So, over 700 dead......

[Megazone]

Rogersix, take note:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/alcohol-makes-you-look-less-intelligent-2015-2?r=US&IR=T

 

[rogersix]

To answer your questions. I'm an agnostic theist.
1)Sometimes i believe in god 100%, sometimes i don't.
2)I don't anthropomorphize God, i don't presume that God thinks in any human sense of the word.

With fear of delving into nitty gritty, i find that belief in God is in some ways irrelevant, the act of worship is where the gold lies. Of course there is some kind of hypocrisy in this statement as the act of worship requires an exercise in some kind of belief.
I believe there are reasons that all cultures have developed similar methods for gaining consciousness. These are useful tools.

I agree with you that the 'story of god' has been written and rewritten by man, sometimes selectively. I view these texts as cultural historic documents filled with metaphors so all may grasp some meaning. There is much wisdom in them. It angers me that these documents are often used by humans to gain power over people to further their agendas.

Your statement: "People who believe in God today are so far removed from the God they want to believe in.".
Firstly this seems to be a catch all statement (which has obvious drawbacks), ironically these kinds of statements are often used by people in fundamentalist religions.
What % of the world's population have faith? Do you think it applies to all of them?
Do you really know what people believe and want to believe? How?

No need to answer these slightly facetious questions.

I too think religion is a bit of a dirty word, but without them all we'd have are cults, which is often how i view these fundamentalist sects.

obv. you mean faith not belief.
and no; demonstrable, repeatable observation is an alternative to cults (religions)

 

[rogersix]

Have you just made that up?



Absolutely fantastic The son of God an atheist. I've heard it all now.

in both cases it appears he has thought for himself; so yeah, he made it up, thats good is it not?

 

[rogersix]

I thought it was urinary incontinence probably due to a kidney stone?

i bow to your greater knowledge on this matter, and this matter alone

 

[rogersix]

Have you ever meditated?

i prefer talking to people and reading widely; just my choice, soz if it doesn't work for you

 

[rogersix]

Rogersix, take note:

http://uk.businessinsider.com/alcohol-makes-you-look-less-intelligent-2015-2?r=US&IR=T

smirk

 

[rogersix]

holy canute; caught up wiv the breathless, frenzied nutters. 2 hrs in the bin, a life lesson me thinks

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Cc

This explanation is not good enough then...

"congealed"

acreeted (spl!) dude; otherwise yeah. btb, wot was the name of that band you posted in the barn in dungerees, my search failed

Did they have bandanas over their faces, if so they were called Phantom of the black hills.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

And if a tsunami sweeps away 250,000 innocent men, women, children and even newborn babies, whose making is that exactly?

Not for nothing do insurance companies term such events Acts of God. Why would a loving god do that kind of thing, David?

Yes, it is an act of God, and I struggle with the Loving God allowing that as well.

 

[Psychobilly freakout]

Even in a perfect vacuum there is energy and particle matter forms and disappears in a flash. Two universes could possibly collide and the energy this produces probably causes the birth of a new universe with a big band effect.

So in a roundabout what your saying there is a god.... And his name is Glenn Miller !

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

so the entity has zero influence; or are you and i just imagining all this?

The entity, as you put it, does have influence in that we are provided with the guidance as to how to do it right, which is a bit more than the Ten Commandments. If mankind - or perhaps personkind - chooses to mess things up.......

That's what stories like Sodom and Gomorrah and Noah and the Ark are about - things going too far and being cleared up.

And I emphasise they are STORIES - illustrations.

 

[Easy 10]

eh? which bit?

Take your pick mate.

This is not rational behaviour.

 

[Dick Knights Mumm]

holy canute; caught up wiv the breathless, frenzied nutters. 2 hrs in the bin, a life lesson me thinks

First Rule of NSC - no-one thinks it is they who are the nutter.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

How many pages arguing about the existence of god? Blimey.

 

[sir albion]

How many pages arguing about the existence of god? Blimey.

Yeah unreal when it's pretty obvious God doesn't exist

 

[Megazone]

i prefer talking to people and reading widely; just my choice, soz if it doesn't work for you

That's like being asked if you liked Blue cheese but responding that you prefer visiting Buses to trains!?

Didn't realise you can't socialise and read books if you meditate? Wow.

 

[Megazone]

Yeah unreal when it's pretty obvious God doesn't exist

The micro-world doesn't exist either. Who's actually seen it with their naked eye?

Nutjobs.

 

[beorhthelm]

The micro-world doesn't exist either. Who's actually seen it with their naked eye?

so Alaska doesnt exist because you havent seen it? the difference between the micro world or Alaska and God is that for the former there is evidence or you can see them for youself. for the latter there is no evidence whatsoever.

 

[sir albion]

so Alaska doesnt exist because you havent seen it? the difference between the micro world or Alaska and God is that for the former there is evidence or you can see them for youself. for the latter there is no evidence whatsoever.

Yeah seen it on TV loads of times...it exists and has real people there

 

[Megazone]

so Alaska doesnt exist because you havent seen it? the difference between the micro world or Alaska and God is that for the former there is evidence or you can see them for youself. for the latter there is no evidence whatsoever.

Agreed. Alaska doesn't exist.