Originally posted by @fabianfnasMaybe just semantics but I would think babies as UNtheistic not Atheistic. Zerotheistic, no thought about it one way or the other.
Exactly, babies hasn't done the decision, therefore it is an atheist. When the baby and grown up, he can (1) make his own decision, or he can (2) just follow his parents decision. (1) means that the decision has been taken consciously and seriously. However I think (2) is much more common.
Or do you really think that every new born baby is christian f ...[text shortened]... hing here? Show me a christian rock, and perhaps I will change my opinion. But not until then...
Originally posted by @kellyjayWhat were you doing in Alaska? Just curious, I went to East Anchorage HS back in the day. Nice experience.
We are all creatures of faith and beliefs. Walking across a yard you believe it is the safe
thing to do. I was walking in Alaska once with a friend we were hiking. I fell into a hole that
I didn't see, the tundra we were walking on had covered the hole in the ground and I
stepped on it. We all want truth, at least I think we do, some just may want to he ...[text shortened]... think the
vast majority of us are wandering in the dark, missing out on the Light of the world.
When you fell in how far did you drop?
Originally posted by @sonhouseAdak I was there for 1 year, 2 days, 6 hours, 23 minutes, and I don't recall the seconds anymore. 😉 Navy
What were you doing in Alaska? Just curious, I went to East Anchorage HS back in the day. Nice experience.
When you fell in how far did you drop?
Originally posted by @sonhouseYou are right. A person must declare herself on the issue. It is not a default stance.
Maybe just semantics but I would think babies as UNtheistic not Atheistic. Zerotheistic, no thought about it one way or the other.
Originally posted by @kellyjayWas it that horrible? They wouldn't let me in the military because I'm deaf. Everyone knows you need functioning ears to run a depot or a 50 cal. I'm kinda bitter about this.
Adak I was there for 1 year, 2 days, 6 hours, 23 minutes, and I don't recall the seconds anymore. 😉 Navy
Originally posted by @apathistI actually liked it, but joke about it. Adak is in the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, incredible
Was it that horrible? They wouldn't let me in the military because I'm deaf. Everyone knows you need functioning ears to run a depot or a 50 cal. I'm kinda bitter about this.
place, extremely beautiful and dangerous. In the winder we would have life lines go up
between the buildings in case of white outs. The snow up there was in little white balls,
not so much flakes. This was nasty when it wasn’t packed down it could fly up during
winds, which happen a lot there. So when there was a winter storm the snow could get so
bad you couldn’t see your hand if you extended your arm.
Originally posted by @sonhouseThe hole maybe 15 to 20 deep, I didn't go to the bottom, I caught the sides and managed
What were you doing in Alaska? Just curious, I went to East Anchorage HS back in the day. Nice experience.
When you fell in how far did you drop?
to stay up. Had I been by myself, and landed down there, I would more than likely would
still be there with everyone to this day wondering where I went.
Originally posted by @kellyjayI imagine it was traumatic even so. Did you live in Alaska or visiting?
The hole maybe 15 to 20 deep, I didn't go to the bottom, I caught the sides and managed
to stay up. Had I been by myself, and landed down there, I would more than likely would
still be there with everyone to this day wondering where I went.
Originally posted by @sonhouseFirst tour of duty in the Navy after Radioman A school, I worked at a transmitter site when
I imagine it was traumatic even so. Did you live in Alaska or visiting?
I had that little adventure. We lived up on a mountain and dealt with the communications.
I also worked part of the year at a communications station. I had a lot of firsts while there.
My first earth quake I experienced while typing on a teletype in the communication station.
Our walls were designed to take major blasts, the door was metal very thick. We were
working and I was typing to another group about something we needed done and I started
making all kinds of mistakes typing. Then I realized the teletype was moving back and
forth, I looked up to yell at whoever was doing that, and everyone one had stopped in their
tracks all looking very pale. It was then I realized my first earth quake. 🙂
It was something living there a year. But the kicker for me was when I left on the flight
home. I was sitting next to a guy whose family was with him and they were leaving the
island. They were there a few years. He was telling me that they were trying to explain to
their 3 year old what the real world was like. All the 3 year ever knew was life on that
island. His world was about to take on a major change, from a single TV station that
showed the same thing over and over to everything else.
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Originally posted by @fabianfnas
Exactly, babies hasn't done the decision, therefore it is an atheist. When the baby and grown up, he can (1) make his own decision, or he can (2) just follow his parents decision. (1) means that the decision has been taken consciously and seriously. However I think (2) is much more common.
Or do you really think that every new born baby is christian f ...[text shortened]... hing here? Show me a christian rock, and perhaps I will change my opinion. But not until then...
Never heard a new born baby utter his first word as 'halleluja', never...
Have you heard a newborn baby come out of the mother talking about it lacks a belief in God or complaining that sufficient evidence for theism has not been forthcoming?
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Originally posted by @kellyjayAh, sounds like you just LOVED every second🙂 I had a better time for sure, a 15 yo just before statehood, it was a magical place for me. My dad had an interest in a jade mine there and they brought home 1500 pounds of jade filled rock, not worth much but jade nonetheless. I have fond memories of living in a cabin in the woods outside of Anchorage.
Adak I was there for 1 year, 2 days, 6 hours, 23 minutes, and I don't recall the seconds anymore. 😉 Navy
My parents got a 40 acre homestead on a prize piece of land in the Kenai peninisula and in the end had to give it up and I would have certainly stayed and kept up the homestead but the legal requirement was for you to be 18 to do that and I was 15, way too young to have pulled it off besides the legal requirement. It was prime land too. That whole situation was a sad time for me.
Originally posted by @sonhouseMy brother and sister in law were there last year. Pictures were incredible, the mountains, ocean they did the fishing and hiking trip.
Ah, sounds like you just LOVED every second🙂 I had a better time for sure, a 15 yo just before statehood, it was a magical place for me. My dad had an interest in a jade mine there and they brought home 1500 pounds of jade filled rock, not worth much but jade nonetheless. I have fond memories of living in a cabin in the woods outside of Anchorage.
My par ...[text shortened]... esides the legal requirement. It was prime land too. That whole situation was a sad time for me.
I envy your time there! I would love to go back, in the summertime. 😉
Originally posted by @kellyjayAh, I did that sort of thing in Thailand, 2 years there on 450 mhz links and 5 ghz troposcatter dual antenna dish links. I got my first ham license when I was 14 and now have top class, amateur extra. It helped I didn't have to learn 20 WPM code, they dropped that requirement. So what kind of links did you maintain? Where was the other end of the link if it was point to point microwave or UHF stuff. Did you have low frequency sites also? 20 mhz or so? I heard at those frequencies Alaska is really noisy especially when northern lights were active. Boy I saw a lot of that!
First tour of duty in the Navy after Radioman A school, I worked at a transmitter site when
I had that little adventure. We lived up on a mountain and dealt with the communications.
I also worked part of the year at a communications station. I had a lot of firsts while there.
My first earth quake I experienced while typing on a teletype in the communica ...[text shortened]... r change, from a single TV station that
showed the same thing over and over to everything else.
Originally posted by @sonhouseWe handled communications with all the people at sea no matter what they were in or on, the island is not military anymore I believe.
Ah, I did that sort of thing in Thailand, 2 years there on 450 mhz links and 5 ghz troposcatter dual antenna dish links. I got my first ham license when I was 14 and now have top class, amateur extra. It helped I didn't have to learn 20 WPM code, they dropped that requirement. So what kind of links did you maintain? Where was the other end of the link if i ...[text shortened]... ies Alaska is really noisy especially when northern lights were active. Boy I saw a lot of that!