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who here believes in a god?
I read this today, somebody posted this on face book and I just thought.. WHAT A MIND FUCK...... It's the first line in this that gets me... "long before psychology came about" right there is the key balance statement of the whole piece making the reader's thoughts or instincts placed on notice that you should forget anything that you might know or think... followed by unverifiable statement and then progressing into biblical rhetoric and a call to arms to side with "god" and to foget any sort of self worth in favor of putting your trust said god and giving all to faith....
what do you think? god or no god... what are your opinions... Okay.. crucify this post!!! DG September 22, 2009 Eliminate Negative Self-Talk by Rick Warren "Be careful how you think; your life is shaped by your thoughts" (Proverbs 4:23 GN). Long before psychology came around, God said your thoughts determine your feelings and your feelings determine your actions. If you want to change your life, you've got to control the way you think. Our minds are really an amazing creation. It would take a computer the size of a small city just to carry out the basic functions of your brain. Your brain contains over one hundred billion nerve cells. Each individual cell is connected with ten thousand other neurons. In addition, you're constantly talking to yourself--all the time. Your mind is talking to you! You're talking to yourself right now. Research indicates that most people speak at a rate of 150 to 200 words per minute, but the mind can listen to about 500-600 words a minute. That's why you can listen to me and plan today's dinner at the same time. In fact, our internal dialogue--the conversation we have with ourselves--is at a rate of 1,300 words per minute. How? Because our mind sees in pictures, and you can see a thought in a nano-second! The problem is a lot of us are like Job, who says, "Everything I say seems to condemn me" (Job 9:20 GN). He is saying, in effect, "Everything I say puts me down." If you are typical to the human race, you are your own worst critic. We're always putting ourselves down. We walk into a room smiling, but inside we're thinking, "I?m fat. I'm dumb. I'm ugly. And I'm always late!" God wants us to stop putting ourselves down. When you put yourself down, who are you really putting down? When you say, "I'm fat. I'm dumb. I'm ugly. I'm no good. I have no talent," you're really pointing to the Creator who made you. When you say, "God, I'm worthless. I'm no good. I can't do anything," you're saying, "God, you blew it with me." That's why God says it's wrong to put yourself down. How do you eliminate negative self-talk so you can become a more confident person? The Bible teaches the principle of replacement: "Fix your thoughts on what is true and good and right . . . Think about all you can thank God for and be glad about" (Philippians 4:8 TLB). In other words, don't think about all those weaknesses in your life. Focus on who God wants you to be and on what God wants to do in your life. I don't know any better antidote to low self-esteem (or to facing your hurts, habits, and hang-ups) than to read God's word every day: study it, memorize it, meditate on it, and apply it in your life. There isn't a better thing you can do to raise your confidence level than to start believing what God says about you. As I read through the Bible, chapter by chapter, I find a verse that speaks to me. I write it down on a card, memorize it, and then I start affirming it back to God. "Father, thank you that I am valuable; I am significant; I am forgivable; I am capable." Let God renew your mind because "your life is shaped by your thoughts" (Proverbs 4:23 GN). |
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HORES the Egyptian SUN GOD is all I know
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Jesus is lord!
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either god is real or its the greatest works of fiction ever created...
i lean towards the latter... |
I was walking from my car to the supermarket door today, and the thought occurred to me...look at all of these other walking, talking parasites/virus/organisms all going about their business which they think is important. None of this would exist if not for our planet being the correct distance from the sun, and having the perfect balance of oxygen/chemicals to allow us to sprout up from goo, evolve over many years, use our hands with opposable thumbs to build shelter, kill each other and create governments, build shopping malls and nuclear weapons, and take ourselves way too seriously.
The human race is a one of a kind accident in the universe, each of us basically a self aware shitpipe with meat wrapped around it. This is more likely than the existence of God. |
imho mankind is the biggest failure in evolution - self-awareness makes us think of death and whatever.. hail to them low critters like apes who just live their lives and don't think about the outcome of their actions.
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I don't really like lying to myself , so no i don't believe in jesus....But what really gets me is HOW THE HELL DID THE UNIVERSE START AND WHAT WAS BEFORE IT?
I can believe that it was just luck for our planet to be formed the correct distance from the sun and all that , because .... the universe is just too big , we will never know how big , so a planet like ours was BOUND to happen somewhere |
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Seriously. :thumbsup |
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So... without meaning to deride humanity, I'd say it's an observation that speaks more of the infrequent critique than his subject. Metaphysics is always a hard subject to articulate. |
I dont agree with "god"
but something very similar comes to mind after reading this thread the power of Positive Thinking, and i believe this has worked for me...and many others theres a movie on it, its called The Secret. oh, and after watching the movie i understood more of why i was thinking in a certain way, it came clear. but its hard to always think positive lol :thumbsup |
my pops thumped on the bible when he was hi
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Yep, am Anglican. Go to church very occasionally to.
Know that probably paints a cross on my forehead for all the rabid athiests we seem to have here, but it's a personal choice and I enjoy it. However anyone regardless of being religious or athiest who tries to force their views on others is an idiot. |
Mysticism is reality; dogma is culture.
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People need something to believe in, i rather worry about what is going on today not what happens when i die for the most part i think once the lights turn off that's it no magical place or anything of that sort...
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Do you really want to know. That's the question.
If you know there is a heaven and hell would you worry about everything you do. Would you want to die in bad times when you know there is a better place. I think if we knew about these things the world would be a smaller place. It's something our brains could not handle, how the universe was create. Why and how etc. It's no in our control and really will NEVER be. Why even think about it. Just be true to yourself and be good to your family. |
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You may have to answer it for me as I am Agnostic.
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Not even going to take into account our own planets extremophiles. Fairly certain mathematically any given type of world that falls within the rules of physics not only exist, they do so in great numbers. |
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A creator? I do not deny that. Yahweh, the god of the bible? That's a stretch. I take an Aristotelian tenet: that there is an unmoved mover which set everything into motion. This does not deny the possibility of the big bang theory. It could have been a fusion chain reaction, or a what we would think of as a deity. An unmoved mover is the most plausible. This does, however, conflict with the notion of faith and dogma, and does not reconcile comfortably with many.
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we will see after we die :D
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yes
but not in the popular version of the bearded man in the sky |
there must be a God - cause I live in the home of the Gods
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Just because you can not explain something, doesn't mean it must have a supernatural or otherworldly cause at the expense of some omnipotent being. Quote:
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au...012694,00.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathly..._b_198995.html |
Why bother arguing this over here?
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truly smart people don't believe in God.
Religion is too much of a fable with too many holes in it for anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together to really fall for it. Still, the power of positive thinking is indeed a recognizable force. Not that it will control EVERYTHING in your life, but it does help you get up and get going and do things that otherwise you wouldn't because you feel incapable of. |
Benjamin Franklin once said that the best service a man can for God is to be kind to you fellow man.
I just believe in being good to people, and respecting all forms of life and the environment. If there is a God, then I'm sure he'll be satisfied with me. :) |
From what i have read and understood about religion Jesus was a very humble and simple man, that being said does any one think he would today walk into the Vatican and say to himself this is what i had in mind?
Religion is today, still the largest money making scam in the world!!! |
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I can imagine it'll be really tough on the death bed without religion. |
Nope. It's one big pile of BS...
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God is a stupid concept. However if make some people to be happier, itīs ok, I donīt like to make them open their eyes...
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I was thinking of the self awareness the same way.. and its scary if thats true, it makes people afraid of death and then the question: what happens after it? Do we just fall asleep? forever? what is forever?? just darkness? something must happen.. Are we going to be conscious of the death?? What happens to the soul if the body just rots?? Then the question is if we really managed to think like this on our own or some strange power helped us.. ie: why people? why not apes?? :Oh crap |
Given time, mother nature grows right over all religions, politicians, everything.
Think on that and be at peace. |
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