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rulemylife -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 6:46:56 AM)

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

God offers His grace to all of us, and it is our choice (free will) as to whether or not we accept it.

Now..this quote "The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God..."
My feeling is the man with the Spirit accepts all good things that happen to him as blessings from God.
The man void of the Spirit accepts all good things as simple luck or good fortune.

IMO Vince...blessings happen to all of us, believers or not. Perhaps God bestows His blessings on non-believers at times as a form of a virtual slap upside the head/"Wake up, Stupid!"



And what are we to think of the bad things that happen?

Are they curses from God?







rulemylife -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 6:55:54 AM)

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: GotSteel

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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy
The need for a "god" is a basic human desire.

Is it? Would you care to support that assertion?


Does that assertion really need supporting?

Just take a cursory glance back through history.

We have always invented a God or Gods to explain what we do not understand.

it is a strong human desire (stopping short of saying a need) to gravitate to that which is more powerful than ourselves.



Or is it a strong human desire to invent something that we can cling to as more powerful than ourselves?




sirsholly -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 7:21:53 AM)

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife

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ORIGINAL: GotSteel

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ORIGINAL: willbeurdaddy
The need for a "god" is a basic human desire.

Is it? Would you care to support that assertion?


Does that assertion really need supporting?

Just take a cursory glance back through history.

We have always invented a God or Gods to explain what we do not understand.

it is a strong human desire (stopping short of saying a need) to gravitate to that which is more powerful than ourselves.



Or is it a strong human desire to invent something that we can cling to as more powerful than ourselves?

now that is up to the individual...isn't it?




sirsholly -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 7:26:41 AM)

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And what are we to think of the bad things that happen?

Are they curses from God?
i wish i had the answer for this. Hell...i wish SOMEONE had the answer.

I've heard the bad things are the result of the free will of your fellow man (think 911..crime victims... whatever).
Ok fine...then explain an earthquake, tsunami, hurricane, etc.




Rule -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 7:30:21 AM)

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ORIGINAL: vincentML
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It is a static creation.

Creation is not within my construct of reality

Um, what do you mean by 'construct of reality'? I gather that you mean that in your comprehension of reality an event of either spiritual or physical creation or both is inconceivable and prohibited? That is a non-spiritual, atheistic perception of reality. It is a valid point of view - but it is not the only valid point of view.

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It is a static creation.

if it were static from the beginning. Of course then Evolution would not have occurred. And so you see the fallacy in creationism.

Indeed. The perfect creation hypothesis as it is presented by religious creation nuts is a limited one shot, one bullet event, offering no possibility to improve on any mistakes or out-dated products that might be included.

However, there are other spiritual and physical creation scenario's possible, at least one of which is not at odds with physical reality.

As an aside I note that I once read in the science magazine Nature a short piece in which the author argued that a multi-shot creation event that allowed for evolution was far superior to a single shot creation event. I was both envious for him publishing something that I had thought of myself way earlier and I admired him for his intellectual ability.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML
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It is a static creation.

I wonder if you understand what I am saying about projection from current experience into reality of an hypothetically static construct. It should be a pretty easy concept for you to wrap your mind around.

Yes, I knew that I was dealing with Flatland from the point of view of a cube.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML
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Even the Divine gets bored
One has got to be very insecure to desire to be worshiped like that


You are anthropomorphisizing the Divine. Not really an acceptable basis for a discussion and I doubt it is in your arsenal of constructs.

Indeed, I was.

I am very well aware that the Divine has no human attributes and most likely has no true concept of such things as love and misery. The Divine is a sea of bipolar particles and concepts as love and misery in its perception are each represented by a value string of binary digits.

However, we can only hope to comprehend the Divine by extrapolating - or projecting as you call it - from our physical experience, and in particular from the lives and acts of the pagan gods, to the Divine. As on Earth, so in 'Heaven'.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML
Again, for me this discussion is moot because I hold with the crap shoot model of Reality within which algorithmic Evolution occurred in response to the imperatives of changing environments. Chaos, all is chaos until collisions occur between atoms with enough force to form the internal bonds of new molecules, etc. You know the script.

Indeed. And I agree with this script. However, it does not blind me to spiritual and mythological truths and possibilities, provided that they are not at odds with that script (of physical reality).




Rule -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 7:55:30 AM)

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly
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And what are we to think of the bad things that happen?

Are they curses from God?


That depends on the (spiritual) cause and its intent.

Let me give an example. I know of a girl, who if I recall correctly was nine years old, I never met her myself, who was scissored at a corner by a truck when riding her bicycle. She fell and her skull was crushed by the tire of the truck and she died immediately. The truck driver was unaware of what happened as she was in the dead angle of his mirrors.

Was this a bad thing that happened to her, a curse from the Divine?

I bet that you have answered that question in the affirmative. However...

It so happened that this girl was the victim of an incestuous relationship with an older brother. That changes things does it not? The way that I make sense of this history is that the girl with all her heart wished for the sexual abuse to end and that the Divine (mercifully) granted her wish and ended her life. May the God of the Dead have taken well care of her essence and given her a better new life.




vincentML -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 8:10:09 AM)


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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

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And what are we to think of the bad things that happen?

Are they curses from God?
i wish i had the answer for this. Hell...i wish SOMEONE had the answer.

I've heard the bad things are the result of the free will of your fellow man (think 911..crime victims... whatever).
Ok fine...then explain an earthquake, tsunami, hurricane, etc.



Exactly, holly. I made a point earlier in this thread that there is a difference between moral evil (caused by one person against others) and natural evil. Down through the ages the Prophets of the Bible have taken great pains to place the blame for moral evil on the victims (the Israelites in this case) for disobedience to God. In this manner the Prophets explained the various conquests and destruction of Israel and Judea.

But if there is an all-powerful god, why does he permit natural evil to occur to presumably innocents? Maybe he is not all-powerful. Maybe he ... is not.




sirsholly -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 8:25:31 AM)

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But if there is an all-powerful god, why does he permit natural evil to occur to presumably innocents? Maybe he is not all-powerful. Maybe he ... is not.
hmmmm...this is interesting. IMO "evil" constitutes a thought process with malice.

What i call a natural disaster, you are calling a natural evil.






sirsholly -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 8:26:59 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Rule

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly
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And what are we to think of the bad things that happen?

Are they curses from God?


That depends on the (spiritual) cause and its intent.

Let me give an example. I know of a girl, who if I recall correctly was nine years old, I never met her myself, who was scissored at a corner by a truck when riding her bicycle. She fell and her skull was crushed by the tire of the truck and she died immediately. The truck driver was unaware of what happened as she was in the dead angle of his mirrors.

Was this a bad thing that happened to her, a curse from the Divine?

I bet that you have answered that question in the affirmative. However...

It so happened that this girl was the victim of an incestuous relationship with an older brother. That changes things does it not? The way that I make sense of this history is that the girl with all her heart wished for the sexual abuse to end and that the Divine (mercifully) granted her wish and ended her life. May the God of the Dead have taken well care of her essence and given her a better new life.
and left the brother alive to abuse again?




vincentML -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 8:36:56 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Kirata


Excuse me, but the concept of natural evil is precisely what my post questioned. You're just repeating your position that it exists, citing a wiki "definition" that's so non-definitive it's positively droll.

The "evil" thus identified is evil only from the perspective of those affected and who perceive it as an affliction.

Ya gotta admit, those glaring quotes around "evil" are a hoot. It's only "evil" to someone who thinks it is, eh? Well, I'm afraid that isn't good enough. But if it works for you, I'll drop the question.

K.



Not at all a hoot if your child's life is lost to a natural disaster. What is the opposite of evil if not good? Should the parent then think that the death of the child is good because natural evil does not meet with your inclusive definition of volition? Human tragedy is evil however it happens; never a hoot.

Your post insisted that the only acceptable definition of evil was one that included volition. Now you tell me your post "questioned" the concept of natural evil. Your "questioning" is based upon your definition, which excludes all other definitions, so how the fuck is that a form of "questioning?"

Then you say, "Well, I'm afraid that isn't good enough. But if it works for you, I'll drop the question." So, you have thrown your little tantrum, taken your snarky ball and gone home. You stated your case that volition is a necessary component of evil, without supporting argument, and I have rejected your position. So, stamp your foot and have a hissy. Frankly, I don't care about what's good enough for you. You are not the final arbiter of all truth.




vincentML -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 8:51:55 AM)

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly

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But if there is an all-powerful god, why does he permit natural evil to occur to presumably innocents? Maybe he is not all-powerful. Maybe he ... is not.
hmmmm...this is interesting. IMO "evil" constitutes a thought process with malice.

What i call a natural disaster, you are calling a natural evil.



Holly, perhaps, natural disaster is a more comfortable term for you because it obsolves your god from culpability and you do not have to wonder about his benevolence. I wonder, however. If a deadly storm is an act of god and if god has thought processes perhaps he is not always benevolent. Or if god permits the death of innocents by ommision or inattention perhaps he is not so benevolent. Why would a sailor on a tempest tossed sea pray for safety to god? He doesn't seem to involve Himself. It is true; I equate natural disaster with natural evil because human suffering is the result. We disagree about the necessary role of malice, although I concede you make a good point. But why does god allow people to suffer?




Rule -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 8:52:00 AM)

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ORIGINAL: sirsholly
and left the brother alive to abuse again?

Yes, many times in fact, including his own (adopted) children. He is quite sympathetic, but lacks a conscience and he justifies his own behavior, like any anosognosiac will do. He is also bisexual. His mother, incidentally, is Jewish and a very nice woman.

Yes, it would have been better if he had been killed instead (by that truck).

Edited to add: My point, though, was not the injustice of it all, but the error of equating a bad thing happening with an evil thing or with a curse from the Divine. (The Divine does not accurse anyone, it merely if possible grants our desires.)




Rule -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 9:28:05 AM)

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ORIGINAL: vincentML
I made a point earlier in this thread that there is a difference between moral evil (caused by one person against others) and natural evil.

You err in equating something bad happening with being an evil thing. You attribute a human characteristic - malice - to the Divine. Now it might be argued that the Divine is all things, including malicious, but I am not in favor of that argument. In order for free will to exist, the Divine by necessity must be impartial, neutral. A lightning strike in a forest, causing the forest to burn down, is not purposely malicious; it is simply how nature regulates itself by positive and negative feedback measures. In the ashes from the burned down forest new trees will take root and grow. In fact there are pine trees in California that can only propagate thanks to forest fires.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML
Down through the ages the Prophets of the Bible have taken great pains to place the blame for moral evil on the victims (the Israelites in this case) for disobedience to God. In this manner the Prophets explained the various conquests and destruction of Israel and Judea.

And quite right they were. But they would have done better to wonder why their pagan god was forced to require obedience from them and why they disobeyed him nevertheless. The answer is because of their practice of circumcision.

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ORIGINAL: vincentML
But if there is an all-powerful god, why does he permit natural evil to occur to presumably innocents? Maybe he is not all-powerful. Maybe he ... is not.

I reiterate: you do not know that these innocents are truly innocent. Neither do you know that such natural events are evil.

I also reiterate: neither the Divine nor the pagan gods are all-powerful. Go stand in the Sahara and wish for a polar bear.

Sure, it is fairly easy for the Divine to cause war and to destroy most life on Earth, but even that will take some doing and time. Delivering a polar bear to the Sahara, though, that is nearly impossible.





vincentML -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 9:29:50 AM)

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I am very well aware that the Divine has no human attributes and most likely has no true concept of such things as love and misery. The Divine is a sea of bipolar particles and concepts as love and misery in its perception are each represented by a value string of binary digits.


I take it then that your Divine lacks consciousness ... knowing. Tis only an ionic machine.




vincentML -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 9:33:21 AM)


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ORIGINAL: Owner59


Vincent,

This anti-intellectual obstinateness is one of the big challenges facing people of good will.

One has to spend/waste time just to deprogram and dispose of the bull shit before getting to the issues at hand.

This attempt to link Muslims with the nazis is just gross.

The present Arab-Israeli conflict is it`s own animal.It`s enough that Arabs lost land and got the shaft after WWII.

Linking them to the nazis is just dishonest and immoral.Not to mention an insult to and degradation of the memory of Holocaust victims.

The recent tea-bagger bill board linking Obama to the nazis is just one more example of this bizarre extreme mindset where noting is sacred,not even the victims of the nazi Holocaust.





Thank, Owner. I will stay out of that swamp.




Rule -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 9:35:34 AM)

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ORIGINAL: vincentML
why does god allow people to suffer?

There may be many reasons for that, but surely one of them may be that people desire to suffer, disbelieve that they deserve to be free from suffering. As always the Divine obliges: you want to suffer, then suffer.

For those who believe in Jesus' sacrifice, though, Jesus' death frees them from this feeling of being not deserving of happiness and feeling obliged to suffer.




Rule -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 9:52:32 AM)

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ORIGINAL: vincentML
I take it then that your Divine lacks consciousness ... knowing. Tis only an ionic machine.

It is not my Divine. It 'exists' and will grant if possible the desires of everything and everyone, whether or not they believe it exists and worship it.

No, the Divine does is conscious, just not in the way that we are conscious. It does know everything, but it may not be aware of such information, as some information is more relevant than other information. It does keep track of everything you do and think, vincentML. It knows exactly how many molecules of oxygen and other gases were in each breath that you have ever taken.

Yes, it is an information processing entity - as am I.




vincentML -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 9:54:59 AM)

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You err in equating something bad happening with being an evil thing. You attribute a human characteristic - malice - to the Divine. Now it might be argued that the Divine is all things, including malicious, but I am not in favor of that argument. In order for free will to exist, the Divine by necessity must be impartial, neutral. A lightning strike in a forest, causing the forest to burn down, is not purposely malicious; it is simply how nature regulates itself by positive and negative feedback measures. In the ashes from the burned down forest new trees will take root and grow. In fact there are pine trees in California that can only propagate thanks to forest fires.


Rule, my argument is within the judeo-christian belief, not your formless mass of ionic particles. And this is a thread about Jesus. Neu? The Christian god is all powerful and benevolent. So,why does humanity suffer so? Natural Evil questions the potency and/or the benevolence of the Christian god. Some quarrel with my use of the term.

Your example of the forest fire is quite reasonable to my atheist mentality. Shit happens. But I was a Christian before I was an atheist. As a Christian I would wonder why shit happens. Either god has no control over nature or he allows nature to run amoke over mankind. If the former is true he is impotent. If the latter is true he is malicious. Whatever the source of the suffering it continues. Obviously, my own conclusion is that there is no god, only Nature with all its uncertainties. But that's just me.




Rule -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 11:01:46 AM)

Your error is in not distinguishing - or rather in not being able to distinguish - between the Divine and the pagan gods. You will do better to rid yourself of all your preconceptions about your concept God and to start thinking about the Divine and about the pagan gods in a scientific, logical way.




thornhappy -> RE: Glenn Beck Reminds Us That Jews Killed Jesus (7/18/2010 12:03:52 PM)

What distinguishes a Divine and a pagan god?  It seems like both would be devine.
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ORIGINAL: Rule

Your error is in not distinguishing - or rather in not being able to distinguish - between the Divine and the pagan gods. You will do better to rid yourself of all your preconceptions about your concept God and to start thinking about the Divine and about the pagan gods in a scientific, logical way.




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