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This thread is a sin. But you may want to discuss the near impossibility of life

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Look, due to unforeseen stupidity I cannot guarantee that thread has been authored by a free individual. Meaning, you would be wrong if you thought this is something that the average citizen was able to write. The subject nevertheless is the near impossibility of life. The reason I want to discuss it, is that there is a perspective you may not have considered in relation to creation, in general.

Have you ever considered that there is almost nothing to creation? Have you ever thought "God's design is so amazing, and yet He puts so little effort into it"? I can demonstrate this with scripture easily. "Come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light" JESUS. Being in context meaning, that God who creates that which we may rest in, and off load our burdens in, does so with nothing more than light and what is easy.

Allow me to give an example. Once upon a time there was a giant bully, and this bully wanted the candy of a little child (myself) who did not want to give him the candy, so he ran. He ran and he ran down a hill to get away and as he ran he noticed there was somewhere he could turn and hide, so he ran down the hill and turned aside and hid. The bully, on the other hand was not expecting any such thing! No! The bully had momentum, already, and was already heading down the hill, straight ahead, so when the little child turned aside quickly, the bully barreled headlong down the hill away where his gravity was taking him! And it was painful, very painful, and very calamitous for the bully...

So you see, not much was needed, a little turn, a bit of speed and presto, a huge result, chaos everywhere. So imagine if that is how things began. How things came to "bang" as "big bangers" like to imagine it did. Just a little twist of events, a little turn of contingencies. That's all. Like a whisper about some misdeed just moments before going to air on public television. Like the chaos effect. Like the chaos effect, but before anything at all, ever was. Just a simple twist of causes.

It cannot be wrong, but it has to be so precise, that without it, no life would form. Like tossing a coin, but riding on the bet is the whole casino. The whole kit and kaboodle? Do you know what I am saying yet? That your life could be more and more of an impossibility than you ever imagined, if you don't grasp that you have it NOW and do something with it NOW. BEcause NOW is the Day of your Salvation.

Have you ever BENOWED something? Have you?

How easy?

Light?
 

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I thought this thread was about astrobiology. Maybe it is. Or cosmology. Or chaos. Is there a philosophy for each one of these? I think astrobiology might involve the definition of life and nondarwinian replicators. Cosmology might be string theory based, is non testable science science? Chaos might mean is humanity a chaotic effect based on an unlikely meteor based dinosaur extinction? As for benowing maybe all volition is such. Perhaps its one big benow. Or maybe only when im awake. But things seem normal to the uneducated. To a child the mystery was in the detail not the fact of being. To the scientist perhaps life forms like us are unlikely unless there is a multiverse. Toss a coin heads we win, snails we loose. Is that enough of a seizing of the day? Church was ok.
 
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Hi there!

Look, due to unforeseen stupidity I cannot guarantee that thread has been authored by a free individual. Meaning, you would be wrong if you thought this is something that the average citizen was able to write.
What has the average person have over any of us?

The subject nevertheless is the near impossibility of life. The reason I want to discuss it, is that there is a perspective you may not have considered in relation to creation, in general.

Have you ever considered that there is almost nothing to creation?
No.
Have you ever thought "God's design is so amazing, and yet He puts so little effort into it"?
Not at all.
I can demonstrate this with scripture easily. "Come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest, for my yoke is easy and my burden is light" JESUS. Being in context meaning, that God who creates that which we may rest in, and off load our burdens in, does so with nothing more than light and what is easy.
Including "hell"?
Allow me to give an example. Once upon a time there was a giant bully, and this bully wanted the candy of a little child (myself) who did not want to give him the candy, so he ran. He ran and he ran down a hill to get away and as he ran he noticed there was somewhere he could turn and hide, so he ran down the hill and turned aside and hid. The bully, on the other hand was not expecting any such thing! No! The bully had momentum, already, and was already heading down the hill, straight ahead, so when the little child turned aside quickly, the bully barreled headlong down the hill away where his gravity was taking him! And it was painful, very painful, and very calamitous for the bully...

So you see, not much was needed, a little turn, a bit of speed and presto, a huge result, chaos everywhere. So imagine if that is how things began. How things came to "bang" as "big bangers" like to imagine it did. Just a little twist of events, a little turn of contingencies. That's all. Like a whisper about some misdeed just moments before going to air on public television. Like the chaos effect. Like the chaos effect, but before anything at all, ever was. Just a simple twist of causes.

It cannot be wrong, but it has to be so precise, that without it, no life would form. Like tossing a coin, but riding on the bet is the whole casino. The whole kit and kaboodle? Do you know what I am saying yet?
Casinos are a man-made construct. The odds are clearly known, and weighted in favour of the house.

Whatever do you mean by 'near impossibility'?

Show your math.
That your life could be more and more of an impossibility than you ever imagined, if you don't grasp that you have it NOW and do something with it NOW.
My life is possible - I am here. How could it be more of an impossibility?
BEcause NOW is the Day of your Salvation.

Have you ever BENOWED something? Have you?

How easy?

Light?
I have no idea where you were going with that last bit.
 
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I have no idea why evolution is a contentious issue among Christians.
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

How about God was the big bang, as the infinite banger?

And all that exists even down to particle physics and string theory, is the particle and the strings of God?
Who insured everything he took a blink of time in relation to infinity's timetable,(Psalm 90:4) was imbued with the God given power to change, survive or perish, as we do daily, according to it's God given destiny.
So that God didn't have to have his finger on the buttons to make all things work at all times, because as the Bible says God created the heavens and the earth and Hebrews proclaims also God created the worlds.
(Genesis 1:1 & Hebrews 1:2)

What then if creation is an illusion and we are just a twinkle in God's eye?

Careful. Don't blink. ;)
 
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I like to mention hurrerl who said we ire in a "living present" of experience. Is is not an enduring now but stretches out temporally from a lived past to a future. The present in my words is not a point in time but a block of time we are in. waxad that block comes in different sizes as ones memory and anticipation focus in different ways on different recollections and prospects.
 
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I am saying God basically BeNows reality and He does it with very little effort.
How do you know this?
This thread is designed to discuss, how stupendously enormous that benowing is.
How enormous is it? When creating a universe, just what choices are available to a deity? Is a deity even required?

Perhaps the choices are few, if any.
 
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I don't think you want to know the answer, or you would have asked better questions.

Sorry, but my time is at a premium, asking me how I know what I know is like questioning that I have a brain at all (not very smart if you have listened to any living creature on the planet at all).
 
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I don't think you want to know the answer, or you would have asked better questions.

Sorry, but my time is at a premium, asking me how I know what I know is like questioning that I have a brain at all (not very smart if you have listened to any living creature on the planet at all).
If you make claims and then refuse to back them up, you may as well not make them at all.
 
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I don't think you want to know the answer, or you would have asked better questions.

Sorry, but my time is at a premium, asking me how I know what I know is like questioning that I have a brain at all (not very smart if you have listened to any living creature on the planet at all).

So you are short on time, but you will make the time to come here and insult me.

What was the point of this thread again? Why do you post here at all?
 
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