Re: Christianity
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2025 7:09 am
My apologies. I am just having a senior's moment a little early.
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My apologies. I am just having a senior's moment a little early.
That’s not the point.AGE:
But, some people some times 'reason' BETTER, [logically], on some things, than others DO, [illogically].
To me, those who SEEK OUT 'wisdom' PICK 'an issue', and 'logically reason' WITH 'others, until an answer, the Truth, and/or a resolution IS FOUND, AGREED UPON, and ACCEPTED. To me, 'they' certainly do not PICK "a side", and then just fight FOR nor AGAINST ANY "side", NOR 'position.
ONCE AGAIN, ANOTHER one who just DOES NOT CLARIFY in regards to what it ACTUALLY MEANS.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 7:09 amMy apologies. I am just having a senior's moment a little early.
I too wondered that! The jolly old gift giver in the red robe is not everyone's idea of God.Age wrote: ↑Thu Mar 13, 2025 11:28 pmyou are FREE TO BELIEVE ABSOLUTELY ANY thing you like.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 13, 2025 10:44 pm Think about it. Santa Claus was just another name for God. They just changed the name; you still believe in Santa Claus! With a different name but the same foundation. I don't want to live in that house!!
But, besides the characteristic of being another 'male', (ONCE MORE), what else do "santa claus" and God have IN COMMON, in your OWN particular and OWN peculiar versions of the two?
But Fairy, we must have some notion of what 'God' refers to, otherwise the word and name 'God' is meaningless., or perhaps only social convention.Fairy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 7:17 amThat’s not the point.AGE:
But, some people some times 'reason' BETTER, [logically], on some things, than others DO, [illogically].
To me, those who SEEK OUT 'wisdom' PICK 'an issue', and 'logically reason' WITH 'others, until an answer, the Truth, and/or a resolution IS FOUND, AGREED UPON, and ACCEPTED. To me, 'they' certainly do not PICK "a side", and then just fight FOR nor AGAINST ANY "side", NOR 'position.
It doesn’t matter how or which way people see God. Interpretations of God are bound to differ. Just as 6 different artists are assigned to paint the same “coastal landscape”are not all going to paint the exact same scene identically. All 6 paintings are going to appear different, even though the artists were all gazing at the exact same “coastal landscape”
That’s how I personally see why everyone’s idea of God must differ. And just because they differ doesn’t mean some of those differences are illogical or irrational, or down to just poor reasoning skills. How shallow to assume things like that?
No one is trying to pick sides, or make this into a competition to see which interpretation fits better. It’s not about winning or being the best team. It’s about a simple uncomplicated “recognition” that God is without doubt or error. That’s all that matters, knowing and understanding that.
I’m tired of the hypocrisy that is the attitude of some of the philosophers on this forum. It’s an attitude of intellectual snobbery. It’s like if you don’t have PhD masters degree level of education into the subject of sciences and philosophy then you simply have poor reasoning. That’s just click mentality.
Atto understands God the only way he does. Could there have been a better way for atto to know God, no of course not.
Same goes for Immanuel Can, he understands God the only way he does. Could there have been a better way for IC to know God, no of course not. Same for Fairy, and I’m sure you too AGE understand God in your own unique way as well.
Do we need to all agree with our own personal views of what God means to us as individuals, No, we don’t.
Do we need to all agree that God exists, yes we do, and the latter is more important than the former.
What about those who don’t believe in God? That’s totally irrelevant, those who don’t believe are welcome not to believe, they are as much entitled to their opinion as anyone else. However, I really don’t think it’s wise for nonbelievers to change the mind of believers. How’s that going to work out?
It’s up to the personal individual to choose their own decision when it comes to making up their own mind as to what God is, and how they personally interpret what God means to them. Ultimately we’re all just describing the same one God differently that’s all, and to me, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with doing that.
Just as there’s nothing wrong with how people choose to dress their naked bodies every morning. We’re not all going to put on the same clothes, or agree to wearing the same identical clothes. We’re all unique with our own preferences. That’s how God made us, we’re definitely not robots. We have the capacity to think for ourselves.
The main point is, it’s obvious God is, just as you are, IS.
The meaning is profoundly obvious to anyone functioning on all cylinders. Qualifications, and/or limitations give location, and identity to beings. I was being polite about your limitations.Age wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 8:36 amONCE AGAIN, ANOTHER one who just DOES NOT CLARIFY in regards to what it ACTUALLY MEANS.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 7:09 amMy apologies. I am just having a senior's moment a little early.
Am i correct to infer that you believe in some form of GOD? A spinozan form perhaps?Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Mar 13, 2025 12:04 pm Attofishpi wrote:
This is the main cause of our disagreement. Simply, I don't believe in that sort of God. I.e. the sort of God who intervenes in history.My point being, and as you may have noticed, I use the term KEY words. These words imo have been manipulated through the minds of men unbeknownst to them by this underlying intelligence (GOD) into their current form.
Yippy! Now you're talking. Much of the point I am making is regarding the CUMULATIVE evidence, thus any word taken on an individual account can be almost dismissed.Belinda wrote:If you like you may put your theory to the test; suggest any English word and I guarantee I will be able to invent how the word holds an arcane meaning.
The words 'the point' REFERRING TO 'what', EXACTLY?Fairy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 7:17 amThat’s not the point.AGE:
But, some people some times 'reason' BETTER, [logically], on some things, than others DO, [illogically].
To me, those who SEEK OUT 'wisdom' PICK 'an issue', and 'logically reason' WITH 'others, until an answer, the Truth, and/or a resolution IS FOUND, AGREED UPON, and ACCEPTED. To me, 'they' certainly do not PICK "a side", and then just fight FOR nor AGAINST ANY "side", NOR 'position.
ONCE MORE, INTERPRETATIONS OF God are ONLY bound TO DIFFER UNTIL people come-together, peacefully, TO FIND OUT what 'it' IS, EXACTLY, which EVERY one could AGREE WITH, and ACCEPT.
BUT, WAS, or IS, there ANY 'issue' AT ALL regarding 'what' A 'coastal landscape' ACTUALLY IS, and/or even IF A 'coastal landscape' ACTUALLY EXISTS, or NOT?
Maybe so, and PROBABLY SO. However, 'this' IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ISSUE.
Does EVERY one's idea of 'water', 'earth', 'fire', and/or 'stone', for example MUST DIFFER, AS WELL?
If, in your 'painting of a coastal landscape' example, some one were to paint a 'whale' or a 'fire engine' for example, then do you seriously NOT think that those differences are illogical or irrational, or just poor reasoning skills, in ANY WAY AT ALL?
Are you CONSIDERING what I AM POINTING OUT, SAYING, and SHOWING, here, NOW?
REALLY?
So, if ANY one PAINTS, or DESCRIBES, 'a picture' of 'God' as a blue fire engine with a vagina and a beard, who lives at the base of a coastal landscape, and who created half of the Universe all in once instance, then, to you anyway, 'that God' is without doubt or error, correct?
So, if ALL one is saying and stating is that God IS 'without doubt or error', then so be it. However, if ANY one wants to 'TRY TO' CLAIM that God has a penis and gonads, created the WHOLE Universe, all in one instance, then 'I' AM GOING TO QUESTION and/or CHALLENGE 'them'.
YET you have just been 'TRYING TO' ARGUE FOR and JUSTIFY that NOT just ANY one can have ANY 'idea' or 'view' ABOUT some 'thing' but that actually EVERY one WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT 'idea' AND DIFFERENT 'view' ABOUT ANY and/or EVERY 'thing'.
ONCE AGAIN, 'I', for One, have NEVER EVER even just 'thought', let alone 'suggest', let alone 'said' and 'claimed' ANY such thing, as 'this', so WHY 'this' is being BROUGHT UP in A response TO 'me' ONLY you will KNOW, for sure.
Is there, COULD THERE BE, ANY human being who does NOT understand ANY thing, the ONLY WAY they do?
Are you, REALLY, SAYING or SUGGESTING, here, that you human beings, especially when CHILDREN, could NOR or can NOT be 'brought up' or 'raised' IN a BETTER WAY?
WHY do you KEEP SAYING and CLAIMING 'of course not'? There are a COUNTLESS NUMBER OF OTHER and 'BETTER WAYS' you human beings COULD HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP.
JUST MAYBE "fairy" SOME HAVE A CLEARER or MORE Accurate and MORE Correct 'view', or 'picture', of some thing than others do. Or, is 'this' NOT even A POSSIBILITY IN "fairy's" 'world view' of things?
LOL To even WANT TO DO SO, let alone TO ACTUAL DO SO, would be ILLOGICAL, IRRATIONAL, LUDICROUS, RIDICULOUS, ABSURD, AND INSANE.
LOL
BUT, just ONE sentence prior you were CLAIMING and thus INSISTING that 'we' ALL NEED TO AGREE that 'God exists'.
It would probably 'work out' the EXACT SAME WAY as "believers" CHANGING 'the thoughts' of "nonbelievers".
Has ABSOLUTELY ANY one, here, SAID or SUGGESTED ANY thing OTHER-WISE?
Okay. SO 'my NEW, now CHANGED, interpretation of God', IS - God is the planet known as 'mars' to human beings and who created EVERY thing, including 'fairies' who were created to just about ALWAYS be Wrong in their OWN UNIQUE INTERPRETATIONS OF God, Itself.
Can you REALLY NOT NOTICE and SEE the ACTUAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 'explaining/describing' AN ACTUAL 'thing', FROM, just making A DECISION, or A CHOICE, of what kind, and/or what color, of material to cover a human body with?
SOME of you UNIQUELY DIFFERENT human beings LIKE TO and/or CHOOSE TO HARM and/or HURT OTHER human beings, you are NOT suggesting that there is, ALSO, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING Wrong WITH DOING 'this', OBVIOUSLY, Wrong TO ALL "misbehavior"?
you human beings were CREATED, through EVOLUTION, WITH the ABILITY TO LEARN, UNDERSTAND, and REASON ABSOLUTELY ANY thing, and EVERY thing.
WHY does it TAKE 'you' SO LONG to just make an OBVIOUS POINT, OBVIOUS?
My personal interpretation of God is that which is animating this body making it conscious of being alive.AGE wrote:
ONCE MORE, INTERPRETATIONS OF God are ONLY bound TO DIFFER UNTIL people come-together, peacefully, TO FIND OUT what 'it' IS, EXACTLY, which EVERY one could AGREE WITH, and ACCEPT.
There is a dilemma going to happen if and when someone insists there is one version of God that suits everyone.Fairy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 8:10 amMy personal interpretation of God is that which is animating this body making it conscious of being alive.AGE wrote:
ONCE MORE, INTERPRETATIONS OF God are ONLY bound TO DIFFER UNTIL people come-together, peacefully, TO FIND OUT what 'it' IS, EXACTLY, which EVERY one could AGREE WITH, and ACCEPT.
God is also that which is growing the grass.
That’s my very simplified idea of what God means to me personally.
So are you Age, coming together, peacefully, getting on board, agreeing with my finding? Or not?
If not, then do you recognise a dilemma here?
Am i correct to infer that you believe in some form of GOD? A spinozan form perhaps?Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Mar 13, 2025 12:04 pm Attofishpi wrote:
This is the main cause of our disagreement. Simply, I don't believe in that sort of God. I.e. the sort of God who intervenes in history.My point being, and as you may have noticed, I use the term KEY words. These words imo have been manipulated through the minds of men unbeknownst to them by this underlying intelligence (GOD) into their current form.
Yippy! Now you're talking. Much of the point I am making is regarding the CUMULATIVE evidence, thus any word taken on an individual account can be almost dismissed.Belinda wrote:If you like you may put your theory to the test; suggest any English word and I guarantee I will be able to invent how the word holds an arcane meaning.
'We' FINALLY got here.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:22 pmThe meaning is profoundly obvious to anyone functioning on all cylinders. Qualifications, and/or limitations give location, and identity to beings.Age wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 8:36 amONCE AGAIN, ANOTHER one who just DOES NOT CLARIFY in regards to what it ACTUALLY MEANS.popeye1945 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 7:09 am
My apologies. I am just having a senior's moment a little early.
But you NEVER MENTIONED MY so-called 'limitations'.
So, does 'hello' MEAN God owes you human beings hell? Or, something else?attofishpi wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 11:23 pm BELINDA - You appear to have forgot to continue our conversation..
Am i correct to infer that you believe in some form of GOD? A spinozan form perhaps?Belinda wrote: ↑Thu Mar 13, 2025 12:04 pm Attofishpi wrote:
This is the main cause of our disagreement. Simply, I don't believe in that sort of God. I.e. the sort of God who intervenes in history.My point being, and as you may have noticed, I use the term KEY words. These words imo have been manipulated through the minds of men unbeknownst to them by this underlying intelligence (GOD) into their current form.
Yippy! Now you're talking. Much of the point I am making is regarding the CUMULATIVE evidence, thus any word taken on an individual account can be almost dismissed.Belinda wrote:If you like you may put your theory to the test; suggest any English word and I guarantee I will be able to invent how the word holds an arcane meaning.
So have a look at the etymological root of the following two words, of course they have no common root..
EVIL
LIVE
Part of the argument I am making of course is that both words have NO lineage etymologically, but DO provide a LOGICAL connection in consideration of the thread title, here and now in their present form.
HELLO <-- which you still have not acknowledged a correlation to the thread title - being HELL_owe (*something spoken about within the Bible)
Please, lets continue our conversation without the engagement of the other scatter brains currently in our midst.![]()
Close (*the other way around).
Okay, I AGREE, PARTLY, WITH 'this interpretation', but is it 'the body'', EXACTLY, which is conscious of being alive, or something else?Fairy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 8:10 amMy personal interpretation of God is that which is animating this body making it conscious of being alive.AGE wrote:
ONCE MORE, INTERPRETATIONS OF God are ONLY bound TO DIFFER UNTIL people come-together, peacefully, TO FIND OUT what 'it' IS, EXACTLY, which EVERY one could AGREE WITH, and ACCEPT.
I AGREE God may well be 'growing the grass', as well as 'growing' absolutely everything ELSE, but who and/or what is 'God', EXACTLY.
Answered above, here.
MOOT.