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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic It may now be possible to be God of your own universe in the forum Science 1 hour, 29 minutes ago
Our cosmos could thus have been burped into being by the laws of physics alone.
It could only come into being via the Laws of Physics.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School December 9th 2018 in the forum
Sunday School 8 hours, 34 minutes ago“Religion is society that worships itself.”
– it’s hard to argue with this point of view. We all have things that we hold sacred, and that we worship. It’s been said that the sacralised things within society are those which potentially lead to social upset or dischord if violated, such as the marriage contract.
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School December 9th 2018 in the forum
Sunday School 8 hours, 42 minutes ago“How language shapes our thoughts.”
While concrete concepts are mainly made of information derived from perceptual experience, abstract concepts are mainly made of language.
For me, abstract concepts have a kind of structure that is described by language, and the goal is to represent them pictorially if possible.
The concept of “freedom”, for me,…[Read more]
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Sunday School December 9th 2018 in the forum
Sunday School 8 hours, 46 minutes agoI’m not sure anyone could step into your shoes Reg.
I would love to see a one-off Asianne (feminist?) Sunday School special, I don’t know if this can happen.
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer replied to the topic Sunday School December 9th 2018 in the forum
Sunday School 9 hours, 47 minutes agoHave a great week everyone!!
I will be traveling in the USA next week so it looks like no Sunday School! First time in six years!! If anyone would like to stand in……?
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Reg the Fronkey Farmer started the topic Sunday School December 9th 2018 in the forum
Sunday School 9 hours, 51 minutes agoThe War on Christian privilege at Christmas continues. Many non-Christians would beg to differ if there is even a hint of this war. More people than ever celebrate Christmas in a non-religious way so maybe Christmas has lost already.
Here is a very well written letter from an educated Christian apologist. Can you spot the fallacies in his…[Read more]
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Unseen replied to the topic Forgiveness in the forum Advice 19 hours, 18 minutes ago
According to Christianity the priest goes to Heaven but the unbelieving victim of his “sins” goes to Hell.
Who is speaking for Christianity? It is not one thing. There’s a vast difference between a fundamentalist snake handler and Unitarian.
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Unseen replied to the topic The Stupidist thing you have said or done? in the forum Advice 19 hours, 31 minutes ago
In a graduate level class on, I believe, epistemology, I wanted to say “retinal images” but it came out “rectal images.”
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Unseen started the topic It may now be possible to be God of your own universe in the forum Science 19 hours, 32 minutes ago
Create a universe that could potentially expand to include matter, galaxies, planets, life, and even intelligent life.
Is this even ethical?
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Simon Paynton replied to the topic Forgiveness in the forum Advice 1 day, 4 hours ago
Thanks Kenneth. The only remedy I can offer is to say to oneself,
“the present moment is the calm centre where we can rest”.
Those other people exist in the past or future, hopefully not right now.
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