Do you believe in God? Options

[Pokey]

I do not believe in Pokey's evolution. How can Pokey possibly turn from a 6-pund baby into the big sexy man that he is today? Totally insane to even think about.

It's magic!

[mrmcpheezy]

ftw.

[Wambangalang]

"I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe. Given a planet in a stable orbit, not too hot and not too cold, and given a few billion years of chance chemical reactions created by the interaction of a sun's energy on the planet's chemicals, it's fairly certain that life in one form or another will eventually emerge. It's reasonable to assume that there must be, in fact, countless billions of such planets where biological life has arisen, and the odds of some
proportion of such life developing intelligence are high. Now, the sun is by no means an old star, and its planets are mere children in cosmic age, so it seems likely that there are billions of planets in the
universe not only where intelligent life is on a lower scale than man but other billions where it is approximately equal and others still where it is hundreds of thousands of millions of years in advance of us. When you think of the giant technological strides that man has made in a few millennia -- less than a microsecond in the chronology of the universe -- can you imagine the evolutionary development that much
older life forms have taken? They may have progressed from biological species, which are fragile shells for the mind at best, into immortal machine entities -- and then, over innumerable eons, they could emerge
from the chrysalis of matter transformed into beings of pure energy and spirit. Their potentialities would be limitless and their intelligence ungraspable by humans."

Stanley Kubrick on the concept of god and its place in the film '2001: A Space Odyssey'

thats pretty much how i feel

lol just got repd up buy the new crazy bitch for this from 06 bhahahaha man i was much smarter back then. and we had better discussions, normally i spell better openchick

[Opinechik]

Too funny, I was just reading these old threads this weekend and remember thinking wow you guys get deep.

I believe in God but not in the traditional sense. I believe he created us but that is pretty much where my beliefs stop jiving with most religions.
I believe we are born with free will, and it is still intact when we "die".
I don't believe in hell...my mind cannot reconcile a God that would create us from so much love and then banish us to ever lasting torment because we disappointed him in some way.
I think when we die, we choose what happens next, be it congregating in heaven with loved ones who have passed before us, or coming back as whatever you choose, or just plain hanging out.
I don't believe God decides for us.

[Opinechik]

lol just got repd up buy the new crazy bitch for this from 06 bhahahaha man i was much smarter back then. and we had better discussions, normally i spell better openchick

Um...translation please.
I got that you were smarter back then, but the rest of it?

[Opinechik]

"I don't believe in any of Earth's monotheistic religions, but I do believe that one can construct an intriguing scientific definition of God, once you accept the fact that there are approximately 100 billion stars in our galaxy alone, that each star is a life-giving sun and that there are approximately 100 billion galaxies in just the visible universe. Given a planet in a stable orbit, not too hot and not too cold, and given a few billion years of chance chemical reactions created by the interaction of a sun's energy on the planet's chemicals, it's fairly certain that life in one form or another will eventually emerge. It's reasonable to assume that there must be, in fact, countless billions of such planets where biological life has arisen, and the odds of some
proportion of such life developing intelligence are high. Now, the sun is by no means an old star, and its planets are mere children in cosmic age, so it seems likely that there are billions of planets in the
universe not only where intelligent life is on a lower scale than man but other billions where it is approximately equal and others still where it is hundreds of thousands of millions of years in advance of us. When you think of the giant technological strides that man has made in a few millennia -- less than a microsecond in the chronology of the universe -- can you imagine the evolutionary development that much
older life forms have taken? They may have progressed from biological species, which are fragile shells for the mind at best, into immortal machine entities -- and then, over innumerable eons, they could emerge
from the chrysalis of matter transformed into beings of pure energy and spirit. Their potentialities would be limitless and their intelligence ungraspable by humans."

Stanley Kubrick on the concept of god and its place in the film '2001: A Space Odyssey'

thats pretty much how i feel

Have you ever read Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch?
It's an interesting read,a trilogy actually. When you speak of highly evolved beings it reminded of a segment in the book.

[Merica]

I live my life as if there is no God. And probably always will.

[Pokey]

wow what an old thread, you have a lot of time Opinechik (ok I'm gonna slip up soon and end up calling you Openchick).

So many names that are no longer with us (because they smartened up and found better things to do) Tabucky, McPheezy and Alex.

Stephen Fry's response here pretty much sums it up for me:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKOS4I6pUuY

[OutToDry]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r95a3p8Os-w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KIbyxQQgSE

[jayda]

Um...translation please.
I got that you were smarter back then, but the rest of it?

I reckon wam was saying that his new woman gave him some shit over these old ramblings of his...also, maybe, why isn't he so intelligent now?

My translation...probably way off though....

[Opinechik]

wow what an old thread, you have a lot of time Opinechik (ok I'm gonna slip up soon and end up calling you Openchick).

Too much time on my hands, ttttttttoo much time on my hands...oops sometimes I lapse into song.
Anyway, Wam bumped this thread for me, would have been rude not to reply, no?

Openchick(silly Wam), Opinechik it all works.

[Opinechik]

I reckon wam was saying that his new woman gave him some shit over these old ramblings of his...also, maybe, why isn't he so intelligent now?

My translation...probably way off though....

Hmm, maybe that's it...help us out Wam.

[Pokey]

Ah I didnt see that it was wam first that did it, he has too much wine on his hands (not a bad thing).

[Wambangalang]

i couldnt translate most of what i say when i look back over it. sorry just embarassing drunk rambling. ive been good lately, just a minor relapse.

[Opinechik]

i couldnt translate most of what i say when i look back over it. sorry just embarassing drunk rambling. ive been good lately, just a minor relapse.

s' okay, Wammy...just yanking your chain.