(August 11, 2015 at 12:18 pm)lkingpinl Wrote: Do Newton's laws of motion make a billiard ball move or do they simply describe how it moves and what happens to it after it is struck? Laws do not create anything.
When I say "keeps the Universe moving," I mean it as a figure of speech. The laws of the Universe describe how and why the Universe moves, but they are not the source of the energies that power universal processes. Science is still working on that one.
What I'm saying is that all the evidence science can muster points to the Universe being a thing that "just is." It does not require a creator or any sort of maintenance to work. It is essentially self-explanatory. The more we study it, the more apparent it becomes that there is nobody conscious supervising or influencing it on the cosmic level. The idea of a Universal consciousness that's somehow aware of/controlling everything that's happening explains nothing and raises a shit-ton of questions on its own. It's nothing but a fat, evil "God of the Gaps" argument with a whole bunch of "Burden of Proof" and "Ad Hominem" goons bouncing at the door.
Rik, a person's "attitude" isn't a sign of memories of a past life. It's more likely signs of memories from this life. The simple truth is that you think it's justified for people to be punished for crimes that they themselves did not commit because of some karmic ancestor they had who did some bad shit in a "past life." It's every bit as offensive and unsupported as the concept of Original Sin. Do you also support the caste system in India? After all, karma is the entire reasoning behind that, and those lower castes really should take what's coming to them if they want to end up better off in the next life.
Is yoga the reason you're flexible enough to get your head that far up your ass?
Verbatim from the mouth of Jesus (retranslated from a retranslation of a copy of a copy):
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
"Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you too will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. How can you see your brother's head up his ass when your own vision is darkened by your head being even further up your ass? How can you say to your brother, 'Get your head out of your ass,' when all the time your head is up your own ass? You hypocrite! First take your head out of your own ass, and then you will see clearly who has his head up his ass and who doesn't." Matthew 7:1-5 (also Luke 6: 41-42)
Also, I has a website: www.RedbeardThePink.com
