do people in their existance create much more greif inadvertantly that they cause happiness with purpose?
an action that can seem so small to one person or a desision made with selfish intent can have effects without the action taker or desicion maker even considering or realising it.
selfishness or self absorbation; we focus so much on us that the reprocusions of every little thing we do become inconsequential as long as we or those we care about are 'safe'.. when i was little in the car i would make up stories about people we drove past based on that split second they passed through my life.
reproducing and defending your kin is part of the survival instinct, not giving.
Many animals behave in ways that appear altruistic. So do many humans.
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Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit attrocities - Voltaire
do people in their existance create much more greif inadvertantly that they cause happiness with purpose?
an action that can seem so small to one person or a desision made with selfish intent can have effects without the action taker or desicion maker even considering or realising it.
selfishness or self absorbation; we focus so much on us that the reprocusions of every little thing we do become inconsequential as long as we or those we care about are 'safe'.. when i was little in the car i would make up stories about people we drove past based on that split second they passed through my life.
The human spark is the ability to move beyond this to some degree and seek out what is good for others even at a cost to yourself.
No Joel, lots of animals do that. Many animals put more effort into reproducing or defending their kin than on their own pleasure. Their instinct is primarily to reproduce.
Humans, on the other hand, are the only species who choose whether and when to reproduce. Most of us do this for selfish reasons, we want more money, more time, more sex, whatever, putting the very survival of our bloodline at risk for temporary selfish pleasure.
I would go as far as to say that it is our selfishness more than our selflessness that defines us as humans.
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...for the world cup 2002 in korea and japan!!!!.
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those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit attrocities - voltaire
...for the World Cup 2002 in Korea and Japan!!!!
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Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit attrocities - Voltaire
does anyone who has left the organisation ever get scared at current world events and what they seem to be leading to?
more and more the governments are getting fed up with religion, there is now more than even a call "for" peace rather than "of" peace and security.
bin laden and his extremist religious views would give rise to the thought that governments will in the future be intent on eradicating religion altogether due to the trouble it causes.
You Know-it-All said:
Hitler no doubt killed thousands of sweet old Jewish ladies. Stalin starved millions of Ukranian peasants. Why do you assume that YOU are so special? Jehovah's pre-recorded judgments are that this system meet up with it's day of justice.So Hitler, Stalin and Jehovah? Hmm...
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Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit attrocities - Voltaire
what does it mean to be spiritual?
does it mean a person's thinking is mostly about spiritual things?.
what if the spiritual concepts that a person has are incorrect,.
Being spiritual means always reading the yearbook as soon as it comes out, giving long answers at the Watchtower study that aren't directly from the paragraph, going on service even when it's raining and being uneducated and having a low-paid job. Polyester suits help too.
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Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit attrocities - Voltaire
when god created adam and eve did he foreknow that they would sin?.
this is taken from the reasoning book:.
when god created adam, did he know that adam would sin?.
Rex, you said:
Hi Derek,
Refute the argument from scripture. Don't play at 'pushing my buttons'. If you had happened to study Romans at any length you would see how ignorant your statement was.
Rex
Rex, I'm not pushing your buttons. I'm well aware what Romans has to say, and of Calvin's interpretation of it. It comes down to believing that God created humans, knowing the way they would behave, and then punished some or rewarded others. None of these humans had any choice in the matter. Personally, I think that's unfair. No matter how many times it's restated and rehashed I still cannot see how it could be justified.
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Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit attrocities - Voltaire
on varieties of atheism:.
can we even speak of clear and distinct ideological borders among atheists, agnostics, and theists?
absent any commonly accepted scientific proof of the existence of god (or gods), we must consider that the labeling is based on an individual's personal interpretation.
I am an atheist because I see no evidence for the existence of a god or gods. It's that simple. I am not a "strong" atheist because if you define the attributes of a god loosely enough then it is impossible to prove its nonexistence. It's like the invisible dragon in my garage. It might exist, there's no way of proving it doesn't but it seems silly to believe in it.
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Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit attrocities - Voltaire
when god created adam and eve did he foreknow that they would sin?.
this is taken from the reasoning book:.
when god created adam, did he know that adam would sin?.
Rex,
Why would a perfect loving god create beings whose natural state is one of "total depravity" and then punish them for it. In the Calvinistic view, God chose to create beings whom he knew he would punish for all eternity. What kind of sadistic bastard do you worship, Rex?
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Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit attrocities - Voltaire
when god created adam and eve did he foreknow that they would sin?.
this is taken from the reasoning book:.
when god created adam, did he know that adam would sin?.
The amazing thing is that God KNEW we would sin, but still choose to love us.
Surely the amazing thing is that God knew we would sin if he created us in a certain way, but did so anyway. Why did he not change his blueprint, so that, like Jesus, we would not sin? Surely God wanted to create beings who would be happy and make him happy? Why did he choose to do something that would have the exact opposite effect?
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Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit attrocities - Voltaire
when god created adam and eve did he foreknow that they would sin?.
this is taken from the reasoning book:.
when god created adam, did he know that adam would sin?.
Is love really love without choice involved. God Gave us free will knowing that some would abuse it. Without the ability to choose, to sin, then neither can we love. Love is not a feeling, it's a decision.
But was God really not capable of creating humans who would not sin? I mean, it's not like it was only a small percentage of humans who sinned, it was both of the humans that God created directly. If God knew they were going to sin, did he have to implement a policy of also punishing their descendants? That way, nobody but Adam and Eve really got a chance. And what about God's (absurd) backup plan of sending Jesus as a redeemer? What if Jesus had exercised his free will and sinned? Wasn't the free will of every human since Adam and Eve constrained by their inability to live without sinning?
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Those who can induce you to believe absurdities can induce you to commit attrocities - Voltaire
