KROCK Posted March 31, 2018 Share Posted March 31, 2018 Happy holiday's! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dirtmudd Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Just got back from Saturday late mass.... About a hour ago with Gia.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 we visited seven churches today and made the Easter Vigil at our church tonight. It was nice, but long (of course). Seven people were baptized and joined the church. Bruce 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinmi Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 As an atheist, I find it amazing how religious people believe in their different rituals. Not trying to offend anyone, just observing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ceptorman Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 Happy Easter everyone....enjoy the day. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigStewMan Posted April 1, 2018 Share Posted April 1, 2018 4 hours ago, Ceptorman said: Happy Easter everyone....enjoy the day. Thank You Bill. Great day. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnA Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Happy Easter!! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkevind Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 I hope the best for you, all of you regardless of your beliefs, on this day, and every day. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyrc Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 13 hours ago, Analog Junkie said: As an atheist, I find it amazing how religious people believe in their different rituals. Not trying to offend anyone, just observing There are different levels and, if you will, gestalts of these experiences. Openness to experience, including numinous, ineffable experience, is one of the (several) things meant by the words in the ancient languages that we translate into the English word "Faith." We are thought to acquire our beliefs through rationalism, empiricism (and its subset, science), intuition, faith and authority. Gilbert has the following quote in his signature. It turns out that it may or may not have been said by Einstein, but we know he praised intuition several times. "The Intuitive Mind Is A Sacred Gift, And The Rational Mind A Faithful Servant. We Have Created A Society That Honors The Servant And Has Forgotten The Gift." --Albert Einstein Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 5 hours ago, garyrc said: There are different levels and, if you will, gestalts of these experiences. Openness to experience, including numinous, ineffable experience, is one of the (several) things meant by the words in the ancient languages that we translate into the English word "Faith." We are thought to acquire our beliefs through rationalism, empiricism (and its subset, science), intuition, faith and authority. Gilbert has the following quote in his signature. It turns out that it may or may not have been said by Einstein, but we know he praised intuition several times. "The Intuitive Mind Is A Sacred Gift, And The Rational Mind A Faithful Servant. We Have Created A Society That Honors The Servant And Has Forgotten The Gift." --Albert Einstein Intuition can lead to opposing views. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimjimbo Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 I'm just here for the Peeps. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 Proof of the Easter Bunny: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TasDom Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 After 30 minutes of frantically searching for Easter eggs, I told my kids April fools! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zen Traveler Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 46 minutes ago, Jeff Matthews said: 5 hours ago, garyrc said: Gilbert has the following quote in his signature. It turns out that it may or may not have been said by Einstein, but we know he praised intuition several times. "The Intuitive Mind Is A Sacred Gift, And The Rational Mind A Faithful Servant. We Have Created A Society That Honors The Servant And Has Forgotten The Gift." --Albert Einstein Intuition can lead to opposing views. I like Easter because all of the chicks dress up and look so nice.:) That said, it has always intrigued me how parents share the story of Jesus's resurrection and rabbits laying eggs to their children and how it affects them growing up... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marvel Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 We never did the Easter eggs... always thought that was a bit dodgy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babadono Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 On 4/1/2018 at 10:27 AM, Analog Junkie said: As an atheist, I find it amazing how religious people believe in their different rituals. Not trying to offend anyone, just observing I don't have enough faith to be an atheist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
garyrc Posted April 2, 2018 Share Posted April 2, 2018 10 hours ago, Jeff Matthews said: Intuition can lead to opposing views. I agree. So can the other ways, including empiricism, "A scientist should be the last one to be surprised by contradictions in the data." {I can't recall who said that, maybe someone out there does). Holding seemingly contradictory ideas in the mind can be fruitful, IMO “I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.” ― Abigail Adams Sometimes the thesis and the antithesis can be analyzed (broken apart into their component parts), and the parts synthesized into a new form, using some of the parts of each opposing view. Carlo Rovelli, a theoretical physicist, lists the things he thinks science is about. One of them is "trying to learn to look a little bit beyond, knowing that there’s always a larger point of view to be expected in the future". See "Science is not about Certainty" by Rovelli, in the New Republic. https://newrepublic.com/article/118655/theoretical-phyisicist-explains-why-science-not-about-certainty 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Matthews Posted April 3, 2018 Share Posted April 3, 2018 So what's infinity, divided by 2? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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