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@Lurker said in How to recognize the right one?:

@petrapark3r

This is a rather complicated but interesting topic.
To begin with I'd like to believe there's more then 1 "the one" and more then 1 "soul-mate" but at the same time, how can we be so sure? I speak for myself, every new person I've been with made me feel different and somewhat stronger things then the previous one, does that mean the last person was my soul-mate? What if a new person shows up and makes me feel even more different things?

Yes, I think you can have multiple soul mates. But I think there can only be one "right one", because the greatest connection between two human beings (apart from a mother and her child ofc) is a real marriage. To explain what I mean by real marriage I'll first caricature "modern" (non-real) marriage a bit, by calling it "friends with benefits and tax advantages and maybe a kid or two if we feel like it". Real marriage to me means giving yourself away to the other, and it is only created if both do it completely.

Actually this means to put yourself into a position, that when she decides to put a knife on your chest (in a transferred sense...), that you will have no where to escape from, and she might run that knife right through you. However this knife is special, it has blades pointing in both directions, and by stabbing you, she has to stab herself too.... Well ofc that's not all that marriage is, but it is absolutely true, that when you really give yourself to the other, you become just that vulnerable.

And you can not take yourself back. If you meant giving yourself away when you did give yourself away. It's impossible. You can destroy the relationship, you can hate it, you can hate each other. But you can never become who you were before. You can never go back.

I for one want that kind of relationship. I want to give myself fully, even if that means dying for her and by her hands. Yes.

@OliveOlivia said in What Was TWS?:

@Lurker How do we get more interesting humans and where are they all going?

For starters: be active as you are. Post interesting things that gets people to stay, as you are. And petition TWS to split Pervland from Funland :joy:

@Indrid-Cold said in dududududududududududud:

...(kicks record player): "Another one bites the dust! dududud Another one bites the dust!"

Mr. Cold is just too unpredictable to not reply :joy:

@Raz0r said in Fact check with Pet: Why atheism is irrational:

@petrapark3r Alright, so if u say that god was always there, then i can say that the popping of spaces were also always there....Think it through well.

Indeed :grin:... I was hoping someone was going to make that point! You are absolutely right, God is also incomprehensible to our rational mind!

So indeed, we must all accept, that whatever we believe about this world is in fact irrational! Atheism does not protect you from this :smirk:

However there is one very important difference. Let's assume for one moment, that there is no multiverse for simplicity's sake. Let's assume that 14 billion years ago, "Let there be light" literally resulted in a giant burning explosion that we can watch today if we look far enough out into space (isn't that awsome?): the big bang.

Yes, the reason for being itself, the reason for why there is anything will be irrational, but if you assume that this reason is God, you do win one thing:

The universe suddenly makes complete sense to our rational mind. From the beginning, from the big bang on, the world has a reason, is logical, mathematical, is causal and makes sense to us. And I, as a rational thinker, very much prefer this idea over a world, that in itself is irrational.

@Lurker said in How to recognize the right one?:

but anyway... for me, big indications of finding someone that could be "the one" is me not being able to stop thinking about that person, wanting to chat/text/hang out with the person as often as I can and above all, not being able to get mad or upset with her, everytime she does something that might hurt me or I dislike.

all those things I would have most definitely put on the treacherous list :joy: . No offense bud...

@WtfJudith said in HAPPY BIRTHDAY JUD!:

@petrapark3r Pffffff im no troll 😇

I meant TRS :smirk:

@spacegirl said in AI can now render videos of real people!:

When radio appeared, and than a television - it was always used to provide the information to the people in a specific way. A way that is profitable for the channel's owners. (Or the owners of the channel's owners. Or the owners of the owners, and so on). In other words it is calling - an informational propaganda. And nothing really changed from those times.
Forms became different - more sophisticated. Don't trust what you hear, don't trust what you see. It's a crazy world.
I am afraid, that our generation will reach the time, that we will not trust to our own thoughts.

Yes, things really did change... In the late nineties, news agencies (in the US) discovered that news could actually be profitable, e.g. make money. Before then most news outlets didn't generate a single cent, they were funded by different states, and a journalists work was to investigate. Today editors want topics that generate clicks and viewing figures. Maybe I'll write more on the topic later...

@Vex-Man is of the opinion, that Jesus was not a historical person.

I hold the position, that Jesus was indeed a historical figure.

So how could one prove or disprove that Jesus did exist?

The first problem of course is that all that which we are talking about happened 2000 years ago. We have a lot of religious texts, in the bible and also apocryphical ones that talk about Jesus' deeds. Is a religious text enough to prove a person's existence?

The question is, what should we expect to find other than christian texts? Should Jesus not be in some register?

I'll let Vex, or anybody who wants to join in, open the debate :joy:

Please note I'm a busy man, so the debate will be slow like any other :yum:

@Lurker said in How to recognize the right one?:

I speak for myself, every new person I've been with made me feel different and somewhat stronger things then the previous one, does that mean the last person was my soul-mate? What if a new person shows up and makes me feel even more different things?

This is interesting. Will you feel more and more and more until you find the one? Or is everyone your soulmate for whom you feel like this, and you're finding ever closer soulmates? Do you think at a certain intensity of emotion you'll have found her?

Have you ever experienced some kind of "I mean, like a part of you, that you maybe didn't even know was missing, a hole that was always there is now filled." (my silly description of an experience)?

Wow, just wow. I imagine that most real couples don't get such amazing and adorable presents :heart_eyes:

Sugarpuff or Buttercup or Cutiepie or some other adorable nickname for the baby. But I'd trick the terrorist and use a marker that takes forever to disappear, so my mate will start to call the baby that cute name :joy:

@Majestic-Catfish was dissatisfied with my formulation of his position in our last debate, so we'll restart this. His position now holds:

Jesus' (as a person) existence seems to be improbable to me

my position thus is

I consider Jesus' existence as a human being to be propable

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@DAD_ said in How to recognize the right one?:

@petrapark3r

Beauty lies within uncertainty.
Try to find 'the one'
and the one which you already have, will be lost.

Live in the moment, rather than dreaming about the future.

Well said.

However, you can only give yourself to one (if you do it right :muscle: :joy: )... So... Lets say to live in the moment with the one you have is good and you shouldn't look elsewhere all the time, agreed with that, too. But at some point, that relationship might end. Maybe it ended because you realized she was not the one. So... Isn't that realization important too? Or the other realization, that she whom you with, is in fact the one you want to spend your life with?

Or are you more the, after one love comes the next kind of person for the rest of your life?

@Leoweirdo said in HAPPY THREE MONTHSSS BB!! 😘:

@Mushu this is gay..wtf

When I last checked, gay depended on certain physical conditions that have not been revealed yet :yum:

Have some more noodles from me 2

@Silhouette said in A glimpse into an ancient religion almost forgotten.:

@Devil-Tag False. You're wrong, it is a weak religion. You people can downvote me all you want, it won't change the fact.

When the Arabs invaded Persia, where was their God? Why didn't the believers receive any help?

Fact: true faith means nothing when your God is uncaring or weak.

Look, christian religion is by definition weak. Christ died on the cross. Christianity is the most persecuted religion in the world. In fact as a christian you should praise your weakness, for in your weakness God is strong. Where is God? Always to be found on the cross, where people are suffering, He is. He is with them. He is with the weak. Always.

For God is Love, and through Love He is convincing people to follow Him. He will always do it like this, always with a subtle voice. He did not come as the messiah to rule all the world by force. He always speaks subtly and waits for people to listen.

For Love wants to be loved. He wants a free-willed decision, not a forced decision. He wants trust, he does not prove his power. And he doesn't like the proud and those who desire power and victory.

His cup of justice might brim over however, letting the evil we commit fall back on us instead of keeping it away. But that does not change the fact that the only meaningful relationship with Him will be built on gentleness, trust and love, not on strength and power.

@Lurker said in How to recognize the right one?:

@petrapark3r said in How to recognize the right one?:

Have you ever experienced some kind of "I mean, like a part of you, that you maybe didn't even know was missing, a hole that was always there is now filled."

Do you mean you liking a part of someone that they weren't aware? Or the fact that someone likes a part of you and making you fell a whole / not so empty?

No, it is more like... It is like... Maybe you do feel incomplete right now. Maybe you don't but through the experience you realize you definitely were incomplete. And now, like when you feel her presence, you suddenly feel like you need nothing in the world anymore. Like all needs are gone. Like you are complete. At least on a worldly level. You also don't feel that burning desire (only when you don't feel her presence), you feel fulfilled. Kinda happy. But mostly fulfilled. Or rather complete. Like a part of you that was always missing is now there.

@petrapark3r said in How to recognize the right one?:

I for one want that kind of relationship. I want to give myself fully, even if that means dying for her and by her hands. Yes.

So you had relationships in the past but none of this would go as far as this feeling?

No no, this is not a feeling. This is my idea of marriage, it is something I and her together can do.

May the Lord open your heart to His coming into this world, which He would have done just for you. May He fill your christmas with lots of blessings and lots of heavenly gifts. But most of all may He fill your heart with deep love for all the people around you.

@robtheworst lucky you :P

Imagine a room. Then imagine people in it, or animals, or other beings. Play out a story in your head, interact with those in your story. I bet you are able to hear your imaginations speak, you hear sounds, you see images, and if you enter into the story deeply enough, you also feel things. I for one can do this. I'm a bit weak on the visuals, but I can definitely feel for the characters I create and imagine pain and such stuff.

Now... what do you think would a world look like that God imagined?

My answer to this question is: like this one, to the last atom (for He can imagine everything to the greatest detail). So this is basically how I think God creates the world. He just thinks it. Everything in it. Every physical law, every atom, everything. And he thinks it while he is outside of it, outside of time even, like a still, viewing it from the beginning of time to the end all at once.

So what is life then? A series of decisions that matter. For everything we do matters in relation to God. And when life ends, well... it doesn't end, because I'll still be God's thought.

Now what are miracles? Simply God thinking that now this happens, instead of something else.

This view works quite well with the bible:

"For in him we live and move and have our being" (Acts 17:28), "and there are varieties of activities, but it is the same God who empowers them all in everyone." (1 Cor 12:6). And if you view the world like this, it also makes sense how God "knows the secrets of the heart." (Ps 44:21). Because when I think, God thinks me thinking. And it also illustrate how God can create the world through His word (His thought). And it illustrates why it is important to amass treasures in heaven, and not on this earth, which is "just a thought", while Heaven is God's loving heart.

Well it has many advantages. Of course this is just an image too for how it really is. A good image, but still an image, because I could never understand how God does what He does.