JK2006 wrote:
Good for you ITK; despite your cynicism you share my essential optimism.
Yes, I too feel humans are inherently decent. The problem is - that individual decency is watered down when "one" becomes society.

Fully agreed, JK.

I cannot imagine anyone setting-up places like Guantanamo - yet we "allow" our elected representatives to do this for us?

Do we abdicate responsibility when we appoint others - is this what makes us turn a blind eye, blaming others (even though they act in our name and with our authorisation) ?

JK2006 wrote:
Good news Zooloo - you share the same IP number as God!

At last, proof there IS a God!
Hey I'm God, being omnipotent I have all IP Addresses.

As Gabriel said to me only the other day "The difference between God and JK is that God knows he isn't JK"

zooloo wrote:
You gave your god a sex (He), how do you know this if there is no proof of a god. How can you know its characteristics are with no evidence whatsoever of what it is (Hence faith)?[/quote]


Being a male chauvinist I just assume that any superior being has to be male.

I would allow anybody to believe anything they want about the "unknowable" until it starts impacting badly on others.

Does God exist?

This is the one question we will all have an answer to eventually.

On Sunday, myself and Mrs Mart took the dog for a long walk along the riverbank.

She commented that we were near the back of her Aunt`s house, and lo and behold, at 6.55 a.m, there indeed was her Aunt sitting on a bench by the river , about 500 yards behind her house.

We stopped and chatted for a while, and I told a tale of how often the babysitter was late whilst I was on tour, and both of my daughters would be left with a certain teacher in a sort of homework class for kids whose parents had failed to make the pick up.

Lo and behold, that very teacher appeared as if by magic walking a dog, at still only 7.15 am, one of only two people we had seen all morning.

We continued on, and, as it was Sunday, turned the conversation to God and religion.

We didn`t meet anyone else that morning.

I sometimes wonder, Mart, whether the world does not in fact exist at all except in our own personal imaginations.

There is a classical philosophy which believes this.

Mart wrote:
On Sunday, myself and Mrs Mart took the dog for a long walk along the riverbank.

She commented that we were near the back of her Aunt`s house, and lo and behold, at 6.55 a.m, there indeed was her Aunt sitting on a bench by the river , about 500 yards behind her house.

We stopped and chatted for a while, and I told a tale of how often the babysitter was late whilst I was on tour, and both of my daughters would be left with a certain teacher in a sort of homework class for kids whose parents had failed to make the pick up.

Lo and behold, that very teacher appeared as if by magic walking a dog, at still only 7.15 am, one of only two people we had seen all morning.

We continued on, and, as it was Sunday, turned the conversation to God and religion.

We didn`t meet anyone else that morning.

Brilliant - I really did "lol"

I feel, the "G" word is just the sum of all fears.
As of course is the "D" word.

I love the human race, and I also love the global race for it`s utter faith, including many of my very close friends, in their belief in a higher order.

I believe that the true miracle, is that we are here and it`s no good turning to an unseen entity for blame.
Help, can be found within, or by asking a "named""Man", the person(s) cannot see.

That may sound technically aestheist ,in my own beliefs, but let me explain.


"Man" enters Stage left and waxes lyrically on these beliefs and gains a hug following.

...Meets lots of people, his words are changed slightly by all, to fit dialect and personal beliefs, because they like him.

"Man" , has too much power and is killed by "powers that be".

This end part will never change in my lifetime, no matter how many alternate ending are offered on the DVD version.

C`mon guys, the whole God idea, surely meant look within yourselves for help.

Who was the "Man"?

It was and is actually yourself.

Are you happy with what "He" did?

Mart wrote:
I feel, the "G" word is just the sum of all fears.
As of course is the "D" word.

I love the human race, and I also love the global race for it`s utter faith, including many of my very close friends, in their belief in a higher order.

I believe that the true miracle, is that we are here and it`s no good turning to an unseen entity for blame.
Help, can be found within, or by asking a "named""Man", the person(s) cannot see.

That may sound technically aestheist ,in my own beliefs, but let me explain.


"Man" enters Stage left and waxes lyrically on these beliefs and gains a hug following.

...Meets lots of people, his words are changed slightly by all, to fit dialect and personal beliefs, because they like him.

"Man" , has too much power and is killed by "powers that be".

This end part will never change in my lifetime, no matter how many alternate ending are offered on the DVD version.

C`mon guys, the whole God idea, surely meant look within yourselves for help.

Who was the "Man"?

It was and is actually yourself.

Are you happy with what "He" did?

+1

Blimey you're on form Mart