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  1. Windwalker

    Metallic spheres found on Pacific floor are interstellar in origin, Harvard professor finds

    so that means it's equally likely that tomorrow when we are a lot smarter than we are now and have a much better understanding of physics than we do now.....
  2. Windwalker

    Metallic spheres found on Pacific floor are interstellar in origin, Harvard professor finds

    Or it may be something we need that we don't realize is there and is possible yet. That's my point. You're taking what we understand about the speed of light, and discounting other possibilities we haven't thought of where that isn't a factor. What that might be, only the future may tell. What...
  3. Windwalker

    Metallic spheres found on Pacific floor are interstellar in origin, Harvard professor finds

    Do you not believe those have happened? What about Quantum mechanics? That revolutionized our understanding of the science of physics. Why can't something else be discovered in time that revolutionizes it again? I think what you mean to say is it would take a super-revolutionary change in our...
  4. Windwalker

    Metallic spheres found on Pacific floor are interstellar in origin, Harvard professor finds

    That's what we used to say about the basic air travel we do every day of the week now, or wireless communications, or horseless chariots, or.......
  5. Windwalker

    Who knows about rocks? I have a rock question. Yes a rock lol

    Cool. But they might be wrong about it. It could be a piece of white kryptonite that fell from Krypton. The fact you haven't seen Superman in your yard might be proof of its origin, as he knows not to go anywhere near it.
  6. Windwalker

    An official re-introduction thread for a returnee from the SF Bay Area

    I have the advantage in that I had learned and adopted that language in order to try to further understand the nature of a mystical experience I had prior to any religious exposure. So as I plunged myself into to learn as much as I could, I picked out what resonated with me, which spoke to the...
  7. Windwalker

    An official re-introduction thread for a returnee from the SF Bay Area

    My God, our histories and views are almost parallel, in a cosmic stream sort of way. I was a moderator for over 10 years at ex-christian .net (Antlerman was my username) and my story is nearly the same as for you. Atheist members would dogpile any religious person who ventured in, and drove out...
  8. Windwalker

    To be a true Christian do you have to take the bible literally

    All of those things, while subjectively experienced, have an objective reality in that they can be observed, measured, and experienced. Love is both subjective and objective, as are our thoughts and ideas. Think of it in terms of culture, for instance. Culture is an intersubjective reality...
  9. Windwalker

    How can you be a True Christian™ if you don't take the Eden story literally?

    Yes, it makes no sense to continue this in a day and age with instance communication and electric lights available to us now. It needs to be done away with. Of course that would mean Republican presidential candidates would have to actually have good ideas and be voted in by the majority of the...
  10. Windwalker

    The Best Country in the Universe

    There is a difference between believing in ourselves in the sense of what comes through overcompensating chest thumpings seeking to feel good about oneself, and the true power that comes through a grateful humility. There is a hair's breadth line between the ego seeking recognition, and a true...
  11. Windwalker

    To be a true Christian do you have to take the bible literally

    Not necessarily. It could be a story created out of whole cloth, or it could have some historical basis in fact. But those are not the points of the stories, namely to establish historical facts. The stories are about teaching moral lessons or spiritual principles or truths. They aren't about...
  12. Windwalker

    How can you be a True Christian™ if you don't take the Eden story literally?

    Funny thing is though, she actually won the election by 2.9 million votes. The only reason Trump was given the presidency was because of an outdated, and now pointless electoral college vote which gets exploited by those who get to use to to bypass the actual majority of the vote. So...
  13. Windwalker

    To be a true Christian do you have to take the bible literally

    Right, so then you do agree that Christians can accept that the Bible is not inerrant, and still be true to their faith, correct? How do you see that working for them? Some accuse them of cherry picking, and just ignoring or excusing away the errors, or others might see them as accepting the...
  14. Windwalker

    To be a true Christian do you have to take the bible literally

    This isn't clear. Are you saying that someone cannot be a Christian unless they understand the Bible literally and all its stories as historical facts?
  15. Windwalker

    To be a true Christian do you have to take the bible literally

    Did he? I read those same verses you do, and I see him not speaking of history, but of symbolic meanings as his real point he was trying to make. He wasn't teaching history lessons. He was referencing common cultural stories to make a point, like you might cite the love of Romeo and Juliet to...
  16. Windwalker

    To be a true Christian do you have to take the bible literally

    No. I wouldn't say the meanings are hidden. But they lend themselves to multiple understandings from multiple points of views, and that's what makes them powerful stories to convey meaning through.
  17. Windwalker

    Burning Scripture

    Oh oh.... you're screwed now. :)
  18. Windwalker

    Should Denmark Ban Qur'an Burning?

    I would agree with not allowing blasphemy laws as that is using the state to enforce religious ideals, such as arresting people who don't go to church on Sunday, or swear using God's name in vain when they yell at someone. That's a theocracy, not a secular state. However, here in the U.S. we do...
  19. Windwalker

    Burning Scripture

    Are you talking the simple disposal of sacred texts or objects because they are worn or broken? Or are you talking about making a public statement, either about your own past religious texts, i.e. the Ex-Christian atheist either burning his old bibles, or throwing them into the toilet, or...
  20. Windwalker

    Does the US need a third party to take control

    Absolutely. Everytime they support a dictator over the constitution, that is them yelling that. Someone doesn't have to say the word "murder" when they kill someone for it to rightly be called murder.
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