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Wow, this thread is long. What's it about? Summarize, please.

Hey!!! :) I've only joined recently too! But apparently it's kinda like a place to hang out and chat about stuff .. babe is basically our host .. he's pretty non threatening... so if you have life's problem you need someone's opinion on or some philosophical theory you want some feedback on or even if you wanna talk football.. just bring a topic..

The beauty of it is babe is kinda moderating it so hopefully you won't get as many stupid answers as you might do by starting a new thread in the general forum...

^__^ hope this helps!!
 
Wow, this thread is long. What's it about? Summarize, please.

I tried to break it down to something you could understand. It wore me out, like working on a road gang bustin' rocks. . . .. .

like trying to explain the most basic subatomic particles. ...

and then the answer just came to me. . . . ..


Me.
 
Hey!!! :) I've only joined recently too! But apparently it's kinda like a place to hang out and chat about stuff .. babe is basically our host .. he's pretty non threatening... so if you have life's problem you need someone's opinion on or some philosophical theory you want some feedback on or even if you wanna talk football.. just bring a topic..

The beauty of it is babe is kinda moderating it so hopefully you won't get as many stupid answers as you might do by starting a new thread in the general forum...

^__^ hope this helps!!

If you've got an IQ that can sustain a complex thought, this is the real answer. . . . .
 
I'm the humble servant of 'Er Majesty, the Queen'. . . . . well, my principal manager, my wife. I sell stuff on the internet, I run rentals and a ranch. . .. and do whatever she needs me to do. . . . . I have all the tax deductions. . . .. depreciation, expenses. . . .. she has all the income. . . . hah hah. Used to be a chemist.

Wow.. sounds like you've got a pretty nice set up there... God has truly blessed you with a wonderful wife..
 
Wow, this thread is long. What's it about? Summarize, please.

my wife will never let me finish once I've started. . . . . discussing something. "Get to the point" is a sort of constant point with her. But I'm the little engine that could. . . and the energerizer bunny. It takes me a half hour to lay the groundwork for discussing the quantum mechanical aspects of getting the garbage to the curb on Monday mornings.

I'm not sure where this thread is headed, but I like the whole concept of one of the more observant comments early on. . . . .

hmmm. . . . where was that pic of Babe swinging for the bleachers.
 
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Wow, this thread is long. What's it about? Summarize, please.

but Hotttnickkk actually understood the legit basis for the format. I considered getting my own private forum, but basically I'd rather be wide open to anyone who wants to drop by. It's my internet living room. I'll be here whenever I can be. But the house is open, and just make yourselves at home.
 
Ok... got a question for you then babe:


"Can you truly love another human being (who is not your family/clan) - if you don't believe in God?"


Because if you believe in evolutions, "survival of the fittest", loving someone outside of your family/clan doesn't add to he cause. It's natural to be selfish and only live to survive.

If you believe in God and truly loves God, however, you understand that because God has created all of us, and loves all of us, by loving God, we automatically loves all human beings as ourselves as well.
 
but Hotttnickkk actually understood the legit basis for the format. I considered getting my own private forum, but basically I'd rather be wide open to anyone who wants to drop by. It's my internet living room. I'll be here whenever I can be. But the house is open, and just make yourselves at home.

Thanks babe!
 
JK, babe. I never thought you had anything illegal going on. I worked with a guy when I was much younger who was a Vietnam vet and smoked weed on the job, In his case, you actually WANTED him to smoke as it calmed him down. He'd often drive up to Northern California and we'd always ask if he was going up there to "check on his crop." He did say that in a few places you had to call ahead and tell people you were coming as they didn't respond too well to strange cars driving through.

I've heard stories about the California wildfires actually being started on purpose. . .. a huge state pot party. . . . .

everything from Mexican gangs fighting over cropland in the hills to private plantings by hikers a few yards off their favorite trails. . . ..

The State of Cannabis, actually.
 
Ok... got a question for you then babe:


"Can you truly love another human being (who is not your family/clan) - if you don't believe in God?"


Because if you believe in evolutions, "survival of the fittest", loving someone outside of your family/clan doesn't add to he cause. It's natural to be selfish and only live to survive.

If you believe in God and truly loves God, however, you understand that because God has created all of us, and loves all of us, by loving God, we automatically loves all human beings as ourselves as well.

I could break this down on a continuing basis and still just be at the beginning of a journey on the immense sea of that ocean that figuratively represents the love of God for man.
 
but Hotttnickkk actually understood the legit basis for the format. I considered getting my own private forum, but basically I'd rather be wide open to anyone who wants to drop by. It's my internet living room. I'll be here whenever I can be. But the house is open, and just make yourselves at home.

Yeah, about that... I kinda clogged your crapper. Couldn't find a plunger. Sorry.
 
Ok... got a question for you then babe:


"Can you truly love another human being (who is not your family/clan) - if you don't believe in God?"


Because if you believe in evolutions, "survival of the fittest", loving someone outside of your family/clan doesn't add to he cause. It's natural to be selfish and only live to survive.

If you believe in God and truly loves God, however, you understand that because God has created all of us, and loves all of us, by loving God, we automatically loves all human beings as ourselves as well.

Nobody really believes in God. Maybe we have some abbreviated concepts, something like a vague intimation of some infinite expanse beyond our seeing. . . . but when it comes right down to it we just don't know what we don't know. . . . and all of our efforts to fill in the blanks with some stick-figure projections of what we do understanding. . . . I'm pretty sure it all fall short of actual comprehension, or specific belief in what God actually is. Some of us try. That's about all we can really claim.

I love my dogs. . . .. even my cats. . . . . and my cows. . . . . . and sometimes I'm not really too sure the way I love my own kids, or my wife, or other people is really all that much better than the way I love my dogs.

The Russian writer Dostoyevsky has had a great influence on me. In the novel Crime and Punishment, for example, he makes the point about how everyone needs someone who can love him/her, no matter how low we can go. And about the human triumph it is for someone to actually care about "the least of us". And Jesus said whosoever shall give even a cup of water to the least of us, will in no wise lose his reward.

I don't think even determined atheism or actual enmity against God can destroy all the positive value that is in man. The tragedy of not reaching for the stars, or hoping and believing in the infinite, is the loss of the opportunity that lies before us today.
Another person influential to me was my great Aunt, who told me "A man's reach should exceed his grasp".

I have a corollary case to the above paragraph.

I don't think a trite or baseless religion crafted with pecuniary or evil designs of any kind can destroy all the positive value that is in man, either. And the tragedy of this case is roughly equivalent to the case above. Both short-circuit people's capacity for comprehension of the infinite, and the respect we ought to have to for one another, with the blindness that mere ideology creates in our minds.

The most difficult thing is to learn how to believe without falling captive to our own minds.
 
Likewise, in the manner of restatement of the above. . . .

The most difficult thing is to learn how to love, without falling captive to our love. . . . ..
 
Yeah, about that... I kinda clogged your crapper. Couldn't find a plunger. Sorry.

I called "The Smell-Good Plumbers" outta LA. For $99 they will clean out any clogged pipe. They show up on time, and they smell good. I love KFI.
 
"The Love of God" translates nicely into Chinese.. ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=SsrvuXgNLAA
 
I called "The Smell-Good Plumbers" outta LA. For $99 they will clean out any clogged pipe. They show up on time, and they smell good. I love KFI.

Actually, the beauty of this thread is that there is always a new page just a few posts away. . . . . . and it doesn't even cost $99. It takes about five minutes to clear up any mess in here. . . .
 
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