As I said, you can call anything what you want, even start a bunch of new languages, like modern science is doing.

As people look to science, and as they deny God and His Word more and more, there will come a time when God won't stand for it anymore. Just like He has done in the past, He will destroy the unbelievers and their culture. So, it just might affect you.

Oh look! Here's somebody else that believes stars are alive.   

We're waiting for an actual first-hand check-out. How long will it be before you get back?   

Actually, it is magic of the strongest kind they are using. It is called the occult - secret. Nobody else can figure it out without going into strict training in their magic arts. And it wouldn't be so bad if their arts were only math, but when they involve finance and politics at the same time, they really get some secret magic going.

Except that, with the politics of the universities what it is, they often have to publish in the Daily Mail just to get published.

You realize, don't you, that what they spotted with telescopes could be named anything that they wanted to name them? It's the math that backs up what they are, provided there isn't some other math that contradicts the BH math. Now, where might that other math be? Let me see...

Then, again, that's political rhetoric. 

Your "Towers" could come down in a volley of bullets once they get there.

LOL !

See? It's what I've been saying all along. Black holes are a political idea rather than a scientific one.

Me too. That's why I believe the Bible.

However, even science has postulated life that is not carbon based. Consider silicon and germanium based computer chips that we are using every day to come closer to AI.

Since carbon based life is as highly complex as it is on earth - so complex that we still don't know how to manipulate it to grow us a new arm, or to let us live a few hundred extra years - would we even recognize the life that stars have if they ARE ALIVE?

Why do you always try to cover up your heartburn like this?  

EDIT: Digestive enzymes?

Remember the original Star Trek series? You can look up to find which episode it was where Kirk and some others were trapped by an alien life form. Spock was in command.

Spock used every strategy he could logically think of to save his buddies and break free. When he couldn't find an answer, he broke down and became emotionally upset.

The Enterprise and the crew were saved, however. And when they were all back aboard, they teased Spock about his breakdown from strict logic to emotion.

Spock had a different idea. His supposed breakdown from logic to emotion was only logical. After all, he had tried every logical means to save everybody, and all the logic failed. The only other logical thing was to become emotional... which worked, by the way.

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Modern scientific investigation doesn't have a handle on things like soul, spirit, emotion, consciousness, etc. Science is making strides, but so far there is only objectively looking at, and manipulating them slightly. The point? Since science doesn't have it, we need to use whatever means we have. These other means might not appear to be science, but since strict science doesn't have it, in the whole realm of what we are attempting, any means that are NOT science, are really, scientific... at least until strict science comes up with some concrete and conclusive answers.

LOL !

Keep up the cheer. You just might see the Light, yet

Life forms on other planets or other locations in the universe - this is something I struggle with.

On the one hand, look at all the grass on earth. Look at the multitudes of blades of grass. Look at all the varieties. So, why wouldn't the heavens be filled with all kinds of other life?

On the other hand, when God created man, and made man to be the pinnacle of His creation, why would He need to create more life elsewhere? Think of that little packet of yeast you add to the dough. That little yeast could, not only, spread through your chunk of dough, but it could spread itself through dough that was a thousand times as large as any that the baker might handle. In the old days, this was exactly how they transferred yeast. They kept a little leavened dough in the cupboard that they used as a yeast starter every time they made a new batch of bread.

The point? It is my contention that the universe is like the unleavened dough. I think that God originally made man to be the propagator of life throughout the whole of space, in a time that would last forever. But man threw it away when he rebelled against god by eating the fruit in the Garden. So, new plan, which you can find out about in the Bible.

What about angels and demons? Personally, I think that our universe is completely inclusive. This means that everything in our universe reacts with everything else, and our universe recognizes nothing outside of itself.

But God, Who is outside the universe as well as within, made each kind of angel (or demon... once demons were angels before the fell away from God) to have their own universe, exclusive to their kind and their kind only (we are the exclusive high-life-form in ours). I am considering the idea that God gave these angels the ability to joyfully work with Him in the creation of our universe. He translated them over, so that they could work with the preparations... not that He needed any help... but rather, that He was granting them pleasure, because it pleases Him to grant pleasure to His creation(s).

I might be entirely wrong in the above, but we don't really have a clear understanding of whether or not there are any life forms out there. We have yet to conclusively find any. And we are so remote (weak) that it just might take another hundred years before we have ships that can actually make it other stars.

Oh, coldgamer. I am so distressed for you. And not for you, only. But, also, for the many others who have been hurt like you have.

Do you remember what Darth Vader said to Luke about the power of the Force? He said something like, "You don't know the power of the Dark Side." But what did he do? He found the last remaining vestiges of Light within himself. He remembered the love. His love for his son, Luke, overcame all the forces of the Emperor, and all the forces of the Dark Side, as well.

Come, now, and return to the Light. In the Dark Side you will always be manipulated, just like Darth Vader was. Nobody in the Light will ever force you. The Light may call. It may invite. It may entice. It may even plead. But it will never force.

Why remain with all those that the Dark side is dragging to their doom by capturing them in their time of weakness? They are caught up in a science that is failing them right and left. And it is only the propaganda of lies heaped upon lies that keeps them in some semblance of informal hope.

God will never drag you. With Him you are always free. Come back to the Light. Revive your hurt soul and spirit. Go directly to the loving Father, Himself. Only you can do this for yourself. There is none other that can do it for you. Only you can come into the Light yourself.

Come with us, along side us, and find the peace, joy, love, and even glory, and certainly friendship, that you are seeking.

Thank you for the wonderful link to a wonderful website.

Obviously you are a wonderful, sensitive human being. I empathize with you. I, also, do not like being pushed down a street where there only seems to be pain.

The whole goal of God is love. He loves you sooooo much, that He sent Himself in the form of Jesus to die for you, so that you can rise with Him in the resurrection, to an eternal life of love, joy, piece, yes, and even glory. We are your friends, here. Nobody - especially not Jesus - wants to cause you pain and grief.

Forget the churches and the Christians who have done you wrong. Sure, they hurt you for a moment, but many of them weren't trying to do that, and those that were trying, were doing it only because they were in some kind of pain and fear, just like you.

It is soooo wonderful when you simply give yourself over to Jesus. You don't have to keep on straining to prove your own value and worth - not even to yourself. Jesus, Himself, values you so extremely much that He wants to give you the best life of all.

When you join Him, does that mean that there will never be pain again? No. But it will all be gone in a moment, gone with the few, troubled years of this life... and when you have Jesus with you, He will never allow you to be pushed beyond what you can bear, at any time in this life. He will never place you into a position where you can't take the life He allows for you.

Jesus is calling you, now. Come. Let Him into your heart where He can soothe all your troubles of mind and soul. He loves you. Let Him take you into His heart of love. Won't you please pick Him up?, join with Him?, let your troubles and anxieties be relieved? Many of us are hoping for you.

Does the definition of "religion" include things that are the truth? What I mean is, does religion only have to do with worship? Or does it have to do with simple living, as well?

Many folks who are simply living use the banks. Sure, they take part in the capitalistic industry. But it isn't for the purpose of getting rich, of dragging in as much money as absolutely possible, of becoming penny-pinchers. Are they partaking of the religion? Or are they simply living?

If God is a reality, is worshipping Him a religion? Or is it only when something is NOT a reality that it is a religion when worshipped?

Ultimately, money saves nobody. Money can bring pleasures, temporary peace, certain kinds of contentment, ease of living, and other desireable things. But money and the acquisition of it also bring troubles at time, a heaviness of heart when one realizes that he can't take any of it with him.

So, even though money is real, does it fall under the classification of religion if it is worshipped? Or is it the fantasy that money can provide complete happiness that makes capitalism a religion?

Sounds like you have a lot to learn about the publishing business. If they can, they will, and they have.



EDIT: Actually, it's sounding more like you simply WANT it to be, and you are unwilling to investigate.