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jstan
climber
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Life as it exists on earth took more than 3,000,000,000 years to develop. During that time innumerable creatures fought day by day to survive long enough to reproduce. Throughout, fate was the impartial judge determining what was a success and what was a failure.
I ask you. Can you imagine a story more awesome than this immense and never ending struggle?
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TripL7
Trad climber
san diego
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Food for thought...
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Cosmic-
You made my day!
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Cosmic,
Too funny. That was good.
lol
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
La Mancha
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AN ATHEIST IN THE WOODS
Pretty funny stuff. Interesting that these stories are always told with a christian god. Never heard a Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, etc version.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Boulder Creek CA
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The old story goes that sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.
The way my dad from Wisconsin used to tell the story, the guy turns around and reaches inside the bear's mouth and reaches way back inside and grabs his tail and gives a big jerk and turns the bear inside out so that it winds up running the other direction.
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Tony Bird
climber
Northridge, CA
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that's the roman catholic grace, as i recall.
if the bear's parents didn't use birth control, he would have had to use the shorter version to beat the competition:
fodder, son an' holy ghost
who eats the fastest gets the most.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Wasn't that exactly what Steven Hawking said recently, that the universe IS
a "cosmic accident" in effect, and no "god" was necessary for its creation?
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Here it is, his new book:
Scientists vs. God
By Alliance Defense Fund
Author: ADF Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot
Renowned physicist, Steven Hawking, is reportedly releasing a new book that concludes “God did not create the universe, and the Big Bang was an inevitable consequence of the laws of physics.” Hawking writes:
“Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.”
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Boulder Creek CA
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I've mentioned several times my opinion that we all have very much to learn. And that I think we are on the verge of a massive breakthrough in our understanding of what we boldly call 'reality'.
Go see the new movie 'Inception'; a spy movie about exploiting dreams. It has more seeds of truth than generally realized, based upon discussions with my impressively wise kids.
And it is incredible to stretch our understanding to fathom all the work that has gone into dreaming up the 'reality' that we all think we are sharing (no accident about it). It's no wonder people seek out a 'Creator'.
Never mind blaming 'God' as the dreamer(and especially don't get so wrapped up in 'his prophets'). We all share in this same bath of creation dreaming.
And, unlike the movie, limbo is not at the bottom of the dream stack; it's more like the top: as in, it resembles what happens when you die out of this shared reality. (Which is really just to say that you lost your body...)
And physicists have been driving themselves nuts nibbling at the edges of the dream construct.
In this world, there is a penalty for death.
We call that penalty 'birth'.
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go-B
climber
In God We Trust
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Hi...
Genesis 1:1, In the a beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Simple things amuse simple minds.
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go-B
climber
In God We Trust
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Matthew 18:3, and said, “Truly, I say to you, unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Nice one, Goby.
So the Guy in the Sky says that adults should revert back to acting, and
thinking like CHILDREN, so they can go to "heaven".
Real good advice.
When are YOU going to finally grow up?
We are getting tired of waiting.
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
La Mancha
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Someone who posts only what others have written without any original thought contribution is just a plagiarising troll wasting space on the newsgroup. Something original that actually came from your brain & not written hundreds of years ago would go a long way towards your credibility.
Probably not possible at this late stage of the neurosis.
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nature
climber
Whereverland....
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go-B is a long way past having ANY credibility.
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go-B
climber
In God We Trust
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Luke 20:13, Then the owner of the vineyard said, ‘What shall I do? I will send my beloved son; perhaps they will respect him.
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Norton
Social climber
the Wastelands
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Gobee is getting what he wants and desperately needs.
He is playing the role of "martyr", or "victim".
He enjoys likening himself to Jesus, because he is being "persecuted" by
me and others in this thread, just like Jesus was persecuted.
This then brings Gobee closer to The Big Guy In The Sky.
Expect more of the same. He is really digging this.
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Skeptimistic
Mountain climber
La Mancha
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I really don't pay any attention to him. Once I see his moniker, I move on to the next post. I was just supporting your effort.
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