Thought for the Day

@Electric_Banana Said

Well that alone suggests surrendering to a hidden dictatorship operated by a secret society who will impede your way if you do not live your life by their sense of 'right'

And I believe that is organized religion in a nutshell even though its subscribers don't realize how they accidentally serve such a cult

In my more faithful theories as to why this world is; it serves as asylum, rehabilitation and study center working with people of special needs from an outside world whether they suffer a physical handicap or convicted as criminally insane. The prisoners held in Hell's Hell never have a chance at psycho-emotional development; waking each morning to bars and memories of the crimes they committed. Remove those latter two and you have a fresh man ready to make a new start in co-operation with their fellow inmates.

1951 saw Sega Dreamcast level game graphics
The doors to the first virtual environment were opened in 1973

@Ghyda Said

You may be surprised to learn that some Evangelical Christians think of Donald Trump as the reincarnated King David, a sinner, but also God's servant.

Other Evangelicals think of him as the guardian of constitutional government.

So Donald Trump does have a religious dimension about him.

@chaski Said

Seems to me that the Bible is full of stories of God’s people saying doing and believing and completely idiotic things.

So, no I’m not at all surprised that evangelicals somehow believe in reincarnation, and believe that Donald Trump is the reincarnation of a lying adulterous murderer who like to collect the foreskins of his enemies.

@Ghyda Said

You may be further surprised that Christians agree that "... the Bible is full of stories of God’s people saying doing and believing and completely idiotic things." Christians might say sinful rather than idiotic, but idiotic works for me.

@Ghyda Said

I meant to say that Trump or Clinton, or Kennedy, or Henry Wallace, or Muammar al-Gaddafi are like King David or Jacob, or Judah, or Moses, or Solomon because they are all sinners.

@chaski Said

Again, not at all surprised....

Christians might also agree that the Bible warns them not to trust false prophets, but that hasn't stopped them from doing just that.




Yes... God puts all the "kings" in place... thus Stalin, Mao, Hitler, and all the other monsters who did horrible things including genocide were all in power because of God... essentially God has sanctioned all of the evil in the world.

Good rulers: Thank you God.

Bad rulers: Thank you God.

@Erimitus Said

Our thoughts of death remind us of our ephemerality and not to wast any of our days.

@Ghyda Said

So, are you processing your bucket list?

@Erimitus Said

yes

I do not dwell on but thoughts of my death occasionally wash up on the shore of my consciousness

It is, in my opinion, a good idea to remember I am mortal.

Death we have in common.

@Ghyda Said

Well of course, you blame God for everything. So do a lot of Christians.

I have a Jewish neighbor. She has a continual conversation with God about anything happening in the moment. One day she drove us to a hair appointment, and before we got there we had a fender-bender.

As we were sitting in the car after the accident, she looked up, raised her left hand toward the sky, and said, "Yah had to do it now. Yah couldna waited until on the way home."

Rather comically she blamed God for the accident, but blaming God doesn't help with accidents, any more than with dictators, or floods, or earthquakes, or any other disaster.