types . . . An explosion in a junkyard does not lead to sundry bits of metal being assembled into a working machine."
And then there is a biology professor Kenneth Miller who says that "Evolution is certainly not so 'cruel' that it cannot be compatible with the notion of a loving god. All that evolution points out is that every organism that has ever lived will eventually die. This is not a special feature of Darwinian theory, but an obeservable, verifiable fact. The driving force behind evolutionary change is differential reproductive success, the fact that some organisms leave more offsping than others. Yes, the strugle for existence sometimes involves competition and predation, but just as often it involves cooperation, care, and extraordinary beauty."
And, one last quote from some guy I've only just heard of, geneticist Frances Collins says
"When something new is revealed about the human genome, I experience a feeling of awe at the realization that humanity now knows something only God knew before. It is a deeply moving sensation that helps me appreciate the spirtual side of life, and also makes the practice of science more rewarding."
So what's the point of all this crap? I just think it's interesting the way some people can incorporate science into their religion in such a harmonizing way. And it does offer a view I hadn't really thought of before. Granted, everyone can say that Darwin didn't disprove the Bible and that evolution and Christianity can go along just fine... but there's something different when a biologist tells you. But do you guys know anything more about these guys or this topic? I'm curious, but I haven't got the time to really time or energy (or, I'm fucking lazy, however you want to look at it) to google it. And I still have the Cultural Anthroplogy book to read, which is so boring I've actually cried a few times trying to read it.
If you guys don't want to get into a religious debate, don't turn it into one or just don't read it, man. No one's shoving it in your face. If it does get out of hand or you think it could be, I promise not to be offended if it gets locked or deleted.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 13:01 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>34
There is certainly nothing stopping anyone from believing both in God and in evolution. Scientists are not mostly athiests, they are just regular people who conduct experiments are write papers for a living.
That being said, there is something rediculous to me about someone who tries to make his religious beliefs fit with current science. As more answers are being provided by science and experimentations, many of the mysteries of the world, once under the sole authority of religious leaders, are being exposed and understood. When new truths are discovered that conflict with the idea of God, particularly an active christian God, then the nature of that God has to change to accomodate the new truth.
How much can you change the idea of God before he becomes something completely different?
There was a time, and there are places today, where only a literal interpretation of the bible was acceptable. Now that our understanding of the natural world, and our place in it has expanded to make the stories in the bible obviously untrue, we are forced to look at them as metaphores and fables meant only to deliver a moral message.
This is very different from religious thought a hundred years ago, or a thousand years ago, and may well be totally agaisnt the intentions of the bible's many authors. We have no choice however but to accept this change, because realities and truths have been discovered that cannot allow us to believe that God created all there is in 7 days, that the world is flat and supported by magical pillars, or that the sun can be stopped in the sky.
These revelations force us to react in one of 3 ways: throw out our religious convictions, deny the truths discovered by science, or change our religion just enough to put us back into our comfort zone.
People in north america today do not worship the same God as ancient Isrealites did. They don't worship the God of Jesus Christ and his contemporaries. They don't worship the Allah of Mohammed.
God has been changed by the progress we have made in our understanding, and will likely continue to change until he can no longer change, then he will die.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 13:01 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
>>35
Instead of just basing your faith on what you perceive with the 5 sense, they're taking what they know by reason and applying what they feel 'in the soul' to that (Something Plato would be fond of?). For some people, the complex harmony of life, the universe and everything only reafirms their belief in God, that something like that can't happen by accident (like the first guy's quote). I think it makes sense, really. Faith comes from the world you know to explain what you don't, this leads to the evolution of religion. It can't just stay the same way forever.
Like in the 1920's when God switched his image from the "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" (a sermon) to a kinder, bleeding heart God we commonly know today. As life changes, your view of the otherwordly is bound to change, also. It's not a purposeful conspiracy to keep God alive, it's just something that happens with the evolution of society, like gender roles.
And with the extent of globalization that we've got it's hard to not have influences from other faiths and religions. And a lot of religions are more flexible (Like the Hindu Hymn of Creation where it says something like 'what happened in the very beginning? No one knows but god, and maybe even he doesn't know' in the last stanza) that they don't counter modern advances in science but embrace them as they come (I'm not trying to say that Hinduism an ever advancing religion or better than any others)
If faith exists to explain this world, then as this world is explained more and more, faith will continue to exist to explain why we think or something like that. Didn't Discartes reason that his ability to reason is proof enough of God's existance? Maybe God will become our ability to reason or our emotions, maybe God will become that thing which ties the world together or become less sentient overtime and more of just a thing. But I doubt he/she/they'll die out all together.
Let's make a time machine and find out for sure!
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Anonymous2007-04-08 13:02 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
I went to a Catholic school where they taught evolution. I'm not a Christian, but hey, it was pretty cool.
Anyway.
Yeah, a lot of scientists find God through science. However, a lot of Christians become scientists and slowly become atheistic. It all balances out in the end.
What I'm tired of hearing is the term "one true god." True? What the hell do you mean a "true" god? What I have against Christianity, and every religion, for that matter, is that they all hate each other. No one else can be right, and everyone else is going to hell. It pisses me off that religion tears the world apart.
Albert Einstein once said "I don't need to be told that there is a god; I want to know what he thinks."
Believe what you want. Seriously. I've adopted philosophies from many religions. As far as Christianity is concerned, I refer to the words of Christ. You know, that lord and savior guy?
Funny thing, I never remember him ever saying that non-Christians, or anyone for that matter, were condemned to hell. He said "Love one another as I have loved you."
My grandfather told me when I was young: "Why should a person go to hell if they live a good life and they're Jewish? Or if they're Buddhists?" And I think that this is the way that we should look at the world.
Because guess what?
We're all exactly the same. We're all made of flesh and bone, we all have warm blood coursing through our veins, and we all have our own perception on things.
I won't go any further into theories or philosophies, because it's too late for all that and you've probably heard it from me already, anyway.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 13:02 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
I've always seen my own religious beliefs as seperate from my understanding of the scientific world i do however follow my own theological beliefs through a tract of my own logic and personal philosophy as opposed to blind faith .
I do however pity creationist scientists due to the fact they are in essance living a lie: religion is not scientific: scientific method of obeservation and contemplation completly refutes any claims of the bible in general the term creationism as a science is a contradition in terms but i digress.
belief in religion is one thing but belief that all dogma is truth is another entirly this is why idiots such as pat roberson have no futre their base will crumble in time due to their inability to adapt and change. Religion must adapt to what has been disproven within it's text and acomidate it to it's philisopical veiwpoints.
Another thing that annoys me that if something cannot be explained by science than it must be...GOD something not explained by science simply mean they havnt found the explanation yet but that does not mean that their isnt a rational logical explanation.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 13:03 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
Ok, to all of you religious types, I give you ONE request. SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!
Ok, no seriously, for once, just once, accept the notion, that maybe, Juuuuust maybe, there is no god. Maybe shit just happens. Humans have this Idea that because we are born and die, that EVERYTHING must have a beginning and an end. What if such is not the case? The best arguement I have ever heard from a Christian trying to argue against science is "HOW CAN YOU JUST BELIEVE IN SOMETHING YOU CAN'T SEE!!!?!?!?!!"
WHAT?!
WHAT!?!
HEAD ASPLODE!!!!!! AQ(FU#89HYTQG9QNBER 4 348QY3E9GTH3
What the fuck!? Are my ears bleeding? Because I feel like I am losing brain matter. I am not trying to tell you that Science is absolute and that religion is a total falacy (though in actuality, its close), after all, much of Science is theory. Thats T H E O R Y, meaning an Idea, not a belief, people who hold absolut in all things science piss me off just the same. Anyway, back to the point. I hate it how you zealots cling to belief like it is the only thing keeping you together. I know, I KNOW, that deep down, most of you are playing the game I did early on in highschool. You know that all of this is bullshit, all of it, but that is scary, how can something that you have believed in all of your life be false? Well what if it is? What if you have been wasting all of this time bowing down to some omnipotent figure that is now more that smoke and mirrors? I will tell you what, you are a fucking assbag. So do me TWO favors, THINK, thats one, and QUESTION your beliefs, that is two. If in the end you determine that what ever creed you were following is correct, than you will be that much more resolute, knowing that you tried something else and came back.
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Anonymous2007-04-08 13:04 ID:9Pvd/Z4h
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im not even sure were to start in reply to that.....
firstly your arguements have been repeated by every smart ass 14 year old ever, simply saying GOD DOES NOT EXIST or whatever in capital letters as maddox said: "I'm sure you'll find many self-proclaimed "enlightened" 14 year olds who have it all figured out and are more than happy to tell you their bullshit philosophy about religion and why your beliefs are wrong."=you fit into this catagory by the way, if yoyu havnt got anything constructive, intelligent or not trollish to say shut the fuck up.
secondly who the fuck says you cant have religious beliefs while following science? simply becouse you think certain parts of religion are bullshit does not mean you have to curl up in a ball sobing "it's a lie it's a lie". suprisingly religion is in fact open to debate...this why you have you have differant schools of thought in most religions (methodist,church of england,catholics etc) This is bassicly becouse religion can be expanded and evolve just like science a fundemetlist is a moron any day of the week becouse he wont accept other possibilities almost as bad is a bigoted arrogent fuckwit who wont acknoladge that others are entitled to their beliefs and that religions does not you a absolute retard automaticly
I have no problem with atheism, it has several good points and since i am a humanist i sypthise with several of it's veiwpoints .however this does not maen i consider them automaticly correct and i am willing argue with them provided they have good points,you Plezbo on the other hand have bassicly done what every bible thumping loony in the world does, shouted your veiwpoint loadly and obnoxiosly as possible aka GOD IS REAL THE BIBLE SAYS SO YOUR ALL ASSHATS GOING TO HELL or HOW CAN YOU JUST BELIEVE IN SOMETHING YOU CAN'T SEE!!!?!?!?!!" in essance you not rationally argueing your just shouting very loadly...quit being a dick and argue your points like you have a brain.