@fmf saidWhat do you mean by that? By saying someone is delusional and paranoid in the everyday sense of the word, what do you mean exactly? You have indicated that this in no way refers to someone's mental health, so in your every day understanding, what do you mean when you use both those words in the context you have used them?
This sounds partly delusional and partly paranoid ~ equal measures ~ in the everyday sense of both words .
@ghost-of-a-duke saidWell that depends on the sport. Soccer fits the rules. But in American football you play the person, and if you tackle them hard enough to generate a fumble, then you play the loose ball. Once the ball hits the ground it's hard to predict where it will bounce, since it's not round like a soccer ball. Sometimes you actually play the ball, depends who is trying to catch it, or is carrying the ball. I suppose American football is a take on rugby more than it is on soccer. In all three there is some kicking involved....ball and players.
No, those many posts where you play the person and not the ball.
Let us come together, over me! John Lennon's ghost.
Team play is what counts. I'm a ghost too. Toss me the ball!
@pettytalk saidI will sir, but it will be a round ball, not one of those peculiar ones you chaps across the pond throw around.
Let us come together, over me! John Lennon's ghost.
Team play is what counts. I'm a ghost too. Toss me the ball!
@kellyjay saidI'm trying to mind my own business, but it seems that you are contradiction yourself, as well as making God appear as also being in contradiction. How can we have free will, if everything we are made of is being controlled by God?
Everything you have comes from God, every breath you take every time a cell in your body divides successfully. Every molecule in the universe is held together by Him, every charge on an electron is governed by Him. You think that the process of human life has more value to God early or late in our life spans. You think He cares more for one over another due to age, color, sex, what country they were born in, or what century?
"Every molecule in the universe is held together by Him, every charge on an electron is governed by Him."
Now I have to ask this. Are you not made from all the stuff God controls? Does your body contain molecules, and all kinds of atoms full of electrons? Is a Woman's body full of the same stuff your are made of? And how about a fetus, at any stage? God must govern the fetus too, right? Do you believe God gave everyone free will? Do animals and plants and all other physical matter have free will? Surely they are also made of much of the same stuff.
Therefore where lies your contradiction? God controls everything we need to use, our whole body, to execute the free will given to us by this same all-controlling God?
Why is it so difficult to understand that our bodies, and what makes them walk, run and talk, is just dust from the ground mixed with mostly water, to keep them wet behind the ears?
For Christ's sake! it's all about our souls, and the soul is indestructible and immortal.
Religious fanaticism is just as bad as the dogma of atheism. Better to be agnostic, to play it safe, and just use our God-given animal instincts to enjoy our temporary earthly animal life. For the soul, earth is a nice place to visit, but you don't want to remain here for too long, because you'll be stuck in a vicious cycle of births and deaths. Some will become those fetuses being aborted, if you are lucky. If not lucky, you will grow old and die again, and again, and again. Apparently some of us are addicted to having physical bodies, and not just human bodies, I may add.
@pettytalk saidThe chap will be busy rushing to your profile to see if you are a member of the Ghost Chamber.
As I'm reading some of the fast accumulating pages of this thread, I note that you are not really sure of anything, if we are to discuss truth.