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the jewish world review, huh? pass

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Animals have instinctual behaviors that dictate their actions, yet dogs eat their own crap. you really believe that they have any idea of the differences of right and wrong? I'm just saying that humans are clearly distinctive in language, culture, etc. to animals. How could this just "happen", and why are we the only ones to show signs of these factors? how are monkeys more adaptive to their surroundings than austaliopithosis, aka "lucy"? shouldn't their be physical living evidence of our alledged ancestors? Why would the missing link between us and our branch sharing binobo relatives be the ones to fail to subsist on the earth? I think that's my biggest problem.

he's a local worship pastor, he does stuff all over Texas, that's who I'm playing with all summer. Didn't know if you'd heard of him. He and Chris Tomlin started out together (if you know who that is)...

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close enough :

give us 10 years

Great Kurt Vonnegut Book....

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I'm moving in july, but I'm going up a couple times through out the summer. kap, ever heard of Ross King?

F you Kap....

what was I thinking?? F YOU SOUTHSIDER F YOU KAP

I hate you both

personal note: I feel so inadequate in this discussion, so please don't hold it against me. I can't wait to apply for Grad school. I'm looking at this daul graduate program that gives you Masters in Divinity and a Masters in Business Administration. it sounds so cool (I think I mentioned this before)

That is why the old Law is no longer applied to Christians and the new covenant of Jesus is what we follow. I think God was just making a point that left to our own devices (i.e. the Israelites) we mess up at every corner. Judges, is an excellent book for this point. Over and over, the people would pray for God to act and free them from their captors, and over and over again once He did, they slipped back into worshipping idols and neglecting God. edit: so the point is God doesn't take breathers, we do.

I knew I should have consulted a hamster expert... southsider and Texsox were unavailable for comment

"so I said, 'do you love me?' and she said, 'no, but that's a really nice ski mask'" (dumb and dumber) just seemed to fit.

ok, so the length of life is the primary determination of success of existence? because if we're constantly evolving and I develop both sex organs the ability to reproduce with myself (huh huh, cool...I'd never leave my house... ) but the problem is that I died at age 35 (breeding age) so that my child could feast on my body for food, that doesn't seem like a very successful life. I guess, what I'm not getting is that, yes, I think it's the utmost importance that we treat each other well and good, but in order to make anything of yourself in life, it seems that "playing the game" and working your way up the ladder is the only way. The problem with that, however, is someone always ends up losing. Someone always ends up the loser. There is a constant give and take in the world. With that, there has to be something inherantly "bad" that drives people to act accordingly....but "good" has to exist in order for that bad to be understood as bad, otherwise, what's good for you may be bad for me, and relativism is the most illogical thought process ever. with all that being said, what more can I say than that I believe there has to be some basic for of good and evil in the world. genetic malformities didn't led hitler to exterminate millions of innocent lives, Jeffery Dahmer didn't eat people because of evolution gone bad. Being a scientist, isn't it clear that nurture plays an equal role in the equation as nature does. no where else in nature do you see this seperation and understanding of right and wrong. my weeds don't think its wrong that they're growing in the garden. A father hamster (sorry fan!) eats it's children if you don't seperate them from the offspring. etc.... There has to be some explaination to this... (I have no idea, really....just a big hunch)

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Well the thing about the Christian religion, it places an emphasis on both sides. The problem with the church (the church as a whole) is that we've lost focus of Jesus. We've taken the emphasis off of his message and placed it in things like the bible and the virgin mary. (note: I'm not saying those things don't hold value to the church and the believer. I think the bible is the written essence of God, but clearly not GOD himself. and while mary was specifically chosen to mother over Jesus, c'mon, there's a handful of sentences about her in the bible. clearly she's special, but once again, NOT GOD) Most people know more about what Christians are against, than what they are for. If the church really lived out the book of Acts, it would revolutionize the way we think and conduct life. I think the biggest turn off of people towards church in america is church itself; christians themselves. The words i could write about this subject.... aye yay yay

don't forget the tiger in his crotch

So do you believe that all religions are "sets of rituals rationalized by men which mobilize supernatural powers for the purpose of achieveing or preventing transformations of state in man and nature" I know that I should "follow the rules" placed by society so I don't reap the consequences of my actions, but what I'm saying is, if there's not eternal implication, honestly, I can just do what I want and face no real lasting punishment. I mean, if I killed 600 people because I hated my job and then killed myself, where is the justice in that? I think that's what I'm getting at.

Why does God need to play fair?

that is my quote, and I didn't express entirely what I wanted to say. I meant that if I no eternal responsibilies for my actions while I'm alive, I can choose to squander and do with my life as I please. why do I care about others?