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Originally Posted by Russ B
After 7 years it gets tough....
Actually very quickly it became tough, hearing the same worn-out arguments from the same people over and over again. Sadly these threads always end up the same way. If I was a regular forum member then I probably wouldn't care. But they are a nightmare to admin.
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Surely they can only end in such a way if you and other like yourself give way to the forces of logic and reason?
I myself love a logical debate and it has a place. Faith also has a place. They are both incompatible concepts and cannot cancel out the other. For many logic is thet way forward simply because it is provable.
For myself, though I do not have a religion as other might, I do believe that life is splendorous and warrants more questions. The questions should not cease, the ridicule of other opinions should.
It seems that the battle always boils over to the point where both sides conclude that the other should simply "shut the f*** up!!!!!!!!" but the reality usually is that both are being equally ridiculous.
For me at least that is the greatest advantage of sitting on the fence, I can see both sides and see accept and understand to a point both sides. I am the least emotional, most rational and most logical creature in this "thing".
What if this is what was really intended? What if God (if there is one) really intended for us to move forward and use the tools "they" provided us with as a means to move in another direction. What if the Bible was a tool and has served it purpose? Maybe it was never meant to be clung to like a life raft... The nearest person is 2000 or so years old, the world is moving on. Maybe the fence sitter isn't really a fence sitter after all, maybe that is our purpose???? I could write much more but I think that is enough for today, my head is buzzing with ideas
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Originally Posted by Gary L
We got more chance of Aliens with ray guns and fairies at the bottom of our gardens I think.
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Since neither can be proven "just yet", your stance is just as tenous as god.
Whilst I hold the belief that it is unlikely that we are alone in the universe, it does not cancel out any belief of a God...... Unless your definition of the word God in much tighter than I ever thought possible.
I also stuggle with the idea that if powers beyond our comprehension are at play why it should be a single entity???? Since we cannot prove 1 entity.
Besides, why should or even would God be alone? I didn't say lonely... simply a-lone as in "a" "lone" entity
