Whoa there! Jeld didnt say the world was ending, just the world as we know it. In past recorded history, when the calendar of the time (remember they changed from Julian to Gregorian on 10-15-1582) people *always* start wigging out right before the nigh time. Then when everyone sees nothing bad happened, a renaissance emerges. "What do you or anyone else know about the next great paradigm shift?" Well, who the hell determines what the 'in' colors for next fall will be? All of business is either predicting what the consumer will want in the future or supporting those businesses that do the predicting. With so much effort put into finding out what will happen down the road, dont you think discovering personalized beliefs will be 'in' is just another forcast? By the way, are you the same person who was so sick of people picking and choosing what they want to believe in? humph... I'm a nihilist, and i dont believe you.:)
I agree with the premise that today's tech-savvy in no way endangers current religions. However, I think this dispute has helped some people's quickness to judge rise to the surface and make their righteous exteriors ugly. Who are you, out there, to assume what my beliefs are? Who truly is a 'vanilla believer'? It is sad to see, in such an informed group, that ignorance still pervades. No one can say, "Christians do this:... and dont to this:..." Christians thought they were doing the right thing in The Crusades, and militant pro-life activists think they are doing the right thing by killing doctors. My point is 'picking, choosing, and changing' keeps popping up in religion, and it's not going away just 'cause a person prints in this forum:"this group does this... and that's it." Think you're safe? Priests rape, people lie under oath (so help you God), Christians kill, hackers crack, and everyone lies, cheats, and steals. Earth isnt friendly to absolutes. At the core, religion is a personal belief to place faith in irrational things. No religion can point a mocking finger to another, saying, "I told you so!" If we were to look at 'The Bible' as the definitive source of what God wants, which bible should we look at? Which translation? Which interpretation? When you hide behind scripture, you dont have God in your corner, you have a bound hunk of wood pulp. The Bible, taken word for word, is against homosexuality, masturbation, menstration, physical activity on one day out of seven... still Christian? 'Thou shall not covet'... "hey, stop checking out my K7!!!" Still Christian? I secretly believe that hackers who want to have some fun at someone else's expense, do so, then blame a mysterious group of hooligans who are nothing but trouble called 'crackers'. Still 3733T3? Be realistic and dont dictate rules to people who believe in an imaginary force controlling everything. I do, and, darn it... got mad at my phone, threw it across the room. Violence. Uh-oh, better shop for another religion.
While were on the subject... take a peek at the website of a man who swears he is doing God's work. The idiot's name is Reverend Phelps. http://www.godhatesfags.com He doesnt exactly enhance my Christian pride, but goes to show people think and believe in what they darn well please.
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Whoa there! Jeld didnt say the world was ending, just the world as we know it. In past recorded history, when the calendar of the time (remember they changed from Julian to Gregorian on 10-15-1582) people *always* start wigging out right before the nigh time. Then when everyone sees nothing bad happened, a renaissance emerges. :)
"What do you or anyone else know about the next great paradigm shift?" Well, who the hell determines what the 'in' colors for next fall will be? All of business is either predicting what the consumer will want in the future or supporting those businesses that do the predicting. With so much effort put into finding out what will happen down the road, dont you think discovering personalized beliefs will be 'in' is just another forcast?
By the way, are you the same person who was so sick of people picking and choosing what they want to believe in? humph... I'm a nihilist, and i dont believe you.
I agree with the premise that today's tech-savvy in no way endangers current religions. However, I think this dispute has helped some people's quickness to judge rise to the surface and make their righteous exteriors ugly. Who are you, out there, to assume what my beliefs are? Who truly is a 'vanilla believer'? It is sad to see, in such an informed group, that ignorance still pervades.
No one can say, "Christians do this:... and dont to this:..." Christians thought they were doing the right thing in The Crusades, and militant pro-life activists think they are doing the right thing by killing doctors. My point is 'picking, choosing, and changing' keeps popping up in religion, and it's not going away just 'cause a person prints in this forum:"this group does this... and that's it." Think you're safe? Priests rape, people lie under oath (so help you God), Christians kill, hackers crack, and everyone lies, cheats, and steals. Earth isnt friendly to absolutes.
At the core, religion is a personal belief to place faith in irrational things. No religion can point a mocking finger to another, saying, "I told you so!"
If we were to look at 'The Bible' as the definitive source of what God wants, which bible should we look at? Which translation? Which interpretation? When you hide behind scripture, you dont have God in your corner, you have a bound hunk of wood pulp. The Bible, taken word for word, is against homosexuality, masturbation, menstration, physical activity on one day out of seven... still Christian? 'Thou shall not covet'... "hey, stop checking out my K7!!!" Still Christian?
I secretly believe that hackers who want to have some fun at someone else's expense, do so, then blame a mysterious group of hooligans who are nothing but trouble called 'crackers'. Still 3733T3? Be realistic and dont dictate rules to people who believe in an imaginary force controlling everything. I do, and, darn it... got mad at my phone, threw it across the room. Violence. Uh-oh, better shop for another religion.
While were on the subject... take a peek at the website of a man who swears he is doing God's work. The idiot's name is Reverend Phelps.
http://www.godhatesfags.com He doesnt exactly enhance my Christian pride, but goes to show people think and believe in what they darn well please.