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Poll: Do you believe in a higher force?
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A higher force
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RE: A higher force
(August 10, 2015 at 8:53 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Like anything else, somebody needs to present some evidence.  And it needs to be a bit more substantial than Jim Bob got hisself probed up in Spider Hollow last nite, or 'Because Jesus'.

I agree. But, I think, I can almost get where they're coming from and why some are more comfortable with considering such a possibility than a god. For some, God has a bad, religious stigma about it. So is it that this "life force"(excuse me if I'm calling it wrongly, I'm just trying to be more versatile here) is actually another name for a deistic god, or what?

Whenever I try and imagine what it is people mean by this I just think of some sort of a celestial object that is extremely powerful, or something like that   Smile.

P.S. I'm sure at least some of us here will attest to the fact that we've heard about some form or other of such belief in a "higher force". If not, though, let me bring you up to date. There are people who whenever you ask them about their religious views they just answer something like this: I believe there's something out there, greater than us...". Yeah, I know, confusing, right?
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A higher force - by Excited Penguin - August 10, 2015 at 8:49 pm
RE: A higher force - by vorlon13 - August 10, 2015 at 8:53 pm
RE: A higher force - by Excited Penguin - August 10, 2015 at 9:01 pm
RE: A higher force - by Mr.wizard - August 10, 2015 at 9:07 pm
RE: A higher force - by Excited Penguin - August 10, 2015 at 9:18 pm
RE: A higher force - by Mr.wizard - August 10, 2015 at 9:23 pm
RE: A higher force - by Excited Penguin - August 10, 2015 at 9:26 pm
RE: A higher force - by Mr.wizard - August 10, 2015 at 9:30 pm
RE: A higher force - by Excited Penguin - August 10, 2015 at 9:40 pm
RE: A higher force - by Redbeard The Pink - August 10, 2015 at 8:57 pm
RE: A higher force - by BitchinHitchins - August 12, 2015 at 11:02 pm
RE: A higher force - by AFTT47 - August 10, 2015 at 8:59 pm
RE: A higher force - by Whateverist - August 10, 2015 at 9:00 pm
RE: A higher force - by vorlon13 - August 10, 2015 at 9:01 pm
RE: A higher force - by Whateverist - August 10, 2015 at 10:31 pm
RE: A higher force - by Minimalist - August 10, 2015 at 9:15 pm
RE: A higher force - by Redbeard The Pink - August 10, 2015 at 9:21 pm
RE: A higher force - by Jenny A - August 10, 2015 at 9:22 pm
RE: A higher force - by Pyrrho - August 10, 2015 at 9:28 pm
RE: A higher force - by Excited Penguin - August 10, 2015 at 9:29 pm
RE: A higher force - by The Valkyrie - August 10, 2015 at 9:35 pm
RE: A higher force - by abaris - August 10, 2015 at 9:36 pm
RE: A higher force - by Excited Penguin - August 10, 2015 at 9:44 pm
RE: A higher force - by Pyrrho - August 10, 2015 at 9:47 pm
RE: A higher force - by Dystopia - August 10, 2015 at 10:02 pm
RE: A higher force - by Anomalocaris - August 10, 2015 at 10:10 pm
RE: A higher force - by Anomalocaris - August 10, 2015 at 10:07 pm
RE: A higher force - by vixene - August 10, 2015 at 10:09 pm
RE: A higher force - by Pyrrho - August 10, 2015 at 10:21 pm
RE: A higher force - by Excited Penguin - August 11, 2015 at 10:57 am
RE: A higher force - by Jenny A - August 11, 2015 at 1:27 am
RE: A higher force - by vorlon13 - August 10, 2015 at 10:22 pm
RE: A higher force - by vixene - August 10, 2015 at 10:31 pm
RE: A higher force - by Pyrrho - August 10, 2015 at 10:43 pm
RE: A higher force - by robvalue - August 11, 2015 at 3:34 am
RE: A higher force - by Longhorn - August 11, 2015 at 3:38 am
RE: A higher force - by Redbeard The Pink - August 11, 2015 at 9:22 am
RE: A higher force - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 11, 2015 at 9:18 am
RE: A higher force - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 11, 2015 at 9:32 am
RE: A higher force - by Alex K - August 11, 2015 at 9:40 am
RE: A higher force - by vixene - August 11, 2015 at 11:32 am
RE: A higher force - by Excited Penguin - August 11, 2015 at 11:53 am
RE: A higher force - by Excited Penguin - August 11, 2015 at 11:55 am
RE: A higher force - by downbeatplumb - August 11, 2015 at 12:27 pm
RE: A higher force - by vixene - August 11, 2015 at 6:16 pm
RE: A higher force - by Mr.wizard - August 11, 2015 at 6:58 pm
RE: A higher force - by vixene - August 11, 2015 at 7:04 pm
RE: A higher force - by Athene - August 11, 2015 at 7:10 pm
RE: A higher force - by vixene - August 11, 2015 at 7:39 pm
RE: A higher force - by Athene - August 11, 2015 at 7:59 pm
RE: A higher force - by vixene - August 11, 2015 at 8:11 pm
RE: A higher force - by Salacious B. Crumb - August 11, 2015 at 8:53 pm
RE: A higher force - by robvalue - August 12, 2015 at 3:54 am
RE: A higher force - by Silver - August 12, 2015 at 3:56 am
RE: A higher force - by robvalue - August 12, 2015 at 3:58 am
RE: A higher force - by Silver - August 12, 2015 at 4:01 am
RE: A higher force - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 12, 2015 at 4:36 am
RE: A higher force - by robvalue - August 12, 2015 at 4:37 am
RE: A higher force - by Fidel_Castronaut - August 12, 2015 at 5:40 am
RE: A higher force - by pocaracas - August 12, 2015 at 6:58 am
RE: A higher force - by Mudhammam - August 12, 2015 at 7:05 am
RE: A higher force - by Ben Davis - August 12, 2015 at 7:29 am
RE: A higher force - by robvalue - August 12, 2015 at 7:31 am
RE: A higher force - by Ben Davis - August 12, 2015 at 7:53 am
RE: A higher force - by robvalue - August 12, 2015 at 8:17 am
RE: A higher force - by ErGingerbreadMandude - August 12, 2015 at 8:50 am
RE: A higher force - by Mudhammam - August 12, 2015 at 9:59 am

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