Do you believe in God? Do you want to?

[Hashirama Senjuu]

That is supposed to influence me, how?

My youngest brother grew up with a mother battling cancer before she died and then found my father dead in his bed at the age of 11.

Life is full of things we don't want.

I say again:

It isn't a question of: "Do I believe in God?"

It is a question of: "Do I believe my own thoughts to be the final word on how things should be?"

If you believe the answer to that is "yes" - then no God will be sufficient for you and you will be miserable as you will always see a world in need of change you don't have the power to make.

If you believe the answer to that is: "No" - then you must inherently believe that the world's structure arises from a reason or process that is greater than your individual thought.

My judgment stands.

You have no judgment, in person I'd beat the hell out of you trying to make a judgment.

 

[Tobby17]

I believe that God's existence and non-existence are equally probable.

 

[Bronze]

Yes, I believe in God. The evidences are undeniably overwhelming. It's a belief shared by 5.1 billion people in the world.

 

[YowYan]

Yes, I believe in God. The evidences are undeniably overwhelming. It's a belief shared by 5.1 billion people in the world.

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[Power Bottom]

Yes I do.

 

[Aim64C]

Off topic but are you in the military?

Prior service, technically.

Put in 8 years.

No. I want to learn about other viewpoints. Challenging other viewpoints is a way for me to learn about other viewpoints. If you tell me that gravity isn't real, I'll challenge it because I want to know why you believe such a thing.

You wish to learn what is of immediate utility to your ambitions.

Do not confuse this with a genuine appreciation for learning.

I decide what is bullshit in my mind. I care about learning viewpoints when I initiate the argument or discussion. If I say something sarcastic to you, that does not mean I want you to drop knowledge on me. It simply means I was making a joke and it should be taken as such.

Ah, so let's all engage in a fun game of forum grab-ass and mutual sodomizing.

Monkeys are entertained by such antics and there are enough on this forum that I need not join.

Those are things that are interesting to you. If I share interest in those things I'll ask you about it or I will do my own research. You don't need to try to press your 'knowledge' on every single person you have a conversation with. It's simply not needed.

So I'm supposed to respond to you grabbing my ass by offering to give you felatio for your wonderful wit and humor?

Learn your place.

Just because someone is interested in learning that doesn't mean they're interested in what you have to teach. Say for example an Art major is in an art museum to learn about their field of study. According to your logic, since they're open to learn things, it's fine to barrage them with 'knowledge' about the universe and religion?

You'll find that when people say things I'm not interested in - I do not prompt them with a statement.

You will also find that if you read through what I'd stated - it applies very much so to the "gallery" we are currently in.

So off of that point, I'm interested in learning, but about things that interest me. Someone can try to drop knowledge of hockey on me and I won't care because I am not interested in hockey. If they dropped knowledge of basketball on my I'd listen because that's something I'm interested in. Does that mean I'll never find myself asking someone or Google-ing something about hockey? No.

Now if someone were to tell you that Hockey and Basketball were related concepts and shared a common history (not saying it is true - just as an example).

To believe subjects exist in isolation is the greatest impediment to the human mind I've ever witnessed.

@Bold, I really don't want to say it again. When did I ever say you spout bullshit? I said you regurgitate garbage and called what you were talking about bullshit. Not in the sense that it has no place in society, but in the sense of that's the adjective I decided to use.

Now we are going to play semantics?

I love this game.

You have no judgment, in person I'd beat the hell out of you trying to make a judgment.

You're more than welcome to try. I recommend you pack a blade. Within 10 meters, you won't have a firearm drawn before I'm there and it would be over in about three seconds - my boot, your neck. I don't punch and kick - that's for idiots who are in it for show, not to kill.

And, yes, my judgment of you stands. You're a small-minded fool who believes perfection revolves around what his mind can conceive. You're the type of person who would give the child everything he/she asks for to be his/her 'friend' if it didn't occur to you that the role of a parent is necessarily different from the role of a friend.

Who knows - perhaps you are one of those "I want my kid to be my friend" types. Always interesting watching that slow motion train wreck play out.

"Why doesn't the world conform to my view?"

"If I were God, I would make it so no one suffered. That's what a real God would do. If this world were perfect, where I got all that I wanted, I'd believe there was a God."

[video=youtube;77ueTRaYTwg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ueTRaYTwg[/video]

A world where we always got what we want would have absolutely no purpose. A world where there was no potential for pain and consequence would not be a world where we could have free will (at least, not among others with free will).

If you were to dedicate some of your time to contemplating -why- the universe does not conform to your views of perfection, perhaps you could come to peace with the fact that your view of perfection is narrowly defined by the constraints of self-interest.

It is somewhat odd, to me, that in a world where we have begun designing our own artificial universes we also still cling to old ideas we've already since abandoned in game design. In a good game - the player does not always taste success. The player is not spared the consequences of decisions - the game, once designed, churns on as an absolute set of principles and formulas.

If we will quickly become bored with games that will not challenge us - why, then, would any ideal universe of ours not present us with challenges? Why would it spare us the consequences of our decisions?

My judgment stands.

Until you have properly evaluated your place and purpose in the world - fear and misery is all you will ultimately know.

 

[Adam Driver]

Prior service, technically.

Put in 8 years.



You wish to learn what is of immediate utility to your ambitions.

Do not confuse this with a genuine appreciation for learning.



Ah, so let's all engage in a fun game of forum grab-ass and mutual sodomizing.

Monkeys are entertained by such antics and there are enough on this forum that I need not join.



So I'm supposed to respond to you grabbing my ass by offering to give you felatio for your wonderful wit and humor?

Learn your place.



You'll find that when people say things I'm not interested in - I do not prompt them with a statement.

You will also find that if you read through what I'd stated - it applies very much so to the "gallery" we are currently in.



Now if someone were to tell you that Hockey and Basketball were related concepts and shared a common history (not saying it is true - just as an example).

To believe subjects exist in isolation is the greatest impediment to the human mind I've ever witnessed.



Now we are going to play semantics?

I love this game.



You're more than welcome to try. I recommend you pack a blade. Within 10 meters, you won't have a firearm drawn before I'm there and it would be over in about three seconds - my boot, your neck. I don't punch and kick - that's for idiots who are in it for show, not to kill.

And, yes, my judgment of you stands. You're a small-minded fool who believes perfection revolves around what his mind can conceive. You're the type of person who would give the child everything he/she asks for to be his/her 'friend' if it didn't occur to you that the role of a parent is necessarily different from the role of a friend.

Who knows - perhaps you are one of those "I want my kid to be my friend" types. Always interesting watching that slow motion train wreck play out.

"Why doesn't the world conform to my view?"

"If I were God, I would make it so no one suffered. That's what a real God would do. If this world were perfect, where I got all that I wanted, I'd believe there was a God."

[video=youtube;77ueTRaYTwg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ueTRaYTwg[/video]

A world where we always got what we want would have absolutely no purpose. A world where there was no potential for pain and consequence would not be a world where we could have free will (at least, not among others with free will).

If you were to dedicate some of your time to contemplating -why- the universe does not conform to your views of perfection, perhaps you could come to peace with the fact that your view of perfection is narrowly defined by the constraints of self-interest.

It is somewhat odd, to me, that in a world where we have begun designing our own artificial universes we also still cling to old ideas we've already since abandoned in game design. In a good game - the player does not always taste success. The player is not spared the consequences of decisions - the game, once designed, churns on as an absolute set of principles and formulas.

If we will quickly become bored with games that will not challenge us - why, then, would any ideal universe of ours not present us with challenges? Why would it spare us the consequences of our decisions?

My judgment stands.

Until you have properly evaluated your place and purpose in the world - fear and misery is all you will ultimately know.

Thanks for your service

 

[Multiply]

Ah, so let's all engage in a fun game of forum grab-ass and mutual sodomizing.

Monkeys are entertained by such antics and there are enough on this forum that I need not join.



So I'm supposed to respond to you grabbing my ass by offering to give you felatio for your wonderful wit and humor?

Learn your place.

Learn my place? You're on an e-forum power trip bud. Lol

You'll find that when people say things I'm not interested in - I do not prompt them with a statement.

You will also find that if you read through what I'd stated - it applies very much so to the "gallery" we are currently in.

Not everyone is like you. I still haven't read what you said to my sarcastic statement because it was exactly that, a sarcastic statement.

Now if someone were to tell you that Hockey and Basketball were related concepts and shared a common history (not saying it is true - just as an example).

I would be interested because I'm interested in basketball. I'd be interested in knowing the mixed history.

To believe subjects exist in isolation is the greatest impediment to the human mind I've ever witnessed.

No one said that.

Now we are going to play semantics?

I love this game.

Semantics? You 'quoted' me wrong. You can't claim someone said something that they didn't say.

I love this game we play. This game of... I'll leave that for Sunday(If you catch my meaning).

 

[paratise]

I am a pantheist, my definition of God does not include the word that is God in a conventional way.

 

[Aim64C]

Thanks for your service

Ah, thank you - but don't thank me just yet.

If I'm even remotely right, then the real fun is just getting ready to start... and it's going to be hard times for us all.

Learn my place? You're on an e-forum power trip bud. Lol

If you knew your place, you'd understand that it was you who is on the power trip and that your place is down here with the rest of the world.... but that it's actually the most powerful place to be.

Pawns are heavily under-rated. Nothing can happen without them.

Not everyone is like you. I still haven't read what you said to my sarcastic statement because it was exactly that, a sarcastic statement.

There are absolutes to the world that extend beyond relativism. You'd do well to learn about them.

I would be interested because I'm interested in basketball. I'd be interested in knowing the mixed history.

Then you would do well to understand that there is nothing that is truly unrelated to basketball.

No one said that.

Whether you said it or not is irrelevant to the fact that your behavior follows such a pattern.

Semantics? You 'quoted' me wrong. You can't claim someone said something that they didn't say.

Forgive me for condensing several of your statements into a general representation of attitude while using the quotation mark where it should have been a set of apostrophe.

Although allow me to trawl through some of our previous conversations for a second:

Do you really believe the bullshit your fingers type or are you just talking to talk as per usual?

There we go.

I was the type to hold grudges - a good conversational memory comes with the territory.

 

[BLAZE]

Does being Secular counts :|

 

[Hashirama Senjuu]

Ah, thank you - but don't thank me just yet.

If I'm even remotely right, then the real fun is just getting ready to start... and it's going to be hard times for us all.



If you knew your place, you'd understand that it was you who is on the power trip and that your place is down here with the rest of the world.... but that it's actually the most powerful place to be.

Pawns are heavily under-rated. Nothing can happen without them.



There are absolutes to the world that extend beyond relativism. You'd do well to learn about them.



Then you would do well to understand that there is nothing that is truly unrelated to basketball.



Whether you said it or not is irrelevant to the fact that your behavior follows such a pattern.



Forgive me for condensing several of your statements into a general representation of attitude while using the quotation mark where it should have been a set of apostrophe.

Although allow me to trawl through some of our previous conversations for a second:



There we go.

I was the type to hold grudges - a good conversational memory comes with the territory.

You're a ****ing *****, I'd destroy you *****