Is it true that the best way to get over an old love is to get under a new one?

How do you know if you have met your match?

Is is that they won't let you get away with your normal b.s.?

Do they read your thoughts?

Or do they just give you that look?

Of course it does. I always find the ones that say they don't want a commitment but then act like it, then when I confront them about it, they run and go commit to someone else. lol Yay me!

We could be... I just think you should at least put forth effort and be willing to learn about others before you deem them as false. Open yourself up to information. You don't have to agree... but you should at least listen.

I just had the almost the identical thing happen to me... 3 months of talking, 2 months of dating... him telling me he wanted to be friends first.. him telling me he hasn't had this many things in common with anyone before... that he hasn't felt this close to someone so fast... blah blah.. then one day he just stops talking. He's a wuss! A commitment phobic person. I'm guessing she's the same way and just flaking.

I'd let her go. She obviously doesn't want to be there.

Well that should only bother you if there's a God.

If there's no God then you don't care.

I do not recall ever calling them idiots. I'm not sure even what thread you're referring to.
however, if you call other religions than yours false, then that is claiming only yours is correct. That is not giving anyone else respect for their own religions that can be just as whole heartedly involved in their religion as you are in yours. I think it's unfair to call others false. no matter what religion you are. I can only tell you what didn't work for me. I can't tell you what is right or wrong for you. But I would be happy to answer any questions you may have. I'm not a bad person you know. I'm just different than you. different shouldn't equal wrong.

I ask this question a bit differently.

If there is a supreme creator who do you think he or she would be more pleased with, someone who only cares about other people if they think there's something in it for them (i.e. eternal life), or someone who cares about others even in the face of beliving that life will just end when they die?

I can't help but believe that a supreme creator would be far more pleased with the latter person.

Also, why should a supreme creator be so hung up on being recognized and worshiped 'on pure faith'. Especially when that faith is based entirely one just one of many books of mythology?

I mean surely it's a guess as to which mythology might be true. So faith in any particular mythology is nothing more than a guess.

Why would a supreme being be so hung up on what people decide to guess might be true?

That has never made any sense to me. The whole idea of a God that requires pure faith is truly a nonsensical idea as far as I can see. A God who just disappears completely and asks nothing from anyone to see what people might do seems to me to be a far wiser picture of a God.

If I were God I might set things to make sure that no one believes I exist, and then see if they have any mettle of their own.

Now that would be a good test don't you think?

I ask this question a bit differently.

If there is a supreme creator who do you think he or she would be more pleased with, someone who only cares about other people if they think there's something in it for them (i.e. eternal life), or someone who cares about others even in the face of beliving that life will just end when they die?

I can't help but believe that a supreme creator would be far more pleased with the latter person.

Also, why should a supreme creator be so hung up on being recognized and worshiped 'on pure faith'. Especially when that faith is based entirely one just one of many books of mythology?

I mean surely it's a guess as to which mythology might be true. So faith in any particular mythology is nothing more than a guess.

Why would a supreme being be so hung up on what people decide to guess might be true?

That has never made any sense to me. The whole idea of a God that requires pure faith is truly a nonsensical idea as far as I can see. A God who just disappears completely and asks nothing from anyone to see what people might do seems to me to be a far wiser picture of a God.

If I were God I might set things to make sure that no one believes I exist, and then see if they have any mettle of their own.

Now that would be a good test don't you think?

I ask this question a bit differently.

If there is a supreme creator who do you think he or she would be more pleased with, someone who only cares about other people if they think there's something in it for them (i.e. eternal life), or someone who cares about others even in the face of beliving that life will just end when they die?

I can't help but believe that a supreme creator would be far more pleased with the latter person.

Also, why should a supreme creator be so hung up on being recognized and worshiped 'on pure faith'. Especially when that faith is based entirely one just one of many books of mythology?

I mean surely it's a guess as to which mythology might be true. So faith in any particular mythology is nothing more than a guess.

Why would a supreme being be so hung up on what people decide to guess might be true?

That has never made any sense to me. The whole idea of a God that requires pure faith is truly a nonsensical idea as far as I can see. A God who just disappears completely and asks nothing from anyone to see what people might do seems to me to be a far wiser picture of a God.

If I were God I might set things to make sure that no one believes I exist, and then see if they have any mettle of their own.

Now that would be a good test don't you think?

Adam, how is it that you claim you would never bash someone else's religion but you have no problem calling someone else's religion "false"??
I know you did not intend to offend me. And you didn't. I know you are just following your Christian ways, and that is to call my way "false" but just so you know... that is also a way of bashing someone else's religion.
I'm not flat out calling christianity "false". It just didn't work for me. It makes not one single tiny bit of sense to me. However, it works for some people. And if they don't cause harm to others, then let them praise Jesus all day long. If that's what brings them comfort at night, then more power to them. But, I should be given the same respect tho.

It could be that they care about humanity. Maybe they see the Bible as being deterimental to mankind. After all, it has been the excuse for many atrocities and continues to be used as an excuse for bigotry to this very day.

So then you're basically saying that you only appreciate life if there is a God, but if there is no God, then you have no appreciation for life?

Is that a fair assessment of your position?

Adam, I don't take any offense to you calling me a wiccan. I do however take offense to you calling it a false practice. Tho, with you being a christian, I can understand why you would be so blinded

I believe the only way we know that we exist is that we think.

I think therefore I am.

We live in a thought created universe and it is a dream universe.

Did you dream last night? I did. Along with that came an entire universe of people and things and time and space. I did not question where it came from and I was not aware I was dreaming until I woke up.

Where did that universe go when I woke up?

Where will this one go when I wake up?

It will be like a fading dream, just as other dreams fade.



Then there is that whole "evil god that has the master brain theory" The one where he is playing a big joke on us, making us think we exist. Not sure who came up with that idea, but wasn't that one of the arguments against the "I think therefor I am" thing? Either way I still think I am sitting here typing on a computer in the middle of the night.