An interesting and unfortunate fact is that full on self worth is very rare
for human beings on this planet.
So when you discuss and when you plan for the resources and the energy needed for the future,
for human beings on this planet, you have to plan for 10 billion.
Not exact matches
A key hurdle
for any lengthy
human mission
on the surface of a
planet or moon, as opposed to NASA's six short lunar surface visits from 1969 to 1972,
is possessing a power source strong enough to meet the various energy needs to sustain a base but small and light enough to allow
for transport through space.
Whether it
was answers to the body and movement of water, the mechanics of the
human heart and body, the motion of the
planets or to discover why birds fly, or how the
human eye perceives light and distant images, or why fossils
are found
on mountains, his quest
for knowledge
was extraordinary.
For anyone who thinks the Germans have thrown in the towel
on their desire to proclame themselves the Master Race of this
planet and treat other
human beings as nothing more than inanimate objects, think again.
His point
is that he thinks it
is completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000
human beings on the
planet are simultaneously
being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible
being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife».
Second: The Creation tale
is simply a way
for early
humans to explain mans creation and «fall» from God's predetermined path... The old testament
is full of stuff more related to philosophy and health advice then «Gods word» However, this revelation has not made me less of a christian... In Contrast to those stuck in «the old ways» regarding faith (not believing in neanderthals and championing the claim that earth
is only 6000 years old), I believe God created the universe
on the very principle of physics and evolution (and other sciencey stuff)... Thus the first clash of atoms
was the first step in the billionyear long recipe in creating the universe, the galaxies, the stars, the
planets, life itself and us.
Since modern
humans, according to the known fossil record, have
been on this
planet for roughly 30,000 years!
Hell might
be real, I know I have seen aspects of hellish behavior and scenarios
on this
planet... and I can see why the need
for a hell might exist in the minds of
humans (payback
for all the crap / hell someone else gets put through).
I refuse to believe that anything
humans do
on this
planet can alter its well -
being for better or worse, much less keep it from destroying it
's own inhabitants in retaliation
for its abuse.
The idea that a
being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more
planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years
for human beings to evolve
on one
planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.
School taught me how many wives Henry VIII had, helped me glean information about Australia's mining industry and even taught me the French word
for «station», but nobody told me anything about the one thing you never believe will happen when you
're young but happens to every
human on the
planet.
If god created all the organisms
on the
planet, then He must have created even the germs that have caused and
are causing so much death and suffering
for humans and animals.
In a somewhat different vein, Tracy and Lash, while agreeing that the anthropic principle
is untenable in science, find a certain kind of anthropocentrism appropriate in theology: (1)
human beings are both products of and interpreters of the evolutionary process; (2)
human beings are responsible
for much of our world's ills: «if we
are the «center» of anything, we
are the center of «sin,» of the self - assertive disruption and unraveling of the process of things, at least
on our small
planet» (Tracy and Lash, 280).
There
is that place where we can stand and say «Our Father... give us this day our daily bread...» and say it
for every
human on the
planet.
Had God not lured the world
on to the creation of
beings with the capacity
for conscious, rational self - determination, the distinctively
human forms of evil
on our
planet would not occur.
If god created all the organisms
on the
planet, then He must have created even the diseases that have caused and
are causing so much death and misery
for humans and animals.
As
for me, I can't believe in an
human - like
being that designed and jump - started the universe 13.8 billion years ago and set aside a
planet for His special favorite creations, so He'd have someone to keep Him company and sing songs praising Him, then gave Bronze Age hermits a book of His orders to mankind that includes «thou shalt not round thy head nor cut thy beard»
on penalty of eternal suffering... just CA N'T, any more than I can force myself to believe the world rests
on the back of giant turtle.
But because the task of redirecting
human energies
on this
planet is so vast, and because we do have distinctive contributions, it
is past time
for us to join forces enthusiastically, and with firm commitment, with those who have given the leadership thus far.
Much like a dying star doesn't actually die but becomes the ingredients
for new life, new
planets, new
humans in fact as both you and I and everyone
on the
planet are walking talking sacks of star dust.
Religion however has tried to supersede our humanity and tell us it
's okay to kill those other
humans because they aren't like you, they don't worship the same God as you, they don't have the same hope
for an afterlife, they aren't special and «chosen» by God like you... that
is the true face of evil
on the
planet, the one that tries to make you forget your humanity with bribes and extortion.
The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000
human beings on the
planet are simultaneously
being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible
being for the purposes of reward or punishment in an «afterlife» comes from the field of:
- God, the Absolute - humanity, the
human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the
planet earth available, with its limited resources,
for all humanity - the
planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern
for all
humans, present and future, - the
human conscience guiding each one interiorly would
be known only to each one personally, - the each group of
humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own
is a universal factor that makes
for particularity and different contexts
for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge
on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.
If god created all the organisms
on the
planet, then He must have created even the germs and sickness that have caused and
are causing so much death and suffering
for humans and animals.
I can't take care of every single
human being on this
planet... I could never figure out why people think I
'm responsible
for them.
Now if we suppose that God cares
for the whole of creation and that
human history interacts with all the other processes taking place
on this
planet, we view the global industrialization that
is celebrated by Stackhouse and McCann quite differently.
Q. 1 The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000
human beings on the
planet are simultaneously
being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible
being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the religion of:
The idea that a
being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more
planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years
for human beings to evolve
on one
planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.
The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000
human beings on the
planet are simultaneously
being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible
being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the religion of:
EACH with 100, 000,000,000 starts and even more
planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years
for human beings to evolve
on one
planet so he could «love them» and send
xenophobic, anthropocentric, greedy
human beings — calls, at the very least,
for a renewed emphasis
on sin as the cause of much of the
planet's woes and an emphasis
on a broad and profound repentance.
Q. 1 The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000
human beings on the
planet are simultaneously
being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible
being for the purposes of reward or punishment in an «afterlife» comes from the field of:
If what you interpret Paul as saying
is that before creating all the myriad galaxies and star systems God decided that They would put some
humans on the third
planet from an insignificant star
on a little arm of a middling galaxy and that the first hominids chosen role would
be to perform pretty much to spec and do something silly and rebellious (arguably without sufficient information as to consequences
for themselves and their off spring, oh, and
for serpents) and cause affront to the tripartite godhead warranting separation of Gods grace from all their offspring; then we
are left with people
being chosen from way back before the Big Bang to do some terrible things like killing babies or betraying Jesus who
was chosen
on the same non date (time didn't exist before creation) to die in a fairly nasty fashion and thereby appease the righteous wrath of himself and his fellow Trinitarians by paying a penalty as a substitute
for all future sins (of believers?)
The idea that a
being would create the entire thing — with 400,000,000,000 galaxies, EACH with 100, 000,000,000 stars and even more
planets, then sit back and wait 13,720,000,000 years
for human beings to evolve
on one
planet so he could «love them» and send his son to Earth to talk to a nomadic group of Jews about sheep and goats in Iron Age Palestine (while ignoring the rest of the 200 million people then alive) makes no sense to us.»
It
's rough out there in nature, whether in the wilds of a rain forest or an urban jungle, partly because the earth
is jammed with devout
human predators unlike all others: we not only kill
for food, we kill each other along with the natural forces nourishing life
on this
planet.
However, I believe that Boff's emphasis
on the relationships between
human beings and communities
is of great value, even in his programmatic - pleading form, as well as the idea of a worldwide responsibility
for the
planet, which every citizen of this world
is to bear.
lol, yes clay i
am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that
for the jews, my gives it to the
human race as well as everything else
on the
planet, fuk even the
planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it
is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and
on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard
for there souls — it seems to only
be the person's conscience that dictates what
is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure
is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to
be part of the group instead of an outsider — that
is sadly
human nature to
be part of the group.
The consequence of these reflections
is the full recognition that to have
been created in God's image means,
for human beings, that we
are created in the image of God as Love.134 That has all - encompassing implications
for the way in which we
are invited to exercise power in our relationships with one another and with all of creation
on our home
planet.
There
are signs that resources, one of which
is the pollution absorption capacity of the
planet, may not suffice
for the five billion
human beings already
on the earth.
Today we
are struggling
for the survival not only of
human civilization, but
for survival of life
on the
planet Earth.
And it
is traditional free will theists who have implied, and sometimes explicitly said, that the whole universe
was created
for evoking moral and spiritual virtue in free
human (and perhaps,
on other
planets, humanlike) souls, so that it
is only this divine -
human drama that contains intrinsic value.
Although Hasker concludes this argument by pointing out that
for it too «it
is God who
is responsible
for the existence of creatures who have the freedom and power to bring about great evils,» I had explicitly said that «God
is responsible
for [the distinctively
human forms of evil
on our
planet] in the sense of having encouraged the world in the direction that made these evils possible» (Process 75; cf. God 308 - 09).
It
is based upon the conviction that, if the Christian faith
is true, the story must have basic significance
for the entire course of life and especially of
human life
on this
planet.
Mothers» milk
is considered the most perfect food
on the
planet for human consumption due to its ideal nutritional content and immune boosting compounds.
As well as explaining that the production of meat —
on its journey from farm to fork —
is responsible
for 15 per cent of the
planet's harmful greenhouse gas emissions, it underlines that raising equivalent amounts of grain or vegetables
for human consumption uses far less land, water and resources.
While some may balk at the idea of getting into bed with a corporate partner of such size, and one whose fortunes depend
on people eating meat, Memphis Meats explained that the move would «help us advance clean meat and achieve our ultimate vision: a world that
is better
for humans, animals and the
planet.»
Women have
been giving birth
for as long as
humans have
been on the
planet, but that doesn't mean it
's easy and that doesn't mean it
's always intuitive!
A further interesting and little publicized fact: scientific analysis of some of the oldest
human fossils ever found
on the
planet has shown that breast milk
was the principal form of food
for the first three to four years of life [vi].
If the cards break favorably, he'll probably
be hailed as the visionary administrator who roused space travel from its somnolent state and laid the groundwork
for humans setting foot,
for the first time,
on another
planet.
And, ultimately,
is there an ideal number
for human population
on this
planet?