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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 12:37pm |
Originally Posted By BLISSS
Yeah but you can't prove it can you? The banana sold me, unless you can come up with something better like how can you deny the banana man? [ www.irreligion.org ] I wrote this a couple of years ago. I’ve heard people tell me that god is a mighty and all powerful being that has (according to them) limitless powers, that lay claim to the universe and everything. This claim has several logical problems; and while there are those who will simply use the blanket statement that god is ineffable, that is a completely baseless claim for which there is no possible evidence nor is there a way to prove it. Not even if god came down and flexed his mighty muscle could he possibly prove his powers without first giving his witnesses the ability to see this, since he has supposedly ineffable powers that could not possibly be explained in mere words to us lowly morals. This is a specious claim since I could equally claim that I myself have ineffable powers and never have to prove it since my abilities would be beyond words themselves; but I wont try to delude you with such claims since I don’t actually believe I have any such capacity. I think Christopher Hitchens said it best, “what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence”. What I will point out however is the flaws in the claims that the personal, loving god described in religious books that is supposedly omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. While there are parts of this claim that do work, it also creates a number of contradictions. If you were omnipotent for example, you would have all the power in the universe; this power would be boundless, bound - not even by the universe its self. This would give you the power to exist everywhere, which is how the omnipresence is possible, one would only assume you’d want to do so should you have such limitless powers. The omnipotence would also make it possible to know everything since your power would enable you to know everything you could possibly want. This all works out quite nicely, until you take the concepts a little deeper. With omnipresence, the implication is not that you choose to exist in any location you want, but instead that you are unequivocally existing everywhere. This is a state that cannot be changed, and if it is, then you are no longer omnipresent. Omnipresence implies a lack of power, since there is no choice in the state of existence, instead you are simply everywhere at all times (and as a result, will always be there, past, present and future). This shows a lack of power, which means you are not omnipotent. Of course you could simply claim that omnipotence implies the ability to reduce your own powers in order to pacify this quagmire, but doing so would create a new one, you would no longer be omnipotent, not to mention the problem with reducing your limitless power would then make you limited in power, never to regain those powers again. Having the ability to regain said powers would imply you never actually lost them in the first place; you cannot simply shunt them for a short while only to have them returned at a later time. Then there is omniscience, which implies a complete and utter lack of ignorance. There is nothing that is not known to you. Absolutely (when dealing with this sort of power, absolutes are the only means) nothing is left to chance and instead nothing comes to a surprise to you since you have seen everything that has happened, is happening and will ever happen, which is a rather depressing thought, to realize your existence will never bring anything new, since you’ve already seen it all. Omniscience is incompatible with omnipotence. If you were omnipotent, you would be able to, through your limitless powers, be able to create something unknown to yourself, dismissing your omniscience. By the same token you could also create a location that you have never been or even create something that even you don’t have control over, which would dismiss your omnipresence. Clearly, the most problematic of powers is without doubt is omnipotence, since it (besides being in conflict with its self) is incompatible with omniscience and omnipresence. If you were however to dismiss these problems and instead focus on this limitless power instead, you run into another interesting issue. Omnipotence is all encompassing. That is to say omnipotence implies complete and utter power, bar nothing. Even a single quark is not beyond your control. As a result there is no power that you do not have. This power is exclusive and cannot be shared, because if you did, you would no longer be the controller of the power, some other would be wielding it and not yourself. This cannot happen, instead the power must be consolidated and never shared which is a problem; it shows a lack of power to be unable to do something like sharing. You can draw one conclusion from all this: if you did in fact have omnipotence, omniscience and omnipresence, you would not be the loving god floating around in the heavens, but instead you would be the universe its self. | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 12:43pm |
Originally Posted By SICKNESS
plz tell me its a joke.... ohhh my not god nope, it's true! Just as Host | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nathan replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 1:00pm |
organized religion: proof that god does not exist.
Llama delivery service: proof that we don't need a god to be happy. organized delivery service: proof that Llamas exist. ...until i see a Llord n' Savior Delivery Service: there is no god. (who cares anyway? you'll find out when you're dead) | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Blisss replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 1:08pm |
Mike, the banana is a much easier explanation
Its simple and makes sense I don't need to read some fucking crackpot essays to know that | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 1:24pm |
Originally Posted By BLISSS
Mike, the banana is a much easier explanation But it's wrong. This is a wild banana, one of the earliest specimens and what the first men ate: This is a banana that has seen thousands of years of cross-species breeding and altering: Today's banana and your "proof" is due to thousands of years of farmers fucking around with seeds and different fruits to create it. I guess your "god" is an aborigine farmer. And my god is the tech lab who created raspberry tangerines because they're small, easy to eat and fit in my mouth. Update » DCRn wrote on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 1:27pm Your biggest proof to God's existence only exist through generations of EVOLUTION.
Classic. | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Blisss replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 1:33pm |
That ain't no banana fool | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 1:42pm |
Uh no, Google it.
But then, I expect you've never finished your high school science (ecology and etc) classes or else you'd already know that. Sad. | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Blisss replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 1:51pm |
Whatever...banana or no banana, that shit looks nasty and your whole theory is crackpot
How the hell did they still find one intact after all this time? And no I didn't have to take ecology in high school to know what a real banana looks like, I lived in Africa for a long time, used to have a banana tree right in my yard | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Luna-1 replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 1:52pm |
Originally Posted By BLISSS
used to have a banana tree in my yard and you loved it :P! | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JojoBizarre replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 1:56pm |
From wiki
The domestication of bananas took place in southeastern Asia. Many species of wild bananas still exist in New Guinea, Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. Recent archaeological and palaeoenvironmental evidence at Kuk Swamp in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea suggests that banana cultivation there goes back to at least 5000 BCE, and possibly to 8000 BCE.[1] This would make the New Guinean highlands the place where bananas were first domesticated. It is likely that other species of wild bananas were later also domesticated elsewhere in southeastern Asia. Southeast Asia is the region of primary diversity of the banana. Areas of secondary diversity are found in Africa, indicating a long history of banana cultivation in the region. Actual and probable diffusion of bananas during Islamic times (700–1500 AD)[20] Some recent discoveries of banana phytoliths in Cameroon dating to the first millennium BCE[21] have triggered an as yet unresolved debate about the antiquity of banana cultivation in Africa. There is linguistic evidence that bananas were already known in Madagascar around that time.[22] The earliest evidence of banana cultivation in Africa before these recent discoveries dates to no earlier than late 6th century AD.[23] In this view, bananas were introduced to the east coast of Africa by Muslim Arabs.[20] The banana may have been present in isolated locations of the Middle East on the eve of the rise of Islam. There is some textual evidence that the prophet Muhammad was familiar with it. The spread of Islam was followed by the far reaching diffusion of bananas. There are numerous references to it in Islamic texts (such as poems and hadiths) beginning in the ninth century. By the tenth century the banana appears in texts from Palestine and Egypt. From there it diffused into north Africa and Muslim Spain. In fact, during the medieval ages, bananas from Granada were considered amongst the best in the Arab world.[20] In 650, Islamic conquerors brought the banana to Palestine. Bananas were introduced to the Americas by Portuguese sailors who brought the fruits from West Africa in the 1500s.[24] The word banana is of West African origin, and passed into English via Spanish or Portuguese.[25] See there is still some wild banana around... the one we eat have been made for and by human. | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» neoform replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 2:04pm |
Originally Posted By BLISSS
Mike, the banana is a much easier explanation Its simple and makes sense I don't need to read some fucking crackpot essays to know that I wrote that. Since when am I a "crackpot"? | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DCRn replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 2:05pm |
Exactly.
And no I didn't have to take ecology in high school to know what a real banana looks like, I lived in Africa for a long time, used to have a banana tree right in my yard
I lived in Florida for years and had Black Widows in my yard. It doesn't mean I know how they genetically evolved over a period of thousands of years, dumbass. Living with bananas does not give you biological expertise over them. | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DrGonzo replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 2:10pm |
avocados look nothing like that.
and props to them farmers, i like'em them yellow bananers. | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nathan replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 2:11pm |
Originally Posted By DRNYARLATHOTEP
Living with bananas does not give you biological expertise over them. lolz | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 5:31pm |
Looks like the evolutionary 'missing link' between humans and monkeys got found recently!
[ news.nationalgeographic.com ] | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» DrGonzo replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 5:47pm |
Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Wizdumb replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 5:54pm |
Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Blisss replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 6:11pm |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Nathan replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 6:22pm |
well, if you're saying the modern day banana is proof of god, and he says it's evolutionary, and not something that existed when 'god created the world in 7 days', then i'd say it's a viable argument.
this is what's annoying with creationists. if they're right, god is real. if evolution is right, then it's 'intelligent design' and also part of god's plan. it's annoying. no matter what someone says, it's proof of god's existence. but that's just not how it works... you can't have it both ways. god: product of man. life: product of chaos. | |
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Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Blisss replied on Wed May 20, 2009 @ 6:36pm |
I can see why you can't believe in god and evolution at the same time
Fuck creationnists | |
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