Originally posted by Proper Knob “Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”
Douglas Adams.
no it isnt, because we are humans, we have minds, we can imagine, we create, we impose our minds on our environment, not in the mere contemplation of or imitation of nature, but transcending it! you noobster a chess player and a musician know this to be true! send douglas adams over here to I slap his forehead 😉
“That a few simple men should in one generation have invented so powerful and appealing a personality, so lofty an ethic and so inspiring a vision of human brotherhood, would be a miracle far more incredible than any recorded in the Gospels.”
Originally posted by robbie carrobie no it isnt, because we are humans, we have minds, we can imagine, we create, we impose our minds on our environment, not in the mere contemplation of or imitation of nature, but transcending it! you noobster a chess player and a musician know this to be true! send douglas adams over here to I slap his forehead 😉
'I cannot transcend nature, i am woven into the fabric of nature'.
Originally posted by Proper Knob 'I cannot transcend nature, i am woven into the fabric of nature'.
P. Knob.
of course you can noobster, with your mind, for you are a chess player, an artist, you are in the habit of transcending banal materialism with sacrifice and concept 🙂
We are not asking for Abraham Lincoln's opinion but yours, I don't believe that the world would be a better place without Christians but worse, you see the worst people are not Christians.
Originally posted by daniel58 We are not asking for Abraham Lincoln's opinion but yours, I don't believe that the world would be a better place without Christians but worse, you see the worst people are not Christians.
The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. - Thomas Jefferson
Originally posted by TerrierJack The natural course of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism. - Thomas Jefferson
"The fool hath said in his heart, There is NO GOD.." King David.
"A double minded man is unstable in all his ways... Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double MINDed." James
Originally posted by daniel58 We are not asking for Abraham Lincoln's opinion but yours, I don't believe that the world would be a better place without Christians but worse, you see the worst people are not Christians.
Isaiah 45:18
For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.
Originally posted by TerrierJack Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so. - Benjamin Franklin