What happens when we die?

In before the lock out….

Popcorn anybody ??

 

I'm confused...Is Pope Francis a moderator?...There are all kinds of political discussions around here...I'll stop now if religion context is frowned upon...Sorry

 

Popcorns are an illusion

 

Creed: Steve Turner

We believe in Marxfreudanddarwin

We believe everything is OK

as long as you don’t hurt anyone

to the best of your definition of hurt,

and to the best of your knowledge.

We believe in sex before, during, and

after marriage.

We believe in the therapy of sin.

We believe that adultery is fun.

We believe that sodomy’s OK.

We believe that taboos are taboo.

We believe that everything’s getting better

despite evidence to the contrary.

The evidence must be investigated

And you can prove anything with evidence.

We believe there’s something in horoscopes

UFO’s and bent spoons.

Jesus was a good man just like Buddha,

Mohammed, and ourselves.

He was a good moral teacher though we think

His good morals were bad.

We believe that all religions are basically the same-

at least the one that we read was.

They all believe in love and goodness.

They only differ on matters of creation,

sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

We believe that after death comes the Nothing

Because when you ask the dead what happens

they say nothing.

If death is not the end, if the dead have lied, then its

compulsory heaven for all

excepting perhaps

Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Kahn

We believe in Masters and Johnson

What’s selected is average.

What’s average is normal.

What’s normal is good.

We believe in total disarmament.

We believe there are direct links between warfare and

bloodshed.

Americans should beat their guns into tractors .

And the Russians would be sure to follow.

We believe that man is essentially good.

It’s only his behavior that lets him down.

This is the fault of society.

Society is the fault of conditions.

Conditions are the fault of society.

We believe that each man must find the truth that

is right for him.

Reality will adapt accordingly.

The universe will readjust.

History will alter.

We believe that there is no absolute truth

excepting the truth

that there is no absolute truth.

We believe in the rejection of creeds,

And the flowering of individual thought.

If chance be

the Father of all flesh,

disaster is his rainbow in the sky

and when you hear

State of Emergency!

Sniper Kills Ten!

Troops on Rampage!

Whites go Looting!

Bomb Blasts School!

It is but the sound of man

worshipping his maker.

 

I'm not buying into the disarmament part whatsoever!

 

I am a Christian, BUT I also know writing styles

 

Now that I gotta see !

 

Awesome...So you recognize the difference between fiction and non-fiction.

 

It’s more about literary styles than fiction. Just my opinion on it. Do I believe the world is 5000 years old?? No. Do I believe Adam and Eve were the first MODERN humans. Absolutely. I don’t think the Bible is fiction at all. Tons of architectural finds have happens because of what is written.

It really is just understanding the style that it is written. Like I said, my humble opinion and just what I think

 

I'm a man of Faith, but I believevwe all humans evolved from apes. Adam and Eve were just a member of the homo sapiens

 

science has shown this to be incorrect. Common ancestor, I can agree with.

 

So are we all simply offspring of the relations between Adam & Eve? Does all that 'begatting' written in Genesis essentially mean that the entire worldwide population is simply an inbred society? Just curious

 

The thing is, that the scripture that I believe in, explicitly talks about evolution. We all living organisms have evolved over the course of millions of years.

 

negative. You are looking at ONE lineage

 

But nothing can be said for sure, maybe Last Thursdayism is right

 

evolution, as Darwin wrote it, is an impossibility. You can’t have evolutionary explosions and there are many examples of evolutionary explosions

 

Creationism doesn't make sense to me at all. We have never had an example of creationism. Not just the living organisms, evolution is happening everywhere, look at the mountains, look at the oceans, continents, look at the stars, its happening everywhere.

 

Respectfully, I disagree. Intelligent design is everywhere. There is “intelligence” in everything that surrounds us. Look at human intelligence. It went from basically nothing to what we are today in a VERY short amount of time. Cambrian explosion?? How? Simple life forms to complex basically overnight? How?

like I said, I don’t think the world is 5000 years old. I also don’t think that the Darwinian form of evolution can happen. Once again. Just opinion

 

I hope I come back as an eagle

 

60 million years is a lot of time, like A LOT. If there is a creator, which my faith says there is one, than that dude may have intervened and then let biologically take over. The creator did not make things in some heavenly factory. He let biology do the job. After all if a creator is up there, then biology is also his creation, a tool.

 

I'll play. I don't think the human brain can comprehend what it's like when we die. There is classical mechanics that we perceive our reality in, and quantum mechanics that we don't fully understand. Both real to us with numerous uncharted dimensions within. Our brains have evolved only for optimal survival needs. Consciences plays a part, turn off the microtubules (anesthesia) and we enter the stage of death, sleep or what it was like before we were born. Time stops with no perceived delay. Great discussion with so many probabilities.

 

I respectfully digress...My interpretation of scripture is unparalleled to Benny Hinn or Joel Osteen

 

Is it though? Comparatively?? Think evolution. How long does it take to go from a single cell organism to….us…. And why aren’t there any other animals that evolved like we did??

 

i don’t agree with either of them. I think they are a horrible example

 

There is a verse in the Quran that freaks me out always. It says "Remember when you promised that you would worship me?"
Scholars say, after studying the whole context from other verses, that we had a non physical existence in the beginning. We were, each one of us, gathered and promised to the creator that we would worship him. And then all of us were put to sleep.

Hence, my theory of the pysical world being a dream. I kind of mixed Simulation Theory and that verse from Quran for my theory

 

Birds have evolved and so many other animals. Neanderthals tried to be like us but we killed them.

 

so mico evolution vs macro. You are talking about two different ideas. And did we?? Or did we mate with them too? There are close to a dozen versions of “lesser” humans that died out

 

Do you believe this...The Book of Genesis says, "The sons of God saw that the daughters of humans were beautiful, and they married any of them they chose," Genesis 6:2. Their children were god-human hybrids that the Bible refers to as the "Nephilim...God was unhappy about this interbreeding and "regretted that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was deeply troubled," Genesis 6:6. So he sent a flood that wiped out many of the humans and Nephilim, but not before ordering Noah to build an ark that saved a select few. The biblical story suggests that the breeding between gods and humans was a major factor in God's decision to send the flood...So all of the creatures on this planet were actually descendants of passengers of this ark including the ones that have become extinct since then...God must have a sense of humor saving the mosquitos & fire ants.

 

Yes we mated with Neanderthals. And yes, there were many humans, we are just one of them. People still have Neanderthal genes in them.

 

you just brought up a shit storm. My friend, you and I need to go have a few drinks to talk about all of this.

what are nephilim? Depends on interpretation.

there are eleventy billion stories of the flood OUTSIDE of the Bible. Something like it probably happened

Going back to evolution on a basic small scale level. Animals can evolve into a different breed. Puggles are a great examples of this. Half breed that is a full breed?