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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.

So you just believe, God basically started everything, and it now just runs on auto pilot, the good and the bad. Yes. Do you believe in a heaven & hell (afterlife) ? Do you believe in prayer, and being answered ? If answered (saved from terminal illness), God's miracle ? if not answered, 'works in mysterious ways' BS ? Neither. I believe we return to God after our body dies. No N/a No such thing as mysterious ways- nature is what nature is. If God created everything, who or what created God, or are we going with the 'always was, always will be' theory. And there is no other or need to be, it's just is. God doesn't converse with me so I have no idea, and yes it just is what it is All of which, none can be proved or disproved. If it could be proven or disproven there would be no need for faith. Just the Christian Bible is so wacked, you'd have to be total idiot to believe any of that. No need to attempt to disprove that, it does that all by itself. Why stop at the Christian Bible? I don't put stock in the Bible per se, other than as a history book.

I shouldn't have used "bad" or "good", as nothing God makes is either, except in our opinion. What God makes just "is". God didn't also allow cancer, God created insects and animals and fish that eat each other in horrible ways, God made volcanoes and droughts that kill every living thing, God made storms and wildfires and so on. If you want an example of destruction and death on a galactic scale, God made black holes that consume entire solar systems. Good and bad are only emotions that humans use. Does a lion think it's "bad" to eat a zebra? As to why God doesn't allow us to live in paradise and live on fruit, I'm sorry, but God hasn't as yet communicated with me as to why God does anything.

If it wasn't off topic I would continue this discussion, but I'll leave you with the, to you surprising, information that not all bar girls in Pattaya are prostitutes- some only do it for drinks and wages, and none have to go with a customer- they are mistresses of their own choices.

You wuz lucky then. My wife apparently went through menopause at 35, and she definitely didn't love me.

You think women don't change?

A wife that loved her husband would accept that his libido didn't die along with hers and help him out. Unfortunately it seems that not many old women love their husbands any more ( if they ever did ).

Now you're making it up. I never said that God only makes good things- I said God made everything, which means good and bad.

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As always, it depends on the individual officer. Up to them to accept less that a passport, or not. Do you feel lucky?

Your old passport will not have a valid visa. Why else do you think you have to carry it? Of course you may be lucky- do you feel lucky?