I agree with the empty vessel bit, I endured a lot of garbage being dumped into mine as a child. I also agree that the religious belief is...
After 50 you should have periodic colonoscopies even if you feel great. In the early, treatable stages, colon cancer might present no symptoms at...
When I was a physics undergraduate I remember getting lots of cheap tickets to the Utah Symphony. It was when I first got a lot of exposure to...
All I know is, I wish every Christian would take Matthew 6:6 seriously. That would solve a number of problems.
That is a nice sentiment, empty. It reminds of something I read in Miguel de Unamuno's Tragic Sense of Life:
Actually the best scenario would be long life, the exact lenth of which is of my choosing. If after fifteen scadzillion years I want that eternal...
I'm an agnostic. I'm quite similar to a weak atheist. I don't believe in God, but I consider the question of his existence to be insoluble. There...
I know just where to find the answer! Mark Twain once uncovered extracts from Adam's diary (you can even get them online!) Some excerpts:...
^ Cool. I agree, it really seems out of place in the bible. I feel similarly about Ecclesiastes. I read it all the time. It is so damn dark. And...
That is very interesting, and I wouldn't be surprised if it were the case. But it doesn't alter the fact that it is considered a book of the bible,...
Me too, but that will not happen in our lifetimes.
That' silly - you dismiss it because you subjectively don't care for it. It's fine if you don't like it from a literary standpoint, but your...
I don't use the bible as underpinning for any moral or factual ideas myself, I consider it largely a work of fiction with a few historical...
In the context of an accurate depiction of natural history, indeed - forget those parts of the bible. As literature, and as the source of an...
I am a personal optimist. But I am pessimistic about 99% of the rest of the human race.
Empty: It might be logically possible that a unicorn-like species might have existed, but without evidence that they did exist, I don't think...
But of course, for any formal axiomatic system, there is always a statement about natural numbers which is true, but which cannot be proven in the...
Perhaps, but this kind of conclusion has led to mistakes.... For decades there has been an utter lack of evidence for the existence of the...
"It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature." -Neils Bohr
No doubt science will always make progress, and may shed some light on these things, but it would be foolish to expect answers in my lifetime....
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