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Christianity Etc › Re: The Matter Of Homosexuality by budaatum: 9:44pm On Jan 07, 2019
Christianity Etc › Re: Your Beliefs by budaatum: 9:39pm On Jan 07, 2019
HellVictorinho:
Why the if's?
And there was no condition put in place by anyone.
Laws are actually observations-turn-derivations-turn-principles.
There can't be laws when the things that are meant to follow them don't exist.
Laws are determined in science, they are not designed.
And that is why we keep testing.
So,we can get the needed picture.
The law of gravitation was not "determined". It was discovered.
Christianity Etc › Re: Your Beliefs by budaatum: 8:57pm On Jan 07, 2019
HellVictorinho:
No one did it,it was bound to happen..
Agree that no one or thing "did it". And guess, "bound to happen", after the fact. Though certain conditions must have prevailed for what was bound to happen to happen, and if the conditions had been any different, the universe might not have ended up as it has.

HellVictorinho:
The formula shows that the Existential Constant as a phenomenon effects Actuality timelessly.
Sounds the same as when someone says "God done it. The Bible says so". Lol.
Politics › Re: FIRS Breaks All-time Record, Generates N5.3trn In One Year by budaatum: 8:17pm On Jan 07, 2019
aonag:
every nation borrows to fund budget... hear yourself.
Here's some education for you:

Why do governments borrow money?
Politics › Re: FIRS Breaks All-time Record, Generates N5.3trn In One Year by budaatum: 8:10pm On Jan 07, 2019
aonag:
every nation borrows to fund budget... hear yourself.
I did hear myself. Every nation borrows to fund its budget!
Christianity Etc › Re: God's Omnipotence Contradicts The Requirement For Free Will In God's Plan. by budaatum: 8:09pm On Jan 07, 2019
XxSabrinaxX:
How does it make any sense to punish a man for crime you not only knew will happen, but you could easily stop and spare everyone the pain of the result?
Show some mercy! angry His God did make amends in the end by sacrificing its only begotten son and thereby taking on some of the pain itself.

But one still must ask why not spare the pain to start with!
Christianity Etc › Re: God's Omnipotence Contradicts The Requirement For Free Will In God's Plan. by budaatum: 8:02pm On Jan 07, 2019
XxSabrinaxX:
Come on, muttley grin. You're supposed to be smarter than this. Its not a matter of consistency and you know that very well. He knew the implications of Adam eating the fruit. Being the all loving, merciful god he is, he could have easily found a way to salvage the situation without subjecting mankind through all this torture. I'm beginning to question your knowledge on this subject, muttley.
Simply not pointing it out might have made them less curious about it. Planting it where they couldn't see it might have made it less obvious. Making it a very tall tree might have made it's fruit unreachable. Making the fruit unedible is also an option along with creating Adam and Eve to go blind when looking in the general direction of said tree. Lots of options for a benevolent knowitall god, and not your God muttley, who the more you defend it the more it comes across as a "malevolent manipulator and not a loving god" at all!
Politics › Re: FIRS Breaks All-time Record, Generates N5.3trn In One Year by budaatum:
aonag:
but nigeria is borrowing to fund her budget. who are we deceiving in this country if its not ourselves?
Every nation borrows to fund its budget. You borrow to spend then pay it back with tax revenue.
Christianity Etc › Re: Your Beliefs by budaatum: 7:39pm On Jan 07, 2019
HellVictorinho:
I don't need a link to understand that time creates limits.
I need a link to what you told me to go and read! It makes what you direct to easier to find.

Anyway, I've read it. I think you are formulating your ideas which is commendable. But you need to work on presenting it some more for clarity, both for yourself and others.

You wrote:

"If we don't know what was happening before the Big Bang that led to the formation of systems in our Universe, we don't have to assume that nothing was happening."

Which I wholly agree with, and add, 'and neither should we assume a god done it when the truth is, we don't know!'
Christianity Etc › Re: Your Beliefs by budaatum: 7:29pm On Jan 07, 2019
HellVictorinho:
Read my post in the 'Timing of Existence'.
It(my post) ends with a formula this time around.
Post a link to it!
Christianity Etc › Re: Your Beliefs by budaatum: 7:28pm On Jan 07, 2019
9inches:
Steve Hawking says "there was nothing around before the big bang."
You need to try to understand this in the proper context. Hawkins was not that stupid!

"Since events before the Big Bang have no observational consequences, one might as well cut them out of the theory, and say that time began at the Big Bang," he wrote.

This does not explicitly mean there was nothing. What it means is there is no evidence of anything so there is no point wasting the time and energy thinking excessively about it.

My point is he is not saying there is “nothing” in a certain sense of there being nothing at all but rather there being nothing in the way of observable space-time so nothing in the sense of the modern physical understanding of the world.

"Nothing was around before the big, big bang," Hawking told deGrasse Tyson.

This was said in response to the question “what space was like before the universe began.” and obviously if there is no space-time there is no space so nothing is the response.

I do not think it should be read as certain. It’s a conversation between very smart people about what they think. Not what is categorically true.

Quora
Christianity Etc › Re: Your Beliefs by budaatum: 7:18pm On Jan 07, 2019
HellVictorinho:
It is not true that there was a time when nothing existed.
Was there? How do you know? Is it true that there was a time when nothing existed?
Christianity Etc › Re: Your Beliefs by budaatum: 7:16pm On Jan 07, 2019
9inches:
So which/what was the first "big [some]thing" that started the rest? Did Buddha say what it was and what it was made of? In short, when was the beginning of "something"?
I cited buda, as in budaatum, and not Buddha! Do not mistake me for what I am not.

9inches:
Philosophically and theologically, if something came into existence at a certain point in time, that is, if it had a beginning, then there needs to be a cause, an explanation, for why it came to be. But if something exists outside of time, like God, then it does not need an explanation for its beginning, because it does not have one.
Yes, I agree that "if something came into existence at a certain point in time, that is, if it had a beginning, then there needs to be a cause, an explanation, for why it came to be". So God too must have a cause!

"Outside of time"? When was that exactly?

9inches:
So, the question of who created God would be nonsensical, because it amounts to asking “who created an uncreated being?”
But you yourself said, "if something came into existence at a certain point in time, that is, if it had a beginning, then there needs to be a cause, an explanation, for why it came to be" !

A thing that exists, came into existence because it was created. Now your making me think God was not created so God does not exist! Which is it please?
Christianity Etc › Re: God's Omnipotence Contradicts The Requirement For Free Will In God's Plan. by budaatum: 6:48pm On Jan 07, 2019
XxSabrinaxX:
huh huh .....I didn't get you
I'm admiring your patience.
Christianity Etc › Re: God's Omnipotence Contradicts The Requirement For Free Will In God's Plan. by budaatum: 6:46pm On Jan 07, 2019
XxSabrinaxX:
I believe that God does not exist. I did not choose to.
Muttley is working on the premise that you did chose to believe what you believe. And that you could very easily just chose the opposite, that God does exist, and you won't be damned.

What you reckon, muttley? Her choice or not?
Christianity Etc › Re: God's Omnipotence Contradicts The Requirement For Free Will In God's Plan. by budaatum: 6:39pm On Jan 07, 2019
XxSabrinaxX:
There's more where that came from, but let's leave it at 5 bible verses.
It is beautiful seeing the other cheek turned!
Christianity Etc › Re: Free Will Is An Illusion by budaatum: 6:30pm On Jan 07, 2019
LoJ:
This is a very interesting topic. I shall offer my opinion as follows.

Free will does exist but for most people it is an illusion.

What we think are evidences of free will (freedom to choose one thing over another) are almost all the time actually the effects of previous causes, known or unknown. Our present character tastes habits and therefore choices are shaped by previous causes such as environment, circumstances, events, subliminal impulses, unconscious influences that lead us to make them, while we deceive ourselves that we are freely making our choices.

There is an interesting concept in psychology called the illusion of control. It shows how people can be led to a definite response while believing they have the control and are freely making their choices. This was once illustrated by a TV series called "The mentalist". I would encourage people watch season 6 episode 16 to get what I mean.

In a nutshell, my point is we are (at least most of us) not really free (willed). Rather we are determined and the actions we take are the effects of some Causes which in turn were previously caused.

True free will does exist though. It is the ability to liberate oneself by annihilating the effects of all previous causes. Then one becomes similar to a primary cause, meaning he has the ability to iniate a new sequence in the system, a new series of unending causes and effects . One then has the potential of a god.
When I read about Jesus Christ, I understand him to be freeing people from slavery and the illusion of free will. And then I meet 'Christians' who are enslaved to their idea of God! It's like they completely abandoned everything Jesus taught and subject themselves to everything he fought and gave his life to free them from. What a complete and total waste of the blood of Christ, I say.

And then, I rejoice! For he is going to return one day!
Christianity Etc › Re: Free Will Is An Illusion by budaatum: 6:22pm On Jan 07, 2019
PastorAIO:
Who is the God that would have created God's character?

Created or not, God has a character and his actions are Character bound. Ergo God doesn't have absolute free will.
The creator of God that would have created God's character tends to go unnamed, perhaps because it's an unknown God creator.

You know like Yahweh sent his only begotten son? Perhaps Yahweh too is the 'sent only begotten son' of the God creator! Do note though that this is a new thought which you provoked, and I will be thinking it further. The idea of nothing out of nothing just never worked for me. And there is something about an unknown God somewhere.

I do think part of Yahweh's character is free will. In what sense are you suggesting it isn't absolute?
Christianity Etc › Re: Your Beliefs by budaatum: 6:21am On Jan 07, 2019
9inches:
Could you please cite any atheist who believes something came out of "something" and not "nothing". Thanks!
I cite buda. Something had to exist to go bang (assuming there was a bang). It must have been a big thing that existed, hence big bang. And even if there were no bang and gods did it. They'd have had to have existed in order to create what didn't exist. And something must have existed to create the gods themselves, and something must have existed to create whatever created whatever created the gods, and something must have existed to create whatever created whatever created whatever created the gods, and something must have existed........ad infinitum.

buda cited.
Christianity Etc › Re: Free Will Is An Illusion by budaatum: 6:07am On Jan 07, 2019
HellVictorinho:
Alright, I was a bright kid with the mind of a marsian.
Now,I am a great dude with nothing but a ration.
No passions,I will make a great fiction.
Is this real or rap?
I guess you might feel like taking a nap.
I'm going to take your raps as an apology, though, you really need not offer one because you in no way offended me. You were simply exerting you free will to be you, but as in all societies, there are rules, though, that's not to say anyone must obey them. However, there are consequences too, which one must be aware of. I for instance, may chose to write whatever I like, that would be me exercising my free will, but if I come on here claiming white were black, for instance and ask others to accept it as so, I would, by so doing, invite other free willed people to form an opinion of me which may not be one I appreciate but without accepting that I called it upon myself.

Anyway hell, indeed you are bright. Your brightness enlightens the place and that's what is appreciated in you. Besides, your brightness makes us all brighter and meaningful. So don't stop being bright and meaningful. You'd be selling us all short if you do.

Once again, welcome to the religious section of Nairaland. You, sir, are meaningful, to me.
Christianity Etc › Re: Free Will Is An Illusion by budaatum: 10:26pm On Jan 06, 2019
HellVictorinho:
All things are ultimately Meaningless.
I bought data, with money, that I worked for, to come on here, to spend my valuable time and my highly developed mind to discuss with you, and not one of those things, including you, is meaningless to me.

You are very welcome to ask me to reconsider where you are concerned though, hell. For it is possible that I might be mistaken.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 10:12pm On Jan 06, 2019
Foreign Affairs › Robert De Niro Doesn't Love Trump! by budaatum(op): 10:11pm On Jan 06, 2019
“When you see someone like [Trump] becoming president, I thought, well, OK, let’s see what he does – maybe he’ll change. But he just got worse. It showed me that he is a real racist. I thought maybe as a New Yorker he understands the diversity in the city but he’s as bad as I thought he was before – and much worse. It’s a shame. It’s a bad thing in this country.”

“He’s a con artist. He’s a huckster. He’s a scam artist. And what bothers me is that people don’t see that. I think that The Apprentice had a lot to do with that, which I never saw but once, maybe. It’s all smoke and mirrors, it’s all bullshit.” [url=The Guardian: Robert De Niro: ‘Trump is a real racist, a white supremacist’.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/06/robert-de-niro-trump-is-a-real-racist-a-white-supremacist]Guardian[/url]



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFpFDyKeqyA
Christianity Etc › Re: Free Will Is An Illusion by budaatum: 9:49pm On Jan 06, 2019
MuttleyLaff:
Who streaks in sub 5o anyway. Besides you'll get done by the Old Bill for indecent exposure or get bundled off to see a shrink
Don't mind him. He thinks he can tell me what to do!
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 9:40pm On Jan 06, 2019
raumdeuter:
Your ancestors probably killed twins or did human sacrifice or invaded other peoples land to take slaves like was the norm in those days

So its hypocritical for you today to condemn people killing twins, people getting killed for human sacrifice or invasion of other peoples land
Ouch, lol!
Christianity Etc › Re: Free Will Is An Illusion by budaatum: 9:27pm On Jan 06, 2019
Ihedinobi3:
it has been my observation that atheists assume that embracing atheism confirms that they are astronomically intelligent - certainly more intelligent
Where'd you get that from? Atheists really are just as human as non-atheists. Neither has an exclusive hold on astronomic stupidity, as I'm sure you've noticed despite the assumptions of some!
Christianity Etc › Re: Free Will Is An Illusion by budaatum: 9:24pm On Jan 06, 2019
HellVictorinho:
You can as well strip naked on the streets.
If I want to, I will. But considering it's sub 5o where I am, I'd rather not at the moment, thanks.
Foreign Affairs › Re: American Politics Thread: Democrats Take Control Of Congress by budaatum: 9:21pm On Jan 06, 2019
Christianity Etc › Re: The Explanation For Existence by budaatum: 8:57pm On Jan 06, 2019
HellVictorinho:
As regards the physical/math formulas,I could go with letters instead of numbers.
I can surprise you guys!!!!, smiley
You are welcome to. And letters are acceptable in mathematical formulas.

But do note that I am unlikely to be able to comprehend it. And would very probably not agree that what you would have posted were correct, so would check if it were with all my abilities plus some. I after all know people who are way much better at maths than I am.
Christianity Etc › Re: My Journey To Freethinking by budaatum: 8:52pm On Jan 06, 2019
Ihedinobi3:
I was aware that you are an atheist, budaatum. My question was about your objection to that existence of hell. What is your argument in that regard? Assuming that a God exists, why would hell not make sense then? Or is it your position that if a God does exist, then it follows that Hell should exist as well and this would not be a contradiction in any way?
Assuming a God does exist, and that God creates a hell, there would be no reason for the hell such a God creates to not exist since it is has created it. And if the purpose for that God creating hell is to punish people for what it considers sin, it would be rather odd for such a God not to use the hell it created, even if it is only used as a threat.

Do be aware that one can equally assume a god exists that has no desire to create a hell. And provided everything that does exist is created by that god, and the desire of that god does not change, the only way that a hell can possibly exist is if there were some other god that exists to create it.

The added assumption here is that hells are created by gods, of course. My arguments above stops working once one assumes hells just exist regardless of creating gods, or not.
Christianity Etc › Re: The Explanation For Existence by budaatum: 8:39pm On Jan 06, 2019
HellVictorinho:
I guess I am still finding it hard to ignore geensteejay.
Trust me, it matters not whether you ignore geensteejay or anyone else on this forum, that would be your freely chosen choice. But do note that the choice is ours whether we ignore you or not as long as you are on here. And I haven't chosen to, yet, as you might note.

By the way, welcome to the religious section of Nairaland. Your days will be long and you will prosper.
Christianity Etc › Re: The Explanation For Existence by budaatum: 8:34pm On Jan 06, 2019
HellVictorinho:
But,I know why you are typing like this.
I am very much assured that you do not know why I have typed any of my responses to you! I in fact doubt you really read a single word anyone has said in response to you despite we all saying the same thing!

Please know that I have chosen, by my free will, to respond to you. The very least you can do is not claim I said what I never wrote, and which you can very easily confirm.

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