twowls

Because you're still trying to dress up your personal philosophy--"#### em"--as some kind of Darwinian directive. I am not buying this, no matter how many times you rephrase the same simplistic notion.
I understand very well the wide view of sands through the hourglass and perpetual ping pong between humanity's best impulses and its worst. That's how I manage to get through the night. I just don't use the wide view as an excuse for my or anyone else's bad behavior, as some kind of get out of jail free card for my own selfishness or the evil that men do, by violence or self-serving sleep.

Well this is all very convenient for me and the midget-powered light rail system I'm developing. You're out of your element Donnie.

Well this is all very convenient for me and the midget-powered light rail system I'm developing. You're out of your element Donnie.

Well this is all very convenient for me and the midget-powered light rail system I'm developing. You're out of your element Donnie.

Well it's a theory, but it sounds a lot like burning down your house because it wasn't that nice anyway, and then hoping a new good house somehow rises majestically out of a bunch of charred timber.
I think there are dolts all over the place, but I will still be voting the marginally non-moronic ticket.
"But they're all the same!!!"
Pardon me. I'm going to go with the mavericks who dig evolution and gravity over the party that still uses hand-drawn maps that read "There be dragons here" on the edges in curly script.

I know, it's just that you first tried to dress it up as some kind of cosmic non-participation agreement. Nature running its course; people left unaided are maybe just meant to suffer alone this go-round... That's just an awkward little dance with rather scary and unsupportable implications.
Maybe there is a Lord of the Flies type way to consider humanity's course, but only if you view the entire experiment like a slightly mean kid watching ants do battle for your vague amusement. I prefer you say what you have here: I don't care; I've worked out an equation wherein if I never want help, I also don't hand it out.

Circle of life! Let things run their course!
This is all a runaround in service of the fact you don't feel connected to those with the least. If you had a mentally-ill brother on the streets, or had dealt with a death-grip addiction yourself, you'd change your tune. Or for god's sake, I hope you would. You are not different from those that sleep without a roof. I don't know where your compassion part got lost, but it costs so very, very little to find it. Your unwillingness to venture a cursory search is on you.

Circle of life! Let things run their course!
This is all a runaround in service of the fact you don't feel connected to those with the least. If you had a mentally-ill brother on the streets, or had dealt with a death-grip addiction yourself, you'd change your tune. Or for god's sake, I hope you would. You are not different from those that sleep without a roof. I don't know where your compassion part got lost, but it costs so very, very little to find it. Your unwillingness to venture a cursory search is on you.

You don't believe in the God of the Bible or similar monotheistic systems so you're pointing out ways in which the source material is weak or contradictory. There's no argument there, unless you're in a room full of tea partiers or something. The Bible has been revised many, many times and it is now a great jumble of ideas and intentions at this point.
I wasn't defending the Bible as a source of unassailable truth and consistency when I broke down the two passages you offered. I do defend the Bible as an interesting document with some useful insights.
I think you're wasting your time being anti-Bible. It's possible to glean potential wisdom from lots of sources without buying the entire cow.

Sure. And I'm not religious and you're not going to get any arguments from me. I just think the "Look! Contradictions!" part is played. And that there are books out there with cool stuff worth contemplating, even with a bit of respect. No real connection between respecting old good words and buying the doctrine, at least not for me. Basically I think you're limiting your library, and I believe in libraries and interesting words. You probably do too.

You don't believe in the God of the Bible or similar monotheistic systems so you're pointing out ways in which the source material is weak or contradictory. There's no argument there, unless you're in a room full of tea partiers or something. The Bible has been revised many, many times and it is now a great jumble of ideas and intentions at this point.
I wasn't defending the Bible as a source of unassailable truth and consistency when I broke down the two passages you offered. I do defend the Bible as an interesting document with some useful insights.
I think you're wasting your time being anti-Bible. It's possible to glean potential wisdom from lots of sources without buying the entire cow.

So what if they have no one to help them get into one? Things seem easy when we are not the ones in the situation.

I am really glad I don't just depend on emotionless nature to run it's course.

A one on one with the big man. So, dickface, you were Rastafarian all your life and now look at me! Yeah, that's right, I iz Jesus and no dickface that ain't pronounced Hay-zoos. So... kiss and make up? The Rasta recoils... kiss?? #######! Jesus responds, did you think those priests were an accident? This is how we roll up in dis bich. Now bend over and call me daddy.

You have an incisive mind and your posts are usually articulate and perceptive. But you went off the rails here, honest. Suddenly all the guys are constantly masturbating, seethingly jealous monkeymen while the women are rageaholic shrews ready to cat-fight, hiss mrowr, over their inferior looks. Good lord, really? I did not know that.
People certainly do project their own weirdness in inappropriate ways. But you've sort of illustrated how things devolve as we get frustrated, take things personally, lose perspective, and resort to jabs and generalizations.
You're asking people to do better than that.

Not so tough. Do kind acts and don't brag about them.

Not so tough. Do kind acts and don't brag about them.

That's not my reading. Nobody is compelled to do anything but let their light shine, be themselves, be good. The notice of such then goes to God for praise--not the adherent; there's no self-honoring at all.
The second passage is a metaphor for not being a d*ck about it.

That's not my reading. Nobody is compelled to do anything but let their light shine, be themselves, be good. The notice of such then goes to God for praise--not the adherent; there's no self-honoring at all.
The second passage is a metaphor for not being a d*ck about it.

Your post is perfectly well-intentioned, but my issue is this assumption that the OP hasn't already thought deeply about her situation and come by grueling, difficult work to the decision that's best for her and her partner. For many of us who were totally ready to be with our significant others, that was the only consideration, and 6 months felt like a lifetime. But it isn't a lifetime, and the OP can restart the process anytime she's ready. Time is relative and the K1 process isn't actually as difficult as it seems.

You have an incisive mind and your posts are usually articulate and perceptive. But you went off the rails here, honest. Suddenly all the guys are constantly masturbating, seethingly jealous monkeymen while the women are rageaholic shrews ready to cat-fight, hiss mrowr, over their inferior looks. Good lord, really? I did not know that.
People certainly do project their own weirdness in inappropriate ways. But you've sort of illustrated how things devolve as we get frustrated, take things personally, lose perspective, and resort to jabs and generalizations.
You're asking people to do better than that.

Take a look at this video and then tell me something as PETTY as "a God" created it all. When you look at the sheer magnitude and power of some of these stars God seems very small/petty/petite/insignificant....


You do realize what is in our universe. Here are some facts about the universe:
There are 100 to 200 billion galaxies in the universe.
Danno, you're pretty good with numbers....There are 200 to 400 billion stars in our 1 galaxy, the Milky Way.
The upper estimates are as many as 500 billion galaxies in the universe. So picture how enormous our galaxy is, and now try to imagine every single star as 1 galaxy....
In case you don't know how large our galaxy is. Traveling at a constant speed of light (186,000 miles per second) it will take roughly 4 years and 2.4 months to arrive at the nearest star to earth. So rewind the clock back to July 2006 (4.2 years ago) and imagine the ENTIRE time you are traveling at 186,000 miles per second, you would just be arriving to the nearest star!
At the speed of light you would circle earth's equator almost 8 times in 1 second.
Back 2000 years ago when nobody knew what E = MC squared was, when nobody knew what a TV was, a radio, electricity, gun powder, a train, paper, pens, computers, etc., man created God. Religion is something that stuck. And it is something ingrained and drilled into every baby's brain since birth. I am not trying to convert anyone just engaging in a conversation.
I'm sorry I don't believe in a mute and powerless and unable to answer prayers God who gets a thrill out of burning people alive for eternity for eating apples from forbidden trees because a talking snake pressured them into it...It'd be one thing if I could pray right now for something and the next day I got it, but unfortunately, it doesn't work that way.

Again, Danno, what do you think of this? Here is something I just came across and it is fascinating.
So it is already impossible to understand how far away 4.2 light years is (traveling 186,000 miles a second for 4.2 years).
What about traveling at 186,000 miles per second for 13,000,000,000 (BILLION) years!!!! That is fvcking insane! Like 100,000 years passes and you are nowhere near your destination. 750 MILLION YEARS later and you are not even close to your destination. 6.5 billion years go by and you're only half way there (entire time traveling 186k miles/second).
Well, you travel for 13 billion years at the speed of light and you will arrive at the furthest known galaxy in our universe. Maybe God is busy working miracles over in that part of the universe because He sure as hell ain't nowhere to be seen around these parts!!! But of course he is sending people to hell like there is no tomorrow.
146,000 people die each day. I wonder how many of those people God sends to perish in Hell for an eternal burning? 1 child dies every second of starvation on our blessed planet earth. What a LOVING AND POWERFUL GOD. He really shows His Super Powers when 16,000 children die of starvation per day!
What a loving God he is (1/2 of the people on planet earth live on less than 40 nickels a day!!!) :
More than one-half of the world's people live below the internationally defined poverty line of less than U.S. $2 a day—including 97 percent in Uganda, 80 percent in Nicaragua, 66 percent in Pakistan, and 47 percent in China, according to data from the World Bank. Nearly one-third of rural residents worldwide lack access to safe drinking water. Of course I seen your post about people on food stamps. Your theory is that hunger is a great motivator. Let America's poor starve enough and they'll find a job!!! What about the other 3 billion people out there? I guess they aren't motivated enough...Maybe they should pray.

It's not a gambit, it's a literary device. Unless your hands have eyes.
Have you read the Bible as a work of literature? It's pretty fascinating. Not so great in terms of unambiguous and immutable meaning.

Not so tough. Do kind acts and don't brag about them.