We can't know God's divine plan *warning- 'R'-rated rant ensues*
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Friday, February 26, 2010 19:16
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Cool, but has no one caught the Highlander quote?
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Because it can be fun.
My take is that we exist. Why?
"Why does the sun come up? Or are the stars just pinholes in the curtain of darkness? Who knows?"
The answer to your questions is simple: To entertain and amuse me.
You see, my world revolves around me and bends to my will. Well, from my perspective anyway.
The laughing Chrisisall
I did. Though it's "curtain of night".
"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."
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Originally posted by Storymark:
Though it's "curtain of night".
I'm so busted.
The laughing Chrisisall
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The idea that solar proximity, etc., infers 'intelligent design' appears fallacious. Given the seemingly endless variety of life possible just within our own petri dish of conditions, isn’t it more likely that life adapts to whatever circumstances are handy? Or is carbon based, oxygen breathing, 15°C the only option?
Jupiter is a vast ocean of various gases with a diameter 11 times that of Earth, will any life forms indigenous to it be necessarily recognizable? Especially to some handful of sensors and instruments on an orbiter deep in space…
Perhaps we should postpone choosing between ‘infinite coincidence’ and ‘grand design’ until we have more data—even if the Mars rovers fail to turn up anything. I’ve spent years in my back yard with a trowel and I’ve yet to find a dinosaur bone.
Now from heads to tales: The meaning of life is a brief illusory ignorance, much like Hawthorne’s willful suspension of disbelief. From there it’s school or theater: your choice, Hobson.
(ETA: Did I write Hawthorne? Oy. Coleridge...)
--WhoDied
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Yeah, we're mostly just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.
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I’ve spent years in my back yard with a trowel and I’ve yet to find a dinosaur bone.
ARGHHH, I'm hyper-focusing again...
The laughing Chrisisall
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How deep have you gone?
Er, I've dug (a) well into the Holocene...
--WhoDied
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Yeah, we're mostly just giving each other significant glances and laughing incessantly.
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"Yep. That'd do it allright."
The laughing Chrisisall
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My 2 cents,....if this (life, the Universe and everything) was an accident, it was a well organized accident.
...it's worse than you know...Operative
...it usually is.....Mal
I have never really understood the " accident" premise. Is it an accident when it rains ? Is it an accident when the Earth quakes? Is it an accident when the sun sets on a beautiful sky?
The thinking is that there had to be set course, some planned out format or intent in the first place. That's nothing but a self reinforcing , specious view. ( not calling anyone HERE 'specious', mind you
) I just think that evoking the 'life is an accident' view is tainting the entire discussion from the onset. Events happen because conditions are present which allow them to happen. The wind blows when barometric pressure changes from one area to another, forcing atmosphere to fill in the area of lower pressure from a higher pressure zone. There's no 'thinking' by the wind on this matter....it just happens. It's physics, and not a 'choice'.
But where choice DOES exist ?
" if nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do "
Bones: "Don't 'rawr' her!"
Booth: "What? she'rawred' me first.
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Dude may i suggest you answer your door naked wearing a red cape and carrying a pitch fork... pretty sure the Jehovah's witness will go away
To love someone is to see a miracle invisible to others.
--Francois Mauriac
It's fuzzy-minded liberal thinking like that that gets you eaten.
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