...just and on the unjust. " Mt. 5:45 The sun shines on the grass and the trees. And the rain waters them. Does that make God the "saviour of all grass"? And the "saviour of all trees"? Since the sun shines on the insects too, does that mean God is "the saviour of all the flies," and "the saviour of all grasshoppers"? By old man joe's logic, it must! In his post, old man joe attempts to negate the words of Paul in 1 Timothy 4:10,...

... temporary ecosystems evolved and produced abundant life. They reduced flooding and erosion, enhanced groundwater penetration, created the valley's precious topsoil and fed a radiant food web including decomposing bacteria, amphibians, fisheries, insects, birds, herbivores and carnivores. Comparing a beaver to Hoover Dam is like comparing life to death. Aldo Leopold, the legendary and visionary U.S. Forest Service land manager of the 1920s,...

... promising explanatory principle. The book of Leviticus makes a lot more sense when you think of ancient lawgivers first sorting everything into two categories: "disgusts me" (gay male sex, menstruation, pigs, swarming insects) and "disgusts me less" (gay female sex, urination, cows, grasshoppers ). For my dissertation research, I made up stories about people who did things that were disgusting or disrespectful yet perfectly harmless. ...

... ceases to exist upon death. When a human is born, it has its own unique consciousness, beliefs, etc. therefore, no such thing as past lives. we are no different than plants, insects. born, live, die. that's it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You are repeating indoctrination.Fair enough. Thats one of the reasons I posted this thread. To post counter-indocrination?...

... ceases to exist upon death. When a human is born, it has its own unique consciousness, beliefs, etc. therefore, no such thing as past lives. we are no different than plants, insects. born, live, die. that's it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You are repeating indoctrination.Fair enough. Thats one of the reasons I posted this thread. To post counter-indocrination?...

... to exist upon death. When a human is born, it has its own unique consciousness, beliefs, etc. therefore, no such thing as past lives. we are no different than plants, insects. born, live, die. that's it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You are repeating indoctrination.Fair enough. Thats one of the reasons I posted this thread. To post counter-indocrination? ---------------- ...

...Pythagoras mentioned it a few thousand years ago. Of course it is all part of the course ;-) we are no different than plants, insects. born, live, die. that's it. -------- Actually, we are very different from plants and insects, but that's not the point. The point is, you don't know absolutly, and niether does Brian, but we are all entitled to...

... Conciousness ceases to exist upon death. When a human is born, it has its own unique consciousness, beliefs, etc. therefore, no such thing as past lives. we are no different than plants, insects. born, live, die. that's it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You are repeating indoctrination.Fair enough. Thats one of the reasons I posted this thread. To post counter-indocrination?

..., and future is an illusion. BOfL Conciousness ceases to exist upon death. When a human is born, it has its own unique consciousness, beliefs, etc. therefore, no such thing as past lives. we are no different than plants, insects. born, live, die. that's it.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - You are repeating indoctrination.Fair enough. Thats one of the reasons I posted this thread. BOfL

... say this, but you don't really know do you? There is no way to know this for sure. we are no different than plants, insects. born, live, die. that's it. -------- Actually, we are very different from plants and insects, but that's not the point. The point is, you don't know absolutly, and niether does Brian, but we are all entitled to our ...