trish123 Forum Posts (13,724)

RE: national service.

I have respect and discipline already so do my children and the people I associate with - none of us would do the bidding of corrupt governments though, thus is our integrity.....

RE: national service.

I dont think it will be long before they do that anyway and in one way Im not against them having some kind of structure but I am against the dehumanisation which Ive seen in some soldiers.....

RE: national service.

RE: national service.

It has to be a no from me - I know the pain of losing a child and dont want to ever think of any mother/father/sibling/loved one having to endure such pain - if people want to bomb each other put them on an island away from civilised people..... if they didnt have people to poke sticks at each other cos the politicians say so then there would be a lot less sons and daughters getting taken home in cold hard boxes.....

RE: Are there people here who really love God?

and I would bet you anything that the 30/40 could be rationally explained too.....



Most miracles dont even appear in the bible, they were additions in the middle ages which was a period when the bread was often infected with ergotamine which would leave whole communities believing in flying pigs or whatever other nonsense they were told...

RE: Are there people here who really love God?

Thats what Ive been saying here for years but they still keep trying

RE: Are there people here who really love God?

Sorry Robbie, it aint gonna happen

Proof 2 of at least 50

quote below from godisimaginary.com



"Understanding the Rationalizations

You can find many believers who will say, "The reason why scientific experiments fail to detect God is because God must remain hidden. He does not answer prayers if he knows that he will be detected."

In order to see the truth, you need to accept that this explanation is silly. If God must remain hidden, then he cannot answer any prayers. Any "answered prayer" would expose God.

The whole notion that "God" must remain "hidden" is a total cross-threading of religious doctrine. On the one hand, believers will say that "God wrote the Bible, God incarnated himself and died on the cross for us, and God answers millions of prayers on earth every day." Then in the next breath they will say, "God must remain hidden." God obviously cannot "remain hidden" and "incarnate himself." These two items are mutually exclusive. Therefore, the explanation that "God must remain hidden" is impossible. As soon as you accept how impossible it is, you can begin to see see that God is imaginary.

In order to see the truth, you need to accept the fact that the scientific evidence is accurate and irrefutable. We have scientifically proven that God does not answer any prayers on earth. Every single "answered prayer" is nothing more than a coincidence.

We can see reality by looking at a simple example. Imagine that the rate of remission for some particularly nasty type of cancer is 5%. That means that if 20 people get this type of cancer, it is almost always fatal. Only one in twenty of the people who get the disease will survive. Knowing this, you can see what happens if we actually analyze prayer:

* 20 believers contract the disease
* All of them have read James 5:15, so all of them pray.
* 19 of them die
* The one who lives proclaims, "I prayed to the Lord and the Lord answered my prayers! My disease is cured! It is a miracle! I KNEW God would answer my prayers!"
* You never hear about the 19 who died. No one ever writes about them in a magazine. "Person prays, then dies" is not a great headline. And since they are dead, you will never hear from any of these people.
* Therefore, if you don't look at all the facts around the "answered prayer," and you only hear about the one out of twenty prayers that succeed, it appears that prayer is successful.

The fact is, believers who pray die from this disease at exactly the same rate as people who do not.

We can see the reality of this situation simply by opening our eyes and looking at the data. But we do have to open our eyes -- We have to look at both the successes AND the failures of prayer to see the reality of our world. When we take a scientific approach and we do look at both sides, we see what is really happening. God does not answer any prayers because God is imaginary.

RE: Are there people here who really love God?

Yes and then we got the printing press, after that education for the masses and we all saw through the delusion......

RE: Hilarious!!!

ours not to reason why as they say

RE: Are there people here who really love God?

Yep, nice one Mixed up like the majority of us

RE: Are there people here who really love God?

Yep, I do and that was ages back wasnt it - hows things? Good to see you back and Ive been gone a few months too, just back a week or three

RE: Are there people here who really love God?

Awwww, thats so sweet!!! I dont know what to say Ill be so embarrassed if you are extracting the wotsit

RE: Are there people here who really love God?

When the student is ready and all that..... you know what they say.... hahaha

RE: Are there people here who really love God?

Who's Noah

RE: Are there people here who really love God?

This living and learning stuff is tricky business hey

RE: Are there people here who really love God?

it really is a big relief to have the change from dread to amusement

RE: Are there people here who really love God?

You know, Im beginning to see what you meant Gra - I dont think even Ray would have fallen into that one quite so readily

RE: Are there people here who really love God?

You know, I totally love the way this site is changing - thanks all you lot

RE: Are women turned of big big muscles?

Personally I think its more about what makes you tick on the inside but Im sure some do like big muscles and the like......

RE: Change mentality for better community ?

Well, EBR or not, he seemed familiar, maybe they have some kind of handbook

RE: North and South Korea...Has it come to war?

I couldnt agree more

RE: Change mentality for better community ?

not that that is anything to go by but it is a very familiar modus operandi....

RE: Change mentality for better community ?

Dunno but he came straight for me on the atheist thread the other night

RE: Change mentality for better community ?

Im just waiting for my friend to show up and we're going food shopping - nothing in the least exciting and we wont even be going to the pub either

But thanks and you too

RE: Change mentality for better community ?

hahaha, I thought you might pick up on that one

RE: Change mentality for better community ?

Its bloody freezing but I bet its warmer here than there Ive got to go out in it soon too - never mind, itll make my cheeks rosy

RE: When...simply when?

What do you mean?

RE: When...simply when?

Ahhh, thank you very much - I was trying to trace where it was from

RE: When...simply when?

I can explain what I meant with certainty but am not so sure bout the op

RE: When...simply when?

I did, they sounded ok up to number vi but I was waiting for the catch and there it was