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Even if i upload it you all will just thow stones or call the cops drug addits.
Originally posted by TELEX
reply to post by lightningz
Even if i upload it you all will just thow stones or call the cops drug addits.
grow up man, if a cop is willing to make an official statement declaring he witnessed an angel hanging out with the victim of an RTA I'm sure ATSers if all people could verify whether the report is genuine.
So yes please provide the police officers testimony as to witnessing an angel, I promise not to laugh.
Dude in the interest of promoting courtesy would you be kind enough to to enlighten us as to the type of injury you incurred in the accident.
I'm not trying to be clever or disrespectful but you refuse to answer the other poster in relation to your first language so perhaps you received a head injury ?
who forced them preach? i did not see anyone holding a gun to there heads i watch the full video.
Are you serious? You think the only way to force a 7 year old to do something is with a gun to their head? I suggest you do some research on child rape. You will find an alarmingly small instances of guns or any weapons at all being used.
and if they keep the books word and not add to it i see no problem with them preaching at all.
Even though they do not understand what they are preaching? What good is it doing them to get them to repeat things that they do not understand?
i find alot of hope in god. I don't think anyone will burn forever. due to the bible talks about resetting life and telling people in the end days theres always hope. see if they keep the word and gods real if you can't blame them and they save people then would that mean they get no credit due to there age as you call it?
I am not saying that god gives kids more or less credit but we all accept as a society that children are not fully in control of themselves. This is why we have age appropriate laws. Either you agree they should all be repealed or you have to admit that children may not be ready to do everything an adult should do. "I dont know, ask my dad" does not tell you something? He does not even know why he is doing it so you cannot tell me it was his choice. You can also not tell me that it is doing him any good when he has no clue why he is doing something he does not understand. I can point out examples of how brainwashing and fame can be detrimental to children though. See how that all works out?
Originally posted by The Parallelogram
Originally posted by Donny 4 million
Can anyone validate that Scientist know more about creation than Hebrew scholars?
Yes. Yes we can.
Certain obscure epistemological concerns aside, we have quantifiably more knowledge about the world today than we did two thousand years ago.
And can you make a conscious decision not to believe this, due to a cognitive bias which prevents you from accepting information which fails to mesh with your existing worldview?
Again, yes.
One side has performed empirical study, controlled experimentation, which has led to reproducible conclusions about initially falsifiable hypotheses.
The other has not.
Science has evidence beyond texts authored by scientists.
Religion (any religion-- not just yours) does not.
What do you say to the Zoroastrians, the Scientologists, the Norse and Greco-Roman Pagans, and the adherents of the hundreds of other major faiths in history who insist that their myths are true, that their Gods have given them direct and incontrovertible revelation?
You see no evidence for their beliefs, do you? When they tell you they have the complete and perfect truth, they sound unreasonable, don't they?
Well, to anyone who doesn't believe as you do, the same is true of your faith.
On the other hand, science is not a matter of faith, or accepting beliefs without testing them first. Science is the discarding of faith, and the endeavor to construct an accurate and meaningful worldview based not on revelation but on observable fact. Scientists have no holy book. Scientists do not indoctrinate, they learn, and they relearn as theories are modified with new evidence and experimentation. Scientists accept truth and reject falsehood, and acknowledge that the boundary between the two changes as new evidence about the world is gathered. If you feel that a theory or accepted concept in science is wrong, become a scientist. Perform an experiment, under controlled conditions, which demonstrates a flaw in an existing hypothesis, theory, or law. Anyone is welcome and able do to this, so long as they are sufficiently trained to grasp the concepts necessary to the performance of the experiment in question.
Religion does not accept a movable boundary between what is known and what is unknown. To the religious fundamentalist, new advances in scientific understanding are lies, only distractions from the complete and unalterable truth of scripture. Evolution? Nope. An Earth older than six thousand years? Nope. If it's not in the Bible, it's simply not true. To the Fundamentalist, no experiment can add to or subtract from the letter of scripture. Any experiment, no matter how consistently reproducible, which appears to contravene some obscure sentence in some specific translation of the Bible, is to be either denounced as the work of the Devil or completely ignored.
Of course, the Bible you read has been edited. It has been censored, translated, retranslated, recensored, and translated again. Read about the Council of Nicea. Read about King James and his scribes. Read about the history of the editing of this text which you insist cannot be edited, which you insist contains (now, after two thousand years of editing, translation, and censorship) the directly revealed and completely infallible word of God.
How can you fail to see the ridiculousness in this? Do you really believe that God spoke to King James, or the patron of whatever edition of the Bible you happen to prefer? Have you no concept of human motivations?
With the sort of mindset you have, there is nothing that could be done to make you see reason; any attempt to defy what you see as the unalterable truth of the letter of the Bible would be rejected as the trickery of Satan, or simply ignored.
But just because your beliefs are immune to reason does not mean that they are infallibly reasonable.
Science is not your enemy. It does not exist to deny the Christian faith. It is an effort to understand the Universe about which you claim to already have all the answers. The difference is in our methods. You read a book, written by many men with many motives over the course of many years. We go out and test things for ourselves, in ways that other people can reproduce. If our initial ideas are proven incorrect, we accept this, and view the new information as an improvement; we do not lash out in anger at a world which dares defy our beliefs.
Saying "science is wrong" (or something to that effect) shows a total lack of understanding about what 'science' means.
Go out and learn about some of these scientific concepts for yourself. Don't just listen to what your preacher says about them.
Consider that new facts about the world have been discovered in the past two thousand years.
Please.
[edit on 26-3-2010 by The Parallelogram]
Originally posted by Donny 4 million
Science is only an observation of what is. Nothing more.
Science has created nothing. Period.
Originally posted by lightningz
Dude rape does not force a kid to do anything but report the crime. i know this due to the fact my father raped me. Don't say something you know nothing about its retarded.
Originally posted by MrXYZ
Originally posted by Donny 4 million
Science is only an observation of what is. Nothing more.
Science has created nothing. Period.
You mean apart from the computer you use to type posts like that?
What about:
- light bulps
- electricity
- transportation: cars, airplanes, trains
- cures against disease
- ...
I'd argue that instead of "nothing", science created pretty much everything you see around you, unless you live in the woods (and walked there, since the car was invented through science).
So yeah, your posts is pretty arrogant. Science has invented more things around you than your religion...and no, God didn't invent the computer you use to post as a means to spread his words
Originally posted by Donny 4 million
How did all that good stuff get here? And prove it.
Originally posted by nomorecruelty
And your grandmother was correct in her beliefs - and no one is "hating" another or on another - but don't try and convince me that I have to accept homosexuality in society because you feel it promotes hate.
And nowhere am I "bashing" homosexuals - but I AM bashing the homosexual lifestyle aka sin.
I don't have to accept the lifestyle, nor it being paraded in front of me, OR my children - in school or not - changing man's laws will not change God's laws.
Originally posted by K J Gunderson
Please try and follow along.
You said that these kids are not being forced because you do not see a gun.
I said that rape is FORCED SEX that is USUALLY DONE WITH NO GUN.
Rape is force!!!!!!!
The sex is forced!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is what RAPE IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, you said these kids must not be being forced because there is no gun. How do you explain forced sex with no gun then?
Originally posted by iamoverrated
A knife?
[edit on 28-3-2010 by iamoverrated]
[edit on 28-3-2010 by iamoverrated]
Originally posted by iamoverrated
reply to post by K J Gunderson
I was being facetious. There are plenty of ways to force children, if they're young enough telling them "GOD WILL KILL A KITTEN IF YOU DO / DON'T DO THIS!" is technically forcing them. You're indoctrinating them into a belief system that can have some serious long term effects. If you teach your kids that homosexuality is wrong, fine, its you're belief and its not hurting the kid (some could argue otherwise I'll take the high road and say no) HOWEVER if you teach your kids that having a "good ol' fashion fag drag" is the proper way to deal with homosexuals then you're setting them up on a dangerous path, one that could end up in tragedy. Force comes in more flavors than Baskin Robins could serve on a hot summer day. Saying it only comes from the barrel of a gun is not only ignorant but borderline silly.
[edit on 28-3-2010 by iamoverrated]
Originally posted by lightningz
LOL do you know what your saying?
I am done find your own way thats the only way your get it.