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Critique Time!
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Can a mind create itself?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
  
But the flames will dry the fur on his palms, so there's a silver lining.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould  (December 11, 2014 at 2:59 pm)Drich Wrote:(December 10, 2014 at 11:04 pm)Brakeman Wrote: The OP. According to Revelation: Quote:13 The sea gave up the dead that were in it, and death and Hades gave up the dead that were in them, and each person was judged according to what they had done. 
Must be getting pretty crowded.
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Please visit my website here! It's got lots of information about atheism/theism and support for new atheists. Index of useful threads and discussions Index of my best videos Quickstart guide to the forum (December 11, 2014 at 3:20 pm)Tonus Wrote: But the flames will dry the fur on his palms, so there's a silver lining. I bet there is.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
 (December 11, 2014 at 3:30 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: ...Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.The highly symbolic work of Revelation still conforms with the idea of Hell as the absence of the Lord. Since the Lord is Divine Love and Wisdom, then Hell is a 'place', or state of being, where these qualities are absent. The infernal fires of hell are the burning lusts and rage of those who prefer their sin over the contentment and bliss of righteousness. 
Wait, so in hell we...get to sin and lust?
In every country and every age, the priest had been hostile to Liberty.
- Thomas Jefferson  (December 11, 2014 at 5:24 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(December 11, 2014 at 3:30 pm)Parkers Tan Wrote: ...Anyone whose name was not found written in the book of life was thrown into the lake of fire.The highly symbolic work of Revelation still conforms with the idea of Hell as the absence of the Lord. Since the Lord is Divine Love and Wisdom, then Hell is a 'place', or state of being, where these qualities are absent. The infernal fires of hell are the burning lusts and rage of those who prefer their sin over the contentment and bliss of righteousness. So, we atheists would be in that state right now, right?....Not that bad, actually. Certainly, not devoid of love, nor wisdom. Maybe this is where you would say "Atheists have Jesus in them", in which case what's all the fuss about devoting our lives to worship? |
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