kidelrich said:

Dsylexical and the ignoring public school system, that's why. I come for a boston public school where, i'm sure as many other city, the teachers aren't paid enough to care, the government just wants what they want and that's not the devlopment of young minds, and so on and so forth.

I'd say, I wasn't instructed at several developmental stages.

my mother was an acholoic, and my dad did all he could do to provide for the family, but that doesn't leave much time for focusing on his children.

Public schooling just found it easier to think me retarded.
my family was too busy doing their thing.
so everything I learned, I had to depend upon myself.

I'm still learning to spell. I have to learn words rather then rules.

MickG said:

you're very intelligent but your spelling is terrible. I wonder how many children are assumed to be retarded (as you say you were) because of dyslexia.

My friend is left handed & dyslexic and he thinks in very different ways from me; some I think are nuts, and some I think are creative. But I know he also had trouble in certain subjects even though he's very smart.

NDRU said:

In seventh grade a teacher actually tryed to kick me out of his class for being retarded. He insisted I be tested and wanted to move me down to the classes where they were helmets. after testing he had to come to me and appologise. I didn't get as much satisfaction in his appoligy as I did in his death that summer dew to natural events.

Here's one:

How and why can you consider yourself an angel? What raises you above the level of normal man? And do you see God in the modern world? If so, where?
[Edited 9/29/06 12:39pm]

What do YOU think is the average age of a moderator?

MickG said:

don't feel bad. your brain is wired different is all. but, you know that.

i wonder if your differnt wiring gives you a special talent the rest of us don't have

xplnyrslf said:

I don't consern myself with such things. Age isn't a clear cut representation to maturity or wisdom. Youth is wasted on the young, and we are all younger then someone else.

Spookymuffin said:

I use the term Angel in a most general and basic form. That form is simply "messenger of god". I understand people's misunderstandings of what I say about such things, that's because there are idologies in the collective consciousness, that is a realm of consciousness that escapes into the unconscious mind to most people. Some people are aware of such consciousnesses yet are confused between the sheets of consciousnesses. So this acts as a slide of hand trick in the perceptions of others as to what it is I am truly saying, though this is through no fault of myown. The mind will play tricks on you.

Tricks that the mind plays, are common throughout mankind and only realizing such things can someone truly try rooting out such personal biases. Many people will make up stuff, lie about stuff and such other conscious and unconscious mind games they play with themself and others around them. In this world we are faced with this daily in our interactions with others, and this fact only complicates the truth of my statements. Some might believe when I say what I say that I am making up lies or illusions within my own mind or at least trying to in the minds of others. One would have to have faith or at least trust in what I tell them to realize I'm above such tricks. So again they play tricks with their own minds consciousnesses. However that doesn't null the truth that when I say I've been shown things by god in visions and such things that it isn't in fact true. I however understand others inabilities to coprhend such things, and through fear and unknowing they must dismis what i've got to offer.

God is the most high consciousness. God is that which all things are built upon. As the human mind is layered with levels of consciousness, so to is the cosmos. There will be those that think they can understand that I'm speaking on a personal level of consciousness as "God" but that isn't the case at all.

MickG said:

And there's the paradigm shift. Thanks for clearing that up. I figured you were claiming to be Gabriel II or something.

Spookymuffin said:

No my name is Michael...

But then and there you go again with your idoloitary invisionments of what it would be to be an angel of such a calabur. You picture in your mind something that doesn't exist all from the misunderstandings of a vague and agressive creative writing in a language that doesn't translate through time and understanding in the historical documentation of the stories of god and creation.

Have you ever seen Gabriel?

MickG said:

I'll admit that yes I do. My views are totally jaded because I've been taught christianity in an archaic manner since I was 6 years old. It's beyond repair. I cannot see myself ever believing again, my opinion of religion is so low.

And no, I've not seen gabriel. I've never seen anything religious.

Spookymuffin said:

Religion is of the devil in my oppion.

Shame really, because it taints the truth of god. This is something that will be cleared up in the future.

MickG said:

I agree. Organised religion is fucking shit. Look at the trouble it has caused. Absolutely fucking ridiculous. Obviously, Islam comes to mind, but 300+ years ago and Christianity was just as evil. It's a shame Islam is going through that stage of religion now due to its nature of being a "later starter" than christianity - it's the evolution of religion, and that's why I agree with you; eventually all religions will reliase this in a collective moment of lucidity and things will be better.

MickG said:

...Mick....HELLO.....ya didn't notice I slipped that by?

xplnyrslf said:

Say What?

MickG said:

Actually, yes;

Spookymuffin said:

I beg to differ. There are extremes with faith in God. Jim Jones is an example.
Most religions teach "how to be good". Love your fellow man, behave in an ethical manner, and live a decent life. You don't need an organized faith to learn this. Plato, Socrates, and Aristotle presented the same idea 3000 yrs ago without religion.
That would be impossible today. Religion is an important aspect of developing the ethics we live by. How else does society have the values it has without religion? Man is not born with an innate sense of right or wrong. Religion provides the guidelines. Whether it be punishment for bad behavior or reward for good behavior. There are, throughout history, extreme uses of religion for bad intentions. Crusades, is another example.
That does not disallow religion as a whole.

xplnyrslf said:

Religion was a way to get us to stop behaving like animals, though some people will act like animals anyway, and some of us don't need it to behave.

I doubt people were treating each other any better on the whole before organized religion was developed.

NDRU said:[quote]

xplnyrslf said:

Scholars theorize faith in a spiritual being existed since the beginning of mankind so it's difficult to determine how people treated each other.
[Edited 9/30/06 9:01am]

MickG said:

' Ask me something worth answering.'



why would you think your answers were worth asking for

you're so full of yourself it cute

xplnyrslf said:

But we were talking about organized religion and how it introduced rules to society
[Edited 9/30/06 11:23am]

Mach said:

thanks

If the universe contracts and expands, during the times the universe contracts, it leaves behind a void. this void must have spacial qualitities, or else the universe couldn't expand into it. therefore, there is something more vast then the universe, isnt there.

purplerein said:

First off, the evidence that the universe is contracting and expanding is presumious. There is little argument against the expanding part, but the contracting bit is a guess. Contracting is a error of human perspective due to a semi parlax shifting effect. From our perspective here on earth sometimes it seems the other planets seem to move backward but they never do. It's the same with the universe. Maybe we are more then a single sphier blobis within another when talking about the universe, all blobists pushing out making the other expand mostlikely in a orbiting pattern.

The light wall over the universe, that keeps man from looking byond, is what it is.

Man shouldn't worry about such things when we can't even exist on another planet yet let alone ever think about leaving our own universe.

Though if there was a way to prove it, I'd put my money on something more.

NDRU said:

You're right. I got off track. Not only did religion introduce rules to society, but it influenced government laws as well. Which was good at 1st, but interfered with freedom to practice religion which why we have separation of Church and state....and the USA. Leave it up to European royalty to get carried away with power.

Why on earth would anyone live in Phoenix???

xplnyrslf said:

I was out to the comedy club last night, over in tempe Improve. The comedian was talking about how everyone has something to deal with where they live, northeast has killer snow, southeast has tornatoes and huricanes, Califorina has earthquakes and mudslides. He tryed to say we had to stay "hydrated" as if it could compair to the natural disasters in most other locations.

We now in Phoenix are facing the cool down, so we have warm sunny days and cooler nights. We are facing 8 months of near perfect weather. Life is good.

We have 330/365 days a year of SUNSHINE, and that is pure Joy for the mind and soul.

I wonder why anyone would live anywhere else.

I don't mean this in a negative (not the word I'm looking for but it will suffice) way, but I think most questions (not all, but most) are worth answering. Can you give an example of a question not worth answering? And you can't use the one I just asked

MickG said:

Protege said:

Yes I can think of lots of questions, but your question wouldn't be among those. Any info that you might find on my personal page shouldn't be asked as a question because if you truly cared you would have checked.

I guess, generally, questions not worth answering are anything asked without true care for the questions' answer.