~snip~ So, now you see why God placed cancer into the design. He never meant us to be unhealthy. He always wanted us to use the benefits of cancer to enhance our lives.
So he didn't want us to be unhealthy but he made us unhealthy, so what happened did he fuck up somewhere along the line? Ok I guess another contradiction from you and god is consistent! I disagree. God didn't make us unhealthy. In fact, He made us so extremely healthy that He gave us freedom. Freedom, like in free will. Then we used our freedom in free will to make ourselves unhealthy. If only god was so powerful and smart that he could have made a way for humans to pro-create without the need to involve cancer?
Look around in nature. You don't find handguns anywhere. But you find the materials to make handguns in many places. God didn't make handguns. Mankind did. Same with cancer. The form of cancer that God made wasn't bad, but it was good. Mankind messed his whole life up, and set in place methods for the good that God made to become evil. Cancer is good, but mankind turned it into evil. On top of that, 100% of cancers could be healed using the things of nature and life style changes. But people don't want to know this. They continue to go on their way. I worked with an atheist who got brain cancer. I told him about natural cures. He liked the idea of the doctor and poisoning himself with chemo. So, that's what he did, and he died from it, not from the cancer. So, it was he, himself that did it... not God. Mildly ironic that what you post as evidence of a creator is much stronger against one and strong evidence of evolution. Also ironic and appreciated btw, that you continue to help illustrate the logical fallacies of an omnipotent creator.
Mildly ironic that you call the proof for God an example of proof for evolution. You hadn't looked at evolution theory? Twisting the proof for God into something that could cause evolution, would make evolution theory millions (trillions?) of times more complex than people could imagine it. Come on. Evolution people are having a hard enough time twisting evolution theory into something that matches reality, without making it millions (trillions?) of times more difficult for them. Show a little compassion! ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Yeah, I'm sure a baby uses his freedom to give himself cancer or be born with some bad disease, what the fuck are you even talking about lmao. I'm sure that you have never been forced into anything that some other, evil person forced you into. What are you even talking about lmao? ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Let me say it again so your tiny brain can understand it. You said: ''I disagree. God didn't make us unhealthy. In fact, He made us so extremely healthy that He gave us freedom. Freedom, like in free will. Then we used our freedom in free will to make ourselves unhealthy.'' I said: it's impossible for a baby or newborn to use his freedom to make himself unhealthy, there is no way for a newborn to give himself down's syndrome or to be born without an arm on purpose. Your argument is retarded. God doesn't make us healthy. Notice that you quoted and even bolded the part that says "we use." The word "we" means us, collectively. Look it up in the dictionary to confirm it to yourself. I wasn't talking like a baby did it to himself. However, we don't understand enough about the workings of nature and the soul and the spirit to state for a fact that the baby absolutely didn't take part in giving himself his own cancer. Or do you know it for a fact somehow. ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) So we collectively give diseases to babies? ''the workings of nature and the soul and the spirit to state for a fact that the baby absolutely didn't take part in giving himself his own cancer.'' what the fuck are you even talking about dude, why do you keep making shit up. The bible says nothing about our spirit doing things that we are not aware of and why would a baby give himself cancer. Your delusion is amazing. Badecker arguing on how a baby gives himself cancer, you are batshit crazy mate. Thanks for the explanation of your great Bible knowledge. In your quote of my posting, you forgot the part "we don't understand." So, why do you bring the Bible into it? Everything that you posted has nothing to do with the fact that we don't know that babies aren't responsible for their own health to some extent, via aspects of the soul and spirit that we don't know about. Maybe babies are responsible for their own health to some extent, via their soul and spirit. We don't know. Or do you know? Show us how you know one way or the other if you know. If you don't know, but suggest that I am "batshit crazy" for suggesting that we don't know, you are simply badmouthing me. Are you trolling? Or are you simply envious that I can provide explanations for things that I say, and you can't or won't for the things that you say? Back at the time of Darwin, there were several people who were talking about evolution, like Darwin. Yet, most people in general understood that life came about and progressed through creation. Now you want to suggest that I am "batshit crazy" because I say that we don't know how much the soul and spirit play in the formation of a baby? Scientific people are trying to find out all kinds of science about how the soul and spirit play into the lives of people, and what the soul and spirit really are. Darwin's "batshit crazy" stuff is okay for you. But I am "batshit crazy" when I say that we don't know about something. Sounds like you are a "batshit politician" of some sort. ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) What a nice argument, we don't know therefore you are wrong, astargath. Amazing argument there buddy, then god might not exist because we don't know enough about other dimensions or things outside the universe or even if it's possible to exist ''outside the universe'' check mate. I win.
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Anyone is unlikely to prove the existence of a god. But almost everyone believes that God exists, because sometimes we have to believe that something invisible really exists. For example, water is invisible and not formed, but it really exists. also god is invisible and shapeless but really there. and I believe it.
Water is not invisible, you can also touch water and you can do thousands of experiments with it, your argument is garbage.
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~snip~ So, now you see why God placed cancer into the design. He never meant us to be unhealthy. He always wanted us to use the benefits of cancer to enhance our lives.
So he didn't want us to be unhealthy but he made us unhealthy, so what happened did he fuck up somewhere along the line? Ok I guess another contradiction from you and god is consistent! I disagree. God didn't make us unhealthy. In fact, He made us so extremely healthy that He gave us freedom. Freedom, like in free will. Then we used our freedom in free will to make ourselves unhealthy. If only god was so powerful and smart that he could have made a way for humans to pro-create without the need to involve cancer?
Look around in nature. You don't find handguns anywhere. But you find the materials to make handguns in many places. God didn't make handguns. Mankind did. Same with cancer. The form of cancer that God made wasn't bad, but it was good. Mankind messed his whole life up, and set in place methods for the good that God made to become evil. Cancer is good, but mankind turned it into evil. On top of that, 100% of cancers could be healed using the things of nature and life style changes. But people don't want to know this. They continue to go on their way. I worked with an atheist who got brain cancer. I told him about natural cures. He liked the idea of the doctor and poisoning himself with chemo. So, that's what he did, and he died from it, not from the cancer. So, it was he, himself that did it... not God. Mildly ironic that what you post as evidence of a creator is much stronger against one and strong evidence of evolution. Also ironic and appreciated btw, that you continue to help illustrate the logical fallacies of an omnipotent creator.
Mildly ironic that you call the proof for God an example of proof for evolution. You hadn't looked at evolution theory? Twisting the proof for God into something that could cause evolution, would make evolution theory millions (trillions?) of times more complex than people could imagine it. Come on. Evolution people are having a hard enough time twisting evolution theory into something that matches reality, without making it millions (trillions?) of times more difficult for them. Show a little compassion! ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Yeah, I'm sure a baby uses his freedom to give himself cancer or be born with some bad disease, what the fuck are you even talking about lmao. I'm sure that you have never been forced into anything that some other, evil person forced you into. What are you even talking about lmao? ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Let me say it again so your tiny brain can understand it. You said: ''I disagree. God didn't make us unhealthy. In fact, He made us so extremely healthy that He gave us freedom. Freedom, like in free will. Then we used our freedom in free will to make ourselves unhealthy.'' I said: it's impossible for a baby or newborn to use his freedom to make himself unhealthy, there is no way for a newborn to give himself down's syndrome or to be born without an arm on purpose. Your argument is retarded. God doesn't make us healthy. Notice that you quoted and even bolded the part that says "we use." The word "we" means us, collectively. Look it up in the dictionary to confirm it to yourself. I wasn't talking like a baby did it to himself. However, we don't understand enough about the workings of nature and the soul and the spirit to state for a fact that the baby absolutely didn't take part in giving himself his own cancer. Or do you know it for a fact somehow. ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) So we collectively give diseases to babies? ''the workings of nature and the soul and the spirit to state for a fact that the baby absolutely didn't take part in giving himself his own cancer.'' what the fuck are you even talking about dude, why do you keep making shit up. The bible says nothing about our spirit doing things that we are not aware of and why would a baby give himself cancer. Your delusion is amazing. Badecker arguing on how a baby gives himself cancer, you are batshit crazy mate.
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~snip~ So, now you see why God placed cancer into the design. He never meant us to be unhealthy. He always wanted us to use the benefits of cancer to enhance our lives.
So he didn't want us to be unhealthy but he made us unhealthy, so what happened did he fuck up somewhere along the line? Ok I guess another contradiction from you and god is consistent! I disagree. God didn't make us unhealthy. In fact, He made us so extremely healthy that He gave us freedom. Freedom, like in free will. Then we used our freedom in free will to make ourselves unhealthy. If only god was so powerful and smart that he could have made a way for humans to pro-create without the need to involve cancer?
Look around in nature. You don't find handguns anywhere. But you find the materials to make handguns in many places. God didn't make handguns. Mankind did. Same with cancer. The form of cancer that God made wasn't bad, but it was good. Mankind messed his whole life up, and set in place methods for the good that God made to become evil. Cancer is good, but mankind turned it into evil. On top of that, 100% of cancers could be healed using the things of nature and life style changes. But people don't want to know this. They continue to go on their way. I worked with an atheist who got brain cancer. I told him about natural cures. He liked the idea of the doctor and poisoning himself with chemo. So, that's what he did, and he died from it, not from the cancer. So, it was he, himself that did it... not God. Mildly ironic that what you post as evidence of a creator is much stronger against one and strong evidence of evolution. Also ironic and appreciated btw, that you continue to help illustrate the logical fallacies of an omnipotent creator.
Mildly ironic that you call the proof for God an example of proof for evolution. You hadn't looked at evolution theory? Twisting the proof for God into something that could cause evolution, would make evolution theory millions (trillions?) of times more complex than people could imagine it. Come on. Evolution people are having a hard enough time twisting evolution theory into something that matches reality, without making it millions (trillions?) of times more difficult for them. Show a little compassion! ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Yeah, I'm sure a baby uses his freedom to give himself cancer or be born with some bad disease, what the fuck are you even talking about lmao. I'm sure that you have never been forced into anything that some other, evil person forced you into. What are you even talking about lmao? ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Let me say it again so your tiny brain can understand it. You said: ''I disagree. God didn't make us unhealthy. In fact, He made us so extremely healthy that He gave us freedom. Freedom, like in free will. Then we used our freedom in free will to make ourselves unhealthy.'' I said: it's impossible for a baby or newborn to use his freedom to make himself unhealthy, there is no way for a newborn to give himself down's syndrome or to be born without an arm on purpose. Your argument is retarded. God doesn't make us healthy.
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~snip~ So, now you see why God placed cancer into the design. He never meant us to be unhealthy. He always wanted us to use the benefits of cancer to enhance our lives.
So he didn't want us to be unhealthy but he made us unhealthy, so what happened did he fuck up somewhere along the line? Ok I guess another contradiction from you and god is consistent! I disagree. God didn't make us unhealthy. In fact, He made us so extremely healthy that He gave us freedom. Freedom, like in free will. Then we used our freedom in free will to make ourselves unhealthy. If only god was so powerful and smart that he could have made a way for humans to pro-create without the need to involve cancer?
Look around in nature. You don't find handguns anywhere. But you find the materials to make handguns in many places. God didn't make handguns. Mankind did. Same with cancer. The form of cancer that God made wasn't bad, but it was good. Mankind messed his whole life up, and set in place methods for the good that God made to become evil. Cancer is good, but mankind turned it into evil. On top of that, 100% of cancers could be healed using the things of nature and life style changes. But people don't want to know this. They continue to go on their way. I worked with an atheist who got brain cancer. I told him about natural cures. He liked the idea of the doctor and poisoning himself with chemo. So, that's what he did, and he died from it, not from the cancer. So, it was he, himself that did it... not God. Mildly ironic that what you post as evidence of a creator is much stronger against one and strong evidence of evolution. Also ironic and appreciated btw, that you continue to help illustrate the logical fallacies of an omnipotent creator.
Mildly ironic that you call the proof for God an example of proof for evolution. You hadn't looked at evolution theory? Twisting the proof for God into something that could cause evolution, would make evolution theory millions (trillions?) of times more complex than people could imagine it. Come on. Evolution people are having a hard enough time twisting evolution theory into something that matches reality, without making it millions (trillions?) of times more difficult for them. Show a little compassion! ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Yeah, I'm sure a baby uses his freedom to give himself cancer or be born with some bad disease, what the fuck are you even talking about lmao.
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^^^ I've proven the Earth is motionless using physical experiments already on the books (Michaelson & Morley, Airy, Sagnac and Dufour & Prunier) and it's proof beyond a reasonable doubt; the globe and heliocentric model are physically impossible.
If you want photographs of the dome go ask the US military as they took plenty during Operation Fishbowl; my cellphone camera with its LED flash just isn't up to the task. Another way abybody can know there's a mirrored dome is by looking at rainbows, they can't form without a mirror and their curvature proves the mirror is concave.
The experiment that was shown here to be wrong? Anyone can launch a rocket these days and yet we still have no video or photos of what you claim is real, suspicious.
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''you could point out a flaw in scientific fashion.'' Easy, as I said your ''proof'' is not scientific because it cannot be tested or falsified. Unless you can tell me what experiment I can perform that would confirm your assumptions that entropy+complexity+c&e = god. Is there such an experiment? Can you test or falsify god? If not, it's not a scientific proof.
My proof is used every day in millions of circumstances. The only thing people don't do is consider such usage a test... at least not very often, percentage-wise. For example. You get into your car, start the engine, and drive away. Cause and effect works throughout the whole operation; as the fuel burns, a simple form of entropy is taking place; and the whole car is complex enough that you would have an impossible task on your hands, if you ever tried to build one just like it, all by yourself, from scratch. But if you wanted to test, you could doubt that the car would work this time, and anxiously await the proof that it did work, as you turned the key. As has been pointed out, the fact that these three are in the same universe, and that the universe would be a totally different thing without these three (if it could even exist at all), proves God by the continual operation of all three in the same universe. The proof that it is God and not complex happenstance, is the intelligent design in everything. We are the example of what it takes to have intelligent design. The fact of universal intelligent design that we can't come close to matching, is the proof that the designer is greater than we, so that He matches our definition of the word "God." Thank you for helping to prove God exists. ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Ye ye, it's not cause and effect or entropy what you have to prove, it's that the 3 of them combined = god. Each one of them exists but the assumption that all of them combined lead to god is not proven, it's just assumed by you. ''and that the universe would be a totally different thing without these three'' The universe would be different without many things, that's not proof. '' is the intelligent design in everything'' Then you have to prove that everything is intelligently designed, human bodies have a lot of flaws http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/top-10-design-flaws-in-the-human-bodyThese flaws certainly do not indicate ''intelligent design''. ''The fact of universal intelligent design that we can't come close to matching'' the processor in the computer you used to write this, likely contains billions of transistors. It's so complex no single individual can possibly understand it as a whole, but humans made it. Not to mention the fact that an even more complex being would be needed for god to exist and so on to infinity. The thing that shouts "God" in these 3, is complexity. Man designs things using complexity. The fact that man is even greater complexity, and that man is able to reason, shows that the designer of man understands that kind of complexity thoroughly. That is what God is all about... a greater than man, man-like (in some ways) Being. Certainly the clarity of what God is all about does not exist. But throwing out the fact of His existence just because we don't understand all about Him, is totally against science. ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) ''Complexity is generally used to characterize something with many parts where those parts interact with each other in multiple ways'' No, badecker, humans don't use ''complexity'' to design things, they use science. You might have another definition for complexity, though, feel free to state it. ''The fact that man is even greater complexity'' Man is greater complexity? Greater than what, what does this phrase even mean? There is nothing that indicates that you need to be more complex than the object you are making. If that was the case then god would need to be created by an even more complex being.
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These type of threads just serve to feed attention to a very lonely man.
And I would also add that after 3 years of posting on a thread spouting pseudo-intellectual nonsense claiming a flat earth, it means you are either the ultimate troll or have some serious obsessive issues... ...or the Earth is actually a flat and motionless plane and it's really the globe and globalism that's a massive stinking pile of shit. You smell like shit BTW, you should do something about it. ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2Fv87JPLr.jpg&t=663&c=nE-h36gKfoHA0Q) And yet you can't provide a single photography of the dome that you claim it's a mirror or the devices used to project holographic stars? You smell like shit my man.
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.... Your idea is Orwellian. If you define religion as child abuse it logically follows that the state should intervene in the families of some 3.6 billion people and force parents to not share their beliefs with their children. If they refuse you rip the children from their parents and homes of course. That's what we do with people who repeatedly abuse children.
Your idea is so crazy so nightmarish that it makes believing in flying horses look totally sane.
Fundamentalist always justify their crimes as advancing the greater good.
Not so if you want your children to succeed in the modern world. Evidence is evidence. Not sure what you can disagree there. Or I should have said: "objective physical evidence". If that better for you? If your child will go around the MIT campus saying that Earth is 6000 years old, and snakes can talk, I am sure someone would pull your child from school to evaluate his/her mental status. Ok well at least you are honest and upfront in your desire for tyranny. Fortunately I live in a country founded by far wiser men then you. Bill of Rights:"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" I agree with you that anyone promoting traditional religious or even mainstream conservative views on a college campus these days is probably in for a chilly reception at best. Report: 39% of Top Liberal Arts Colleges Have No Republican Professorshttp://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/05/07/report-39-of-top-liberal-arts-colleges-have-no-republican-professors/Christian group at Oxford University banned from fair out of fear it would 'alienate' studentshttp://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/11/christian-group-at-oxford-university-banned-from-fair-out-fear-it-would-alienate-students.htmlSo I'm guessing slavery is all kosher in your book? Most of the founding fathers either owned or supported slavery. On the other note, there is a fine line between talking to yourself and praying. Both are mental disorders, IMHO. I would not want to live in a country where my president goes to war after God told him to do so. You need to have a mechanism to prevent such a thing. Individuals with mental issues should not be near the nuclear codes. As for the SJWs running the higher education, yes, you've got a big problem. What is happening in America is sad; same thing is happening in Canada and Europe. Liberals are shutting down all discussions, any views remotely conservative and being equated with racism, sexism etc. I think all this identity politics is the root cause of the problem. When facts are not being used to argue your position you end up with a dogma that is not supported by anything but who screams the loudest. Not just higher education has been hijacked, the same thing is happening in high-schools. Very sad. It does not bode well for the future. I think this whole thread comes down to ''do we really need religion or religious books to have morals'' and then answer is pretty simple, we don't. We only need reason and logic and to be able to debate freely about it. That's why we are here, religion morals are outdated, that's why we know slavery is wrong, not because it's in the bible written. We know witches aren't real or demonic possessions aren't really demonic at all. If we lived exactly by the bible morals or any other religious book, society would be radically different. For a book that's claimed to be divinely inspired and the absolute moral, it's not that great. What about homosexuals? What about working on the sabbath and getting killed for it? We are not doing that, are we? If you were starving to death, you might sell yourself into voluntary slavery just to get some food so you wouldn't die. Consider the IRS. Voluntary compliance. Just another way of saying voluntary limited slavery. ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) If I was starving to death I would probably do a lot of bad things to save myself, that has nothing to do with the fact that the bible seems to endorse slavery and instead of clearly saying slavery is wrong it has retarded rules about how you can beat your slave and other crazy stuff. The bible is not divinely inspired.
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Immortality is already technically possible by plugin ones head onto new healthy body every 100 years or so.
You can google "Sergio Canavero" or "Valery Spiridonov" for more technical details. Whether it will become popular or widespread in the future remains an open question due to various moral and cultural implications.
No it's not. Your head is what matters, not the body. Your brain will age no matter how many body switches you make and eventually your brain will die. That's not even close to immortality. The biggest advantage to that is that any disease in your body that doesn't affect your head can be ''treated'' by switching your body. Still very early on that technology tho.
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... We only need reason and logic and to be able to debate freely about it. That's why we are here...
A false assertion. Science or natural philosophy cannot be maintained by the consensus of society unless that same consensus accept the metaphysical and theological axioms on which natural science is based. See this excellent essay on this topic by John C. Wright. http://www.scifiwright.com/2012/04/science-romance-and-the-scientific-romance-of-christendom/I think this whole thread comes down to ''do we really need religion or religious books to have morals'' and then answer is pretty simple, we don't.
Also untrue. We lack any form of viable replacement. Without religion all that exists are arbitrary beliefs. Subjective choices not grounded in objective reality. This was highlighted well by an earlier poster. While it is true that there is no definitive atheistic worldview, all atheists share the same fundamental beliefs as core to their personal worldviews. While some want to state that atheism is simply a disbelief in the existence of a god, there really is more to it. Every expression of atheism necessitates at least three additional affirmations:
1. The universe is purely material. It is strictly natural, and there is no such thing as the supernatural (e.g., gods or spiritual forces).
2. The universe is scientific. It is observable, knowable and governed strictly by the laws of physics.
3. The universe is impersonal. It does not a have consciousness or a will, nor is it guided by a consciousness or a will.
Denial of any one of those three affirmations will strike a mortal blow to atheism. Anything and everything that happens in such a universe is meaningless. A tree falls. A young girl is rescued from sexual slavery. A dog barks. A man is killed for not espousing the national religion. These are all actions that can be known and explained but never given any meaning or value.
A good atheist — that is, a consistent atheist — recognizes this dilemma. His only reasonable conclusion is to reject objective meaning and morality. Thus, calling him “good” in the moral sense is nonsensical. There is no morally good atheist, because there really is no objective morality. At best, morality is the mass delusion shared by humanity, protecting us from the cold sting of despair.
That's only when you define religions as everything, my definition of religions is different, I'm obviously talking about christianity mostly but all the others too. We do not need the bible to understand morality.
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So I'm guessing slavery is all kosher in your book? Most of the founding fathers either owned or supported slavery.
For someone who claims to dislike the liberal SJW movement you sure sound a lot like them. Your statement about the founding fathers is misleading and no I do not approve of slavery. The founding fathers were great men but they were still men and living in a society they inherited. That society was full of men and evil. As a group their actions were consistent with a desire to restrict slavery to keep it from spreading with the long term goal of eliminating it. This was well highlighted by Abraham Lincoln who finishing the job of cutting out the cancer. https://www.npr.org/2011/07/06/137647715/weekly-standard-founding-fathers-opposed-slaveryThe founding fathers, said Lincoln, had opposed slavery. They adopted a Declaration of Independence that pronounced all men created equal. They enacted the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 banning slavery from the vast Northwest Territory. To be sure, many of the founders owned slaves. But they asserted their hostility to slavery in principle while tolerating it temporarily (as they hoped) in practice. That was why they did not mention the words "slave" or "slavery" in the Constitution, but referred only to "persons held to service." "Thus, the thing is hid away, in the constitution," said Lincoln, "just as an afflicted man hides away a wen or a cancer, which he dares not cut out at once, lest he bleed to death; with the promise, nevertheless, that the cutting may begin at the end of a given time." The first step was to prevent the spread of this cancer, which the fathers took with the Northwest Ordinance, the prohibition of the African slave trade in 1807, and the Missouri Compromise restriction of 1820. The second was to begin a process of gradual emancipation, which the generation of the fathers had accomplished in the states north of Maryland. I would not want to live in a country where my president goes to war after God told him to do so. You need to have a mechanism to prevent such a thing. Individuals with mental issues should not be near the nuclear codes.
Agreed that is why the US constitution invests the power to declare war not in the presidency but in congress. Another smart move by the founding fathers. Dangerously congress has started to neglect it's duties in recent years and allowed the executive branch to engage in combat operations aka war without its approval. That is unconstitutional but a manifestation of corruption in the US government and the failure of the legislature to fulfill its duties. As for the SJWs running the higher education, yes, you've got a big problem. What is happening in America is sad; same thing is happening in Canada and Europe. Liberals are shutting down all discussions, any views remotely conservative and being equated with racism, sexism etc. I think all this identity politics is the root cause of the problem...
The protest you highlight are just another manifestation of the human desire to use violence and power to force conformity to ones beliefs. Having proclaimed their the "truths" of microaggression, hate speech, racism, etcetera as a highest moral cause it is not at all surprising that attempts are then made to capture the mechanism of governance be it university administration or city governance and use violence or even better state sanctioned violence to eliminate the their ideological opposition. Its not really all that different then your own desires to brand your own ideological opponents as criminals and use the might of the state against them. Different truth same fundamental motivation. ''and no I do not approve of slavery. '' There you go, you don't need the bible for that, the bible never says slavery is bad and in fact seems to support it yet you know slavery is wrong. The bible is meaningless and not divinely inspired.
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But who are you really Astargath? Or, rather, what is your main alt? There's a few of these "trust" themed threads popping up recently started by sock puppets.
See, this is why people is afraid to speak up, what do you mean who am I really and why would you think this is not my main alt lol, I have like 3k posts here. I have default trust, I never changed the settings and I see that too. You don't think it's weird for a global mod to have negative trust? You and tomatocage also seem to have a negative trust battle as well. I'm just saying that trust is a bit meaningless if people are just going to give it based on personal feelings. quickscammer has over twelve thousand posts just on their so named account: Name: Quickseller Posts: 12187 Activity: 1400 Merit: 1066 Position: Copper Member Date Registered: 22 July 2014, 15:51:40 yet manages to post on other UID's ~ 5% of the total number of QS' post count just on this one UID: Name: Panthers52 Posts: 672 Activity: 672 Merit: 501 Position: Hero Member Date Registered: 21 July 2014, 01:31:08 Last Active: 06 May 2018, 17:22:55 (I gave QS Red Paint TM before even Vod did...)
Tomatocage is just Butt Hurt TM and went offline when I made comment concerning his alts - (only infrequently returning) If nothing else, their prolonged absence should be reason enough for their removal from DT. (no really) That's what I'm saying, just because someone is butthurt you shouldn't be able to give them negative trust in return, specially DT members. I don't know who did what in your particular case though.
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.... Your idea is Orwellian. If you define religion as child abuse it logically follows that the state should intervene in the families of some 3.6 billion people and force parents to not share their beliefs with their children. If they refuse you rip the children from their parents and homes of course. That's what we do with people who repeatedly abuse children.
Your idea is so crazy so nightmarish that it makes believing in flying horses look totally sane.
Fundamentalist always justify their crimes as advancing the greater good.
Not so if you want your children to succeed in the modern world. Evidence is evidence. Not sure what you can disagree there. Or I should have said: "objective physical evidence". If that better for you? If your child will go around the MIT campus saying that Earth is 6000 years old, and snakes can talk, I am sure someone would pull your child from school to evaluate his/her mental status. Ok well at least you are honest and upfront in your desire for tyranny. Fortunately I live in a country founded by far wiser men then you. Bill of Rights:"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof" I agree with you that anyone promoting traditional religious or even mainstream conservative views on a college campus these days is probably in for a chilly reception at best. Report: 39% of Top Liberal Arts Colleges Have No Republican Professorshttp://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/05/07/report-39-of-top-liberal-arts-colleges-have-no-republican-professors/Christian group at Oxford University banned from fair out of fear it would 'alienate' studentshttp://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/10/11/christian-group-at-oxford-university-banned-from-fair-out-fear-it-would-alienate-students.htmlSo I'm guessing slavery is all kosher in your book? Most of the founding fathers either owned or supported slavery. On the other note, there is a fine line between talking to yourself and praying. Both are mental disorders, IMHO. I would not want to live in a country where my president goes to war after God told him to do so. You need to have a mechanism to prevent such a thing. Individuals with mental issues should not be near the nuclear codes. As for the SJWs running the higher education, yes, you've got a big problem. What is happening in America is sad; same thing is happening in Canada and Europe. Liberals are shutting down all discussions, any views remotely conservative and being equated with racism, sexism etc. I think all this identity politics is the root cause of the problem. When facts are not being used to argue your position you end up with a dogma that is not supported by anything but who screams the loudest. Not just higher education has been hijacked, the same thing is happening in high-schools. Very sad. It does not bode well for the future. I think this whole thread comes down to ''do we really need religion or religious books to have morals'' and then answer is pretty simple, we don't. We only need reason and logic and to be able to debate freely about it. That's why we are here, religion morals are outdated, that's why we know slavery is wrong, not because it's in the bible written. We know witches aren't real or demonic possessions aren't really demonic at all. If we lived exactly by the bible morals or any other religious book, society would be radically different. For a book that's claimed to be divinely inspired and the absolute moral, it's not that great. What about homosexuals? What about working on the sabbath and getting killed for it? We are not doing that, are we?
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Am quoting mdayonliner, but my question is directed towards Astargath I guess you are seeing the rating depending on your personal trust setting. It's different for sure for others. i.e I see green for BayAreaCoins, OgNasty, TMAN. mprep is the same for me... Click here if unable to see imageI only have Tomatocage removed from my trust list and this is what I see: ![](https://ip.bitcointalk.org/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.imgur.com%2F8dty3Hc.jpg&t=663&c=ZFUdrmSQ1mG16Q) But who are you really Astargath? Or, rather, what is your main alt? There's a few of these "trust" themed threads popping up recently started by sock puppets. See, this is why people is afraid to speak up, what do you mean who am I really and why would you think this is not my main alt lol, I have like 3k posts here. I have default trust, I never changed the settings and I see that too. You don't think it's weird for a global mod to have negative trust? You and tomatocage also seem to have a negative trust battle as well. I'm just saying that trust is a bit meaningless if people are just going to give it based on personal feelings.
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So, now you see why God placed cancer into the design. He never meant us to be unhealthy. He always wanted us to use the benefits of cancer to enhance our lives.
What are the benefits of cancer? How can your life be enhanced by cancer? Career in drug testing? What did your God smoke when he put cancer into his 'design'? Must be some good stuff. PS. If you were in a courtroom and a witness claimed that he saw a witch flying on a broomstick above Manhattan, and no traffic cameras recorded it, would you believe him? That is why I do not believe Bible 'eye witnesses', God included. Talking snakes? Please, don't waste my time.
But if many people saw many witches, you might at least question your belief a little. That's why the Bible is as big as it is, with as many witnesses and writers as there are. To give you an opportunity to question your false beliefs, so that you might have the chance to be saved. Simple yes or no would do. I am guessing you would believe such a guy. You didn't look at the major benefit of cancer? You didn't look at what trophoblast does in the human system? When the embryo comes out of the fallopian tube into the uterus, it has to find a way to attach to the uterine wall. Part of the embryo becomes cancerous, and eats into the uterus. Then, at just the right time, the pancreas of the new fetus becomes active, and controls the cancer, turning it into the placenta. In other words, without cancer, there wouldn't be any mammalian life on earth, and maybe no life at all. The answer about cancer I just gave you is very simple. Yet it is way more complex than something as simple as "yes" or "no." Forget your simple y or n answer. Look at the answer that I gave, and realize that the universe is complex beyond belief. That's why Jesus did the difficult work for us, because we couldn't do it for ourselves because of the complexity involved. Because of Jesus, the only thing we need to do is believe. ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) ''Every sixth death in the world is due to cancer, making it the second leading cause of death (second only to cardiovascular diseases'' Whether ''cancer'' helps at first is meaningless if it's going to kill you later randomly. Not to mention the ton of flaws in the human body.
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''you could point out a flaw in scientific fashion.'' Easy, as I said your ''proof'' is not scientific because it cannot be tested or falsified. Unless you can tell me what experiment I can perform that would confirm your assumptions that entropy+complexity+c&e = god. Is there such an experiment? Can you test or falsify god? If not, it's not a scientific proof.
My proof is used every day in millions of circumstances. The only thing people don't do is consider such usage a test... at least not very often, percentage-wise. For example. You get into your car, start the engine, and drive away. Cause and effect works throughout the whole operation; as the fuel burns, a simple form of entropy is taking place; and the whole car is complex enough that you would have an impossible task on your hands, if you ever tried to build one just like it, all by yourself, from scratch. But if you wanted to test, you could doubt that the car would work this time, and anxiously await the proof that it did work, as you turned the key. As has been pointed out, the fact that these three are in the same universe, and that the universe would be a totally different thing without these three (if it could even exist at all), proves God by the continual operation of all three in the same universe. The proof that it is God and not complex happenstance, is the intelligent design in everything. We are the example of what it takes to have intelligent design. The fact of universal intelligent design that we can't come close to matching, is the proof that the designer is greater than we, so that He matches our definition of the word "God." Thank you for helping to prove God exists. ![Cool](https://bitcointalk.org/Smileys/default/cool.gif) Ye ye, it's not cause and effect or entropy what you have to prove, it's that the 3 of them combined = god. Each one of them exists but the assumption that all of them combined lead to god is not proven, it's just assumed by you. ''and that the universe would be a totally different thing without these three'' The universe would be different without many things, that's not proof. '' is the intelligent design in everything'' Then you have to prove that everything is intelligently designed, human bodies have a lot of flaws http://nautil.us/issue/24/error/top-10-design-flaws-in-the-human-bodyThese flaws certainly do not indicate ''intelligent design''. ''The fact of universal intelligent design that we can't come close to matching'' the processor in the computer you used to write this, likely contains billions of transistors. It's so complex no single individual can possibly understand it as a whole, but humans made it. Not to mention the fact that an even more complex being would be needed for god to exist and so on to infinity.
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I'm not making money by being on DT. If you can point me to where that's true, I'll listen. The importance is in the weight of my feedback when I tag someone--that's basically it. That's what I'm talking about, you should ignore untrusted feedback until it is trusted, if you are tagging people with the knowledge of that your feedback Has weight on people's reputation, if you are not listening to reason when you are called out, you are not to be trusted. I called you out to ask your opinion. What do you think about mprep action in this case? if you think leaving retaliatory feedback is wrong, say it. if you refuse to speak, then you will face the Same situation someday and nobody would trust your words then. Stop trolling. OK I will stop trolling. you want to know my opinion on this? retaliatory feedback is wrong. if you know it, you should tell that to mprep, let him read your opinion, let him know what you think. refuse to talk and I will confront you next time when you are judging others. Fucking be a man. This is me being a man. @mprep, I believe retaliatory feedback, positive feedback to complement each other back and forth is wrong. I also believe they Are on to you, OP could be a bought account because his email was reset recently. they want you gone and they have the support. reconsider everything you have done and edit sent feedback if necessary. if you think you have made a mistake, correct it. This is me weighing other factors, my support for him for whatever good he has done for this community. now if anybody else is reading here, facking be a man and speak. I can guarantee you that I did not sell my account. I happen to see mprep trust in a post and I thought it was funny to see a global moderator with a negative rating. Just like giving retaliatory negative feedback between DT members seem childish. What's the point of the system, then?
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First of...a person would want to be immortal.
The question is, is that a wise desicion? Seeing all your friends and relatives dies off while you live on forever?
Thats is if you want to and they do not. I can only imagine what living forever does to the brain too.
I think there will be a time the human mind will be able to be transferred into a computer like brain that will allow a person to continue existance forever.
On my end, I think a person should allow nature to take its course and when dead to move on into the spirit world as God intended.
Then again to each his own.
Why do people keep saying that, if science gets to a point where it can make someone immortal, it would be able to make everyone immortal. You are thinking about it as if only you could be immortal and not anyone else.
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I know getting a negative rating does not mean you get excluded from DT, im not new here. It just seems counterproductive to have DT members with negative ratings from other DT members. If they can't trust each other why should we?
I'm don't trust all DT members... being in DT1 just means Theymos trusts you - it doesn't mean you are a trustworthy and moral person... Yes and I personally always tell people to look at the ratings and references and do their research if they are going to engage in any sort of trade. I'm just pointing out some of the ridiculousness of the system like a global moderator with negative trust or DT members throwing negatives to each other.
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