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« on: May 21, 2013, 10:05:52 am »
If God created everything, then who created God?
This thought challenges the "someone created you" part of religion, because God would then have to have been created by someone higher and mightier, and then it chains on.
No it does not challenge anything. There cannot be an infinite chain of "makers", so at some point there needs to be a supreme "maker". Now, just because you cannot explain how He can exist does not mean He does not exist. I would rather do something purely out of my own desire to be good than with the bribe of eternal contentedness or the fear of eternal damnation.
Your "bribe" and "fear" are only the secondary reasons to be good. The primary reason is to please God, because you owe everything to Him.
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« on: May 21, 2013, 09:58:13 am »
Just to clarify, it is possible to prove God exists, but it is not possible to explain how He exists.
So, St. Thomas Aquinas gave five proofs for why God exists. Just because our human minds cannot understand the existence of God does not mean he does not exist.
A rock does not comprehend the existence of living creatures, but that does not make living creatures non-existent.
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« on: May 20, 2013, 09:49:36 pm »
Plz: keep this philosophical and not religious, thank you.
St. Thomas Aquinas was one of the most brilliant philosophers of all time, and the existence of God is a philosophical argument.
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« on: May 20, 2013, 07:48:57 pm »
Without meaning to provoke any big religious debates, can you show me those 5 proofs? I'm still very open to any evidence for a god.
Proofs ProofsTo think that we all came from air that formed would be amazing too, though equally untrue.
Hm? Not sure what you mean by this
That you can imagine anything, and it would be cool. There really is no point in saying it is cool that we came from stars since we didn't.
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« on: May 20, 2013, 07:28:45 pm »
Whatever I say here, I can't be completely sure of; nobody can be absolutely sure of his beliefs with these kind of questions.
Maybe. I think that the human mind is purely material, there is no kind of "purpose" to the universe or the human race, and there is nothing beyond death.
And how this universe got here, is one of the greatest questions... What made the universe come into existence? If it one believes that it is by a creator of some kind, how did he come into existence?
I have five different proofs for why He would have to exist. Regardless of whether or not humanity has a purpose...
To think that every one of us is descended from basic cells that fortunately happened to form on a small planet, around an average star, on the edge of a normal galaxy is astonishing.
And if you look at yourself, all the matter in your body can be traced back to billions of years ago, where a star at the end of its life spewed its guts out into space that eventually came to form you. You are literally comprised of those stars.
It's all quite amazing 
To think that we all came from air that formed would be amazing too, though equally untrue.
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« on: May 20, 2013, 06:33:16 pm »
If you think, you have a mind, because that is what makes you capable of thinking.
The mind is the soul and the brain working together.
If you have a soul, your soul must have been created.
Some being made your soul, and it would have to exist in its own existence, which would make it eternal, changeless, timeless.
This being is God.
("I am who am")
Also, even if you don't think that argument makes sense, how would you feel if you died and found out you were wrong about yourself being in a dream? This philosophy could make facing God at your judgement rather uncomfortable...
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« on: May 20, 2013, 10:50:25 am »
Holy necro... 
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« on: May 16, 2013, 09:59:04 pm »
I'll add my favorites.
Fiction:
The whole Scarlet Pimpernel series
The whole Narnia series
The whole Sherlock Holmes series, particularly The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Autobiographies:
Rickenbacker, an Autobiography (this one is really interesting, even if you don't like aviation)
An American Life, the Autobiography
Flying books:
Stick and Rudder (copyright ca. 1955)
As the Pro Flies (copyright 1964?)
Non-Fiction:
The F-94, America's Interceptor (copyright 1958)
Classics:
Little Women
Little Men
David Copperfield
A Christmas Carol
Oliver Twist
Ben Hur
Moby Dick
Reference:
Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide
A Field Guide to Airplanes
Short Stories:
Miss Hinch
Other:
Lord of the World
Come Rack, Come Rope!
Fabiola
I plan to read the hobbit and the lord of the rings books sometime...
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« on: May 06, 2013, 02:09:39 pm »
I was too afraid to say that, so I didn't.
afraid of what?
of suggesting that it might have been xeda with the calculator going to prom
Don't understand what is so scary about that... I don't think it is Xeda. I don't recall her eye (on a previous avatar) looking like that.
Yeah, I don't think its her either... I think she has a pointy-er chin as well... and she said she was tall...
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« on: May 05, 2013, 09:55:52 pm »
I was too afraid to say that, so I didn't.
afraid of what?
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« on: May 05, 2013, 04:34:05 pm »
I bet she is, as I don't think non-members would think of something like that...
Xeda???
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« on: May 03, 2013, 08:59:21 pm »
Yes, please move to debate. Because it's kind of important.
+1 Not really, because I don't know if that would be considered spamming, but I would like to see this moved to a suitable section for debates.
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« on: May 03, 2013, 03:02:03 pm »
Can someone move this thread to another section so we can debate?
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« on: May 03, 2013, 09:29:06 am »
Can this be split to a debate thread? I do not intend to flame, but I would like to clarify my point...
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« on: May 02, 2013, 08:29:26 pm »
GCC
I am using a browser on a different computer through ssh and its slow.
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