WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THREAD

[DC]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THR

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What are YOUR thoughts on the concept of hope? </div></div>

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Whose concept are we speaking about here?</div></div>

Yours. Based on where you are now. I am thinking it would be different from the christian' s concept of hope

Thanks for your responses Mutty..U r a trooper!

[rudemonk]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THR

but the question is what does Mutty need to conceptualize regarding 'hope.'

hope of what?

[DC]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THR

It's alright monk. Relax. Mutty will answer the question in due time.If there is none, then I will hear it...

[Compry]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THR

Mutty, since Silent River asked you all the questions I wanted to....just kidding.

From time to time, I'll catch myself thinking about the creation of the earth, animals, humans, everything. To me, I find it incredible that I was once the size of a pin head and I do wonder how did it all started. Oh God, I'm starting to ask a question the way Mutty asks it...Lord help me. Anyway, since you've dismissed the Biblical account of creation, what is your opinion on how all this came about? How did we get here? Who created the earth and who created whoever created that person and so on?

[rudemonk]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THR

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Silent_River</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It's alright monk. Relax. Mutty will answer the question in due time.If there is none, then I will hear it... </div></div>

I'm just saying maybe flesh out your question a little more, cuz if I were Mutty...well you are right let me let the man speak lol...

[Mutty]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THREAD

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CEW</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mutty</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> My only encouragement to them is that they never abandon their common sense when it comes to deities. </div></div>
What's the relationship between common sense and belief in deities/God? </div></div>

In my opinion the two seem to rarely meet, if ever. This is why &quot;faith&quot; is often needed to force the logical mind to accept things common sense would otherwise say is pure nonsense.

[Mutty]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THR

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Hi, Mutty. </div></div>

Hola!

[Mutty]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THREAD

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: heretic</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mutty</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Nope. No fear at all. Just an acknowledgment of my finite understanding. </div></div>From a pragmatic perspective what does this mean? </div></div>

Elaborate

[Mutty]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THR

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Silent_River</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What are YOUR thoughts on the concept of hope? </div></div>

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Whose concept are we speaking about here?</div></div>

Yours. Based on where you are now. I am thinking it would be different from the christian' s concept of hope

Thanks for your responses Mutty..U r a trooper!
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Still not getting you S.R. Hope in what? Are you referring to the Christian concept of hope in the afterlife?

[Mutty]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THR

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Compray</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Mutty, since Silent River asked you all the questions I wanted to....just kidding.

From time to time, I'll catch myself thinking about the creation of the earth, animals, humans, everything. To me, I find it incredible that I was once the size of a pin head and I do wonder how did it all started. Oh God, I'm starting to ask a question the way Mutty asks it...Lord help me. Anyway, since you've dismissed the Biblical account of creation, what is your opinion on how all this came about? How did we get here? Who created the earth and who created whoever created that person and so on? </div></div>

I really have no opinion to be honest. I really don't think about such things since discounting the biblical account and this is why you will never see me in creationism/evolution debate threads. I am not concerned about either. All I know is that I am here to live a life as best as I can and then go to my grave.

[f0rTyLeGz]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THR

Hey Mutty,

I wonder if there was there any topic or issue that nagged away in your consciousness when you were a believer that just never got resolved?

[rudemonk]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THR

and further to that, what was it that broke the camel's back, where you were just like, that's it. I'm done, over and out.

and do you think there is anything that could happen which might cause you to take another look.

[heretic]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THREAD

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mutty</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: heretic</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mutty</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Nope. No fear at all. Just an acknowledgment of my finite understanding. </div></div>From a pragmatic perspective what does this mean? </div></div>

Elaborate </div></div>What does the notion that there might exist, in some remote nook or cranny of the universe, a corner case god that you didn't know about and couldn't have known about, have to do with how you live your life on a practical day to day basis?

[H_O]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THREAD

i tink the bible is just a plagerism of what the Egyptians wrote.

like they have a sun god they -worshipped the sun --then all of a sudden, in christian writings, it became the sun of god.
religion is all based on Astrology.

man, has religion got people brainwashed

[DiamondDave]

Re: WELCOME...MUTTY!! ...THE Why I Believe(or Don't)....THREAD

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mutty</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: CEW</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Mutty</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> My only encouragement to them is that they never abandon their common sense when it comes to deities. </div></div>
What's the relationship between common sense and belief in deities/God? </div></div>

In my opinion the two seem to rarely meet, if ever. This is why &quot;faith&quot; is often needed to <span style="font-weight: bold">force the logical mind to accept things common sense would otherwise say is pure nonsense. </span> </div></div>

One of the funniest things Archie Bunker ever said was his definition of faith....&quot;faith is believing in something that no one in his right mind would believe&quot;....