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Thanks for the advice! Still dont no wot to name it though...

Quote by gnoelJust hopping by to say that I truly love your avatar... Totoro for ever!

Gosh... got to go. I just rubbed my eye. I've forgotten I just cut some red hot chili peppers for cooking... Crying like hell...

Thank you. *bows* I'm quite fond of my avatar as well. I made it myself, and I'm so proud. Although, it doesn't look quite as cool as some others I've seen. Hehe...

Ouch! I hope your eyes are okay and your accident doesn't prevent you from enjoying your meal. Oh, and thanks for replying to my thread.

Hey gnoel!
I'm just dropping by to say THANKS for the comment on my thread!
I'm so sorry for the student of yours.. This is so sad! Bad luck strike more than once and continue to attack her.. If i'm in her situation, I would probably nervous till I can't type any words and would waste more time to catch my breath. I would finally done something wrong when I'm in the rush to keep up the time I loss. But sobbing not crying instead? For someone who actually sobbing it must have been a terrible day or worst day in her life so far. I won't cry nor sobbing but I know her feeling why she was sobbing. To me, sobbing is worst than crying. I hope she is fine right now.

Ciao!

Thank you for participating int my thread your comments were very enlightning, and you explaind your ideas in a clear concise manner.

Shinsengumi89
replies welcome.

Quote by gnoelHave any of you ever heard of the 'Pari de Pascal': Pascal's gamble? Just for information, Pascal was dealing with a bit of every possible science in the 17th century and invented a calculator. He was more or less christian. He once tried to convince two of his friends, both gamblers. His idea was:

You have two things to lose: Truth and the Good, and two things to be engaged: your Reason and your Will, your Knowledge and your Bliss; and your nature has two things to flee: the Error and Misery. Your reason is not more wounded by choosing one or the other, since it is necessary to choose. Here is an emptied point. But your Bliss? Balances profit and loss, by taking choice that God is. Let us estimate these two cases: if you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you do not lose anything. Thus choose that it is, without hesitating.

Sorry for the translation, but 17th century French is not all that easily translated... Anyway the main idea is that you have to choose whether you believe in God or not.

If you believe in God and God truly exist, then you may go to the paradise, with angels and so on. If God doesn't exist, then you simply die and that's it. If you say that you don't believe in God while God exists, you go to Hell. And if God doesn't exist, you die and that's it.

So, as a whole, you can take the risk to believe that God exist... at best you win everything, and you can't loose much.

Hans Jonas added a few things to this. He said that if you want to believe in God, then, so as to reach eternal life, you had to get rid of materialistic ideas. If you win, you win all, but if you loose, you have lost something really important. Now, if you choose to live as an atheist, then if you loose, you have lost something extremely important too: eternal Bliss. In both cases, the loss is extreme...

If you want to add more complexity to the debate, you can fish out other old theories:

- causality : "If the Universe is comprehensible then everything has a cause, the cause has itself a cause and so on. If the continuation is infinite then the Universe is not comprehensible, in the contrary case there is an ultimate cause which is caused per nothing and which one can call God." Read Aristote and Saint Thomas d'Aquin.

- morality: "The moral argument consists in saying that morals cannot exist without God, since it is Him which decides what is Good and what is Bad, and that it is consequently the ultimate base of morals. If it is supposed that God does not exist, one must conclude from it that the existence is stripped of moral value, and that there is neither Good nor Bad in our actions. To support the moral argument (read, for example, Dostoievski), it is to say that the atheists must accept that all is allowed unless they contradict themselves."

thank you for replying. im afraid i cant quite comprehend everything youve written. but thank you for suggesting some reading. it will take me a long time though i have no will power.
just wondering are you Christian? sorry i cant tell from what people say since theyre just answering my question.

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Quote by gnoelHi there!

Well, thank you for opening up some threads. It's always nice to share some points of views.

By the way, I try to be a christian, even though most people who know me usually are surprised to know this. Being christian is not about going to the mass and being afraid of God, it's more about having hope, trying to be honest with yourself and others and finally recognizing what's great around you. But that's the same thing with quite a good deal of religions...

well, being Christian is about glorifying God, which is really difficult to explain to non-Christians why its so awesome. other religions tend to serve the follower rather than the god

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By the way, I don't think I have seen when you expect to get married with j0n0, dear happygreendragonfly... Une libellule reine des airs et Soleil du petit monde de J0n0

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LOL! NEVER!

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So far, the main idea is to do the official part in one place and the religious part in the other place (and of course two parties afterward). And the new trouble is: they both want the religious part at their place... arggggg

LMAO! Poor Santa!
You know, it's your wedding! Go against their wishes but your own!
I hope you have fun! ^__^ Oh, if you finally do get marry, send me some beautiful, awesome pictures of your wedding!
YAY!

merged: 02-25-2006 ~ 05:39am

Quote by gnoel
If this goes on, I'll take a world map and play darts to find out where we shall get married... I just hope it won't be at the North Pole.

LMAO! I hope you aim well! LOL!

Thanks for replying to my thread gnoel.

I really appreciate your thoughts. Btw, nice... what would you call it... umm... introduction to your userpage.

merged: 02-24-2006 ~ 03:39am

Quote by gnoelEmpathy, if my memory is right means 'to understand the feelings', or more accurately, 'to understand the pain.' It is a rare gift that only few people have. It may be hard to carry at times, but it can lead to the greatest achievements. It can be used for your own benefit, but then empathy looses its brightness, just as a mirror kept in a dark room ends up stained by the dust.

Don't forget the initial meaning of empathy: to help you understand other people's feelings. It is a rare gift. Those who have it can make grow the most beautiful flowers in the hearts of those who need them. Past tears can become future's flowers with the help of those who can understand the suffering soul. And for the one who can understand the heppiest souls, then there is no joy they could not grasp, no mountain too high, no colours too bright...

May you be able to hear other people's laughter and to feel their elation. And may you ba able to find calming words for those who need them...

Wow... thank you for the words of encouragement. I didn't think that people even read things that are on other's userpages. It's funny because my sister read it, and she said the description written from the quiz fits me to a tee. But once again, thank you for these words.

I really like how you spruced up your page. I particularly like the description of the book. It's very nice. Btw, what language is the quotes in?

Hi there!^^
I want to say thanks again for your activity on my thread!
#Also I wanna thank you for the useful informations you gave us during the discussion!^^
Looking forward to talk to you again!

Hey, just thought I should stop by & say thanks for your reply regarding my post in that whole Muslim Praying area discussion.

What can I say, I try to appeal to people's intelligence, but in some cases, it just ain't there...

thanks for the post in my thread

Quote by gnoel'pauvre petite libellule', poor lil' dragonfly

Aw. French... Such a beautiful language.
@__@

I'll remember that.
I'm poor.
I'm little.
I'm a dragonfly.
All right!
^___^

Maido! Just want to say thanks for your reply on my thread! I kope you don´t feel targeted because of my question. Have a nice week!^^

Thanks for participating in my thread! Also welcome to MT! Hope to see you around!