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Tanypteryx
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Message 16 of 53 (843324)
11-16-2018 11:38 AM
Reply to: Message 15 by Son of Man
11-16-2018 10:06 AM


Re: Pork And Cheese Requests Food For Thought
Son of Man writes:
if Adam was the Atom
And Eve was the Electron taken from the Atom
who gave birth to Cain the Cation (cathode) and Abel the Anion (anode)
Abel was replaced by Seth or static
then I believe you have a cure for snake bites?
So you think there is some significance that some biblical character's names sound vaguely like some words for particles and electronics in English?

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq

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Tanypteryx
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Message 23 of 53 (843408)
11-17-2018 1:05 PM
Reply to: Message 18 by Son of Man
11-17-2018 5:47 AM


Re: Pork And Cheese Requests Food For Thought
I have wrote the facts as I see them
Facts? What facts?
It only goes to show there are more coincidences than you think.
Yeah, have you ever noticed the 9 looks like an upside down 6? Coincidence? I think not.
plus one of the points people have missed is the story of Noah and how the animals get put into the Ark two by two, there are two serpents in the story? There is another point to make, that is there is a star formation called the serpent.
Wow, I completely missed the significance of this.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq

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Tanypteryx
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Message 35 of 53 (843506)
11-18-2018 1:54 PM
Reply to: Message 27 by Phat
11-17-2018 3:56 PM


Re: Focus On One Topic
I always saw it as God knowing everything that would happen simply because He was at every moment in time when a decision was being made.
I am curious, do you think of god as recording every word and deed of every person as well as all their thoughts?
It would be kind of like the NSA with phone calls except billions of times more data. And then god crunches all that data down to a number and if the number is above some arbitrary point, off to heaven after you die, below that point to hell with you.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq

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Tanypteryx
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Message 37 of 53 (843508)
11-18-2018 3:42 PM
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11-18-2018 3:02 PM


Re: Crunching The Numbers
Using the analogy, let's talk about forgiveness of sins.
Ok, but I suspect that there are huge variations in what people consider sins that they feel guilty about. I don't know what partiality is, but if I commit this sin but never recognize it as something I have done or should feel guilty about or repent and you do, that simply puts us on an uneven playing field when we are being judged for reward or punishment.
Upon my death, God may look at all of the data and see whether my overall intention was to renounce it or preserve it...making a judgment at that point of examining all of the data.
To me this seems so silly to think that our personal behavior and our very thoughts would be noticed by a Universe creating and managing deity and that it would consider it important to punish "sinners."
My question is simpler though. Do you think god has some method of recording all our actions, everything we say and everything we think for our whole lives, for all of the billions of us that ave lived?
I find myself unable to believe the above is possible, not even considering the possibility that god also created and controls the workings of the Universe, from the scale of super clusters of galaxies down to the Planck Scale.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq

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Tanypteryx
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Message 39 of 53 (843520)
11-18-2018 10:33 PM
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11-18-2018 4:07 PM


Re: Crunching The Numbers
Sin and judgment are simply the way that the human species is ensured of becoming stronger as we grow and expand within the universe.
Sorry, I have no idea what you are trying to say here. I think (but I'm not sure this is what you think) that sin could be defined as the things we feel guilty about in our own minds. So each person sets their own sin standards. Judgement comes after death according to religious people, so how does that make living people stronger?
A person who gives in to sins is too weak to teach, encourage, and help others nevermind his own species.
Ok, this puts us back in the position of deciding what is sin for someone else. I suppose that our life experiences have been so different that we would find little agreement about what we each consider sins.
Do you think god has some method of recording all our actions, everything we say and everything we think for our whole lives, for all of the billions of us that ave lived?
It may help to hypothesize the need for, limitations of, and philosophical relationship with God as understood. What would be the specific function of such a leader?
Again, I have no idea what you are saying here or how it answers my question.

What if Eleanor Roosevelt had wings? -- Monty Python
One important characteristic of a theory is that is has survived repeated attempts to falsify it. Contrary to your understanding, all available evidence confirms it. --Subbie
If evolution is shown to be false, it will be at the hands of things that are true, not made up. --percy
The reason that we have the scientific method is because common sense isn't reliable. -- Taq

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