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Theory-Affirming Evidence About the Universe
Bill Kendrick writes "Astronomers using a radio telescope at the South Pole have recorded a flicker of light from nearly 14 billion years ago that verifies most modern theory about the cosmos. Way back then, light and matter were only just beginning to separate from each other."
Indeed. "Because of god!" is perhaps the biggest cop-out ever thought up by man.
A few hundred years ago, every religious man worth his salt knew that witches floated!
Imagine what we'll know about the origins in the universe in another few hundred years. I'm willing to wager (via will and testament) that it won't involve anyone's imaginary friend.
C'mon, someone place a bet. At the least, your distant lineage could make a few bucks!
"is rated funny---it should be rated troll instead"
The trailing emoticon reveals the true intention, don't you think?
A jet flies in front of thier telescope and now they know how old the universe is. I think scientists just make up this crap to keep thier jobs. I wish my job was like that, then i could say "yeah i saw a flicker of light on the way to work, which confirms my thoery that i get 10 weeks of paid vacation".
I love "western" view of Yahweh/YHVH/YHWH. Big ole grandaddy white dude hanging out in robes in heaven. What makes you think he watches or cares? I like Hindu/Buddhist. non presumptuous and transcendental. Makes it simple to incorporate the newest bleeding edge technology, and Hindu would say, there is a greater than that which you know. Its spiritual - not proscriptive, which I like. They don't presume to know more about what life is than the next guy, its very internal. Make peace with yourself.
This salvation you speak of with such confidence is not a promise. Its an internal construct, put into your psyche to make you feel better about death. I like how other religions deal with it. Something more nebulous, somehow a spirit will evanesce into the timeless river of souls in a continuum where time does not exist. Something cool like that. Not some fairly take Disney product like meet Peter at the gates, say yo, playa, let me in holmes. Get in and hand with JC and the crew and live in a humanoid form in clouds and shit. Its how detailed and how determinate the description of the afterlife is which makes me worry, since I never heard of anyone coming back and reporting on it, nor have I seen angels or men walking on water without Styrofoam boots.
I am not a God hater, or a deity deprecator, but religion is person for me, I want insight from others whom I respect and if I don't get candy land in the sky upon death, all I wish for is some continuance where my spirit is still identifiable to itself and hopefully others. If it isn't that, then I'll be atoms, and the atoms which were once me will make other things, and in this seeming 40 billion year cycle of bang crunch, I could potentially exist again in some other capacity. Who knows. Maybe after 40 billion trillion iterations of the 40 billion year band crunch cycle we will have been everyone else at some point or another.
Think about "your" god they way you think of him, and not the way other (older) religions do then chew on this:
"He's YOUR god. They're YOUR rules. YOU go to hell."
"We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing, all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes." Gene Roddenberry
Now be a good little Christian tyke and put money in that collection basket at Church. The all powerful God has a thing for dead presidents on greenbacks.
I agree. But let's not get über-Jew, like its some sort of reference religion.
Another thing about modern Judaica, why all the Ashkenazi? They don't seem to be descendant of the Sephardic peoples you speak of. Most modern Jews are overwhelmingly by percentage Ashkenazi. The funny thing about Ashkenazi is that they are not closely related to the generation indigenous Jews, but rather descendants of the Turkic Khazars , who converted to Judaism by mandate of kings [Bulan and Obadiah].
The claims of being Jewish by the Ethopian [The people called Lemba, a Bantu-speaking people of southern Africa, have a tradition that they were led out of Judea by a man named Buba] Jews are actually genetically founded and tied to Sephardic priests in modern day Israel, the cohanim, the priests who are of single father ancestry, none other than Aaron. A team of geneticists has found that many Lemba men carry in their male chromosome a set of DNA sequences that is distinctive of the cohanim, the Jewish priests believed to be the descendants of Aaron.
Now, about Ashkenazi Jews. It seems most will not subject themselves to testing because they know they are basically Russian/Turkish. Why is that Sephardic Jews are looked down on by the Ashkenazi? Why did the late adoption of Judaism by the Khazars lead to so many changes in religious rites, customs and philosophy.
My point is this. The Ashkenazi have had a net negative effect on the purity of the Jewish religion. One can contrast the customs of Othodox Christians, which follow ritual very similar to Jews as the religion has evolved very little since the advent of Christ [if he was Mosiach or a Prophet remains to be seen.]. I am so sick of Ashkenazi Jews putting goofy made up 8th century holidays on the calendar, talking about kosher crap. I get the unlevened bread thing. And the who Shabbat thing. But lets get real, glatt kosher, parve? Why not do what most religions do and just fast, which is probably where it all came from. So , while I agree with the mangling of the bible, lets not say that the average English Torah is free from being edited. And if the King James is such crap, where are the Jews to print off a really, really good MODERN translation of the Torah [know as old testament to the Christians, btw, and that term is offensive to Jews]? What are some of the Talmudic treatises so anti-everything-that-isn't-Judaic? Why is it that I don't believe that Judaism in its modern form is somehow better than Christianity.
Now, as an aside. Islam is crap. It was good, for a time. Things have been done in the past under the faith of Islam which are appreciable. But modern day Islam is, if anything, a manifestation of the horde that will follow the anti-Christ. How can a religion who has the same root religion, the same prophets, and the same god be twisted into the modern day trash that it is. The Koran, the Talmud, the New Testament, its all political, subject to revision crap that is a list of excuses to pull bullshit in the name of God.
Now why is it that Hindu and Buddhism don't get the attention they need from western countries. These religions are far closer to ideal because they are not proscriptive, they do not cause war, the do not force people to act a certain way, etc. No one seems to be missionaries for those religions. They seem to exist and a tradition, and indication of culture rather than a focal point for channeling human zealotry. Another thing about the said religions, they don't seem to pull the collection basket routine. Its not a cash vacuum like the other religions are. That is interesting to me. Seems more timeless than money.
Send Mail to David Jones dhj@webletters.com JESUS IS YOUR ONLY SAVIOR! MY GOD RULES YOU!
David VIGOROUSLY PROCLAIMS You poor misguided soul. He is my God. They are HIS rules. And if you don't get right with my God, You are going to hell. There is only one way to heaven and that is through Jesus Christ. Christianity is not a way of dealing with death. It is a promise. Why would you want to go one believing in a dead guy stuck in the ground? I prefer to serve a living God thank you very much. And on the money issue. Buddy, if you read the Bible you will quickly see that everytime God commands you give money, He always says you will get something in return. Everytime!
Now, lets get those TV Evangelists another Rolex, a few more pedophile priests off the hook with lawyer money, and buy up some more land! FUN!.
what a weirdo this dude was.
David Jones
500 Snows Road, Apt 1010
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Email: dhj@webletters.com
105 Covey Chase
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Phone: 205 349-2079
Give this wierdo a call, and tell him Jesus was good in bed, and he gives great mansex.
Exciting huh, maybe for you and your office mate. So you guys are excited about "proving" that you originate from monkeys and those monkeys came from rocks...sounds exciting to me too. I don't know what would be so exciting to discover that we're absolutely alone in this universe and when you die your life is meaningless because that's it...you're dead!
-> Sometimes, you just gotta break free from the shackles of proprietary code.