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Byran

climber
San Jose, CA
Aug 29, 2014 - 11:15pm PT
The implication that pain and God are both just "all in your head"? When you've got a headache, you take an Advil and the pain goes away. When you hear God speaking to you, you get back on your Loxapine and the voices go away. Seems pretty straightforward.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Aug 30, 2014 - 12:15am PT
goddamn this is painful
Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
Aug 30, 2014 - 12:43am PT
is the Honey Badger a Christian?

hell no,

Honey Badger don't give a sh#t about Jeeezus,

Honey Badger don't give a sh#t about anything,
Mark Force

Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
Aug 30, 2014 - 08:36am PT
My wife says stupidity should be painful so there'd be less of it.

She also tells me that I have two ears and one mouth because I should talk half as much as I listen. ;-)
jstan

climber
Aug 30, 2014 - 10:11am PT
Don't let her get away.
Mark Force

Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
Aug 30, 2014 - 10:37am PT
Jstan, she a keeper; she's bonafide! Thirty five years and counting....
Jingy

climber
Somewhere out there
Aug 30, 2014 - 11:38am PT
I need to say that there is nothing wrong with Christianity.



[Click to View YouTube Video]


Because we all need to know this sh#t....

























































P.S. You kristians want me to take your sh#t seriously...?




If you want to be free.....

Just wait for the lord!!! Says so in this video!

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thebravecowboy

climber
strugglin' to make time to climb
Aug 30, 2014 - 12:16pm PT
^pure gold
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Aug 30, 2014 - 12:27pm PT
I believe I'll live forever cuz WHY WOULD THE APOSTLES LIE ABOUT THAT???!!!

Airtight.

jstan

climber
Aug 30, 2014 - 05:15pm PT
Re: Katie

Can you imagine what it would be like to listen to that in your head 24x7?

The interpretation I am about to voice could well be entirely incorrect, but I am not averse to being wrong.

I think many people fear feeling alone but it seems to me this fear is stronger in females. I have seen this fear take a person over. It is most acute when no one will listen to and give support. Getting support is an activity often pursued after all. Katie can't find anyone who will listen to her, other than her computer. So we have something new here. The computer as a personal support vehicle. To make it more effective it needs to be programmed as a support robot.

Only a matter of time.

If we had only had this and one that also reported to another human, we might have avoided Sandy Hook.
Mark Force

Trad climber
Cave Creek, AZ
Aug 31, 2014 - 12:27pm PT
Read an interesting op-ed piece this morning from The New York Times by Frank Bruni, Between Godliness and Godlessness, about Sam Harris and his new book, Waking Up.

http://nyti.ms/1tjPMLg
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Aug 31, 2014 - 01:22pm PT
from Mark's link,

During my conversation with Harris, he observed that President Obama had recently ended his public remarks about the beheading of James Foley by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which wraps itself in religion, with a religious invocation: “May God bless and keep Jim’s memory, and may God bless the United States of America.” That struck Harris as odd and yet predictable, because in America, he said, God is the default vocabulary.

Harris should know that by being a default proves that we are not a christian nation. If we were, Obama would be STARTING his speeches with "All glory goes to our Father in heaven" and would continue the speech directing our activities from the lessons Jesus taught. Then Obama would end with a prayer of Thanks be to God, then bust out with a song of praise!

Instead Obama defualts with a white flag with a hope for a blessing.

Being under Grace blessings are apparent to those walking in faith.
jstan

climber
Aug 31, 2014 - 01:45pm PT
It's pretty clear now. Blu wants a theistic government. I have known for some time the US was becoming a third world nation. Did not occur to me our understanding of the world and its history was so poor we were also going to regress to the dark ages. Imagine what the Inquisition would have been like had it possessed an NSA and nuclear weapons.

Jstan, did you rent the movie "Her" starring Joaquin Phoenix?

Very hot today so I am putting off work. I looked at Her's trailer. Interesting but a little goopy.

BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Aug 31, 2014 - 02:11pm PT
Mark's again,

Hardly. Harris is actually up to something more complicated and interesting than that. He’s asking a chicken-or-egg question too seldom broached publicly in America, where religion is such sacred and protected turf, where God is on our currency and at our inaugurals and in our pledge and sometimes written into legislation as a way to exempt the worshipful from dictates that apply to everyone else.

The question is this: Which comes first, the faith or the feeling of transcendence? Is the former really a rococo attempt to explain and romanticize the latter, rather than a bridge to it? Mightn’t religion be piggybacking on the pre-existing condition of spirituality, a lexicon grafted onto it, a narrative constructed to explain states of consciousness that have nothing to do with any covenant or creed?

We ALL share in experiencing faith and transcendence. Sam Harris is experiencing them in writing this book. Transcendence can't take place without faith in something. And faith is dead without works. Sam's faith is being substantiated in his opinion and the writing of this book. With the crystallization of his opinion to become his Truth, Transcendence will arrive.

The right answer to "Which comes first?". First, we must decide to who/where do we steer our faith.

Sam is trying to do everything a man with faith in Jesus the Christ would do, he's working hard to avoid putting a name to the face of his faith, when his title is obliviously anti-christ.
BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Aug 31, 2014 - 02:39pm PT

It's pretty clear now. Blu wants a theistic government.

Clearly you haven't heard what i've said in the last 1000 posts!

If you read the bible you might understand that God's government doesn't work in man's world.

Man can't even fathom Nature's Laws. Nature demonstrates a negative is justified by a positive, and a positive by a negative. An equilibrium, a balance, a symmetry. Ying and Yang. Man's Law demonstrates a negative is justified with another negative. And a positive with another positive leading to unbalance, and a tipping of the scale.
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Aug 31, 2014 - 03:30pm PT
'God's government?'

It's pretty much a Qaddafi-style, "Love me or die" dictatorship of one, no?

No, that doesn't work all that well here on Earth.

BTW, it's yin and yang.

BLUEBLOCR

Social climber
joshua tree
Aug 31, 2014 - 03:54pm PT

It's pretty much a Qaddafi-style, "Love me or die" dictatorship of one, no?

No not in this universe. it's apparent by the fact that satin is running around.
cintune

climber
The Utility Muffin Research Kitchen
Aug 31, 2014 - 04:22pm PT
Yeah. And have you seen what velour has been up to lately?
Tvash

climber
Seattle
Aug 31, 2014 - 04:56pm PT
Satin. Dat's da one witda wicked rings pahked arounit, right?
Jingy

climber
Somewhere out there
Aug 31, 2014 - 06:22pm PT
Impossible to do.

Atheist can only run their mouths and say there's no God.

But if they were truly an atheist their heart would immediately stop.

Everything manifest in the material world is part parcel of God.

Not even blade of grass can move without God moving it first.

Atheist are stupid, ignorant and arrogant to the complete real facts.

Atheists only have incomplete facts which they "Religiously" spout ......

 Werner, the fact that I call myself an atheist... what have I spouted. Also, do you see anything you do as "spouting off" as well... or do your words just automatically mean more to the universe.
What have I spouted other than I believe there is no god....

I'm not totally sure how this has any effect on you whatsoever.... All I repeatedly ask is that you get your head out of make believe and stick to what you know to be true and leave the imaginary story telling to out next to the fire side.

You Christians think you know everything including the mind of god. To me, this is the hight of arrogance, but you continue to think of yourself as you wish.

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