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[Ban Hammer 14,619]

When you stare into space it becomes overwhelmingly clear that something like "God" is just petty.

You can fit 1.3 million of these earths inside the sun. There are so many stars out there - a good analogy is if you tried to go to every ocean floor, every beach, every lake, every river, every place on earth where there is sand....And you individually picked up each grain of sand one by one.....And then repeated the process 10 to 30 times in a row.

Just mind boggling.

When you see the size of VY Canis Majoris (the largest star in the universe) and you compare it to the size of the sun - knowing the sun represents 1.3 million earths (a number that we cannot even begin to comprehend) - it becomes very clear that something called "god" is just a petty laughable joke.

You can travel for thousands and thousands and millions and billions of years (not at 50 miles an hour..but the speed of light) and for comparison (probably a bad one) - it'd be like only having stepped out your front door and went to the mailbox...

When you sort of get (impossible to even partially grasp) the sizes, the speeds, and the times of the universe it becomes evident that a religion made up 30,000 years ago (realistically less than 4000 years ago) by people that have been around for 400,000 years, in a place called earth that was born 4.5 billion years ago. Considering earth is like 1 grain of sand within our Milky Way galaxy.

A galaxy so large it takes 100,000 light years to "run" from one end to the other. Full with 100s and 100s of billions of stars.

When you look at some of the sizes of those stars compared to our sun it becomes even more clear that we are nothing.

And these are just a handful of hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy (1 galaxy among hundreds of billions of more galaxies).

"God" being every where, knowing everything, loving everyone, giving us a happy place to spend eternity in (or a sad place to spend eternity) - Is. Extremely. Petty. And. Childish.

old news

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/29676-are-you-feeling-important-are-you-larger-than-life/

[The_Dude 1,142]

old news

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/29676-are-you-feeling-important-are-you-larger-than-life/

Thats from 5 years ago Charles, thanks for the necropost

[_Simpson_ 250]

Life is what you make of it. Don't waste your time sitting around waiting for someone to come and make it better for you.

You should be a motivational speaker.

[Ban Hammer 14,619]

Thats from 5 years ago Charles, thanks for the necropost

i thought you liked zombies

[BishopM 114]

I agree that life is what you make it and you shouldn't wait for God or anyone to start living it. And, I believe that any ol' Aetheist/Religious/Gnostic/Whoever absolutely can make a good life for themselves without any help from God. I have no doubt about that.

In my personal experience, I've found that life is much better with God. And, I have been more successful (personally/professionally/you name it)with God. I also have no doubt about that. I had to find that out for myself though...

Ugh...I'm sitting in the DFW airport...flight doesn't leave for 3 more hours This is the svkc ...

[웃 910]

Any my question is why do we need to believe in God to answer those questions? Why can't we just accept that we will probably never know how things came about from "nothing".

I do not have proof either way if God exists or does not. Unless if God appears to me personally, at which point I might check myself into a psychiatric facility. But at the same time, I am not going to be so presumptuous and believe there is no higher power. Science can't prove it either way. Sorry LI, but your arguments are pretty lame too.. There is no correlation between the significance of something and it's relative existence in time.

As B_J said, you either choose to believe or choose not to believe.

I'm sorry as well, because your argument that "we just don't know" is incredibly lame too!

Whoa...Brother LI, that is one dooozy of a teeter-totter type of argument!

Are you saying that science disproves God? Just curious...you know how childish I can be

Pretty much. Do you concur that in terms of size of the earth to the universe it is not even worthy of calling us microscopic? As a couple of the star sizes photos show - we are literally invisible.

[BishopM 114]

Pretty much. Do you concur that in terms of size of the earth to the universe it is not even worthy of calling us microscopic? As a couple of the star sizes photos show - we are literally invisible.[/size][/font]

Ya, I concur.

[BishopM 114]

Brother _Simpson_, your sig is a trip Who is the chick next to Pelosi?

[_Simpson_ 250]

Brother _Simpson_, your sig is a trip Who is the chick next to Pelosi?

I think she is the only one that is actually in the movie(Ace Ventura).

Edited September 2, 2011 by _Simpson_

[Danno 1,228]

I'm sorry as well, because your argument that "we just don't know" is incredibly lame too!

Pretty much. Do you concur that in terms of size of the earth to the universe it is not even worthy of calling us microscopic? As a couple of the star sizes photos show - we are literally invisible.

Then again that A.I.D.s virus is pretty small too... yet hardly meaningless.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Then again that A.I.D.s virus is pretty small too... yet hardly meaningless.

Yeah, AIDS sorts of puts the lights out on the perfect creator theory.

[keysjangle 145]

People have been calling the awesome (and I mean that in the proper sense, not the colloquial) power of nature "God" for eons. Give it a name and a face if it makes you more comfortable, that's fine. But all it is are the systems from the tiniest microcosms to the most complex macrocosms turning like cogs in our planet-machine. All it took was one book of allegories written by dozens of people over hundreds of years to really muddle things up.

If one needs God to muster up the strength to get them through personal strife, then that's fine. But what's so different when you stop calling it God, and by your own name? Why must it be something outside of yourself that is dictating your life?

Last thought. I watched a documentary about an Amish family which left their community after secretly attending a more traditional church. They were given a house by other ex-Amish and had to pay rent for it. The husband could not find work, so he prayed and prayed, and still no work. As the due date for rent came closer he stopped searching for work all together and prayed some more. Eventually the date passed and he had to work. That was the day I truly lost all faith in those who are so immersed in this "God" fellow.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

Yeah, AIDS sorts of puts the lights out on the perfect creator theory.

oooh I so want to make a joke about this...but its against the TOS....and I'm pretty sure God would send me to hell too.

[Ban Hammer 14,619]

oooh I so want to make a joke about this...but its against the TOS....and I'm pretty sure God would send me to hell too.

or the mods would make you commit

[Nina~ 431]

I'm sorry as well, because your argument that "we just don't know" is incredibly lame too!

That wasn't an argument, that is a fact.