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{You may have heard this but i still want your thoughts do you agree or disagree and why}
This has a thought provoking message no matter how you believe. Does evil exist?
The university professor challenged his students with this question. Did God create everything that exists?
A student bravely replied yes, he did!"
"God created everything?" The professor asked.
"Yes, sir," the student replied.
The professor answered, "If God created everything, then God created evil since evil exists, and according to the principal that our works define who we are then God is evil."
The student became quiet before such an answer.
The professor was quite pleased with himself and boasted to the students that he had proven once more that the Christian faith was a myth.
Another student raised his hand and said, "Can I ask you a question professor?" "Of course", replied the professor. The student stood up and asked, "Professor, does cold exist?"
"What kind of question is this? Of course it exists. Have you never been cold?" The students snickered at the young man's question.
The young man replied, "In fact sir, cold does not exist. According to the laws of physics, what we consider cold is in reality the absence of heat. Everybody and every object is susceptible to study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (- 460 degrees F) is the total absence of heat; all matter becomes inert and incapable of reaction at that temperature. Cold does not exist. We have created this word to describe how we feel if we have too little heat.
The student continued. "Professor, does darkness exist?"
The professor responded, "Of course it does".
The student replied, "Once again you are wrong sir, darkness does not exist either. Darkness is in reality the absence of light. Light we can study, but not darkness. In fact we can use Newton's prism to break white light into many colors and study the various wavelengths of each color. You cannot measure darkness. A simple ray of light can break into a world of darkness and illuminate it. How can you know how dark a certain space is? You measure the amount of light present. Isn't this correct? Darkness is a term used by man to describe what happens when there is no light present."
Finally the young man asked the professor. "Sir, does evil exist?"
Now uncertain, the professor responded, "Of course as I have already said. We see it every day. It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and violence everywhere in the world. "These manifestations are nothing else but evil."
To this the student replied, "Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did not create evil. Evil is not like faith, or love, that exist just as does light and heat. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that comes when there is no light."
The professor sat down.
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[Updated on: Fri, 24 October 2008 19:31] |
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Sit down professor.
Youth crisis hot-line 866-488-7386, 24 hr (U.S.A.)
There are people who want to help you cope with being you.
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for me God is an older brother someone who i can count on to talk to and help me through the difficult times in my life
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[Updated on: Fri, 24 October 2008 18:28] |
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That was the story of Albert Einstein, Isn't?
He was that student, I remember this story from an other language.
I've got sins...or not?
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Dear Jordan,
You have to decide what is the difference between good and bad. Then you have to decide whether to do good things or bad things. These decisions have to be taken dozens of times a day.
Some people think that they can be safe and do good by doing what god wants. I have a fundamentalist friend who even says that the difference between right and wrong is that right is what god wants and wrong is what he wants to avoid.
Unfortunately this doesn't remove any responsibility from you. You still have to decide how to act. Taking an extra decision on the way (to try to do what god wants) just takes longer and adds to the confusion because it isn't straightforward to find out what god wants. You have to trust the people who wrote the bible or koran or ... or you have to trust a priest and there are problems of language ... and all these things get so much in the way that people forget they are deciding how to act for the good and end up hating people who don't think as they do. And a lot of people have been killed in religious wars.
The thing that I just cannot understand is why people would ever think that god is good. Where is the evidence? The bible contains many examples of heartless cruelty with the approval of god. Priests notoriously are often not good but are protected from harm by their bishops and churches.
I think you probably ought to stick with your imaginary elder brother (who is, after all, your conscience) as he will guide you more reliably to be nice to people than any religion.
Love,
Anthony
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Errol, on another issue entirely, could you write to Jon or to me privately about some questions we have about South Africa? The presentation is past in school, and went pretty well, but Jon and I are interested in the reality of live there since the ANC takeover. Up to you totally, but we'd like to hear, ok?
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yeah posting from school
yay proxy servers
donny im writing a new story and y'all in NC are in it
hehehehehe
besides that nothing much else is new
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