Blue

Haven't played the latter yet, so I'll go with the former. Lentils or Rice?

Feeler

John Quincy Trembley returns! An outsiders dive into the weird world of Furries and fursonas: this time it's fursonal. The Cat Returns

THE FIRST'M AN ONT HEMOON WAS HUG'H GR ANT HOPE

I haven't been here in years. I'm coming back not really to join or stay, but to describe what's been going on with this handsome gentleman in recent years. I haven't been on here since... April 2016? In that time, I've since finished attending the British Columbia Institute of Technology and now I'm a machinist working near Vancouver, making coin And I met a nice girl while at BCIT. The point of my visit is a project I have underway, to try and archive ALL my internet forum posts. I'm having a hard time finding out where I could take a gander at all I've posted on this site.

I only post once in a blue moon.

Wet Mane Big Macintosh

I miss Mythbusters sometimes...

I haven't been away long enough.

Christmas

Pshaw

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In The Prince of Egypt, every scene after Moses speaks with the Burning Bush and God tells him to remove his sandals (because the ground on which he stands is Holy ground), Moses is barefoot.

There is always a deeper meaning to my posts. They are prefigurative of deeper meanings.

I am going home

Faith originates from lack of facts. Once you establish the premises of your faith you can use facts to strengthen it by interpreting them to fit your faith. Is it a faith step to get into an airplane and trust that it can take you somewhere?

I believe it perfectly. Faith follows facts. Feelings follow faith. This is why it is so very reassuring that Jesus doesn't say "JUST BELIEVE :D" he says evaluate; see; think. Make the assumption based upon evidence. "Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into a fire, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble." Matthew 6:25-34 (ESV) It doesn't say "Just hope in the father", no, it says "CONSIDER" the lilies. Think about what God does for [you] and it becomes a reasonable evidence in God's provision. But of course this whole statement presupposes the understanding that God provides. But going from the "Consider", or "Look", Jesus states here that one of the most important aspects of Faith is reason and evidence. Now of course that brings the argument to the matter of evidence. [in context of Christianity] Many take and ignore the substantial evidence that exists that supports intelligent design and the historical evidence of the life of Christ, and simply latch on to the fact that God the Father does not materially evidence his personal self, as if that single faith step was a large enough gap to rend all of the belief in Christianity into delusion and illogical folly.

My argument was flawed by virtue of the fact that I do not think about robotic ethics all that much. My reasoning of the fact largely stems to the basis that Robots would not need or want rights or anything like that unless we told them (by programming them) that they could ask for rights and so on if they wanted to. At the point where artificial intelligence in true ability could discern for themselves whether or not they wanted rights, the only possible way they could view us is as an analogy for a relationship between Creator and Created, like Man and God, like it or not. (The analogy however is by no means perfect, since man is sinful and God is not. But that's a different matter. The analogous relationship would not be ignorable.)

But we did not make animals able to feel pain.

Science.

I am glad I do not know what 50 Shades of Gray is. I am glad no one on this forum is so directly disrespectful that they would tell me what it is. I already know the book is pornographic and that's all I need to know to not like it.

Reason and Faith are mutually inclusive, and everything is faith at the deepest level.

I thought the Red Sea parted because of a big rock (aka meteorite) having fallen nearby, which, of course, could well have been sent by God as part of his proactive will... Alternatively, He may have merely preferred that the asteroid fell rather than missed. Oh, wait - it could also be preordained too! Anyway, it is unlikely that any breaking of physics was needed to achieve safe passage for Moses and co. and it would have been inelegant and kludgy for God to do so, so I'm pretty sure He didn't do it that way... As for prayer as a means of calling for divine intervention - I like how Jim Morrison said it: "You cannot petition the Lord with prayer" Surely the means are not as important as the fact that He can do it. Also I have no idea what that youtube video was about because Youtube does not work at my school network. "You cannot petition the Lord with Prayer" is directly unbiblical. "Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things. Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you." Philippians 4:5-9 (NIV) Apart from the promotion of a singer, can't see how that's relevant.

I would advise caution here as most things in the word are relative, but the speed of light in vacuum. Regards Indeed. In a seemingly probabilistic, relativistic world, one would be cautioned against advocating absolute deterministic truth. But a relative opinion is relative even to itself. There must be some objectivity or else nothing could function.

"Believe what you want" must first be believed by everyone in order to work. That which is relative becomes irrelevant.