Questions to God.

[Thales750]

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No it doesn't. If you're unsure about it, you may look all the harder, just to settle the matter, if nothing else. If you don't believe in something at all, you never look for it.

Alternatively, if you ignore scientific evidence because it doesn't correspond with the supernatural view you've decided upon, you're on a slippery slope toward lucky heather, touching wood, seeing ghosts, and the like.

I personally, am a rigorous scientist, and not particularly prone to ignoring anything.

Fortunately for us Heinrich Hertz believed in things he couldn’t see.

 

[Alc]

I personally, am a rigorous scientist, and not particularly prone to ignoring anything.

Fortunately for us Heinrich Hertz believed in things he couldn’t see.

Well, good for you. Luckily, you've got the fallback not available to every scientist, where you can neatly box away anything you can't explain as being God's work.

What does Heinrich Hertz have to do with the conversation? If I remember right, his work was on light waves. When did he do work investigating something he firmly believed did not exist, as opposed to something he couldn't see? I can't see oxygen. I'm fully prepared to admit it's present. God is another matter entirely.

 

[Thales750]

Well, good for you. Luckily, you've got the fallback not available to every scientist, where you can neatly box away anything you can't explain as being God's work.

What does Heinrich Hertz have to do with the conversation? If I remember right, his work was on light waves. When did he do work investigating something he firmly believed did not exist, as opposed to something he couldn't see? I can't see oxygen. I'm fully prepared to admit it's present. God is another matter entirely.

I guess I should have said detect with his senses.

 

[Alc]

I guess I should have said detect with his senses.

I knew what you meant

Still stands. Did he ever say that he believed 100% that he was looking for something that did not exist?

 

[Rabbie]

There are:
Six Days of Creation, and their six corresponding Divine forces active in creation.
Six letters of the word bereishit, "In the beginning."
Six alefs in the first verse of the Torah.
Six-millennium duration of the world.
Six directions of the physical world.

6 Millenium duration of the world Bit strange idea of a planet that is approx 4.5 Billion years old by a member of a species that has been around for several million years and was producing art that has survived for nearly 20,000 years.

 

[Alc]

6 Millenium duration of the world Bit strange idea of a planet that is approx 4.5 Billion years old by a member of a species that has been around for several million years and was producing art that has survived for nearly 20,000 years.

Just re-read that post, it also says

Six letters of the word bereishit, "In the beginning."

Is it just me, or are there nine?

 

[Lil' Rascal]

6 Millenium duration of the world Bit strange idea of a planet that is approx 4.5 Billion years old by a member of a species that has been around for several million years and was producing art that has survived for nearly 20,000 years.

Don't shoot the messenger. lol

I looked it up and today's date According to the Hebrew calendar: 5, Nisan 5769. So, Looks like we have another 231 years until the end of this millenium. Don't tell that to the Mayans though.

Is it just me, or are there nine?

Looks like someone forgot to add:

Dim In The Beginning as Variant

In the Beginning = Mid("bereishit", 2, 6)

Or would a left function be more suited to an "In the beginning" statement?

5*7+6+9-(2*3+1) = 43
Looks like 42 just got shot to hell.

 

[Rabbie]

Don't shoot the messenger. lol

I looked it up and today's date According to the Hebrew calendar: 5, Nisan 5769. So, Looks like we have another 231 years until the end of this millenium. Don't tell that to the Mayans though.

The Hebrew calendar is not relevant to the length of the world. The world has existed for approximately 4.5 Billion years. So what on earth is the relevance of 2240 AD. Do you think the world is going to end then. But anyway that does not make the Earth only 5769 years old.

 

[Lil' Rascal]

The Hebrew calendar is not relevant to the length of the world. The world has existed for approximately 4.5 Billion years. So what on earth is the relevance of 2240 AD. Do you think the world is going to end then. But anyway that does not make the Earth only 5769 years old.

No, I do not think that the world is going to end. I hope it's not going to anyways. The relevance of 2240 A.D. is in regards to the "Duration of the Word" as indicated by the Jewish religion which remains relevant to the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet which is relevant to 5796 years which brings us full circle.

Before you crucify me, here's what I said in the first post that brought on the whole thing:

These are significant to the Jewish religion in particular. I list these mearly as 'thought provokers' and not reflections on my personal beliefs. These are not included in the gospel according to Lil' Rascal.

The one thing about boards I'll never get used to is the lack of tone. Perhaps I should drop a or a every once in a while to make sure that my sarcasms aren't lost on cyber ears.

 

[Rich]

No, I do not think that the world is going to end. I hope it's not going to anyways.

I'm afraid it's a fact that the world is going to end

 

[oumahexi]

No, I do not think that the world is going to end. I hope it's not going to anyways. The relevance of 2240 A.D. is in regards to the "Duration of the Word" as indicated by the Jewish religion which remains relevant to the 6th letter of the Hebrew alphabet which is relevant to 5796 years which brings us full circle.

I think you'll find that the "word" is a reference to what we now perceive as God. In ancient scripts they referred to the creator as the "word" because they did not want to limit it by labelling it and felt that even to call it God would be limiting.

I have not come accross this reference to the duration of the word, it's new to me. Thank you for giving me something new to investigate.

 

[NauticalGent]

It is events like this that make me question if there really is a God. If there were, WHY would a God allow this:

27 girls, counselors at Camp Mystic killed in Texas floods: Live updates

At least 27 campers and counselors were killed at Camp Mystic during the devastating Texas floods, the camp said in a statement. Some remain missing.

www.usatoday.com

 

[AccessBlaster]

It is events like this that make me question if there really is a God. If there were, WHY would a God allow this:

27 girls, counselors at Camp Mystic killed in Texas floods: Live updates

At least 27 campers and counselors were killed at Camp Mystic during the devastating Texas floods, the camp said in a statement. Some remain missing.

www.usatoday.com

I feel like we're de-evolving. A hundred years ago we knew this area was prone to flooding. And yet we continue to to repeat the same mistakes over and over in spite of our technology advancements.

 

[The_Doc_Man]

I haven't touched this thread in a long time. I'll toss in a "question for God" based on Col's original question.

It is said that only through faith can we come to you. We are supposed to believe DESPITE the things we see that explain existence without resorting to faith. So... Why do you punish us for believing your perfect and impenetrable illusion of scientific origins for everything?

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

What do you want to ask me Colin ? I haven't exercised my God-like moderator powers in a long time, and I'm feeling bored and frustrated and I would quite like to smite somebody --- you're high on my list Colin !!!

 

[Pat Hartman]

The deaths caused by this flood are devastating and heartbreaking. There's a lot of pain in Texas as the search continues for the missing children and counselor. I don't know anything about why the camp was located where it was or why the camp didn't have any warning of the impending flood but I do know that the Dems are trying their damnedest to blame the catastrophe on Trump and that just shows you how sick these people are.

 

[Uncle Gizmo]

The reason people don't believe in God is because they don't understand what God is ..... the God we were brought upon the one looking down on you deciding if you can go to heaven or if you have to go to hell does not exist that's a man-made fabrication .....

Sit outside on a Summer Night staring up in silence, the silence that is so loud it's deafening and watching the stars and you'll get that feeling, the feeling of your insignificance ... At the same time you get a connected feeling like nothing matters but that connection ...

That's the real God -- it's inside you ..... it's your true self ... it's your self without the narrative clunking away in your mind --- you realise that you are just a tiny speck. One of the best explanations I heard was you are a wave in the ocean the ocean represents that vastness and all you are is a little hardly perceptible wave but without the ocean you wouldn't be there the wave is part of the ocean and the ocean is part of the wave... It's when you can get into that place where you experience a sense of love and happiness ... and I don't mean the hippie happy clappy Happyness there's a different sort ....

 

[The_Doc_Man]

The deaths caused by this flood are devastating and heartbreaking. There's a lot of pain in Texas as the search continues for the missing children and counselor. I don't know anything about why the camp was located where it was or why the camp didn't have any warning of the impending flood but I do know that the Dems are trying their damnedest to blame the catastrophe on Trump and that just shows you how sick these people are.

The camp was where it was because for many years that area was relatively safe, high up on the side of a river bank. However, this was an exceptional rain event and Texas has a problem with non-absorbent layers of soil. By comparison, south Louisiana is like a sponge AND is relatively flat. It takes a lot of water to flood our area.

The affected part of Texas is called "Hill country" and it flash-floods easily. The Guadalupe River has steep banks in some places, which means the water can't spread out so easily, so it floods its way up those banks. This morning's news reports suggested that, in the general area of the worst flooding, they had a torrent of water that hit 20 feet deep in less than 2 hours.

The issue with warnings was simple. The rains started after 1 AM local time and crested by 4 AM. The weather forecast included heavy rains, but this was described as one of those "100 year" floods and nobody evacuated the previous evening. The National Weather Service said they had five extra people on duty due to the heavy rains that were the expected aftermath of tropical storm Chantal - two regular night staff and five extra staff members! They put out warnings within minutes of seeing how bad the rain was, but at that time of night, everyone was sleeping. Nobody heard the warnings.

 

[NauticalGent]

The girls were camping as part of a Christian summer camp.

How could a God allow this to happen to a group of innocent children gathered in his name?

 

[The_Doc_Man]

This is one of those little "God works in mysterious ways" excuses, NG. God doesn't care about your body. He's after your soul. Of course, there is the matter that the girls were young enough that they might have had trouble making the commitment to God to assure their salvation.

An earlier comment discussed the idea of whether a being could exist that was superior to humans and would that being be God (or a god). That leads to two questions.

First, define "god" in specific terms without directly referring to the Bible. What is the standard by which you would recognize a god when you saw one?

Second, even if you define a god with complete standards, the question is whether this putative superior being qualifies as a god. Or is it just an advanced being in evolutionary terms? Maybe a little smarter. Maybe sees better at night. Maybe has sufficient sphincter control to whistle in two-part harmony. Little things like that.