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The great Gumbini Inner circle 3062 Posts 
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R.S. with all due respect when one truly has a relationship (not upbringing, not church, and not even believing) with God it is IMPOSSIBLE to turn from Him. This is why people have laid their lives down and have been killed for their relationship (not belief as is so stated although the belief they speak of is that action word I talked about earlier) with God. They could no more turn their back on God then turn their back on the single most important earthly love in their life. Lets face it people are lazy and if we don't get what we want when we want it we lose interest. Show God you want to know Him. How? Simple take some time early in the morning go out side and keep asking Him if He is real to reveal Himself to you. For how long? Until He does. He will. Unbelief He can heal. Denying His existence may take longer but He will still reveal Himself. Just take 10 minutes each day until He makes Himself known. You will not be sorry. We just get so busy in our daily lives with worry and all we forget to take time for what is important. The Bible says IF you seek Him He will be found. The Bible WILL NOT make an exception for you since God does not treat those who seek Him differently. Try it you'll like it.
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts
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But will it work without demanding that everyone embrace divinity?
If not, gooooooood luck!
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus |
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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"You've got to let your own conscience be your guide."
-Dai Vernon
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts
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On 2012-06-12 21:16, The great Gumbini wrote: That assumes, without question, that God exists and that he is Jehovah. That's fine for you, but I and many others don't buy into that assumption. So there you are.
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus |
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kambiz Inner circle Perth, down by the cool of the pool 1129 Posts
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On 2012-06-12 21:12, mastermindreader wrote: An even better reality to use for the analogy Bob 
Yes it is the genetic strains. Religion is still religion, giraffes are still giraffes, the genetic strains of each are similar from one generation to the next. However, it still adapts to its environment, the ever changing world, and ever growing tree. It would be folly for the giraffe species to totally die out just because it's environment is changing. The species must and WILL gradually adapt. To kill God altogether goes against everything rational Kam
If I speak forth, many a mind will shatter,
And if I write, many a pen will break. .....and when I consider my own self, lo, I find it coarser than clay! |
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kambiz Inner circle Perth, down by the cool of the pool 1129 Posts
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On 2012-06-12 21:07, R.S. wrote: Ron, if however, the concept of Santa was maintained during your education, clarifying the real meaning behind all the skeptical reasoning which you have rightly embraced, then the possibility if Santa being real becomes more and more possible. Your last statement about knowledgeable about religion may have been overstepping the mark don't you think 
Have you read any Holy Texts outside the Bible, from cover to cover? Kam
If I speak forth, many a mind will shatter,
And if I write, many a pen will break. .....and when I consider my own self, lo, I find it coarser than clay! |
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts
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"Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers."
- Emile M. Cioran
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus |
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Jonathan Townsend Eternal Order Ossining, NY 27300 Posts
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On 2012-06-12 21:21, kambiz wrote:... Perhaps a cue to learn a little bit about the fossil record. It appears that species die out when they are not so well equiped to thrive in the place they are - and can't get a place that's more accomedating. There are fosilized remains of astounding looking creatures which appear to have lived very long ago. Similarly in more recent times the large bears and large birds are pretty well gone from the earth with the sabre toothed cats. Creatures of the mind live on as they maintain a useful social function. Greek Mythology was pretty open about that stuff.
...to all the coins I've dropped here
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts
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To kill God altogether goes against everything rational "You cannot kill what does not live!" -Judge Death "Everything rational"...hmmm...from where I stand, maintaining the god-myth goes against rationality. So there you are.
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus |
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kambiz Inner circle Perth, down by the cool of the pool 1129 Posts
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....maintaining honesty is a useful social function...
...so's not committing adultery. ...so is non-excessive use of alcohol... Kam
If I speak forth, many a mind will shatter,
And if I write, many a pen will break. .....and when I consider my own self, lo, I find it coarser than clay! |
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts
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Personally, I believe that the following offers an excellent perspective:
http://beatsandbuds.com/post/21749216761......ll-of-it This is an audio by the late Robert Anton Wilson. It may enlighten, it may offend, it may cause you fall fall out of your seat laughing. Whatever... I think it's brilliant. Good thoughts, Bob |
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kambiz Inner circle Perth, down by the cool of the pool 1129 Posts
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On 2012-06-12 21:34, Steve_Mollett wrote: Yes, but Steve, you are totally ignoring all the "useful social functions" that surround that myth Kam
If I speak forth, many a mind will shatter,
And if I write, many a pen will break. .....and when I consider my own self, lo, I find it coarser than clay! |
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts
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On 2012-06-12 21:35, kambiz wrote: Correct--and men can resolve to positive action without 'divinities as watchmen.'
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus |
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kambiz Inner circle Perth, down by the cool of the pool 1129 Posts
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On 2012-06-12 21:35, mastermindreader wrote: Is that the same as the essay of the same title, Bob? Kam
If I speak forth, many a mind will shatter,
And if I write, many a pen will break. .....and when I consider my own self, lo, I find it coarser than clay! |
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Steve_Mollett Inner circle Eh, so I've made 3006 Posts
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On 2012-06-12 21:36, kambiz wrote: Not at all; I'm keeping the meat (social behavior) and discarding the shell (the myth).
Author of: GARROTE ESCAPES
The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth. - Albert Camus |
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kambiz Inner circle Perth, down by the cool of the pool 1129 Posts
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On 2012-06-12 21:37, Steve_Mollett wrote: You can make that statement to Payne
....and the radio hosts in my town who preach God-lessness and their central teaching "a crime's not a crime, until you get caught" Kam
If I speak forth, many a mind will shatter,
And if I write, many a pen will break. .....and when I consider my own self, lo, I find it coarser than clay! |
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R.S. Regular user CT one day I'll have 188 Posts
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On 2012-06-12 21:16, The great Gumbini wrote: I, and many are others are living proof that it IS possible to stop believing in something. You stopped believing in Santa Claus at some point in your life, didn't you? And you REALLY REALLY believed, as practically all kids do. I was no less sincere in my belief in a God than any other theist. Yes, people have laid down their lives for their God. The 9/11 hijackers are a good example of that. Is that something that's noble or desireable? Yes, people are lazy. Intellectually lazy. It's easier to accept a warm comforting notion that things will all be made right in another life by a loving being. It's more difficult to accept the hard reality of life and the fact that nobody knows for sure what death brings. If a Supreme Being wants me to believe, he wouldn't have allowed me to use my intellect which caused me to STOP believing in the first place! The bible also says: Matthew 18:19 "Again, I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything you ask for, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven." What do you, as a SINCERE believer, think would happen if you and another 100% sincere believer prayed for an end to childhood cancers? Try it. Ron
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." Thomas Paine
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mastermindreader 1949 - 2017 Seattle, WA 12586 Posts
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On 2012-06-12 21:37, kambiz wrote: No. Same attitude, different material. Note that that link only goes to the first 15 minutes of his presentation. The rest of it can be heard on YouTube, if you are interested, where it is posted in several parts. Good thoughts, Bob |
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R.S. Regular user CT one day I'll have 188 Posts
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On 2012-06-12 21:28, kambiz wrote: That's like me telling you after you have rejected Leprechauns, "Yeah but if the concept of Leprechauns was maintained clarifying the real meaning behind all the skeptical reasoning which you have rightly embraced, then the possibility of Leprechauns being real becomes more and more possible." Why should I maintain a concept that I have examined and rejected? Why was my last statement "overstepping the mark"? I cited an actual study that was done. And here it is: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1745/religio......-highest Best, Ron
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry." Thomas Paine
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critter Inner circle Spokane, WA 2653 Posts
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"That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons, even death may die."
-Howard Phillips Lovecraft
"The fool is one who doesn't know what you have just found out."
~Will Rogers |
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