Yes only the physical world, that's right. But unfortunatly we live in more dimensions than meets the eye.
That's where science can not go because it's a baby.
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You said a mouthful: "if you want to". If you want to enough you can believe anything. That's why scientists rely on evidence rather than emotional need as a basis for finding out about reality. Emotional need is totally, utterly unreliable.
Why is that? What evidence did I have before I believed? You think we all had evidence before we believed? Your criterion is a dead end street. The only thing we had was a love reserved for God if we were ever to find God.
Its not about being blase. "Oh! There is finally evidence! Now I will believe. "
When you fall in love? You did not need evidence before you did. You found yourself in love. And, some others who have have failed to find love? Who had dissipated themselves in their frantic search to make love happen in their lives? They had become calloused and apathetic towards the thought of love. Some may demand that you prove to them it is love, and that you are just not acting. Should you try?
Without evidence you have no way of knowing you aren't deluding yourself.
People usually fall in love with real people. The evidence is right there in front of them. It can be independently verified. If it's love yourself you are doubting than we have this thing called the endocrine system and a hormone called oxytocin. Plenty of evidence for that and its effects. So you'll need to try and find a better analogy.
Yes only the physical world, that's right. But unfortunatly we live in more dimensions than meets the eye.
That's where science can not go because it's a baby.
Ah, there will be evidence will there? That's nice. When is this evidence going to pop up? Oh, it can't be duplicated, i.e. independently verified. Still no way of knowing you aren't deluding yourself then. You're back to square one again.Oh! There will be evidence! It will be its own evidence! But nothing that could be duplicated in a lab for others to experience.
Please... Don't confuse lust and having compatibility with true love. Lust with compatibility has been known to create great emotional and hormonal responses.
I wonder if that dog who mounts and begins hugging a human's leg is also producing oxytocin. Anyone ever test for it?
That's where science can not go because it's a baby.
Ah, there will be evidence will there? That's nice. When is this evidence going to pop up? Oh, it can't be duplicated, i.e. independently verified. Still no way of knowing you aren't deluding yourself then. You're back to square one again
I know what it is.Love and oxytocin . Look it up.
So did others.If god would actually be willing to answer, I do have a lot of questions to ask. God, not the bible, god would have to personally be willing to answer.
The New Testament is better organized than the Old Testament, which is why many creationists refer to it rather than the Old Testament when arguing in favor of the bible. It is to be expected, the books of the Old Testament were written as independent religious texts that would later be forced together into one text. And whoever edited it, if it was even edited for consistency, didn't do a good job.
Others who have truly found true love... do not require your so called need for evidence. They have witnessed to the evidence. They also can know it in others when they see it.
Those who fail to find true love take on an attitude like yours. Sad to see that is the case. God is love. He produces love in a person... without oxytocin. Oxytocin is a result of physical love, not a cause. Other things as well can cause the production of oxytocin.
No, clearly you don't.I know what it is.
That is one stage of falling in love.Infatuation (which is not love) produces an abundance of oxytocin.
You must get over this idea that you experience things other than what is happening in the slosh of chemicals between your ears.Its not proof of love. Its an animal drive hormone.
The existence of love isn't the question. It is what makes love feel like it does that is of interest.It does not prove love is real.
Well, love and sexual attraction are driven by the same system, just different washes of hormones regulating them, so we know they are both equally real.Only that the pleasures of sex and attraction are real
Humans are animals, which is why (surprise, surprise) the same system that uses emotions to drive behaviour in other mammals is found in humans.... and among the other things, it effects in both animal and human functions.Virtually all vertebrates have an oxytocin-like nonapeptide hormone that supports reproductive functions and a vasopressin-like nonapeptide hormone involved in water regulation.
Oxytocin
BBC Science | Human Body & Mind | Science of LoveStage 1: Lust
Lust is driven by the sex hormones testosterone and oestrogen. Testosterone is not confined only to men. It has also been shown to play a major role in the sex drive of women. These hormones as Helen Fisher says "get you out looking for anything".
Stage 2: Attraction
This is the truly love-struck phase. When people fall in love they can think of nothing else. They might even lose their appetite and need less sleep, preferring to spend hours at a time daydreaming about their new lover.
In the attraction stage, a group of neuro-transmitters called 'monoamines' play an important role:
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- Dopamine - Also activated by cocaine and nicotine.
- Norepinephrine - Otherwise known as adrenalin. Starts us sweating and gets the heart racing.
- Serotonin - One of love's most important chemicals and one that may actually send us temporarily insane.
Stage 3: Attachment
This is what takes over after the attraction stage, if a relationship is going to last. People couldn't possibly stay in the attraction stage forever, otherwise they'd never get any work done!
Attachment is a longer lasting commitment and is the bond that keeps couples together when they go on to have children. Important in this stage are two hormones released by the nervous system, which are thought to play a role in social attachments:
Find out how the three stages can feel even stronger for teenagers in love, experiencing first love and first sex.
- Oxytocin - This is released by the hypothalamus gland during child birth and also helps the breast express milk. It helps cement the strong bond between mother and child. It is also released by both sexes during [bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] and it is thought that it promotes bonding when adults are intimate. The theory goes that the more sex a couple has, the deeper their bond becomes
- Vasopressin - Another important chemical in the long-term commitment stage. It is an important controller of the kidney and its role in long-term relationships was discovered when scientists looked at the prairie vole
Science does not think, nor have feelings. Its simply a tool. A tool that can be used for either good, or evil.
For example... science can not enjoy good music.
Measuring the hormones produced in people while enjoying good music? Will not make someone who does not like music, if injected with that hormone while listening to music, to make him like music.
Hades and hell are 2 different places, but both are in the earth.
Hades and hell are 2 different places, but both are in the earth.
Hades and hell are 2 different places, but both are in the earth.
So did others.
Mark 15:4 And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.
What would be your reaction if He refused to do so?
Please answer this specifically, as I'm curious how you would react, should Jesus not meet your expectations.
I'll bet you never even thought about it.
People can talk big before the LORD shows up.
I'm wondering if they have a contingency plan after He shows up.
It is my contention that, in the heat of the moment, you would shout: AWAY WITH HIM!
But I could be wrong.
Alright if I pray for you from time to time?Jesus and god have already not met my expectations. To such an extent that I doubt their legitimacy. Actually meeting them, even if they would completely reject meaningful interaction with me, would still only increase their legitimacy in my eyes (considering that even if it were just Jesus, if it were provably him, he has been dead for thousands of years, so it would be an actual miracle).
But, I am not talking big. Do you have any idea how depressing it is to think that when people die they are gone forever, and that eventually you too shall be gone? It is agony sometimes, as that thought keeps me awake at night. I think of the loved ones that died as gone.
It is a worse feeling then you could ever imagine, I take no pleasure in being atheist, but I cannot force myself to believe something just because I want it to be true.
A huge mistake!!!!!!!!
Hades and hell are 2 different places, but both are in the earth.
Hades is where all unbelievers and believers BEFORE Jesus' death go. And all unbelievers today go.
God is coming back again right? So Jesus will come again to bring those believers such as Abraham to Heaven.
The unbelievers will be judged one more time and have one more chance to believe in God in Hades.
Finally Hades will be thrown into Hell, the Lake of Fire in the end times.
Salvation for the Dead (Second Chance Theology) - Hades is not Hell
Sorry for this mistake, I kept thinking of Abraham and Hades and the fact that Jesus will come back to bring them out of there.
You do not see the evidence because you are blinded.
What makes me any more special to see evidence (creation) and people's testimonies than you are?
Actually I never thought about this, only recently. But another evidence for God that you could feel is by going to a huge Christian conference. I've been to a few and they are powerful!!! When you worship and pray, you will feel something powerful tugging at your heart. When you see how much people commit their lives to follow Jesus and try to get as many souls as possible, it's amazing.
Maybe try to go to one if you want to see evidence besides being outside and listening to people's changed lives.
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