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    Blessings and Gratefulness

    in Religious Resource Forum

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    Not quite hitting Christian Philosophy's heart. Christian Philosophy, first of all, is so expansive that I venture to conjecture that you just can't hit it at the core, unless you specifically point out one of its numerous themes.

     

    The funny and most ironic thing about Christianity and its "principles" is that people can espouse, or use and support, the same quotations and phrases in generally two ways; it's a point of perception. If God is responsible for everything, let's just say, then we don't have to essentially worry about things because you know the things you cannot control in this life can be taken care of by God if you trust in your Creator.

     

    (Btw, I have no clue what you believe in, so this is hypothetical.)

     

    However, if you're realizing God may be responsible for everything and look at it as a sense of loss of self-worth, you're looking at it from an inward perspective. I can ultimately (and this will be confusing) venture to guess that these two opposing ideas are both probably true. As humans, with the introduction of science years and years ago, it's in our nature to search for the "right" answer. There is none.

     

    Here's the interesting thing: Those who can take God and personify him, that is to say....those people who can bring and accept God into their lives as a Being, rather than a far-off, distant and arbitrary Character, are probably most likely to understand that having gratefulness for something and attributing events or circumstances to God doesn't diminish their self-worth; it increases it. Why? Because knowing that God can take care of you in much the same way as, physically, your loved ones have done or do implicitly demonstrates that you are worthy enough for attention.

     

    I think one can walk a find line with humility....connotatively, it's taken to mean shamed by something. Humbility, though, is recognizing that as a person you have limitations and the only way you can grow and go beyond those limits is having faith that God will provide.

     

     

     

    Atheist, so no I don't believe any of this stuff. And yeah I'd agree that Xianity has many cores, I did however mean one of the many, which I don't think deminishes my point.

     

    I'd argue that by hafving God, you're essentially putting a barrier infront of yourself and admitting you can't go any further. If you remove God, you strive to find the answers to things you otherwise wouldn't consider.

     

    Look at science. With God, we wouldn't bother looking at the Big Bang because before the theory was even postulated we, as humans, would have said it was down to God and it's beyond our understanding, without even attempting it.

     

    Had it not been for religion, Western civilisation would undoubtedly be atleast 600 years ahead, if not 800/900, because of the age of religion where science was condemned as heracy, because (and this is the same as my point above), God provides all and you shouldn't question It. From ~1600AD back until even possibly the end of the Roman Empire, ~500AD, the chursh started establishing tiself and stamping out all scientific research.

    Blessings and Gratefulness

    in Religious Resource Forum

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    hmmm... :/ You've kinda answered it. but I get the impression counting your blessings, taken to te extreme, is essentially a form of self-chastisement. People are only thankful for things that they didn't get/do themselves or don't deserve are they not? So by being thankful for everything you have, you could be seen to think you have very little self worth, and are undeserving.

     

    As I'm writing this it's dawning on me that actually i've hit Christian Philosophy's heart, just expressing it in a different way - where God is responsible for everything, It knows what will happen and makes everything happen and everything is possible because of It.... Guess I just expressed it in a different way no?

    SKYRIM

    in Computers and Gaming

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    :P Weeeeeelllllll.......ooooookkkkk........I hope your puny candlelights can match this then lol........

     

     

     

    Should add up to 744 ? :D

     

     

    pfft well I was going for awesomeness. if you want fdamage then how bout daedric legendary sword and war axe? both with 20 flame dmg enchantment atm. wanna find another enchantment to make them give more dmg

    KONY 2012

    in Current Events and Topical discussion

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    I can catagorically announce that if there is any volume of oil in Uganda, that there is no where near the amount there is in KSA. All one needs to do is look at the oil markets. If you immediately disagree with me, then my next question would be what grade of oil is it? and what's the cost/barrel in mining it out of the ground right now?

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