60 minutes = $188 million in new debt

[yodajazz]

can we just agree on that any form of mysticism christian or otherwise is complete hogwash?



good point
ive always wondered how being on this forum while being a fundmanetalist christian works

I see mysticism as a pusuit to find deeper meaning, in anything and everything. One such example is to contemplate our individual knowledge, as an accumulation of human knowledge throughut the ages.

[BluegrassCat]

I know nothing about biology, or climatology.

Finally we agree on something.

[Faldur]

Finally we agree on something.

Wow, you can take comments out of context. Isn't that how we got global warming in the first place.. hmmm..

[muh_muh]

You don't need a classroom to learn, there are these things called books.

ok fine humour me
gimme a list of all the actual scientific books, papers and or journals (actual science not pop science) youve read on biology and climatology

[trish]

We dump 919 tons of fossilized carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every second. Can you imagine the volume of 919 tons of a gas? Every square meter of sunlit Earth receives 1.4 kilowatt-hours of energy per second. To maintain thermodynamic equilibrium the Earth must lose energy at the same rate; either that or heat up. Greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, slow the rate at which the Earth can radiate away the heat energy that it receives from the sun in the form of light energy at higher frequencies. We are releasing 919 TONS of fossilized carbon dioxide into the atmosphere EVERY SECOND. In the three minutes it took me to type this post we released one hundred and sixty five thousand tons of the stuff into the atmosphere.

I just thought it would be a good number to keep track of in this thread about keeping track of significant numbers. Oops, since I added this extra line to my post we added an extra fifty five thousand tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. That's 220000 tons since the beginning of this post.

[yodajazz]

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It strikes me that such people are slowly dragging their vision of America ever closer to the Christian equivalent of the militant Islamic states that they so affect to despise.

Some words used to describe this is called "Dominion Theology", or "dominionism". Dominion Theology Dominion Theology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here is a more in depth article:
Dominionism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
But there is not complete agreement as to tactics and structure. Here is a harsh critic of one the main groups, behind the recent religious rally, called the "NAR", which Gov Rick Perry recently spoke, by a fellow 'conservative Christian' writer:
http://www.conservativecrusader.com/...ing-the-church

We dump 919 tons of fossilized carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every second. Can you imagine the volume of 919 tons of a gas? Every square meter of sunlit Earth receives 1.4 kilowatt-hours of energy per second. To maintain thermodynamic equilibrium the Earth must lose energy at the same rate; either that or heat up. Greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, slow the rate at which the Earth can radiate away the heat energy that it receives from the sun in the form of light energy at higher frequencies. We are releasing 919 TONS of fossilized carbon dioxide into the atmosphere EVERY SECOND. In the three minutes it took me to type this post we released one hundred and sixty five thousand tons of the stuff into the atmosphere.

I just thought it would be a good number to keep track of in this thread about keeping track of significant numbers. Oops, since I added this extra line to my post we added an extra fifty five thousand tons of CO2 to the atmosphere. That's 220000 tons since the beginning of this post.

This is related. Can anyone explain, how certain Christian groups appear to be against the concept of global warming? Would also add such things as small government? I ask because my understanding of the Bible leads me to different conclusions than conservatives. And in fact, I see many paralells, between conservatives and the pharisees, whom Jesus deeply criticized. See this for a reference:
http://www.bible-history.com/pharise..._Pharisees.htm

[robertlouis]

Following on from Yoda's post, what saddens me most is that the notion of Christian love, which I always thought to be the very heart of the faith, seems to be disregarded by an awful lot of people who call themselves Christians.

[BluegrassCat]

I know nothing about biology, or climatology.

Given the sheer absurdity of the things you've claimed about evolution & climate change, I can't imagine a more IN context statement.

[Yvonne183]

I don't remember what the topic of this thread is about but I got a strange observation about environmentalists in my area. I am sometimes preached to by people I meet at events about the horrors of climate change and they tell me what I should do to save the planet. Then they drive home in their SUV while I take the bus home.

[robertlouis]

Given the sheer absurdity of the things you've claimed about evolution & climate change, I can't imagine a more IN context statement.

LMAO.