Posts by pomegranate

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Carbon Dating

by Wolfgirl in

sorry, i don't have time to search the site right now.

this bloody french isp is rubbish, and i keep getting dropped when i try anything that takes more than 10 seconds.

has the society ever come up with any intelligent reasoning to counter the ages that carbon dating/science has given to various artifacts, i.e.

Carbon Dating

by Wolfgirl in

sorry, i don't have time to search the site right now.

this bloody french isp is rubbish, and i keep getting dropped when i try anything that takes more than 10 seconds.

has the society ever come up with any intelligent reasoning to counter the ages that carbon dating/science has given to various artifacts, i.e.

Toad in the Hole

by Francois in

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friends

or how bout this?

toad in the hole?.

i don't have the faintest idea what these things are.

pomegranate

Ahem. Up here in Massachusetts, we have a dish called Frog in the Socket.

It's a French kinda thing.

So Frank, where y'all live in Georgia? I wanna look at a map...

Mmmmmm. Manly food!!! Can't wait.

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Please convince me I'm wrong!

by StinkyPantz in

since i have stopped attending the meetings, i have had a loss of faith in god.

i consider myself an agnostic teetering on being a full blown atheist.

while in school this last semester i have been taking courses that emphasize evolution.

pomegranate

Unfortunately, I can not put all my faith in something I have never seen.

I believe in God's eyes, if it ain't all, it's nothing. Because if you say half of your faith is in God, and there is a God, then your other half is someplace it ought not to be. Right?

Well, I think it's only fair that gifts are given fairly. Do you give
one child the most expensive precious gifts and the other shitty ones
and expect him to be thankful?

If God doesn't give one man a gift, then it's obvious that man is not God's child. I always remember Christ called the Jews sons of the Devil. Obviously no gift for them.

Are you unfair to your children?

Of course not.

Assuming there is a God and he gives us life why give others a good one and
others such a crappy one?

What's to define good and bad? You? Me? Can any man dictate that standard? That's the whole point. What's Good and Bad is a standard that is set by God alone. When God says the least will be the most, that to me cancels out all the bad. ALL OF IT. Because what is least, is a man BORN IN THE CRAP with no choice, and then chosen to be glorious beyond his wildest dreams ALSO not by his choice, but by God's grace. Now, who do you think should have the choice in making glorious one who really was the least? You? Me?

God has permitted injustice in order for justice to prevail. Eventually.

It seems to defeat the generosity of life-giving if some die 6 months into their life or if some are born extremely retarded or others have such debilitating diseases that they suffer their entire lives. What a great gift! Some would rather have not been born, or others are so slow mentally, or in so much pain physically that they can't appreciate it.

So, who are you/we going to blame, the cause or the affect? I blame the cause. God is NOT the cause, but his SEEMING delay is an affect. Science has a simple law, for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction. The action was opposition to God, the reaction is a delayed reaction to the Opposer. There will certainly be a reaction, but everything had to be made just so in order for the reaction to be overwhelming, universal and unequivocable in scope AND SO IT WILL NOT FAIL. Once the reaction happens, there could never be another similar action of opposition.

Well once again assuming there is a God and he's perfect in his decision
making then he would do things fairly and give gifts of love and
knowledge fairly. Especially to those that have looked for and longed
for him, such as me.

Oh, so is your understanding the standard we all should use for what's fair? How about this angle: All men from Adam forward are NOT God's children, they are offspring of the corruption of Satan, and we have inherited corruption from the Master Corruptor. Now, if we ALL are on equal par as piles of garbage, and God so chooses to pick SOME out of that pile to be ADOPTED as his through a spiritual process, is there ANYONE who can say God is unfair in doing that? Suppose God knows by His omniscience and abilities to foreordain each every man, who is who even before they were born?

If God is the potter and you and I are clay, does the clay tell the potter what to do? Suppose God with the clay makes one man like a beautiful vase, and another he makes into a ceramic toilet bowl...Who are we to argue? You? Me?

If I totally believed in god why would I seek him out?

Because His resources are ENDLESS, as creation echos quite loudly. The macrocosm knows no end, and the microcosm the same.

It's when you doubt something that you search for it to either reassure that it really exists or know once and for all that it's a fairy tell.

Jesus made a correlation of DOUBT and faith, and it is NOT what you say:

Matt 14:31
Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. "You of little faith," he said, "why did you doubt?"

Little faith and doubt go hand in hand. Ask God for more faith, and it will be given you.

Lies. I have doubts and I truly seek, why do you think I've searched the
Bible and various religions and even put this question to the board?
I've also prayed. . .

Matt 21:21-22
21 Jesus replied, "I tell you the truth, if you have faith and do not doubt, not only can you do what was done to the fig tree, but also you can say to this mountain, 'Go, throw yourself into the sea,' and it will be done. 22 If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer."

Pray for more faith and do not doubt.

James 1:6-8
6 But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. 7 That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; 8 he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.

Well, I'm glad that your beliefs are unshakeable, I thought mine were too
Nothing lasts forever

That is so untrue.

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How do you base your faith?

by kenpodragon in

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one day a student from the local university decided that we was going to write a thesis on how people define their faith.

he then asked the next question, "why?

the student thought he might not of heard him, so he repeated the question again.

pomegranate

I believe in God.

Why?

He made big ass striper bass that lives near Francois that um gonna ketch me one day.

me.

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God/Bible...why does it cause Anger/Bitterness?

by gumby in

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i was on another thread today reeming out pomegranite when he replied back with"why do you get so angry and bitter with the way i feel"?

he said"do i hurt you or others".

he really made me think.

pomegranate

Great people came from left field. Yo gumby, Remember Yaz?

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Toad in the Hole

by Francois in

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or how bout this?

toad in the hole?.

i don't have the faintest idea what these things are.

pomegranate

Is that what we are going to eat when we go fishing???

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Do you still call on God, by the name Jehovah?

by LyinEyes in

the other night i was upset and decided to pray to god.

i was outside looking at the stars and wondering if i was talking to myself or if he is really out there somewhere.. as i prayed i didnt know who to address, i have said jehovah, jesus, father, who ever is out there please hear me.

i don' t mean to be disrespectful in saying it that way , but just confused.. many of you know we havent been to a meeting in over a year .

pomegranate

Don't argue with me... I knw wisdom when I see it!!!

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Jean-Luc Ponty

by pomegranate in

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pomegranate

He's STILL touring...

A couple of albums featured a bass player named Ralph Armstrong, man that cat blew me off my chair!!

Yeah...really good stuff. I would suggest getting Cosmic Messenger if anyone is looking for some way cool jazz/rock/funk/fusion.

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Do you still call on God, by the name Jehovah?

by LyinEyes in

the other night i was upset and decided to pray to god.

i was outside looking at the stars and wondering if i was talking to myself or if he is really out there somewhere.. as i prayed i didnt know who to address, i have said jehovah, jesus, father, who ever is out there please hear me.

i don' t mean to be disrespectful in saying it that way , but just confused.. many of you know we havent been to a meeting in over a year .

pomegranate

Wisdom from Heaven. Hehe.