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by Locke_
Tue Feb 02, 2010 6:01 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Ordinances, Sacraments, Rituals, Practices, etc.
Replies: 126
Views: 28557

What is a miracle and what is not a miracle is not to be decided by us, nor when they will or have occurred. Is it not miraculous that because a mountain-climber was sick and injured in Afghanistan, he now builds schools around that country? (and in a time when much nonlove is show to and from the n...
by Locke_
Tue Feb 02, 2010 4:30 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Mining the Moon and Other Space Oddities
Replies: 12
Views: 3657

Note: I'm aware I just tried to blot out cynicism with naivete. But still.
by Locke_
Tue Feb 02, 2010 3:55 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Mining the Moon and Other Space Oddities
Replies: 12
Views: 3657

I'm curious about the motives behind the actions as well. But, then again, why did we want to return to the moon in the first place? Just to go? It seems like without a proper cause we'd get there and then... "Now what?" It's sensible and frightening the direction our government wants &quo...
by Locke_
Tue Feb 02, 2010 12:46 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Mining the Moon and Other Space Oddities
Replies: 12
Views: 3657

Mining the Moon and Other Space Oddities

This article. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/science/space/02nasa.html?hp These quotes. "The Obama budget proposes spending $18 billion over five years for development of technologies like fuel stations in orbit, new types of engines to accelerate spacecraft through space and robotic factori...
by Locke_
Mon Feb 01, 2010 6:57 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Evolution or Creation?
Replies: 269
Views: 75443

God forbids us to murder; it is one of the Ten commandments. To murder is to kill one thing, but let live another (distinguishing the two). Therefore, God would be lying to us if we try to think that God killed someone(s) other than whom he says in Genesis. Or maybe since the Ten Commandments are af...
by Locke_
Mon Feb 01, 2010 2:02 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Evolution or Creation?
Replies: 269
Views: 75443

I also like these rules. But I have a feeling it's easy to spot who would and wouldn't like them in place. Or who would have a more difficult time with them.. and I suppose I could be speaking for myself lol. Vanity is often invisible through the eyes of the self. Also, Luet, I like the Camus quote ...
by Locke_
Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:30 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
Replies: 1265
Views: 371065

Or was it eight years ago...? Wow...
by Locke_
Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:29 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Currently Reading / Just Read (Books/stories/whatever)
Replies: 1265
Views: 371065

Xenocide ... I'm lovin this kick. I read Speaker last week, and this is the first time since I read EG seven years ago I've decided to read the Ender sequels. Woo! The Hero with A Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell. And thank God I brought Xeno because I'm pretty sure I'm rereading every sentence tw...
by Locke_
Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:25 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Chainswords:
Replies: 13
Views: 3393

Someone ought to go ahead and create a "chains words" thread. I too feel misled... :wink:
by Locke_
Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:21 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Evolution or Creation?
Replies: 269
Views: 75443

or I can believe in a God who understood how much his young children could understand. And this point, I think, is one of the most significant aspects of our disputed side of this conversation. The challenge we have accepted is to both contextualize Genesis in the period at which it was written and...
by Locke_
Sun Jan 31, 2010 11:15 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Evolution or Creation?
Replies: 269
Views: 75443

no.1 is light and dark; no.4 is sun, moon, and stars no.2 is water and sky; no.5 is fish and birds, and no.3 is water and dry land; no.6 is plants and animals. This is undeniably poetic. Even if God created the world according to the literal understanding of Genesis, you cannot deny that there is a...
by Locke_
Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:19 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Evolution or Creation?
Replies: 269
Views: 75443

Appropriate vast generalizations.
by Locke_
Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:37 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Our Purpose...what is it?
Replies: 101
Views: 23957

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
-John Milton
by Locke_
Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:34 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Our Purpose...what is it?
Replies: 101
Views: 23957

Good and evil aside, a believer accepts God knowing the challenge of dealing with the bad aspects of human nature and earthly catastrophes, but also accepting the blessings with the curses (and how those two can often interweave). At a funeral for instance one of the worst things to hear is, "I...
by Locke_
Fri Jan 29, 2010 11:23 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Our Purpose...what is it?
Replies: 101
Views: 23957

I would call Hell the absence of God, and only the absence of God.
Yes.
by Locke_
Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:09 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: My Life in a Literary Agency
Replies: 427
Views: 131831

Anticipating posthumous masterpieces?
by Locke_
Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:34 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Evolution or Creation?
Replies: 269
Views: 75443

That depends on your definition of "meaningless." Our conception of time does not hold the universe together by any means, and yet we function every second (pun) of the day because it is useful--because its usefulness causes meaning. We cannot imagine life without art, yet it is not a nece...
by Locke_
Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:30 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Dear You 2.0
Replies: 2616
Views: 727331

Okay You,

It's been a while--months! An entire continent of adventuring for me. But now I'm driving up, partly to come see you. I don't know how you'll feel. Hell, I don't know how I'll feel. But I know I can't let go of that great Good Will Hunting quote: "I gotta go see about a girl."

Me
by Locke_
Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:11 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Evolution or Creation?
Replies: 269
Views: 75443

Even though I know I'll elicit a lot of wikisnickering, I like their definition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternity Most scientists (and scientifically minded people) consider the "time" before the Big Bang" as not really being "time" (as we know it). It's a "void.&...
by Locke_
Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:35 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Kids these days
Replies: 28
Views: 5844

And these children that you spit on
As they try to change their worlds
Are immune to your consultations
They’re quite aware of what they’re going through

....or are we done with lyrics?
by Locke_
Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:55 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Random Questions curiosity thread ('-' )
Replies: 122
Views: 20661

I don't know if anyone's said yet, but DUDE! Welcome back!! Good to see you , Locke_. Well thank you kindly :D I agree that dreams can have meaning, but not always. I've wondered if there's any relationship between the significance of the dream and our memory of it. If it's remembered, perhaps it's...
by Locke_
Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:49 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Kids these days
Replies: 28
Views: 5844

Kids back then were saying bye to American pie, singing those would be the days that they died.
by Locke_
Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:20 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Random Questions curiosity thread ('-' )
Replies: 122
Views: 20661

What about Carl Jung? What effect has his being Freud's primo pupil had on his modern reputation? (Along with his own ideas.)

Is it the psychologists and academics who more often shun or disregard Freud? It seems that he is still generally well-regarded or at least intimidating among public masses.
by Locke_
Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:11 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Random Questions curiosity thread ('-' )
Replies: 122
Views: 20661

One of the absolute best songs on women: :wink:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yaP_kc3y9w
by Locke_
Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:53 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: LOST
Replies: 9
Views: 2494

I think my poor sense of direction improved when I meandered around India... but my mom did give me a compass as a welcome home gift...
by Locke_
Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:51 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Kids these days
Replies: 28
Views: 5844

Apparently people were once happy just being born in the USA...
by Locke_
Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:47 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Sci-fi and reality
Replies: 2
Views: 1943

Sci-fi and reality

This could reside more in philosophy, but it is in regards to science, real and imaginary. I'm not much of a sci-fi reader, so I figured I could get the input of those who know better. I've wondered lately if perhaps sci-fi isn't directing the path that technology might take in reality. This robot i...
by Locke_
Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:36 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Evolution or Creation?
Replies: 269
Views: 75443

My brains clearly describe a smart view :wink:
by Locke_
Mon Jan 25, 2010 7:22 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Evolution or Creation?
Replies: 269
Views: 75443

Believing in Evolution IS renouncng the doctrine of God's Creation, or ven his influence. The Bible clearly describes a Creationist view, not an Evolutionary one. The Bible describes a Creationist view... I believe on that point we would all agree lol. But this is my point. Perhaps by your standard...
by Locke_
Mon Jan 25, 2010 2:11 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Evolution or Creation?
Replies: 269
Views: 75443

Semantics. Forgive me. "An almost certain eventuality": how close do you place that to inevitability? It seems like hindsight bias to say that humans, or intelligent life (self-aware beings) would spring up from the line of evolution. Especially when, scientifically, there is no way to det...
by Locke_
Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:38 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Evolution or Creation?
Replies: 269
Views: 75443

Must the presumption be that if one believes in Evolution then it is renounced that God designed the world as it evolves/evolved? Must evolution reject God along with Creation?
by Locke_
Mon Jan 25, 2010 12:07 am
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Our Purpose...what is it?
Replies: 101
Views: 23957

As our Creator, we acknowledge God as the perfect being, his son as the perfect living being, because they are the utmost and all we know in terms of perfection. But even Jesus among the gospels does not claim perfection. We attribute this to him as the "son of God" which he eventually doe...
by Locke_
Sun Jan 24, 2010 2:35 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Our Purpose...what is it?
Replies: 101
Views: 23957

Crazy Tom: atheists would expect you to disagree with them, but if I were one I'd be more offended that you would suppose I'd "hate" you for your proclamations. Frustrated yes, but for your putting words in my mouth. That being said, as a fellow believer, I encourage you to be careful abou...
by Locke_
Sat Jan 23, 2010 5:32 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Our Purpose...what is it?
Replies: 101
Views: 23957

One can't generalize believers' worship into fundamentalists, unless the point of your posts is specifically aimed at fundamentalists. The don't exactly make up the majority of Christians. Not to say they lack numbers, but one can't (though people do) base all Christians on even one larger group. Th...
by Locke_
Sat Jan 23, 2010 12:18 pm
Forum: Milagre Town Square
Topic: Our Purpose...what is it?
Replies: 101
Views: 23957

Whew okay a lot to discuss. "Slave"--in this case "mind slave"--isn't the right term. To a degree, yes, we lock ourselves into a worshipful attitude, but it's a choice believers make. With that term i am not referring to that, instead i am referring to the belief some hold that t...

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