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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 😉

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one for the sceptics

“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.”

Historian, William Durant

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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'.

P. Knob.

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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 🙂

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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.

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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

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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

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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.
you see the worst people are not Christians.

what are they? muslims?

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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.

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If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. - Woody Allen

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Originally posted by TerrierJack
If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. - Woody Allen
That's the problem with folks that already have enough money.
They gotta have more.

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Where is my mind?-Black Francis,the pixies.
(really , where is it?)

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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

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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
Good one! 😀