Zzyzx wrote:
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arian wrote:
The argument is to go back to the time when words had definite meanings . . .
When was that time of definite meanings?
It is evidently not uncommon in any era for those who know only one definition for a word when several are applicable to think that the definition they know is absolute and unchanging. Perhaps they do not realize that languages change (evolve) over time and that dictionaries do not set definitions but record common use of words.
I know things change over time, but yes there IS a definite meaning to words that should stay throughout time. When we see 'love' to mean XXX - rated perversion, soon our children will associate that with love, and since children need love (especially having both parents working) they could be easily 'evolved' into accepting that as a replacement of true parental love.
But here is the malicious part, I have noticed in the past few years the reinterpretations of the stories in the Bible. Like that last
'Bible - Epic miniseries' 2013 version by Mark Burnett, and with the blessings of none other than Joel Osteen who preaches a very different Jesus then the Bibles depiction. I mean to take the two Angels that came to take Lot out of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah and make them into two Ninja warriors was jaw dropping.
Or how about that last '2014 Noah movie' with Russell Crowe? I mean as we were watching it, I right away thought that this must have been written by my atheist/non theist/agnostic/hope there is a gods/witch/ debating friends on this forum!? I mean it depicted the perfect "Is there another god more evil then the Bible god?" to a 't'. I mean by the end of the movie (if you didn't know any better) you couldn't help but hate God, and root for those poor, poor fallen angels and LUCIFER who were brutalized by God for helping out Adam and Eve!!
You said;
"dictionaries do not set definitions but record common use of words." so just imagine what a few billion $$ could do by making some perverted definitions of not only words, but entire books could do to sway the sheeple? Have you read the rave reviews these so called 'Biblical stories, .. or how do they put it, .. oh yea, 'Inspired by the Bible' stories could have on future generations?
I mean: "Here is our atheist POV interpretation of the Bible, but hey, just because we had a few billion$$ laying around and were able to make these 'Epic Bible Interpretations' and put it on digital media to last forever and sent it throughout the world for everyone to see doesn't mean you have to accept our interpretation!?"
You see the obvious malicious intent here? Well I for one say "NO!" But of course I am just one voice against the Power of media that is backed by billion$ of dollars, in commercials, remember the old America On line's "You got mail!" but now it's "You Got Cancer!" and all this money spent on programming humanity so later they could record the now new common use of words and definitions which they themselves created.
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Zzyzx wrote:arian wrote:
Like people throughout history believed they were humans and not animals, right? But in the last hundred years they've been told that actually they NEVER were just human, but were always evolving animals of a particular ape family.
Who, exactly, has told people they were not human?
Apes, .. these animals that look, talk and walk like humans, and they go around telling people (usually of color) that they are animals of the ape family. They go around spreading malicious lies that because apes have hands like humans, that now humans are apes, just another animal in their 'animal kingdom'. But first they had to brainwash people to believe they had no mind other than what Evolution made their brain produce which are accumilated instinctive spasms.
So it's like; "don't worry about it, just accept you are an animal OK? Heh, .. I mean it's not like someone is going to round you up and kill you like animals, .. so go with the flow Joe, it's the new evolved definition, that's all!"
Zzyzx wrote:arian wrote:
So yes, there can be no absolutes in a system of belief where there are no rules or laws.
Kindly cite examples of "absolutes" when there ARE rules and laws.
Killing people is still bad (absolute), unless you are in the Nazi lead US army and you are ordered to wipe an entire family of Arabs (in the early 40's it was Jews) out, .. then that is good, not bad, (perverted version of absolute) and you will be rewarded with medals and your Baptist Church will ask you to come up to the pulpit so everyone can cheer and clap for your bravery in serving your god and country.
Zzyzx wrote:arian wrote:
But then how else would have all the technological advancements come about if not wishful thinking and flights of fantasy??
Technological advances occur when people learn what works and does not work in the real world.
Wait, .. I thought only Evolution did that by 'natural selection'? I mean humans are still evolving animals right? You are not suggesting that there IS some need for intelligent design (I.D.) in evolution are you? Because this 'Blue Brain Project' sure is trying hard to "improve" on the original design of man! What's with that anyways? They no longer can trust their Evolution Theory to make the right changes? I mean after 4 billion years of cosmological and biological evolution, and these apes now want to make changes, improvements?
"The hell with evolution, here is a perfect candidate; Steve Austin Astronaut, .. we can make him better, stronger and faster!" lol.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7zNY0I5JNI
Zzyzx wrote:arian wrote:
Oh Z, .. you have no idea how I wish at times to just climb up in a high lush tree, find a nice strong branch to lay on and relax, not thinking about all them demons, mysterious men, UFO sightings like that meteor-like creature that attacked me, and especially "them" being out to get me or conspiring against me. The only problem is that, like lions, once they target you, they will hunt you till they kill you, .. and they can climb trees. They are relentless Z, but I have faith in that; "a rest remaineth for the weary"
I do not doubt that you are deeply troubled by such things.
When my daughter and son were little children they were afraid of monsters under the bed or demons in the closet. Together we explored thoroughly both places and left the light on so none could sneak in. That seemed to allow them to rest contentedly. As they grew older they laughed about their silly fears.
I do not know how it might be handled if they had such problems as adults.
Don't you see Z, .. you finally convinced them that they don't need the 'Light', and now they are content to be in the 'dark'. Children fear danger until someone convinces them that light and dark is both good and not to be feared:
Isaiah 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
As adults? Of course you know how to help the adults in these situations, especially if they start reading the Bible because of it! One is Thorazine as a chemical lobotomy, or electric shock therapy, or an actual lobotomy, .. you know, like Dahmer did to those young boys so they would stop fearing him anymore.
Zzyzx wrote:arian wrote:
Zzyzx wrote:
I have no delusions that my thinking or my words are profound or Earth-shaking. If anything I say is useful to someone, fine. If not, fine.
Well I don't know Z, but that's not what I get from your persistent stand on your faith?
If one begins "analysis" of my statements with an assumption that they are based on "faith" it is not surprising that their conclusions are in error. However, if you wish to argue that my words are profound or Earth-shaking, that is not my delusion
I keep presenting 'Scientific Evidence of our Creator', and shown you God our Creator, this Infinite and Eternal Creative Mind/Spirit is not an animal who created us in His image, .. yet you keep telling me; "according to popular belief which is now in dictionaries, and which we now call science, you are an animal arian!"
Now I have shown you (and maybe even you have seen) clear signs on doors of buildings that actually cater and serve the homo-sapiens animals, that says:
"Absolutely No Animals Allowed", yet you guys keep identifying me as an animal!? The only thing that I can think of that can make such contradictory requirements with these signs is
'Religionists', .. like The Westboro Church members, the Phelps remember them? I wonder how long it will take to have the definition of 'contradiction' defined as: "Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church" evolve into the dictionaries??
Zzyzx wrote:arian wrote:
. . . if I was about to be put under prepped for a surgery and found out Dr. Mengele who believed in the Evolution religion was my surgeon, .. it most certainly would be important in 'my LIFE'.
How, exactly, would it affect your life to learn pre-op that a surgeon understood that evolution (genetic change through generations) occurs?
Oh that's not the part that would worry me, I would just ignore it as part of his religious beliefs. It's the part where; 'here is a Nazi-Evolutionist who is about to do some surgery on a Jewish animal!' Now that's what would worry me!
Zzyzx wrote:Would you prefer a surgeon who did not know that many microbes have become antibiotic resistant through genetic change (evolution)?
Telling people that they evolved over billions of years from a single celled bacteria that popped out of a wet rock is NOT the same as bacteria getting immune to antibiotics, OK? I mean I have been poisoned so many times in my life, that I really do believe I have become immune to many poisons, but I am still a non-animal human created in my Creators 'Image'.
I have observed that I have a mind, and that my debates are not some result of billions of years of genetic changes that have accumulated in my brain, which Sci-Fientists tell me are only neurotic involuntary impulses created by my brain, not some separate spirit/mind that resides in this physical tent, this body.
Like I said; I will stick to what I have observed through science, not what some religious Priest said happened 14 billion years ago?
Zzyzx wrote:Would it be preferable that the surgeon claimed experience with various mysterious entities that they alone would see? Some might prefer a surgeon who did not appear to be "a few cards short of a full deck."
I would prefer a real doctor who has been trained by observing dissected organisms in the here and NOW, a scientifically minded doctor, not someone who would run to the back room and match my bones to some dried up million year old bones and read what the religious Evolution-Bible (little books) has to say about it? Or try to match my ancestry with fossils to determine if my problem arose from the more ape-side of my ancestry, or the lizard side?
Religion? Man, if he was to start talking and preaching like Richard Dawkins who most definitely appears to be "a few cards short of a full deck", I would jump off the surgery table. I would do the same if Benny Hinn (who definitely has experience with various mysterious entities) came in the room, or any of the Phelps.
I would prefer a doctor who keeps his religious beliefs at home or in his church, not bring it to the operating table.
Love you Z!