silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia

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Seven-day week
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Week

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-day_week




http://www.blurtit.com/q266516.html


If There Are 365 Days In A Year. Why Is It If You Multiply 52 Weeks X 7 Days Your Total Is 364?


Leap second
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Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

Spoken like some one who can read history, Science, biology, understand common sense rather than folk tales and superstition.
As with today's written word where we know and can prove so much is false. When the bible's stories were written there were so very very few who could read and write they were so easily lead to believe anything written was true.
IMHO

The Mayan calendar is as much of a mystery as their origin and departure back into villages rather than cities with temples.
All speculation. I have been living in the Mayan country, The Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico off and on for 30 yrs.
Great people to be around and call my friends.
Harvey

Chuy Loc: OUT OF TOWN

Harvey, there are folks out there that would intellectually squash you like a bug. They believe every bit of the Bible and so do I.

Bazamac Loc: Manchester, UK

Teehee! Someone who believes every word of the bibble squashing someone intellectually? Squashing someone with a copy of the bibble might be possible - suppose it must have some use beyond tinder

Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

That my friend just shows you how guided you and the folks you mention are so blindly following what you were told and taught by those who can not or will not look into history past the written words of supposed inspired writers that who if were alive today like Mr. Jim Johns would be proved to be as far out to lunch as many of the folks predicting the second coming of J.C. or the Rapture..
I will not go so far as to call you names, I'll just say you have not read enough about the provable facts of the Earth and it's peoples.
If you want to believe the story of Adam & Eve - ask your pastor where the "other peoples" came from the Adm & Eve's daughter married??? Were they Polaroid People - you know "instant"
Squash me like a bug - not hardly they would just be showing their ignorance.
Harvey

Chuy Loc: OUT OF TOWN

Are you on the bottle?

Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

If you are asking me that question it just shows where your non inquisitive mind is lurking or soaking (Ceremonial Wine??)- look in your own glass as I took my last drink Oct.1'89 and started my search of the God so many worshiped - in doing so I found lots of non substantiated stories many unprovable stories many contradicting stories as well as many many different interpretations of this Book - the worlds biggest seller. That is nothing but a fiction novel.
I do try my best to lead a lifestyle of the 10 commandments - that DID NOT come from Moses but from the Egyptian Book of Life written way before Moses's time.
That is they were carved into a crown on a statue in Egypt a few hundred years before Moses - maybe he carried them with him on his supposed flight with the Jews across the Red Sea which could never happen in one day/evening as described as the line of people and army would take days to pass - NOT one night in a few hours -
Don't bother trying to make me look like the uninformed one here - you are already the winner there.
Harvey

Chuy Loc: OUT OF TOWN

Thanks for de

Thanks for declaring me the winner. Good night Harvey

Harvey Loc: Pioneer, CA

Yep - Winner also a Legend in Your own Mind.

Chuy Loc: OUT OF TOWN

Why thank you harv.

workhorse Loc: Nashville, TN

Remember Harvey, "If you live as if there is no God, you had better pray you are right."

Bazamac Loc: Manchester, UK

Well that's certainly not worth remembering. Looks like Pascal's wager to me - complete tosh, of course. What self respecting deity is going to be taken in by someone 'believing' just in case?

silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia

That's a great quote......

Here's the quote I try to live by.......
and, I'm sure you've all heard it before......


“I would rather live my life as if there is a god and die to find out there isn't,
than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.”
― Albert Camus
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A FORUM TO PERUSE:


I WOULD RATHER LIVE AS IF THERE IS A GOD AND DIE TO FIND OUT THERE ISN'T THAN LIVE AS IF THERE ISN'T A GOD AND DIE TO FIND OUT THERE IS. AGREE OR DISAGREE? (REASONS, PLEASE)

http://www.sodahead.com/living/i-would-rather-live-as-if-there-is-a-god-and-die-to-find-out-there-isnt-than-live-as-if-there-isnt/question-2285679/
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Pascal's Wager
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager

The wager
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager#The_wager


Pascal's Wager (also known as Pascal's Gambit) is an argument in apologetic philosophy which was devised by the seventeenth-century French philosopher, mathematician, and physicist, Blaise Pascal. It posits that there's more to be gained from wagering on the existence of God than from atheism, and that a rational person should live as though God exists, even though the truth of the matter cannot actually be known.

Pascal formulated the wager within a Christian framework, and it was set out in section 233 of his posthumously published Pensées. (Pensées, meaning thoughts, was the name given to the collection of unpublished notes which, after Pascal's death, were assembled to form an incomplete treatise on Christian apologetics.)

Historically, Pascal's Wager was groundbreaking because it charted new territory in probability theory, marked the first formal use of decision theory, and anticipated future philosophies such as existentialism, pragmatism, and voluntarism.[1]





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silverhawk Loc: Born a West Virginian, Living in Virginia

Here are a couple "scholars" who have studied the "BIBLE" thoroughly, and, they don't believe in it either...
there's quite a few of these around.....:mrgreen:

Debunking Christianity

http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2006/11/what-if-bible-was-perfectly-copied-for.html

60 Prophecies of Jesus Debunked
Written by Taylor Carr - April 15th, 2010

http://www.godlesshaven.com/articles/bible-prophecy_pg1.html

Bible Science Debunked

http://home.nctv.com/jackjan/item65.htm

FROM THE ABOVE LINK:
Scientific Facts In The Bible
http://www.inplainsite.org/html/scientific_facts_in_the_bible.html

Section 5 .. Other Beliefs/
World Religions/ Islam/ The Qur’an

http://www.inplainsite.org/html/the_qur_an.html

Errors Which Contradict Secular and Scientific Data
http://www.inplainsite.org/html/the_qur_an_3.html#SecularScientific


Other Beliefs
http://www.inplainsite.org/html/Page5_other_beliefs.html


“they will call on me, but I will not answer; They will seek me diligently, but they will not find me. Because they hated knowledge And did not choose the fear of Yahweh, They would have none of my counsel And despised my every rebuke. Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way, And be filled to the full with their own fancies. For the turning away of the simple will slay them, And the complacency of fools will destroy them; But whoever listens to me will dwell safely, And will be secure, without fear of evil.” Proverbs 1:24-33


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Chuy Loc: OUT OF TOWN

I smell a few burning bridges around here. You have freedom of choice,go ahead and live yours out, times a wasting.