i agree with the first part..but not the second..it is hard to accept the world is round after 40 years of believing it flat..but it is possible..Yes. The older they are the blinder their mind is. It is not because they are stupid, it is simply because they are very close minded and focused on one way and one choice only. They had a different way of life, they have not been exposed to what the new generation has like my self. It is too late for them to understand our point of view, or what the world really and truly became up to date.
but if you're 17 years and you heard of both possibilities..then you don't have much of a past belief to cloud judging a new one..
BUT IT IS NOT IMPOSSIBLE..bit hard yes..
scifes,
Can you do something that Allah can not do?
Can you learn something new? Yes
Can Allah? No
There you go, I bet you never thought there was something YOU could do that the ALL POWERFUL and ALL KNOWING Allah could not do.
Want to know another thing you can do that Allah can not do?
You can THINK. Allah can't, Allah only knows - kind of like a harddrive of stored information. Allah is therefor irrational, as being rational is a process. Hard drives, like Allah, are irrational.
So you worship a irrational illogical hard-drive.
Great for you.
:bravo:
congratulations michael..you're the second person in sciforums who comes up with something i haven't thought of yet..
unfortunately..it's much less of a challenge than the first one..
do you need to use the bathroom micheal??
imagine a human with alterd genetics who is 100% food efficient..meaning he doesn't need to use the bathroom..would you go to him and say: "na na nanana, i can use the bathroom"?
thinking is in the same line..i mean both of these things are tools to add up..to gain..they are abilities meaning incompletion..nothing to brag about..yes they are very great as they are the tools we advance with..but comparing us to god with them is just out of place..once again..i'm not sure if my idea reached you or not..it's something like saying: look, we can get sick and die and god can't..
and in case i couldn't "solve" what you said.. god in my definition something so high up like infinity..something not compatible with human standards..to a certain degree it is..but that's all..so if by human standards not thinking and learning is stupid..extending that to god is invalid..
i wouldn't believe in xenu because i know the "language" of islam..i understand what you're saying..that i was islamically "brainwashed"..but i've brainwashed myself with atheism and it didn't work..DO YOU KNOW that if my parents knew i was talking to atheists they would slit my throat..they're afraid(as with all of the community) that YOU will brain wash me..bit disappointing but you guys couldn't(?)...and i understand their decision..sometimes you are right and don't know how to show it..it's like a mathematican telling his son not to go to guys who can "prove" math wrong..because if he goes..he might be good enough to show them they're wrong..but if he couldn't..then what??We can find all sorts of things to talk about in terms of what you think you "know" but the truth is you were brainwashed in the same way people learn a language. Once you know English, it is IMPOSSIBLE for you to read these words and not understand and create meaning from them. The neurons in your brain are now wired to do this. They are also wired to believe in Allah and no matter what anyone says, you will always believe in Allah - just as you will always understand English. If you were raised to be a Scientologist and believe in the Intergallactic OverLord Xenu right now you'd be doing that.
THAT IS WHY I SAID IT COULD BE THE LACK OF KNOWLEDGE..i know the language of islam and taught myself the language of atheism(and revised it with you guys)..but you on the other hand..know only one language, the one you say is right..like you can say otherwise..you didn't brainwash yourselves with the other languages SO YOUR DECISION IS FLAWED..
so yes..it is impossible not to understand islam once i've been brainwashed with it..so what shall i do?.. i can brainwash my brain otherwise and make a better decision..(and it showed me the initial brainwash was ok)
it's possible cuz i've done it..and i "made" this theory:Stop and think about this for a minute. Serious consider it (if that is possible - which it isn't possible and that's OK, you are brainwashed after all). IF there is no God. No God. none. Zilch. Zero. Nothing. What then, does this say about the Qur'an as a book and about Mohammad as a person? Can you accept the Qur'an as an Arab book of myths based on nearby Xians and Jews myths? Can you accept Mohammad as a liar who pretended there was an Allah to get people to do this or that?
(the more something looks true..the smarter who could be faking it is)..
that being mohammad PBUH..i applied that to his "real" miracles..not the glass ants ones..and if we consider that mohammed has faked all miracles...then mohammad PBUH is the smarter than our brains can fathom...and truth be told..for a man to be THAT smart..is extremely improbable (you don't understand this cuz you don't <know> the miracles)..improbable as 0.00000000000000000000000001%.. so i decided to believe him..
lol..and what if the 0.000000000000000000000001% is true..and he was a prodigy or some alien?
then for ME..it doesn't matter..i'll risk living my life in a sweet illusion on that possibility..
you wouldn't..you go by logic..so by logic..if a person was that smart..why would he humiliate himself and worship god??why would he "fake" worshiping him...in the end..a person as (possibly) smart as him..what choice DO i have other than follow him?
WHAT I SAID MAKES NO SENSE..IT ALL HOGWASH..IT IS ALL STUPID..because you lack the knowledge of his real miracles..and curse the glass ants..
do you smoke oli??So wouldn't that indicate that some people are too young to see the truth?
i saw the truth of smoking's stupidity and illogicalness as a kid...growing up made me lose that truth..somoking started making sense..
but it was wrong..what good is the logic which makes us rationalize bad things??
DON'T LIE ABOUT ME..I SAID BEFORE I WROTE THAT THAT IT'S AT THE TOP OF MY MIND..AND I SAID THAT IT WAS SENT THROUGH EMAIL..I NEVER SAID I REACHED THAT ON MY OWN..DO NOT LIEYep, we've seen the answers you've arrived at by yourself: ants are made of glass.
seeeeeeeeee??(And actually, it's easier to reply by segments since you ramble incoherently so much)
you don't care to put some time into trying to decipher my incoherent babling..you don't even say:"i can't understand this guy so why bother.."..oh no you don't..you dedicate a part of your time just to bash something you don't understand..make fun of a person you don't understand..and then..they say they actually wanna know the truth..
OOOOOOOOOOH YEAH???Honesty is something that is unknown in Islam.
I'LL SHOW YOU OLI...OH YES I WILL..I'LL KNOCK YOU DEAD WITH SENSE..I'LL MAKE YOU PINCH YOURSELF TO TRY AND BELIEVE WHAT YOU'RE SEEING..
that, my friend..i promise you..
I admit scifes, you got me interested in Islam. So wanted I looked it up on both religious and non religious sites. I came in with an open mind. And the main thing I observed is, how is Islam any different than Christianity as far as credibility goes? They both make the same kind of extraordinary claims and have the same "I just made this up" type of rules. No different than all the rigmarole one goes through at Catholic church's mass or during the Jewish Passover or the reason Mormons aren't supposed to watch R rated movies. I honestly want to know. What makes Islam more true than Christianity or Judaism?
start with "they are all fake"..put that in mind..carry the burden of exposing that to the world..study their so called "miracles"..find flaws in them..in trying to do so..you will find the truth..
i used to think of it as logicalizing illogical things by repetition..For most people growing older usually means absorbing more information and knowledge and more time to think about various issues. At least those people who are interested in learning tend to do that.
or getting used to things you shouldn't get used to..
i liked this example..it got me thinking..Think about this a little more. Isn’t this a little suspicious. It is like saying I can see a hole in front of me but I believe I can walk over it and won’t fall in (the fantasy), the non-believer simply disagrees. The question you should ask yourself is where did you get the fantasy from? It is from your religious indoctrination. It is not from observed events or truthful statements but from others who know no more than you and believe the same fantasies.
a believer will fall in the hole like the non-believer..
heh..BUT..
if there was a transparant plate over the hole..THEN WHAT??
you didn't think of that..
i'll do that..all what i ask of you is to open your mind and play along with me..The issue is not about who is right or wrong but should be about how we can show what is truth. Those who make religious claims cannot show any truths.
please show me threads of those guys..Science is mostly about reasoned thought and logic. Throughout my 9 years here I have seen many with strong religious beliefs finally understand the faulty thought processes that accompany religious concepts, and that due entirely to carefully argued discussions here in this forum. To help others learn to think more clearly is ample justification for this forum.
and you worded it nicely..you're here to help others learn to think more clearly..
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SEE!!!
YOU'RE NOT HERE TO LET OTHERS HELP YOU THINK MORE CLEARLY..YOU'RE HERE TO TELL THEM HOW TO THINK..YOU'VE CLOSED YOUR LEARNING CHANNELS AND DOUBLED OPEN YOUR TEACHING ONES...I SHOULD JUST LEAVE THEN..I DON'T MIND LEARNING..BUT NOT FROM A BUNCH LIKE THIS..
you guys are just impossible..
show me..Not quite. Islam makes claims that it has a scientific explanation but under closer examination (many times here) it clearly does not.
and scince you won't..
i WILL show you the opposite..
i've done that to a degree.. the results weren't of a matching degree..makes me wonder if doing it completely has any good..Because we can very clearly see that you have absorbed Islamic indoctrination and that even though you feel convinced you are right you are still unable to demonstrate that any of your beliefs reflect any degree of truth.
but i'll do it nonetheless ..
that's your dilemma..Why assume death is inevitable? Average lifespan for humans over most of their history has been in the twenties and thirties, modern science has now brought that to around 80 and anti-aging research offers great hopes that that number will double and go far beyond. We are swiftly approaching a time when death is not an inevitable outcome. But fear of death is the basic weapon of every religion; it is what relates them all. Every religion offers people the false hope that they can cheat death. It is based on that very strong human emotion of wanting to survive. It is also based entirely on nonsense fantasy.
biology says people die..
common sense too..
before people used to live hundreds and even thousands of years..
their life span is only getting shorter..
if they do get immortal..lol..killing will easily replace dying..lo think about it..
god has that..Even if you achieve heaven, then what? If you rejoin your family in the future once you are all dead what happens next? How will you develop and what will you do in this afterlife? Perhaps you will need a human development program.
you should think more of a human development program IF..see IF..hell was true..lol don't worry about heavan..
i agree..Too many issues listed to give a general statement, but…
i will..Islam is based entirely on human fantasy – can you show otherwise?
whether you close your eyes or not is up to you..