Posted on 05/01/2011 7:24:18 AM PDT by Ethan Clive Osgoode
The foundation and possibly the Holy of Holies may be under the Dome of the Rock. What do you think the all the Hulla baloo regarding the Muslim's excavation is all about?
Obviously you try to be obtuse and when the other FR posters quit answering your inane drivel you thought the thread was cold.
Obtuse? Actually the Religion Moderator started deleting my posts and said that this was appropriate under the religiion forum, obviously that changed.
If I answer anymore of your postings it will most probably be another mistake I deeply regret.
Please don't run away. I am truly sorry if I am giving you too much cognitive dissonance, but it is for your own good. You will thank me sometime in the future.
Where "man is the measure," this is the result we can expect — if history is any guide.
With God out of the picture — with truth and justice out of the picture — all that is left is the dynamic of power. The endgame is the "war of all against all," a lapse into the ideology of "the survival of the fittest."
Note: that's the "fittest"; not the "best." The laser-like focus on the physical eclipses all moral criteria.
Thus man ceases to be man, and finally becomes a "mere" animal....
And when man becomes an animal, he does not opt to be a dove. Rather he becomes a vicious beast, and the natural (and social) world becomes a spectacle of "Nature, red in tooth and claw," to quote Charles Darwin. Some folks evidently find this scenario appealing in some way. I do not for the life of me understand why.
Dearest sister in Christ, sometimes I wonder whether the human race has bifurcated into two camps: Those who are desperately trying to preserve their true (that is God-given) humanity in a chaotic world, and those who are trying to throw it away with both hands, thus further fanning the flames of chaos....
But the fact is the latter have reduced the universe to the size and competence of their mental operations. Surely, the world is "bigger" than that!
Thank you ever so much, dearest sister in Christ, for your most eloquent essay/post!
That isn't what I said. Everything comes from waves of nothing, the Quantum foam. QM is well tested and verified. What is so hard to understand?
Vampire Bats and the Golden Rule
Michael Shermer writes in The Science of Good and Evil: Why people cheat, gossip, care, share, and follow the golden rule:
Examples of premoral sentiments among animals abound. It has been well documented that vampire bats, for example, exhibit food-sharing behavior and the principle of reciprocity. They go out at night in hordes seeking large sleeping mammals from which they can suck blood. Not all are successful, yet all need to eat regularly because of their excessively high metabolism. On average, older experienced bats fail one night in ten, younger inexperienced bats fail one night in three.
Their solution: successful individuals regurgitate blood and share it with their less fortunate comrades, fully expecting reciprocity the next time they come home sans bacon. Gerald Wilkinson, in his extensive study of cooperation in vampire bats, has even identified a “buddy system” among bats, in which two individuals share and reciprocate from night to night, depending on their successes or failures. He found that the degree of affiliation between two bats—that is, the number of times they were observed together—predicted how often they would share food.
Since bats live for upwards of eighteen years among the same community, they know who the cooperators are and who the defectors are. Of course, the bats are not aware of being cooperative in any conscious goodwill sense. All animals, including human animals, are just trying to survive, and it turns out that cooperation is a good strategy.
This account of food sharing among vampire bats was recently broadcast on my favorite podcast, WNYC’s Radiolab.
Wilkinson, who conducted this research, describes summer nights he spent on a cattle ranch in Costa Rica, lying down inside of hollow, four-story trees along a river, getting pooped on while observing the bats. Often one bat would snuggle up to another bat and begin licking at its mouth, almost like they were kissing, but really she was licking up blood that the second bat was regurgitating.
WATCH VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loXKlwAjwfc&feature=player_embedded
Wilkinson then controlled which bats ate and which didn’t, and kept track of who fed whom, and he found that there are friendship networks among bats. If hungry Sally feeds full Agnes on the first day, then hungry Agnes invariably feeds full Sally the second day. And this isn’t just among related bats; friendship ties are actually more predictive than kinship ties of who feeds whom.
Wilkinson also mentions that large mammals were abundant on the plains 40,000 years ago. But when the large mammals became scarce due to climate changes, vampire bats had to develop a way of working together. Being nice wasn’t an option; it was the only way for the species to survive.
Have a listen to the broadcast: It’s 14:45 minutes long.
The moral of the story? Be nice. I know being nice can’t be taught in a lesson; it’s modeled. But if I’m asked to teach a family home evening lesson, I might as well keep the boys interested with blood-sucking, -pooping, -vomiting bats.
But there’s a second unspoken lesson here—that the existence of altruism, compassion, generosity, kinship, and compassion can be explained very well by natural selection.
Dubious? Read the book.
Who said it wasn't? Not me. If you read what I posted, you'd have already known.
However, Contrary to the claim that DNA is the secret of life, life remains the secret of DNA
Betty will you please read the original and real "Ten Commandments" in Exodus 34 and correct your statement?
This statement strikes me as so baseless that — in the words of Wolfgang Pauli (of Pauli Exclusion Principle fame) — it's "not even false."
You claim never to make a "'bone-headed statement," never a mistake? Where on earth do you get this confidence from, if you do not recognize a criterion of truth outside of yourself?
For that reason, I find all your statements "bone-headed!"
What now???
Ooh, good question. And what if ‘one’ of the Siamese twins dies?
LOL, pretty lame lg - even by your own low standards. God's covenant with Israel - real time, same for God's covenant with Abraham and the new covenant through Christ - real time. Is there a prophetical component - yes, just as there is a historical, poetic and philosophical components to the bible. But the whole is God and his relationship to his creation.
Please, just name one specific, accurate, verifiable prophecy that Christ fulfilled?
There are 48 prophecies here:
http://therefinersfire.org/accurate_messiah_prophecies.htm
from there there are another 300+ linked.
Many haven't even formed a brain inside the host body. The parasite is comprised of living body parts, but is attached to the host. What extent of completion would cause the parasitic twin to have a "soul"? A separate brain? A separate heart?
Oh, dear, I fear you may have lost your sense of humor along with your faith. Please tell me you "got" the point of the question. James certainly did.
Having just reread Exodus 34, would you kindly clear up a mystery for me — What is your point? What are you trying to say?
In what way do I need to "correct my statement?" Indeed, which statement do you want me to correct?
I can't read your mind, LG. If you expect me to, we're not going to get very far.
LOL, now trying the pot meet kettle argument? Again, I see you are backtracking from your original question - are you now asking on an individual basis now? Be specific james - for you are running out of frog hair to split. Quit running from the question you asked and answer the one put before you. God deals with salvation on an individual basis - should you care to frame your question within those constructs you will be closer to an answer - if it really is an answer you seek.
If he is honest - he'll say there is no way to know.
You see in error.
Hey, I am not the one being a claimant to this “saving” business. There’s no way to know if pink unicorns exist on an asteroid floating around Alpha Centauri’s neighbourhood, either.
Well said, Godzilla!
My sense is JCB is into "telling," not into "seeking for answers." He already thinks he's got 'em all!
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