neologist
 
  1  
Mon 20 Apr, 2015 05:05 pm
@FBM,
Laughing
Doesn't say they were alive does it?


FBM
 
  1  
Mon 20 Apr, 2015 05:11 pm
@neologist,
Living dead??? Wink
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vansdad
 
  1  
Thu 13 Aug, 2015 10:20 am
Only in your heart will you know
FBM
 
  1  
Fri 14 Aug, 2015 08:24 pm
@vansdad,
vansdad wrote:

Only in your heart will you know


What if someone's "heart" tells them that there is no god? Or that Ganesh is the real one? People's "hearts" have come up with a lot of wild crap throughout history. I'd rather trust someone's brain.
neologist
 
  1  
Fri 14 Aug, 2015 08:29 pm
@FBM,
Quote:
9 The heart is more treacherous than anything else and is desperate.
Who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)
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HesDeltanCaptain
 
  0  
Sat 15 Aug, 2015 08:33 am
@Groomers123,
If you "need answers" about God, you're in for one helluva disappointment. There aren't any. Conjecture, probability, assertions, speculation is as good as it gets.
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HesDeltanCaptain
 
  -1  
Mon 17 Aug, 2015 10:46 am
The commandment that kept me from becomming a rabbi is "Know that God exists."

If I "know" God exists, then I'm not worshipping it because I may agree with him so much as I'm now terrified of pissing it off.
neologist
 
  1  
Mon 17 Aug, 2015 11:07 am
@HesDeltanCaptain,
HesDeltanCaptain wrote:
The commandment that kept me from becomming a rabbi is "Know that God exists." . . .
At first I read this as The commandment that kept me from becoming a rabbit.

And I believed I understood, at last, what you are about. . .

Then I read it again. Now I have no idea.
HesDeltanCaptain
 
  0  
Mon 17 Aug, 2015 11:11 am
@neologist,
That you believe people can become rabbits is interesting. Love to get you on my couch Smile

Tell me about your relationship with your mother. Smile
neologist
 
  1  
Mon 17 Aug, 2015 11:18 am
@HesDeltanCaptain,
HesDeltanCaptain wrote:
That you believe people can become rabbits is interesting.
Actually, I thought you believed you could become a rabbit
HesDeltanCaptain wrote:
Love to get you on my couch Smile
That is frightening. I also majored in psych.
HesDeltanCaptain wrote:
Tell me about your relationship with your mother. Smile
Not surprised that is the first question you would ask. . . Laughing
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vansdad
 
  1  
Tue 8 Sep, 2015 10:43 pm
@FBM,
Quote:
What if someone's "heart" tells them that there is no god? Or that Ganesh is the real one? People's "hearts" have come up with a lot of wild crap throughout history. I'd rather trust someone's brain.


If your heart tells you there is no God that is fair. But the brain if often tricked
FBM
 
  2  
Tue 8 Sep, 2015 11:02 pm
@vansdad,
Seems to me it's the brain that's led by evidence, and the heart that's more easily fooled, led astray by desires. Desiring something to be so doesn't make it so.
Leadfoot
 
  -1  
Wed 9 Sep, 2015 08:34 am
@FBM,
But quantum physics tells us that just observing is enough to make it so. Just think how powerful desiring is by comparison.
FBM
 
  3  
Wed 9 Sep, 2015 05:30 pm
@Leadfoot,
Let's put that to the test:

I desire a round square and a 4-sided triangle.

Waiting....nada.

Let's give it another shot:

I desire a pink unicorn that speaks Swahili...


Waiting....hmm. There seems to be some sort of flaw in your hypothesis about desire.
Leadfoot
 
  1  
Thu 10 Sep, 2015 09:27 am
@FBM,
Yeah, I know, life's a bitch. And looking in the box won't bring a dead cat back to life either :-)
FBM
 
  2  
Thu 10 Sep, 2015 05:38 pm
@Leadfoot,
And fantasizing about an invisible, all-powerful sky-daddy who's going to take you to eternal paradise doesn't make it come true, no matter how bad you want it. No matter how afraid you are of a reality without it.
Leadfoot
 
  1  
Thu 10 Sep, 2015 05:52 pm
@FBM,
Quote:
No matter how afraid you are of a reality without it.


I'm AC/DC there, I could take it either way :-)

How about you? How afraid of a reality with it are you?
I don't mean the threat of hell, eternal torture and that sort of tripe.
I mean the radical change of mind set that it would require.
It works both ways you know...
FBM
 
  2  
Thu 10 Sep, 2015 05:57 pm
@Leadfoot,
Been there, done that. Grew up in it. I was really comforted by the notion. Was studying to be an Episcopal priest. But after studying the Bible in university, I realized that the odds of it being true are less than that of me winning the lottery without buying a ticket.
neologist
 
  0  
Thu 10 Sep, 2015 06:02 pm
@FBM,
Did you actually get to study the bible, or were you just being fed what the "theologians" told you about the bible?
FBM
 
  1  
Thu 10 Sep, 2015 06:04 pm
@neologist,
Both.
0 Replies
 
 

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