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  1. Started by nameofshiva,

    Here a list of Different 108 Name of Shiva in Sanskrit with meaning . He is known as the Destroyer. He destroys the Universe and recreates. REad Here: url deleted

  2. Started by Trurl,

    In Star Trek Next Generation the last episode “All Good Things,” the character Que, an omnipotent being, suggest the crew was not in space to map constellations. But all our physical sciences are based on these observations, So my question is what is Que suggesting?

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  3. Started by Niko Viskovic,

    Does God exist? Bible the Holy book has over 7300 themes about God, Heaven, Angels both good and bad, superior men, common men, aliens, the Universe, Earth, Satan, the past and the future of the world. The Bible states that God made everything that is material, that exists in the world, also that He himself made both the man and the woman, as He also made all life Himself. The Holy book states that God made everything by using a small particle of Himself, He is force, force is energy, so everything comes from energy and energy is not something material, energy builds things and all things in our universe are material. Energy without matter is nonexistent meani…

  4. Started by Yusef,

    Hi, There are at least two choices Jabr: God Forces everything. How!? Before creating everything God Was Written their predestination Ikhtiyar: God CreatED everything and LetS everything work anyhow themselves will, work. I researched and found some beliefs Jabr, and some other, Ikhtiyar. But i wanna introduce "Bada'" بداء that it seems there is in Shi'a-Islam alone. Well, I made connection between several concepts of the Religion with today's science that there are specially within Shi'a alone, and even some other beliefs CONDEMN us for that!! And we discuss/debate here for find and access to other parts of the Cross…

  5. Started by RamaRaksha,

    Hi: Most people know that Hindus believe that we might come back as lower life forms - bugs, animals I want to correct some misconceptions on this issue First, these ideas were not limited to Hindus alone - we don't do that - We are ALL God's Children and His/Her rules apply equally to ALL of us Second, most religions view God as a Master - reward(Heaven) & punishment(Hell) is how he operates. Hindus view God as a Parent/Teacher - a Parent/Teacher instructs, Teaches but does not punish So, being reborn as a Dog or a cat is not a punishment but a Choice that we made of our own free will Thru Life God has taught us that we get to stay in the nes…

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  6. The "Planck Satellite" discovered that there is an axis for the whole universe and the axis goes through the Earth's orbit. 😀 🎉 Based off this evidence, it's pretty clear to me that everything was put out there for us to enjoy as God's special creation. What an amazing discovery. Thank you science! Has anyone else heard about this? Here is a link to the full video review https://bit.ly/3hYe2hF

  7. But countries going to war with others and committing crimes in other countries seen as a lesser evil. British Empire for example going around making a mess of other natives lands and conquering it.

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  8. Started by Yusef,

    Hi, Before reading this narration you should know something: *AbuHanifa is Imam of majority of Sunni-muslims, *Imam Ja'far As-Sadeq[S.A.A] is the 6th Imam of the 12Imams of Shi'a-Muslims [The same 12 stars of the woman of the Revelation of John[pbuh]] *Bohlul[r.a] was whom the Caliph Harun-ArRashid commanded him to command soldiers to kill the 7th Imam, Moses Al-Kadhem[S.A.A] but he made himself crazy and didn't kill him Also he was one of the 4000 students of the Imam[S.A.A] Sunnies reject the FreeWill, But Shi'a believe in FreeWill + Bada' Well, let's go to the narration Once Bahlul heard Imam Abu Hanifah(w…

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  9. Started by Yusef,

    Hi, Is Crisida Virus[Covid-19] the same Pestilence has been predicted in the holy books!? Well, I guess it has a secret within! Why has said 5 of 7!?? Isn't it show that it will be while population of the world be 7 billions!?! Therefore we understand that it should be the same. Because of the Sign of "7" we have! XQz me if my English is week also the keyboard does autospelling somewheve also

  10. Started by Trurl,

    Can science produce a utopian world? and What is your personal goal to the science you do? (edited by mod)

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  11. Discussing and examining the rational foundations of Religion. One can see that the early word of mouth or assorted testimonials were very moving for people. The book of "Acts" is the book of the actual work of spreading a Formed Religion to other Nations, peoples, and races besides the Chosen People. In 300 AD the Byzantines put together for the first time what we know as the Books of a standard Bible most used today. Many commonalities between the Hellenist religion of Europe and the religion of Christ can be seen. The Greek god of the underworld hades is defeated and the souls of the dead are released to heaven. The Trinity and Chalcedonian Creed controversies, they re…

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  12. Imagine a Korean American in Alabama exclaiming "And I Don't Care What it Is!" When Dwight Eisenhower proclaimed 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_I_don't_care_what_it_is" he took a 1st inaugural address attitude "https://www.bartleby.com/124/pres54.html" toward said here the "abiding faith of our fathers" to be Presbyterianism. Many people could publicly note that Jefferson Davis proclaimed the Spirit of Independence of our Fathers in the Confederate Constitution or Inauguration or secession speeches. What's more, we can clearly distinguish a further point in Alabama toward the Peaceful Period and pre-War movement of secession, of the constitution written the…

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  13. Could you show us an example? (quote expanded by mod to add context)

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  14. Was just a joke to lighten the mood of this thread a bit but it's probably one of those referential humour things where if you don't know the origin it won't make sense. I don't really identify with any organised religion but I don't identify with atheism either. I'm agnostic. I just see myself as opposition to baseless dogmatism. No-matter where that comes from. Science and religion both have their batches of dogmatic individuals. Ten years ago I was mocked by scientists for some of my beliefs about the early universe, now a few of my beliefs have been experimentally verified as potentially probable. Mostly I just take issue with anyone who says "I know" or "we know…

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  15. Started by Vexen,

    What made you stop believing in God?

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  16. I recently had an article published in the Journal of Mind and Behavior. It reveals, describes, and establishes that a natural, i.e., scientifically supported, heaven (and hell) actually exists. “Yeah, sure.” you may be thinking. But to check it out for yourself, just click on the article’s title given below. Be forewarned, however, the heaven that the article describes is likely not all of what you may have been envisioning. Though it can be an eternity of optimal real love and happiness in the presence of God, it’s spiritual, meaning you’re not there in body, and its timeless, meaning no events occur. Also, it’s psychological, meaning “it’s all in your mind.” As such, i…

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  17. Started by 0utmahfays,

    As an avid follower of Christ I strongly believe you can intertwine scientific beliefs with God (i.e God caused the big bang, the simulation theory coinciding with the intelligent design, higher dimensions, etc.) Brand new to the forum! Would love to hear everyones non-biased opinion of this.

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  18. Started by hoola,

    An improved religion is one that lowers the percentage of wishful thinking to allow actual knowledge to take it's place in the heirarchy of it tenents. The question is what and how to base a new religion, and preferably be one that is information based, to the degree that the information is reliable and trustworthy. If the the universe is a set of mathematical structures, or simply guided by them, then based upon where is the largest amount of information in a objective sense in our physical realm, it is the black hole at the center of this galaxy, called sagittarius A star. This should be the new focus of attention, not a local ad-hoc arrangement of historic attention g…

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  19. Started by Robert Wilson,

    What do you think about free will? Free will

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  20. Started by Ken123456,

    You dumb ass moderators need to learn or remove yourself from this forum! convert or attempt to convert (someone) from one religion, belief, or opinion to another. https://www.google.com/search?q=proselytize+definition&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS908US908&oq=proselytize&aqs=chrome.2.69i57j0l7.4627j1j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

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  21. Could God use a scientist to help save the world from a devastating destruction but the scientist was not a believer in God?

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  22. Started by Externet,

    Whenever the Bible contents was decided; was there a choice of ancient manuscripts or versions from where material was chosen discarding other not-preferred sources ? (or a mixture of sources) Is there somewhere access to such not-used text sources translated to any modern language ? Example: If there was a historical version on how tall was the cross that the skinny guy was crucified; is the height not mentioned by considered irrelevant ?

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  23. Started by Externet,

    All the chiefs of all the religions, buddhists, jewish, christians, muslims, hinduists... praying for the end of a pandemic; and when somehow it will end some day, see which claims their god is the one who listened to their prayers and not the other's...

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  24. Started by teroko,

    THE WISE AND GOD _ Wise, about life… Too much bad things happen… _ Seems this is a wrong kind of life. Our World seems to be fortuitous. Is not as it was supposed a World and life would be. The things are not as they should be. _ Wise, God created the Universe, how would exist something wrong? _ God could have own troubles... _ But God would have all power to solve anything... What would be missing to solve the things? _ Nobody knows God's situation. There's no way to communicate with God. Who knows... _ Nothing that could be done about... _ One thing is true, if there is a God with a creation he must have a way to pe…

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  25. Started by tylerbrowner,

    in theory I think that the reason a lot of people still believe in god is that at one time we didn't understand how the world works so the easiest explanation for many of are questions is god. now that we have many answers to are questions. it is very easy to question the existence of god. The reason religious people seem sometimes not to ever consider that god is not real is that to them there is a hell. Hell is the most negative and painful thing possible. so its like bags full of water repel fly's. the myth busters have proven with experiments that bags of water do not repel fly's so we can all agree on this but lets say half of us where told since we where born that i…

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