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Recent content by Ricktheheretic

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    A simulation from nothing?

    Do you believe in artificial intelligence? Could a character in a computer program think and have feelings? Do you think that things perceived by our senses (sight, hearing, touch, taste, smell) could be written into a computer program and experienced by an artificial intelligence? Do you...
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    Is Protestantism even Christian?

    The Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) accepts the Nicene Creed A.D. 325 and the Apostles Creed. They also accept seven other confessions of faith. They see the faith as growing and adapting to each generation. The church that Christ established wasn't supposed to be a faith centered around one...
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    Is Protestantism even Christian?

    From what I see Protestants don't consider the community that wrote and passed on the Bible. If they think they can interpret scripture outside of the community that created it they are asking for trouble. Of course divorce isn't part of God's plan, so the Catholic Church forbids divorce, but...
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    Time - Change the word from sound to time

    So you are saying that something can come from nothing? That doesn't make sense. I'll read the Big Bang theory and the Atsro-Physics book, but I don't think it logically makes sense that there was nothing and then there was something. What would it's cause be? To me "matter cannot be created...
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    Time - Change the word from sound to time

    If the BB happened then there was a time when it happened. If the BB happened then there must have a been a time before it happened. Matter cannot be created or destroyed? Isn't that a law of physics? Space, matter and time couldn't of come out of no-where, so there had to be a time that was...
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    Idolatry in Islam

    But Muslims don't depict God. Its not the same as making a graven image or idol. In the Bible sometimes God is anthropomorphic. In Genesis 18 the Lord visits Abram with two angels and eats food. In Genesis 32 Jacob wrestles with God somewhere and he names that place Peni'el. So Jacob called...
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    Satanist, Luciferian, or both?

    A reply to some peoples posts. I see Satan and Lucifer as something like archetypes that are different ends of a polarity. Satan the negative, Lucifer the positive. Satan is the darkness caused by disillusionment with patriarchal religion, Lucifer is the light at the end of the tunnel...
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    Satanist, Luciferian, or both?

    I see both as figures that derived from mythology. Satan was probably based on Set the counter-god of the ancient Egyptians, the brother of Osiris who killed him and became the god of the untamed desert and the underworld. Set is Apep who dwells in Amenti (the underworld) and tries to stop...
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    End of the world

    I think the point I was trying to make is that the technology to make atom bombs is relatively new, and that the reason people didn't have it a long time ago is not because of anything to do with God or the coming apocalypse. It's because people hadn't discovered that yet. I don't think God or...
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    End of the world

    When I think of 100 years ago I think of the 1800's, excuse me for being stuck in the 90's. I'm young, but I'm stuck in my old ways. I thought I read some place that Hydrogen has the simplest atomic structure so Hydrogen atoms were easiest to split. I get confused sometimes. I did some...
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    BRAHMA CREATED ADAM AND EVE AND NOT PARBRAHM.

    I always assumed that any connection between the people of India and the Israelites came from some of the lost 10 tribes that had supposedly migrated eastward from Babylon during the captivity. This would explain why Jesus visited India during his "lost years" and became the figure known as...
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    Death and Evolution

    ? Does all evolution occur through the ill adapted dying off and better traits being passed on by the better adapted who can survive and breed? Does evolution ever occur just by adaptation to environment, for instance the development of body hair as an adaptation to the cold? How does death...
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    End of the world

    Atomic bombs couldn't have been made 100 years ago. 100 years ago people didn't know what E=MC^2 means. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared, an equation for how much energy can be released from atoms. Hydrogen atoms split the easiest so that's what they used to make the first...
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    Where's the line of distinction?

    I am aware of satanic groups that are non-Abrahamic. The Temple of Set revere a deity from the ancient Egyptian religion who was a "devil" and embodies pride and self-advancement through occult practice. Ordo Templi Orientis are Crowleyan or Thelemic, they believe in the Abrahamic god as an...
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    Where's the line of distinction?

    I don't think there is a real Satan, let alone real Satanism. "Satanism" has been used to describe heretics since the days of the Gnostics in 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. In Medieval times "Satanists" were religious rebels who parodied the Catholic Mass with a Satanic Black Mass. I heard...
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