The photos are hilarious. I agree, God must be an art critic!
As for me, well I choose to believe, but I also choose not to try to cram it down others throats. I don't hold anything against Mick for his poking at relegion. Most of it is well deserved. He's simply giving a little back for those who've shoved it at him over his life. We can none of us prove God exists any more than we can prove He doesn't. Not in scientific terms. One can say that they believe God doesn't exist because they asked Him to show Himself, and He did not; or that He can't possibly exist because of the mess the world is in, or because of all the blood that has been shed in His name. That logic has a few holes for me. I could use the same reasoning to say Barak Obama doesn't exist. I called the DC switchboard and they refused to put me through, a conspiracy. All the pics and video of him? Clearly doctored. All the articles and accounts written about him? Written by mortal men weren't they? As for those who claim to have "seen" him with their own eyes or shook his hand, well thats just mass hysteria. Besides, he couldn't possibly exist. The most powerful man in the world, and just look at the mess this country is in.
Malice to none. Everybody play nice.

"There are no proofs that God exists -- only witnesses."

Not sure who the quote is from, most likely either Soren Kierkegaard or Abraham Joshua Heschel.  Regardless, it's an excellent statement.

We tend to get our first exposure to religion as children, and it is presented to us at a child's level.  Then we grow up, and are expected to maintain this child-like and child-ish faith.  The results:  the "pie in the sky when you die" evangelicals, poring over holy texts for hidden meanings and interpretations like the Hasidic Jews or medieval Christian scholastics ("how many angels can dance on the head of a pin"), or the rote memorization of texts -- this last one popular in the Muslim and Buddhist communities.

None of which helps us understand our relationship with the universe in an adult manner.

mikelhsr1982 wrote on 06/25/10 at 12:10:41:



What about love?

You've never felt love gerald?

"if i cant see it, feel it, hear it,taste it, or touch it, then it doesn't exist"

This really rings a bell to me because I used to think
EXACTLY this way, then one day something happened
and I soon realized that there was a BIG problem.

Humans are visual beings by design, now more
than ever in this colorful world full of movement,
screens and advertising we live in, but there is a
huge problem and I'll explain it with the best
example I can think of right now:

Stacked-up, all the light wavelengths in the
physical universe would be as tall as the empire
state building, but if one takes into account the
visual range of the human eye this would not
even measure the thickness of a sheet of paper
and this does not mean that those other 102 floors
do not exist, "see" the problem?

Also realized that all of our senses are just electric
impulses translated into things and feelings by our brain
and that humans are actually pretty ill equipped in the
5 senses department to begin with.


** Just a few examples:

Vision (Natural light) A cat has 400,000 sense organ cells per
square millimeter catch light and movement, a hawk 1 million.

Aural (Sound) Humans have a hearing range of 20-20,000 Hz.
A bat of 2,000-110,000, a beluga whale from 1,000-123,000Hz.
A porpoise can hear up to 150,000 Hz and a common mouse to 90k.

Ecolocation (Sonar) Whales, dolphins, bats and some
shrews use ecolocation to navigate their surroundings.

Infrared Vision (Radiation) Rattlesnakes and other pit
vipers use their eyes to see during the day, but at night
they use infrared sensory organs to detect and hunt
warm-blooded prey.

Ultra Violet Many fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds,
insects and some mammals have ultraviolet vision, but
not humans.

Electric Sense Electric eels, some rays have modified
muscle cells that can shock and sometimes kill their prey.
Other fish and frogs use weaker electric fields to navigate.

Bio-electric Sharks have a semiconductor gel that
can sense bioelectric fields of prey and other animals in
seawater using an extraordinary system of sense organs
called ampullae of Lorenzini.

Magnetic Sense A number of animals that have deposits
of magnetite in their nervous systems are able to sense
the earth's magnetic field (north) and navigate accordingly.

http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/amaze.html

BurnPgh wrote on 06/25/10 at 13:24:26:


Please reread the original quote and my comment.