MVP
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At least he said should and not must.
God is good
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RandyForRubio
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And the majority of players taken in the 10th round are career minor leaguers.
Your lack of baseball knowledge is showing. To pickup a sport after not concentrating on it all until you’re 28 or so, and then making it to AA is really freaking impressive.
Yeah, and Tim Tebow is a career minor leaguer.
freakazoid
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I thought this thread was going to be about yoga/black stretch pants. Gotta love those millennial girls.
freakazoid
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Simple language, great idea. Americans don't talk that way, though.
I'm generally on the prowl for anyone who'll talk about "God", but maybe in another thread. This thread is totally contemporary culture/sports. Tebow has made a name for putting God out front in his personal business, and a lot of religious Americans are almost cult followers.
Age is real. Starting late is not such a serious consideration in baseball as in basketball or football though..... a lot of standing out in the sun, a lot of sitting in the shade too. A few minutes of activity where it counts..... But still, the ball moves pretty fast when in play and you need perfect coordination......
Let's re-open the LTE and discuss. Fun for me to see how people decide not to think, or reject thinking because others have done such a poor job with it........
Mark Levin talked about the philosophical basis of modern progressivism the other day, and wrote about I think in his book "Ameritopia".
Rejecting God, however valid our reasons, puts us in a vulnerable position, psychologically.... not so good....
People who believe in some abstract notion of an unknown or undisclosed absolute authority who will when necessary assert control over the universe, have to be.... are logically constrained to be, at least.... humble in a few respects. If we are wrong about anything.... we're not the last straw of hope for the planet. We hafta sorta be prepared to be set straight....
People who reject the abstract possibility of anything greater than themselves.... are desperate humans....
If we don't get it right, we're just screwed.
So liberals, today for whatever that term really means, just don't have the flexibility it takes to be aware that they are not the ultimate Gods themselves, nor do they have the patience and humor it takes to give others some wiggle room about anything......
The whole liberal mindset is apocalyptic crisis where, unless we can achieve total governance and compliance, we're doomed.
Cheer up, my friend. It's not as bad as all that. The sun will come up tomorrow.
I'm much more psychologically sound than I was as a believer. Someday I should write a book as to why, but not today. But I'll give you one little nugget. As a child, I was terrified by the idea that God was watching everything I did, to the point that I could hardly get off my bed because I was so afraid of making a mistake. I believed that my "natural man" tendencies were threatening to overcome my "godlike" tendencies at every moment, and I was constantly afraid I would lose the battle. Every mistake I made reinforced that I was inherently a bad person. I believed every single word that I was told, and I internalized it in unhealthy ways. I am the completely wrong personality type for a belief in a supreme leader who expected a continuous journey toward achieving perfection. Now that I get to make my own rules based on my own understanding of right and wrong, I am whole. And I am a much better person than I ever realized.
Life is pretty humbling in and of itself, for most anyone who actually cares about anyone other than themselves. And the idea that someone will straighten out man's mistakes by magical means is why people created gods in the first place. Well, that and to explain things they didn't yet have the knowledge to explain.
One could argue about who are actually the desperate ones.
Oddly, those in my acquaintance who claim to be liberal, progressive or independent tend to have a much brighter outlook about the world than many of the self-proclaimed conservatives that I know. They often dwell on last-day teachings and prophecies and believe the world is a terrible place and getting worse every day.
That's the trouble with labeling people. No two people in a group think exactly alike. And I firmly believe that as long as people are not hurting other people, they can believe in anything they want. So go with god, my friend, if you so choose.
I get the whole scenario you present... pretty understandable.
doesn't address the motives and theories of philosophers like Hegel or Marx who incorporated dissing religious beliefs as a tool for inserting their own systematic cosmology. Pretty sure there are humans who worry about not being perfect ideologically-pure statists or politically-correct liberals too....
people who are the shaky side of self-confidence might be too shy or reticent to really make life miserable for others, but I was sorta working on the more self-assured and assertive types who need some help cooling their heels about stuff sometimes.
None of us can do anything about "God", whatever we think or whatever we want to believe. The term represents an unknown variable in the universe that is beyond us, imo.
The God I think I know is infinitely loving, and has a sense of humor too. Some Christian group recently put out a new movie about the Apostle Paul's life. The central point made is that God knows us completely, and loves us completely. I know a lot of folks trying too hard to train up a child will sorta miss the boat on that and create a conflicted child who doesn't know that love.
The God I know even loves ideologically-committed socialists and whiskey distillers.....
it goes with the infinite value placed on life.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7388562/?ref_=vi_md_po
doesn't address the motives and theories of philosophers like Hegel or Marx who incorporated dissing religious beliefs as a tool for inserting their own systematic cosmology. Pretty sure there are humans who worry about not being perfect ideologically-pure statists or politically-correct liberals too....
people who are the shaky side of self-confidence might be too shy or reticent to really make life miserable for others, but I was sorta working on the more self-assured and assertive types who need some help cooling their heels about stuff sometimes.
None of us can do anything about "God", whatever we think or whatever we want to believe. The term represents an unknown variable in the universe that is beyond us, imo.
The God I think I know is infinitely loving, and has a sense of humor too. Some Christian group recently put out a new movie about the Apostle Paul's life. The central point made is that God knows us completely, and loves us completely. I know a lot of folks trying too hard to train up a child will sorta miss the boat on that and create a conflicted child who doesn't know that love.
The God I know even loves ideologically-committed socialists and whiskey distillers.....
it goes with the infinite value placed on life.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7388562/?ref_=vi_md_po
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Can't blame my parents - they left the vast majority of my religious instruction to the church. I'm not blaming any of them - they are what they are and I am what I am. It was not a good fit (with the parents and with the church).
You should familiarize yourself with Objectivism. Certainly not a crowd looking for "total governance."
You don't really understand atheism, clearly.
You also don't understand that believing in absolute authority, when in reality men decide in completely subjective ways what this absolute authority means and change the definition at their own mortal convenience, achieves nothing greater than we can achieve without an invisible sky daddy. In fact, it has less authority. It means less. It is less empowering. Is is less absolute. It is more constraining and pessimistic.
You don't understand that. That's not your fault. You've been subjected to the tyranny of faith your entire life. The biggest snake oil scam there has ever been. Your parents believed in the magic, you were surrounded by an entire community who believed in the magic. There was nothing but ostrification if you rejected the magic. The omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, creator being is the foundation of your false reality. You are making a claim that it doesn't matter if He is real or false, but that believing is better. Reality matters. Truth matters. And the invisible sky daddy is a lie.