TeaTreeOil
Well-Known Member
Definitely not the planet, certainly the possibility is there for other humans to exert influence in such matters.
I certainly see coincidences as self-evident. Perhaps you could elaborate on what you mean by that. I see it as merely two or more events coinciding. You seem to have belief in predestined fate? If I understood correctly.
I became an atheist around the age of 5(though I didn't know what an atheist was until much later). My parents raised my brothers and I as Mormon(LDS). We attended church until I was around 6 or 7. I haven't attended Mormon services since the age of 8(when I was baptized). My mother is now a 'Universalist'. My father is deceased.
I would appreciate a verifiable(tangible, physical, etc.) comparison, or at least some context for your claim of simplicity. I don't understand this claim or your explanations thus far pertaining to it.
Do you not answer to justice? The laws of man? The laws and/or norms of society? Do you answer to yourself?
I believe true love requires the inability to hate. I don't see Hitler being conquered as love, nor do I see genocide as love, nor do I condemn, nor condone the actions thereof. I do see it as hate. A hateful man's philosophy conquered by even greater hate for him.
There is no love in murder. For example, my father was on oxygen and various medications for years before his death, and he had smoked for over 50 years of his life. When he was unable to obtain his own cigarettes, due to progressively limited mobility, my brothers or myself would go to the store and buy them for him. I consider that love, fulfilling his petty desire. It is his body. I never put the cigarettes in his mouth. He lived and died by his own free will. Who am I to judge?
I don't think, in this circumstance, inaction would have been love. Though I think we're seeing inaction a bit differently. Choosing to not react to petty insults/comments is an action -a choice. I mean more along the lines of inaction as failing to act upon your love. When you desire to act, but are unable, unwilling, scared, what have you. While choosing not to escalate a situation with non-loving actions is entirely different. This seems more like indifference to me. You could certainly choose to reply to harsh words with loving words instead of calling someone's actions retarded, for instance.
Deism is certainly not Christianity. Christianity is much more monolithic. While Deism is certainly more individualistic.
I certainly see coincidences as self-evident. Perhaps you could elaborate on what you mean by that. I see it as merely two or more events coinciding. You seem to have belief in predestined fate? If I understood correctly.
I became an atheist around the age of 5(though I didn't know what an atheist was until much later). My parents raised my brothers and I as Mormon(LDS). We attended church until I was around 6 or 7. I haven't attended Mormon services since the age of 8(when I was baptized). My mother is now a 'Universalist'. My father is deceased.
I would appreciate a verifiable(tangible, physical, etc.) comparison, or at least some context for your claim of simplicity. I don't understand this claim or your explanations thus far pertaining to it.
Do you not answer to justice? The laws of man? The laws and/or norms of society? Do you answer to yourself?
I believe true love requires the inability to hate. I don't see Hitler being conquered as love, nor do I see genocide as love, nor do I condemn, nor condone the actions thereof. I do see it as hate. A hateful man's philosophy conquered by even greater hate for him.
There is no love in murder. For example, my father was on oxygen and various medications for years before his death, and he had smoked for over 50 years of his life. When he was unable to obtain his own cigarettes, due to progressively limited mobility, my brothers or myself would go to the store and buy them for him. I consider that love, fulfilling his petty desire. It is his body. I never put the cigarettes in his mouth. He lived and died by his own free will. Who am I to judge?
I don't think, in this circumstance, inaction would have been love. Though I think we're seeing inaction a bit differently. Choosing to not react to petty insults/comments is an action -a choice. I mean more along the lines of inaction as failing to act upon your love. When you desire to act, but are unable, unwilling, scared, what have you. While choosing not to escalate a situation with non-loving actions is entirely different. This seems more like indifference to me. You could certainly choose to reply to harsh words with loving words instead of calling someone's actions retarded, for instance.
Deism is certainly not Christianity. Christianity is much more monolithic. While Deism is certainly more individualistic.
who ever told you that?! Oh my.... follow the money grasshopper.
