Knowing what's wrong and what's bad fall under Philosophy. Where do you base your point of view that it is bad or wrong? That's why most theist put an argument saying "atheist are evil because they don't have morality, how can they base what's wrong and what's right?"
The difference is that atheists do good because they think it is the right thing to do. On the other hand, theists do good for fear of revenge and for their selfish interest. That's why when we talk about morality, theist always read up their bible and condone that it is wrong to be homosexual, why it is bad? But for atheist, it is not bad to do something as long as you don't harm or hurt anyone, that's the simplest form I can tell as an Atheist. God set up the universe according to laws. People broke the basic of these laws - to love God above all things - and then started breaking many of the others as well. When God sent His Son, Jesus, to die on the cross so that there could be salvation for people, was the death on the cross God's doing? or people's? God is hurt in frustration pain (if nothing else) whenever people do wrong. Why? Because they are leading themselves away from faith in God and towards eternal damnation, the thing that Jesus went through a lot of pain, and even death, to save people from.  If jesus plan to die on the cross, was that god's plan? if yes then he clearly violated the free will he give on humans. It's like making an option when there's really no option to choose. Jesus willingly did the plan of God... died on the cross to save mankind. Certainly Jesus will receive great benefit from this sacrifice. But He did it freely and willingly, even though He didn't like the pain any more than you or I would. |
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I am really fascinated everytime I heard a news about new found planets. It gives me excitement. How do it look like? How far is it from the earth? And is there someone living on that place? Are plants and animals present on that new found planet?
In case that we, humans, can live there, I think it is impossible for all of us to get there. It will takes a lon period of time. Plus, rich people will the only one to get there.
If there was no imperfection in the world, people would live forever... in excellent health. Think of all the scientific knowledge that could have been gained so far, by people never dying so that their children have to relearn the knowledge. Go to http://www.luminist.org/archives/, scroll down to "Ray Bradbury," and download, for free, a copy of his book "R is for Rocket." It is in PDF format, and is available, free. Then look in the book for the short story "Frost and Fire," at page 160. It's a good read. The point is, we are like the people of "Frost and Fire." We should all be living for thousands of years, at least. The planets out there were made, by God, for us to go to in a time when there would be standing room only on the earth. If we had not turned against God, He would have found a way long ago for us to go to the stars. |
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Mompiche is a reasonably good sized expat area for people from the U.S. and Canada. This is a totally wrong idea how to have a gay sex and not be hitted by Earthquike. Seems, You lobby a exodus from Northern America to other countries of gays, wich You call "does illicit sex". The right mode to survive the Earthquake after gay gang bang party is a living in the yurta.      This are a 100% Safe For Gays Anti Earthquake Houses. Okay, I was saying that no matter how gay anybody is, people from the U.S. and Canada have God in their living, simply because they do the things of God automatically, because of teaching handed down from their ancestry. Homosexuality is wrong and bad. But homosexuality in a Christian is forgiven by God, simply because the person is a Christian. However, if he/she doesn't turn away from homosexuality, it will gradually drive his/her faith in God out of his/her life. I like your building in the pictures, though. Easy to attack and tear down. |
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Brain Ransomware The Government is Ransomware for your Brain
One of the unfortunate developments in the digital age is the manifestation of a new type of computer virus know as Ransomware. The Ransomware is sent to the target computer and when this virus infects the target computer it encrypts the data on the hard drive making it unusable. A very professional letter is then displayed to the computer owner. It informs them their data has been encrypted for their "protection". However if they do not pay the ransom payable in bitcoins in a short period of time they will lose their data forever.
Since I have been involved with Crypto-currency, I have had more calls than l want to count to sell people bitcoins needed to pay this Ransomware fee. Usually it is businesses that are targeted as most home users when hit with this virus, reload the operating system and kiss their pictures goodbye The price usually is about $700 worth of bitcoin. Once they pay the fee, a key is sent to the customer that allows them to return their computers to their unencrypted state. I hate going on these calls, because bitcoin is the most amazing technology to make the world a better place and yet for most of these people, this is their first exposure to it. The principle reason that bitcoin is used is because it is anonymous and the ransomware customer can not reverse the transaction once the key is received and the computer is unencrpyted.
So right now, I am using my computer just as you are as well, I go to my email and open an attachment and OMG now the computers all phuked up. The government "works" the same way. I am going along minding my own business, enjoying my life and along comes this violent criminal organization that places a virus on my brain known to most as "government". This violent criminal organization, known as the BORG, just loves to get into my business and your business too, in fact your business IS their only business! Every time I want to do something, somehow without my permission I find I have to engage with the BORG. Everything they do is for RANSOM!
Everybody else in the 3 dimensional world generally operates by persuasion, being nice and offering choices and convenience. Through the laws of supply and demand they must add value to the transaction or they become obsolete. However this violent criminal organization doesn't operate like that at all. They operates through violence, threat of violence, kidnapping, theft, killing, fraud and RANSOM! I can only imagine how much more effective I could be as a salesman, if I could only lock my customers in a cage for a while, to persuade them into needing my product and determine for them what they need to pay for it.
Whenever I have to deal with these criminals I feel like I have gotten ectoplasm on me, like the goo they had on "Ghostbusters". The only way to get it off, is to pay them a Ransom! At least with the Ransomware, once you remove it from your computer you only have to pay them once. With the government, they have set up a convenient system, for them of course, to keep getting payed over and over and over again. The government can be very very hard to get out of ones life. Every time you turnaround they want money and if your don't pay them, they hold you HOSTAGE!
I want to buy food and if "you're" living ... Read more at https://steemit.com/borg/@morpheustitania/the-government-is-ransomware-for-your-brain.
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Neither money nor wealth is necessarily wrong or bad. Taking your focus off God is what is wrong. Applying greed to wealth makes it worse. Is there a God?? how long does it take people to find it?? Just cause someone wants God to be true desnt make him true, especially since it says on the Dollar Bill "In God we trust", so I seriously doubt it that there is god Because the US Government is the last organization that should use God in the same sentence with anything they do or stand for or liberty for that matter but this is another Story The "God" that is mentioned on the money, is the money itself. Lots of people love money... especially of the Jews, who had formerly been God's chosen nation. Science has proven that God exists. Nature shows that God exists. |
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Because bitcoin is the product of devil?  Everything that people make is essentially a product of the devil in part. In the Revelation, it talks about Satan being released from the abyss (his grave) for a short time. Probably this will happen through a bunch of people who are against God, getting together in enough of a joint effort that, Satan, who is in all of us in at least a small way, will be reproduced in them enough so that his "soul" will be returned to his body (of people), and it will be as though he were alive again. |
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I am sure Trump will be the next president. He will bring economic prosperity.  to himself Right! Trump's campaign for the people is all "trumped up," pun intended. |
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Knowing what's wrong and what's bad fall under Philosophy. Where do you base your point of view that it is bad or wrong? That's why most theist put an argument saying "atheist are evil because they don't have morality, how can they base what's wrong and what's right?"
The difference is that atheists do good because they think it is the right thing to do. On the other hand, theists do good for fear of revenge and for their selfish interest. That's why when we talk about morality, theist always read up their bible and condone that it is wrong to be homosexual, why it is bad? But for atheist, it is not bad to do something as long as you don't harm or hurt anyone, that's the simplest form I can tell as an Atheist. God set up the universe according to laws. People broke the basic of these laws - to love God above all things - and then started breaking many of the others as well. When God sent His Son, Jesus, to die on the cross so that there could be salvation for people, was the death on the cross God's doing? or people's? God is hurt in frustration pain (if nothing else) whenever people do wrong. Why? Because they are leading themselves away from faith in God and towards eternal damnation, the thing that Jesus went through a lot of pain, and even death, to save people from. |
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Knowing what's wrong and what's bad fall under Philosophy. Where do you base your point of view that it is bad or wrong? That's why most theist put an argument saying "atheist are evil because they don't have morality, how can they base what's wrong and what's right?"
The difference is that atheists do good because they think it is the right thing to do. On the other hand, theists do good for fear of revenge and for their selfish interest. Just because atheists think something is the right thing to do, doesn't mean it IS the right thing to do. Honest humble theists do good with the idea of saving others from eternal death and damnation. |
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I wanted to thank you, again, for helping to prove that 9/11 was an inside job.
It doesn't prove government was massively behind 9/11. The madness of individuals is more probable than the madness of nations. But the criminality of nations is far greater than the criminality of individual people? Why? Because they are working together, thereby helping each other in ways an individual can't do on his own. |
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M4.2 - 13km SSE of Ridgemark, California
2016-07-19 21:38:38 UTC 36.692°N 121.327°W 5.6 km depth
How do you explain countries with no (damaging) earth quakes? I'm not drawing conclusions here, but... That big 7.8 earthquake in Ecuador two or three months ago, had its epicenter a couple of miles south of Mompiche on the Pacific coast of Ecuador. The greatest damages where done south and east of the epicenter, as much as 200 miles away, past the capital city of Quito. Hundreds of people were killed in the quake. Much damage was done to buildings. But Mompiche, only a couple of miles north of the epicenter, reported only about 12 buildings collapsed, and only a few minor injuries to people - nothing like deaths. Mompiche is a reasonably good sized expat area for people from the U.S. and Canada. |
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Scientists have calculated that Earth is 4.54 billion years old, with an error range of 50 million years.
still here is no conformation about this, the scientist are still confused about this. they are giving different ideas and figure about the age of the world. i think that is only Allah who know the real age of the earth and only he can know the ending date of the Earth. Appeal to ignorance and putting therefore it is god. Remove your head out of your ass to avoid thinking this poorly. If you think science confuse you then don't use the things that scientist made and discovered, go back in stone age life. Nobody has to talk about God to see that the scientists who calculate the age of the earth constantly use limiting words as disclaimers so that they can protect themselves from libel. This is the way they tell us, themselves, that they don't know that what they are telling us is factual. Scientist may not tell the absolute truth but they can tell part of it and it means to us. I believe in scientist because unlike religion claiming certaing things, they claim a certain fact by observing and gathering data. It means it was scrutinized before presented as fact. For example. Scientists can tell the truth of the half-life of C-14. Because of this, if the C-14 creation rate in the atmosphere was always the same as it is now, scientists could accurately date things. The point is, scientists don't know if the C-14 creation rate was always the same. In fact, they don't know if there was any C-14 created in the atmosphere at all beyond about 5,000 years ago. So, we don't need all the examples of carbon dating inaccuracies that abound right now. We can see that nobody knows the truth using scientific means. EDIT: If this was all, we could say that science simply made a mistake. But the fact that they don't tell you that they don't know, shows that they are deceptive, and shouldn't be believed without personal examination of EVERYTHING that they say. It could be a foundation to base things, even though they might be wrong then what's wrong with that? As long as they are changeable it will never be a big deal. If they see something that is a mistake they can easily remove that data and look for another, scientist are doing trial and error until they get things that may suit things right. I easily agree with this in many scientists. But not in others. A scientist does some scientific studies, and tells someone what he found. Then other scientists, the media, the governments and even book-writers take his information and say all kinds of "stuff" about it. Then, average people read or hear about this information from: 1. The scientist who does the original studies; 2. Other scientists, the media, the governments and even book-writers; 3. And from their ignorant friends and neighbors. We get different stories from all over the place. So we need to screw our heads on, and take a good look at the stories to see how they match logic and the whole of science. The point isn't that scientists make mistakes at times, and other times they don't. The point isn't that science is changeable in some thing, and maybe not in other things. The point is that anybody who claims he is telling the facts, when he knows that he might not be telling the facts, is an absolute liar. If we are truly attempting to be honest, we need to do due diligence on everything that we proclaim as fact before we proclaim it as fact. But if we find that we were mistaken in our claims, we need to confess our mistake. Scientists are not stupid. They know that they don't know how old the universe and earth are. But it comes down to us as 13 to 15 billion years... like it is a fact. Who is the liar? |
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Watch this. Where do you find the 666 number? In the Revelation in the Bible. Where else in the Bible do you find the 666 number in an important way, besides in the Revelation? In the two place where it talks about how much gold Solomon took out of Africa. Every year for 18 years Solomon mined 666 talents of Gold in Africa, and brought it home to the land of Israel. How much was a talent in weight? From http://christianity.about.com/od/glossary/a/Talent.htm: The talent was the heaviest or largest biblical unit of measurement for weight, equal to about 75 pounds or 35 kilograms. This means that every year for 18 years Solomon brought home about 25 troy tons of gold from Africa. What's the value of 25 troy tons in our reckoning? About $795,000,000. Nice haul each year for 18 years, right? So, what's the point? The point is simply this. The 666 number in the forehead or hand means thinking about getting or working to get the thing that the 666 number stands for. In Solomon's day it might have been limited to gold. But in our day, the greatest example of it is WEALTH. Are you out there trying to get ever more money... ever more land... ever more bitcoins... ever more WEALTH? You got the 666 number on you and you didn't even realize it. You better throw yourself down before God in prayer, and ask Him to remove the 666 number from you before it is too late. P.S. Why do you think that modern Israel loves their land? They have the gold! wow mindblowing comment however i would have lots of questions now?? why is it bad to strive for more money more power more wealth?? whats wrong with showing the wealth?? the reason jews dont like showing money is because it says somewhere dont brag with stolen stuff israelis, whites stole everything from around the world, weather it was gold, oil, natural ressources and even people thats the only thing they really good at is stealing and lieing I just watched brother Polight Yesterday talking about showing gold and wealth and how it is forbidden or fround upon if blacks show it got the link here, i think we on the same page https://steemit.com/money/@nioctib/your-wealth-is-determined-by-how-you-think-of-yourselfNeither money nor wealth is necessarily wrong or bad. Taking your focus off God is what is wrong. Applying greed to wealth makes it worse. |
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I am sure Trump will be the next president. He will bring economic prosperity. The only economic prosperity that can come, will come when we get rid of the Federal Reserve Bank and the debt money system. This will eliminate income taxes. Trump isn't talking about this stuff. Trump won't bring prosperity. He is simply another side of a many faceted coin... a coin that is out there to plunder the people. |
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I'm simply not explaining God from any religious point of view. Don't forget, science is religion. Because cause and effect exist with entropy, there must have been a beginning to this universe. Before there was a beginning, there must have been something able to configure the universe before it existed. This something was highly intelligent to be able to make cause and effect produce the intelligence of man after thousand of years of cause and effect activity. Think it through. Whatever IT is, IT matches our definitions of "God." Id have to disagree. I wouldnt consider something like the big bang as a god. Not all religions have a god expressed. Since Big Bang isn't fact, believing it is, makes it religion to the believer. A god would have to be a sentient being with some intelligence like you say and if it was around to create the universe as you use in your arguments then its logical to think that something must have created this being because it couldnt have made itself. So does your god have a God? It must do. Everything that we understand, we understand according to the universe that we live in. Whatever made the universe exist, existed outside of the universe. This doesn't mean that it absolutely can't come into the universe now that the universe exists, but it DOES mean that it will always have aspects of itself that are entirely different from anything in the universe.
And if your god denies it has a god then perhaps your god will burn in a hell for eternity?
If God has a god, such a thing is so extremely outside of anything that we can consider, that it is absolutely an invalid question for us. Why? We barely know about the existence of God and a few of His attributes. What He is like in His GREATNESS is completely beyond us. |
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The bible clearly stated that in the time of Noah and even after, there were giants (hybrids formed from women and demons).
These giants - of course being strong - could have done all those things that we need machines for nowadays.
Yes only we've never found the remains of these giants, there s more likelihood that we where using jcbs to do all the work back then. Probably the more realistic idea to be honest. whats jcbs? I might just buy that giants actually. giants had been written on the bible and there were remains of giants being discovered as i can see on youtube. even today there are giants. Aren't tigers giant form of cats?  JCB is the most common brand of mechanical diggers availible. Those videos on giants that you may have seen on youtube have been proven to be fake for sometime now. Theres no doubt that we had people back then that some would tyhink as of giants just like we do in this day and age but not to the extent that they would make moving large rocks any easier. For this you need either hydraulics or mass slavery. Both work quite well. But the argument still stands that if we had this advanced technology in the past then why do we not have any remnants of it now? Nothing has been dug up containing electronics metal or any other kind of advanced machines. I got it Its not popular in our country. its usually the Caterpillar that I notice most of what the construction companies. its been said that the granite stones as big as those blocks of the pyramids can't be lifted by these heavy lifting inventions really. so yeh i still believe giants exists. the environment before is healthier than today infact people live up to 800 years old. People didn't live till they where 800 years old back then. They would have been extremely lucky to reach 30, in fact 30 would have been considored old. I think you should not take the Bible or any religious text as your main source of facts, it is extremely outdated and even more inaccurate than it is outdated. The conditions we live in now are far healthier than they have ever been and generically our age is limited. The Bible says that people lived that long back then. Why can we trust the Bible? Because it hasn't changed. The Book of Isaiah in the Bible was written about 2,500 years ago. We have found copies of Isaiah in the Dead Sea Scrolls. These copies have been dated to around 2,300 years ago. They are almost the same as the copies we have today. What is the significance of this? Here's what. The Bible was copied accurately by the stubborn people of Israel over thousands of years. Moses, who wrote about the people who lived 800 years wrote accurately. Israel scribes copied what he wrote accurately. What he wrote was important enough for them to copy because the things they wrote about him were truth - the miracles in Egypt, and the things that he said and did when he met with God. Moses, being a prince of Egypt, wrote from the records that Egypt had 3,500 years ago. Those records have fallen to dust long ago. But Israel scribes preserved it accurately for us for all time in the Bible record. In addition, even our science that shows that entropy is working in everything, shows that our age limits are breaking down, just as all complexity does. In addition, there are 3 or 4 places around the world (Hunzas and Vilcabamba are 2 of them) where people live well over 100 years, all without modern technology. Rather, Google "pollution" and look at the pictures to see how we are destroying the earth with our modern technology. because its so old is the reason you should be discrediting everything in it. the people from that time where uneducated compared with todays standards . Absolutly anyone could have written that book and chances are it would have been someone in power who would just write what he wants which means making up whatever he wants. Its absolutely shocking that the bible can even be taught as fact, In this day and age people should not be taught false information. Anything taught should be based on hard facts which the bible contains none. The people of today, even combined, are totally ignorant when compared with God. And that's a totally ignorant comment to make. Your blindly assuming on "faith" that such a god exists. And all you have to back up your claim is a completely outdated story book written in a time when things where far different than they are now. Its time to give up your gods and move on. One simple example that bears out what I say is this: People can't make life. People can barely make robots that can reproduce a little... if they are given enough "stuff" that it takes for them to reproduce. So far, the closest that people have come to making reproduction is in some computer programs - all virtual. Now, look at nature and see the countless thousands of varieties of life that abound all over the place, and reproduce in vast multitudes so great as to virtually make it even impossible for man to erradicate it all should man so decide. ---------- Science is the story book that proves God exists. If God didn't exist we wouldn't have at least one of the three (but really, none of them). The three are: 1. cause and effect; 2. complex universe; 3. universal entropy. You have a brain, right? Think it through. Since the above 3 items of science exist, God must exist. I am not talking about God as described by any religion. I am simply talking the real God. If your not talking about god as described by religion then what god are you talking about? are you just talking about nature? Because in the religious sense of what a god is science only proves that there is most likely no god. And the bible is proof of nothing other than humans being good story tellers. I'm simply not explaining God from any religious point of view. Don't forget, science is religion. Because cause and effect exist with entropy, there must have been a beginning to this universe. Before there was a beginning, there must have been something able to configure the universe before it existed. This something was highly intelligent to be able to make cause and effect produce the intelligence of man after thousand of years of cause and effect activity. Think it through. Whatever IT is, IT matches our definitions of "God." |
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By the time 1 Satoshi = $1, a loaf of bread will cost $billions. |
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If the bible is proof of god then the comic book is proof of the super hero.
Man made the comic book. God made the Bible through man. God made the super hero. |
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The bible clearly stated that in the time of Noah and even after, there were giants (hybrids formed from women and demons).
These giants - of course being strong - could have done all those things that we need machines for nowadays.
Yes only we've never found the remains of these giants, there s more likelihood that we where using jcbs to do all the work back then. Probably the more realistic idea to be honest. whats jcbs? I might just buy that giants actually. giants had been written on the bible and there were remains of giants being discovered as i can see on youtube. even today there are giants. Aren't tigers giant form of cats? JCB is the most common brand of mechanical diggers availible. Those videos on giants that you may have seen on youtube have been proven to be fake for sometime now. Theres no doubt that we had people back then that some would tyhink as of giants just like we do in this day and age but not to the extent that they would make moving large rocks any easier. For this you need either hydraulics or mass slavery. Both work quite well. But the argument still stands that if we had this advanced technology in the past then why do we not have any remnants of it now? Nothing has been dug up containing electronics metal or any other kind of advanced machines. I got it Its not popular in our country. its usually the Caterpillar that I notice most of what the construction companies. its been said that the granite stones as big as those blocks of the pyramids can't be lifted by these heavy lifting inventions really. so yeh i still believe giants exists. the environment before is healthier than today infact people live up to 800 years old. People didn't live till they where 800 years old back then. They would have been extremely lucky to reach 30, in fact 30 would have been considored old. I think you should not take the Bible or any religious text as your main source of facts, it is extremely outdated and even more inaccurate than it is outdated. The conditions we live in now are far healthier than they have ever been and generically our age is limited. The Bible says that people lived that long back then. Why can we trust the Bible? Because it hasn't changed. The Book of Isaiah in the Bible was written about 2,500 years ago. We have found copies of Isaiah in the Dead Sea Scrolls. These copies have been dated to around 2,300 years ago. They are almost the same as the copies we have today. What is the significance of this? Here's what. The Bible was copied accurately by the stubborn people of Israel over thousands of years. Moses, who wrote about the people who lived 800 years wrote accurately. Israel scribes copied what he wrote accurately. What he wrote was important enough for them to copy because the things they wrote about him were truth - the miracles in Egypt, and the things that he said and did when he met with God. Moses, being a prince of Egypt, wrote from the records that Egypt had 3,500 years ago. Those records have fallen to dust long ago. But Israel scribes preserved it accurately for us for all time in the Bible record. In addition, even our science that shows that entropy is working in everything, shows that our age limits are breaking down, just as all complexity does. In addition, there are 3 or 4 places around the world (Hunzas and Vilcabamba are 2 of them) where people live well over 100 years, all without modern technology. Rather, Google "pollution" and look at the pictures to see how we are destroying the earth with our modern technology. because its so old is the reason you should be discrediting everything in it. the people from that time where uneducated compared with todays standards . Absolutly anyone could have written that book and chances are it would have been someone in power who would just write what he wants which means making up whatever he wants. Its absolutely shocking that the bible can even be taught as fact, In this day and age people should not be taught false information. Anything taught should be based on hard facts which the bible contains none. The people of today, even combined, are totally ignorant when compared with God. And that's a totally ignorant comment to make. Your blindly assuming on "faith" that such a god exists. And all you have to back up your claim is a completely outdated story book written in a time when things where far different than they are now. Its time to give up your gods and move on. One simple example that bears out what I say is this: People can't make life. People can barely make robots that can reproduce a little... if they are given enough "stuff" that it takes for them to reproduce. So far, the closest that people have come to making reproduction is in some computer programs - all virtual. Now, look at nature and see the countless thousands of varieties of life that abound all over the place, and reproduce in vast multitudes so great as to virtually make it even impossible for man to erradicate it all should man so decide. ---------- Science is the story book that proves God exists. If God didn't exist we wouldn't have at least one of the three (but really, none of them). The three are: 1. cause and effect; 2. complex universe; 3. universal entropy. You have a brain, right? Think it through. Since the above 3 items of science exist, God must exist. I am not talking about God as described by any religion. I am simply talking the real God. |
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Five takeaways from Day 1 of the GOP convention CLEVELAND — Darkness fell in Cleveland.
Ronald Reagan, the candidate Donald Trump most aspires to be, cheerily conjured the image of "Morning in America" in both of his winning presidential campaigns, blunting the edge of the harder-edged conservatism of his earlier career. On the first night of Donald Trump's Republican National Convention — personally stage-managed by the nominee — a blackout curtain of unrelenting gloom was lowered on the Quicken Loans Center in service of his slogan "Make America Safe Again."
A majority of Americans see the country on the wrong track, for sure, but polls don't illustrate a population gripped by widespread death-metal doom. Yet for about two prime-time hours, viewers were hit with a relentless recitation of death, anger, danger, helplessness, blood, murder, fear and terror — graphic stories about Benghazi, crimes committed by illegal immigrants and out-of-control terrorism abetted by Hillary Clinton.
It was no surprise, given the country's-on-fire tone of Trump's primary message (his campaign book was titled "Crippled America," after all) and to some extent it was an unconventional rendition of a conventional convention tactic: vividly illustrating the perils so that the nominee, who speaks on Thursday, can offer his white-horse optimistic solution to the nation's problems.
Still, laying out the case for Trump in such stark terms illustrated the weakness of a campaign he calls "a movement" bigger than himself. There's a fragility to Trumpism in the absence of Trump's personal presence — what a bummer it was hearing all that lousy news without the leavening of the candidate's offbeat humor and the power of his personality.
Here are five takeaways from a first day filled with convention-floor conflict, poor stage management, flashes of powerful anti-Hillary messaging and Melaniagate.
1. Trump is an apprentice at running a convention. There were moments of clarity and power (Sheriff David Clarke delivered a clarion message for "Blue Lives Matters" — and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani talked about the candidate's "big heart"), but for the most part, the shaggy program wasn't up to the production standards of Trump's TV shows.
This is not a small matter. Read more at http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/rnc-2016-takeaways-225790.
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