Potus ???

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Can't you all see that your deeply held convictions are just that - yours? You are mere men, who assume that by being the most intelligent creature on the earth MUST therefore be right. In so doing you exalt yourselves as god and therefore refuse the possibility that perhaps you were thought of before the "creation" of the world.

 

So long as you are gods in your own eyes, your hearts are hardened, you cannot know the truth.

 

You can debate all this til the cows come home; the fact remains, it is all mere human thought and intellect.

[jomoco]

Then why'd christ persist in saying he was not of this earth?

 

The friggin universe is but one of many big places mate.

 

Maybe god's out planting humans in other universes like Jonny Appleseed?

 

Making the rounds so to speak?

 

I got no probs givin such blokes the benefit of the doubt, unlike some of you speak in absolute terms Thomases!

 

Jomoco

[Mesterh]

How much do you actually know about the Higgs Boson?

 

Well not a lot. Iirc it is a carrier particle of mass, i.e. it gives/transfers particles mass, or something along those lines. I know it was predicted years ago and they built the LHC to find it, among other things.

[Haironyourchest]

For exactly the same reason that you should mock me if I was to declare that I believed in leprechauns and there was a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow.

 

I would quite rightly be a laughing stock.

 

The reality is that belief in leprechauns and belief in a God carry exactly the same amount of true evidential weight.

 

If some scientifically verifiable evidence came to light which proved the existence of God I would become a 'believer' in an instant. It would be ridiculously easy for an omnipotent God to offer conclusive proof of His existence. Either He chooses to remain hidden, condemning most of his supposedly beloved creations to a fiery eternity in hell (making him despicably evil), or he doesn't exist.

 

A lot of people feel this way, but the funny thing is, when they actually experience the reality of "spirit", be it an out of body event or whatever, they chalk it up to hallucination or indigestion, because the white-coats don't support it. If 'scientifically verifiable' means that white coated men believe its true, then we base out own belief on the belief of other men. In short, we cede our own innate ability to determine for ourselves what is real, to someone else - just like in traditional religion.

 

And by the way, leprechauns are real - over fifty percent of the Irish economy is derived from leprechaun gold, (long may it last).

Edited November 21, 2016 by Haironyourchest

[Jonny69]

Can't you all see that your deeply held convictions are just that - yours? You are a blight on the planet earth, who assume that by being the most intelligent creature on the earth MUST therefore be right. In so doing you exalt yourselves as god and therefore refuse the possibility that perhaps you were thought of before the "creation" of the world.

 

So long as you are gods in your own eyes, your hearts are hardened, you cannot know the truth.

 

You can debate all this til the cows come home; the fact remains, it is all mere human stupidity and lack of intellect.

 

I've only amended it slightly

 

As for that Jomoco guy. If you wrote less riddles, I might have half a chance at understanding what you are trying to convey. Also, how many universes do you think there are?

[wrsni]

I know it was predicted years ago and they built the LHC to find it, among other things.

 

It was "predicted" because for all their intellectual power they could not make sense of the "big bang". It just wasn't possible that it could happen whichever angle they came from.

 

So Peter Higgs came up with the theory of the Higgs Boson, a magic particle that ties all the other theories together leading to the creation of solid matter as we know it. It only came about to fill the hole in all their other theories and because they started off with the premise that there actually WAS a "big bang" and they needed to figure out how it happened. But what they've actually done over the years is prove that it's immensely improbable that it ever did.

 

The Higgs Boson hasn't been found. They released a statement saying that they'd collected data which pointed to it's existence, which inside a week of clever PR had become "finding" it, but in reality it has not yet been found.

 

Forty million collisions per second for how many years the collider has been running and they still haven't found it. Yet strange how many people have been bluffed in to thinking that the "big bang" is actually proven science when in fact it is just every bit as mythical as our "sky daddy".

[jomoco]

What if proof of our sky daddy's existence is awaiting and latent inside us?

 

Kinduva best place to hide something being right under your nose scenario?

 

Jomoco

[Ian Leach]

What if proof of our sky daddy's existence is awaiting and latent inside us?

 

Kinduva best place to hide something being right under your nose scenario?

 

Jomoco

You've been watching to much supernatural.

[jomoco]

Who wuz it, the BBC, Ancient Astronauts?

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_astronauts

 

Crackin good stuff!

 

Jomoco

Edited November 21, 2016 by jomoco

[difflock]

I read a really good SF novel(or short story) based on the premise of an intelligent civilization developing computers and conquering space travel to explore and settle throughout the Universe, finally developing AI which gradually and peacefully replaced the species that had developed it, all culminating in first a physical supercomputer with AI, then evolving to a non physical Galactic Overseeing Device, which watched and mused as entropy set in and the Universe wound down as the stars all burned out.

Aeons later G.O.D figgered how to re-start the whole process, with a Big Bang, or "let their be light".

And indeed per Jomoco, I would not rule out the possibility of an infinite number of alternate parallel universes, cos, "what do we know?"

Presbyterian reared Agnostic that I am.