December 2010
36 posts
life.
renewed faith. actual love for God. new job. Brazilian roommate. beginning school.
An atheist professor of philosophy was speaking to...
Professor : You are a Christian, aren't you, son?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, you believe in GOD?
Student : Absolutely, sir.
Professor : Is GOD good?
Student : Sure.
Professor : Is GOD ALL - POWERFUL?
Student : Yes.
Professor : My Brother died of cancer even though he prayed to GOD to heal him. Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But GOD didn't. How is this GOD good then? Hmm?
(Student was silent)
Professor : You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fella. Is GOD Good?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Is Satan good?
Student : No.
Professor : Where does Satan come from?
Student : From...GOD...
Professor : That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this World?
Student : Yes.
Professor : Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And GOD did make everything. Correct?
Student : Yes.
Professor : So who created evil?
(Student did not answer)
Professor : Is there Sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the World, don't they?
Student : Yes, sir.
Professor : So, who created them?
(Student had no answer)
Professor : Science says you have 5 Senses you use to Identify and Observe The World around you. Tell me, son...have you ever seen GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor : Tell us if you have ever heard your GOD?
Student : No, sir.
Professor : Have you ever Felt your GOD, Tasted your GOD, Smelt your GOD? Have you ever had any Sensory Perception of GOD for that matter?
Student : No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.
Professor : Yet you still believe in HIM?
Student : Yes.
Professor : According to Empirical, Testable, Demonstrable Protocol, Science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?
Student : Nothing. I only have my Faith.
Professor : Yes, Faith. And that is the problem Science has.
Student : Professor, is there such a thing as Heat?
Professor : Yes.
Student : And is there such a thing as Cold?
Professor : Yes.
Student : No, sir. There isn't...
(The Lecture Theatre became very quiet with this turn of events)
Student : Sir, you can have Lots of Heat, even More Heat, Superheat,
Mega Heat, White Heat, a Little Heat or No Heat. But we don't have anything called Cold. We can hit 458 Degrees below Zero
Which is No Heat, but we can't go any further after that.
There is no such thing as Cold.
Cold is only a Word we use to describe the Absence of Heat.
We cannot Measure Cold.
Heat is Energy.
Cold is Not the Opposite of Heat, sir, just the Absence of it.
(There was pin-drop silence in the Lecture Theatre)
Student : What about Darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as
Darkness?
Professor : Yes. What is Night if there isn't Darkness?
Student : You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the Absence of
Something.
You can have Low Light, Normal Light, Bright Light, Flashing Light...
But if you have No Light constantly, you have nothing and it's
Called Darkness, isn't it? In reality, Darkness isn't. If it is,
You would be able to make Darkness Darker, wouldn't you?
Professor : So what is the point you are making, young man?
Student : Sir, my point is, your Philosophical Premise is flawed.
Professor : Flawed? Can you explain how?
Student : Sir, you are working on the Premise of Duality. You argue
There is Life and then there is Death, a Good GOD and a Bad GOD. You are
Viewing the Concept of GOD as something finite, something we can measure.
Sir, Science can't even explain a Thought. It uses Electricity and
Magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.
To view Death as the Opposite of Life is to be ignorant of the fact that
Death cannot exist as a Substantive Thing.
Death is Not the Opposite of Life, just the Absence of it
Now tell me, Professor, do you teach your Students that they evolved from
a Monkey?
Professor : If you are referring to the Natural Evolutionary Process,
yes, of course, I do.
Student : Have you ever observed Evolution with your own eyes, sir?
(The Professor shook his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the
argument was going)
Student : Since no one has ever observed the Process of Evolution at
work and Cannot even prove that this Process is an On-Going Endeavor,
Are you not teaching your Opinion, sir?
Are you not a Scientist but a Preacher?
(The Class was in uproar)
Student : Is there anyone in the Class who has ever seen the
Professor's brain?
(The Class broke out into laughter)
Student : Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's
brain, felt it, touched or smelt it?...
No one appears to have done so.
So, according to the Established Rules of Empirical, Stable, Demonstrable
Protocol, Science says that you have No Brain, sir. With all due respect,
sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?
(The Room was silent. The Professor stared at the student, his face
unfathomable)
Professor : I guess you'll have to take them on Faith, son.
Student : That is it sir...Exactly!
The Link between Man & GOD is FAITH.
That is all that Keeps Things Alive and Moving.
That student was ALBERT EINSTEIN.
From glass alabaster she poured out the depth of...
Dedicated to my LB fambam. Good times. Good times.
levi the poet: Call Jahovah Thy Salvation →
levithepoet:
“Call Jehovah thy salvation, rest beneath th’Almighty’s shade. In His secret habitation dwell, and never be dismayed. There no tumult shall alarm thee, thou shalt dread no hidden snare. Guile nor violence can harm thee, in eternal safeguard there.
From the sword at noonday wasting, from the…
John Mark McMillan
The ability to genuinely connect with a person’s heart and draw them into a real-time conversation with God seems to have become a dying art form. It’s just not something you can learn at a conference or program into your set. It comes from a deep well and is cultivated over years. That means it’s time consuming and expensive. Maybe that’s why it’s become so rare. Our cheap and easy “just add...
A while ago, my friends, knowing my addiction to the movie Ever After, decided to calculate how many times I’ve seen it since first owning it at 8 years old. They came up with around 400 times. And even still, every time I watch it, I love it even more. Every time Prince Henry says, “I think it should be quite obvious” to Danielle’s statement about him knowing her weakness...
tat's:
An detailed eagle feather with the words: SOAR on wings like EAGLES
An arrow with the words: he has given me victory
A bow with the words: he has trained my hand for battle & given me a bow of bronze
An abstract tree
The Greek word BATHUNO meaning to dig deep
Continually evolving ideas. I just need to get the gusto to do it now.
“True sexuality is vast and mysterious. It involves all of you.
I mean, you have...”
– Nooma/Flame - Rob Bell
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
– Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
I feel the light upon my skin, Like finger-tips ...
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Look at all this beautiful new music for my ears.
The Last Emperor
Where are your ancestors buried?
Scotland.
Well then, where is your skirt?
Scotsmen do not wear skirts, they wear kilts.
Kilts?
Kilts. A matter of words, perhaps, but words are important.
Why are words important?
If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty, you will never mean what you say and a gentleman should always mean what he says.
Jars of Clay - Bethlehem Town
oh, mary, joseph, rest your eyes try not to think of the ending world full of empty, He will die but tonight He is still just a child the silent night drifts all away and the angels are dancing around you there’s the joy of knowing He’ll save the world overshadowing the pain that He’ll go through
have you cursed at the wind have you cried to the heavens have you fought with...
Why are Itzhak Perlman and Yo Yo Ma both playing at the Disney Concert Hall next year and I am not going? Oh I know… tickets are minimum $100… for the terrace view. Sad sad day.
