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Written from the scientific perspective of a flat earth society, without the insights of modern psychology, it nevertheless presents human nature with 100% accuracy by real people from ancient times. The story of Joseph and Potiphar's wife is as current as Days of Our Lives, the only thing that's changed are the clothing styles. That in itself is monumental.
All myths have such stories and they all represent - by definition - the core of human nature.
Just because this is the myth you inherited doesn't really mean it is superior to the myth of some tribes in Africa.
The most basic evidence for God's existence is the creation itself--that "old book" claims that's enough in itself and anyone who can't see that is a fool.
The universe itself is the mystery. Our existence is the mystery. You don't need to attach some silly story to it. For what reason?
The entire notion that it had to be created is absolute BS, as explained above.
The problem for people who don't like God is they don't want to be responsible for their own lives:
Actually the exact opposite is true. The "father in Heaven" is a substitute father that will take care of you. You are a child to him. And the entire world doesn't matter: it's only ashes and will go back to that. God will take care of that.
Atheists on the other hand have to grow up and take responsibility for it.
We see that with global warming and other environmental problems.
As far as the community, you can be served here:
And these people and their beliefs are the ones who are aberrant. America and Western Europe are all part of what are called Christendom and where until very recently religious observance in the Judeo-Christian traditions were commonplace from time immemorial. The civilization that we enjoy wasn't founded in disbelief or secularism as its practiced and observed today. And it also accounts for the obsession with more and more government intervention because for the atheist the government is the ultimate source of benevolence.
Just because this is the myth you inherited doesn't really mean it is superior to the myth of some tribes in Africa.
Well we certainly seem to live better than most tribes in Africa. "Myths" has become a commonplace term of derision today, as have things such things as "skydaddy" It's all couched in snotty Alinsky-style ridicule. I expect it was much the same in the Soviet Union prior to its collapse because you didn't deviate from the official law of atheism on pain of death and look how good their lives were.
The civilization that we enjoy wasn't founded in disbelief or secularism
In fact it was. Once Christianity took over the Roman empire, it quickly proceeded to collapse. Religion ruled the west without opposition for a thousand years and it was the dark ages. No one tried to do anything better then. Just trying would have been seen as vanity or heresy. Once you believe that you are ashes and will go back to ashes and only the world after that is real, then nothing down here really matters.
It changed during the renaissance because people started to break free from mode of thinking. It's not a coincidence if Italian masters painted scenes from Greek mythology. They rediscovered the ancient world and its sophistication. All advanced artists and scientists in the period that followed were all bordering heresy and church condemnations: from Leonardo learning anatomy by dissecting cadavers, to Galileo, to Descartes that had to turn his writings in such ways that they would go through religious censure.
These people built our civilization, by breaking free of religion.
And yet just 73 years ago a nation could listen to a president deliver a Christian prayer over national radio during the dreary, 40ish days of World War II and not think anything inappropriate--my parents were 41 and 45 and I can assure you they approved of it:
www.youtube.com/embed/_8uvGjOHFcs
Today half the population would expire from apoplexy.
And yet just 73 years ago a nation could listen to a president deliver a Christian prayer over national radio during the dreary, 40ish days of World War II
The Germans probably also prayed God to help them.
The Germans probably also prayed God to help them.
Well we won--we were right, they were wrong.
Some bible thumpers (Mormon looking) trying to spread there bs came up to me the other day as I was taking wife and kids to see the Jungle Book. They asked me if I wanted to hear about the lords message and I told him "hell no", my salad bar Christian in name only wife was pissed.
as long as they believe it. Which I don't.
And what does that establish?
That what I wrote about it was not based on believing it?
Well we won--we were right, they were wrong.
"we won therefore God was on our side".
"The country grew to a powerful nation from almost nothing, therefore God is on our side."
That's the ultimate self-righteousness and arrogance that is so common in the US.
The Germans probably also prayed God to help them.
Well we won--we were right, they were wrong.
We lost in Vietnam. God switched sides?
Deuteronomy 20:10-15 – When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
Deuteronomy 20:10-15 – When you march up to attack a city, make its people an offer of peace. If they accept and open their gates, all the people in it shall be subject to forced labor and shall work for you. If they refuse to make peace and they engage you in battle, lay siege to that city. When the LORD your God delivers it into your hand, put to the sword all the men in it. As for the women, the children, the livestock and everything else in the city, you may take these as plunder for yourselves. And you may use the plunder the LORD your God gives you from your enemies. This is how you are to treat all the cities that are at a distance from you and do not belong to the nations nearby.
Obviously, we didn't follow gods orders in Vietnam.
Deuteronomy 22:28-29 - "If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives."
We aren't even following gOD's nice benevolent sweet laws at home, with regards to this. America is lost, and gOD will punish us until we return to his holy laws and biblical marriage!
"Happy is the one who takes your babies and smashes them against the rocks!"
Psalm 137:9
Can we count Baghdad as Babylon?
"If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives."
Unless she is a slave: Leviticus 19
“20: If a man has sex with a slave girl whose freedom has never been purchased but who is committed to become another man’s wife, he must pay full compensation to her master. But since she is not a free woman, neither the man nor the woman will be put to death. 21: The man, however, must bring a ram as a guilt offering and present it to the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle.d 22: The priest will then purify hime before the Lord with the ram of the guilt offering, and the man’s sin will be forgiven."
"If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, he shall pay the girl's father fifty shekels of silver. He must marry the girl, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives."
Unless she is a slave: Leviticus 19
“20: If a man has sex with a slave girl whose freedom has never been purchased but who is committed to become another man’s wife, he must pay full compensation to her master. But since she is not a free woman, neither the man nor the woman will be put to death. 21: The man, however, must bring a ram as a guilt offering and present it to the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle.d 22: The priest will then purify hime before the Lord with the ram of the guilt offering, and the man’s sin will be forgiven."
What kind of God would write such stupid things. A very stupid God.
The man, however, must bring a ram as a guilt offering and present it to the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle.d 22: The priest will then purify hime before the Lord with the ram of the guilt offering, and the man’s sin will be forgiven.
Guess who gets to eat the meat?
The man, however, must bring a ram as a guilt offering and present it to the Lord at the entrance of the Tabernacle.d 22: The priest will then purify hime before the Lord with the ram of the guilt offering, and the man’s sin will be forgiven.
Guess who gets to eat the meat?
The guy who wrote the rule?
Running out of steam? Is this the best you can do for the evening? It was getting really enjoyable! Can't you squeeze out an even 200? If nothing else it proves that atheism is certainly labor intensive.
You do realize that many things cannot be proven a posteriori? things like psychology, economics, global warming. In order for something to be proven by a posteriori the scientific method is used through a controlled experiment. It is inductive and a priori is deductive.
Anything outside of the physical universe is obviously not going to settled using a posterori. You are rejecting this out of habit, so what else is new.
No Tard Boy this is not a poll. It is simply logic, something you are not even in the same zip code with.
The basic premise of the 1st way is that when something moves it caused to move from an exterior source. Rattle that around in your thick skull for a while and get back with me when you have oriented yourself to which way is up.
Listen up shit for brains. Your article states:
"Vacuum energy is an underlying background energy that exists in space throughout the entire Universe. "
"Still, the exact effect of such fleeting bits of energy is difficult to quantify."
1 it is part of the universe. I.E. something is/was exterior to the universe animating it.
2 They are uncertain about it's nature. You on the other hand are too stupid to be uncertain.
1 it is part of the universe. I.E. something is/was exterior to the universe animating it.
Not true. BOTH time and space start with the big bang, so there is no before, and there is no place beforehand.
th.
Indigenous can't give up his appeal to authority even when his authority figure is a well-known moron who thinks masturbation is worse than rape.
And the Wogster depends on some obscure anomaly...
Why Is There Something Instead of Nothing?
www.youtube.com/embed/ynWKQcjznQU
"There may have been no before" "There may be more than one universe"
"The universe may have no purpose" Agreed.
an even 200? Atheism is labor intensive.
176 clocked out at 11:11 p.m. PDT
178 clocked in at 7:09 a.m., hit the ground running
179 not too far behind at 7:47 a,m.
Already at 183 by 8:28, could hit 200 before noon.
If nothing else it proves that atheism is certainly labor intensive.
Like always, empirical evidence contradicts the conclusions arrived at with your "logic".
Like always, empirical evidence contradicts the conclusions arrived at with your "logic".
Just like always the mutts, fail to distinguish between inductive & deductive...
Why Is There Something Instead of Nothing?
This video is disappointingly lame.
1 - Yes space is not nothing.
2 - Quantum mechanics is not nothing either. It is part of the universe and cannot be invoked to explain it, otherwise the next question would be "Why are there quantum mechanics dimensions instead of nothing". "why is there such a thing as energy instead of nothing". It doesn't even start to address the problem.
3 - he doesn't have an answer just some speculations that are irrelevant because of the previous points.
Maybe the question cannot be answer due to infinite regression, but until we have a proof it cannot be answered the smart money, based on history, would bet that it can and eventually will be answered.
What is very safe to say is that if it is answered, it won't be by physics.
Indeed physics have only one goal: to describe the universe. The laws of physics are just generic patterns that describe quantitatively the universe. Yes knowing these laws can explain and predict one part of the universe as a function of some other parts. However I think we can agree that describing an object is not the same as explaining the existence of this object.
And since physics is the only scientific tool that applies to the universe as a whole, it follows that the existence of the universe will always remain a mystery to us.
it proves that atheism is certainly labor intensive.
Whereas stupidity sure comes effortlessly.
To some more than others.
Just like always the mutts, fail to distinguish between inductive & deductive...
That's not a counter-argument. It's an admission that you are wrong but not man enough to own up to it.
2 - Quantum mechanics is not nothing either. It is part of the universe and cannot be invoked to explain it, otherwise the next question would be "Why are there quantum mechanics dimensions instead of nothing". "why is there such a thing as energy instead of nothing". It doesn't even start to address the problem.
He said that the question "why" is not an appropriate question to ask.
In any case, this is very difficult matter to wrap one's mind around. My suggestion is to think a lot, really a lot, before writing.
That's not a counter-argument. It's an admission that you are wrong but not man enough to own up to it.
Sure it is, here you are trying to apply the inductive method to something that does't exist. An oxymoron...
Just like always the mutts, fail to distinguish between inductive & deductive...
You're so smart. Give us an example of deductive reasoning outside mathematics.
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If god existed, he would be a motherfucking, evil asshole.
www.youtube.com/embed/2-d4otHE-YI
But there are better alternatives.
www.youtube.com/embed/CqibqD4fJZs
And quite frankly we're tired of these false gods.
www.youtube.com/embed/BRHefbIgKxk
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