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Old 01-24-2009, 08:01 AM
 
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The story you relate is quite common place to me. Events that were much more unlikely and had very positive outcomes have happened to me quite often. Some of the chains of events have been quite astounding. But I don't pray or believe in a god.

So either your God really loves this atheist lesbian mother, or it was the power of positive thinking that influenced lots of minor decisions that resulted in events occuring, or it was just coincidence.
This is a common misconception about prayer . . . what you call positive thinking IS prayer and faith that comes from within (guess where God is). Just because a lot of dogma and human precepts and doctrine have tried to monopolize and define God in exclusionary terms is irrelevant to the reality. After Jesus . . . ALL our consciousnesses have contact with God.
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So what did you think of the study above?

And what did you think of the idea of a study of 10,000 amputees all praying to God to regrow their limbs?
I think you have allowed the irrationality of some and the magical beliefs of many to cloud your objectivity and foster mockery and disdain. Your "Nature" is God and the "laws of nature" are God's laws. Asking for a violation of those laws is hardly a minor request . . . or remotely reasonable. I completely understand your frustration with irrationality . . . but "try a little tenderness." Our beliefs play an important role in our mental health and adjustment to life . . . tread lightly.
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Old 01-24-2009, 01:18 PM
 
Location: Toronto, ON
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The main rationality is subjective God. But over-all our rational thoughts are objective re-evolutionary tendencies of the conclusively known by Evolution. Somehoe evolution fails to explain the new feelings to unfulfilled commimtments, but with God there is nothing we would make ourselves belong to indecently; what we can do and not do masters against temptation.
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Old 01-24-2009, 01:52 PM
 
Location: Victoria, BC.
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The main rationality is subjective God. But over-all our rational thoughts are objective re-evolutionary tendencies of the conclusively known by Evolution. Somehoe evolution fails to explain the new feelings to unfulfilled commimtments, but with God there is nothing we would make ourselves belong to indecently; what we can do and not do masters against temptation.
Ya know I hardly ever understand your posts...Is English not your first language?
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Old 01-24-2009, 04:29 PM
 
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The story you relate is quite common place to me. Events that were much more unlikely and had very positive outcomes have happened to me quite often. Some of the chains of events have been quite astounding. But I don't pray or believe in a god.

So either your God really loves this atheist lesbian mother, or it was the power of positive thinking that influenced lots of minor decisions that resulted in events occuring, or it was just coincidence.

So what did you think of the study above?

And what did you think of the idea of a study of 10,000 amputees all praying to God to regrow their limbs?
It would appear that God will raise the dead, yet He is not regrow the limbs of people. God does things in His own way. Once I told Jesus I loved Him as I was getting out of my truck. I was going into work and heading to the plant entrance. As I got closer to the gate I saw this red balloon blowing wildly in the wind. It would go up very high, and then sweep down very low. As I got close to the plant gate, the balloon went low behind it. Suddenly it started to act very strangly, and began moving in a rapid side ways motion. It then centered itself in midair just behind a four inch opening in the Gate. The balloon was about ten inches in dia. Yet suddenly pushed forward and somehow got through the four inch opening and almost hit me in the face. I caught the balloon in my hands, and when I turned the balloon over, printed on the other side of the ballon were the words. "I LOVE YOU". Those were the exact words I had just said to Jesus just one minute before while getting out of my truck. I tried to save the balloon, and I went back to my truck and put it inside, yet before I could close the door, a wind came and the balloon flew out, and continued down the street. God does lots of things to show us He exist, and sometimes He does things totally unexpected. Yet, it is not usually what we want, or what we demand, it is often what God decides.
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Old 01-24-2009, 04:44 PM
 
Location: Sarasota, Florida
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It would appear that God will raise the dead, yet He is not regrow the limbs of people. God does things in His own way. Once I told Jesus I loved Him as I was getting out of my truck. I was going into work and heading to the plant entrance. As I got closer to the gate I saw this red balloon blowing wildly in the wind. It would go up very high, and then sweep down very low. As I got close to the plant gate, the balloon went low behind it. Suddenly it started to act very strangly, and began moving in a rapid side ways motion. It then centered itself in midair just behind a four inch opening in the Gate. The balloon was about ten inches in dia. Yet suddenly pushed forward and somehow got through the four inch opening and almost hit me in the face. I caught the balloon in my hands, and when I turned the balloon over, printed on the other side of the ballon were the words. "I LOVE YOU". Those were the exact words I had just said to Jesus just one minute before while getting out of my truck. I tried to save the balloon, and I went back to my truck and put it inside, yet before I could close the door, a wind came and the balloon flew out, and continued down the street. God does lots of things to show us He exist, and sometimes He does things totally unexpected. Yet, it is not usually what we want, or what we demand, it is often what God decides.
Man, somebody was missing a "love" balloon, how sad

One day I was laying on the beach thinking about some troubles at work, and seagull flew by, and did the nasty right on my stomach, yikes! Was it a message from god??
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Old 01-25-2009, 05:58 AM
 
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Man, somebody was missing a "love" balloon, how sad

One day I was laying on the beach thinking about some troubles at work, and seagull flew by, and did the nasty right on my stomach, yikes! Was it a message from god??
Well if you reject God, that might be a vision of your future.

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Old 01-26-2009, 10:05 AM
 
Location: NC, USA
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there are seers even in our society that can give prophecy. It is quite easy to do if you go into a trance and look at the future,
Hummmmm, I suspect that we all see into the future, everyday, or thereabouts. When I sleep, eventually (at least up until this point in time) when I awaken, I am seeing the future as opposed to the past when I went to sleep. I always wake up in the future that then becomes the present. Thus far in my life I have seen over 50 years into the future, that has now become my past. How much future will I be able to see? I have no earthly idea. Tomorrow will be my future relative to today, my present, and yesterday, my past. We all watch the future unfold, seconds at a time. Literally, in the blink of an eye, parts of it become the past.
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Old 01-26-2009, 11:11 AM
 
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Wink I understand, at last!

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The main rationality is subjective God. But over-all our rational thoughts are objective re-evolutionary tendencies of the conclusively known by Evolution. Somehoe evolution fails to explain the new feelings to unfulfilled commimtments, but with God there is nothing we would make ourselves belong to indecently; what we can do and not do masters against temptation.
This clears up so much for me about the Christian mindset...
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Old 01-26-2009, 12:15 PM
 
Location: Somewhere out there
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Default "Love Balloons..."

Campbell, you continue to intrique me. You are either directly connected with your God, and he truly exists*, or you're reading in to a lot of things, or, well, you're mildly delusional.

Hmmm.....

(* but he won't show himself to me or most others, oddly...)


Keep at it man... P&L2A!

(Oh, and BTW: check this out. do read it. We won't tell!)

http://whywontgodhealamputees.com/

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Old 05-26-2009, 03:50 PM
 
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[FONT=Arial]Dear Sirs,[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]I am from Romania and first of all, please, excuse my English language.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]I am Christian Orthodox and specialist in the management of the total knowledge and, according to this concept, no any idea shall be eliminated, because the man doesn’t reach the total knowledge. All the theories about creation and evolution have missed links, and all of them are filled with speculation or knowledge extensions, which will be or will not be certified in the future.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]I have included the Bible in my research, even the Bible is not a science book; it is the best book in the world for the individual and for the general management. It gives the direction, but not the description way to reach the total knowledge. The man is here and he shall complete the meaning and the understanding of the life with the scientific reasoning. It doesn’t meter if we believe or not believe in God, but all the new concepts of the normal relations between the normal peoples, was described thousands years ago in the Bible and in other grate religious concepts. There are around 10000 of religious concepts and about 10000 of scientific fields of research in the world, and everybody have something to say about the revelation and about the reasoning. In the management, the revelation is the information coming from management team, and the reasoning is the information coming from the field of the work. The best solution to go ahead is obtained by negotiation. The sixth grate religious concepts, obtained by revelation, shall go hand to hand with the science, which is called in the Bible, the seventh divine candle or the seventh church. I believe that the science and the religion shall go hand to hand, as a DNA combination.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]If we look in the Bible (1 Corinthians 1.21), we can see that God himself recognized “the foolish message we preach” as a necessity, because at that time nobody was capable to see the wisdom of God trough wisdom. But now is a little bit different. We have enough evolved in the spirit and it is not necessary for the science told us that sometime the religious people become fool. Everybody is fool in his belief; the scientists themselves.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Maybe is an utopia, but I have developed a new concept of the creation and evolution, which was edited in the book “The brief history of the man creation – From Adam to the scientific revelation” – ISBN 978-973-1766-73-7, write by me and by my little son, student in medicine. The first book was edited in a limited series, only to protect the new concept and to be distributed at the conferences that we have participated. [/FONT][FONT=Arial]Now we have prepared to be edited, only in Romanian language, a new edition of this book completed with the second volume, called “Knowing God trough wisdom” – ISBN - [/FONT][FONT=Arial]978-606-92107-9-6[/FONT][FONT=Arial].[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]I am an engineer in the electronic field and, because some familial natural fertilization problem, I started seven years ago to study the human infertility and I observed that the human being produced in vitro is more vulnerable to this malady than the human produced naturally. This infertility problems for the human being produced in vitro looks like the problem in the plants and animals artificial fertilization. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Based on the similitude between the spermatozoid and the reflex klystron, I developed a new theory based on Adam mtDNA to reconstruct family trees and to complete the Mitochondrial Eve Theory. My theory is based on the management of the total knowledge obtained by the wireless communication control. I presume that the mitochondria are working as the bio-GPS. The sixth sense (wireless communication) of the living organism is alive, even a lot of people think that this is a crazy imagination. Of course, the man creates the artificial GPS for planetary orientation, but the nature has created a lot of beautiful engineering systems before the increasing of the man science. Because in the Bible exists the concept of earthly and heavenly Adam (I Corinthians 15.45 to 47) and the transformation concept from animal to human being (Daniel 7.2 to 4), it easy for us to complete the missed scientific links with some religious concept and to accept that homo sapiens Eve appeared 200000 years ago and Adam appeared 60000 years ago (Adam deeply slipped during this period of time and Eve used other primitive male for fertilization). The necessary and sufficient processes to a well function of the human body are meticulous arranged by specific organizational cells, so called process bio-managers, using inter conditioned procedures, transmitted through three ways of communication: chemical or “protein channel”, electrical or “ion channel” and mitochondrial or “EMF wireless channel”. The third type is out of the visible and measurable spectrum and raises a new challenge to the scientists. For this type of bio communication we bring a new theoretical hypothesis, based on the managerial multidisciplinary analysis of a cybernetic model proposed by us, of simulating the human body function with the virtual computerized system based on the management of its total knowledge and its perfect quality way of function. The main bricks used for this virtual construction are: the brain, as main bio-processor, and Eve and Adam mtDNA, as bio-antennas. We know there are around 30000 Eve mtDNA installed in the cells of the human body and only one Adam mtDNA, installed in the sternum xiphoid process. This Adam mtDNA looks like the reflex klystron and we suppose that it works like the quantum cascade laser on 30 THz, to complete the full human body orientation in the universe. This assembly of the total knowledge of the universe, build with “brain reasoning (neuronal bio-currents), biological feeling (Eve mtDNA, that I call - functional or organic soul, works as log-periodic antennas on the medium frequency for land orientation), and unlimited feeling (Adam mtDNA, that I call – idolatry soul, works as the central and unlimited bio-communication system)”, is called by us “main decision triangle”. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial]Best regards.[/FONT]
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