I just clarified myself in my prior post on this topic. I meant details... knowing DETAILS about God. Of course - you ignored that part, apparently. And again - you knew this... but you had to be a smart-Alec and spin off on some tangential CRAP about how you see wrong in what I said. Go smarty...
You said it... I completely agree with you... you're adherence to and exploitation of the "rules" is bordering on fanatical. The only thing I don't understand is the whole "win" portion of your statement. I must have missed that part when it happened.
I specifically referenced the fact that I am not assuming the existence of a thing called "God". Knowledge of people is entirely relevant to the discussion, in my opinion. If you don't know why then I can't even begin to tell you.
This is ridiculous. Try this on for size:
"I know nothing...
This is entirely untrue. I could ask you "What do you know about the chemical make-up of platypus venom?". Now, I may have just clued you in to the fact that it may or may not exist, but if you then go spouting off details as to its actual chemical make-up, you're pulling those details out of...
Where did I say I knew something about God? I simply stated that to say you know something (meaning something definitive - details) about God is ludicrous. That's more a statement that deals with a knowledge of people, of which I do have at least some experience.
Besides, in my post, I...
To the original post -in my opinion, the end result isn't a matter of proof against, it's effect is better summed up in "don't go thinking you know God".
In the end, any "God" that exists may not be for or against our prosperity or pain in any way. "God" may end up being no more than the sum of...
My wife is of the Christian faith, and I am agnostic (with a tendency toward non-belief in any and all "organization"-styled views on universal control/leadership, e.g. God is an actual "being", the afterlife is a "place" you actually go to, and someone is out there "running" everything).
To...
I'll tell what all the secrecy is about - the people collecting the money don't really want you to know whether or not the thing you're (ultimately) donating toward is "real" or not. Because as soon as you found out the (likely) truth, you'd stop donating.
So you'll get all kinds of stories and...
In the end, your "proof" relies on a bunch of other assumptions you cannot prove. So, why not call it what it is? It's your guess. You're entitled to it, as I am entitled to mine.
But no one wants to listen to you pitch your guesses as facts/logic. It's not cool man.
You've done again what you seem to do a lot of from what I have read of your threads/posts- that is, read what you wanted to read into my message so that it didn't conflict with what you seem to feel is your "unfailing" logic and wisdom. What I was referring to in my post was your specific...
Honestly - an amount of suffering and pain is necessary for anyone to learn just about anything worthwhile, in my opinion. Just look at what we think of people who are coddled/spoiled all their lives and literally do get nearly everything they want.
If we all "lived like angels" (as was...
But what if the object of your definition is a fantasy? Meaning - you're assuming God exists for this definition to actually even carry any weight - which is crap.
That's the only reason substituting "Big-foot" doesn't work for you - because your assumption is automatically in the other...
In the end, I am of the belief that there is no good reason to be unequivocally allied to ANY entity (be it your country, your family, God, humanity, etc.) without it first being proven to you that the entity is trust-worthy and has only the better intentions of others in it's mind-set.
If...
There's a problem with your ideas stated here. "cause and effect" are only present in "the law" when there exists an authority to impose the "effect" on you. For instance - let's say you are the last person on Earth. At that point there are absolutely NO consequences to your actions in the civic...
I would question whether or not it serves any purpose to pseudo-prove/disprove that it is actually God's influence, and therefore whether it has a place in the church or not. That is, whether or not it has merit/value or is just a bunch of nonsense.
I've witnessed it first-hand, and I have to...
You all seem to be writing (with confidence) without a clue as to what you are talking about. I give no credit to anyone who talks about "definitive" this and "certain" that when proposing the size/constraints/origin of the universe using only the knowledge humankind has so far gathered. It's dumb.
I'll agree that science appears to have pin-pointed a significant moment in time roughly 14 billion years ago that caused an outward momentum to the matter existing in the universe, and that it is evidenced in observable constants of decay among multiple objects therein.
And yes, that is...
Does the posit that the universe has an "age" hold any merit at all?
Let's say there was a "big bang" - that doesn't at all mean that there wasn't at least empty space all around the cluster of matter and substance about to be released. And wouldn't that "empty space" also be considered "the...
As Abel in SSF4 one of my favorites is F+mk xx F dash -> s.fp xx fierce CoD xx FADC -> cr.fp xx Wheel kick.
If you have no Earthly idea what I am talking about, now you know how I feel having just read your thread post.
But... how does that make his quote unjustified? You keep saying "it's culture", "it's culture", "it's culture". But the fact of the matter is, if they're doing it even based on a perversion of the faith, they're still doing it... and they're likely still doing it because of what they read into...