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Re: Another question for athiests.

Bigthink — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 19:47:33 +0100

My theory is that aliens are the Gods and kind of acted with everyone. Everyone would idolize who they thought was in command of the party that visited them. Think of the giza pyramids and the precision with which those 70 tonne blocks were cut (with copper tools? not by humans for sure) then lifted into place so perfectly you couldn't slide a credit card through them years before iron was even founded. All religions all have the same golden rule as well, treat others as you would be treated. Is this no the greatest rule for global prosperity? If we all helped eachother absolutely free of charge, the world would be a much more advanced place. And this is probably what alien species have done.

Re: is suicide a final act of bravery or cowardice?

Bigthink — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:51:31 +0100

: Cowardice. Straight up and flat out cowardice. We are all intimidated by death, what lies in store for us, is there an after life. All that stuff. No one is scared of death. To fear it would be to dread it every single day. If everyone feared death there would be no pilots, planes, astronauts, racers, rock climbers, soldiers. Again death is intimidating. However if you take your life your taking the easiest route in avoidance of all of lifes problems after you've died. When you die, your free of the torments of life. In essence they are getting lazy with living and you will usually find people who kill themselves have something bad coming their way, like debt, or conflict.

Re: Why is American youth drawn to religion?

Bigthink — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:35:28 +0100

I personally am not a large participator in religion. I can't consider many religions as logical and plausible, it's just not how im set.

However I do have a good theory of why American youth are drawn to religion. There's actually a few reasons.

The first is family. Many families are Roman Catholic and the new generations are raised with it and either accept it or feel they are responsible to carry on the family tradition. I am a confirmed Roman Catholic but I only did so at the time cause I felt it was my responsibility, not my "unwavering" faith in "God". Other youths are brought up with it and accept it and really do believe in their family religion.

My second reason would be safety and the "there's something after this hell-hole" perspective. Think about it. Earth isn't currently the most friendly place and there must be something more. This would be the mentality of plenty religious youth. Conciously or subconciously. The reason they like religion so much would be that it gives them something to believe in. I will admit it would be a good therapeutic process. I started going to church for about a month only for the sense of the security. When your in church it's like the world outside doesn't exist.

Re: Jesus was a Great Man: But he was only a Man

Bigthink — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:06:34 +0100

Alright. This is gonna sound VERY odd when you hear it, I'm aware but it's my theory of who God and jesus are.

First off have you ever noticed angels are always coming from the sky? well heres what i believe. Mary and Joseph never had intercourse to make Jesus, well any species that can achieve space travel can definately artificially inseminate someone right? so the angel that came down, an alien, told mary she would have the son of God (an alien race which is actually humans from a different galaxy that sent us here to live, he did create us in his own image didnt he?). So they probably brought her up enseminated her and thats where jesus came from. When he was at the age of awareness they probably brought him back up, told him who he was and what his purpose was.

This brings us to his miracles, most were medical. Is it not possible that he could have brought them up to the ship, or had the materials which then would have looked just as magical as if they werent there, and performed quick, alien technology, surgery? think about it, he cured blindness, maybe they beamed up the blind guy, restructured his eyes and all that good jazz and sent him back down with site. Maybe they reconnected tendons and vertebrae to cure the lame.

Its all very conceivable. The fact that he contacted his "father" quite often is interesting enough. They would definately have advanced communication devices and he could ask his "father" for advice or answers.

So in conclusion, I do not believe jesus was man he was an alien, an alien human (i believe aliens are homosapien but thats a different story). And I believe God was the entire alien race.

(also why do you think heaven is always up? maybe its up and out, into space)

Re: is dying a bad thing?

Bigthink — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:47:53 +0100

Death is the failure to survive. Everyone fails, but when you do is what counts. If your 23 and get drunk and smash up your car into a pole, you've failed to survive.

I plan on being damn good at surviving, I believe I could survive alone.

Not all people feel the same way so tell me what you think.

Re: What does it mean to be alive? Can computer programs be considered alive?

Bigthink — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:44:59 +0100

Computers cannot, and will not, ever be alive. Why? They feel no emotion. They are programmed to do things we tell them and they don't care about doing them. You could program a computer to kill a puppy and it would not care. No computer would care. However if you ask a human to kill a puppy some would cry some would be glad (those weird people). Thats how we are human. We may be programmed to react to the world around us however we react differently. All robots don't react at all to anything.

They do not feel emotions.

Love, hate, jealousy, sadness, pitty, bravery, courage, trust, integrity, humor, affection, companionship, lust, adoration. A computer can do none of these. A robot is a computer and computers do one thing. They compute. And computing requires no emotions.

Re: Could it be that we simply end?

Bigthink — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:37:43 +0100

: Vanishing into oblivion is too vague away to say it. Saying our souls leave us, go to pergatory, then heaven is too complex. Personally, I believe that we live on. But not as a thinking being. We live on through those we've influenced. The memories we leave. The differences we make. Example being if Adolf Hitler were not born 96% (totally random estimate) would not be here. Why? because millions of people would still be alive and likely have influenced things in a way your parents may not have married or met. Why? because the average human effects 10 000 people (some more, some less, this is a true fact). well what's 10 000 times the total casualties of WWII ? A lot of people.

Where I think humanity is headed

Bigthink — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 03:26:18 +0100

Honestly, it didn't look good to me... at first. See I envision some form of catastrophic natural/nuclear/terrorist event. People will die left and right and there will be chaos. HOWEVER amidst this chaos, those cunning enough to survive will do so with a few lessons. Civilization will be rebuilt but with real morals and a sense of responsability for earth and our actions. We will work together to live. By we I don't mean this generation, maybe not the next. But humanity will, inevitably, be taught a few things about life and survivability.

Elaborate if you will or shed some optimism on my idea:D

Life: It's purpose, and why we can't fulfill it.

Bigthink — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:27:57 +0100

: In the past few weeks, out of nowhere it struck me. The fabric of humanity and the existence of civilization struck me. To be human we have a few things we need. The physical ones are more obvious. They are: food, water, shelter in some cases. The difficult part for most people to understand is the mental needs. Humans came into existence as, and always will be, animals. We have a need for action, excitement. Peace and rest. With these emotions we were given a 6th sense. -Vision -Sound -Touch -Taste -Smell These are the five most known senses as you will agree and some people think of a sixth sense as the ability to communicate with the dead. I believe the 6th sense is: -Survival/Instinct And in the past, when it was much more needed, in the very beginning of our existence when survival was more challenging, it was honed. Over time, once cities were established, once governments founded, we slowly lost our sence of survival. We've built cities, like dream lands where no danger happens. However if you were to be shot and dumped in a strong river, noone would know who did it. It could happen, its not impossible, but you don't walk around ready for danger all the time. The shooting scenario could be related to one where the teeth of a grizzly are the bullet, or the absence of authority the rivers current. We fear very little and with that, we've lost the NEED to survive. Although some of us could lead others and keep a level head in a disaster, most would be panic stricken and go crazy with anxiety as they never anticipated harm. I understand this is a difficult concept to grasp but consider this. If you lived every day of your life in an undeveloped area never having modern luxuries. A life where small luxuries are appreciated. You would be so much more able to defend yourself or survive dangerous elements because your used to always being ready. Consider all of the apartment buildings, department stores, pawn shops, multi-plex parking garages just vanished. Grass land, forests, woodland, river banks, all these still existed. To most that would be a heavenly view, to our ancestors, it was home.