This is a world that has no meaning. An existence devoid of color ( Read more... )

So when I "went to church", I had always considered the personal testimonies of many individuals with a certain degree of doubt. I always believed when individual Christians told their stories on how they received salvation, they glazed over the details, and gave only the most idealized version of what happened. In other words, things looked stupid ( Read more... )

There's an existing Roman Catholic argument that God did not create evil, but rather that evil is an absence of God ( Read more... )

[11:29] NekoPurinchan: i am o.o ( Read more... )

This is all getting old to me... the constant descent into darkness, and then the revival... The polarity of the two extremities becomes an increasingly stifling air to breathe... When I am by myself... sometimes I wonder what is the point of everything. Ultimately, am I becoming an alien? This unhealthy tendency to become anti-social-- is it ( Read more... )

I've been thinking... there is an "argument" atheists make: that most "intelligent" people are atheists, and so, atheism must be the right way of the world. However, this argument seems highly pretentious and arrogant to me. Were this argument made 1000 years ago, most intelligent individuals of the world were either monks in Europe, or clerics in ( Read more... )

You know, there is quite an interesting discussion on free will and God. It goes something like this: if God gave us free will, how does he know what we're thinking/what we will do. I.E. is there determinism ( Read more... )

Dear Godwin,

Please, for the love of God, stop thinking of everything in transactions, costs and assets, like some stupid freaking machine who seeks to put a price on friendships. You will probably never balance the balance.

Thank you,
Your anonymous friend.

When an old man looks into the see, what does he see?

Well, in the last several weeks I've heard about 2-3 different definitions of what demonic things are. And I don't really buy any single one of them. How is it, that our predecessors in time had a definite, somewhat... concrete descriptions of what the manifestations of demonic activity were? And when we look back on what they considered demonic, ( Read more... )