i can't personally say that i do believe or the even the bible for that matter, but i can't see how someone could believe this.
you don't live the way you are supposed to live and believe in jesus, etc for like 70-80 years, but you have to suffer forever and ever for stuff you did during one short lifetime.i was doing some looking on google and one guy made a bunch of good points against the idea of hell and one being why would god resurrect the righteous from heaven and especiall hell then just throw them back in?
what do you guys think?.
No
But I've felt a bit of heaven and hell now and then. Seen a bit of it out and about as well.
Were I to think I'll live forever in some form, it might seem reasonable to believe in either or both.
As some sort of accounting for deeds done or not done
But I don't and it doesn't
i can't stop playing skyrim.
how did this happen?
i was never into this stuff before and never thought i would be.
Company of Heroes 2 is coming out early next year. Might pre-order a copy of that one
The best was capturing a Nebelwerfer battery or Flak 88 and sending some SS steel back to the Fatherland, lmao
my 97 year old grandmother died last week.
she was actually born and raised a jw.
her mother (my great grandmother) was a russelite.
Sorry to hear of the loss. I tend to agree with the opinion that it's not a wasted life. There was some good to be had and a price to pay for it, as with anything.
The older I get, the less judgmental I want to be; it's one of the traits I learned well in my youth. There'll always be somebody who judges you or them and it's a train I have no more desire to ride.
i really do not understand how any can be athiests from thinking real hard about it.
how can you think everything on this earth just happened?.
from my understanding, to be athiest, this is pretty much how it goes.
Appeal to authority and suspension of disbelief
It's like peanut butter and chocolate
'course one doesn't need the bible literally
perhaps even figuratively
perhaps one doesn't need the bible at all
or any derivatives of it's ideas
there's more than one path to the watering hole
and others have found these, were one to consider a broader spectrum
'course, I might be wrong
but I don't think so
i really do not understand how any can be athiests from thinking real hard about it.
how can you think everything on this earth just happened?.
from my understanding, to be athiest, this is pretty much how it goes.
You make the mistake of expecting Atheism to provide an answer for everything . . . only religion can do that. Atheism is not some sort of alternative faith . . . there are many unanswered questions. Atheism simply rejects religions' answers to those questions . . . hence the name.
Eloquent and sublime.
i'm desperately begging to the administrators of this website, to please modify the logic of the captchas used to validate the logins.. they were perfectly acceptable up to sometime in the last few days when they seem to have been modified.
the level of deciphering needed to read the captchas has gone up tremendously.
it took me about 30 attempts for this last login.. please revert the logic as it was before, where you had 2 words, one easy to read and another moderately hard to decipher..
This is just a test of the government trying to data mine how you think. Your efforts are contributing to pattern recognition algorithms and the evolution of AI. Upon your acceptance, you will be redirected to the most recent 911 conspiracy thread. Thank you for your cooperation.
i invite king solomon and anyone else that is interested, to discuss if believing in god may be helpful.
i am not restricting the discussion to the biblical god.
i'm ready to look if this belief may be helpful both from a societal and from an individual point of view.
I remember a music teacher who said another way to cover a mistake was to repeat it, as if to say, "I MEANT to do that!" Obviously a questionable strategy, depending on how obvious the mistake was!
A drummer I played with said to do it again next time 'round and change it up slightly. If the heads are up and everyone's on board, it works like a charm and only those on the inside track know the difference.
'course most times, somebody just flubbed a note, nobody looked and everyone just carried on...;)
i invite king solomon and anyone else that is interested, to discuss if believing in god may be helpful.
i am not restricting the discussion to the biblical god.
i'm ready to look if this belief may be helpful both from a societal and from an individual point of view.
Was that a (wise)crack aimed at moi?
Nein. Ain't throwing no rocks at you ;)
But it's kinda funny that one of my early online gaming logins was A Twitching Junkie. It humored me to read the Medal of Honor ticker read "A Twitching Junkie killed Major Pain" and variations on the theme. lmao, good times.
i invite king solomon and anyone else that is interested, to discuss if believing in god may be helpful.
i am not restricting the discussion to the biblical god.
i'm ready to look if this belief may be helpful both from a societal and from an individual point of view.
My point wasn't to present a comprehensive list of all possible substances of abuse (incredibly long list, BTW), but to point out the parallels in rationales offered. But sure, alcoholics of course use the same rationale ("I need it to get by", "it helps me to relax and calm myself", etc.)
You're certainly entitled to your opinion. I guess this answers the question posed to you in the OP.
i invite king solomon and anyone else that is interested, to discuss if believing in god may be helpful.
i am not restricting the discussion to the biblical god.
i'm ready to look if this belief may be helpful both from a societal and from an individual point of view.
Talisan, didn't mean to insult, just a heads up.
I grow weary of the constant derision and argumentative nature of this place.
I hear ya. It's to be expected though given the nature of what peeps are going though. Realize that opinions of you aren't really about you.
