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Christianity Etc › Re: Why Mohamed Cannot Possibly Be A Prophet Of The True God. by johnydon22(m): 7:54pm On Oct 13, 2015
Teempakguy:
muhammad did all these?

lies! i don't believe it!

give me the passages and let me go and check it myself. angry


Muhammed was a complete Pervert.. he was a chronic pedophile ..

He married a child of 6 and consummated the marriage at the age of 9 . . He was a complete lunatic pervert..

He even claimed to have rode a flying horse and split the moon

like WTFhuh

And people with brains actually believe this shiit just like some believe someone was strolling on a body of water..

Anyway Muhammed was actually a despicable human in respect to his pedophilia actions..

But i don't really interfere on a thread like this where people be dragging who got the better imaginary friend.. I just let them do that in peace ..wink
Christianity Etc › Re: Odinani: The Sacred Arts & Sciences Of The Igbo People by johnydon22(m): 7:48pm On Oct 13, 2015
philfearon:
Abialite gi m osiso..mana onweghi ihe mebiri. Ebe o bu Na nwanne anyi nwoke menesheh agozie la oji,ka onye o bula Tara ya tata ihunanya,oganiru,obioma.. Ngozi diri kwa onye wetere oji.. Udo diri la anyi Nile ka anyi Na ata oji.. ndewo nu Umunnem!!!

Iseeee!!!!!!!!!!!!! eziokwu ka ikwuru odogwu...
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 7:36pm On Oct 13, 2015
Richirich713:
How desperate are u now?

Didn't u say I must prove the cup is on the table?

I can see all that, so far for that desperate attempt grin


Honestly brother you need to gather your wits you don't even know what exactly your argument is based on..

I only replied you when you said you can see the entire table and i have shown you that contrary to that you cannot see the entire table but just part of (Just like we can't see the whole universe as you proposed)

instead of simply accepting you cannot see the entire table just like i have taught you now, you jumped into another thing all together..

So please stop the childish show of clutching on unrelated premises. . . i am trying hard to maintain this as a friendly discussion and not an argument because an arguement only breeds resentment and hostility... and if i pull it out as an argument ......

Anyway do you now agree with me you can't see the entire table contrary to what you said that you can?


Between i am still waiting for you to prove there is no Cup on that table. . .looks like you are avoiding that...? wink
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 7:23pm On Oct 13, 2015
Richirich713:
Major difference boy,
[size=20]1st I and u can see the entire table[/size] , I can see all the possible spaces where the cup can be placed on,
I can't see the entire universe, in order for me to see everything in this universe I would have to be God.
Which already shows how bad this illustration represents our argument.


Hahahahaha No sir we can't see the entire table... we are only seeing part of the table visible to us ..

You are not seeing the back of the table, under the table, behind the legs or the other side of it...

Check again to see you cannot see the entire table but only part of it..

[img]http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTtH2SNuQ39SI2MeuW7GP3DOaxzJwA-j64O7brX-tt9e8puj6cATPpCEPE[/img]

I am taking it very gently to make this discussion enjoyable to both you and everyone reading..
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 7:18pm On Oct 13, 2015
Bro this is quite wrong...let me show you
Richirich713:
1st I no science teaches that the earth is young and I no it teaches the universe is much older.
No sir actually science proposes a much much old age for the earth.. 4.5billion years old... only creationism proposes much younger age some of which is 6thousand years.

2nd Hawking is the main drive behind the big bang and he said the world came from nothing not me. It was his own words, not ur words u want in his mouth.

My good sir Msngr Georges Lamitre propounded the Big Bang theory and he is a catholic priest.. and his assertion was supported when the hubble telescope went into orbit and observed the universe was actually expanding like Lamitre proposed..


3Rd if the earth never had those things I wonder where those things came from, get it yet?
It came from the result of natural interactions..

e.g this sand dune is actually so finely done that you would argue it was done by an intelligent being ..
https://s.hswstatic.com/gif/sand-dune-1.jpg But no sir it was done by action of wind on dust...

so the beauty or precision in earth does not really suggest design but only shows diversity of natural interactions. . i wonder if Tsunamis are design too.. lol..


Again therefore there must be a creator who was eternal and intelligent not black hole manbo jumbo who with no intelligence creates the entire world intelligently.


The results we have now only shows results of which you might perceive or recognize beauty in is as a result of natural interactions of elements resulting from another...

But we should not still be quick to discard your design theory smiley we should simply keep an open mind to what we can learn through study by first agreeing we don't know ..
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 6:58pm On Oct 13, 2015
Richirich713:
No a cup does not represent God nor does a table.


And i am telling you that this has nothing to with a God... for "God" sake it just an analogy.. don't get defensive my good friend.. smiley

The cup and table represent a cup and a table not a God... are you not seeing the picture my good sir..

Is there a red cup on that table or not..... [img]http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTtH2SNuQ39SI2MeuW7GP3DOaxzJwA-j64O7brX-tt9e8puj6cATPpCEPE[/img]

One could guess the answer to this should be obvious but bro you are not tendering one at all..
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 6:54pm On Oct 13, 2015
Richirich713:
Does it look like I'm going to debate u atheists on table as if this illustration of a table proves anything.
The fact u talking nw about tables and red cups shows how weak and desperate ur argument has became.
lmao brother you are really becoming a bit hostile..

I want to illustrate for you the fully position of empirical substantiation, proof, belief and unbelief in relation to a claim..

I have no intent making it about the existence of a God so don't get defensive unnecessarily..

we all seeing the table.. so just a little attempt... it won't hurt i promise..wink
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 6:49pm On Oct 13, 2015
Richirich713:
Proving that no cup on a table proves there's no God?
Are u drunk?

No sir leave the existence of God out of this... i am only concerned with the cup..

I am not saying there is no God in fact you won't hear me say that here... so nothing concerns my cup analogy with whether God exists or not..

I only want to show you fully the full picture of every position ...
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 6:46pm On Oct 13, 2015
Richirich713:
A table and a cup does not represent our argument!


Lmao actually it does depict the premise of the argument in every sense ..

and i was hoping you would be at least honest enough to tender an answer so i can fully paint for you the picture of the whole setting.. You asked Teempakguy to prove a God doesn't exist..

why not attempt it surely my brother a table is clearly shown in that picture...
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 6:41pm On Oct 13, 2015
hahn:
What about the bottle of orijin? grin
lol..

I am still waiting for my friend to prove to me there is no cup on that table....I this will end this argument once and for all...
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 6:39pm On Oct 13, 2015
Richirich713:
Atheist believe what they no know? Hahaha
Did atheists no there's no God?


The existence of any deity is unknown now either in principle or fact... this means nobody really know the actuality of the claim because it is just a claim until proven otherwise

so i agree with you here that nobody knows if a God (any deity at all) exists or not ..(position of agnosticism) ..


No they just belief there's no God..
You keep putting atheists into one bag, No atheist do not believe there is no God (Only a gnostic atheist exhibits such tendency)

rather in the real sense, in the absence of tangible empirical substantiation, proof and the sheer implausibility of the claims abound an atheist simply disbelieves the claim (This is a position an agnostic atheist like myself..)
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op):
Richirich713:
What scientist proved this?
I thought atheists only believe In stuff that is proven?
Do u agree with Hawking proofs grin of the big bang?


One mistake you keep making here is mistaking atheism to mean scientism ..

No there is no relation between atheism and science, science is not atheism in fact science has nothing to do with atheism.

Science simply means study and is not a tool of either atheism or theism...

E.G this big bang theory was first propounded by a theist in fact not just an ordinary theist but a catholic priest Georges Lamitre

so please do not mistake atheism for scientism.

Many people are atheists but they don't even know what science is neither do they know anything about it.

Some atheist do not agree with scientific theories.

there are even many atheists who believe things like witches etc..

Some atheists as well as a good number of theists agree with scientific theories like the big bang and so forth..

Someone who is an atheist simply means someone who don't have belief in personal Gods ..
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 6:23pm On Oct 13, 2015
Richirich713:
Blah blah blah, just another way of saying u can't prove there's no God.

U don't KNOW if there's no God.
U believe there's no God, no proof.


In a postulation of a claim without empirical substantiation only the claim needs to be proven and the onus is on the claimant because how exactly can you disprove that which has not been proven to be in the first place. . . That is tantamount to nothing..

Let me demonstrate..

https://pennstateelmscollection.com/images/squarecoffeetable.png

You see this picture of a table here, I believe, i have faith that there is a red cup on it now prove to me that there is no cup on top of it..

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Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 5:27pm On Oct 13, 2015
Teempakguy:
one difference between atheists and theists is that atheists don't simply follow something because someone who purportedly has more experience in the field said it.
what happened there is simply a basic term confusion. now, what does it mean to believe?

to accept (something) as true; feel sure of the truth of.

from google.

now, you can accept that a God exists and feel sure that this is true. but why? you don't have any evidence or proof. you are just believing because you've been told to do so since birth. undecided

now, i accept that gravity is one of the fundamental forces of nature. why? i KNOW that everything i throw up comes down. because i've seen it. i've seen celestial objects. they are round. this is because of gravity.

i believe because i know. you believe what you are told. gerrit?

touche!!! nice one
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 5:24pm On Oct 13, 2015
Teempakguy:
we believe in love . . . we believe in happiness . . . we believe in truth . . . we believe in reality . . . we believe in being good . . .
and most of all, we believe that it is not required for a God somewhere to coerce us into doing what is right before we do it.

Hahahahahaha alright now this has been clarified and shown not to be the belief system i presumed.

Anyway you cannot bring atheists under one banner because surely enough not all of them share that ideology with you, so that ideology cannot be infused with the position of atheism.

these ideas you listed out are subjective to individuals and frankly enough there are theists who share that line of reason with you..

An atheistic position is not a belief, our principles are not a faith.

Atheists do not sorely rely on science and reason because these are necessities rather then sufficient factors.

But rather we distrust anything that contradicts science and outrages reason...
Christianity Etc › Re: Amazing Scientific Proof That Hell Exists. by johnydon22(m): 5:15pm On Oct 13, 2015
finofaya:
This is what you call science?
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Nigerian education system really failed us, just take a look at a sane individual identifying a planetary core as his mythical hell... **These are the dangerous effects of religions because it retards the youths..

The core of a terrestrial planet are as a result of planetary formations.

During planetary formations extremely hot debris of a starry remnant comes under the pull of gravity and clusters together as a hot spinning body this continues until the body solidifies and cools leaving a molten core but a solidified surface.

These cores are found in every terrestrial planets and even moons...

It is the source of earth's and other planet's internal heat generation..

Mars, venus, mercury, earth, our moon, ganymede, europa and many extra terrestrial bodies all have molten cores..

Now according to our brother here all these are the HELLS around. . . The more people bring out these nonsensical irrational assertions in defence of some absurd primitive belief the more i get convinced that it most times take outright simpleton to maintain a belief..

The Op was excited to pour out these lay out so as to heap his claims without even trying to research and know exactly what planetary cores are to avoid disgrace in public forums. .. .. Just take a look at this..

It has been shown clearly that belief/religion is a canoe paddled by ignorance and incuriosity.. Take away the incuriosity and knowledge from people you will only have incurious and sadly ignorant people then you can control them.

But once curiosity drives an individual and he takes back the knowledge he needs, such authorities loses their hold on such minds.

I am beginning to see a close relationship between belief and insanity..
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Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 5:01pm On Oct 13, 2015
Teempakguy:
of course, atheists have a belief system. it just doesn't revolve around an anthropomorphic god/creator.

Uuuhm what belief system exactlyhuh
Christianity Etc › Re: 5 Things That Happen When You Stop Being A Christian by johnydon22(m): 4:56pm On Oct 13, 2015
stevecantrell:
I totally share your sentiment on the above.

However, I was referring and questioning the OP's concept of "FREEDOM" and "making his own rules" in his post above.
I see no harm and being "FREE" and making your own rules as long as that doesn't impact negatively on your fellow human.

I know a few folks who took a similar decision and took an abysmal plunge as far as morality is concerned. Its uncommon but I've seen it happen.
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Being atheistic does not guarantee moral sanity in any way ...

Some people lack independent moral basis so bad that they need to clutch on some abstract concepts to be kept in check..

I have discussed extensively on this forum to know that 80% of theists here think they cannot be good without the idea of a torture prone God.

Such mindset terrifies me because if such people turn atheistic nobody need imagine what they would turn to.

Without the idea of an angry God such people might be serial killers turning the society upside down and on many of these encounters i have openly told them since belief in a God is needed to keep them in check and cub their dangerous tendencies, i am 100% in full support they maintain such beliefs.

It only takes one who understand that we are humans in a human society and therefore must live like humans towards each other knows that HUMANITY itself is the basis of human societal morality..

Too bad many has been taught that only through fear and threat can they be coerced to submit to the moral expectations of the society mostly infused with the dogmas and doctrines of the religion in effect.

For such minds that think that way; I can do nothing but discuss with them and pity them sometimes for being bolted in a psychological prison they don't even know..
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Christianity Etc › Re: 5 Things That Happen When You Stop Being A Christian by johnydon22(m): 4:35pm On Oct 13, 2015
stevecantrell:
@ OP: Ok, if you dump religion and still remain/become a decent person, then fine !

Having a belief in Gods or religion is not a determinant to human behaviour. . Humans are social beings and so their interactions with each other is necessary for human behaviour and societal norms..

Being empathic towards others, having a compassionate mind for others are necessary fundamental basis for human goodness..

Between what i find to be moral/good is your behaviour towards humans and other life forms on earth..


If you still believe in doing unto others what you would want done to you, then fine !
Personal standards and societal norms are subjective.

I make my own standards and i alone enforce it which is striving to live ethical life of personal fulfillment and aspiring for the greater good of humanity...


What isn't fine is if you dump religion and become a despicable, self-absorbed, self-involved and grandiose person in the process.


Nobody needs religion or belief in Gods to be moral, if one cannot determine the difference between right or wrong in relation to societal interactions then they lack empathy not religion.

A quick look at the Nigeria society, both north and south filled to the brim with deeply religious individuals more than 97% but hosts a disturbing amount of moral decay, greed, violence and savagery (Many of which is in the name of religions like Islamic sharia up north or jungle justice down south) affirms that religion is not and can never be a determinant of human behaviour..

Christianity Etc › Re: 5 Things That Happen When You Stop Being A Christian by johnydon22(m): 4:09pm On Oct 13, 2015
Shollyps:
nice one OP
I don't av any experience concerning DAT yet... by the time I.resume for school n I don't attend fellowship programs again that's wen wahala go start


…Hhmmm this is curious. .

what happened during your stay at home that incited the sudden change ?
Christianity Etc › Re: Odinani: The Sacred Arts & Sciences Of The Igbo People by johnydon22(m): 1:58pm On Oct 13, 2015
haffaze777:
do I free to join

Yes sir. . . In Igbo land the kola is not exempted from anybody..
Education › Re: Amazing Pictures Taken From Great Heigths by johnydon22(m): 1:04pm On Oct 13, 2015
Let me add small...

1 Trasnporting a space shuttle for lift off
2 Rocket launching with a space shuttle attached (In the clouds)
3 Night view of earth from International space station
4 pyramids jn the sunset

Christianity Etc › Re: Photo: Christians Now Practicing Polygamy And Even Call To It by johnydon22(m): 12:41pm On Oct 13, 2015
thorpido:
Are you an atheist or not?Shikena!
I'm tired of your sort of rigmarole.
Ok bye.

Proud one as a matter of fact. . I do not only disbelieve the idea of personal GODS i find the Abrahamic religion concept a very childish one..

So now a Hindu thinks they have the right God and yours is wrong, Is it right for a Hindu to term you atheist?
Christianity Etc › Re: 5 Things That Happen When You Stop Being A Christian by johnydon22(m):


This is correct not only applicable to Christianity but also Islam and other religions.

There is also this hostile tendency people have when they know someone doesn't believe in their idea of personal Gods.

There is also this fear of rejection, fear of torture and in extreme occasions death from others in the society entertained by someone who rejects or disbelieves the concept of personal Gods in this religiously/superstitiously saturated society

Many people are caught between the bridge of these steps you listed out. its a lonely, long, scary, hard and sometimes heavy step because everything you have been indoctrinated to believe crumbles before the rumbling quake of your own reason in relation to reality.

On many occasions i had helped many through their journey of self realization and independent reason..

Like i always say "The emergence of reason is a long, slow, steady and most times lonely one but the result is worth it..
Christianity Etc › Re: Odinani: The Sacred Arts & Sciences Of The Igbo People by johnydon22(m): 12:16pm On Oct 13, 2015
menesheh:
Onye wetere oji wetere ihe ahu uto, ahuto n' enye ndu na aru isi ike.
Anyi ekpe na elota ndi igbo nile, Nigeria na Africa, ebe obuna ha no.
Na afa ndi nna nna anyi

Iseee!!!!!!!! Ka isi go ka oga ere odogwu...
Christianity Etc › Re: Odinani: The Sacred Arts & Sciences Of The Igbo People by johnydon22(m): 12:15pm On Oct 13, 2015
hahn:
But I eat kola too. Why wasn't I invited? cry


In Igbo culture hospitality to strangers is a societal norm ..

And number ceremony used in welcoming someone is by presenting kola..

"Elu ta oji, ala ta oji" means "Up should eat kola and down should eat kola"

meaning it is open to everybody...

"Nno" meaning "welcome" smiley

So Nno!!!
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 12:12pm On Oct 13, 2015
hahn:
Hian! I am only following in your footsteps grin


My footsteps is when a post becomes too daft and idiotic leave it. . . The people reading it will need something to laugh over so let them see the post and slap their face at just how dumb a human can get ...
Christianity Etc › Re: Photo: Christians Now Practicing Polygamy And Even Call To It by johnydon22(m): 12:10pm On Oct 13, 2015
thorpido:
Guy,identify your self.Stop beating about the bush.
Forget about what others think,just declare who you are by your belief.
Are you ashamed of something?


Lmao you don't even know the person you were discussing with now i think you think i am the guy you were discussing with.. I believe i am well known here on my stance on personal Gods. .

So my question stems from you dubbing others who don't share your own concept of a God as atheist... Stop going round and attend to my question..

Since according to you, you have the right God and a hindu is wrong therefore to you a hindu is an atheist.

According to a hindu he has the right God and yours is wrong, are you also an atheist from the perspective of a Hindu?..

Evidently enough you have no idea what theism and atheism means...
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op):
hahn:
Do you really just enjoy subjecting yourself to ridicule? undecided


Hahahahahaha i wouldn't like being that guy now, he just doesn't understand how daft he is showing himself out to be here..

ridiculing himself ... I suggest you reply only a post worth a
. reply
Christianity Etc › Re: I Wish There Was A God (A Reply) by johnydon22(op): 11:59am On Oct 13, 2015
hahn:
At the moment, there are only theories or postulations. Science says "we don't know" but we can find out.

You say, "god did it". That doesn't make your statement a fact but another theory and a lazy one at that
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The feeble attempt is very glaring in this thread and it has been shown that every theistic argument stems from Ignorance..

Argumentum ad ignorantum.

I don't know how anything started therefore a deity must have done it..

Such arrogance in the face of ignorance is not only demeaning but dangerous to the development of our knowledge..

Is it not more noble and humbling to accept where we lack knowledge and then by accepting this lack of knowledge we create rooms for enquiry, experimentation, scrutiny and study of things that are in order to reach a truthful approximation of how things really are.

But no people sheepishly pull in a gap filler that kills our curiosity to know how it actually happened..

There is no shame in not knowing, the problem arises when irrational thoughts and attendant behaviour fills the vacuum left by ignorance..

You cannot fill a cup that is full already and worst of all filled with the wrong content..

Why not simply say i don't know so that you will be open to learning exactly how things are empirically as study reveals it..
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Christianity Etc › Re: Photo: Christians Now Practicing Polygamy And Even Call To It by johnydon22(m): 11:52am On Oct 13, 2015
thorpido:
Identify yourself as an atheist if you are one or not.Stop beating about the bush.
There's only One God and He's not the God of many religions so obviously some people are in error.


That is still the point here. . You thinks yours is the right one and others are wrong so you tag others atheists.

Others also think you are wrong and theirs is the right one so they should dub you an atheist then..

So you are an atheist?
Christianity Etc › Re: Odinani: The Sacred Arts & Sciences Of The Igbo People by johnydon22(m): 11:50am On Oct 13, 2015
hahn:
English translation please

Please my brothers/sister i have brought Igbo kola...

https://igboclass.umunagbor.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ojiigbo-1024x753.jpg

Kola is one of the most important part of Igbo culture. . . Please one person should make the kola supplications . . .

Menesheh, Philfearon, SonOfLucifer . . . Kola has come

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