thaibeachlovers

I've already said what I think the Bible is and I'm not going to keep repeating myself for those that don't read all the posts. The story of Adam and Eve is a fable explaining why humans ( unlike lower animals ) have freedom of choice.

You are still confusing religion with faith.

If I could get a pile of rocks and leave it in a vacuum for 50 billion years, it would still be a pile of rocks. Takes a creator/ force/ whatever you like to describe it as, to make that pile of rocks become life.

I wish that happened to me. Even a radical prostatectomy didn't save me from the insanity. I think I'll be dreaming of having it with attractive Thai girls on my death bed.

It would not be "right" in today's world, and such does not happen, to my knowledge. The list of things that were not "right" by today's standards would take several pages to detail, so I'll leave such in the past where it belongs.

I'd expect nothing less from you. Next.

You should put your case to the PM to live in Number 10 with her. After all, the citizens own that house too. If not there you might have more success with the Palace of Westminster.

Are you admitting that Washington D C is corrupt?

Oh the joy at seeing the hypocrisy writ large! They really don't like having a tiny part of the uninvited immigrants that cross the border being in THEIR areas. I especially enjoyed the spectacle of them being dropped outside Kamala Harris's residence. Go Desantis, go. You're the man for '24!

Imperialism was the norm back then, but of course every thing done by our ancestors was bad, according to some ( perhaps those with a guilt complex ). I wasn't alive back then and I feel no personal responsibility for what happened, especially given my forebears lived in a colonized country. I certainly do not feel any need to apologize for anything that happened hundreds of years ago when every country behaved the same way. Some were just more successful than others.

Possible does not indicate convictable fact. Next.

To be disturbed by that one might have to believe that the movement will grow and grow to be a significant player in US politics. Personally I doubt it.

Irrelevant as he can't stand again till 2024. I guess a lot depends on Biden ( or his replacement- Harris would be excellent for turning the folk to the GOP IMO ) and how he does in the next 2 years. Two years is a very long time in politics.

LOL. If you are not aware of why Washington is not popular in areas of the US you can't have been paying attention. To detail everything wrong with Washington would take too long and is probably off topic. Why else do you think Trump was elected?

While Trump may not be your cup of tea, no one gets to be POTUS if they don't have any intelligence. It's a long journey to the polling station and those that are as bad as you think he is would never make it to the end. In the end though, IMO he was just the less worst choice of candidate, which says a lot about American politics.

Blame that on the genetic imperative to reproduce. Reproduction is one of the few absolute imperatives other than eating. Most males of all species on the planet have to "prove" in some way to the female that their genes are worth using, but men were cursed in that human females don't have to be in heat to be sexually attractive, which means we lose our minds every day, and porn is probably the most watched thing on the internet. I was happy to be an an all male base in Antarctica, as it removed the insanity for me. The guys that had wives/ GFs back home still had the desire because they phoned them all the time. I was lucky that I didn't have a GF back home.

If I ever think about my family it's of my younger brother that died when I was 4. I remember nothing about him, but I wonder that if he had lived what sort of relationship we would have. I hope a close one. Never having had the chance to be in a relationship with him is IMO sadder than if he had lived and we fell out. That happened with one of my sisters and to be honest I don't care if I never see her again.

Good for you. However, I spent 24 years working for the benefit of people and getting paid sod all to do so. Was it worth it- NO. Given the chance to go back I'd do something that made me rich and let someone else do the looking after people for sod all.

The story of Adam and Eve explains that. God looked after them and they never had a problem, never got sick, never hungry etc. Then they were kicked out of Eden and left to get on with it as best they could. Can't have it both ways.

Some of us believe because we looked around and saw a world that came into being because the creator provided the material to do so many billions of years ago. The evidence is there if one chooses to look, but we can't make you see it. Of course we believe because we had a personal experience that opened our eyes to God. Exactly what form God takes is different depending on the believer, but the common belief is that God created us and everything. I guess if one doesn't have a road to Damascus moment one doesn't believe, but I certainly did. God is not incompatible with science, as God created the physical rules of the universe. If one does not believe in God, explain where the material to form the universe came from. Did it just magically appear out of nowhere? That wouldn't be very scientific, would it?

Rehashing the past 510 pages? IMO God created life the universe and everything and everything in it is of equal importance. Why do you assume that God has any human emotions, eg love? There is nothing to say that God does except human desires. You might as well ask why black holes exist and destroy everything dragged into them such as suns and planets with all their life. Some people are born deformed because something went wrong, not because a being ordained that they should be born so. IMO to assume God is in any way like humans is a nonsense, let alone illogical.

The early stories of God were based on human values and life back then was brutal ergo God was brutal ( unless one believes the Bible was actually written by God, and I certainly do not ). I do not ascribe human values or emotions to a being that can create universes, but nor do I think God "cares" about us as individuals. IMO God created life the universe and everything and left the universe to get on with it. For all I know, God has made millions of universes, trying to get it right. IMO, if God actually took an interest in this individual planet, God would eliminate us to allow the possibility of a better species to take over. Perhaps God sent the asteroid to eliminate the dinosaurs because they didn't become more intelligent.

I have no doubt that a super intelligent species inhabited Earth many millenia ago, given what they left behind, but they vanished for some reason. Just look at the ancient stone cutting in Sth America, to know that advanced technology existed. No way primitive people without the ability to use specialized metals ( or a type of laser ) for cutting could have made those cuts. I do not know if they were from another planet, but that's possible.

I do.

We didn't do much talking and can't fake an orgasm if one knows the physical changes that happen during one.