Random Thought Thread Part III: The Thinking

[LilCerberus]

With LEDs becoming increasingly popular for a variety of reasons, I just can't help but wonder why LED wrist watches aren't making a comeback...

[LilCerberus]

I always wanted to try the "sawdust" from my grandmother's electric turkey carver.....

[ER]

I was going to use this for True or False but what the heck. Today I saw Hidden Valley Ranch flavor ice cream.

[RCMerchant]

^ Christ wept. 

[ER]

^ Right after eating it....

[indianasmith]

Ranch dressing is just nasty.  They bring it to me when I order fried pickles, and I just leave the little tub untouched.

[Leah]

I never understood why people go crazy for ranch dressing.

[ER]

The horror....the horror.....


https://www.tasteofhome.com/article/ranch-dressing-ice-cream/

[ER]

"Either God is not able to abolish evil or not willing. If he is not able, then he is not all-powerful. If he is not willing, then he is not all-good."
---Augustine of Hippo, Confessions

[RCMerchant]

^ Or maybe he's just "not."

[ER]

^ My thought is that nothing cannot give creation to something, so something must precede nothing, and to subscribe to the idea that this "something" was the uncreated creator of all things is only an extension of logic itself, therefore God seems the most applicable explanation for the problem of the universe's origins; though once taken as a given, the questions then about God's nature become the tricky ones, and I think Augustine's musings there bring up good points.

[Alex]

^ My thought is that nothing cannot give creation to something, so something must precede nothing, and to subscribe to the idea that this "something" was the uncreated creator of all things is only an extension of logic itself, therefore God seems the most applicable explanation for the problem of the universe's origins; though once taken as a given, the questions then about God's nature become the tricky ones, and I think Augustine's musings there bring up good points.

For myself, I figure it boils down to the deeply philosophical statement: s**t happens.

[RCMerchant]

^ Yeah. What he said.
The idea of a 'God' seems way too far out of any kind of reality. At least as we know it.
Religion was, and now, a catalyst for almost all wars. Politics and religion is almost interchangeable. Same s**t.
Nazi's worshipped Hitler like a God. Maga heads worship Trump like a God. It's religion.

[ER]

Who says religion has anything to do with God? Religion strikes me as people reaching toward God, whom they instinctively seem to be aware of, but God may not have anything to do with any religion ever constructed, despite the fact almost every religion claims to speak for God and be a path to God. Still I would have to say religions have probably inspired more people to goodness than they have toward evil, it's just that the many small (and even large) good deeds done by religious people are not what gets concentrated on, it's the evil done in the name of religion, usually by a minority of people within a given religion. It's just human nature to concentrate on the bad in life and miss the good. Also religion can be confused with a personal conviction, such as Christianity has never tied membership in a church or participation in religious services with being a Christian, which is a matter of inner belief. God is a universal/multiversal force that probably doesn't live in a church.


But anyway, I do like that quote by Augustus I originally posted and think it makes a good point.

[RCMerchant]

Yeh. It's politics threw fear. Or invisible promises. I can't resist evil without some unseen being telling me I will go to hell if I don't? Really?