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Davey Moore

I believe there is no god. I think the Buddhist story of how the universe was created was the most accurate, how it was birthed from a seed. Basically that's my philosophy on everything, that we are all one.

When the universe started off after the Big Bang there were only two elements, Hydrogen and Helium. After the universe stopped being a sort of primordial soup, stars and galaxies started to form. Through a process called nucleosynthesis, elements were created. The inside of stars, which were Hydrogen, got so hot they created new elements. When the star dies, it implodes and sends the newly created element flying out into the heavens.

We are carbon based life forms. Eons ago, inside of some star, carbon was formed and was blasted through the universe. Eventually, life formed from this carbon substance. You could call us humans star dust if you wanted.

Everything that was, that is and will ever be came from that tiny infinitesimal singularity at the beginning of existence. Right now, everything is expanding, but soon the universe will collapse once again, until we are back at the starting point, that small, little singularity. And the process will repeat itself.

I sort of believe that everything in nature goes in cycles. Planets orbit in cycles. Seasons come and go in cycles. History repeats itself. Kurt Vonnegut summed it up best I think, when he wrote Slaughter-House Five, about the cyclical nature of time and the universe.

So it goes.

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The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

tdoc210

god does not exist
simple, something must have created him, he could not create himself. God is a crutch for those who need something to get by on, a little fairy tale to keep your children warm at night. Nothing more than that.

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We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that.

Fyrenza

perhaps a little more than a fairy tale

our Christian Bible is THE all-time hands-down best selling book EVER

Not many fairy tales can even claim to have crossed cultural boundaries

tdoc210

seeing as it was forced on them?
i love how you assume i meant christian
it is the best selling fiction book isn't it

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We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that.

Fyrenza

i don't think many people over the age of 18 have much 'forced on' them

i didn't assume you meant Christian
i said Christian because its the Christian Bible that is the most sold

no
you won't find the Bible in the fiction section of any library nor bookstore

you will find it listed as the Best Selling Book of All Time
however

jibber

I believe he was referring to the colonization of nations in which they forced the inhabitants to "accept jesus christ as their lord and savior" or die a horrible death at their hands. The spanish inquisition comes to mind. Or in North America when natives were forced to convert to christianity when the children were taken from their homes, forced to speak english, convert to christianity, and often raped and abused in the process. Or perhaps the "well meaning" missionaries who go to a third world country, and require everyone to convert to christianity before giving them any type of aid. It's basically dangling food in front of a starving man and saying you wont give it to him until he submits to being "saved." The very thought of missionary work disgusts me.

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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways

Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass.

HOOKED ON THE WHITE POWDER

anticipation

the tooth fairy comes to mind.

Fyrenza

yeah, that's one

but you know what i mean

cardboard adolescent

I just finished a news article talking about how "churches competing for souls" have taken to hiring "mystery worshipers," who, like mystery shoppers, secretly investigate a church and offer criticisms and suggestions on how they could better "market their services"...