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Deep thoughts, again.
« on: January 05, 2016, 02:47:17 PM »
Yahweh gets asked some interesting questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWZifSXlzlI

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Re: Deep thoughts, again.
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2016, 07:32:50 PM »
  I am sorry, that was so slow and tedious that I didn't watch all of it.

    I don't think I can make an observation about it that might ignore some brilliant point that I could not wait for.

    Except to say , man that is tedious.

     Would you mind to summarize?

       I would then comment from that.

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Re: Deep thoughts, again.
« Reply #2 on: January 06, 2016, 12:10:51 AM »
It is not even a tenth as tedious as any part of the Bible. one page of Deuteronomy would put anyone to sleep much faster.
It is like 14 minutes. A quarter of a Ted Talk.

The main point is that the Universe is huuuuuge, and Yaweh says that he plans to interact with only a tiny portion of one out of  a zillion planets. 

It is a set of instructions for a logical Supreme Being.

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Re: Deep thoughts, again.
« Reply #3 on: January 06, 2016, 08:24:03 PM »
It is not even a tenth as tedious as any part of the Bible. one page of Deuteronomy would put anyone to sleep much faster.
It is like 14 minutes. A quarter of a Ted Talk.

The main point is that the Universe is huuuuuge, and Yaweh says that he plans to interact with only a tiny portion of one out of  a zillion planets. 

It is a set of instructions for a logical Supreme Being.

I got as far as that mistake.

There isn't a scripture that says that God doesn't care about peoples who are not Jews in the Bible.

There isn't a scripture that says that God isn't doing other things in other places, perhaps eight legged people in the ocean or hot gas people swimming in the sun.

When God was speaking directly to Moses , why would he tell Moses how a hot gas person swimming in the sun should conduct herself?

The narrowest focus of the scripture is on the intended audience, the singularity of it is in that the original author is greater than the readership.

   That the cartoonist should be Gods mentor is an interesting conceit, but it isn't strong enough an idea to need reiterating every five seconds for ten minutes.

     I might have been more successful at reading it through if the punch line had come sooner, supposing that there was one.

 

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Re: Deep thoughts, again.
« Reply #4 on: January 06, 2016, 08:46:12 PM »
Reading?  What is to read ?   This requires only slightly more effort to watch  than Scooby-Doo. Reading any book in the Bible requires more effort.

There is no way to present anything like this visually unless you use a dialogue. A monologue would really be dull. To have a dialogue, you need two characters, one who asks and the other who answers, and Yahweh has to be  the one who answers.

The Bible clearly states that God made men in his image.  It does not state that God made eightlegged Gloxters in his image. If God made man in his image, then there is therefore only one image of God-created being possible. Of course, the  author of Exodus does not seem to have read Genesis, and chooses to depict God as a piece of burning shrubbery.  The only alternative is that the Bible is what I believe it to be, the word of man, a piece of imagination. Perhaps good intentioned pious imagination in parts, but imagination in the sense that daydreams and dreams and hallucinations are imagination.

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Re: Deep thoughts, again.
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2016, 09:51:01 PM »

The Bible clearly states that God made men in his image.


Does he look like all of us?