See, you have no idea what you are talking about.
Atheism towards the big "G" is denial of existence of The Supreme and Ultimate Reality. Atheists don't even believe in science.
You don't understand what you are saying. You have superstitious ideas about God.
The Supreme and Ultimate Reality. Do you deny this?
If someone defines themselves as an atheist to begin with, that is a clear indication of either some type of fetishization or a warning that everything they say can be discredited as being foolishness.
There is no such thing as an atheist. That isn't how it works. Atheists have a god. They have many gods. They are pagan. They are in denial of their gods because they are superstitious and don't understand what gods are. Whether or not they acknowledge The Supreme and Ultimate Reality, this is their God, The One True God of all.
"Don't worry Timmy, there is nothing to be concerned with. The truth is that there is no truth, there is no ultimate reality. You can be comforted to know that because there is no ultimate reality, the reality you are experiencing is not real. A lie isn't a lie, the truth isn't the truth, and you can now sleep peaceful in the emptiness of nonexistence. None of this is real. You aren't really dying, because there is no dying."
Oddly enough, if you were to believe this to be true, you would still be professing belief in ultimate reality.
If you say. "There is no God", you are sayin, "It is the ultimate reality that there is no ultimate reality."
Surely anyone who has even a basic amount of sense would find such a proclamation hard to believe, whether or not they assumed to understand what was meant or not.
Charity is the prescription here, and atheists have no appreciation for the amount of charity contemporary society gives them. There was a time when this sort of thing was a matter of survival. People who shouted out "There is no truth! The reality is that there is no reality!" were executed for screwing everything up. Of course, executing these people for screwing everything up was also screwing everything up, so the cycle goes on and on.
Charity is the prescription of Christ, if the atheists only knew.
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity."
This came out in the 1970s, and who does music like this?
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If we are talking about recorded music, I'm going to go with the 70s. Why? Because at that point, recording technology pretty much reached its peak. It was the best time as far as actually recording the sound of real instruments. Sound quality was perfected
After that, it all went downhill because the only place left to as far as sound production was synth and electronic sounds. I like music played by real people. I like instruments that sensitively respond to the instrumentalists touch. Triggered drums? Bullshit. Give me someone playing a real drum any day. I don't care if one person can program an epic symphony by themselves, I am more impressed with a group of musicians playing together and making music happen like that.
Part of what makes music fun for me is playing music. I like to play musical instruments, and I like the communication that occurs when you have a group of musicians playing together.
I think the 80s in particular is disgraceful, because so much music from the 80s would have sounded so much better if the record producers and business people weren't pushing so hard for the artists to use the "latest technology". I don't like robotic music that is devoid of soul. I like the nuance of the human touch. This is not something you can get when every time you hit a snare it sounds exactly the same as every other time you hit the snare.
In large part because of the money made during the 1960s, recording technology really hit its peak in the 1970s, and I think listening makes it really obvious.
That said, good music is good music no matter what time it was made. I love a lot of music from every decade.
"speciation due to natural selection"
Ok, so this is the evolution that you are talking about, eh? See, now we are getting somewhere. You shouldn't be so presumptuous. Besides that, when you insult me for not getting something you take as being easy to understand, that is just as much a reflection of your ability to communicate as it is my ability to comprehend.
You claim that speciation due to natural selection is a historical fact. What does that even mean?
I don't believe my position is wishy washy at all. It simultaneously respects freedom of speech and property rights.
If a press uses their property rights to deny usage of the press, others who think that is wrong can stop supporting them. Support a different press. Or get your own press.
Let the haters speak hate, I am not scared of them.
Really quite the opposite. It is an attempt to take art away from the artist and bring them to a more natural, primordial, and child like state. Let the universe do the painting for you.
Really, the artform is in selling the splatter paint art. These people are the real geniuses. Why do you know about any of this crap to begin with? People with way too much money throw their money at it. Maybe they have such a low opinion of everyone else that they see splatter painting as the best the lower class plebeians can come up with. Buying their finger paintings and sticking it to the fridge with a magnet is really the charitable thing to do.
Crazy people need to make a buck too, ya know? Some pretty good art comes out of crazy people.
Then there is splatter painting..... Sounds like some kind of side hussle a land sharking used car salesman would come up with. Surely some dumb rich schmuck would buy this canvas with my guacamole diarrhea splashed all over it. This painting really takes you to a place.
First of all, what determines whether or not something is ignorant or hateful?
Second of all, how is stifling the opinions of "religious people" a solution to "religious people" stifling the opinions of others? What determines what is stifling?
Third of all, how are you not answering your own questions? Maybe the type of reactionary attitude is the reason why all these things happen to begin with. React against a reaction against a reaction to something else? Lets just keep slapping each other back and forth. Maybe eventually someone will give up or get knocked out.
The central figure of my faith was someone who was sentenced to death for blasphemy. There is nothing in my faith that would even assume ever being in a majority position. It is well understood by me that I am living in a very pagan society. There is no compulsion in my faith. There is forgiveness of sins, and even blasphemy is forgiven. The faith I believe in is charity, and charity does not silence those who have different cultural ways of expressing things.
Is this what you see in the world? I say you are superstitious, prejudice, and the very people you think you are fighting on the side of are the ones doing what it is you are so revolted against. People who call for justice, not knowing that it is their call for justice that condemns them. It isn't God that damns someone, they condemn themselves by their own judgement. Mercy triumphs over judgement. The statutes of God are absolute, unbreakable, and perfect.
What can President Trump do on his own? Nothing. It isn't President Trump who is really doing anything.
That is why great leader needs your help. Join the movement. Be the hands and feet working to Make America Great Again!
Or you know, succumb to decadence and complain about everything while looking down on everyone for not being as enlightened as you. The world could use more of those people.
What is so important about this?
If The Truth stands apart on its own, of what benefit is there to attach partners to it?
The benefit is only for those who are too cowardly to address The Truth, and can now attack strawmen while pretending to attack The Truth.
Yet these idols will fall, as it is so rightly propesied...
"...except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition; who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God. Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things? And now ye know what withholdeth that he might be revealed in his time. For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
When the straw man is burned away, there you have The Truth, and this is what is really being disputed.
That is what this is fundamentally about. A war against Truth. Love The Truth or be cursed with strong delusion.
Let it be known that The Supreme and Ultimate Reality is God Almighty, and this is Eternally True. Men will scheme about, and they may fool many... But no one can fool God. No one can outsmart God. There is nothing hidden from God.
In real life, people shut you down for not cleaning up your language.
I'm certain that there are many who behave uncivilized in debate over the internet are either doing so because they lack real world experience or are so suppressed in their real world experience that they are inconsiderate of others when communicating online.
There are plenty of people besides who do not take online interactions seriously. They refuse to think about the consequences of their interactions, maybe even out of principle.
I am against censorship of the internet. I believe in the free press. The thing is, unless you own your own press you have to use someone elses press. You are not entitled to use someone elses press. They don't have to accept your money if they don't want you to use it.
People can complain about censorship all they want. I'm on their side. I don't think social media should censor. At the same time, I acknowledge they have the right to do so.
I say people should stop giving so much power and authority to these social media platforms. The internet is a lot more fun with many different websites rather than everything being consolidated to social media. Make your own website!
You know what is going to end up enslaving everyone? Showing preference to things because they are inexpensive and convenient. You don't just vote with a ballot, you also vote with how you spend your money. How you spend your time. Is it worth paying a little bit more because it helps support the local economy and keep it culturally distinct from the rest of the world? I think so. If nothing else, the production and business practices it sometimes requires to mass produce a product and sell it so much cheaper than everyone else requires unethical practices. Unethical practices are not always illegal. IN fact, many unethical practices are very legal.
For freedom of speech to work, people who are offended need to practice charity and forgiveness. If the offended don't truly believe in that spirit of free speech, they are simply exploiting those who truly do.
Oh, something will get done all right.
Death.... Decay.... Destruction....
That is actually what a lot of people are going for. You aren't going to get rid of those people.
A vote for anarchy is a vote for fire, and when fire takes office, the office burns!
The words you are using are invention too, that doesn't mean that there isn't something real that the words are referring to.
Satanism is the worship of self before God or the self as God.
This has always been the case throughout history, and even contemporary forms of satanism such as LaVeyism acknowledge this.
Maybe you don't know what you are talking about. You should consider that.
IF you understood what "The Supreme and Ultimate Reality" was, you'd realize the absurdity of ever communicating such a thing.
In fact, if you completely done away with saying "something is something else", I'm not too sure how positively that would effect the world.
It's just how things work. The thing is, Christianity addresses this issue with The Trinity. Why do the God deniers not see this? They are superstitious, and they feel smug in their ignorance when they find superstitious people who profess the faith without understanding it.
It doesn't matter how simple, plain, clearly, lucid, direct, or well thought out the method of communication.... It doesn't matter how perfect the image... A defiled heart will never see God.
Satanism is worshiping the self as an idol before God. It is a type of fetishism. Definitely pagan, which is the worship of created things as idols before God.
When I say God, I mean "The Supreme and Ultimate Reality".
A satanist is basically an atheist who is willing to admit that they take themselves as being their highest god. In contrast, an atheist who takes themselves as being their highest god would deny belief in any gods.
Where does Satanism come from? The deadliest of the capital vices, PRIDE
"For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way. And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming: even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: that they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness."
To say "Such and such" is "Something else" is inherently fallacious. The "is" in language is the equivalent in mathematics to an equal sign(equivalent to an equal sign.. lol). The reason why they don't teach this in schools is because it undoes all of their indoctrination.
"All affirmations are true in some sense, false in some sense, meaningless in some sense, true and meaningless in some sense, false and meaningless in some sense, and true, false, and meaningless in some sense."
Now repeat this mantra over and over again until you figure out how "The Supreme and Ultimate Reality is God".
Unless you are either too stupid or uncreative to do so, of course.
Of course, the next joke would be that what one person thinks of being God is not the same as what someone else thinks of as being God.
The joke is that God isn't any of these things, God is The Supreme and Ultimate Reality as it Truly IS. As this is the case, the difference between creation and The Uncreated can be discerned.
See, identity is creation, it fundamentally has to do with creation.
God is what God is. The Supreme and Ultimate Reality is The Supreme and Ultimate Reality.
IF you believe that, great, but that still isn't what it really is.
If I say "I am a man", I might be a man, but if you take all the mens in the world, you'd see that they are all different. What ties us all together?
People can't even agree on that. Yet, it's how we make sense of things. Are any two of anything the same?
No, it is evident that they are not. Identity is made up. It is unhealthy to take it too seriously.
See, God chops through all this bullcrap like karate through boards. That is why God consciousness is so important. It is easily the best personal practice in every conceivable way.
I assure you, there are many out there who take what I am saying as a joke.
I am pointing to the greatest joke there ever was. The Cosmic Joke.
What is The Cosmic Joke?
The absurdity of expressing The Uncreated through the medium of creation.
It is certainly the joke I get the biggest kick out of. Why? Because it means a life more abundant.
