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May-29-23 | | thegoodanarchist: < FSR: As <stone free or die> proposed, probably my member page would be a better place for these discussions. User: FSR> Unless, of course, you are on his "ignore list". Then you are not allowed to be part of the discussion! Anyway, a catholic nun's body was exhumed and found incorrupt 4 years after her death and burial (and was never embalmed!). The church is investigating this as a possible miracle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CD... |
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Jun-01-23
 | | monopole2313: We won't believe, even if she were to rise from the dead. :) |
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Jun-01-23 | | thegoodanarchist: Well, that's a big problem for you, <monopole> God gives the world miracles so that they would believe, and the world rejects the gifts and the giver. Very sad |
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Jun-01-23 | | thegoodanarchist: Here are 16 traits of God, from the link:
https://churchsource.com/blogs/mini... <1. Independence: God is self-existent; ... and he cannot be dependent on anything or anyone else.2. Immutability: God is unchanging, the same yesterday, today, and forever... 3. Eternal: God always exists, not being bound by time. He has no beginning; God has always existed. He has no end; God will always exist... 4. Spirituality/Invisibility: God is an invisible, spiritual being, not composed of any material element... 5. Omnipresence: God is present everywhere, not being bound by space. Furthermore, it is not as though part of God is present in one place and another part in another place. Rather, God is present everywhere with his whole being at the same time. (wrap your head around that one, folks!) 6. Omnipotence: God is all-powerful. He is able to do everything that is fitting for him as God to do... 7. Omniscience: God is all-knowing. He fully knows himself, the past, the present, the future, the decisions and actions of his creatures, all actual things, and all possible things. God does not grow in knowledge by learning new things. 8. Wisdom: God always wills the highest purposes and the proper means to achieve those purposes for his own glory and his people’s blessing... 9. Truthfulness and Faithfulness: God always tells the truth and always fulfills his promises. Indeed, he cannot lie and cannot be unfaithful to his word. 10. Love: God always gives of himself. Love eternally characterizes the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. From this trinitarian love flows the creation of the world, <which God continues to love even when it is hostile toward him.>...> This next one is for <FSR>: <11. Goodness/Grace/Mercy/Patience: God is kind and benevolent. He is good in and of himself, and all his ways in creation, providence, and salvation are good. In grace, God expresses his goodness to people who deserve condemnation. In mercy, God expresses his goodness to people who are distressed. In patience, God expresses his goodness by withholding punishment.12. Holiness: God is both exalted above creation and absolutely morally pure... Because of his moral holiness, God is completely pure and uncorrupted by sin. 13. Righteousness/Justice: God is upright in himself and in his ways. God himself is absolutely righteous and acts in ways that are perfect. He is just in establishing moral standards, requiring conformity to them, and judging people’s obedience and disobedience. 14. Jealousy: God is protective of his honor. Because he alone is God, only he is worthy of ultimate allegiance... 15. Wrath: God intensely hates sin and is ready to punish it fully. Because he is holy, God cannot approve anything that is not perfectly holy. Because he is righteous, God metes out punishment against anything that violates his right standards. 16. Glory: God is infinitely beautiful because of who he is....> For more details, click the link. |
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Jun-01-23
 | | chancho: <Woman baffles doctors after being dead for 17 hours and then coming back to life> https://www.joe.co.uk/life/woman-ba... |
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Jun-01-23 | | Petrosianic: I don't know who gets baffled more often these days. Police or doctors? |
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Jun-05-23 | | thegoodanarchist: <Petrosianic: I don't know who gets baffled more often these days. Police or doctors?> Lint |
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Jun-13-23 | | Rdb: <thegoodanarchist: Well, that's a big problem for you, <monopole>
God gives the world miracles so that they would believe, and the world rejects the gifts and the giver. Very sad> <monopole23> is right . Miracles do not tell diddly squat about ultimate reality (source of this universe) Even if miracles happen , this universe could still be a computer simulation (kind of like 'matrix' movie) Or as mystics claim - <personal god does not exist.Teachings of jesus are about non personal god Absolute. Non dual interpretation of bible . (Every religion has non dual interpretation of their scriptures ) There is no god other than you and me , other than us. Body dies not us . We are all eternal Absolute> . . |
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Jun-14-23 | | Rdb: Why you in denial , <thegoodanarchist> ? Proof/evidence is staring at you right at your face and you in denial . You are like <I, <tga> , have no answer to the refutation of my claims . <Simulation hypothesis > refutes my claim squarely. However , i insist on believing what i want to believe regardless > <thegoodanarchist> , <truth will set you free > Face the truth , embrace it and get rid of your false beliefs. . |
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Jun-14-23 | | Rdb: Part 2
Likewise , <optimal play> is in denial too. . |
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Jun-14-23
 | | monopole2313: <Chancho> That's quite a story. And here: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/.... Good thing these ladies didn't revive inside a crematorium. My doctor tells me that what constitutes death is under re-consideration. Last year I had a sudden cardiac arrest. Six nursing students happened to be nearby and began CPR. They didn't restart my heart - that was done either by paramedics with AED or at a nearby hospital. I was legally dead for about a dozen minutes. No after-life visions to report. I don't consider my revival/survival a miracle as such, but I humbly acknowledge God's grace in the matter. Last month, I surprised those student at their commencement and thanked each one as they descended from the podium. Tip: I found that doing "knight's tours" helped my cognitive recovery during my hospital stay. |
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Jun-14-23
 | | chancho: <monopole2313>. Great to know that you survived to tell me your story. Thanks. |
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Jun-14-23
 | | perfidious: <monopole2313>, glad you are still with us. Best. |
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Jun-14-23
 | | perfidious: For the gallery:
Was just reading of Malaga Island, Maine and stories which appeared in local newspapers during the 1890s of a 'degenerate colony', whose residents indulged in such unforgivable behaviour as using tobacco and tea. |
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Jun-14-23 | | Rdb: Thank you for sharing <monopole2313> However , I would like to add that theoretically it is possible that miracles exist/happen.(if resurrection is not supernatural miracle and can be explained by natural laws , so be it . However , there may be some other supernatural miracles which may not have any explanation in natural laws - they might be authentic miracles) And if miracles exist/happen , that is no proof for the existence of personal god - that is one of the corrolaries of <Simulation hypothesis> . |
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Jun-14-23
 | | monopole2313: The "smiley" at the end of my 6/1/2023 post was a nod the the parable of Lazarus and the Rich Man; it seemed applicable to this group. I'm familiar with stories of corpse incorruptibility from both the Eastern and Western Churches, but I read recently of the same in non-Christian religions. Am I compelled to worship their god too? The RCC hasn't yet declared Sr. Wilhelmina to be a miracle. Maybe they need additional tests, such as illustrated by Elisha's bones (2 Kings 13:20-24). I don't think our understanding of medical/physiological matters is insufficient to confirm or deny such "miracles." Jesus did perform miracles and condemned people for not believing them (Matt. 11:21, Luke 10:13); there was no question who did them or what He did. But He also warns of false prophets and their signs (Matt. 24:23-25). There's only one miracle necessary for a saving faith: what happened outside Jerusalem 'round 30 A,D. "That if thou should confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." (Rom. 10:9) |
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Jun-14-23 | | Rdb: <monopole2313> , once again - <Simulation hypothesis> : it is not possible to know the source of the universe unless we go beyond universe/time/space. For all we know , this universe could be a computer simulation . 2) mystics claim that they can go beyond universe/time/space . 3) in every century there have been such mystics. 4) how do mystics go beyond universe? Hypothesis is that if you reach level of krishna/Jesus/Buddha, that is , if you dissolve anger, fear, pride, greed , lust etc and reach delta brain wave activity level while awake , you can transcend universe 5) body remains in the universe as if sleeping and you go beyond universe. Kind of like you were saying - body died but no after life vision. Here it is like body in this universe and alive and you transcend universe, anytime you want and then come back after sometime. 6) mystics claim that
<personal god does not exist.Body dies not us . We are eternal. There is no god other than us. We are non personal non dual god Absolute Bible is about non personal non dual god Absolute> |
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Aug-06-23 | | Nosnibor: Happy birthday FSR. The year you was born is memorable to me due to becoming the Leicestershire U18 Junior Champion. |
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Aug-06-23
 | | moronovich: Happy Birthday, <FSR> ! |
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Aug-06-23
 | | Sally Simpson: Happy Birthday FSR.
(correct me if I'm wrong but did you not have a birthday last year? Is this going to be an annual thing.) |
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Aug-06-23
 | | keypusher: Hope your birthday is the bomb, FSR! (Yes, I'm sorry.) |
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Aug-06-23
 | | perfidious: Rut roh--<FSR> done caught me again! How can I outwit the bugger? |
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Aug-06-23
 | | FSR: Thanks, all! Luckily it's not yet my 64th birthday. The year following that birthday proved fatal to Robert James Fischer, William Steinitz, Howard Staunton, Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander, Vladimir Savon, Pedro Damiano, Albin Planinc, Vladimir Antoshin, Edmar Mednis, Vitaly Halberstadt, Giulio Cesare Polerio, Karl-Heinz Maeder, Octavio Troianescu, Maximilian Ujtelky, Solomon Gotthilf, Erwin Voellmy, Ivan Nemet, Paul Tautvaisas, Claude Frizzel Bloodgood, Larry Tamarkin, Gary Sanders, John Kalish, Donald A Femmel, Ralph Hurttlen, Andrew Schoene, and even Karl Marx and LBJ (not a chessplayer AFAIK). |
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Aug-06-23
 | | perfidious: Yes: beginning next summer is when we must be on our guard against that lethal chessic scythe. |
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Aug-07-23
 | | FSR: <keypusher: Hope your birthday is the bomb, FSR! (Yes, I'm sorry.)> My birthday was the 15th anniversary of the bomb, as you might have noticed. Saw Oppenheimer on my birthday, aptly enough. |
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