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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    I’m going to be star dust…
    Same metaphor, and likely more physically true for the solid part of our bodies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ThatOwlWoman View Post
    How true. He's one of several here that taint the entire religion by their foulness.
    Unforntunately, those types seem to be growing in number.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    They will know he is Christian by his love…
    we know you are idiots by your votes......
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    Nope, yes, maybe?
    Seriously though, being that the theory is that energy is neither created nor destroyed, I know I will be eternal in some form.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    Unforntunately, those types seem to be growing in number.
    Or at least in volume. It's no different really than any other large group of people with a similar POV. Just like with Muslims, the vast majority are quiet, faithful ppl just going about doing life, while a few crazies get all the attention and headlines. "Christians" like some of them here are no different really than the Jihadist wannabes wishing they were slaying infidels for Mohammed.
    "Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain

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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    I somewhat agree with the bolded above. I have no idea what Heaven or hell is like (note I absolutely believe in the Christian Bible teaching about eternal life and eternal death) but I don’t think hell is eternal flames any more than I think heaven is streets of gold. I believe God put it in terms and imagery that our finite minds can grasp enough to know that hell is a place to avoid and heaven is a place to be desired…and that both are eternal.
    The visceral perception of hell as a particular place filled with diabolical torture chambers is a literary device from the Middle Ages, particularly Dante Allegheri's Divine Comedy.

    Unfortunately, some of the modern fire and brimstone types take it as fact.


    Confucius reputedly said if we do not yet understand life how can we understand death?


    I am recalcitrant to pass judgement on what the New Testament or the Tanakh Old (Testament) actually mean.

    I do not read archaic Greek, which is the language the NT and Septuagint were written in - and I do not think anyone who is not fluent in archaic Greek should be in a rush to interpret meaning from the holy books. It is a universal law that translations of archaic languages into vernacular English can corrupt the intent and meaning of the original authors. Particularly so since we do not have copies of the original Gospels or sacred texts, and are relying on the veracity of much later hand copies, mostly from the Middle Ages.



    The most spiritual members of my family feel that the metaphysical spiritual dimension is incomprehensible to human minds, and on balance that is good enough for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    Seriously though, being that the theory is that energy is neither created nor destroyed, I know I will be eternal in some form.
    That is how I feel about it too. Whether we'll be aware or not is a different question.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    I’m going to be star dust…
    Always blows my mind to acknowledge the iron, calcium, phosphorus, oxygen, etc in our bodies were forged in the supernova of ancient stars billions of years ago.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Always blows my mind to acknowledge the iron, calcium, phosphorus, oxygen, etc in our bodies were forged in the supernova of ancient stars billions of years ago.
    It’s truly is a wonder!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    I’m going to be star dust…
    We are all stardust. All chemical elements, apart from the transuranium ones like neptunium through to lawrencium, originated in stars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Primavera View Post
    We are all stardust. All chemical elements, apart from the transuranium ones like neptunium through to lawrencium, originated in stars.
    Incorrect. Hydrogen, helium and lithium were produced by nucleosynthesis shortly after the big bang and before there were stars.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    Same metaphor, and likely more physically true for the solid part of our bodies.
    Dog turds, cockroaches and ambulance chasers all come from stars, sobering thought.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Primavera View Post
    Dog turds, cockroaches and ambulance chasers all come from stars, sobering thought.
    We come from Stars as much as anything else, its just poetic to say stars.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jarod View Post
    We come from Stars as much as anything else, its just poetic to say stars.
    You come from white dwarves!

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    we know you are idiots by your votes......
    Oh c'mon man. This isn't a political thread. It's physical/metaphysical/supernatural whataboutism.

    Like, what if every grain of sand and drop of water are actually self-contained universes?

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