WHOA okay didn’t notice this was PART 2… lol… i am in the process of stringing together a more on topic reply… but you know, I just saw this, didn’t know where it was coming from, but stated my comments on gays, hell, and christians in general.
I think if you are going to abide by old testament laws about homosexuality, you should follow ALL old testament laws, such ask killing people who work on the sabbath.
It’s too conveniant to filter though the old testament, ignore contradictory verses “women should be submissive in church” and use the ones that you agree with (giving gay people a hard time).
“God” would probably frown upon that. Isn’t the whole point of the New Testament (for christians) to make the Old Testament null and void, for the most part? Wasn’t that why Jesus came down in the first place, other than being some sort of ultra super sacrifice?
I’m sad that this letter appears to be fake but
snopes.com/politics/religion/drlaura.asp
It makes a great point.
Well the only thing I have to say without being horribly redundant is to ErikW, who seems like he is a Vulcan.
You are suggesting that I am insane by deviating from the norm.
I would have called you insane for drafting up plans for a helicopter a few hundred years ago… yet da vinci did just that, and he was more or less RIGHT, but no… he wasn’t right… he was wrong.
Or you would have been calling him wrong if you were a walking dictionary back then, even durring a freaking renaissance.
Like I said your petty and frivolous definitions (we cannot define reality, no one knows what anyone elses experience of “reality” is like) are shaped upon general societal agreeance about the meanings of words. The actual definitions themselves as taken literally from a dictionary mean way less than do the general consensus of a population
The general consensus of our population uses the word “kill” and all its forms when talking about: fictional characters, animals, objects, ideas, abstract concepts (time), etc…
So you are telling the people, who GIVE THE WORD MEANING IN THE FIRST PLACE, that they are wrong? They might be wrong according to convential rules invneted by a bunch of grammar nazis, but so what? If 75% of Americans talk about killing things that by your definition aren’t real… then I’d venture to say THEIR DAMN USAGE OF KILL IS CORRECT, AND YOURS IS WRONG.
All that aside, if you followed the norm a few hundred years ago, you’d be sitting here quoting BS from some sort of archaic and superstitious text, proving to me that such and such isn’t such and such becuase this little book I have says so.
If you were a sort of lawyer back then (you resemble one now) you WOULD be arguing that women don’t deserve to vote, because the constitution says all MEN were created equal… and the overall definition for man is someone of the male gender.
A woman is clearly not a man. Therefore a woman does not deserve the rights that men have.
I WIN YAY! (sarcasm, you do not know what the authors meant when using man)
I want you, to right now, either prove to me that DCs aren’t real, or revoke all your arguments.
All we have is speculation, okay? We don’t know they are real, and we don’t know that they are unreal.
we do not know
and neither do you.
If you do, prove it.
You cannot disprove the “reality” of dreams, especially given the very subjective nature of reality, which is ultimately shaped by nothing more than perception
If you can disprove the realness of DCs, by all means, do it now, shed some light on to how it’s impossible to kill them by PROVING to us that they aren’t real.
Please, disprove this argument:
When we sleep, our astral body separates from our etheric body and we visit alternate planes of existence.
Disprove it. (i realize that just because something cannot be disproven, does not make it real, as people often use that argument for God, and anything they want to say, but we have many people here trying to scientifically show that shared dreaming is possible, we have Mavromatis documenting shared hypnagogia… and we are debating a philosophical issue WHERE THERE IS NO ANSWER.)
You seem to be the only one here adamantly telling everyone they are WRONG and that you have dreams all figured out. The scientific community doesn’t even claim such things, yet.
I hope that this post didn’t come off as hostile or anything.
All I am trying to get across is that none of us know whether they are real or not. Many of us have had many experiences which would at least show shared dreaming as possible.
So the whole point is, I don’t know, and you don’t know.