| 4/25/2008 11:38:48 AM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
skunkbreath
Saint James, MO
age: 89
| A man didn’t understand how televisions work, and was convinced that there must be lots of
little men inside the box, manipulating images at high speed. An engineer explained to him
about high frequency modulations of the electromagnetic spectrum, about transmitters and
receivers, about amplifiers and cathode ray tubes, about scan lines moving across and down a
phosphorescent screen. The man listened to the engineer with careful attention, nodding his
head at every step of the argument. At the end he pronounced himself satisfied. He really
did now understand how televisions work. "But I expect there are just a few little men in
there, aren’t there?"-- Douglas Adams, ..
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| 4/26/2008 9:58:30 AM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
skunkbreath
Saint James, MO
age: 89
| "I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the
kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an
individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism,
cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the
awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the
devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests
itself in nature."-- Albert Einstein, The World as I See It
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| 4/26/2008 10:35:56 AM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
lees224
Cohoes, NY
age: 50
| So Skunk,what do you feel about this life you were given,you so much quote what other people have to say what do you think about the hand you were dealt????whats your life like at 88?hhhhmmm what do you do for joy and happiness?
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| 4/26/2008 1:11:06 PM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
skunkbreath
Saint James, MO
age: 89
| I tickle silly, presumptuous little women till they pee...
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| 4/27/2008 2:31:18 AM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
lees224
Cohoes, NY
age: 50
| you didnt answer you old F--t...lol.lol..come on tell me how old you are?Id say about my age or little more maybe..Im not ticklish..    
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| 4/27/2008 3:14:32 AM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
burnkitty
Fayetteville, AR
age: 33
| Lees, for all I know, Skunk may be your multiple personality who comes out to play when you're "asleep". Eriee... Heh, heh.
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| 4/27/2008 7:39:26 AM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
skunkbreath
Saint James, MO
age: 89
| not ticklish?...with my holy electric feather, i bet i could find a spot!..
"The enlightenment is under threat. So is reason. So is truth. So is science, especially in
the schools of America. I am one of those scientists who feels that it is no longer enough
just to get on and do science. We have to devote a significant proportion of our time and
resources to defending it from deliberate attack from organized ignorance. We even have to
go out on the attack ourselves, for the sake of reason and sanity."-- Richard Dawkins,
[Edited 4/27/2008 9:23:02 AM]
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| 4/27/2008 10:22:38 AM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
lees224
Cohoes, NY
age: 50
| blah,blah,blah..lol.see you dont know me,I believe that statment to be true in a sence,scientists do have a tough job,unless there christian,then they may have answers from both sides of the coin,as I do believe there are ans.from both sides...
still didnt answer Skunk..what are you really afraid of??the boogy man..didnt your mommy tell you theres no boogy man?mine did..
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| 4/27/2008 10:34:27 AM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
skunkbreath
Saint James, MO
age: 89
| Do i detect a minnow nibbling at my ankle?....
"Sagan does not deny the existence of God. Nor does he affirm it.- "Absence of evidence is
not evidence of absence." What Sagan does do is insist on the primacy of scientific method
and scientific evidence, and he holds the many and various "proofs" of God's existence up to
these scientific standards. Most are found wanting. But Sagan is not harsh in his critiques
of religious thought; he is more perplexed by theology's narrow and unimaginative
vision.-Sagan took his own spirituality seriously -- indeed, he defined science as "informed worship."---
excerpts from The Washington Post review of "The Varieties of Scientific Experience "
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| 4/27/2008 12:45:34 PM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
curiousone2
Springfield, IL
age: 42 online now!
| Lees,
The problem with your logic, is, You are intellectualizing GOD, for one, and God is spirit, according to all faiths including your own Christian faith. you are turning a spiritual being into a Human being.
You are making Intellectual judgments regarding what is good and bad. in reality , according to Shakespear ,"NOTHING, is good or bad till thinking makes it so". what is, is. You can only react to any given situation at any different moment.
you cannot cross the same river twice. same thing, nothing IS, because nothing is static. that is an illusion of the mind, and there is no "sort of right", it is, what it is.
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| 4/27/2008 12:48:58 PM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
curiousone2
Springfield, IL
age: 42 online now!
| Lees,
Why do you think there are sides?
Science is How evolution happened, it doesn't say who started it or why, just how we got where we are.
science is in NO WAY opposite, or in competition with God, or creation. creation is a proccess, and science tells us how that proccess worked, period.
You are being like the guy witht he television set, you are looking at science as seperate from creation, rather than the means by which it occurred.
why?
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| 4/27/2008 1:06:08 PM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
adameve
Lacombe, LA
age: 46
|   lees224 Love you 
bye little adams
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| 4/27/2008 1:41:03 PM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
skunkbreath
Saint James, MO
age: 89
| adam, i also love lee.....
i don't trust her evangelical bits, but hell, no one is perfect!!..
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| 4/27/2008 2:09:56 PM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
soyniftyfifty
Elko, NV
age: 53
| Wow skunk a positive word from you (love) without quotes
HMMMMMMMM there is hope you have a mind huh 
So even at 88 it's possible to FEEL with that heart too
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| 4/27/2008 2:45:10 PM | Insight into the "religious" mind | |
skunkbreath
Saint James, MO
age: 89
| Keep in mind that i am a tennis player, and in tennis "love" means "nothing."..
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