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Originally posted by NOTurTypical
reply to post by EnochWasRight
Either that or they are both analog, not digital therefore are made up of particles smaller than Planck's length and as a result they have no locality to themselves. Crazy stuff to ponder.
edit on 8-6-2012 by NOTurTypical because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by Bixxi3
-Myself I am an agnostic-
AGNOSTICISM: THE BASIS FOR ATHEISM, NOT AN ALTERNATIVE TO IT
By David Eller
WHAT IS AGNOSTICISM? Agnosticism is a recent concept, introduced by Thomas Huxley, the famous friend and advocate of Darwin, to describe his own concerns about knowledge and belief. It is derived from the Greek roots a- for 'no' or 'without' and gnosis for 'knowledge.' Dictionary definitions, which are often worse than useless, tend to depict it as the position that certain things, like god(s), are unknown or ultimately unknowable; in common usage it is a third religious position between Atheism or Theism. The Oxford World Encyclopedia goes so far as to declare that it is a \reasoned basis for the rejection of both Christianity and Atheism\.
However, neither dictionaries nor common usage reflect Huxley's intent in coining the term. His original formulation of the concept goes as follows:
Agnosticism is not a creed but a method, the essence of which lies in the vigorous application of a single principle. Positively the principle may be expressed as, in matters of the intellect, follow your reason as far as it can carry you without other considerations. And negatively, in matters of the intellect, do not pretend the conclusions are certain that are not demonstrated or demonstrable. It is wrong for a man to say he is certain of the objective truth of a proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.
In this characterization, which we can take as authoritative, there is no mention of belief in general or of religion in particular. Rather, it addresses what we should and can claim to know. It is akin to skepticism in the less extreme sense: not that it is impossible to have knowledge or that we have none but that we should not claim to have knowledge that we do not have. atheists.org...
Originally posted by racasan
I am a European and I have lived in the UK and Scandinavian countries and where I grew up nobody was religious not family or friends or neighbours so when you write
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
It takes more faith to be an Atheist when all of quantum mechanics is explained in the Bible.
For me just shows you have Christian blinkers on – even if your point about quantum mechanics is correct it still leaves hundreds and maybe thousands of other myths in the same position as yours – so why pick yours over any other myth?
Also not having a faith is not the same as having a faith – I don’t have a belief/faith in christianity in the same way you don’t have faith in Zeus or Thor – pretending that people who aren’t theists are somehow a different kind of theist is just daft
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
The Beast out of the Earth
11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. 14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[e - or of mankind] That number is 666.
Prepare yourself for the Carbon mark that forces you to comply. If you don't, you will not be able to purchase anything.
Originally posted by Bixxi3
reply to post by Annee
Thanks for the info
I wonder what caused so many atheist i have met to state that there is no god and the universe is the way it because that just how is (basically what i hear)
what is the the proper name for those people?
Originally posted by Annee
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
The Beast out of the Earth
11 Then I saw a second beast, coming out of the earth. It had two horns like a lamb, but it spoke like a dragon. 12 It exercised all the authority of the first beast on its behalf, and made the earth and its inhabitants worship the first beast, whose fatal wound had been healed. 13 And it performed great signs, even causing fire to come down from heaven to the earth in full view of the people. 14 Because of the signs it was given power to perform on behalf of the first beast, it deceived the inhabitants of the earth. It ordered them to set up an image in honor of the beast who was wounded by the sword and yet lived. 15 The second beast was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. 16 It also forced all people, great and small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hands or on their foreheads, 17 so that they could not buy or sell unless they had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of its name.
18 This calls for wisdom. Let the person who has insight calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.[e - or of mankind] That number is 666.
Prepare yourself for the Carbon mark that forces you to comply. If you don't, you will not be able to purchase anything.
Well - - - this is the first time I have found The Beast 666 interesting.
Can you interpret that in plain English?
Is your name in reference to: Enoch Powelledit on 8-6-2012 by Annee because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
No on Enoch Powell. Book of Enoch. Seventh from Adam.
If you follow the link in my signature, there are a wealth of articles where I explain all in common language. I try to avoid being too wordy, yet make the point and let you fill in the rest by context to your own life.
What will you find? Truth is subtle. Not subtle like deception. Subtle as in perfected, not weighed down by error. On the other hand, error is dense and gross. Lead is a gross material. God is a perfected material. They are both heavy, yet one is what we desire to rise from the earth. The other is poison.
When you read truth, it rises above all else. Knock and Seek. God only asks you to search him by His Word. From there, the hidden God is known, yet never seen. When you seek him, you are known by him as well. Faith is not something you do. It's a work that you allow God to do in you. All other religions makes it about man earning his way to heaven. With God, it's not about what we do. It's about what has been done for us by him. Why?
Ephesians 2
2 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions —it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith —and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9 not by works, so that no one can boast. 10 For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Why does he say this? "So that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace"
Jesus said, "you must be born again." The body is the temple. The veil over the holy of holies is what keeps us in faith and not fact. We are here to cleanse the temple and make sacrifice. In the end, only Christ can do this for us. Baptism is the symbol for our immersion into the water of reality. Water cleanses the temple. We rise to new life. You must be born again. Read the article on water and spirit baptism. Some of the other articles show that we have five baptisms: Earth (Egypt / Matter), Air (Breath), Water (Baptism) and Fire (Trials). The last baptism, if we overcome the rest, is Spirit.
How do you overcome? Remember 666 as Carbon? 777 is God's heptadic number. It is Nitrogen. 888 is Jesus in Greek Gematria. Oxygen is 888. The breath is what you use for the Word. Christ is the Word. Overcome with His Word.
In order for me to declare there is no gold in China I'd physically have to be everywhere simultaneously in China to be able to verify there was no gold anywhere in China. However, to be able to say that gold exists in China I just need to be in one place at one time and see one piece of gold.
Originally posted by Annee
Originally posted by Bixxi3
reply to post by Annee
Thanks for the info
I wonder what caused so many atheist i have met to state that there is no god and the universe is the way it because that just how is (basically what i hear)
what is the the proper name for those people?
What an Atheist believes or thinks is their: Atheist Philosophy. How each individual came to their philosophy - - only they can answer.
I guess one could say the universe is because of spontaneous reaction.
I'm not going to go into: Who/What created "whatever" that caused a reaction. There is no known answer to: Who/What.
Originally posted by satron
Originally posted by Annee
Originally posted by Bixxi3
reply to post by Annee
Thanks for the info
I wonder what caused so many atheist i have met to state that there is no god and the universe is the way it because that just how is (basically what i hear)
what is the the proper name for those people?
What an Atheist believes or thinks is their: Atheist Philosophy. How each individual came to their philosophy - - only they can answer.
I guess one could say the universe is because of spontaneous reaction.
I'm not going to go into: Who/What created "whatever" that caused a reaction. There is no known answer to: Who/What.
You say that atheists lack a belief, but at the same time, they have a philosopy that they believe?
DERP.
I have saved this page offline in case you try to change your story.
You're starting to come around.edit on 8-6-2012 by satron because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by satron
You say that atheists lack a belief, but at the same time, they have a philosopy that they believe?
Originally posted by luciddream
Originally posted by satron
Originally posted by Annee
Originally posted by Bixxi3
reply to post by Annee
Thanks for the info
I wonder what caused so many atheist i have met to state that there is no god and the universe is the way it because that just how is (basically what i hear)
what is the the proper name for those people?
What an Atheist believes or thinks is their: Atheist Philosophy. How each individual came to their philosophy - - only they can answer.
I guess one could say the universe is because of spontaneous reaction.
I'm not going to go into: Who/What created "whatever" that caused a reaction. There is no known answer to: Who/What.
You say that atheists lack a belief, but at the same time, they have a philosopy that they believe?
DERP.
I have saved this page offline in case you try to change your story.
You're starting to come around.edit on 8-6-2012 by satron because: (no reason given)
"They" as in individual, not a group thinking.. each have their OWN ideals, you know like how a normal person SHOULD have INSTEAD of a group believe or SOMEONE ELSE's BELIEF.
Originally posted by Annee
Originally posted by satron
You say that atheists lack a belief, but at the same time, they have a philosopy that they believe?
NO. Atheist is a noun that can be used as a direct adjective. It is a descriptive - - - nothing more.
Definition of atheism - - - lack of belief in a god/deity.
An atheist is an individual. They can think/believe whatever they want - - - - except a god/deity.
Lack of belief in a god/deity is the only connector.
There are what is called "Hard Atheists". They accept only what can be: "touched/seen/heard/proven" etc.
Not all atheists are "hard atheists".
Originally posted by satron
There are no such things as hard/soft, negative/positive atheists.
Your definition of atheism - lack of belief in a god/deity - is deceptive, because it doesn't demonstrate what IS believed, which is that God doesn't exist.
It's like saying "A Muslim is someone that doesn't believe in Christianity"