thaibeachlovers

At least Nigeria has the wealth and the means to desalinate water as Saudi does, but of course it's up to us in "rich" western countries to save them from problems of their own making!

I doubt the human race will survive long enough for a lessening birth rate to save us. Does a species that has polluted the entire ocean deserve to survive?

Yes. So eat, drink and be merry before we all die of self inflicted pollution. Seriously, IMO we passed the point of no return on the day the world population passed 3 billion.

Never underestimate the desire of the woke to make other people live as they think other people should while living in a way that the other people can't. Boris is an example of that.

Bad example- space rockets don't use fossil fuel- they burn oxygen and ( I think ) hydrogen, which produces water as a by product.

Agreed, but I wonder if Poland enters voluntarily if NATO would be forced to also enter. As I see it NATO is a defensive organisation, not a war making organisation. As long as Russia didn't take the bait and attack Poland itself, it may be possible for NATO to stay out of it. IMO it's rather sad that any country is so eager to sacrifice the lives of it's young men. As usual war is between young men and civilians ( collateral damage ) while the politicians sit safely miles and miles behind the lines.

The reference was to Islamic countries and not much appears on this forum about them that I have seen.

Plenty that are not brain dead and can live without being on a machine. Always seemed strange to me that we think it kind to euthanise an animal that is unable to function properly, but deny humans the right to opt out voluntarily.

Don't ignore the fact that a vegetative body is earning hospitals loadsacash for little expenditure.

Not a lot has changed then!

You would only be able to "have words" if God was actually like the religious version- an old man on a big chair. I see God as a force that energizes everything in the universe, which at it's most minute is ( far as I understand it ) electricity. So, when we die, I believe the force that makes us "alive" rather than a blob of meat ( I think the body is just a biological transport system that carries "us" around ) just returns to the greater force that is IMO God. Conveniently, that also explains how God is in everything we see, at the molecular level.

I don't think I was saying that was wrong, as I agree with all that, Some confusion over what I wrote perhaps, or perhaps I didn't word it well. As for "how was God created", just thinking about that too much makes my head hurt, and I will have to wait a few years to find out.

Which goes to show he didn't know everything, and to believe that suffering could be extinguished has to be a bit weird, IMO. Jesus said "the poor are always with us" and he could have added suffering to that- it's in human nature to suffer, even after 50,000 years of existence during which we seem to have advanced mentally not a whit from our cavemen ancestors. Still killing each other over BS.

Just which of us on here is religious? I don't know of any at the present time. There used to be a few quite a while ago, but they seem to have given up. Sooooo, your digs at religion are a bit pointless, IMO.

I agree, but I think all the matter in the universe will get consumed by black holes and compressed into a single point which will explode in another Big Bang. Sooooo, IMO God is trying to create the perfect universe and has infinity to get it right. For all we know, this universe could be the trillionth to the power of a trillion edition.

It's not logical to assume that "everything was always here", and the universe works on logic, even if it doesn't seem like it. If scientists made a vacuum and could make something appear from nothing in it, I would have to agree with you.

and they KNOW that how? They don't even agree how the universe came to be. I saw an astronomer on Al Jazeera saying that they don't know more than 10% of what is out there. If you are right, the planet better get on with finding a better guest than humanity, which is busily soiling the nest.

Probably the only difference between me and an atheist is that I believe that when my body dies, I ( my soul ) lives on, and I believe that the universe was designed, rather than an accident, or magic. I don't believe anything can come from nothing.

Somewhat more than nasty, and just the same if a NATO or US aircraft attacks Russia from outside it's borders.

which is why it's important to make a living will and tell everyone that might be involved when one is of sound mind. I once had to look after a patient that kept trying to die on the ward by removing her feeding tube. I felt bad for her, but as she had no DNR order, legally she had to be treated.

Sad would be your opinion, nothing more.

Thanks for that post. IMO correct.

I gave that a like.

I missed it. To be crystal clear, I don't think God oversees my life. I make my own decisions and my own mistakes. Do you think I believe God deliberately gave me cancer? I don't.

It may seem strange to you but I don't read every post on this thread, and I missed it. Just for you I went back to it and answered your questions. I'm not a Christian, though I value the Christ's teachings for a better personal life. If we all behaved as he preached we'd live in a better world.