Okay. Look at it like this. Imagine that some genius electronics engineer developed a time viewer, where he could look back 100,000 years. And he started showing people, over his time viewer, what it looked like when dinosaurs walked the earth. Do we believe what he is showing us? How can we tell, and when can we tell, that he might have something that is reliable?

Here's when. It's only when his time viewer can trace the history from 1 minute ago, and then 10 minutes ago, and then an hour, and then a day, week, month, year, etc., showing all the things that are happening right now, in our life time, where we can trace it back to the dinosaurs, viewing everything in between if we so desire. Only THEN might we start to believe that he has TRULY developed a time viewer that can show us the past, and that the past is as many years old as scientists have suggested.

The point is, ancient pottery, and old geological features, only suggest things. They aren't a time viewer that is clear enough to make any certain estimates of time and the timeline. There are too many variables that we don't know about, that just might play a much larger role in our understanding of how old things really are.

It is GOOD that scientists make their educated guesses; it helps them to have a point to work from. But also, let them say it exactly the way it is, that they just don't know scientifically what was going on beyond about 5,000 years ago, and that their educated guesses, ARE ONLY EDUCATED GUESSES. They really don't know.

God is not a person.  God is all people.  You're thinking in terms of humanly logic.  God is not a being, god is everything that exists.  The totality of existence, that which is the universe.


To ignore the existence of something, you must first acknowledge it's existence.

I'm just saying that god is not one singular personified being.  The highest state of god is an infinitely bright singular point of white light and infinite love, as all frequencies together create a white light.  I know this because I have seen it, I have felt it and I have became it.

This is the point we might have disagreement on, if we took the time to nail it down. I am saying that God IS a personified being, separate from people, while at the same time being existent, as TRUE God, inside of and as all people. How can this be? I don't have a clue. Sounds almost impossible. Yet this is, if explained and understood correctly, what I believe.

This thread is diamonds

I predict within 40 years it will cost ~1BTC to have a neural scan such that your conscious mind can be entirely transferred into a simulated environment.

So instead of graveyards there will be server racks, the deceased could still interact with the general web so continue posting on worldly forums from the "next life"

Here's a website that says that the land area of the United States is 9,181,859.76 - http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/populations/usaareal.htm.

If there were 330,000,000 people in the U.S., and they were split into families of 4 on average, and each family lived in an apartment of 2,000 square feet, there would be 165,000,000,000 square feet of living space used by all 330,000,000 people.

There are 27878400 square feet in a square mile.

Divide the total square feet of living space by the number of square feet in a square mile. The result is slightly less than 6,000 square miles. This is the amount of land that living space would cover.

Stack the apartments in complexes 4 levels high to make room for roads and such between the apartments. This would leave 4,500 of the 6,000 square miles of residence land area for roads and parks and ponds and gardens and whatever.

The point is, even though living conditions might in some way be cramped in the above scenario, they wouldn't be SO cramped that people could not live. There would be over 9 million square miles of land left for everything else - from farming to manufacturing to whatever.

Over 99% of the idea that we are overpopulated is BS propaganda, designed to herd the people into the cities where they can be controlled by big government.

While there are all kinds of other considerations one might take into account, realize that the overpopulation propaganda is not giving you near enough of the true facts and figures.

You said it!

In a related thread, I posted content which is in the domain of world experience -- but far beyond explanation.

Even if all of the old explanations make sense, those world views have limits to their relevance.

And they are now being challenged.

https://bt.irlbtc.com/view/635960.msg8437004#msg8437004

Also, I wanted to reference this page on Wiki and ask for your opinion on it, BADecker:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Tillich#God_above_God