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  1. Etritonakin

    Possible Bodies

    Can You Pick Up and Hear Radio Broadcasts Through Dental Fillings? - Warshauer and Santamaria :p and here's radiohead doing joy division... and the talking heads doing radiohead...
  2. Etritonakin

    Possible Bodies

    The point is essentially your location within the overall environment -and the central point of decision, awareness... made possible by the processor... your mind... and the interface... your body. Due to the fact that your location (that central point of decision and awareness -"you" or "I")...
  3. Etritonakin

    Possible Bodies

    We each are essentially a point within overall reality around which a processor and interface is formed. Different configurations and position within overall reality allow for different capabilities and opportunities to interface on different levels. Humans overcome their limitations by...
  4. Etritonakin

    If a god created the universe...

    An "eternal" God could not be responsible for its own basic existence (though more responsible as more capable of particulars/self-determination) -so its existence would be based on most basic law (pre-universe). God would essentially be the sum of most basic law/pre-universe stuff...
  5. Etritonakin

    What was the forbidden fruit

    "When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it." I think the idea is that the actual fruit of the actual tree was just fruit -the important part was obeying God (first commandment). The...
  6. Etritonakin

    What was the forbidden fruit

    Bunches... The particular fruit on an actual tree which was then eaten is not specified, but what was forbidden was eating from that tree. Disobeying God was forbidden. The tree is called the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The real "forbidden" fruit was the knowledge of good AND evil...
  7. Etritonakin

    Do animals and humans end up in front of God when they die?

    God will wipe away every tear and make all things new -we just need to patiently endure, keep the commandments, return good for evil, "visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep ....... unspotted from the world."
  8. Etritonakin

    I Know What God Fears

    While "the most high God" would logically want to create others -as more happy persons is the opposite of loneliness (It is not good that God should be alone, either), such a god is also logically and necessarily the center of attention. We do not call it egotistical when a good human leader of...
  9. Etritonakin

    Do animals and humans end up in front of God when they die?

    Actually, that is only after they were long out of Eden. Before that they were only allowed plants. "Just as I gave you the green vegetation" refers back to that. Then later only some flesh was allowed (clean and unclean) -and later not even the animals will eat each other. So.... Vegetarian...
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    Do animals and humans end up in front of God when they die?

    Any resurrection requires that "we" -our "spirit" -are essentially stored in God's memory -to be placed within a body again later (even an improved "glorious body"). Don't know specifically, but having my pups forever would be awesome -and they really are like a different kind of "people". Off...
  11. Etritonakin

    What is your God?

    Literal mud -no -no proof for that -but for the rest, the proof is all around us -and in us. That which is is that which was -it is not new -only its configuration -therefore we can continue to reverse-engineer it. We can't just get to the big bang and give up -it's just getting to the good...
  12. Etritonakin

    What is your God?

    "Mud" is, of course, not literal. Physical life is made from existing materials which also make up its environment. "Created" was used by the other poster in a general sense -as in made by a process. The atoms, etc., which make up physical life and its environment were, in turn, made by a...
  13. Etritonakin

    What is your God?

    The big difference being belief in a deity/deities, of course -and seeing evidence/necessity for such. Physical life was created from mud, but theists believe in pre-physical or extra-physical life (not atom-based). Science might allow for the existence of such -but usually does not see...
  14. Etritonakin

    What is your God?

    "...the things of God are apparent in what was made..." Even the first few of the ten commandments concerning "God" are correct in principle even if a self-aware God did not exist. It is not difficult to see how universal adherence to the latter commandments would cause the world to be a...
  15. Etritonakin

    Creation of Universe, Scriptures vs Science

    If God was the original -and essentially self-replicated -then we are A.I. We are now beginning to self-replicate -and we assume we are the originals -but an original before us is the most logical explanation for the universe -and so ourselves. We had no input into our selves or environment...
  16. Etritonakin

    Creation of Universe, Scriptures vs Science

    The main problem is not actually with creation, but with an explanation for the existence of -and possibility of -a creator. Most would say that a creator could not simply exist and then create everything else -and that is understandable. Biblical scripture actually does contain a logical...
  17. Etritonakin

    Life Does Not Exist

    Reality is DYNAMIC -otherwise nothing would have developed. That is the basis of life -it allows for life. If things were not dynamic -and interactive -in a simple way, then they could not be dynamic and interactive in a complex way/ANIMATE.. It could be said that everything is alive -because...
  18. Etritonakin

    Awaiting a false messiah?

    I can't believe I have never considered this question. I had just assumed that Jews thought the Messiah was "the Lord" -but that they did not believe Christ to be "the Lord" who came first as a man -then will again later in power and glory. I also had the idea they thought Melchizedek would be...
  19. Etritonakin

    Is God good? Is God loving?

    Yes! The bottom line is that we are all arrangements of matter and energies -as is our environment -and we lack experience. Our arrangements -and the arrangement of our environment -are being adversely affected as we gain experience. However, all the patterns are stored -can become arranged...
  20. Etritonakin

    Does a belief in a god show lack of education?

    Yes or no -depending... The highly educated can be prone to believe what they are taught -which may not be true -so if the highly educated are taught there is not "a God", then they are more likely to believe it. The highly educated were once taught otherwise -and the same was true. Even peer...
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