GENIUS FORUMS

A loving God is already a God riddled with attachments. You are doing it again. You are arbitrarily assigning God attributes and then criticizing those attributes. Why not call him a retard and lambaste him for being stupider than you are? A God committing suicide, however, would wipe away his past...

Then it would be prudent, I think, not to call it falling in love, since once the pheromones wear off there's at least a 50/50 chance it ain't love, no? Well, no. That was the point of my post, Leyla. Pheromones are biochemicals produced by one organism and become attached to the corresponding pher...

I would also like to point out that as we are bound by gravity when we are on the earth, so we are bound by our conceptions of temporality and cause and effect. To extend views forged in the furnace of space and time to venues which may exist external to space and time as we understand it is the hei...

bh: Why would he have no choice? He is God, right? He may decide he does not wish to be eternal. It's entirely up to him. Who is going to stop him? DQ: His attachment to being eternal would stop him. But you are attributing to a putative deity a human quality, one that you regard as a shortcoming i...

He would be compelled to choose not to in order to be eternal. He would have no choice but to submit to the dictates of the logic involved here. Why would he have no choice? He is God, right? He may decide he does not wish to be eternal. It's entirely up to him. Who is going to stop him? This is ju...

If he committed suicide, it would immediately mean that he wasn't an eternal God. An eternal God is powerless to commit suicide by the very fact of his eternalness. You are not answering the question. I did not ask what would happen if he committed suicide, I asked why would he be powerless to do s...

Of course, if a God is omnipotent, why could he not end his own life? He can, because he is omnipotent. He is also eternal, because he has not chosen to do so. What is your objection, exactly? An eternal God lacks the power to commit suicide. Can an omnipotent God experience regret after taking his...

Sympathy for the Devil An omnipotent God cannot be eternal because he cannot end his own life. I also question whether he can be moral because he cannot do so. Please permit me to introduce myself... This quote is illogical, Trev. I think I see what you were going for, but you didn't quite say it. ...

prince wrote:all of them...

Bring on swine flu

"Them" being the Mexicans?

P.S. It took me longer to get back here than I thought, and you just wouldn't believe the reason why. About an hour after I posted here, I had a bad fall and fractured my foot. I was not expecting that at all. Hope you had a nice trip. Se you next fall! All seriousness aside, I hope you are feeling...

Anders Schlander wrote:so, you're saying the clear definitions has made you use less words?

That should be "fewer" words. Right, Trev?

Jesus answered in Mark 12:28-34 the question about the most important commandment or law to follow, put in my own words replacing love with value to make it sound not so much as a feeling or a clinging: Do you always change the wording of laws when it suits you? I am afraid your defense won't hold ...

Indeed, that is true. However, Sue has already indicated that she has no position on the matter and has no real interest in it either way. Sue has no position because she has no interest. That's the whole point. She has no interest, no position, and yet she will write about it and comment upon the ...

You're both missing Sue's point, I believe. Her interest isn't in the mundane question of whether ghosts and angels actually exist, but in the far more interesting question of why people desire to believe in these things. Given that ghosts and angels are empirical in nature and therefore their exis...

Diebert van Rhijn wrote:In a way I'm being encouraging, understanding and dismissive all in once. It must be spring...

Thanks, Diebert, and I think you are correct: it is spring.

Evil has the full force of intelligence behind it, and should not be underestimated. I'm talking both about the evil people do to others, and the evil they do to themselves. We're quick to realize we can lie and manipulate other people, but we're slower to realize that even the most intelligent of ...

Reasons to what? Reasons to do anything. I find love to be more a human need than sex. In the movie, or in real life? I like Antonio Banderas in the movies, I have no clue as to what he is like in real life. Angelina Jolie is a monster, both in films and from what I read in the tabloids that I devo...

Nick Treklis wrote:Women are like getting caught in the rain, at first they're fun and exciting, but before you know it you’re caught in a storm.

And if you aren't protected, you may come down with something.

I never stopped loving her, and yet I feel like I am falling in love all over again. Can this be possible? What do y'all think? What the hell are you talking about? Of course it's not possible! How, if you never stopped loving her, can you fall in love all over again ? What's the difference? And, i...

Maybe those popularity contests aren't, but interacting with people is where a lot of learning comes from, at least for me. If I continuously told people "Hey I'm a genius, watching all your interactions has shown me [insert revelation here] about life, liberty, etc..." people wouldn't wa...

Yada yada. I tire of hearing of these lowlife, but again, how do we know your cartoon fits all people. I don't believe it does. Do you think everyone who sees a ghost is imagining it? Are they in all cases 'grasping'? This happens to be my own objection to the way Sue in particular voices what she ...

Ryan Rudolph wrote:And finally philosophical thinkers attempt to understand all that mess, and go beyond it.

We normal thinkers also try to understand all that mess and make sense of life as we find it. We also like to rub tummies once in a while.

A person in love cannot be talked out of it. I have always loved and respected her and I always will. I meant talked out of moving 2,500 miles to be with her. That is because there is no reasoning with love. I have had few reasons without it. Did you watch the movie "Original Sin" (Angeli...

Robert wrote:How sure are you that returning to this previous woman isn't the Return of the Swamp Thing?

Now you've got me worried!

I'm like so happy for you. Hey thanks, man! Look, if you want to get philosophical, now is the time to do it. So far no one has talked me out of it. Don't worry, Carl, this thread will die a natural death in this atmosphere. With all the theorizing here, I thought a real-life example might be instr...