kyzr
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1. Grammar is a prison for all of us.English is only a an antiquated German dialect full of Latin expressions. And your grammar is for me like a prison.
Which translation? Ever thought about to think on your own and to try to understand what others think? What very most people say and think about agnosticism is just simple bullshit. Same had been the Nazis but they also had been pragmatists who tried to misuse all forms of spirituality.
The religion atheism has the same problem like all other religions. No one is a good persons only because he is an atheist and/or pure materialist. Example: The modern world replaced the word "compassion" (background: life is the same as to suffer) with "empathy" (background: brain structures show a special mix of electric and humoral - ah sorry: hormonal - activation). But what for is good empathy without moral value? For the creation of moral values and justice? Or means this only that a torturer needs empathy for to find out what hurts another person?
Do we? ... Do I? If "yes" - how do you know?
No. That's nonsense. I believe in god. I'm even very familiar "since ever" with god and I still remember for example how Jesus laughed when I found out that he is not existing. We often made jokes about his not-existence. Indeed it was a very amusing situation to find out that it is impossible to say that the own reality simulation is real while other reality simulations are unreal.
I'm like Arnold Terminator? - Or is Arny in reality no terminator?
My wife is also a Lutheran. She finds everything because she has a good relation to Saint Antonius.
I agree that senseless aggressive people make not a big sense - except to be no sparring partners.
You say here all monotheists are agnostics.
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In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. He was not the light, but came to bear witness about the light. The true light, which gives light to everyone, was coming into the world. He was in the world, and the world was made through him, yet the world did not know him. He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him. But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth. (John bore witness about him, and cried out, “This was he of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me ranks before me, because he was before me.’”) For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. No one has ever seen God; the only God, who is at the Father’s side, he has made him known.
God likes jokes.
¿Brain? - what for heavens sake is a brain? I will ask my wife - she will know. I'm sure St Anthony will tell her where I've stashed it again.
Also a bug is language of god, is a song of god.
To have or not to have a conscience: We are "the crown" - we are responsible for all and every life on planet earth - what is perhaps also all and every life in the whole universe. But a so called "bad conscience" is in reality a good conscience. "Pain" forces us often to do the right things - but it's better to do the right things on reason it is just simple good to do so.
I'm sure I would love it to be a tree or a flower.
Heaven is full of bugs, trees and flowers. But is it full of human beings? Who knows?
I guess that's the most important reason for me why I do not like to be an atheist. What for heavens sake like atheists except egocentrism and the feeling only all others are idiots believing in the wrong paradox things while they believe not to believe?
PS: It's by the way not a question of belief that something existed once what you are now. If a time machine would exist I could go back a million years and could wipe you out of our history. That's what terminators are doing, isn't it? So something what you are now existed also a million years ago. Even when no one was able to see you a million years ago - your own pre-existence is nevertheless a reality.
2. The "translation" of sentence structure. I live in an area with Amish. They say things like "throw papa down the stairs his hat". So its interesting to reconstruct sentences to get the thought that is intended.
3. That's a deep discussion, the difference between "empathy" and "compassion". I never would have thought that a torturer has empathy just to know what hurts more. That might be called "brutality".
4. I think we agree on agnosticism since I can't think of a reply to contradict you.
5. I think Jesus likes a good joke too, but I'm not sure he thinks agnostics and atheists are funny.
6. I said "A belief in God is a belief without proof", and you said "all monotheists are agnostics." Interesting spin since monotheists can't "prove" God exists. But they don't have to, they simply believe he exists, so to them "belief" is proof.
7. John 1:1 a very cool passage.
8. "Jokes" are atheists who need a favor from God.
9. We got the words "consciousness" and "conscience" conflated. I agree conscience says that we need to manage our world for the best outcomes. But in the philosophical sense "consciousness" and a "soul" are gifts.
10. Heaven is supposed to be full of wonderful things. My wife would be very disappointed if there were no dogs.
11. True, atheists have no ultimate goal, its only "live life" and "live for today" like Roman Gladiators.
12. Can human souls be destroyed? Satan thinks they can. If you believe in God do you also have to believe in Satan? Is Satan's job to ruin souls? I think you agree that souls reincarnate until they are pure enough to pass on to heaven? So we are in purgatory?