Bug

Does it have a map to a peninsula?

But does it have any photos of a peak in it?

I bought SDA a long time ago. Yeah I'm smart. Unfortunately, not smart enough to buy a lot.

Sweeeet!

Thank you for allow me to exchange at you bank.

Are you you if you are missing a leg? All your arms and legs? Are you the same you you were when you were born? Age 12? 20? What size are you? What shape are you? Where do you end? How do you define you as apposed to anything that is not you? If you were you in many different shapes and sizes over the years, can your body define who you are? If you eat an apple, does it become you? If you get a heart transplant, does it become you? Is it your brain that defines you? What is your brain? If your brain can be mapped and its processes recorded, has the real you been identified?

This is a common misconception of atheism; the need to replace God with something. In a popular Christian view, this 'something' is always of lesser quality and legitimacy. Atheism is rejecting the need for God as middle man. It is the removal of God as a barrier or buffer between man and the universe, thus putting man where he belongs; simply one more phenomenal part of a much grander universe. My response to Neitze's "We must move beyond God" would be simply that "We must remove God". As for the popular misconception that atheists seek to replace God with a God-like man, I would say that the opposite is true. Believers seek to worship a man-like God; after all, God is the invention of a being that represents what humans are fast becoming: all powerful (or nearly so) entities who have the capability of manipulating the most fundamental forces of the universe (the atom, genetics, the climate, etc). The extra something that believers imparted to the Christian-style God was not omnipotence; something man is capable of, but omniscience, more specifically infinite wisdom; something man is forever doomed never to possess. When atheists stop imposing their misguided iterpretations of why I consider myself a Christian, I will buy a round. Why would you think anyone here is talking about you? Do you believe in a Bug-centric universe? Me specifically? No. Christians generally? Yes. So why is it OK to talk about Christians as a group but not atheists? Oh I know. It's not PC is it? However, when it comes to bugs, we will outlast humans and probably drive the regeneration of a balanced global ecosystem such as the earth has not seen since the early Bronze age.

Wow! Is that KAsKaD at Arch's feet? How did I miss that thread?

This is a common misconception of atheism; the need to replace God with something. In a popular Christian view, this 'something' is always of lesser quality and legitimacy. Atheism is rejecting the need for God as middle man. It is the removal of God as a barrier or buffer between man and the universe, thus putting man where he belongs; simply one more phenomenal part of a much grander universe. My response to Neitze's "We must move beyond God" would be simply that "We must remove God". As for the popular misconception that atheists seek to replace God with a God-like man, I would say that the opposite is true. Believers seek to worship a man-like God; after all, God is the invention of a being that represents what humans are fast becoming: all powerful (or nearly so) entities who have the capability of manipulating the most fundamental forces of the universe (the atom, genetics, the climate, etc). The extra something that believers imparted to the Christian-style God was not omnipotence; something man is capable of, but omniscience, more specifically infinite wisdom; something man is forever doomed never to possess. When atheists stop imposing their misguided iterpretations of why I consider myself a Christian, I will buy a round.

Combination or relation or bridging misunderstandings etc.

Isha Yoga is the best combination of spirituality and energy theory I have seen.

or a whiskey. Single Malt Scotch.

What government would an anarchist replace government with? Rejection is not supplantation of one thing with another. It is discarding. Look up "Ubermensch".

Ah. Cool. We should have a beer sometime.

I think you are confusing people "not listening" to you with people who just don't share your point of view. You see the Bible as a storybook. That's fine. Others see it as the Word of God. That's fine. It is great that you lay out your stance clearly and that you are comforatable with it. You are heard. But remember that this is your opinion and it may or may not accurately reflect the truth of the universe, the afterlife, the spiritual realm, etc. Actually, what I am describing is a hack-job summary of the body of academic research and development in the field of Religious Studies, more commonly referred to as Socio-cultural Anthropology. So call it my stance all you want. I stole it all from people like Joseph Campbell, Sir Edmund Leach, and a host of other professors I met and studied under. This is just to say, if you nothing about this topic and its depth of development (including many atheists), you are doomed to repeat history. Or as one famous atheist (Neitze) put it, "the eternal recurrance of the same." He declared "God is dead". "We must move beyond God." So what would he have replaced God with? A God-like man. Thereby proving his own postulate.

Nope.

probably as difficult as converting pope to clipping bolts actually, if it was one of the churches were by converting i'd be immediately privy to the stable of buxom 17 year-olds i'll be diving into the pew (so to speak) Ah well. I opened the dialogue. My work is done. But just so you know, churches are the best place to find single women.

I would have thought Minx would have topped your list? Minx has too many old demons to excorcise.

Actually, I do not beleive it is my responsibility to convert anyone. It is my responsibility to inform but it is not my responsibility to convince. I AM supposed to lead by example as well but then, we all fall short on that one.

Then Feck.

naw, that would be fun as hell (pun belatedly intended) - could be in the same spirit as my frat's old "heaven n' hell" mixers - you bring the fruity-n-refreshing beverages and we bring the cinamon and brim-stone tasting shit Yeah. Right on. We can target Ivan as our first convert.

Nobody listens but I'll say it again. The Bible is an anthology of oral traditions. Oral traditions/mythologies are the storage area for a society's wisdom, knowledge, and worldview. Oral tradtions were steeped in allegory and were open to change as the times changed. When literacy was introduced, the Oral traditions were frozen in time and became obsolete. It would be like taking a picture of your self now and in 50 years saying, "That's what I look like." Fundamentalists took over the church in spite of Jesus' abhorance of codified religion (see the part where he throughs the pharisees out of the temple). Our generation and many preceding us are cursed with the presence of long standing fundamentalist traditions and social structures. But, as with all generations, we are tasked with "following our hearts" to discerne what is good and what is evil (or however you wat to express it). Revelations could easily be used to prove that space aliens invaded earth in the 1st century. Fear motivates. Those who wrote and cannonized Revelations were very afraid of losing power.

Bug, I definitely agree with your advice to Marc, but call BS on your cause of the "calcified cyst." Is this a self-diagnosis? Likely it's just a cyst. At least it makes for a good story. Here is what I do know. When I was a boyscout in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, I found a gorged tick on the back of my head. My father tried to remove it using the match technique. When he pulled it off, it had no head. For the rest of thte trip, I was repeatedly asked what the tick had to say about this, or that, or whatever. The lump grew over the course of a few days but hten receaded to a small pimple size lump. Over the years, it has continued to grow and is now 3 feet in diameter and has the shape of Ronald Reagan's head. Unfortunately, it keeps muttering, "I don't recall, I don't recall". How dare you question my honesty!

They's snowmobilin dumbass. Sorry. I just think its funny that nobody sees how stupid it is. Just ask em the same question. I pays mah taxes n I'ma gonna go wherever the sam hell I wahnt.

Whenever my mom called my brothers and I "little monkeys", my dad got real mad because he said people might think we are black.