Best posts made by Jacob55

Sex is assigned genetically when the baby is conceived. How the baby will identify should be well after the child has been exposed to other kids and chooses for themselves who they are.

Well... The Holocaust was sad, but interesting. I am more interested in the prolonged torture of the people. The ones who died immediately got it easy. The ones who were kept alive telling what happened, woof... Still gives me chills.

Not a test, but a friend... Girlfriend. Long ago.

How do you screwing up?

Wizard's First Rule by Terry Goodkind

"can kindness change the world?" In my opinion it has multiple times. The whole world at once? No. It seems to be gradual. Could it now? I don't think so. Kindness is linked to selflessness and it feels like the world is a bit selfish.

That's pretty normal. You can't go through life without making mistakes. We are always going to screw up. But it's how we learn from screwing up that matters.

@thegoddess the craziest thing about me is that I do voices. All different kinds, dialects, and can mimic a lot of popular characters. If I practice enough it is uncanny.

I think it depends on the individual. Religion, politics, movies, art, and science are all fun ones, but some people don't care enough and some care WAY too much.

The shout-out room?

I believe that people have a soul. I believe that after I die that I will be in a spiritual state here on Earth. Then, when the time comes, I will be judged and go to my Eternal home, be it heaven or hell.

My biggest question to anyone that doesn't believe in God is, "If science supports 'survival of the fittest' as a base means of living (I'm stronger, wealthier, attractive therefore I succeed) then where does good and evil/right and wrong come from?" Why did we feel bad about taking something from someone that wasn't ours, that we didn't earn? Why do we feel guilty? I focus on the negative connotation because accomplishment feels good whether you did something right or wrong. It is the guilty feeling that interests me. Right and wrong only hold up for humanity as far as social constructs. It is very rare to find animals with similar behaviors of justice. Different factors and variables are always allowed, but with human history it is a constant. Right and wrong. Either faking a deity is WAY too easy or people have to be incredibly stupid. I mean really, really, really stupid. It doesn't make sense. What does make sense, to me, is feeling something in my heart that is beyond me. If I have a problem and I can't figure it out so I pray and get an answer later that helps... Was I that smart to figure it out on my own or was it inspiration? If you don't believe in God, I'm okay with that. I believe that I have a loving Heavenly Father. I believe He knows me and loves me. I believe that God loves all His children. I invite anyone, if they want to, to pray and ask God if He is there. Really mean it, pray with real intent. It may not be immediate, it may take a moment, but I know that if you are genuine that you will receive an answer. Don't take silence either. Silence has always told me I'm not doing enough.

No I'm not a virgin.
I lost my virginity at 21. My wife and I were dating each other at the time. She gave me the most mind-blowing bj I can remember. Then we moved to anal (yeah, pretty weird skip over vaginal) until about 7 to 9 months into our marriage when we finally consummated our marriage the right way.
My wife suffers from a condition called vaginismus. (painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina in response to physical contact or pressure, especially in sexual intercourse). So I have to be very patient and tender when we make love. We've only ever been able to really get wild about once or twice. That's my experience.

Oh, that's what that box is haha.

@thestrangest All wonderful points that decimate conventional theism with testing, logic, and reason. I am grateful for the input and information you have provided and I'm really impressed with how detailed you are. I'm sorry if I'm coming off as sarcastic, I don't want to. I have questioned my faith many times. Believe it or not, I have. Indoctrination is only as good an argument if someone hasn't questioned and sought other answers. Out of all my options, out of all the information I can be provided, it wasn't a book that proved to me that God is real. Not an invisible sky daddy, but a real personage. I'm not here to convince anybody of anything. If you know God isn't real, good. People are good and people are bad regardless of God. That, I'm sure, we at least agree. Thank you again for not ripping my ass apart.

I usually get around 6 hours consistently. I hate the process of falling asleep, that also can affect how much sleep I get.

I know I'm about to incur the wrath of thestrangest, lol, but I don't care.
I've searched for the smallest particals that we are aware of and I keep finding "quark". As far as I know and have read, there isn't an easy answer as to what a quark is or made of. It is super tiny, fits in protons and neutrons, which make the atom, etc etc. Atoms are found in every bit of matter. From active to inactive materials, every single thing in the universe is made up of atoms, all the way down to quarks.
I brought all this up because science has shown that our universe started with an explosion, "the Big Bang", a massive collection of energy (innumerable amounts of these quarks) and blew outward to expand the universe. So those quarks always existed even before being collected into the titanic ball of energy. Where is those quarks come from? They always existed. Theists gather from scripture that God is eternal. Always was, always will be. Like those quarks, always was, always will be. Scripture says humans are made in the image of God. Quarks bonded together, thanks to Gluons, to form protons/neutrons, so on so forth; just as they must have before in order to exist. Humans are created through conception, same as most every "living" thing. Animals, plants, and chemical compounds (like H²O. Gasses coming together to make water). In the King James Version of The Holy Bible, New Testament, Christ said in John 5: 18-19:
"18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his Father, making himself equal with God.
19 Then answered Jesus and said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise."
Jesus claims to do what God, His father, has done. Jesus claims to be God's son. Jesus was living a life on Earth, in a body of flesh and blood. God, at one point in all of eternity, lived as a man in a body of flesh and blood. God was created by His own Celestial parents, and so on. (This is were I'm guessing I'll be questioned on my sanity) To answer the main question simply... Just as matter has always existed and been formed from other matter, so is the same with God, created and formed by another God. Like parents creating children and raising them to go on and do the same. An eternal cycle.

@thestrangest To be fair, I said I believe in God. I didn't say my God. I will not ever denounce anyone's deity. As you pointed out, my evidence is insufficient at best to prove anything, or at the very least to change your mind. Allah, Odin, Zeus, Jupiter (Italian Zeus), Jesus, Ellohim, Yahweh, and the list goes on... God, to me, is Heavenly Father. What the name or who follows that name can be extremely different but just as valid as my convictions. Because it is their personal revelation. I belong to a religion (I know, shame on me haha) and my faith and understanding of God are my own, separate even from my parents. I'm flawed, but I strive to be my best self.

Yes prostitution should be legal

@thestrangest Hahaha. Thank you for giving my post your thorough go-over.
I didn't say the Bible was a historical textbook, I said it was scripture. The second definition of scripture is "the sacred writings of a religion" and that is the context that I was using. Not historical, but theological.
Eggs... Well, are we talking fertilized or...
I may have mis-written about atoms to quarks, I meant that quarks made atoms, I just used a digressive pattern rather than progressive. My bad.
I mean my argument to be taken as possible just as much as the theory of the Big Bang. So my point is a possibility. I'm working on being clearer. 😊

@thestrangest no worries. :) I'm just a chillax kinda guy.