Confessional
May 12th, 2016 at 10:38:49 PM permalink | |
petroglyph Member since: Aug 3, 2014 Threads: 25 Posts: 6227 | I have seen it both ways, there are many good women who didn't get a fair shake either. Relationships are tough. Most couple that stay together for a long time are grinding it out, not willing to do what it would take after separating. Fifty percent of 1st marriages and 60% of second marriages end in divorce. Evidence that there should be less marriages and more contracts. I don't want people to be miserable being married because that is what society has taught them is moral. Stop marriages, before a significant waiting period, and legalize brothels. People shouldn't live miserable, this isn't a rehearsal. I thought everybody talked about their neighbors? Just guessing, he expected the best from the sum of his experiences. If people that young get married, the extreme majority are getting married for the wrong reasons. They are probably doing it at someone else's prompting. Do you see a lot of that in your experience? In every relationship there is an Alpha and a Beta. I think the best marriage takes a lot of luck. I don't disagree with any of this. I just think to many people get married for the wrong reasons. The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury. GW |
May 13th, 2016 at 7:50:57 AM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 |
I choose to not argue either side of the reincarnation debate because I don't know enough about it. All I'm saying is that if it were true, I think it would prove the concept of a "soul," which is contrary to the evolutionary explanation of life. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
May 13th, 2016 at 11:24:56 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
Why do you think evolutionists don't believe in souls. Going way back to evolutionist Julian Huxley: ‘In the evolutionary pattern of thought there is no longer either need or room for the supernatural. The earth was not created: it evolved. So did all the animals and plants that inhabit it, including our human selves, mind and soul as well as brain and body.’ If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
May 13th, 2016 at 1:05:27 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
Are you hearing yourself when you write stuff like this?
How is sin an invention? Haven't people always made mistakes and offended others? Why do you think power has anything to do with sin? It would seem that if anything those interested in forgiving people would be trying to make sure you didn't feel burdened by the natural guilt we all feel when we hurt or offend someone. It is about setting someone free from the power of sin.
Not true. God is always merciful and understanding. You cannot accidently go to Hell. To truly offend God and deserve Hell you've got to really want it. And God is a big God, He can handle any petty insults and illogical denials of His existence you can throw at Him. What truly offends Him is to wantonly hurt other human beings and to cause evil to befall them. To do this willingly and without repentance or sorrow is a one way ticket to Hell. To hurt others out of concern only for yourself, to think you are better than others, to be prejudiced and conceited, these are things that lead one to eternal punishment.
No, but it means you will be separated from Uncle George and Aunt Sue. Separation from God is the definition of Hell. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
May 13th, 2016 at 2:59:25 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
This philosophy is unfamiliar to you? It's been around forever.
It's an invention of the OT, and is only in offshoots of the OT, like Christianity and Islam. Buddhism, Hinduism, and religions like them, have no such concept. You can't offend god because there is no god to offend. The major issue with believing there is a god, is believing in sin. They go hand in hand. If one doesn't exist, neither does the other.
Hell doesn't exist, you can't go there at all. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
May 13th, 2016 at 9:47:13 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
It may have been around for ever, but it is crazy talk.
Dude that is such BS. All of these religions and every culture that has ever existed has a concept of sin.
Why do you keep going around in this circle?
This doesn't logically follow from your premises.
I wouldn't bet my life or eternal life on it. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
May 13th, 2016 at 11:25:33 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
It's hardly crazy talk. But you know what is crazy? Going over the same subjects again and again and again and hearing the same things from you over and over. I'm sick of it, you're a broken record. You are the most narrow minded smart person I've ever run across. You have one track, and you never deviate from it. Brainwashing, try it, you'll be convinced you love it. You'll have no choice. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
May 13th, 2016 at 11:33:34 PM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 | No, I'm sorry. I admit it is somewhat crazy trying to talk rationally with you about these things, but you shouldn't be able to pass off as a viable philosophy claiming to know what a spider thinks, calling that spider narcissistic, and then claiming I have some type of responsibility to the spider. Of course I don't believe in indiscriminately killing or harming any of God's creation, but I know (and you do too!) that no insect is anywhere near equal the life of a human being. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |
May 14th, 2016 at 12:39:54 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25013 |
What you don't know would fill an encyclopedia. Again, narcissism in all it's glory, on display for all to gasp at. So insecure, so unsure, a god was invented in their image, and they were made the apple of his eye. Enough of this nonsense. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
May 14th, 2016 at 10:18:55 AM permalink | |
FrGamble Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 67 Posts: 7596 |
What I don't know could fill many encyclopedias for sure and that would be the case if we added all your knowledge and everyone else's on this forum. One thing I do know is that an insect is not as important as a human being. “It is with the smallest brushes that the artist paints the most exquisitely beautiful pictures.” ( |