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 joseph1013: 7:23am On Mar 18, 2019 |
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WISDOM FROM THE BIBLE The Bible was inspired by God himself, so we can expect to find much wisdom within its weighty pages. Here are some things we've learnt from it: Holding people as slaves is ok. So is ing your slaves to your children when you die. You can also sell your daughters as slaves with God's blessing. Beating your slaves, even if you kill them is ok too, so long as they live for a few days after the beating. It's only fair, after all, they are your property. Raping a virgin girl is a crime. But it's not a crime against the victim, it's a crime against her father because her value will be diminished if she's not a virgin. The best way to punish a man who rapes an unmarried girl is to have him pay her father compensation, force him to marry the girl and never allow him to divorce her. That will teach him. A bride who is thought not to be a virgin on her wedding night should be stoned to death. Obviously. The Earth was created before the stars. Stars are lights in a dome covering the Earth. The dome has water above it with windows that open to allow it to rain. Suck on that science! These are all things we learnt from the Bible... but had to unlearn. And there is much, much more where that came from. I have shared these with some christians, only to be met with curious looks. Apparently, they didn't know these are all in the Bible. Well. wisdom from the Bible is hard to find, but utter nonsense and appalling moral values are easy. 12 Likes 4 Shares |
| joseph1013: 5:44pm On Mar 14, 2019 |
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FAITH AND HOPE 1. Take a sentence that begins, "I have faith..." and add something you believe on faith. For example, "I have faith HEAVEN EXISTS." 2. Now, replace the words "have faith" with the word "know". "I know HEAVEN EXISTS." You'll immediately see the new sentence cannot be defended--you do not "know" heaven exists. 3. Take your original sentence and replace "have faith" with "hope". "I hope HEAVEN EXISTS." Now it makes perfect sense--you do indeed "hope that heaven exists". When you have faith something is true, you do not know it is true, and you should not claim to be certain it is true. You simply HOPE it is true--nothing more. Hoping that something is true does not make it true. Hoping that something is true tells us what you are like, not what the world is like. 13 Likes 2 Shares |
| joseph1013: 4:52pm On Mar 13, 2019 |
tbaba1234: Poverty? Lack of talent? 3 Likes 1 Share |
| joseph1013: 11:32am On Mar 13, 2019 |
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All theology is built on this faulty premise: God precedes the Universe and nothing precedes God. The universe can never be evidence for the god that Abraham told us about. You must show that Abraham's god is real before you can claim it created the universe. Fictional gods can't create anything. Obviously. 7 Likes |
| joseph1013: 10:50am On Mar 13, 2019 |
ehissi:Stop being a smart-ass. You're showing you don't know about cars. A car may be 2009 model and still be in use for only 3 months. It all depends on when it is bought. There is no harm in keeping quiet when uou don't know the answer to a question. 4 Likes |
| joseph1013: 8:07am On Mar 13, 2019 |
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For how long has it been in use?
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| joseph1013: 7:33am On Mar 12, 2019 |
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COME BACK WHEN YOU ARE READY People often rebuke me for not believing in their god, Yahweh. They will often quote a Bible verse and encourage me to take God seriously. In reply, I say, "There are two possibilities, either Yahweh exists or it doesn't. If Yahweh was made up (like a multitude of other gods), then so was the Bible. So your first task is to show that Yahweh is a real, living god. Let me know when you can do that. It will make me a believer. And, it will inevitably make you famous and rich because billions of people would love to know how to do that, and ten of thousands of extremely bright people have tried and failed over two thousand years. Of course, that means the odds are against you, so I won't hold my breath. Until you succeed, posting appeals to the Bible are a waste of your time and mine. I hope you can see that." 11 Likes |
| joseph1013: 7:23am On Mar 11, 2019 |
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What's an appropriate reaction when someone insists you have been tricked by one imaginary being (Satan) into not believing in another one (God)?
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| joseph1013: 10:23am On Mar 10, 2019 |
Icon4s:That's why I say that the reason we underachieved was due to incompetent NFF. There was so much interference and infighting as well as the inability to get committed foreign coaches for the team. 1 Like |
| joseph1013: 8:37pm On Mar 09, 2019 |
isan: This stuff is not complicated. It's not about the activities, but results. It's like a cleaner complaining that he earns much less than the COO despite the fact that he comes earlier and leaves later than the rest of the team. If women want to earn more, they need to bring in more revenue. In modeling, women earn much more than men, and men do not complain of marginalization because every rational person knows that it's all about the economic value you bring to the table. 3 Likes 1 Share |
| joseph1013: 8:27pm On Mar 09, 2019 |
Oasis007:Martins was so hot at Serie A that the legendary Paulo Maldini proclaimed him the toughest striker he's ever played against. We no longer produce hot strikers like him so it's easy to be tempted to hang on to whatever strikers we see. It's a coping mechanism. |
| joseph1013: 6:32pm On Mar 09, 2019 |
Oasis007:One of my favorite players ever. He was delightful entertaining player. 1 Like |
| joseph1013: 7:33am On Mar 09, 2019 |
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IF I WAS A GOD-BELIEVER Theists make life so hard for themselves. They spend hours trying to prove their god exists and always fail (and make themselves look rather dim in the process). If I was a believer, I would take a rational approach. I would just say I believe in God because I enjoy it. End of story. If someone asks, "Don't you care whether God exists in reality?" I would tell them "No, I don't care." Not only is that rational, it would also be true. 4 Likes |
| joseph1013: 7:45am On Mar 08, 2019 |
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There are theists who have benefited from higher education (sometimes at a theological seminary) and who believe they can justify their delusions with logic. It always never works. 6 Likes 1 Share |
| joseph1013: 2:26pm On Mar 07, 2019 |
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Obinna Aligwekwe wrote : Amazing Fact; Do you know there are people who are actually genetically resistant to HIV? Yes, they can actually sleep with hundreds of HIV patients, have HIV infected blood transfused into their system, and still will not come down with the disease. HIV is known to use certain select proteins to enter the cells of its victims where it does its havoc. Imagine these proteins to be some sort of gateman among several gatemen manning several gates in a huge mansion. Some gates only open the door to bulk deliveries like furniture, beds, electronics etc (in the real cell these are probably fats, steroids, carbohydrates etc) Other gates open the door to “friends of the house” Other gates yet open the door to small deliveries like toiletries. Gateman usually opens the door to these select people. HIV knocks, pretending to be a delivery man. In most people, the gateman simply opens the door allowing the “enemy” in, who proceeds to then kill all those in the house, especially those who are meant to protect the house. The HIV then gives birth to children using food and materials in the house, and its children proceed to knock on the door of other mansions, where they are allowed in. ———————— In people resistant to HIV, this “foolish” gateman, is simply not in the employ of the mansion owner. HIV knocks and knocks, but cannot get in. The virus moves from mansion to mansion, but receives the same rejection. Virus then stays outside the gate, until it dies of hunger, thirst etc. ————————//// The gene responsible for this resistance has been located, but I won’t bore you with the technical jargon. People who are thought to be resistant to HIV are less than 1% of the general population, but there are tests that can find out if one is HIV resistant. Of course, such tests are not common and will be expensive. ———————————— Good news is, this week, it is believed that the stem cell of an individual with HIV resistant genes, was transplanted into a patient with AIDS, and the patient is now in full remission even after stopping his anti-retro viral drugs 18 months ago. This is the second time this treatment is believed to have worked. 10 Likes 4 Shares |
| joseph1013: 8:30am On Mar 07, 2019 |
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JUST A WILD GUESS As a wild guess, I'd say it is impossible to prove the existence of something that doesn't exist. As a second wild guess, I'd say that explains why no-one has been able to prove Yahweh exists despite many very smart people attempting to do so for over 2,000 years. Probably. 
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| joseph1013: 7:43am On Mar 06, 2019 |
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DON'T CROSS THIS LINE If it's your opinion that there could be an intelligence of some kind that created the universe, created life on Earth and maybe did a clutch of other things, I could understand why you might take that view. If you insist there really is such a being, I think you have made an error of judgment--you have reached an unwarranted conclusion as millions do. But, if you are a grown up and you are 100% certain that this intelligent, invisible being exists, knows you exist and talks to you whenever you want him to, I think you have crossed a line. This line separates fair speculation from self-deception and fantasy. Once you cross this line, you could reach out and touch people who believe their minds are being read by aliens. Take a few steps and you could find a person who sincerely believes his body is infested with spiders or even a person who is certain she is God. For the avoidance of doubt I'm not saying you are crazy or that you need urgent medical intervention. I'm saying you inhabit the fringe of a place where seriously deranged people live--in this place you find people whose delusions make ordinary life difficult, and who may, at times, be a danger to themselves or others. You may hang around the fringe your whole life and suffer few or no ill effects from it. But you are vulnerable there. One day you may meet someone who drags you further in, or life's ups and downs may convince you, you'll be happier or safer if you go further in. Your best defence against these risks is to stay doggedly on the fair speculation side of the line. Don't be tempted in. Or, if your upbringing has forced you to cross that line, make the decision to step back to safety. It's easy and you can do it, you just have to decide you need to. 7 Likes 2 Shares |
| joseph1013: 7:04am On Mar 05, 2019 |
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RECOVERING FROM RELIGION When I write about people recovering from religion, some Religionists see the idea of recovering from a religion as a joke but it most certainly is not. Leaving your religion is not just changing your mind about something you believe. If you change your mind about string theory, the benefits of circumcision or your favourite political party, you will likely get over it in moments. But getting over leaving your religion can take decades--some people never get over it. Why is leaving your religion so difficult? For most believers, their religion is indoctrinated. It is taught to young children when they are highly impressionable and lack the ability to critically evaluate ideas. It is taught as a vitally important truth that must be believed. It is taught as a belief that bonds you to your family and community and that not believing will bring punishment immediately and terrible consequences in the long term. Sometimes it is taught that believing is an essential part of being a good person. Taught in this way religion takes root deep in the mind and comes with a web of associations; You need it to be a good person, to be accepted, to please the people you love, to avoid terrible consequences and so on. How does it affect people? Leaving your religion can have practical and psychological consequences. You may find you are shunned by the people you love, you may lose your spouse, your children and your friends. You may lose your job. In some Islamic countries, leaving your religion is breaking the law and could land you in jail, you could even be flogged or executed. All this for simply changing your mind! The practical consequences can be so awful that millions of people decide it is better to hide their disbelief and live their life as a lie. I guesstimate that hundreds of people who follow this page live exactly like this. They live in grave fear of being exposed. The psychological consequences arise when your rational brain cannot change indoctrinated beliefs lodged deep in your brain and protected by emotions such as fear, guilt and love. The conflict between your reason and your emotions manifests as psychological symptoms. People feel insecure, anxious and afraid. They may experience disturbed sleep, palpitations, sweating, nausea, restlessness and dread. In some cases, the symptoms can be so severe that counseling or psychiatric intervention is required. I have talked to many people who have had experiences like these. Very often people tell me the last fear to go, is the fear of hell--sometimes this fear remains decades after a person has left every other aspect of their religion behind. So, when I talk about people being recovering Catholics, recovering Muslims or whatever, this is what I mean. For some people, getting over their religion is a long and painful process. Of course, people are all different, some people get over their religion in a matter of days. Other take years, like I did, or decades but, almost always, people tell me no matter how hard the process, it was worth it. 10 Likes 2 Shares |
| joseph1013: 12:12pm On Mar 04, 2019 |
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THE GREATEST? HOW? [I read this past post just now and I feel it is good for a repost] Christians believe Jesus is the greatest man that ever lived (if there's anything like that), while Muslims believe Muhammad is. But aside the puerile fairy-tales of Jesus walking on water and ascending into the sky - and Muhammad flying to heaven on a flying horse, coupled with parting the moon with his finger, what exceptional feat did these guys achieve? Did they preach anything new from what those who lived before them preached? Did they preach the Golden Rule before Confucius? In what way were they more loving, more peaceful and more forgiving than Siddhartha Gautama? Did they speak against the buying and selling of human beings, like Frederick Douglas? Did they uproot the tyrannical forces of slavery, like Toussaint L'ouverture? Did they die a more horrible death for their ideologies, than Hypatia? Were they critical thinkers in the mould of Epicurus? Better philosophers than Aristotle? Good in mathematics than Euler? In economics than Adam Smith? Were they, in the knowledge of the human brain, the level of the Genius called Einstein? Do they hold us spellbound with the finesse and orgasmic ecstasy of language and expression, like Shakespeare? What exactly did they invent? Did they put man in space? Did they make us understand the vastness and mysteries of our universe, like Carl Sagan? What vaccines against diseases did they manufacture? All what Jesus and Muhammad (if they are credible) preached was a sky pixie in a La Campagne Tropicana in the sky, and a boogeyman in a celestial oven. And these are the greatest humans to ever live? What a joke! 12 Likes 2 Shares |
| joseph1013: 7:07am On Feb 21, 2019 |
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DEBATING THEISTS: WHAT IT'S REALLY LIKE Arguing with some theists can be very frustrating. Honestly, it's not because they have arguments that are unanswerable nor is it because they constantly come up with new arguments that challenge our intellects. On the contrary, every argument for God I've ever heard is as holey as a finely made doughnut and I have not heard a new argument in the last 5 years. To help theists understand what it feels like to argue with a theist, I came up with an analogy. Imagine you're in a local market and the tomato seller gives you the wrong change. You point out her error but she denies it and insists the change is correct. It's as clear as daylight that she's made a mistake so you go through it step-by-step, I gave you a N1000.00 note, my shopping came to N700.00, so I need N300.00 change. "No sir," she replies, "N1000.00 minus N700 is N300.00." For a moment, you doubt yourself and redo the arithmetic in your mind. You give an embarrassed laugh, "N1000.00 minus N700 is N300.00". "No it isn't". What do you do next? Debating on social media, there is a limit to the number of times you can repeat the logic. You can try putting it a different way, you can make explicit steps you might have implied but eventually you arrive at deadlock and frustration. There are different ways you can proceed from here. I normally step away and resolve not to debate that person again. Some atheists lose their cool and swear or resort to insults. That's regrettable and I wish they wouldn't. But you might ponder what you would do if the tomato seller situation actually happened to you. Oh boy, it would be very hard to stay calm and polite. I wonder how many people would manage it? 7 Likes 2 Shares |
| joseph1013: 7:22am On Feb 20, 2019 |
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IF I WAS GOD If I was God and loved humans, every unbeliever would be an affront to me and a sign of my own failure. If I was God and had prepared eternal torture for unbelievers, every unbeliever would be a heart wrenching, unforgivable, cry-out-loud tragedy. If I was that god, I would not hide, I would not rely on fallible, self-serving men to tell the world about me, and I would not have waited 200,000 years before revealing myself to the 12 bellicose, bloodthirsty, slave-owning, misogynistic tribes of Israel. I would have taken personal responsibility and I would have made certain that every single human being had the same fair chance to know me, and be saved from hell. But that's just me. 9 Likes 5 Shares |
| joseph1013: 6:54am On Feb 19, 2019 |
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THE GODS OF MEN An all-knowing god invented by ignorant men will be as ignorant as its inventors. Read the Old Testament. Does Yahweh know infinitely more than we know today? Or about as much as an Iron Age man who's mastered reading and writing? 11 Likes 4 Shares |
| joseph1013: 7:37am On Feb 18, 2019 |
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DON'T BE WRONG Being religious entails entrusting your beliefs to faith. But faith is only a way to hope your beliefs are true. It is not a way to be confident they are because faith has no mechanism to distinguish truth from trash. The downside of being wrong depends what you are wrong about. It could be huge. If you believe you should blow yourself up to please your god and you are wrong, you would have wasted your life and, possibly, the lives of others too. If you believe you should give 10% of your income to please god and there's no god you will have wasted a huge amount of money over your lifetime. If you believe there is no need to take care of the planet because the rapture will happen soon and you are wrong, you could contribute to making the planet uninhabitable for future generations. Sometimes being wrong has huge implications and, often you cannot predict them. So it's safer IMO to try to avoid being wrong. I can't see a downside of being right. 3 Likes 1 Share |
| joseph1013: 6:28pm On Feb 15, 2019 |
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RELIGION AS A DISABILITY Mostly I focus on two aspects of religion; the fact that believers cannot show their religion is true and the fact that religious beliefs are responsible for great harm in the world. But there is another aspect of religion--that the superstitions it involves can become a virtual disability. Here is a post from a woman who is not religious who took a holiday with her sister who is. I feel for both of them, the author for having to tolerate such nonsense and the religious sister who is a victim of her indoctrination... "I wanna vent!! So my super religious Moslem sister is visiting Europe (where I currently live). And this is what happened that makes me wanna hang myself (or her in that matter). She kept all the lights on at my house. I told her to turn off the lights if you dont use them, for 2 obvious reasons: energy saving and electricity bills. She agreed but she said DEVILS stay in dark places, especially bathrooms. So in her house she keeps the bathroom's light on. She is freaking 40 years old!!!! We're at a hotel in Spain right now and she said: "Let's just keep the light on, we're not paying the bill anyway!" The receptionist told us about a restaurant that was built (or has been in the business, I dont ) since the 17th century...so we went there. She complained that everything has pork in it...so she said we had to leave and asked me to tell them we are Moslem and we cant eat pork. I only told them we had to leave and we left. We went to another restaurant and I asked for a fish tapas with vegetables. Mind you my Spanish is rusty and their English is awful...but my sister kept telling me to ask if they put ham or if they fry with lard oil (she doesnt speak Spanish at all), so it took a while to understand each other...but eventually she refused the tapas. So the waiter offered mixed fish, she (finally) agreed. We saw the table next to us was eating small snails, she was curious. Again, she asked me to ask the waiter the ingredients and if the snails are land snails or sea snails. Land snails are haram, but sea snails are halal. She also wanted to know if they put ham in it...I was like...Good lord in heaven, help!! The waiter said it was land snail, but since she speaks 0 Spanish, I told her it was sea snails. she loved them. Hah!! After dinner it was like 10 pm or so and I told her to walk around as the weather was nice (30°C) and that tomorrow will be freaking hot (42°). She said we had to come back to the hotel because it is praying time!!!" 3 Likes 1 Share |
| joseph1013: 8:23pm On Feb 14, 2019 |
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Olatunde Olayinka Ayinde One Nigerian nurse in the UK was busy preaching to her patient who wasn't interested in her religious message and said as much. The nurse continued to try to "win her patient's soul". The patient reported her to her superiors, and after several warnings and continued refusal to mend her ways, she was fired. Our Nigerian Voltrons went gaga, playing the race card and the persecuted Christian card. Even respected senior colleagues were not left out. I was so ashamed. How many times are we going to say this? It is not our bloody job as doctors or nurses to be winning soul on the job! Especially when the patient expressly forbids us from doing so! And after having been warned several times to desist from such unethical behavior! I once saw a patient who had schizophrenia and his idea of illness causation was spiritual. The auditory hallucinations were due to evil spirits - jinns. The delusions that everyone was talking about him and were part of a giant conspiracy to defame him and ruin his reputation were also part of a complex spiritual warfare. Did I have a strong urge to tell him that it was all nonsense? Definitely. Did I have an almost irresistible urge to introduce him to critical thinking and give an elegant scientific treatise on schizophrenia, devoid of religious and superstitious mumbo jumbo? You bet! But that wasn't my job description. It was not in the ethics of my profession to "convert" a patient from one religion to another or to unbelief, despite my own strong lack of religion. My job was to get him well, using all the evidence based tools science has made available to me, using the patients own personal resources and navigating with him factors that may be impediments to his recovery or that may constitute danger to him, according to the scientific body of knowledge, while treating him with absolute respect and preserving his dignity in that therapeutic process. So, I told him that his beliefs were valid as far as beliefs go and I respected them, after listening respectfully to him. However, I also told him that we psychiatrists have a neuroscientific understanding of his condition based on evidence from years of research. We also have treatment based on this understanding that have proved efficacious. And we negotiated his treatment plan. When he told me that he was still drinking the camel urine brought for him from Mecca for treating schizophrenia, I was expectedly livid but professionalism demanded that I remained calm and expressionless, and tactfully removed the camel urine from the regimen while retaining the special prayers he said from time to time for the cure of his illness. What harm would prayer do? Of course, if all of these were spewed here on Facebook by some arrogantly ignorant fellow, I know exactly what my response would have been. But here, in a clinical setting, at work, my personal opinion or religious philosophy was totally irrelevant. And when ing scientifically accurate information, it had to be done respectfully and in a dignified manner. Even when he called me the following day that he did not take his sedative because he did not think his poor sleep was due to schizophrenia but was due to an evil spirit tapping him to wake up every night, and he might annoy the evil spirit by taking medications for sleep, I still remained calm. He would prefer to pray for the sleep problem, he said. Of course, I could have argued that his view was nonsense and unscientific, but solving his sleep problem was my priority at the time. So I told him that all our previous patients had not reported that evil spirits were annoyed with them for taking drugs for sleep (true) and as a concession to him and the spirits, he could combine the sleep medicine with prayer, since the spirits were okay with prayer. At that stage of treatment, getting him well was the priority, and keeping him in treatment was a huge part of succeeding at it. Navigating his health beliefs without necessarily replacing his worldview with mine was of paramount importance. "Winning his soul" was not within my professional purview; neither was it within my ethical bounds. With improvement in health status over time, patient education on his illness continued, without tampering with his religious beliefs, until he was able to gain mastery of the illness. Healthcare workers need to be trained to separate their own personal opinion or religious philosophy from scientifically sound medical care of patient. It is a matter of ethics and professionalism. "Winning souls" of patients at their weakest and most vulnerable moment is an abuse of professional powers and privileges. That is the job of chaplains and imams, and there are provisions for inviting such professionals trained in working with sick persons to assist the physician in his work. 10 Likes 2 Shares |
| joseph1013: 7:56am On Feb 14, 2019 |
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MY WORLDVIEW OR YOURS? Some theists side-step the need to show their god exists by playing the worldview card. This is the idea that theists and atheists just have different ways of looking at the world. No one is right and no one is wrong, we are just different. But how do we look at the world differently? My worldview is simple, I try to believe only things that are true by demanding sound evidence and valid logic for every claim. My beliefs follow the evidence and I can change my mind very easily when good evidence is presented. In fact for me, changing my mind is a reason for a small celebration because it means I have learned something. Typically, the theists worldview is very different. This worldview is focused on defending and preserving whatever stories the person was told as a child, regardless of their absurdity and lack of evidence. It is a worldview that requires faith and the need to dance intellectual jigs to avoid uncomfortable conclusions. Theists can change their minds but the process is often laden with anguish, guilt and fear. Why? Because this worldview is driven by deep emotions and not by reason. I would summarize these differences like this; my worldview demands unrelenting intellectual honesty; the theist worldview demands equally unrelenting intellectual deceit. Which worldview do you want? 11 Likes 5 Shares |
| joseph1013: 7:40am On Feb 13, 2019 |
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NOT-NICE THEISM It's not surprising so many people are unconvinced by theism. After all, the arguments theists offer are complete rubbish--so bad, in fact, that they can only keep their beliefs alive by forcing them onto unsuspecting children. Quite not nice. PS This is true for all religions from the most mild and innocuous to the most extreme and violent. 1 Like 1 Share |
| joseph1013: 1:26pm On Feb 11, 2019 |
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Quora Question: What was your most embarrassing airport/airplane experience? . CHRIS BUCKLE: This was in 2011. I took a flight from London to Dubai. It was Qatar Airways so we had to change at Doha. The flight took off from Heathrow at 2200hrs, a night flight. . I took my seat and started to drift off to sleep. I've been to Dubai before but only on Virgin so I had no idea what route Qatar Airways would take in fact I didn't give it a thought. The hospitality on Qatar Airways is so good I just drifted off to sleep, couldn't help myself. . Most of the engers were Arab, I was one of the few westerners. It turned out that the flight ed somewhere near Mecca or I should say the lights of Mecca were able to be seen far off on the horizon. Apparently the captain announced this while I was asleep and he kept a countdown going of when the lights would be visible. This had the effect of exciting my fellow engers of Arab origin. . Finally the lights of Mecca became visible out of one of the windows on the starboard side. . I was oblivious to this until the chant of Allah-u-Akbar went round the plane. I opened my eyes to the sight of twenty or so bearded men standing up near me shouting Allah-u-Akbar at the top of their voices. On a plane 30,000 feet up. . I shot up from my seat, terrified. I got into a fighting stance and pushed a few of them back away from the cockpit. I wasn't going to go down without a fight. I was frothing at the mouth shouting "who wants some" at the top of my voice and grabbing at anything I could use as a weapon. . I suddenly became aware that they were backing away from me like I was some sort of lunatic. A couple of flight attendants were standing there telling me to calm down. I looked around the packed plane and saw people staring at me. My fellow western engers were covering their faces with their palms and saying things like "he's not with us." . I must have taken a full hour to be convinced that the plane wasn't under attack. The stewardesses were holding my hand like I was aged about 6. The stewardesses on Qatar Airways are fantastic in fairness. I think they even gave me some sweets at one point. . We got to Doha, I was getting some terrible looks from all of the engers. We de-planed and I thought I'd seen the last of them. I went to the gate for the Dubai flight only to re most of them again. I heard a western voice saying "The nutter's back". 11 Likes 4 Shares |
| joseph1013: 9:35am On Feb 11, 2019 |
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THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX Humans are obsessed with beginnings and endings. We see lives beginning and we see them ending. We see families beginning and ending. We see relationships and jobs and careers beginning and ending. Everything we value begins and ends so we are conditioned to think in those . But what if that thinking is just a side-effect of how we experience the world, rather than how the world really is? Humans and bees see different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Humans and bees live in the same world but it appears very different to each of us. If bees could think they wouldn't be concerned with the questions that concern us. Imagine how an atom sees the world. First it is part of a river, then a cloud, then a rain drop, then a dog and then the earth. It would see a world of stasis and change--it would never be concerned about beginnings and endings, it would find these concepts unfathomable and irrelevant. Perhaps it is the accident of what we are and how we live that makes us fret over questions like how did the universe begin? Perhaps that question is as artificial and irrelevant as asking what is north of the North Pole? We can ask the question but it doesn't mean anything and cannot be answered. Perhaps the universe should not be likened to a living thing that is born and dies but as a circle like the the hydrological cycle--constantly changing from ice to water to gas to water to ice. 5 Likes 1 Share |
| joseph1013: 4:47pm On Feb 10, 2019 |
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Fundamental to all these strife and discord in Christianity is how subject to private interpretation the Bible is. There are more than 3000 denominations. Of course, each man says he is right and the other is wrong, quoting scriptures. But think about it, how can the Bible be so plainly written with the Holy Spirit instructing each man (as promised in the Bible), yet there is not a single total alignment in the body of Christ? 7 Likes 3 Shares |
| joseph1013: 6:13am On Feb 09, 2019 |
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Nwobodo Fortune Chukwuemeka wrote: For the umpteenth time, I'll ask again... Why aren't Catholic priests allowed to get married? Seriously! As usual, people will quote obscure, outdated verses from the Bible but ask yourself, is it really worth it? Will they lose their anointing or anything if they get married? The Anglican priests getting married, have they died? Has the church collapsed? For over a thousand years leading up to the 12th Century, Catholic priests were allowed to marry. Did the church perish? No! Instead, it was one of the most powerful periods of the Catholic Church. Child sex scandals have popped up in almost every corner of the planet. Every Inquisition brings up Paedophilia the Catholic Church tried to hide. Now, it's nuns being sexually assaulted and in some cases used as sex slaves. The nuns who get pregnant are dismissed or forced to abort (the sheer fuckin irony, huh?) while the priests get transferred to other parishes What if marriage could reduce this? Would it not be worth it for these at risk women and children? Honestly, the Anglican church isn't paedophilia free either despite the fact that their priests can marry. However, their child sex abuse cases are estimated at 10% that of Catholic Church (according to a 2013 study). So, they must be doing something different. Imagine an estimated 90% fewer traumatized women and children. Allowing these priests to marry doesn't eliminate the problem but it significantly reduces it. That's a definite start. This is probably not going to change though. The church is built on dogma. They will defend the right of grown men to be denied companionship for as long as they can. However, it should change. Religion should never be used as a crutch to harm people. Never! 4 Likes 1 Share |
| joseph1013: 1:49pm On Feb 08, 2019 |
CAPSLOCKED: Now that you mentioned it, I wonder how it's not so obvious to me. 3 Likes 1 Share |
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