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If god is all powerful.. why does the devil exist? Why is there earthquakes? If these things are due to original sin then why.. if he knows everything.. would he create beings that would sin?. Those questions just cant be directly answered by a christian, which would mean god is flawed which in turn would mean god is not god. Your notion of god and the principles of good will that you live by contradict what actually exists in the world.

So your saying because of all we have learnt through science the most probable scientific theory of how we became like this is cock and balls?? ahem There is no missing link between us and animals the fossil records throught history are quite clear, you may want to research this before you say things like that We still dont know alot of things for example how anything actually exists but just because we do not know doesnt mean it has no cause or is caused by 'god', if a doctor cannot determine a particular virus from a patients symptoms he doesnt assume it is god's doing or the symptoms have no cause. You sound very preachy...

watch a film that makes you realize it doesn't really matter what you do in your life

using techniques like that... i wonder whether it gives you a greater understanding about everything. Especially with drugs it is a chemically induced alteration of perception the only thing i can see that that can teach you is that our perception is very limited but, does it give you new 'helpful' perceptions or merely confuse the one you already have which has taken so long to develop? (I have tried a few of those BTW). Can you say your meditative state of perception is more valid than your ordinary natural one?, you must think it is in order to base beliefs about in universe upon it. I think the feeling of peace gained from using a flotation tank may cause people to accept the world in more simplicity (as a whole) than normal, therefore the cause of change in belief would be internal.. much as it would often with Christianity. In general I think there is a physical explanation for everything.

Yeah i think your genes could give you a susceptibility to be convinced of things that have less logical basis than contradictory ideas, for example someone with a very low IQ may be persuaded that the seeds in a banana are tarantula eggs whereas someone with a high IQ is less likely too. Of course I'm not saying religious believers are not as clever as atheists or anyone else, just things like that would play a part in becoming religious. Say 200 years ago there was no contraception this would lead to sexually transmitted diseases spreading easily. A christian principle is no sex before marriage. If this was followed Christians would be far less likely to get such diseases, these Christians may have brain chemistry that tended them to be worried more than others so for them to stay out of hell they would obey this principle, producing a greater number of children with similar brain chemistry as opposed to non christian believers who did not care and were willing to risk disease which would make them less of the population this is just an example in actuality this may happen in alot of different ways but overall i think people would have benefitted more from practicing religion, it may also have made them happier people knowing there was an afterlife... less liklley to get depression ect... however just an opinion id say 10% evolutionary 90% environmental factors

I think i misinterpreted some of what you said, it seemed to me like you were playing on the words being at one with and translating that into a belief in one god, not gonna lie I dont find it easy deciphering your way of putting things... can you clarify how i would go about testing this with a different conception of reality to your own? "God is not a thing, god is a type of perception about the fundamental nature of existence." yup agreed. "For me god is constructed by an ordered society so as to keep it that way or as a simple ignorance, say if someone prays to god, next day they get what they want, they are conditioned/reinforced into repeating this behavior." I was talking about that in a biblical sense just generally, i think there is allot of evidence for this About my point about evolution yeah I have no means of testing it but proof may lie in evidence of sucessful civilizations that have had a religious society, it would not be a totally controlling factor but together with my other points it would have substantial effect

I think your relying too heavily on religious language and the comparison between the religious believer's interpretation of say being one with god and the actual definition of being one with. you think religious belief is just a different realization of the world being 'as one' kind of transformed into the idea that there is a god? hmm then with the stuff about dualism people stop making a distinction between things, everything is seen as one entity? I cant see a person with those beliefs being useful for anything For me god is constructed by an ordered society so as to keep it that way or as a simple ignorance, say if someone prays to god, next day they get what they want, they are conditioned/reinforced into repeating this behavior. My explanation for belief in god in the past is also ignorance: people being amazed at the sunrise ect. but not having the means to understand it would formulate ideas such as the existence of god in conjection with my other two ideas to have a false belief of having some control over things of power in their environment. Religion could also be evolutionary... people with such beliefs group together ensuring survival and reproduction.. if the basis is genetic the gene is passed on that makes it likley for future generations to behave similarly. There are too many observable explanations similar to those that contradict looser explanations of religion to justify reading the bible.

gotta be the best rider in the world. so good to watch, that gap was the biggest Ive ever seen step ups were awesome too. good job

not easy leaving out loads of the same clips when your real proud of a move but when people have seen alot of it before it gets a bit boring, keep it up anyway

loved it you could drop gap so huge off something high

Watch videos of the pro's someone like TRA and copy his technique... other than that you don't look so big in your picture so maybe you cant jump all that high, that will get better with practice anyway tucks also come naturally dont force it but try and go to the side you can get the bike higher

wheelie innit

I would have expected a christian to say my approach is fair enough giving that respecting others is a pretty big principle of recent Christianity disregarding the holy wars etc... I wasn't talking about god in terms of the guy chatted about in the bible I was thinking of a first cause as I can't get my head round the universe being infinite, although it seems likley. Yeah ok so you saw someone cure the minor injury of a sprained ankle, how can you know she was not a stooge and more importantly if your god is omnipotent and has the power to cure small aliments with ease... why then do things like the tsunami or hurricane Katrina occur so often if he has the power to stop them? He condemns sinful people to hell right.. can you say for sure that these people were sinful? I'm not sure I can take the word of people that lived thousands of years ago upon such a strong belief, as i can't take yours now, I'm not expecting a reply as You wont be able to justify stuff like that. Believe what you want if it makes you happy but I'm more concerned in what is worthwhile. I don't think you would believe if you had a shit life like many people do. There is so many more things that just don't make sense with Christianity its hard to know where to start.... god creates us so knows what we will do in our life and whether we will go to hell or not so whats the point in life atall? We all came from adam and eve... so were all inbred...NICE.. if that was true we would have been killed by a virus or whatever by now

seriously big stuff

good stuff had to watch that decade type thing many times

No evidence that directly proves the existence of god, none to say god doesn't exist either. No one can answer the question of how anything exists so there isn't going to be a conclusion anytime soon. I'm open minded. Christianity generally helps people nothing wrong with that

was good, pretty big stuff then looked like you struggled with that one gap at 50 secs which is pretty small

is that not just putting a camera somewhere for ages then speeding the footage up? was really good whatever it was

yeah but they're really good riders they could probably sidehop a dh bike bar height, it would be easier to see how much it wold affect my riding looking at videos with riders that are less skilled

any of you got any videos of you riding the inspired????????????????????????????????????????

i was after something that could handle park/jumps so thats good makes me wonder if all the tgs riders will buy these then inch pinch with their 360 bunnyhops and stuff

thanks for the awesome replies... as i said my mind is already made up so i cant wait to have a go at bunnyhopping a decent bike again lol, ill probably use a long stem with more rise than most cos of my height, im surpised that it doesnt seem to affect tgs stuff too much. reminds me of the stuff i used to do on a bike which was so much more fun, mainly bunnyhop gaps, spins, stalling on everything, stoppies, manuals makes me wish id saved some videos from back then. one more thing... i use 18 16 on my stock found this really light but nice, i want something that feels heavier than this on the 24 though so i can get some speed up but still static gappable any ideas?

was just about to buy a bmx and sell my adamant a1 then saw danny mac's new video which convinced me that something a little more trialsy would be better im 6ft3ish so i was wondering if it would feel a little cramped for back wheel tgs sort of moves, maybe a long/high stem would sort that out if thats the case? if anyones got them how much did it restrict them with their tgs moves distance/height wise? my minds pretty much made up so im getting one its just the setup of stem and bars stuff like that that might need to be adjusted. not that i will be using it completley for those moves, i would probably find it a bit annoying though if it knocked like a foot off everything i could do

whoa my computer just messed up maybe the super awesome power of danny mac was a little to much for it