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The function of the brain pertains to how it operates electrochemically with regard to the firing of neurons and the processing of thoughts The my in my mind refers to the physical brain and / or its function which is mine and mine only because everything in my body is mine Human beings see things ...

As you already KNOW I neither believe nor disbelieve ANY thing,... Why in the world do you assume that I know (or even care) whether you believe or disbelieve anything? But I do NOT assume absolutely any thing like this at all. I was NOT even thinking, let alone talking, about absolutely any thing ...

_______ I’m pretty sure I’m going to regret this, but what the heck. Clearly, I am still waiting for a Hell-believing Christian or Muslim to demonstrate the courage of their convictions and chime-in on this subject. I will do MORE than just "chime in". I will give the actual EVIDENCE and PROOF of HO...

it is also important to note Catholic Doctrine - (I do not know Protestent - welcome education on) - per Catholic, all persons that never heard the Word (this includes babies) go to "Limbo" - limbo eventually leads to salvation by default. Catacizm states that those that never heard the word are no...

Nothing to something is either logically possible or it is logically impossible. There is no need for God in the first case since the process of nothing to something is possible. Introducing God in the second case cannot help to have something out of nothing since the process is logically impossibl...

As I have stated many times in this forum, it is time for a new “material/spiritual paradigm” to replace the nonsense of the old paradigm. I agree. I am not sure, however, that most religions and their followers can be free enough from their stories and the payoffs of those stories -- to be clear a...

You guys are completely nuts. This conversation is nothing but moral panic and rose tinted nostalgia . Also historical ignorance... Rome was a bloodthirsty empire that thrived and expanded on an orgy of violence. Then it became Christian and the Church attempted to crack down on all the lascivious ...

If you watched Ozzie & Harriet, then you are most likely familiar with historical events. Perhaps you recall the decline of Roman society into a decadent society of hedonism and the like. Yes, commonsense, I vividly recall that after watching a brand new episode of Ozzie & Harriet, I would step out...

Because the real issue comes in the form of how ridiculous it is to think that the occupants of Heaven,... (allegedly a place of supreme love and beauty) ...would function in such a dark and demented state of mind as to accept, not only the existence of the never-ending torture and suffering of sen...

Where are you finding these post-able pictures with the coding at the bottom? Google images. The coding comes from the machine I use. I work off an old ipad. When i post an image the site offers me the option to put the image inline . It's not really an option, though: if I don't choose inline my i...

...be willing to relinquish your eternal life of bliss in heaven if - by reason of some kind of divine law - it would extricate a loved one from an eternity of torture in hell? In other words,... (at least in terms of this hypothetical situation) ...if you understood that your sacrifice would forev...

I’m trying to picture the size of that “stockade” you mentioned. couldn't find a shot of a spook in a stockade Where are you finding these post-able pictures with the coding at the bottom? For some reason, my browser won’t allow me to copy and paste pictures anymore. (Or it might be something funky...

Just out of curiosity, though, name a few “sins” that you think warrant a stint in Hell. There's only one, as I reckon it: deprivin' a person of his life, liberty, or property without just cause. Well then, henry, considering the fact that just our particular nation of America - which consists of a...

I agree with gaffo... I have no problem with Hell as a place to serve a sentence for sins. ...the catholics have such a penalty box: limbo I think they call it. Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle wrote a couple of novels wherein hell was much like the catholic limbo. You could leave when ready to. Hell,...

_______ In response to gaffo, Age, and DAM... According to Wiki: In religion and folklore, Hell is an afterlife location in which evil souls are subjected to punitive suffering, often torture as eternal punishment after death. Religions with a linear divine history often depict hells as eternal dest...