Gravity - is it really there?

JohnEmmett · Jul 16, 2021

d taylor said:
correct and stationary.

the Bible has value but is just another religious text

JohnEmmett · Jul 16, 2021

Tao Te Ching

here is another religious text

Mark Quayle · Jul 16, 2021

CWalsh2468 said:
I am a first time poster so please bear with me! I have always been suspicious of the, seemingly, blind assumption that there is a magical force forcing us down to the Earth - surely there is a greater power at play here?

May this be the devil's will trying to bring us to the darkness? God's might keeping us above ground and, ultimately, winning the battle of good and evil.

What do you think?

I hate to think it's the Devil that's keeping things together for us here. Like last Thursday, I was worried the earth might fly apart from spinning, if gravity was to fail us, but no.

Aryeh Jay · Jul 16, 2021

I just glad I don't fall off the turtles back.

Occams Barber · Jul 17, 2021

Aryeh Jay said:
I just glad I don't fall off the turtles back.

You think you've got problems.

Down here we're walking around upside down.

If gravity fails I'm not sure if we'll fall down or fly up.

OB

d taylor · Jul 17, 2021

JohnEmmett said:
the Bible has value but is just another religious text

Yes to the world it is seen that way.

d taylor · Jul 17, 2021

JohnEmmett said:
Tao Te Ching

here is another religious text

Nothing to see there.

JohnEmmett · Jul 17, 2021

d taylor said:
Nothing to see there.

the truth is found elsewhere as well

your extreme view is why you are misguided

being misguided you are wrong about earth

d taylor · Jul 17, 2021

JohnEmmett said:
the truth is found elsewhere as well

your extreme view is why you are misguided

being misguided you are wrong about earth

Truth can come from only one source, it has a single source that it can flow from, or it is not truth.
Just as concerning creation, there can be only one source or one creator. like Eternal Life there can not be many types of eternal Life, this must also come from a single source.

That the current church testifies to this, as many now have created their own truth using the Bible in most cases. And it can be seen how divided and useless many churches are, they have ventured of the path God had set for the church (to be a light for the world)

If The Messiah (Jesus) was standing before you preforming miracles, etc.. and stating He is the truth. How would your and your truth stake a claim at truth.

Jesus answered, “You say rightly that I am a king. For this cause I was born, and for this cause I have come into the world,that I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears My voice.”

JohnEmmett · Jul 17, 2021

d taylor said:
Truth can come from only one source

truth means it is the nature of reality

hence a lot of religious texts are of value

Ophiolite · Jul 17, 2021

It's a bit like mud wrestling: mildly interesting when first seen, but ultimately messy, pointless and rather embarrassing too watch.

JohnEmmett · Jul 17, 2021

Ophiolite said:
It's a bit like mud wrestling…

everyone has some amount of aversion (ill will)

basically that is why forums are like mud

Ophiolite · Jul 17, 2021

JohnEmmett said:
everyone has some amount of aversion (ill will)

basically that is why forums are like mud

That was not my analogy. I was referencing the "discussion" between you and @d taylor.

JohnEmmett · Jul 17, 2021

Kylie · Jul 17, 2021

HenchWill said:
I think as astronauts experience zero gravity it is quite obvious the further we get from the devil, the less we feel him pulling us to the darkness

Astronauts do indeed experience gravity. In fact, they are in free fall. They are falling downwards, but they are also moving horizontally at such a speed that as they fall downwards, the surface of the (roughly) spherical Earth is curving away from them. They are, essentially, constantly falling towards a ground that is constantly curving away from them. That is what an orbit is. Without gravity, there would be nothing keeping the astronauts in orbit around the Earth, and nothing keeping the Earth in orbit around the sun.

Ophiolite · Jul 18, 2021

JohnEmmett said:
everyone has some amount of ill will

Some have the unconscious ability to generate ill will.
Others appear to set out deliberately to provoke it.

JohnEmmett · Jul 18, 2021

Ophiolite said:
Others appear to set out deliberately to provoke it.

of course

I do not let myself be provoked

Bungle_Bear · Jul 19, 2021

JohnEmmett said:
I do not let myself be provoked

Whoosh!

JohnEmmett · Jul 19, 2021

Bungle_Bear said:
Whoosh!

what is whoosh?

Bungle_Bear · Jul 19, 2021

JohnEmmett said:
what is whoosh?

The sound of you missing the point.

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