zog741 wrote:
To expand on my brief remark from last night: the first 12 minutes of the video were okay. It served to jog my memory on famous faces from the past. But the last three minutes proved to be a stupid Jesus spiel. WTF? I get strung along for 12 minutes watching a video with a misleading title to get suckered in to this?
I'm just surprised that this video had no dislikes.
Next time someone tries to push their religion, can't they just get to the bloody point so I can say "no" to them faster?
-- RWM
This might get me in a whole lot of trouble...
ZOG, I am going to address your comment on religion, hoping that DANTE won't consider this a violation of the "ScaRatings" rules, that will cause him to lock this thread.
Just to let you know where I'm coming from, my grandfather, a Congregationalist minister, christened me into the Christian faith. My mother, who was an Episcopalian, made me become one too. I attended church pretty much every Sunday, sang in the youth choir, attended Sunday school, actually gave a sermon to the congregation, and was elected to President of the diocese youth fellowship group for upstate New York. Some years later I went back to Zion Episcopal Church in Rome, NY, and got married there.
Time went on and I had doubts about the words I was mouthing in church, because many of them did not make sense to me, and I became an agnostic. Science trumps God, of course!
However, I didn't stop questioning things and my thoughts there. I still had questions that neither religion nor science could answer to my satisfaction. Basically, how could this universe of order, laws of science, the existence of life, and much more just come about by chance out of the chaos that everything began from. Chaos is chaos, and our existence could never have risen from it by chance. I have decided that there is only one answer. Something (Call it God, if you want.) had something to do with this. However, this "God" is not the "God" of any of the earthly religions, and nothing that most scientists consider.
We live in an existence that we really can't explain or can ever have absolute answers to.
However, the world and life we live in is the only one we have, so we should make the best of it. Religion is good as long as it teaches people to love and take care or each other, as long as they don't try to force it on others, and don't kill those, who don't share their religious beliefs. Science is good, because it discovers things that make our existence better, and us more knowledgeable.
ZOG, that was a long introduction for what I have to say to you. (It could have been longer.)
Don't object to those of religion even if you disagree with them. For the most part they are good people, who do no harm, and actually do a lot of good. When you find their message boring, just ignore them. I stopped watching the video quiz game, that upset you, as soon as it went over to all of that religious stuff. Let it go, most of them only want to convert you to save your soul, it's only when they tell you to get your wallet out that you have to worry.
p.s. I don't believe that the creator of the universe ("God") intercedes in what is happening on Earth. As much as I have problems with him, I think that Dr. Kevorkian might have put it well. (I will paraphrase, because I cannot find the exact quote.) Kevorkian said, "God was the quarterback, who handed the ball off to us, and said you're on your own."
p.p.s. Here's a silly thought. The universe and everything that exists in it just might be some 9th grader's science project on a plane far beyond our comprehension. For the sake of us all, let's pray that his mom doesn't decide to throw it out, when she cleans his room.