Something from nothing

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Joe Guy
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Re: Something from nothing

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Lord Jim wrote:Anything worth saying is worth saying twice.
You can say that again!

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Joe Guy wrote:
Lord Jim wrote:Anything worth saying is worth saying twice.
You can say that again!


Fixed
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

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bigskygal wrote:Are you going to see them? I envy you the opportunity!
I hadn't planned to, but we just found out Hatch will be attending! Lucky girl.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”

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Gob wrote:
It has revealed that the empty space that makes up most of the universe - a nothingness that theologians and classical philosophers have long pondered - is not empty after all.
No it's not;

Shunyata

Also Known As: Emptiness


Definition:
According to the Mahayana teaching of shunyata, beings and things have no intrinsic existence in themselves. All phenomena come into being because of conditions created by other phenomena. Thus, they have no existence of their own and are empty of a permanent self. There is neither reality not not-reality; only relativity.

This emptiness is not nihilistic. All phenomena are void of self-essence, but it is incorrect to say that phenomena exist or don’t exist. Form and appearance create the world of myriad things, but the myriad things have identity only in relation to each other. Beyond identity, shunyata is an absolute reality that is all things and beings, unmanifested.

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Yeah? Prove it!
For Christianity, by identifying truth with faith, must teach-and, properly understood, does teach-that any interference with the truth is immoral. A Christian with faith has nothing to fear from the facts

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