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31161  Other / Off-topic / Re: Is science a religion? on: March 30, 2016, 11:20:50 PM
Well, science is not religion and it doesn't just come down to faith. Although it has many of religion's virtues, it has none of its vices. Science is based upon verifiable evidence. Religious faith not only lacks evidence, its independence from evidence is its pride and joy, shouted from the rooftops.

Except for one thing. The definition of "science."

Within the definition of science as it is defined among scientists, is science theory. Science theory might seem to be fact, it might have lots of evidence, but it is not fact necessarily. When science theory is heralded and believed to be fact, when it is known that it might not be fact, it becomes religion. And in that way science is religion.

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31162  Other / Off-topic / Re: Is science a religion? on: March 30, 2016, 10:21:22 PM
While many in main stream science claim to be atheist and believe in the Big Bang and the eventual Deep Freeze due to entropy. Is it not curious to consider that the very underpinnings of this belief is based on mathematics, was it too created in the big bang? if so how was it constructed? one digit at a time?

I think not it has always been there and will always remain its an eternal masterpiece that permeates every conceivable facet or reality yet in its self it is purely abstract. Without it nothing would exist, but it in itself it is nonexistent and existent at the same time. It is the language of the living universe. Its permutations are infinite, yet it did not grow, it has always been complete and eternal.          

Do you smoke your weed before or after reading from your holy book?

From the nonsense you posted, I conclude you are a Muslim.

Eternal masterpiece?  Shoot, the weed you are smoking is gooood.

Our universe the most hostile environment to life that you could imagine.  

Mwahahahahaha!   Talk about smoking weed.

Hostile environment!? Hehehe. How many species of life are there on earth? Thousands, maybe millions. Even if we set off all our nukes at strategic locations, at least many forms of microbes and plant life, and probably some animal life, would survive.

Shoot, the weed you are smoking really IS gooood.

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31163  Other / Politics & Society / Re: US scholar: Muslims have nothing to do with 9/11 on: March 30, 2016, 10:16:22 PM
It was a miracle. Two airliners weighing altogether 300 tons practically reduced to dust three out of two skyscrapers weighing 1,250,000 tons.

It was a U.S. government remote controlled miracle - two humongous drones.    Cool
31164  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Atheism and Health on: March 30, 2016, 06:03:01 PM

Is there anything that people do NOT know? Does everyone know everything? Silly questions, right?

Our knowledge, knowledge that is absolute fact, is a fraction of that which is available to know. As we gather knowledge little by little, we ofter formulate many opinions about that which we have found out.

Why should we wait around for science to tell us the details about God? Most of these details will forever be something that science will not be able to discern, anyway. Rather, now that science and nature have shown us that God exists, let's look for things that God has been telling us. Let's understand the logic of them, rather than waiting around for the next hundred thousand years until science can tell us a little.

This is what Christianity is all about. It is about God talking to us, showing us things that we could never find out through science, so that we have the opportunity to gain eternal life in peace and joy, a thing that science might never be able to prove in a million years, even though it is the absolute truth.

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Tired of this user keep on appealing to ignorance and filling the answers with god of the gaps.
So that's why you don't reply much. You are tired.

What do you mean by "god of the gaps?" Do you think that it is ignorance of what you mean by "god of the gaps" that this user appeals to?


Of course we don't know anything but that doesn't prove your god , it's not a bad thing to answer ''We don't know''

Of course lack of knowing very much of anything doesn't prove that the God of the universe exists. It is the knowing part that proves God exists.

Science shows us that cause and effect, complex universe, and universal entropy exist together in this universe. Since they exist together in the same universe as they do, God must exist. If God didn't exist, one or more of these 3 facts would have to not exist, as well.

As it is, cause and effect almost prove that God exists all by itself. The fact that we don't know much about God through scientific observation, doesn't suggest that He doesn't exist.

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31165  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Christianity is Poison on: March 30, 2016, 04:58:09 PM
I just did a search through the whole Bible. I didn't find the word "cherry" even once.    Cheesy
31166  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Christianity is Poison on: March 30, 2016, 04:43:04 PM
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P.S. The fact that you are actually pursuing a discussion with BADecker (@BADecker No offense, but you seem to be leaning towards the aforementioned "zealously religious fundamentalist nut" with quite a few of your statements and your generally "enlightened" tone) regarding religion already shows that you seem to be picking easier targets just so you could win somewhere

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Check #6 of the definition of "religion" at http://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion?s=t. Everyone is religious. Perhaps people in a coma are most religious, being adamantly stuck in the way they think.

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I prefer the Cambridge University Press' traditional (#1) definition of "religion":

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the ​belief in and ​worship of a ​god or ​gods, or any such ​system of ​belief and ​worship

Source: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/religion

I don't consider a set of beliefs that doesn't include some sort of belief in an entity (entities) that are responsible for the creation of the universal system (I'll repeat what I already mentioned: that being governed by natural laws such as gravity, the existence of light and various parameters that it follows when interacting with materials, the fact that materials are comprised of molecules, which are made up of atoms, which are made up of protons, neutrons and electrons, which are made up of..., etc.) we live in. That's why Atheism is not religion, but rejection of religion.
Atheism is a religion for this simple reason, if nothing else. Science and nature have proven that God exists. Atheism has not proven God does not exist. When atheism sets itself up against the facts in the light of having no facts to sustain itself, it is calling itself "God" in one way or another. Perhaps this would not be so if the point were not regarding God. This makes atheism a religion of non-religion, a self-contradictory religion.


Let's keep it on-topic though.

P.S. BADecker, your "enlightened" tone is not going to get you anywhere: you won't prove anything to me nor to anyone else, that isn't already in agreement with you.

Okay. The only thing that I was trying to prove is, that I am not trying to prove anything. Sounds like I might have proven it to you.

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31167  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Christianity is Poison on: March 30, 2016, 04:23:12 PM
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P.S. The fact that you are actually pursuing a discussion with BADecker (@BADecker No offense, but you seem to be leaning towards the aforementioned "zealously religious fundamentalist nut" with quite a few of your statements and your generally "enlightened" tone) regarding religion already shows that you seem to be picking easier targets just so you could win somewhere

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Check #6 of the definition of "religion" at http://www.dictionary.com/browse/religion?s=t. Everyone is religious. Perhaps people in a coma are most religious, being adamantly stuck in the way they think.

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31168  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Christianity is Poison on: March 30, 2016, 04:06:09 PM
Revelation is a little bit difficult to understand. Some of it is literal, and some figurative. Some of it talks about the future, some about the past, some about all times.

This isn't simply a problem with Revelation... it's a problem with the entire bible...

How do you decide which part is literal vs metaphor?  I read the bible... God did not include any hints or footnotes about what is meant to be literal vs metaphor...

Who are you to decide that God meant something metaphorically, instead of the way He literally wrote the bible? (Is God the author, or you?)

Do you really think you are qualified to be God's editor/interpreter of the bible?

Let me use the example of our legal laws in the United States. When you read the laws, they mean what they say. Over and over courts and judges have taken little pieces of previous court cases, and interpreted what the actual words say, to be applied to their particular new court case.

Regarding the Bible, while it might be difficult to understand what is being said regarding literal and metaphorical, usually the explanation is right in front of us. For example, if the Bible says something like, "I saw what looked like a ...," the wording itself is stating that the following parts are figurative. They state it in the words "look like." Then, when you watch the punctuation for a new thought, and it says something like, "Then I saw an angel coming down...," there is a change from the figurative to the literal.

Unfortunately, God is so much greater than we are, that His operations can barely be made simple enough for us to understand. For example, playing chess is relatively easy. Knowing how to win or at least draw from every "play" is not so easy. We are finding that computers can be built to beat even the greatest chess masters, in every game. So, why would we think that we can understand everything that God says in a universe that is many times more complex than a chess game?

The point about the Bible is, there is that which is literal, and can be understood by almost anyone. There is part that is figurative and can be understood by almost anyone. But there are going to be parts that will not be understood easily, and maybe a few that will not be understood at all, but are there just to show the greatness of God.

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31169  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Atheism and Health on: March 30, 2016, 03:48:53 PM
@Badecker

Should you ever get your own religious tv show i will for sure buy some shares of it ^^

Thank you... I think.

This stuff is written in the Bible. The Bible scholars have said and showed the parts of it for hundreds of years, even if they haven't put them together quite the way that I have.

However, even if I am wrong in some of what I think, the basics of Jesus salvation, the New Heavens and the New Earth, the lake of fire, the enemies of God including Satan and the people who side with him against God going into the lake of fire, are among many simple truths that are expressed in the Bible.

Be among those who are saved.



If that is tl;dr, how about a Venn diagram?



Is there anything that people do NOT know? Does everyone know everything? Silly questions, right?

Our knowledge, knowledge that is absolute fact, is a fraction of that which is available to know. As we gather knowledge little by little, we ofter formulate many opinions about that which we have found out.

Why should we wait around for science to tell us the details about God? Most of these details will forever be something that science will not be able to discern, anyway. Rather, now that science and nature have shown us that God exists, let's look for things that God has been telling us. Let's understand the logic of them, rather than waiting around for the next hundred thousand years until science can tell us a little.

This is what Christianity is all about. It is about God talking to us, showing us things that we could never find out through science, so that we have the opportunity to gain eternal life in peace and joy, a thing that science might never be able to prove in a million years, even though it is the absolute truth.

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31170  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Christianity is Poison on: March 30, 2016, 03:35:52 PM
Hey, a testable prediction! Can you give us an estimate of when exactly you think Moloch's self-destruction will close in on him? I'd like to check it for accuracy.

Questions such as this one sometimes require observation over a few generations to decisively answer.

I'm happy for BADecker to claim a confidence interval for his claim. Otherwise it's just so much hot air.

Consider Revelation 9:6:
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During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them.

Revelation is a little bit difficult to understand. Some of it is literal, and some figurative. Some of it talks about the future, some about the past, some about all times.

Some scholars consider that the above passage refers to the next age... the New Heavens and the New earth "time," which is also the Lake of Fire "time," which is the time of the eternal hereafter.

Personally, while I am not entirely decided, I think the above passage talks about a present universe time that is coming up shortly. I think that God will allow modern research to discover a method whereby people can medicate themselves in some marvelous way, so that they live indefinitely.

What might this indefinite life include? It might include the ability to grow new limbs where old ones are lost. It might include the capability to increase the abilities of certain organs to do their job and function, such as night-sight in those who opt for it. It might include something as complex as short-distance telepathy.

Modern science and medical research is already a ways into developing some of these things. Consider, for example, the M1 and M2 "genes." Deactivate the M1, and you automatically live 50% longer, provided you can deactivate it simultaneously throughout your whole system. Control the switching on and off of the M2 gene, and your cells will continue to divide indefinitely in a good way.

The M1 and M2 gene controls are coming. They need to be absolute controls, or there will be side effects. But the knowledge of these genes and some of their operations have been around for more than two decades. And the controls are coming. These genes are only two little research areas that might free people from death when they are finally controlled.

The point is, Moloch would be one of those who would opt for this kind of life-without-end. It might be available to him within his lifetime. This means that nobody would be able to tell for sure when Moloch's self-destruction would actually finalize. Of course, it would be set in place - and maybe is already - because he might have already locked himself irreversibly into his resistance against God.

Moloch's actual destruction would, then, come at the Judgment Day. Jesus tells us that nobody knows exactly when that time will be... the time of His return.

A thought regarding the Revelation passage above: Will there ever come a time that people will want to die, but won't be able to? Almost nobody really wants to die. But a few people have been in such great pain or trauma that they have thought that they wanted to die, and have wished for it.

Imagine that you are medicated to live indefinitely, and that you actually cannot die because of it. Imagine that you remain alive through the pain and trauma of a Mexican drug cartel, or an ISIS dismembering. Imagine that you are burned in a literal fire, and wherever your molecules go, you remain alive with them, feeling the pain of complete "dissolution" without any way to stop it. Imagine riding yourself out like that, within a nuclear blast.

As things stand right now, nobody comes back from true death, even though doctors may seem to bring people back from death now and again. Now, think about the pain that you have when you get a cut on your finger. Or, remember the pain of a broken bone that you had in the past. We don't know for a scientific fact that dead people are not experiencing total-body pain through all time to come after they die. What would it be like if the doctor could fix you to live forever, bodily, even if you were totally obliterated?

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31171  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Christianity is Poison on: March 30, 2016, 04:42:18 AM
Isaiah 14: On the day the LORD gives you relief from suffering and turmoil and cruel bondage, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon Moloch:
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“I will rise up against them,”
declares the LORD Almighty.
“I will cut off from Babylon her Moloch his name and survivors,
her offspring and descendants,”
declares the LORD.

I love it!
Of course you love it... destruction.


Now you are speaking for God?  How very christian of you Wink

Isn't that blasphemy?
Changing the word of God?
Using God's name in vain?
Fits you so well. If I am sinning slightly, I will be forgiven. You, however, have a long way to go to be removed from destruction.



Which commandment was that again?

I suppose it's #2 if you are a catholic, and #3 if you are a protestant...
Did you know that protestants and catholics don't even believe the same 10-commandments?



Both sets of commandments are listed in the Torah. The emphasis lies not in the legalistic use of the law, but in loving obedience... love for God first, and then love for your fellow people.

Your self-destruction is closing in on you.

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31172  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Atheism and Health on: March 29, 2016, 06:52:39 PM
@Badecker

Should you ever get your own religious tv show i will for sure buy some shares of it ^^

Thank you... I think.

This stuff is written in the Bible. The Bible scholars have said and showed the parts of it for hundreds of years, even if they haven't put them together quite the way that I have.

However, even if I am wrong in some of what I think, the basics of Jesus salvation, the New Heavens and the New Earth, the lake of fire, the enemies of God including Satan and the people who side with him against God going into the lake of fire, are among many simple truths that are expressed in the Bible.

Be among those who are saved.

Cool
31173  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Christianity is Poison on: March 29, 2016, 06:42:01 PM
Creation is like Moloch's computer. Moloch sits down at his keyboard and creates posts for the forum. He designs them with reasonable care. He artistically places all the words in their correct places. Then he posts them. They are his works of art, his creations.

What if Moloch's words had a life of their own? What if the things he was attempting to say with his creative words, was corrupted because the words took on their own life and changed themselves into things that they wanted rather than what Moloch wanted? What if this happened with almost all of his words? What would Moloch do?

Would Moloch, out of love for the good things the words could say, give the words a second chance to turn back to be as he created them? How many chances would he give them? How long would it take before Moloch erased the batch of his rebellious words, and wrote new words in their place? And how long would he put up with the new words when they rebelled like the old?

Would Moloch ever fall in love with the words so that he would be designing them for their own good? Or would he always be simply doing it for his own pleasure?

How long would it take Moloch before he got a new keyboard? And if he found that getting a new keyboard didn't help, how long would it take before he reloaded the OS on his computer? Or maybe he would get a new computer, and completely trash his old one.

That is some epic praise for Moloch, but I like Allen Ginsberg's rendition better:

Quote from: Howl - Act 2
What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination?
Moloch! Solitude! Filth! Ugliness! Ashcans and unobtainable dollars! Children screaming under the stairways! Boys sobbing in armies! Old men weeping in the parks!
Moloch! Moloch! Nightmare of Moloch! Moloch the loveless! Mental Moloch! Moloch the heavy judger of men!
Moloch the incomprehensible prison! Moloch the crossbone soulless jailhouse and Congress of sorrows! Moloch whose buildings are judgment! Moloch the vast stone of war! Moloch the stunned governments!
Moloch whose mind is pure machinery! Moloch whose blood is running money! Moloch whose fingers are ten armies! Moloch whose breast is a cannibal dynamo! Moloch whose ear is a smoking tomb!
Moloch whose eyes are a thousand blind windows! Moloch whose skyscrapers stand in the long streets like endless Jehovahs! Moloch whose factories dream and croak in the fog! Moloch whose smoke-stacks and antennae crown the cities!
Moloch whose love is endless oil and stone! Moloch whose soul is electricity and banks! Moloch whose poverty is the specter of genius! Moloch whose fate is a cloud of sexless hydrogen! Moloch whose name is the Mind!
Moloch in whom I sit lonely! Moloch in whom I dream Angels! Crazy in Moloch! Cocksucker in Moloch! Lacklove and manless in Moloch!
Moloch who entered my soul early! Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body! Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy! Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! Light streaming out of the sky!
Moloch! Moloch! Robot apartments! invisible suburbs! skeleton treasuries! blind capitals! demonic industries! spectral nations! invincible madhouses! granite cocks! monstrous bombs!
They broke their backs lifting Moloch to Heaven! Pavements, trees, radios, tons! lifting the city to Heaven which exists and is everywhere about us!
Visions! omens! hallucinations! miracles! ecstasies! gone down the American river!
Dreams! adorations! illuminations! religions! the whole boatload of sensitive bullshit!
Breakthroughs! over the river! flips and crucifixions! gone down the flood! Highs! Epiphanies! Despairs! Ten years’ animal screams and suicides! Minds! New loves! Mad generation! down on the rocks of Time!
Real holy laughter in the river! They saw it all! the wild eyes! the holy yells! They bade farewell! They jumped off the roof! to solitude! waving! carrying flowers! Down to the river! into the street!




Isaiah 14: On the day the LORD gives you relief from suffering and turmoil and cruel bondage, you will take up this taunt against the king of Babylon Moloch:
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How the oppressor has come to an end!
How his fury
has ended!
The LORD has broken the rod of the wicked,
the scepter of the rulers,
which in anger struck down peoples
with unceasing blows,
and in fury subdued nations
with relentless aggression.
All the lands are at rest and at peace;
they break into singing.
Even the pine trees and the cedars of Lebanon
exult over you and say,
“Now that you have been laid low,
no woodsman comes to cut us down.”

The grave
below is all astir
to meet you at your coming;
it rouses the spirits of the departed to greet you—
all those who were leaders in the world;
it makes them rise from their thrones—
all those who were kings over the nations.
They will all respond,
they will say to you,
“You also have become weak, as we are;
you have become like us.”
All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,
along with the noise of your harps;
maggots are spread out beneath you
and worms cover you.

How you have fallen from heaven,
O morning star, son of the dawn!
You have been cast down to the earth,
you who once laid low the nations!
You said in your heart,
“I will ascend to heaven;
I will raise my throne
above the stars of God;
I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly,
on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
I will ascend above the tops of the clouds;
I will make myself like the Most High.”
But you are brought down to the grave,
to the depths of the pit.

Those who see you stare at you,
they ponder your fate:
“Is this the man who shook the earth
and made kingdoms tremble,
the man who made the world a desert,
who overthrew its cities
and would not let his captives go home?”

All the kings of the nations lie in state,
each in his own tomb.
But you are cast out of your tomb
like a rejected branch;
you are covered with the slain,
with those pierced by the sword,
those who descend to the stones of the pit.
Like a corpse trampled underfoot,
you will not join them in burial,
for you have destroyed your land
and killed your people.

The offspring of the wicked
will never be mentioned again.
Prepare a place to slaughter his sons
for the sins of their forefathers;
they are not to rise to inherit the land
and cover the earth with their cities.

“I will rise up against them,”
declares the LORD Almighty.
“I will cut off from Babylon her Moloch his name and survivors,
her offspring and descendants,”
declares the LORD.

“I will turn her into a place for owls
and into swampland;
I will sweep her with the broom of destruction,”
declares the LORD Almighty.

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31174  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Atheism and Health on: March 29, 2016, 06:23:14 PM
Nothing is better than humans except God, because we're His most perfect creation.

I agree with you mate, we are the most perfect creation of God and we have free will to choose the path that we want.

I will bet my balls on the fact that this not the case.
Atleast not for 98% of humanity  Smiley

Of course it is the case. Look at it this way and understand.

God created Satan to be one of the good angels at or before the Beginning. He was third highest in Heaven at that time. Figuratively speaking, Satan walked in the same places where God walked, right with God. He learned the things of God. God gave him power and majesty and beauty unrivaled by any.

Because of his beauty and majesty that God gave him, Satan corrupted himself. He became conceited. He wanted to be better than God. He thought he could be better than God. But to start to be better than God, he needed to create something to be at least as good as God. What could he create that God hadn't created already, just so that he could create something, just so that he could start to show that he was as good as God?

There was only one thing that God had not created. And it is a relatively easy thing to create. It was just the thing that Satan needed so he could say that he created something. What was it? It was destruction. Satan created destruction.

Make a car from scratch. A car is something very difficult to make from scratch. You have to mine the ore for the metal, and then smelt it down. You have to melt the various sands for the glass. But before you can do any of this, you have to have the knowledge and the design.

Once you have gone through painstaking detail and made a car - say a Mercedes Benz - it doesn't take long to destroy it. All it takes is a couple of muscle guys with a couple of sledge hammers and a couple of hours of work, and you have destroyed the car quite well.

With the knowledge that he had learned while walking in the presence of God in the "old days," Satan wrought destruction. His destruction destroyed a third of the laws of the universe - the dragon's tail swept a third of the stars from the sky and flung them to the earth. He thought this would be sufficient to easily bring down the whole universe. But it didn't work.

God upheld the universe through Jesus and the work Jesus would do (and finally did) on the cross. The universe is being upheld long enough for God to find His people in it, and bring them out of it to Himself. God's purpose is to take His own people from this universe, and to place them in the New Universe He is creating, and then finally to let this old universe go to destruction forever.

The devil created destruction, but God is a far better master of it. Since Satan wanted destruction, God will GIVE it to him, at the time when He finishes Satan's work of destruction that Satan started in this universe. It will be called the lake of fire, and will be an eternal smelting down of this whole universe (including Satan) into its component parts for reuse by God beyond eternity.

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31175  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Christianity is Poison on: March 29, 2016, 05:51:13 PM
Creation is like Moloch's computer. Moloch sits down at his keyboard and creates posts for the forum. He designs them with reasonable care. He artistically places all the words in their correct places. Then he posts them. They are his works of art, his creations.

What if Moloch's words had a life of their own? What if the things he was attempting to say with his creative words, was corrupted because the words took on their own life and changed themselves into things that they wanted rather than what Moloch wanted? What if this happened with almost all of his words? What would Moloch do?

Would Moloch, out of love for the good things the words could say, give the words a second chance to turn back to be as he created them? How many chances would he give them? How long would it take before Moloch erased the batch of his rebellious words, and wrote new words in their place? And how long would he put up with the new words when they rebelled like the old?

Would Moloch ever fall in love with the words so that he would be designing them for their own good? Or would he always be simply doing it for his own pleasure?

How long would it take Moloch before he got a new keyboard? And if he found that getting a new keyboard didn't help, how long would it take before he reloaded the OS on his computer? Or maybe he would get a new computer, and completely trash his old one.



God created the universe for His own purpose and pleasure. Part of His pleasure was the good of the people He made in it. The people rebelled and corrupted the artistic and perfect universe God created. God loved the idea of what His creation could be so much that He gave the people a second chance, and many second chances.

The second chances that God gave and gives the people came and come through Jesus, the Christ, who was called the Messiah by the Jews of the Old Testament. The second chances started in the Garden of Eden after the first two people rebelled against God. God promised the Messiah at that time, the Christ, Who found His fulfillment in Jesus, the Savior.

What does science know? Science even tries to hide the fact that it has proven the existence of God! And atheism attempts to keep the knowledge of God hidden.

How long would it take science to find out about Jesus salvation through methodical seeking of all science? Most of the greatest minds of scientific people are not focused on finding the truth of God. Rather, they are continually attempting to prove that God doesn't exist, in the face of the scientific proof that He does exist.

If science ever expanded enough that they had an actual time viewer, and they took a look into the past to see what had happened in history, would they ever admit to the existence of God when they saw Him? Or would they continue to corrupt themselves just like the created words in Moloch's computer corrupted themselves?

God gives the best laws to mankind, but man seeks to ignore God. Failing that entirely, man seeks to express that God's laws aren't just, and aren't the best. And mankind gets old and dies in the process, but just can't seem to grab hold of the eternal life that God offers, even when it is paraded right in front of him.

There is no hope for man without the hope of God working in and through mankind. But if mankind continues to reject, there will come a time that God will get a new keyboard, reload the OS, and even - finally - throw out the old computer for a new one.

Turn to God while you have a chance. Turn to the Son, Jesus, the Christ, for salvation at the time that God throws out the old, useless, rebellious computer. Turn from your rebellion so that you can be loaded into the new computer rather than being thrown out with the old, "... where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth," and, "where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched."

Even if science unlocks the secret to life with potentially no death, the end of the old computer is still near.

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31176  Other / Politics & Society / Islam--Facts or Dreams? on: March 26, 2016, 08:36:53 PM
Islam--Facts or Dreams?





The following is adapted from a speech delivered on February 24, 2016, at Hillsdale College's Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series.

In 1993 I was a seasoned federal prosecutor, but I only knew as much about Islam as the average American with a reasonably good education—which is to say, not much. Consequently, when I was assigned to lead the prosecution of a terrorist cell that had bombed the World Trade Center and was plotting an even more devastating strike—simultaneous attacks on the Lincoln and Holland Tunnels, the United Nations complex on the East River, and the FBI's lower Manhattan headquarters—I had no trouble believing what our government was saying: that we should read nothing into the fact that all the men in this terrorist cell were Muslims; that their actions were not representative of any religion or belief system; and that to the extent they were explaining their atrocities by citing Islamic scripture, they were twisting and perverting one of the world's great religions, a religion that encourages peace.

Unlike commentators and government press secretaries, I had to examine these claims. Prosecutors don't get to base their cases on assertions. They have to prove things to commonsense Americans who must be satisfied about not only what happened but why it happened before they will convict people of serious crimes. And in examining the claims, I found them false.

One of the first things I learned concerned the leader of the terror cell, Omar Abdel Rahman, infamously known as the Blind Sheikh. Our government was portraying him as a wanton killer who was lying about Islam by preaching that it summoned Muslims to jihad or holy war. Far from a lunatic, however, he turned out to be a globally renowned scholar—a doctor of Islamic jurisprudence who graduated from al-Azhar University in Cairo, the seat of Sunni Islamic learning for over a millennium. His area of academic expertise was sharia—Islamic law.

I immediately began to wonder why American officials from President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno on down, officials who had no background in Muslim doctrine and culture, believed they knew more about Islam than the Blind Sheikh. Then something else dawned on me: the Blind Sheikh was not only blind; he was beset by several other medical handicaps. That seemed relevant. After all, terrorism is hard work. Here was a man incapable of doing anything that would be useful to a terrorist organization—he couldn't build a bomb, hijack a plane, or carry out an assassination. Yet he was the unquestioned leader of the terror cell. Was this because there was more to his interpretation of Islamic doctrine than our government was conceding?

Defendants do not have to testify at criminal trials, but they have a right to testify if they choose to—so I had to prepare for the possibility. Raised an Irish Catholic in the Bronx, I was not foolish enough to believe I could win an argument over Muslim theology with a doctor of Islamic jurisprudence. But I did think that if what we were saying as a government was true—that he was perverting Islam—then there must be two or three places where I could nail him by saying, "You told your followers X, but the doctrine clearly says Y." So my colleagues and I pored over the Blind Sheikh's many writings. And what we found was alarming: whenever he quoted the Koran or other sources of Islamic scripture, he quoted them accurately.

Now, you might be able to argue that he took scripture out of context or gave an incomplete account of it. In my subsequent years of studying Islam, I've learned that this is not a particularly persuasive argument. But even if one concedes for the purposes of discussion that it's a colorable claim, the inconvenient fact remains: Abdel Rahman was not lying about Islam.

When he said the scriptures command that Muslims strike terror into the hearts of Islam's enemies, the scriptures backed him up.


Read more at http://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/islam-facts-or-dreams/.


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31177  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Atheism is Poison on: March 26, 2016, 02:30:35 AM

You've lost track of the conversation. As a reminder:

1. You state that the "complex universe" is a scientific law.
2. You state that the "complex universe" is not a scientific law.

Will you now please stop mentioning this "complex universe scientific law" thing?


You've lost track of the thread. It seems you like it that way, because you won't stop lying about me.    Cool
31178  Other / Politics & Society / Re: The Trump Wall on: March 26, 2016, 02:23:05 AM
Trumpy Drumpfy sat on a wall.
Trumpy Drumpfy had a great fall.
All the king's horses and all the king's men,
Couldn't put Trumpy back together again.

Why not? Because the people don't have or need a king. Especially not Trumpy.

Google Drumpfy.

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31179  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Atheism is Poison on: March 26, 2016, 02:16:52 AM

I'll never get tired of writing this:


"complex universe" is not a law. If you think it is, please link to a peer reviewed paper which asserts that there is a law called the "complex universe law".


Call our complex universe what you will or what you will not. But the fact is that the complexity of our universe is a fact.

What this means is, if science somehow fails to recognize cause and effect as a law of science, then science is simply remiss in this area.
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Not recognised by science? So you're admitting "complex universe" not a scientific law then?

Your duplicity, as usual ^^.

1. You state that the "complex universe" is a scientific law.
2. You state that the "complex universe" is not a scientific law.

How on earth is my summary of your double-dealing "duplicity"?



It's not about what I say, and it is not about the fact that you misquote me. It's about the fact that God exists and holds you in life, giving you the chance to turn to Him.

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I didn't misquote you. It's all in your original post for anyone to see.

It's also nothing to do with God. It's only about your continual lying about what does and does not constitue a 'scientific law'




Well, you know better.

The point is, God is proven to exists, in very easy manner. Why won't you accept the truth? If it bothers you to call complex universe a scientific law, don't, since it is a fact no matter what you call it.

Is it your honor? Have you decided to ignore the truth just because I say it? How silly of you if you do this.

However, it is completely okay if you don't state that you understand that God exists to me or the people in this forum. But DO accept Him in your heart, and find out about Him, for your own good.

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31180  Other / Politics & Society / Re: Atheism is Poison on: March 26, 2016, 01:39:27 AM
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No pleading involved at all. Cause and effect are only for this universe. To us people, this universe is all that there is, because we are part of it, and not part of anything outside of it. When God is in this universe, He does operate by cause and effect. But because He is outside of it as well, cause and effect constraints do not affect Him.

So, how'd you know that your god is outside this observable universe? Because he's "God"

You say "your god." He is the God of all people. Some people simply don't recognize Him. All people who DO recognize Him hold at least a few misconceptions about Him.

We have no evidence of anything bringing itself into being before it existed. The universe could not have brought itself into being out of absolutely nothing. If there is some theory to the effect that the universe could do such a thing, it will be a difficult theory to prove. Or are you trying to suggest that God went instantaneously inside the universe at the time He created it?

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So that's it. We have no evidence for it, so why you still force your opinion and confidently saying it as fact? So I just wait for him to come and show and tell me in the face. Cause AFAIK he's omnipresent right?

Since you haven't explained what your "it" is, there is no way I can answer your questions.

The scientific laws of cause and effect, complex universe, and universal complexity, when combined, prove that God exists. Cause and effect almost does it alone.

Why is it that you would rather remain in ignorance? After all, since the proof is there, God exists. Work with God rather than trying to stick your head in the sand, hoping that He won't see you. You are much better off acknowledging Him and His greatness than trying to hide it from yourself.

After all, He essentially came and told you face to face through the science that proves He exists. Why should He do more for you, since you won't accept facts?

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