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Thread: Are you religious? Or pious?
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01-08-2008 #21
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Too many assumptions.
Other assumptions are the applicability of general relativity (GR), thermodynamics, chemistry etc. These too are constantly being challenged and tested.
We have no idea how big the universe is, or even if it has such a limitation at all.
1) There are assumptions which cannot be directly tested which if true would have observable consequences. (This was originally the case with the atomic theory of matter).
2) There can be directly testable hypothesis which if true outside their testable range have consequences outside their range as well. This is the case with bubble universes.
Anything the falls into category two is in danger of remaining speculative unless the range of what is observable sufficiently expands.
There's this assumption floating around that Hubble's claim of discovery of the red shift proves expansion. Relative to what? We're moving, & we really don't know how fast or even in which direction relative to everything else.
In the context of the big bang theory the clusters do not move away from each other through space but with space. Everyone has heard of the paper dots pasted onto the surface of an expanding balloon analogy. This part of the Big Bang can’t be directly tested but it’s consequences can. Moreover the underlying theory of spacetime required for this conception (general relativity) can and has been tested.
I think it's egotistical to say that any of us puny humans have the answers to questions of beginnings & endings.
Personally, I don’t understand how accounts of the early universe, or accounts of the evolution of life on Earth, or the accounts of the beginning of solar system etc. threaten in anyway religious or metaphysical belief. Religion and metaphysics aren’t in the business of finding universal physical laws, nor the business of explaining the relation of one phyla to another.
Sorry. There's just too many people claiming to have answers. Every time I hear one, I have more questions.
By the way, hippiefried, you’re an awesome contributor to this forum. I just wanted to thank you for all your insights and opinions. Even the ones with which I disagree.
"...I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize."_Alice Munro, Chaddeleys and Flemings.
"...the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way". _Judge Holden, Cormac McCarthy's, BLOOD MERIDIAN.
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01-08-2008 #22
I love this board. Where else can a member argue cosmology & the big bang theory one minute, & talk about raping her boyfriends ass the next. WTG Trish.
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01-08-2008 #23Where else can a member argue cosmology & the big bang theory one minute, & talk about raping her boyfriends ass the next. WTG Trish.
Oh well such is fate. Can't look now because I have to take this computer to have some of the external drives looked at.
Back in a day or 2. Kisses to Trish. Let's see pictures!
"You can pick your friends & you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends off on your saddle."
~ Kinky Friedman ~
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01-08-2008 #24
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sorry to hear about the computer trouble, hope it's not too expensive. here a KISS to make it all better.
eggbert's talking about
http://www.hungangels.com/board/view...er=asc&start=0
hi eggbert.
"...I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize."_Alice Munro, Chaddeleys and Flemings.
"...the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way". _Judge Holden, Cormac McCarthy's, BLOOD MERIDIAN.
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01-09-2008 #25
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Can we not just agree that....
WE JUST DON'T KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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01-09-2008 #26
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depends. what don't we know? i agree we don't know how the universe came to be or what its purpose is or if it has any purpose at all. on the other hand we know it wasn't created along with a whole stack of other worlds by a giant Nordic frost giant preparing ammunition for a snowball fight.
"...I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize."_Alice Munro, Chaddeleys and Flemings.
"...the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way". _Judge Holden, Cormac McCarthy's, BLOOD MERIDIAN.
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01-09-2008 #27
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Originally Posted by trish
I don't know... :P
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01-10-2008 #28
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We don't. I do.
Even were the frost giant Nordic now, it couldn't have been Nordic at the time of creation since Norway and all things Nordic didn't exist until the giant created them.
"...I no longer believe that people's secrets are defined and communicable, or their feelings full-blown and easy to recognize."_Alice Munro, Chaddeleys and Flemings.
"...the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way". _Judge Holden, Cormac McCarthy's, BLOOD MERIDIAN.
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01-10-2008 #29
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Originally Posted by trish
If there was a religion devoted to a god who spends his/her time making snowballs though, I would join in an instant.
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01-13-2008 #30
Re: Are you religious? Or pious?
Originally Posted by crayons
The more important question, is how do I justify spending time here on a mostly sexually oriented forum? I believe that God made everyone unique. I have had an interested or love of gender issues for most of my life. So there must be a reason. A person will become closer to God by expressing or following love. But I am not talking about sex. Sex itself touches on lots of other important moral issues, such as faithfulness to one’s partner. I feel that most religions focus too much on the importance of sexual behaviors and not enough on treating people with dignity and compassion. And in fact, for me that is the metaphysical reason for trans and other gender variant people to exist. That is to teach mankind to have compassion for people who are different. The other reason is to teach that being in the mind is so much more important than physical being.
The short answer is that I am here to express love, so it is possible to do good here, just as it is possible to stumble.
I could say a lot more but, I'd be interested in Crayons answering her own question.