I'm not really sure what you mean by this. It's entirely possible for things to exist without conclusive proof. Prior to the colonisation of the land, which is known as the USA today, by Westerners, you'd struggle to provide conclusive proof of its existence to someone living in Edinburgh at that time. That doesn't mean it didn't exist.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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03-10-2018 09:10 PM #601
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03-10-2018 09:30 PM #602This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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03-10-2018 09:38 PM #603This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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03-10-2018 10:22 PM #605This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
But it did exist, it was always there just we couldn't see it because of the distance, so we don't need to prove it's existence. Do you think Hercules or the Medusa existed, what about dragons and any other mythical being or creature.
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03-10-2018 10:53 PM #606This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
I don’t think that’s an argument for God, because it’s recursive. Who created him? That said, I don’t know either way. IMO the most logical stance is agnosticism.
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03-10-2018 11:04 PM #607This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Those people didn’t know that it didn’t exist. However, if someone theorised about the existence of the USA before we had actually ‘discovered’ it, it would be disingenuous to say that it doesn’t exist, or conversely, that it does. We might not have had the means to prove its existence, just like we don’t have the means to prove or disprove the existence of God (and almost certainly never will).
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04-10-2018 05:44 AM #608
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04-10-2018 05:45 AM #609
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My one for this thread is anti-Semitism.
I've never understood why so many people have an issue with Jews.
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04-10-2018 07:40 AM #610This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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04-10-2018 07:58 AM #611This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
One of the arguments made against their existence is that there is no scientific evidence. That makes the assumption that our science knows all there is to know; that's quite an arrogant assumption IMO.
If we knew that we had 99% of all scientific knowledge, I would accept that there is no basis for the existence of divine beings. We don't know that, though. For all we know, we have less than 1% of all knowledge.
Until we know everything, we have to keep an open mind IMO.
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04-10-2018 08:05 AM #612This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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04-10-2018 08:24 AM #614This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You have inadvertently or otherwise asked one of the most important and problematic philosophical and theological questions.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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04-10-2018 09:47 AM #615This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Not knocking anyone with free will, people can believe in anything they wish, we live in a free world but for me I just don't get religion with all the different variant forms of religions to me shows that in early mankind they attempted to understand why everything is what it is, a higher being seems a natural idea to explain these things.
There are even people who believe aliens visited the earth thousands of years ago and are the gods we speak of as they probably descended from the sky in their crafts. Don't get me started on dinosaurs and the fact they were here millions of years ago before mankind appeared, let the bible explain that.
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04-10-2018 12:51 PM #618
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Singalong events at the cinema. Why anyone would want to see a film with the audience singing the songs around them is quite beyond me.
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04-10-2018 12:52 PM #619This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Someone may well say in 50, 100 or 1000 years, with conclusive proof, that God always existed, we just couldn't see "him". If that were to happen, God won't have moved from non-existence into existence, just as America didn't when people became aware of it.
I don't really know whether any mythological creatures existed but, based on what I do know, I certainly wouldn't be able to state, for certain, that they didn't.
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04-10-2018 01:48 PM #621
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04-10-2018 03:53 PM #622This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
USA and the Americas were there of that there is no doubt, it was not a figment of someones imagination or an idea, god is a theory that involves the belief he/she/it created all the heavens and earth, as yet no proof just ancient writings. If proof becomes available I'll be the first to say, well there you go I was wrong until then I'll look upon all religion as made up nonsense( as far as I'm concerned ).
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04-10-2018 08:52 PM #626This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Our Church is organising a visit to the Synagogue with a reciprocal visit back to the Church from a group from the Jewish community. I'm quite looking forward to it as my knowledge of Judaism is patchy at best.PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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04-10-2018 09:19 PM #627
I lived down the road from Stamford Hill in London where thousands of orthodox Jews live, fascinating but they tend not to mingle much with others. Some lovely food shops there though.
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05-10-2018 10:17 AM #628
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I read there are less than 300,000 Jewish people in the UK. I would have thought a lot more given the amount of discussion there is around the matter of anti-semitism etc. They also have their own police force. Does anyone know if this unique for such a small portion of the overall population?
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05-10-2018 10:29 AM #629This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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