ZN - you are welcome to come to Canada and visit any time you want. I have lots of room. My advice would be to come in summer. If you want to stay, then come in winter, and then you may decide you don't like Canada quite so much anymore. But you could be a snow bird, and spend your summers in this untouched wonderland, and warm winters in the southern US.

Of course I will adopt you - on humanitarian grounds, of course!

What was the topic again ?

God - yea or nay?

I prefer Noah

haha.. i thought the topic was just God nay.. now im lost

panchod for president

Who Knows ?

"Who Knows" I meant God. Who Knows ?

Not the President bit. God that sounds so terrible.

pan.. wth are you trying to say.. you lost me at who..

I understand that for many people, their religion is the most important thing in their lives. There's whatever they believe in and that's at the center of their life, and then everything else they think, say, or do, is first 'run by' their beliefs and that helps guide them in making the right choices and taking the right actions.

The part I find a bit puzzling, is why does it sometime become a rather touchy subject?

Why does anyone care if someone else holds differing opinions?

To me, it's interesting to hear all the different beliefs, but I don't feel personally impacted by any of them.
Why care what someone else chooses to believe?

(Obviously everybody who thinks differently than me is wrong, but I see no need to point it out!)

I think" Who Knows " was what Vonnegut would say.Or Bo Fowler.

But I said " Who Knows ? " and it looked like I was saying it about Presidency so it looked twattish and I was simply putting that right..and at the same time losing the will to live...

But Bo Fowler's book " Scepticism Inc " is an excellent book. It is very Vonnegut inspired and a bit easier to grasp but it's very funny.

About a man that opens a betting shop. You bet on God or anything else. You bet on your philosophy. Then other people feel the need to place bets on their belief too and it's very absurd.
But he falls in love with a total God woman.

With all due respect....Exactly. Who knows? I don't think we are supposed to completely understand God (or not for those who hold this as true).

My belief? It is by faith. I've studied and listened and read tons. I always seem to come back to a simple truth.

We can't as humans wrap our heads around all of it. If I knew everything God knew then I would "be" God. I don't "even" WANT that kind of responsibility (unless grandiose manic, ha, j/k). I can't fully explain it in human terms or in my head. It isn't logical. I am finite. God is infinite and perfect. I'm forever flawed. He's mysterious and wonderful.

Works for me. :)

Honestly, Carla, I don't care what other people believe. I mean, I respect that is their choice. I'm even willing to listen and try to learn something I didn't know.

It becomes sensitive/touchy to me when someone blatantly disrespects my beliefs. I expect the same courtesy that I afford others.

Man...the spike strips were really thrown on the road in this one, wheres hanna?

I believe that people know what's going on.