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RE: Where have all the miracles gone?
December 23, 2011 at 2:09 pm
(December 22, 2011 at 3:55 pm)Godschild Wrote: Sorry that I did not make myself clear, let's try again. Science has made great strides in medicine, I trust my doctors every time I see them. What I meant was this when someone is cured of some disease without explanation doctors say they do not understand how that person could possibly be healed, they (not all doctors) will not give credit to a miracle from God. All they might say is one day we'll figure it out, yet they have no idea what happened except the impossible.
Your god is doing amazing miracles for .0001% of the population??
Your god reminds me of this ornery old cunt I use to know. She was our next door neighbor and she was the meanest most hated bitch I've ever known. Complaining about everything, cussing out neighbor kids - throwing her trash into other people's yards because their kids were too loud .... just a real god damn bitch. She was of course, a devout Christian. About two or three times a year or so, she would make it a point to brag about dropping a box of food off at some charity so that SHE "could help feed 4 or 5 families."
She did this because it made her feel self righteous. Like your god, she did the bare fucking minimum to keep up pretenses and some kind of smug superiority. No doubt, most of her church never acknowledged what a god damn cunt she was.
Your god's a dirty old self-absorbed bitch doing the bare minimum so sheep like you will stay on your knees.
Fucking pathetic.
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RE: Where have all the miracles gone?
December 23, 2011 at 2:10 pm
(December 22, 2011 at 1:26 am)Fleetwoodfloyd Wrote: Why is it that since the bible was completed, there have been no amazingly fantastic events and miracles like those that occur on a regular basis therein? I am not aware of a single event that comes close to a parting of the sea or fitting two of every species on a boat, being swallowed by a whale, feeding whatever that number was with a single loaf of bread, etc., etc., etc. All it would take is one undeniably divine miracle like the dozens (hundreds?) "documented" in the bible, and this forum would be history. Someone please enlighten me as to the reason for the cessation of big-time miracles.
The thing with miracles is, except for that they do not exist, is that:
1) They go their own way.
2) They shine on like crazy diamonds.
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RE: Where have all the miracles gone?
December 24, 2011 at 1:31 am
(December 22, 2011 at 1:26 am)Fleetwoodfloyd Wrote: Why is it that since the bible was completed, there have been no amazingly fantastic events and miracles like those that occur on a regular basis therein? I am not aware of a single event that comes close to a parting of the sea or fitting two of every species on a boat, being swallowed by a whale, feeding whatever that number was with a single loaf of bread, etc., etc., etc. All it would take is one undeniably divine miracle like the dozens (hundreds?) "documented" in the bible, and this forum would be history. Someone please enlighten me as to the reason for the cessation of big-time miracles.
Well Paul Bunion created the Grand Canyon one day when he dragged his axe on the ground while he was walking. Oh, wait, wrong myth series.
Sorry I came in on this thread late. I just had to leave a smart ass comment about this. 
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RE: Where have all the miracles gone?
December 24, 2011 at 1:45 am
How about some witchcraft? 
If you take a circle and inscribe a triangle, you have what I see to be the symbol of the universe. It is useful symbolism in many ways; in this case, what is inside the triangle can be seen to be real, the areas between the triangle and circle imaginary. Now if we take the number of the universe - 5.13 x 10^61 - and inscribe a polygon of that many sides, it becomes clear that the spaces for the miraculous reduce to the near infinitesimal.
About the time science comes up with an hypothesis to eliminate "god of the gaps" altogether. I have such an hypothesis; it is only a matter of time that mine or another's makes it to the scientific community. I willingly hold to the fringe; to be called crank or crackpot, to fear no dishonor in being wrong because I trust in evolution and emergence and my place within. It is tao.
If I am correct, the will to do the miraculous is ours; if I am incorrect, the miraculous is seen to be delusion. That's win/win.
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RE: Where have all the miracles gone?
December 24, 2011 at 1:47 am
(This post was last modified: December 24, 2011 at 1:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
A "useful symbol of the universe"? Sure it is, if by universe you actually mean trashcan, and your trashcan has a triangle shaped base, and the operator of the garbage truck needs a visual aide for exactly where you want it placed. Beyond that...meh.
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RE: Where have all the miracles gone?
December 24, 2011 at 1:52 am
Structure begins in the universe with the triangle. In interpersonal realities, the trine is also the beginning of structure. You, Rhythm, are a man experienced in your reality. I'm a naive philosopher experienced in mine. My toolkit is metaphysics.
And yeah, much of reality considers philosophers to be unemployable. I get that.
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