Baht Simpson

If the earth is heating from within why would you build a bunker?

Very innovative. The first 4 albums were excellent.

No, I'm going to sincerely apologize for misreading you. You're correct I have come late to this thread and there is no way I could wade through 18,000 posts to see who said what. I incorrectly assumed that because you were talking about finding an Inner God, using the capital G like Thaibeachlover that you were coming at it from a Christan perspective. An honest mistake but nothing in your reply led me to think otherwise.

Enough to see me out of this life.

Fossilized wood?

Not sure if you're referencing me or someone else. For avoidance of doubt: Do I believe in a Creator God? No, I'm an athiest? Do I respect all your beliefs? No, because many of them are preposterous. Do I believe you have the right to hold those beliefs? Of course Do I believe you should proselytize? No.

But everything that you say your God is responsible for is the objective world, whether it be life, light, weather, food etc. and is understandable through science as far as we can yet explain it. Introspection does not naturally lead you to a Christian God. Buddhism is the greatest user of meditation and promoter of inner awareness yet famously has no creator god.

Sunmaster says to look within and you say to look without. So which is it? You are contradicting each other to prove the same point. If you do have evidence of a Christian creator God you have the greatest discovery in the history of mankind, something that man has searched for for thousands of years, so please share.

Also you: "Unfortunately, some on here will only accept God exists if a hand comes out of the screen and slaps the viewer a few times while shouting "Do you believe now?" He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone.... eh.

He literally tortures, murders and gets humans to torture, murder and enslave others in that book you're so fond of. If you believe that your God is all-powerful then you must believe he is resonsible for suffering instead of it being the nature of things.

"If there's a God, John, He's cruel. He is there only to torture us; it amuses Him. There's nothing new about that. You know that, don't you? Men have been finding that to be true for thousands of years but they can't bear to admit it. They cheat themselves deliberately." " We are like these weeds, the gulls there. We are born like them, millions of us, and are lost and forgotten as quickly. We suffer, they suffer. We torture ourselves and one another and the sea advances and retreats not caring. Nothing cares." - Hugh Walpole (John Cornelius)

My heart is at peace. But anything would do to start. What provable evidence do you have, or should I just accept Pascal's Wager?

I can confirm this. We had an undetected termite problem when they burrowed up inside a wooden pillar outside the house and chewed away at the wooden roof beams. There's very little you can do about it other than check all wood structures often.

2,000 years of study and 18,395 posts on this thread and we still have no evidence of a creator God. Check out Karl Barth. He wrote 6 million words on the subject. "2,000 years and he ain't shown yet. We've kept his seat warm and the table's set. The second sitting for the Last Supper." - 10cc

We've got all the beds facing the same way, that's about it.

No heaven, no hell. "I won't believe in Heaven and Hell No saints, no sinners, no devil as well No pearly gates, no thorny crown You're always letting us humans down The wars you bring, the babes you drown Those lost at sea and never found And it's the same the whole world round The hurt I see helps to compound That Father, Son and Holy Ghost Is just somebody's unholy hoax And if you're up there you'd perceive That my heart's here upon my sleeve If there's one thing, I don't believe in It's you." _ Andy Partridge

Just so we're clear. And I delete parts of people's messages that don't relate to the point I'm making, otherwise misunderstandings occur.

You know, I've never used the H word on here before, preferring "anti-LGBT" and giving people the benefit of their opinions. However, after your reply to JB (attached) and insistance on commenting negatively on every LGBT+ issue I don't see how we can get around it. And your final comment above only serves to confirm this. Pretty awful that you would find comfort in that.

Gay men are men. The clue is in the title.

There have been males on Tiktok prancing around and pretending to be gay for increased likes. That's the world we live in now.

That's much more the case now but in the past there were obviously very good reasons for not publically admitting you were gay. These days it's mostly limited to certain countries with anti-gay laws. In the West it's more a matter of choice and I don't think it's necessarily always internalised homophobia.

So gay men who act straight are straight? Or does it only apply the other way around?

An additional wife?

Congratulations outing yourself as a homophobe, although we already knew that. Perhaps some of the other homophobes here will come out of the closet now.

What a dreadful thing thing to say.