I'm always perplexed as to why people will run so readily from an irrational fear of a lack of free will directly into the equally irrational yet commanded fear of a jealous, angry, vengeful, and frankly nonsensical god.
Today I 'chose' to eat lunch. When exactly did this 'choice' occur? Was it when my stomach emptied, and released a chemical cocktail of hormones etc. that flooded my brain, causing it to be preoccupied with food?
Some people 'choose' not to eat. But each of their choices has a cause, be it an eating disorder or a suggestion from a peer that going hungry would bring religious enlightment.
In short: every effect has a cause. Find me an effect without a cause and I'll believe in free will. In the meantime, I'll continue to believe that us humans, like the rest of everything else ever, follow Newton's Third Law of Motion.
Why are you so focused on god's consistency with his 'rules' when the rules themselves are what's ridiculous about the whole thing? Are you really, truly content with the fact that such a god knowingly created creatures he inevitably would damn to hell?
"Hippocrates describes them as: 'They have no right breasts...for while they are yet babies their mothers make red-hot a bronze instrument constructed for this very purpose and apply it to the right breast and cauterize it, so that its growth is arrested, and all its strength and bulk are diverted to the right shoulder and right arm.'"
But yeah, the Amazons in 'Hercules: The Legendary Adventures' were pretty hot.
Exactly, one does what one most greatly desires. Ergo, what god desires most is for a large portion of his personal, 'beloved' creations to burn in fire for an eternity.
What a guy.
"I don't know anyone who believes in God that thinks he is a 10 year old kid who can't make hard choices or abide by rules, even if they are of his own making."
"The toads soon became very numerous and out-competed native species and became very harmful to the Australian environment, including being very toxic to would-be predators such as native snakes."
Because if there's one thing Australia needs, it's more snakes...
Is this in the same way that I'd 'like' to send all my money to poor children in developing countries? 'Cause I can-- but I don't. But yeah, those kids should worship me. I might feed one or two of them if they do everything I say.
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Matthew 19:26
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Job 42:2
I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
Jeremiah 32:17,27
Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
Luke 1:37
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Revelation 19:6
And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Damn, I'm not sure which story was better: the dude with the meat freezer in the back of a shed, or the one with the flying fridge and the maggot-carpet?
I know, mods vote!
+1 Insightful for meat freezer, +1 Informative for maggot-carpet.
"Buying the stock doesn't mean the company will keep the dividends. Dividends declared are for outstanding shares, that is the stock that the company doesn't own."
So if they don't keep it, and they don't give it out, where does it go? I think I found a bug in the economy.
They can deem it necessary all they want, but it won't change the fact that the platform's not yet 4 years old. Who knows, maybe they really do want to hire only the person who first coded it.
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I'm always perplexed as to why people will run so readily from an irrational fear of a lack of free will directly into the equally irrational yet commanded fear of a jealous, angry, vengeful, and frankly nonsensical god.
Today I 'chose' to eat lunch. When exactly did this 'choice' occur? Was it when my stomach emptied, and released a chemical cocktail of hormones etc. that flooded my brain, causing it to be preoccupied with food?
Some people 'choose' not to eat. But each of their choices has a cause, be it an eating disorder or a suggestion from a peer that going hungry would bring religious enlightment.
In short: every effect has a cause. Find me an effect without a cause and I'll believe in free will. In the meantime, I'll continue to believe that us humans, like the rest of everything else ever, follow Newton's Third Law of Motion.
"(which is very cold, about 270C, near absolute zero)"
I think you dropped this: -
That's why you smother it in peanut butter, which comes from the ground.
DOUBLE HEALTHY!
Why are you so focused on god's consistency with his 'rules' when the rules themselves are what's ridiculous about the whole thing? Are you really, truly content with the fact that such a god knowingly created creatures he inevitably would damn to hell?
"Hippocrates describes them as: 'They have no right breasts...for while they are yet babies their mothers make red-hot a bronze instrument constructed for this very purpose and apply it to the right breast and cauterize it, so that its growth is arrested, and all its strength and bulk are diverted to the right shoulder and right arm.'"
But yeah, the Amazons in 'Hercules: The Legendary Adventures' were pretty hot.
Exactly, one does what one most greatly desires. Ergo, what god desires most is for a large portion of his personal, 'beloved' creations to burn in fire for an eternity.
What a guy.
"I don't know anyone who believes in God that thinks he is a 10 year old kid who can't make hard choices or abide by rules, even if they are of his own making."
You must not know many people who read the Bible.
I'm sure the ant doesn't love anything. It's a frickin' ant.
I see your totally-likely-to-evolve other-ant-eating-flies, and raise you a just-as-likely-to-evolve people-eating-fire-ant. Ha!
"The toads soon became very numerous and out-competed native species and became very harmful to the Australian environment, including being very toxic to would-be predators such as native snakes."
Because if there's one thing Australia needs, it's more snakes...
Posting in possibly historic thread. :D
Exactly! Once the heart is stopped you're dead for sure. No technology, no matter how advanced, can restart the human he--
Oh, wait, nevermind, somebody went and invented the defibrillator.
Saying the 'truly dead' cannot be resurrected is semantics. The definition of 'truly dead' includes the inability to resurrect.
How does an omnipotent being not achieve what he 'intends'?
He'd like for hell not to exist? Really?
Is this in the same way that I'd 'like' to send all my money to poor children in developing countries? 'Cause I can-- but I don't. But yeah, those kids should worship me. I might feed one or two of them if they do everything I say.
---
Matthew 19:26
But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are possible.
Job 42:2
I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.
Jeremiah 32:17,27
Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh: is there any thing too hard for me?
Luke 1:37
For with God nothing shall be impossible.
Revelation 19:6
And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth.
Opposing large government generally makes one 'right wing'.
Using bombastic, hyperbolic terms such as 'gargantuan' and 'omnipotent' is what makes one a nut.
Damn, I'm not sure which story was better: the dude with the meat freezer in the back of a shed, or the one with the flying fridge and the maggot-carpet?
I know, mods vote!
+1 Insightful for meat freezer,
+1 Informative for maggot-carpet.
(Hey, it could work.)
(Score:3, Insightful)
roflmao
Maybe your average American doesn't, but this is Slashdot my friend.
I bought my phone directly from the manufacturer; AT&T doesn't even know I have it. Sure, I don't own the networks it uses, but why would I want to?
My DVD player is my computer, which I most certainly do own. Certain software ensures that the data on the DVDs are safely copied to my hard drive.
My software, well, I guess you have me there, but I'm one of the few here who doesn't use Linux.
So go ahead, you can stop owning things. I'll continue to purchase.
How is it sad? Do you not know how this whole 'economics' thing generally works? Do some reading on this new 'inflation' thingy.
It's like saying it's 'sad' that 1GB is a small amount of data nowadays.
Do you really, seriously, legitimately believe that a judge is going to fall for that?
"Buying the stock doesn't mean the company will keep the dividends. Dividends declared are for outstanding shares, that is the stock that the company doesn't own."
So if they don't keep it, and they don't give it out, where does it go? I think I found a bug in the economy.
Inflation means the value of cash does indeed decrease. The total money supply is what is 'inflated'.
See paragraph #2:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation#Positive
No.
Is driving in and of itself perfectly legal?
Sure.
But what percentage of commutes do you think are non-infringing?
And what percentage of drivers have never broken any traffic law?
They can deem it necessary all they want, but it won't change the fact that the platform's not yet 4 years old. Who knows, maybe they really do want to hire only the person who first coded it.
And yes, people actually do this.
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