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Some people would call that "bible BS" or just generic "religion BS" Me personally, I feel that the mystery of the next stage of life after death is largely beyond our understanding. I do believe that reincarnation happens sometimes but not all the time. I don't think we can figure it out for sure though, at least not in this life.
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Yeah, I figured Baptist. I'm from Alabama. Most everyone here is Baptist. I'm a weirdy Methodist
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One night I was in my house and francine was washing the dishes. I yelled out FRANCINE get in here ya ain't gonna believe this ****! She yelled back what I'm busy! To which I replied with fear in my voice ya ain't gonna believe this ****! She said angrilly just tell me what's wrong I'm busy. I yelled back as loud as I could my feces is green. There was a brief pause. Then francine yelled back you big dummy I told you not to eat all that salad.
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So have we all realized that the famous picture of the Loch Ness monster is fake? It would be so cool if Nessie were real but I don't think there's any point holding out hope for something that's been debunked, especially when there are plenty of other mysterious lake dwellers that are more likely to be something interesting. I think there's good chance that a lot of species we thought have gone extinct are still out there, somewhere
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"Just keep swimming" indeed. Dorie should have been a coelacanth. Not to mention known critters like the horseshoe crab. Still hanging around after millions of years. (And will probably be our fault if they go extinct. ) Who knows what kind of crazy creatures are still hiding somewhere, or a close descendant of them. I wish Nessie was real, but hard to see how such a creature would really thrive in the confines of a lake, large or not. Maybe some kind of creature was once there long ago (even if not a Nessie), but something large becoming landlocked in a lake doesn't bode well for the gene pool. |
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05-10-2017, 11:53 PM | #48 |
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I definitely believe in ghosts and aliens. To think humans are the only intelligent life form in all the universe is just ridiculous. I know ghosts are harder to explain but all the weird, supernatural stuff people have experienced can't all be wrong.
We lived in house once that I totally believe is haunted. We only lived there for like 3 months because of a bug problem. We had spiders, roaches and such like every day but that was a separate issue. Every single night I'd hear the same loud crashing noises around the same time. 2-3am. My family heard something hit the wall from the outside in the middle of the night once too. Of course nothing was out of place when we'd check things out. Even here in our current house we've heard unexplainable noises a few times. Though these were more like isolated situations. Nothing like the other house. Once there was very distinct knocking against the side of the couch years ago. My family was just watching TV and I was in my room across the hall but I heard it too. I'm sure others have experienced worse but yes I believe in ghosts, evil entities, unrestful spirits etc.
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05-11-2017, 03:37 AM | #49 |
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I’m not sure if there are aliens or not. I suspect that if there are, we will probably never meet them. To paraphrase the Fermi Paradox: If interstellar travel is possible, probability suggests that a more advanced intelligences would have already figured it out. We haven’t seen any, so maybe it’s not possible, or maybe there are no advanced intelligences.
If advanced alien life does exist however, there could be a lot of reasons why we don’t know about it. We take it for granted that an alien intelligence would resemble our paradigm of intelligence. Maybe they don’t think in a way that would lead them to interstellar travel in the first place. Also, a lot of the models we use to predict the existence of alien life don’t factor in the shear improbability of life existing on our planet. They basically take it as granted that if it happened once, it can happen again, but that isn’t a certainty.
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Well whether any aliens are "advanced" is a separate question. I'm positive aliens exist because earth being the only planet in all the universe to have intelligent life is extremely unlikely.
Assuming they are advanced, to some extent, I'm sure earth has been visited already. They just haven't officially revealed themselves. Maybe the government has proof or they've chosen to only observe us. Every UFO/Alien encounter can't be false. I don't know that aliens are anything like we seen in movies but I hope they are. Not hostile but really technologically advanced.
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The Drake Equation is commonly used weigh all the factors that would go into estimating the probability of alien life. where N = the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible (i.e. which are on our current past light cone) and R* = the average rate of star formation in our galaxy fp = the fraction of those stars that have planets ne = the average number of planets that can potentially support life per star that has planets fl = the fraction of planets that could support life that actually develop life at some point fi = the fraction of planets with life that actually go on to develop intelligent life (civilizations) fc = the fraction of civilizations that develop a technology that releases detectable signs of their existence into space L = the length of time for which such civilizations release detectable signals into space So yeah, pretty astronomical odds, and with the universe being comprised of potentially infinite spacetime, its hard to say definitively that we will ever make contact with another intelligent alien species. but of course, this is all conjecture based on our most current understanding
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Reincarnation, now thats funny.... we have but One Life to live though... this one. None before it and none after it... |
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Except with the hypocritical religious authorities. Those he lit up. Also, I'm disappointed that we've gone this many pages without anybody posting the History Channel "Aliens guy" meme.
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You can believe whatever rubbish you want and rubbish is what it is. If you are so sure he didn't do things a certain way, why is it you believe that but don't believe that he died for your sins so you don't have to burn in hell? |
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2. At no point have I said what I do or don't believe regarding Christianity or religion in general. But I've got quite a background of experience, so when I'm saying what I believe he did and didn't do, know that I'm basing that belief on what I've read. From the source, aka ol' King Jimmy. 3. What I believe or don't believe doesn't matter to this point; but when you're trying to witness or share your faith, knocking down the other guy to say "How could you believe such an obvious crock of crap, you poor ignorant fool"... you're doing more harm than good.
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Read your last few posts and pretend you're a Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, or atheist. Do you feel like Christianity is A) maybe the answer you've been looking for, or B) full of self-righteous prigs?
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Kid ghosts? Possibly. And as a matter of fact yes some of the figures on my desk DO fall over for no reason occassiionally. Always when those two shadows show up. Not bumped- just suddenly topple off their perch. Hmm those two objects COULD have been satellites that were orbiting- sometimes on especially clear nights you can see one or two and they can appear to be much closer than they are. But who knows? Maybe ET came back for another visit.... Quote:
No, not tv/movie bs. I am talking about actual accounts spanning all of history and even the Bible mentions visitations from spirits and supernatural events. Call them miracles if you like but voices and objects doing thing they shouldn't are nothing new in the Bible. Men who appear and disappear seemingly at will, etc.... You believe so stringly in what is written in a book and then discount incidents that are described very similarly? Interesting. My own study of all things "supernatural" or occult covers far more than just garden variety movie ghosts seeking revenge or forgiveness or whatever. As for going instantly, then explain why it tells in Revelations that the dead shall rise up THEN!! As in they have been sitting there waiting for the Rapture to go to heaven. That makes no sense if they are already rhere!! And that is just ONE reference that clearly contradicts what you just said about it being instant. Quote:
See, this is where the supposed superiority of one belief over another gets confused with "fact". We do not KNOW whose view is right or wrong unless we were to walk up to a Supreme Being/Power and ask. Since we can't really do that, it is presumptious to assume one's own view is the only possible "right" one and that another is automatically "wrong". They are called BELIEFS for a reason- they cannot be fully or accurately tested or proven one way or another- no matter what book we may get them from. Quote:
So much all of this! I see you have an interest in the strange and unusual. Welcome to the club! Heh, cryptids- there's a subject I don't get to discuss often! Quote:
My past selves say hello. I have memories of at least three of them. Going back as far as early spear-hunters in Europe. Getting gored by a huge boar in the leg. Another in Tuscany in the Middle Ages. As a tavern server. And a Southern slave. And one in Gaul as a Roman soldier who hunted down escaped slaves but eventually deserted and was hunted in turn. These are memories as real and detailed as any from this life. There is so much we do not know or understand about our own world and our own existence, that we may never learn. The quote in my siggy says it all- science has only scratched the surface; there is so much left to be revealed!
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