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Death Is Not The Opposite Of Life, It Simply Is The Absence Of It. by FoxyRebirth(m): 8:40am On Feb 06, 2013
Professor : You are a Christian, aren’t you, son ?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, you believe in GOD ?

Student : Absolutely, sir.

Professor : Is GOD good ?

Student : Sure.

Professor: Is GOD all powerful ?

Student : Yes.

Professor: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn’t. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?

(Student was silent.)

Professor: You can’t answer, can you ? Let’s start again, young fella. Is GOD good?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Is satan good ?

Student : No.

Professor: Where does satan come from ?

Student : From … GOD …

Professor: That’s right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student : Yes.

Professor: Evil is everywhere, isn’t it ? And GOD did make everything. Correct?

Student : Yes.

Professor: So who created evil ?

(Student did not answer.)

Professor: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don’t they?

Student : Yes, sir.

Professor: So, who created them ?

(Student had no answer.)

Professor: Science says you have 5 Senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son, have you ever seen GOD?

Student : No, sir.

Professor: Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?

Student : No , sir.

Professor: Have you ever felt your GOD, tasted your GOD, smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any sensory perception of GOD for that matter?

Student : No, sir. I’m afraid I haven’t.

Professor: Yet you still believe in Him?

Student : Yes.

Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn’t exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student : Nothing. I only have my faith.

Professor: Yes, faith. And that is the problem Science has.

Student : Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Professor: Yes.

Student : And is there such a thing as cold?

Professor: Yes.

Student : No, sir. There isn’t.

(The lecture theater became very quiet with this turn of events.)

Student : Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don’t have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat, but we can’t go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.

(There was pin-drop silence in the lecture theater.)

Student : What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Professor: Yes. What is night if there isn’t darkness?

Student : You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light. But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn’t it? In reality, darkness isn’t. If it is, well you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?

Professor: So what is the point you are making, young man ?

Student : Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Professor: Flawed ? Can you explain how?

Student : Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good GOD and a bad GOD. You are viewing the concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, Science can’t even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.

Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student : Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?

(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument was going.)

Student : Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavor. Are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?

(The class was in uproar.)

Student : Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor’s brain?

(The class broke out into laughter. )

Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor’s brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says that you have no brain, sir. With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?

(The room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face unfathomable.)

Professor: I guess you’ll have to take them on faith, son.

Student : That is it sir … Exactly ! The link between man & GOD is FAITH. That is all that keeps things alive and moving.

P.S.

I believe you have enjoyed the conversation. And if so, you’ll probably want your friends / colleagues to enjoy the same, won’t you?

Forward this to increase their knowledge … or FAITH.

By the way, that student was EINSTEIN.

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Re: Death Is Not The Opposite Of Life, It Simply Is The Absence Of It. by Affiliated(m): 12:47am On Feb 07, 2013
LIES. Einstein's only religion was science. LIES LIES AND MORE LIES
Re: Death Is Not The Opposite Of Life, It Simply Is The Absence Of It. by Nobody: 1:19pm On Feb 07, 2013
Affiliated: LIES. Einstein's only religion was science. LIES LIES AND MORE LIES
Is science a religion?
Re: Death Is Not The Opposite Of Life, It Simply Is The Absence Of It. by Affiliated(m): 1:35pm On Feb 07, 2013
Reyginus: Is science a religion?

Einstein's own words

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
Re: Death Is Not The Opposite Of Life, It Simply Is The Absence Of It. by Affiliated(m): 1:40pm On Feb 07, 2013
Foxy_Rebirth:

Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?

Professor: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.


More asinine ignorant lies. The natural evolutionary process doesn't teach that humans evolved from monkeys.

Seriously, who writes these nonsense?
Re: Death Is Not The Opposite Of Life, It Simply Is The Absence Of It. by Nobody: 2:04pm On Feb 07, 2013
Affiliated:

Einstein's own words

"It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
He never insinuated it is a religion. All he did was to draw a meaning from an analogy. His point is, since science is a practical and proven way to define the mysteries the religionists claim to have access to, it is as a matter of fact the real interpretation of the word.
Re: Death Is Not The Opposite Of Life, It Simply Is The Absence Of It. by Affiliated(m): 3:30pm On Feb 07, 2013
Reyginus: He never insinuated it is a religion. All he did was to draw a meaning from an analogy. His point is, since science is a practical and proven way to define the mysteries the religionists claim to have access to, it is as a matter of fact the real interpretation of the word.

Foxy_Rebirth [OP]: Bunch of crap

Affiliated [Me]: LIES. Einstein's only religion was science. LIES LIES AND MORE LIES

Reyginus [You]: Is science a religion?

Affiliated [Me]: Quoting Einstein: If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Reyginus [You]: He never insinuated it is a religion. All he did was to draw a meaning from an analogy. His point is, since science is a practical and proven way to define the mysteries the religionists claim to have access to, it is as a matter of fact the real interpretation of the word.

Affiliated [Me]: I am well aware of that fact and when I say Einstein's only religion was science, I meant it in the sense that the ends of religion is what Einstein tried to achieve with science. Just like the Equinox whose motto is "The methods of science, the aim of religion"

It seems to me that we are saying the same thing
Re: Death Is Not The Opposite Of Life, It Simply Is The Absence Of It. by Nobody: 2:14am On Feb 10, 2013
Affiliated:

Foxy_Rebirth [OP]: Bunch of crap

Affiliated [Me]: LIES. Einstein's only religion was science. LIES LIES AND MORE LIES

Reyginus [You]: Is science a religion?

Affiliated [Me]: Quoting Einstein: If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

Reyginus [You]: He never insinuated it is a religion. All he did was to draw a meaning from an analogy. His point is, since science is a practical and proven way to define the mysteries the religionists claim to have access to, it is as a matter of fact the real interpretation of the word.

Affiliated [Me]: I am well aware of that fact and when I say Einstein's only religion was science, I meant it in the sense that the ends of religion is what Einstein tried to achieve with science. Just like the Equinox whose motto is "The methods of science, the aim of religion"

It seems to me that we are saying the same thing
Good for you, if that's what you mean.

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