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Re: Face-Off With a Deadly Predator
This video seems to be making its way around, as it very well should. Amazing story!!!
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Re: Extreme Base Jumping in Squirrel Suits
Some guy on the Today Show was saying that he hopes to get good enough with the wing suits to eventually jump out of a plane with just that and no parachute. I'd like to see that.
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Re: Extreme Base Jumping in Wingsuits
Do they go back and find their skis when they kick them off, or are they that wealthy that they don't care?
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Re: The Last Man on Earth, Full Movie
I tried to get this off Netflix but it they didn't have it. Then it was on an MGM channel last week, so I finally watched. I saw "I am Legend" and "Omega Man" so I wanted to see how this compared.
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Re: God's Next Army
I list 3 different philosophies and then combine them to explain my answer.
First, you have two choices. You can put your faith in God, or you can put your faith in man. If you are atheist, that narrows it down. I believe that humans are corrupt as a whole, and therefore human governments are corrupt.
Second, the Bible says that broad and spacious is the path leading to destruction, while cramped and narrow is the path leading to salvation with few finding it. True followers will always be the minority. Some religions brag about how large they are, we prefer to be the minority as that shows we are on the right path.
Third, the Bible says a day to God is a thousand years to man. All of RECORDED human history is about 7,000 years. That's including Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, and all other cultures. It's only been one week to God.
So add them all up together. We don't get involved in politics because we put faith in God. Since we are the minority, we know the majority will take care of everything for us. Any inconvenience we deal with is trivial in the grand scheme of things with one exception. That exception being laws that go against what we believe in.
I mentioned that they refused to support Hitler, but they didn't fight back either. They were prepared to lay down their life for their beliefs. Early Christians were fed to lions by the Romans and didn't fight back in the arenas. If death doesn't scare us, do you think I'm going to worry about the economy?
We were taught to be model citizens and follow the laws of the land as long as they don't interfere with our beliefs. God comes first, not man. In civilized parts of the world, we would use the court systems to defend our beliefs and many cases have been brought up and won around the world. So the only time we got involved in politics was to defend our system of faith. It doesn't work in all countries, and many have been persecuted in such countries.
First, you have two choices. You can put your faith in God, or you can put your faith in man. If you are atheist, that narrows it down. I believe that humans are corrupt as a whole, and therefore human governments are corrupt.
Second, the Bible says that broad and spacious is the path leading to destruction, while cramped and narrow is the path leading to salvation with few finding it. True followers will always be the minority. Some religions brag about how large they are, we prefer to be the minority as that shows we are on the right path.
Third, the Bible says a day to God is a thousand years to man. All of RECORDED human history is about 7,000 years. That's including Egyptian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Persian, Greek, Roman, and all other cultures. It's only been one week to God.
So add them all up together. We don't get involved in politics because we put faith in God. Since we are the minority, we know the majority will take care of everything for us. Any inconvenience we deal with is trivial in the grand scheme of things with one exception. That exception being laws that go against what we believe in.
I mentioned that they refused to support Hitler, but they didn't fight back either. They were prepared to lay down their life for their beliefs. Early Christians were fed to lions by the Romans and didn't fight back in the arenas. If death doesn't scare us, do you think I'm going to worry about the economy?
We were taught to be model citizens and follow the laws of the land as long as they don't interfere with our beliefs. God comes first, not man. In civilized parts of the world, we would use the court systems to defend our beliefs and many cases have been brought up and won around the world. So the only time we got involved in politics was to defend our system of faith. It doesn't work in all countries, and many have been persecuted in such countries.
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Re: God's Next Army
I'll answer both posts here. The term "world" deals with society in general. Being no part of this world means remaining separate. You can still enjoy life, and it has NOTHING to do with looking forward to death.
As for not getting involved in politics, that deals with putting faith in God not man. If you don't believe in God, then you wouldn't understand. So while other religions fight wars, we remain neutral. We were killed by the Nazis for simply refusing to support Hitler. All they had to do was sign a paper recognizing him as the furor, yet they chose not to and were often treated worse than the Jews for outright resistance. In Rawanda during the genocide, Hutu and Tutsi within the religion died to protect one another rather than slaughter one another. Not getting involved in the world's politics is putting true faith in God.
As for not getting involved in politics, that deals with putting faith in God not man. If you don't believe in God, then you wouldn't understand. So while other religions fight wars, we remain neutral. We were killed by the Nazis for simply refusing to support Hitler. All they had to do was sign a paper recognizing him as the furor, yet they chose not to and were often treated worse than the Jews for outright resistance. In Rawanda during the genocide, Hutu and Tutsi within the religion died to protect one another rather than slaughter one another. Not getting involved in the world's politics is putting true faith in God.
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Re: Drunkest Guy Ever: Silent Film
Oh, they shortened the 10 minute video. I fast-forwarded the original.
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Re: The Truth According to Wikipedia
I agree. I thought it was common knowledge that Wikipedia should be used as a starting point, but not trusted entirely.
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Re: BBC: The Unsinkable Pygmy Gecko
I want to see the making of these programs. Where do they get these shots?
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Re: God's Next Army
I grew up in a Christian religion that refuses to get involved in politics. Jesus did say that his followers be no part of this world. I was the one kid in class who didn't salute the flag because I was taught to put my trust in God not man. Seeing religious people get involved in politics is such a lack of faith.
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Re: It's a Miracle!
Sorry, it just seems that you look forward to being vindicated when the person's heart stops beating. I wasn't being entirely serious in my response either, but sadly sarcasm is often lost in written form.
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Re: It's a Miracle!
Wishing the death of someone because they lower your ratings? That's just uncivilized.
By: digitalprime
Re: David Hanson: Robots that Show Emotion
Why are some of the coolest TED videos the shortest? This should have been one of their 20 minute vids.
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Re: It's a Miracle!
I consider myself a believer and yet I really enjoyed this vid. Christians who think God would manifest himself in such a way are complete idiots. No where in the entire Bible did God give vague signs. If he wanted someone's attention, he'd do it. Besides, don't these people realize that these items border on idolatry which is forbidden?
So again, I really got a kick out of that.
So again, I really got a kick out of that.
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