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chaotic system of varying complexity would probably be most accurate possible

it is not something that i trouble myself with, its simply a question i find interesting then again you might say it is a question of principles or personal identity, even political preference, in some strange way

that would make sense if you could join a military or paramilitary when 9 months old is it not an obvious problem that a person, no matter how many times he or she is excomunicated or declares apostasy, is still counted as part of that "grater body" or "body of Christ" that you speak of, no...

but the sacrament is still given in a ritual preformed by a church official most sacraments in the catholic faith are ritual initiations of sorts, preformed by the church, and participated by the believers other than the hypothetical spiritual dimension these are formal religious acts, and are...

is there a way in any christian denomination that a persons sacrament of baptism into the christian faith can be officially revoked? excomunication and apostasy serve as ways to officially be removed or remove oneself from a denomination and or renounce a given belief system, but both for the...

look it is simple if entity1 knows what entity2 will do, entity1 does not necesarily influence the free will, if any, of entity2 if entity1 influences entity2 then free will of entity2 comes in question, but what entity1 knows is not an issue there is nothing in the statement "entity1...

i dont think Jesus is an official gowerment candidate well maybe in Poland... and 1914 saw the start of WWI after decades of cultural, economical, political industrial and most importantly technological development the first real machineguns were invented in the mid to late 1800eds, the...

confession is wery useful people can go and shoot everything out of themselves and most come out feeling lighter also it is a way to assure the human is not alone with his sin, if he believes something to be a sin, but alovs for that sin to be shared and then ritually pardoned, lifting any...

isnt all this more about fear and shame, than guilt? personally i was raised catholic and know a lot of catholics, and i can say guilt is not an issue fear perhaps, shame yes, frustration also, but guilt does not really enter the discussion and catholics even have confession so guilt is really...

omniscience would be all-knowing right? all-powerfull might come into conflict with free will, unless you make a rule that the all-powerfull will use its own free will to let others use their free will but omniscience or all-knowing does not interfere with free will if the all-knowing are not...

i dont understand your post are you saying if there was enough proof that a god does or does not exist there would be less crime or that money causes crime? anyway money is a valued commodity, the value of vich is agreed to be equivalent to any and all other material values of goods and...

obviously survival skills are useful, in fact really useful, critical even thats why they are called survival skills but one human surviving isolated, or even a dozen, has no point eventually they just die a population, even a small one, if sustainable, does not die at least not of itself...

individual survival is not viable it simply does not pay all existent infrastructure would be gone, several days of 5-10 richter scale earthquakes would see to that large percentage of human population would choke to death on toxic vapours and dye from temperature shock both cold and hot the...

crimerate does not rise that much, they do their bit, but mostly they dont get involved in anithing that can actually hurt you, in fact they ususally go for big useles things like decomisioned industrial generators or old raylway tracks they steal as much as anyone else that can afford to steal...

what you have described is known as an extinction event at this point individual survival is more or less irrelevant a large percentage of death and destruction would happen at impact or imediatly after in the next several years most of life on earth would starve, humans included thinking...

nothing it took nothing for me to belive in a god, no proof, no evidence, no selfevident truth i belived, as i was raised to belive, and was relatively good at it too my mother is a fervent catholic and a scientist, and all my life i was told science and religion are not in anny way in...

truth is usualy a compromise, in fact what diferentiates truth from lie is mostly the intention a truth is reported information about reality, made with the honest intention of comunicating the real actual state of things the real and actual state of things can never be comunicated in a...

so this has nothing to do with the older concepts of "technolatry" or "machine cult"?

frequently self declared neo-pagans describe their belifes as conected to or centered around the worship of nature, as or trough worship of a personification or direct worship of natural/biological systems and/or principles(am i corect in thinking the last one is more rare?) but what is the...