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reply posted on 1-12-2009 @ 01:50 AM by truthtothemasses
reply to post by reasonable


Yep, once you're at least somewhat enlightened you begin to understand that your ego is just an illusion. Modern "christians" seem to think that their ego is with this christ(laughable).

"Christians" play a game they cannot win. Follow "christ" or follow the bible. And to this day, these ignorant bunch still have not figured it out nor do they seek out wisdom from those that are more knowlegdable. You people just keep drowning yourself, generation after generation, in this sesspool of dogma mind suppression and mis-information.


reply posted on 1-12-2009 @ 02:15 AM by elocin
Originally posted by reasonable
reply to post by semperfortis


People are learning how the human mind works = the end times are coming.

hot damn I love ATS!



That's what I thought.. and also, if disclosure is coming, it seems to fit in line with that, as well. The religious people pose a big problem for it, so now is the time to start scientifically disproving God..

And the Vatican now says that ETs are God's creation too, so it's okay to believe in them. Which is completely opposite of their previous stance on aliens.

These things just not what religious people want to believe. It sounds like the beginning of the end of religion.


reply posted on 1-12-2009 @ 02:52 AM by Republican08
reply to post by TheLaughingGod




Some would consider atheism some sort of religion, worshipping the five senses and a materialistic world.


Of course atheism being a religion is nonsense and you know it!

Plus, what makes understanding the five senses and materialistic world so wrong?

You make it sound like a bad thing

It's surely not.


reply posted on 1-12-2009 @ 04:25 AM by Avon8
Originally posted by DayKnightmare
www.youtube.com...

Entertaining vid. I can't get those YouTube links to embed properly in a post either.

Originally posted by Agree2Disagree

..Of course when thinking about God we normally reference our own opinions and point of view...

Nah, see that's the problem here.

From the article: "God created man in his own image and man, being a gentleman, returned the favour."

There may be a spiritual side to life but once you try and start using it to explain physical phenomena that's where you have to ad lib it. So this article is showing that people are making it up in their own intellects - their egos and not tuning into "God" at all. Furthermore, that no-one is, not even priests. And the fact that there are different religions prove that no one is right when it's all in the eye of the beholder.

Ideally, religion would just try and look at spiritual and philosophical issues. But no, religious people had to make a complete package - science, politics, how to live your life, tything (tax), even meddling with a woman's menstruation cycles - making them take a bath for 8 days to be cleansed while menstruating wasn't a bridge too far for these tyrants. All of the sexual exploitation of the parishioners and children in the Church's care. Religion is the story of sick sick exploitation.

So, it became a dictatorship of the mind and body. Religion has been a hammer clamp to the development of the human race. The very occurrence of modern technology like these computers we have to converse on is the result of a 2,000 year process of shedding the intellectual shackles of religion. We need threads like this to continue this important process.

Let's let science explain the physical universe and religion explain the spiritual one and never the twain shall meet.


reply posted on 1-12-2009 @ 04:58 AM by eight bits
The paper isn't up yet on the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences website,

www.pnas.org...

nor on Epley's own personal page on the Business School website (URL given in the OP article link). The UChi press release was posted only yesterday Central Standard Time:

www.eurekalert.org...

So, I cannot comment on the product, only the ads for it. Assuming the ads are truthful, we learn, as if for the first time:

People who believe in God try to infer God's will. In doing so, they rely upon their beliefs, among which are their beliefs about God and what God wills. Their conclusions reflect the premises upon which they rely.

This is shocking news? Why? About religion? No, this is how human reasoning in general works.

(Umm, note to Professor Epley, assuming the remark attributed to him in both the OP article and the press release is accurate:

The central feature of a compass, however, is that it points north no matter what direction a person is facing. This research suggests that, unlike an actual compass, inferences about God's beliefs may instead point people further in whatever direction they are already facing.

Magnetic compasses' "north" is truly north of you only when you are standing in the right place, that is, truly south of the Earth's northern magnetic pole.

Otherwise, when someone aligns the pointer on the letter N, and assumes that that is truly north, then they will be wrong.

It would be odd to blame the compass for the mistake of the person reading it. Odder still to blame the planet's magnetic poles for being where they are, rather than where it would be convenient for them to be instead.

Nevertheless, a magnetic compass is useful, despite the possible misunderstanding of the human using the instrument. Most people can usually acquire a better idea about where north is from reading a compass than they can form without it.

Perhaps that is the standard by which to judge all moral reflection, including that of people who believe in God and try to infer God's will, as best they can, with the mind they have. Is their decision closer to something plausibly beneficial than they would have come up with by reflecting on something else?)

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reply posted on 1-12-2009 @ 05:50 AM by randyvs
reply to post by reasonable




People are learning how the human mind works = the end times are coming
Redundant hypocracy. Reas you are a gonner. unimpressive
and a sad spectacle. Of course your kind we were told to watch for and here you are.

The fool has said," there is no God". Then comes death, then judgement.

For the wages of sin is death.

You are going to die someday because the word says you will.

Not the other way around.

Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Jesus Christ is LORD.

This is reality like it or not.

[edit on 1-12-2009 by randyvs]


reply posted on 1-12-2009 @ 06:00 AM by reasonable
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by reasonable


Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess Jesus Christ is LORD.


Sorry, but I bow to no thug. Looks like I touched a nerve again, with all the smiting chatter your spewing.. I'm quakin' in my boots.. the end times are comin'! what'll happen when I don't bend my knee for the lord? oh... the fear..... someone hold me.

btw what took you so long? ATS God Squad pager went off all day but you mistakenly had the volume turned down?


reply posted on 1-12-2009 @ 06:10 AM by randyvs
reply to post by Yummy Freelunch




Im not saying there is no higher power


Then what did you say.

Give Christ up because you say so.
You have a long way to go lady.

One day you will bow and confess and you won't be able to help yourself.

You will want to when you see his glory. You have a creator who cares
about you. You just do not care enough to understand him. So you
live in denial.

then comes death then comes judgement. you are always one step away
from totally realising you depended on mans puny little knowledge is what
is nothing. How can anyone put there faith in what man only thinks he knows .

The reason is your lifestyle. Well you carry on don't try to convince those who know better than to follow the pied piper.

[edit on 1-12-2009 by randyvs]


reply posted on 1-12-2009 @ 06:19 AM by reasonable
Originally posted by randyvs
reply to post by Yummy Freelunch


One day you will bow and confess and you won't be able to help yourself.


[edit on 1-12-2009 by randyvs]


no. she will not. deal with it.


reply posted on 1-12-2009 @ 06:27 AM by reasonable
Originally posted by randyvs

Sorry, but I bow to no thug. Looks like I touched a nerve again, with all the smiting chatter your spewing.. I'm quakin' in my boots.. the end times are comin'! what'll happen when I don't bend my knee for the lord? oh... the fear..... someone hold me
reply to post by reasonable


oo oo this must be where I get needled. Save it.loser. I'm not doing this with you again. So you want to touch a nerve wait for Moocowman.
oh but you will.

by sweetums.

[edit on 1-12-2009 by randyvs]

"save it loser"??? That's some nice christian speak right there. Looks like I've caught another one that can't practice what they preach.
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