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QUOTE (Throne777 @ Nov 20 2008, 10:26 AM) There is nothing logically wrong with the task. So no :P Well, it stands to reason that a task that requires an infinite number of steps can never be completed, therefore there is a pretty serious problem with postulating on what might happen after it's completion... QUOTE Also, the two little questions you posed only hold comparative universality, not strict universality. That...

A convenient excuse for an inconvenient problem.

Death in an inescapable punishment. It's a completely unnatural event not intended as normal and this is why human kind, aware of the unnatural state of existance rails against the idea of dying.

That's because Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life and you are convicted by the gospel. It makes you uncomfortable. The light shines in the darkness and exposes it. Joh 1:1 ¶ In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made. In Him was life, and the life was the light of men. And...

I'm sure it could happen again. Eventually, life as advanced or even superior to ours may exist again. Keeping religion out of the equation, why bother though? There's so much futility in all of it. I understand that day to day living can be pleasurable as we fulfill needs and desires. It's not very interesting to leave it at that. I'm fine accepting it as it is, if that's really all it is but regardless of that fact...

yep the world is still full of alot of stupid, in China they also destroy precious fossils that could tell us about the prehistoric past to make a dragon bone powder for medicine. in India a few years ago several people were murdered under suspision of being werewolves. In Saudi Arabia they will still execute people as witches.

Oh, wow. Cremation just was not done in old times is the conventional wisdom. To find evidence to the contrary is a major find. It changes our opinion of "primitive" religious beliefs. I'm waiting to find a Jewish cremation site. That'd rock the archaeological world.

hell, didnt they used to sell what they claimed to be the bones of saints? and I think I remember hearing an old spell for something that called for making a candle out of a murderers skeletized hand and lighting the wicks that were wrapped around the fingerbones to stop an uprising, or put people to sleep, or some kind of calming effect. people are strange.

I personally think you have hit the nail on the head as one would say. "If there's nothing except mostly randomness and evolution responsible for our existence and our knowledge and our technology, it seems rather meaningless still to me." If so, then why try to put meaning to something that has no meaning? Such an action would be like an obsessive insanity loop where justification meets futility. Indeed why do we exist...

QUOTE (Bright One @ Oct 27 2008, 10:50 PM) It's supposed to make you have crazy dreams. Something to do with digestive process, possibly release of chemicals. Indigestion is said to cause nightmares, because of impure blood supply to the brain maybe. Impure blood supply to brain.. lol :P