(April 27, 2014 at 5:45 pm)Stephanie Wrote:No, we're not.... distant cousins, at best... I hope!!!(April 27, 2014 at 5:42 pm)pocaracas Wrote: No, you don't.
You don't know us well enough to love us.
That thing you mistake for love is simply your, apparently heavy duty, indoctrination.... considering you have parents who, both, claim to have actually physically interacted with a metaphysical being... I'd say your family needs to get down-to-Earth.
I love all of God's creation. God created man. You are all my brothers and sisters.
(April 27, 2014 at 5:45 pm)Stephanie Wrote: I have the joy of the Lord in my heart and love all that he has created.How can you discern this "joy of the lord in your heart" from simple joy in your heart? Or from your wishing there is a lord that gives joy and believing in it so much that your heart becomes joyful on its own?
This reminds me of an experiment with a death-row inmate... the experiment was to bleed him to death. He would be lying down, belly up, one arm out of the bed, away from his field of vision. The arm would be slit so as for the blood to flow out of him. Simple, huh? The guy died after about an hour or two... The thing is... he was never cut. Someone slashed him, but didn't cut and placed some contraption that would mimic the sound of dripping blood under the bed.
The man willed himself to death. O.o
Much as you are willing yourself to love...
Belief is a powerful psychological state. That is one of the reasons I steer clear of unfounded beliefs. If/when a god presents itself to all earthlings, then we'll talk. Until then, I won't accept your love as proof of anything, nor the world itself as proof of what you wish for.
(April 27, 2014 at 5:45 pm)Stephanie Wrote: I am trying to prevent your eternal damnation, in spite of the barrage of hate I'm receiving.
The thing is that you can't say there is any "eternal damnation". You simply believe in it. And why do you believe in it?
Indoctrination, aka brain washing... most likely.
You're not receiving rage, you're receiving fine-tuned information about how fed up we are of having people like yourself telling us these things, as if we've never heard them. And they jump the gun and move automatically to Zeus and whatever other ancient mythology that they can think of. You see, your belief is similar to the belief that the ancient peoples had in their own mythology... through wars and conquests and evolution of thought, yours is nowadays one of the most common mythologies... but it is still just a mythology, as real and evidenced as any other mythology of ancient times and in which you do not believe.
So, care to tell us what is the very important piece of information you have that is new and can cause us to review our skeptical position, so that we come to realize that the god you were raised to believe in is the one that actually exists and interacts with our world?
