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Magnificent! M.I., Naeto C and Da Grin all did very well.

The following is the text of an email I got this morning from my Dad. He keeps asking me why I’m fighting with God, why I don’t go to church etc After you’ve read it I’ll answer, sort of…

This is one of the best explanations on the nature of God that I have ever seen…
A man went to a barber’ shop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said:
‘I don’t really believe that God exists.’ ‘Why do you say that?’ asked the customer.
‘Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn’t exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people?  Would there be abandoned children? If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can’t imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things.
‘The customer thought for a moment, but didn’t respond because he didn’t want to start an argument. The barber finished his job and the customer left the shop. Just after he left the barber’ shop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber’ shop again and he said to the barber:
‘You know what? Barbers do not exist.’
‘How can you say that?’ asked the surprised barber. ‘I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!’ ‘No!’ the customer exclaimed. ‘Barbers don’t exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside.’
‘Ah, but barbers DO exist! That’s what happens when people do not come to me," replied the barber.
”Exactly!’ affirmed the customer. ‘That’s the point! God, too, DOES exist! That’s what happens when people do not go to Him and don’t look to Him for help. That’s why there’s so much pain and suffering in the world.’
Do you now agree that God exists. He is looking over you. You wouldn’t have been alive today without him.
If you think God does not exist, delete it! If you agree that He exists share it with your friends. BE BLESSED & BE A BLESSING TO OTHERS!

First, I do believe in God but just not the way most people including my Dad do. I’m not going to try and preach to y’all about my beliefs so I drop that now.

But does anyone see how flawed this argument is?  The bottom line as far as I’m concerned is that there is no logical way to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that God exists or does not exist and people should really stop trying. You take the same logical structure used by some to “prove” God’s existence and you can flip it right round and use it to “prove” he doesn’t.  In the end it all boils down to what you believe or want to believe. Its a choice.

Yes there are questions that science and logic cannot answer satisfactorily and on the other hand there are questions too that most religions I’ve studied cannot answer satisfactorily.  The only problem I see is that most people I’ve encountered can only address these issues from their point of view i.e. through the eyes of their religion or through the eyes of an atheist. The result is that rather than following the scientific approach of exploring and reaching a conclusion, they already have a conclusion and then find evidence to support it.

That’s a form of circular logic and it is the Christian equivalent of building your house (faith) on sand.

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Well I think  the movie was slightly overrated and that it fell just short of being a great movie. It was definitely fun though. Unfortunately  I also recall getting bored in the theatre and the only thing keeping me interested in the movie was the wonderful soundtrack by Hans Zimmer.

As far as the movie is concerned; to each his own but the soundtrack is awesome. Hans Zimmer has made some of my favorite movie scores in the past couple of years and well he did not disappoint me on this like Christopher Nolan did

Most folks tend to jump into one of two camps; it was all a dream or he made it back. Well I disagree with both of them. The movie was not a “deep” movie, there were no real mind blowing ideas introduced in the movie. This is all just lucid dreaming. There was no real philosophical argument or depth to the movie. It was nothing but a late summer action movie. Good but don’t waste your time trying to study it. It’s about as deep as American Pie.

Inception is a movie about a movie. That’s the catch.

hmm…