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VOLUNTARY HUMAN EXTINCTION MOVEMENT!

2012-08-15T14:03:00.001-07:00

Has anyone heard of Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) ? Here is its website: http://www.vhemt.org Please share your opinions. Personally, I do not agree with its statements. What about you?

An Ignorant Sinner

2012-08-12T13:21:00.001-07:00

Will an ignorant sinner that sinned all his life, did abominations and all, confesses and accepts God before he dies go to heaven but a good man who does not believe be cast in hell fire? my mind has difficulty with this. please help me understand.

Problems Differentiating Heaven From Hell.

2012-08-11T20:57:00.001-07:00

Once you get to heaven, you are shown ur mansions built with Gold but u cant sleep in them remember? There's neither night nor day up there. You are then shown your streets made of gold, but when gold becomes that common, it becomes worthless... Just like sand... And no one would want to buy.. U can neither marry, have children, nor buy new cars. You can't even laugh, you'd be too busy singing praises unto God... Honestly, i don't doubt if heaven exists... I'm just having problems differentiating it from hell.

WHY DO WE EXIST?

2012-08-06T21:57:00.000-07:00

We are born and DING here we are without any clue as to what this is. What is this thing we are experiencing and why am I here? It doesn't make any damn sense. How can anyone carry on and do anything as if they know what they are doing when nobody knows what this is. This existence is a prision, we are all very confined and unaware of what else there is. Either that or there isn't anything else, this is all there is and we will cease to exist upon death. I would gladly die now if that is the case.

Religion: WHICH ONE IS TRUE?

2012-08-06T07:03:00.000-07:00

I have observed that people of different religions are convinced that theirs is the one true religion. Christians believe Christianity is the true way, Hindus believe Hinduism is the way, Muslims believe Islam is the way, etc etc. How is it that one "gets" a religion? Excluding converting, isn't the fact that one is BORN into a family of a particular religion determine that persons religion? So if you are born into a Christian family, you are Christian and if you are born into a Muslim family then you are Muslim. You will grow up being taught and perhaps believing that Christianity is the one True way to God and all others aren't really the true way. But then, what if you would have been born, lets say, a Muslim. So then, you would be following the "not really true way". But you wouldn't think of it that way because you would be Muslim, which you would be convinced is the true way. My point is, religion is arbitrary. You were born into it. You could just as easily been born someone else. Then you would belong to a religion that you in your present life are told is not right. Think about that.

What Do You Think Of Dreams?

2012-08-01T04:49:00.003-07:00

Do you feel dreams have any use or do you feel they are generally just meaningless? I have had all kinds of different dreams and although I've never given it much thought I do tend to wonder if they are trying to tell me something, if my brain is trying to tell me something, and if they affect my life when I'm awake. What about dreams you don't remember? We all dream at night but only remember a fraction of them. Do you believe they affect us if we don't remember them? In general, if something happens to us and we don't remember, does it matter? Thanks

A few question, interested in everybody's opinions

2012-08-01T04:42:00.001-07:00

Religion - What does faith ask of me? Science - has information replaced faith? Technology - does it enslave or set us free? Philosophy - What is the sense of being? Psychology - Can we account for consciousness materially? Ethics - On what is moral value based? Aeshetics - What is the use of the imagination? Politics - is violence justified by commitment to freedom? History - What are we progresing into? They might keep you going for a while.

IGNOSTIC or AGNOSTIC?

2012-07-29T15:28:00.001-07:00

What do you call believe that there is something 'Higher' out there, but don't put a specific face on it?

Questioning God's Existence

2012-07-28T03:53:00.000-07:00

I'm particularly interested in discussing subject that have at least something to do with God or an all-powerful being. Do you or don't you believe in a god/all-powerful being and WHY? If you are an agnostic, why? (I think a discussion like this would be helpful to many people here including myself).

COULD THIS BE THE END OF RELIGION?

2012-07-28T03:27:00.005-07:00

The Higgs boson is perhaps better known by its sexier nickname: the "God particle."
But in fact, many scientists, including the physicist for whom it is named, dislike the term.
In 1993 when American physicist Leon Lederman was writing a book on the Higgs boson, he dubbed it "the goddamn particle." An editor suggested "the God particle" instead.
One thing is clear: The July 4 discovery that marked a new chapter in scientific knowledge also reignited debate over the universe's origins -- and the validity of religious faith as scientific knowledge expands.
The Higgs boson explains why particles have mass -- and in turn why we exist. Without the boson, the universe would have no physical matter, only energy.
The cosmological implications are hotly debated. Can God fit in a scientific story of creation?
The answer is "no" for Lawrence M. Krauss, an Arizona State University theoretical physicist. He argued in Newsweek that the Higgs boson discovery "posits a new story of our creation" independent of religious belief.

"Humans, with their remarkable tools and their remarkable brains, may have just taken a giant step toward replacing metaphysical speculation with empirically verifiable knowledge," he wrote.
With enough data, physics would make God obsolete, he said. "If we can describe the laws of nature back to the beginning of time without any supernatural shenanigans, it becomes clear that you don't need God."
Religious believers see things differently.
Vatican astronomer Guy Consolmagno argued in a Washington Post column that scientifically deduced universal laws expose "the personality" of God. "The mysteries revealed by modern science are a constant reminder that reality is bigger than our day-to-day lives," he wrote.
Alternative medicine guru Deepak Chopra said in a YouTube video that the boson hints at a divine interconnectedness of all things.
"It only strengthens the notion that the universe comes out of a nothingness which is everything," he said.
This much is true: Higgs bosons -- which permeate the universe -- help us understand how something comes from nothing.
The awe we feel with this heady topic causes even nonreligious people to use religious language, said Philip Clayton, dean of Claremont School of Theology and a researcher of science and religion.
"Humans are really fascinated with what we know scientifically and what lies right at the boundaries of what we can know," he said.
Albert Einstein's quip that God "doesn't play dice with the world" is a metaphor to help explain our quest for order in a world that seems chaotic, Clayton said.
Such metaphorical language helps to explain the world at the particle level where physical laws such as gravity break down, and physicists rely on abstractions to describe how particles interact.
Clayton said discussing whether the discovery "disproves religion or supports creation" misses the point. "The fans and the foes of religion ... are overreaching on both sides. The quest for the Higgs boson, and its ultimate discovery, neither proves nor disproves God," he wrote in a Huffington Post column.
But Krauss says science isn't trying to disprove God. Rather, data only have to offer an explanation for the universe that would make a divine creator redundant. When English physicist Peter Higgs proposed the Higgs boson in 1964, it helped codify an incomplete model of the universe. This model was shown accurate through experimentation culminating in July 4's discovery.
Krauss said further experimentation will lead toward a "unified theory" of the universe that accounts for everything from quarks to galaxies.
"That's the difference between science and religion," he said. "We don't require the universe to be what we want -- we force our beliefs to conform to the evidence of reality."Source

EFCC Dumps Lawan Committee Report

2012-07-21T02:57:00.001-07:00

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is not making use of the investigative report on the fuel subsidy management conducted by the House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee led by Mr. Farouk Lawan.

Investigations show that the EFCC leadership views the Lawan committee’s report, which is enmeshed in a $620,000 bribe controversy involving Lawan and oil magnate, Femi Otedola, as a mere fact-finding exercise lacking the force for prosecution.

The commission believes that the investigation conducted by the ad hoc committee, which revealed the theft of N1.07tn subsidy funds by oil importers and their collaborators, can’t be relied upon to prosecute anybody.

Although the commission, which commenced its independent investigation in April, did not dwell on the House report, it did not dismiss it in its entirety.

The Lawan committee recommended that 72 companies be investigated by “the relevant anti-corruption agencies in order to establish their culpability and to recover the N230.1bn said to have been misappropriated by them.”

SATURDAY PUNCH gathered that the commission was relying on the investigation led by its Director of Operations, Mr. Laolu Adegbite, to bring those indicted in the administration of the subsidy funds to book.

The EFCC team, comprising over 60 operatives, who visited oil installations across the country and other vital oil distribution points, did not focus only on the oil importers as was the case in the House of Representatives’ report.

It is the view of the leadership of the commission that all those found to have played various roles in the issue of the subsidy and whose names came up during the investigations would face prosecution irrespective of whether the person is an importer, or a Petroleum Products Pricing Regulatory Agency or the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation worker.

Although the Attorney-General and Minister of Justice, Mr. Mohammed Adoke, said last week that the commission might commence prosecution of indicted oil importers next week, investigations showed that Adegbite and his men were still probing.

However, the commission has gone very far in its investigation and has come up with enough findings to approach the court for prosecution.

“The report was not discussed as an issue, but assurances were given that as soon as the EFCC finishes its assignment, which is very soon, you will begin to see prosecution probably in the next one week.

“So, Nigerians should rest assured that this is not an issue that will be swept under the carpet.

“We have gone this far because we want a proper and painstaking investigation done so that when we charge people to court, there will be no lapses or loopholes for lawyers to explore,” the AGF had told State House correspondents after a meeting of the three arms of government in Abuja.

source:www.punchng.com/news/efcc-dumps-lawan-ctte-report/

Why are there so many atheists compared to agnostics?

2012-07-21T02:26:00.001-07:00

I am curious as to why so many people are atheists (in comparison to agnostics). In my opinion, believing that no god or deity exists is almost as silly as believing that they do exist. Both cases lack tangible evidence. Is it because those atheists are actually agnostic but do not know the differences? It's quite ironic, actually, to think that atheists, who disregard religions due to lack of evidence, hold a stance that has no evidence or proof.

Two Corpers Fighting

2012-07-21T02:04:00.001-07:00

Indiscipline at its peak

Ramadan Mubarak

2012-07-21T01:19:00.000-07:00

Prophet said:
"Whoever stood for the prayers in the night of Qadr out of sincere faith and
hoping for a reward from Allah, then all his previous sins will be forgiven"

May Divine Pour His blessings on you like rain throughout this holy month. Amin