I don't see how you people can't believe in God [YOU RESPOND]
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I don't see how you people can't believe in God. Don't say well look at all
the bad things that happen in this world. God gave us free will and Adam
and Eve chose to eat the fruit which introduced sin into the world. There
is scientific proof that we are all related by going back to one man and
one woman. Ok let's say we did evolve. The creatures had to be created
somehow. Let's say there was a big bang that created the universe and
everything in it. The energy to create that big bang came from somewhere.
A higher power. GOD. If you don't want to believe that's your thing, but
don't push your beliefs on other people. And by the way if there was no
heaven or hell then what would happen after we die. There is evidence all
around us that God exists. GOD BLESS.
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It's remarkably easy actually.
If we have free will,why are we still punished for not believing? Free will would be if you believe, fine. if you don't, also fine. "but god loves us!He gave us free will!" We never asked to be created, and to then punish eternally for something we had no hand in doesn't seem too fair
Where is it?
OMG you're completly right!!Everything needs a creator!Except that one thing that didn't..but god just exists! If god can just exist, why no the universe?
I would say the same the theists.I don't want to hear your beliefs! Besides, have you ever seen atheists preaching door to door? After we die,we rot. pretty simple
O RLY? What evidence exactly?Which god?
Thanks but no thanks
Psalm 14:1 "the fool hath said in his heart there is a God"-From a 1763 misprinted edition of the bible
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The very reason that argument is so fallacious was perfectly demonstrated by you!
You don't think you know, do you?
If you want to be naiive, you can look at the "beauty" and life of the universe, concluding that God created it all. But to do that, you must ignore all the struggle, suffering and death that living beings go through every day. The amount of death in nature far outweighs all life that exists on the earth.
Trust and believe in no god, but trust and believe in yourself.
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Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 1:43 AM
Subject: [Defend my God!] Jesus christ
JESUS IS LORD AND HOLISPIRIT IS POWERFUL that is why all these fools deny
the lordship of Christ and power of the Holy Spirit. When you say I am
against GOD actually you are believing and proclaiming the very existence
of god. All these poor people are USED by somebody for their benefits
.Because none of these people do not have any clue about spirit, soul and
body system which is base of a human being.
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When I say I am against the lies and violations of your christian 'brotherhood', what then am I believing and proclaiming?
Have you been to your pastors house?
And you do have a clue about spirit soul and body system?
I see.....
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If you can see how you dont believe that Thor made lighting, then you should be able to understand why I reject your Santa based myth as well.
For the same reasons you reject multiple armed deities, you should also reject the claim "I can fart a full sized Lamborginni out of my ass". If you can do that, and I hope you can, then you should be able to understand why I reject claims of ghosts kncoking up girls and zombie gods surviving rigor mortis after 3 days.
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..... to the best of my drunk reason ....
By my definition we all believe in G-O-D, as we are "Awake", simply said.
When it comes to "God of Abe", that is mostly a dangerous retarded blind dark ignorance, and what bad religion is.
Religion dogma and it's rules are a crime against our humanity and rational common sense of "enlightened" Awe of the G-O-D cosmos of ALL.
Jesus worship is "idol worship", and against the obvious, "not so hidden", message of the atheist Jesus/Buddha character. "God of Abe" followers sadly lack common sense and are the ones with no "faith" in themselves.
It is the religious that need "saving", so reads the atheist "doctor" Jesus story character message. Read it all again and the Gnosiic books.
Arguments regarding the nature of "consciousness, love and morality" are scientific endeavours. Religion is an emotional argument who's main value demonstrates the ignorance of our human nature.
I AM so sick of these W-O-R-D problems. I wish that everyone would say 'God of Abe' or 'Religion Dogma' , instead just saying "God". It would make these debates etc more international, productive, and time saving.
But then again, saying "fuck god" , gets the attention this god/religion subject so badly needs,.... and many know what we "saved" caring atheists mean by that.
So yeah, that "God" can kiss my ass ! .... Forgive my poor communication skills, I AM only GOD AS YOU .... fuck all religion, that is so un-godly ....
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Let's recap your argument: you have an invisible friend who is NOT responsible for all the bad things in the world. Okay. And he gave us Adam and Eve and free will, and for some reason they're eating fruit.
Honestly, what are you talking about?
Why should I believe in your invisible friend? It's up to you to come up with a good reason, not up to me to tell you why you don't have an invisible friend. In this case, it's not so much "pushing beliefs" as it is telling you the emperor has no clothes. Not "I believe the emperor has no clothes" or even "I hope the emperor has no clothes" but "the emperor is naked; wearing nothing; no clothes."
Saint Will: no gyration without funkstification.
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How you get directly from "energy that had to come from somewhere" to "a higher power. GOD" eludes me. As for you evidence, show me. Don't just say that it's all around us and we can see God in a flower or a pool of water or the interactions of quantum mechanics. Show me where you see evidence directly linking the natural to the supernatural, 'cause man, the naturalistic world view does a pretty good job supporting itself with new discoveries.
As for you so-called scientific proof of one man and one woman being the ancestors of all humanity, that is a gross distortion of the actual facts: among other glaring inaccuracies of your interpretation of said research is the fact that the fancifully, even ironically named Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosome Adam lived many tens of thousands of years apart, in Africa. The only biblical connection comes from the quirky sense of humor on the part of some geneticists.
“It is true that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. It is equally true that in the land of the blind, the two-eyed man is an enemy of the state, the people, and domestic tranquility… and necessarily so. Someone has to rearrange the furniture.”
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Aw, shucks! I need to go on more dates. Otherwise I'LL start naming hypothetical common ancestors after religious figures. I can see it now: Proconsul augustine, Nehemiapithecus erectus...
Sorry, channeling Robert Sapolsky there.
“It is true that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. It is equally true that in the land of the blind, the two-eyed man is an enemy of the state, the people, and domestic tranquility… and necessarily so. Someone has to rearrange the furniture.”
Yeah, Stop killing Jesus
, give that wine maker a beer !
Anthropology would insist.
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..... the way I read it. He was atheist !
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I'll check back ..... tomorrow .... if I AM lucky .....
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And Edenopithecus adamensis diverged into two species... and Edenopithecus cainensis slew Edenopithecus abelensis in a great struggle for existence. And cainensis migrated from its woodland habitat during the interglacial faunal exchange and built the city of Enosh. At that time people hominids began to invoke the name of the LORD.
This is the list of the descendants of the Edenopithecus adamensis adaptive radiation event of the Pre-Deluge. 30 mya, Edenopithecus adamensis begat Sethanthropus platyops. And the days of Sethanthropus numbered until 25 mya. And Sethanthropus begat enoshensis, and the days of enoshensis numbered until 23 mya. And enoshensis begat Kenanthropus erectus, and his days numbered until 20 my. And Kenanthropus begat mahalalelensis, and the days of mahalalelensis numbered until 15 mya. And mahalalelensis begat jaredensis...
You get the point.
“It is true that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. It is equally true that in the land of the blind, the two-eyed man is an enemy of the state, the people, and domestic tranquility… and necessarily so. Someone has to rearrange the furniture.”
Oh hooray, someone that can assume what fills in the gaps of THEIR knowledge! God did it ! God did it!
Phrases such as : "let's say" and words such as "somehow" automatically put your argument into the realm of "unbelievable"
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I didn't think so.
How about Zeus, Anubis, Osiris, Ra, Baal, Apophis, Apollo, Isis, Hathor, Poseidon, Seti?
Just think about how easy it is to not believe in those gods.
That's how easy it is for us not to believe in yours.
So, then being created by God means nothing, and that small disobedience
destroys all possible God's perfection he would manifest through us?
C'mon, it was just an apple. This sin is dilluted by milliards of us who didn't commit it,
it matters no more than any small "sin" which we joyfully commit every day.
It belongs to a female of pithecantropus erectus, who we can call Eve, or so I have read somewhere.
Human DNA is quite a messy patchwork, we even have traits of half-aquatic life forms,
(a bit weird for apes from jungle trees and savanna) and so much genetical flaws,
that it's impossible for evolutionary process to produce anything like this.
I think that Sumerian tablets gives the most precise answer.
ultimate creator of universe should have interest in running a silly cult
on one of countless universe's planets? Between Yahweh and the being
what created all matter and laws of what it behaves, is quite a big difference.
You can have a look for yourself, it just requires a bit of effort and practice.
If you're lazy, you can just read Far journeys by Robert Allan Monroe. His experiences are true
and things, he witnessed and communicated with, significantly participates on our lives.
What he discovered, was successfully compared with other sources of informations
and this knowledge is a good contribution to understanding of the life system.
C'mon, every single sub-atomary particle is a proof of God.
They disappear into vacuum (or another dimension, whatever), and yet, they
appear again and they somehow know, what to behave, that they
form all the time all things we see and touch. But it's not a proof of Biblic God,
or rather that Yahweh does it. Yahweh could make smoke and fire pillars, lightning,
holograms of fire projected at a bush, playing with water, frogs, desert tribes, and so on,
but the first source of universe created it all before, on a sub-atomary level.
Mere toying with what was already created is not a sign of the highest possible God.
Beings who deserve worship don't demand it. Beings who demand worship don't deserve it.
Evolution works by building from previous DNA structures, and adapting to new and changing circumstances.
Mutations occur, and then those mutations go through the screening of natural selection.
Even if it came from somewhere, making assumptions about where/what that somewhere is, is not going to get us anywhere.
But then, you wouldn't be able to come back.
I hope you're kidding. Pithecanthropus isn't even in use anymore. Erectus was a hominid: Homo erectus. And the hypothetical Mitochrondial Eve would NOT have been a member of that species, but rather more likely an early ( or "archaic" ) member of Homo sapiens. Y-Chromosome "Adam," who lived 60,000 years ago, would DEFINITELY have been a Homo sapien. We do NOT have traits of aquatic life. These are mere convergences: the aquatic ape theory you refer to has very little actual scientific basis and is pretty much discredited.
“It is true that in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. It is equally true that in the land of the blind, the two-eyed man is an enemy of the state, the people, and domestic tranquility… and necessarily so. Someone has to rearrange the furniture.”
It was written for a christian, so I meant it in the religional sense. If God himself creates such a promising species as humans, how a mere feeling curiosity (added by God, of course) resulting in a minor disobedience can mess it all up? It's unequal response, just like punishing people forever by hell for a finite cause. To be immortal and to be like God is a good thing, how could God think that Adam and Eve won't give it a try, specially when they probably had nothing better to do for a while?
Actually, you can't logically assume, that the consciousness ceases to exist. Everything we know, is that the consciousness can communicate with others through a brain. Without an undamaged and functioning brain, it can't express itself effectively toward other consciousnesses in their brains, but nobody can say for sure it doesn't exist. A brain can live without consciousness, so it is worth to consider that consciousness can live without a brain. The brain creates a very special image of reality, which is very different to what actually exists out there, and the question is, why? Why it has to work with this pre-processed and censored input? Why it passes to our consciousness a different image than comes from our eye nerves?
Why does it lose a valuable time and energy to make us see LESS?
(I know, I twist the logics almost unbelievably, but I hope you like it too )
Well, for example, the ancient legends (like Indian or Sumerian) often described battles of gods. Where these battles happened according to the texts, was nowadays found with increased radioactivity and for example, on Sinai peninsula, with areas of a sand melted on glass, just like in White Sands, the USA nuclear shooting range. Local women even now have problems with sterility, caused by radioactivity. These oldest legends describes gods as beings using a powerful and advanced technology, often described very extensively and precisely. In these times people could consider it as supernatural powers, but today we can recognize them as a technology, even not so superior to ours. One of these beings was called himself Yahweh, "I am who I am", when his human disciple asked him who he is. It literally means "that's not of your concern".
But this would really deseve a separate, extensive essay, which I currently don't know how to place here, I'm quite a newcomer on this forum.
I personally have experienced some parts of paradigm in practice, which basically assumes a hierarchic structure of consciousness, descending from the First source into the deepest matter and then back, through evolution of consciousness and merging again gradually into the one, carrying its experiences, which were obtained by living in various ways, on various places and time, with various types of consciousness, in various bodies. (it's such a boring esoterical doctrine, you see)
Thus I'm convinced the First source of consciousness exists, and if someone calls it God, I don't care, just I make sure that they doesn't mean Yahweh, which is something different.
Beings who deserve worship don't demand it. Beings who demand worship don't deserve it.
Besides, nobody has been able to create something without first having the materials necessary to make it in the first place.
If somebody creates a car for example, the materials that make-up the car didn't not exist prior to the car being formed. It is formed through shaping and modifying materials that were already present to begin with.
For all we know, maybe my goldfish created the universe yesterday.
Actually, you can't logically assume
I mean, maybe it is wrong. Maybe we'll all somehow become god of our own universe after we die. Maybe we'll all be sent somewhere to be ruled by goldfish. But the probabilities of those happening, although technically not zero, are so immeasurably small that they're not worth considering.
well, when somebody is functioning and communicating, of course there is plenty of evidence for a consciousness.
But when they're dead, that evidence is gone.
So basically, we probably wouldn't have really gained a survival advantage with better visual or audio input.
2. Evidence? your entire argument lacks it. Not just this part.
And the fact is, there is no scientific evidence that demonstrates that there is.
some things just appear that way, because that's how our brains interpret them.
Light (photons) are absorbed and re-emitted by the outer-electrons of the atoms on the surface of an object (of specific frequencies, depending on the elements it is composed of). Some of them end-up in our eyes, which are absorbed by the light-sensitive cells, which then send an electrical signal back to the brain. The brain collects the signals from all the light-sensitive cells, and constructs an image out of them. And in that image, some things appear to be solid. But they're not.
But that's assuming physics can actually change.
Even if physics can be different, that doesn't mean life or matter won't exist. It could exist in a different form.
Well, for example, the ancient legends (like Indian or Sumerian) often described battles of gods.
1. some areas have more radioactivity than others (no shit?)
2. sometimes, radiation causes problems (no shit?)
3. therefore, gods exist
There is absolutely no connection between your premises and conclusion.
The series of chemical, physical, geological, and biological changes by which carbon moves through the Earth's air, land, water, and living organisms is called the carbon cycle.
Carbon makes up no more than 0.27% of the mass of all elements in the universe and only 0.0018% by weight of the elements in the Earth's crust. Carbon occurs in many different chemical combinations, including calcium carbonate (CaCO3), carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), and a huge diversity of organic compounds (including hydrocarbons and biochemicals). In contrast to carbon's relative scarcity in the environment, it makes up 19.4% by weight of the human body. Along with hydrogen, carbon is the only element to appear in every organic molecule in every living organism on Earth.
The most abundant mineral forms of carbon in the rocks and soil of the Earth's crust are limestone (CaCO3) and dolomite [CaMg(CO3)2]. These mostly occur in sedimentary rocks, which were formed in ancient marine environments through biological influences that resulted in the precipitation of limestone and dolomite from ions of calcium (Ca2+), magnesium (Mg2+), and bicarbonate (HCO3-) dissolved in water. The amount of carbon stored in sedimentary rocks has not yet been accurately estimated, but is thought to be much larger than that occurring in any other compartment of the carbon cycle.
Carbon also occurs in spaces within sedimentary crustal rocks in the form of hydrocarbons (i.e., compounds only containing carbon and hydrogen), such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas (collectively, these are known as fossil fuels). These hydrocarbons are extremely important, but non-renewable, natural resources used as sources of energy and for the manufacturing of plastics and other materials. Wherever mining and drilling technology can access fossil fuel deposits, these deposits are being rapidly used up. Other organic compounds of carbon also occur within the rocks of the Earth's crust (these may contain additional elements, such as oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen), although in much smaller amounts than the hydrocarbons. All of these various kinds of organic carbon are derived from the partially decomposed biomass of ancient plants and other organisms, which became buried deep beneath marine sediment and were transformed very slowly (under intense pressure and heat in the absence of oxygen) into their present forms.
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Carbon returns to the hydrosphere when carbon dioxide dissolves in the oceans, as well as in lakes and other bodies of water. The solubility of carbon dioxide in water is not especially high, 88 milliliters of gas in 100 milliliters of water. Still, the Earth's oceans are such a vast reservoir that experts estimate that approximately 36,000 billion tons of carbon are stored there. They also estimate that about 93 billion tons of carbon flow from the atmosphere into the hydrosphere each year.
Carbon moves out of the oceans in two ways. Some escapes as carbon dioxide from water solutions and returns to the atmosphere. That amount is estimated to be very nearly equal (90 billion tons) to the amount entering the oceans each year. A smaller quantity of carbon dioxide (about 40 billion tons) is incorporated into aquatic plants.
On land, green plants remove carbon dioxide from the air through the process of photosynthesis--a complex series of chemical reactions in which carbon dioxide is eventually converted to starch, cellulose, and other carbohydrates. About 100 billion tons of carbon are transferred to green plants each year, and a total of 560 billion tons of the element is thought to be stored in land plants alone.
The carbon in green plants is eventually converted into a large variety of organic (carbon-containing) compounds. When animals eat green plants, they use the carbohydrates and other organic compounds as raw materials for the manufacture of thousands of new organic substances. The total collection of complex organic compounds stored in all kinds of living organisms represents the reservoir of carbon in the Earth's biosphere.
The cycling of carbon through the biosphere involves three major kinds of organisms. Producers are organisms with the ability to manufacture organic compounds such as sugars and starches from inorganic raw materials such as carbon dioxide and water. Green plants are the primary example of producing organisms. Consumers are organisms that obtain their carbon (i.e., their food) from producers. All animals are consumers. Finally, decomposers are organisms such as bacteria and fungi that feed on the remains of dead plants and animals. They convert carbon compounds in these organisms to carbon dioxide and other products. The carbon dioxide is then returned to the atmosphere to continue its path through the carbon cycle.
Land plants return carbon dioxide to the atmosphere during the process of respiration. In addition, animals that eat green plants exhale carbon dioxide, contributing to the 50 billion tons of carbon released to the atmosphere by all forms of living organisms each year. Respiration and decomposition both represent, in the most general sense, a reverse of the process of photosynthesis. Complex organic compounds are oxidized with the release of carbon dioxide and water--the raw materials from which they were originally produced.
At some point, land and aquatic plants and animals die and decompose. When they do so, some carbon (about 50 billion tons) returns to the atmosphere as carbon dioxide. The rest remains buried in the Earth (up to 1,500 billion tons) or on the ocean bottoms (about 3,000 billion tons). Several hundred million years ago, conditions of burial were such that organisms decayed to form products consisting almost entirely of carbon and hydrocarbons. Those materials exist today as pockets of the fossil fuels. Estimates of the carbon stored in fossil fuels range from 5,000 to 10,000 billion tons.
The processes that make up the carbon cycle have been occurring for millions of years, and for most of this time, the systems involved have been in equilibrium. The total amount of carbon dioxide entering the atmosphere from all sources has been approximately equal to the total amount dissolved in the oceans and removed by photosynthesis. However, a hundred years ago changes in human society began to unbalance the carbon cycle. The Industrial Revolution initiated an era in which the burning of fossil fuels became widespread. In a short period of time, large amounts of carbon previously stored in the Earth as coal, oil, and natural gas were burned, releasing vast quantities of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Between 1850 and 1998, measured concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere increased from about 280 ppm to about 360 ppm, an increase of 29%. Scientists estimate that fossil fuel combustion now releases about five billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere each year. In an equilibrium situation, that additional five billion tons would be absorbed by the oceans or used by green plants in photosynthesis. Yet this appears not to be happening. Measurements indicate that about 60% of the carbon dioxide generated by fossil fuel combustion remains in the atmosphere.
The problem is made even more complex because of deforestation. As large tracts of forest are cut down and burned, carbon dioxide from forest fires is added to that from other sources, and the loss of trees decreases the worldwide rate of photosynthesis. Overall, it appears that these two factors have resulted in an additional one to two billion tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere each year.
No one can be certain about the environmental effects of this disruption of equilibria in the carbon cycle. Some scientists believe that the additional carbon dioxide will augment the Earth's natural greenhouse effect, resulting in long-term global warming and climate change. Others argue that we still do not know enough about the way oceans, clouds, and other factors affect climate to allow such predictions.
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