If you eat at Mac Donald's, well, I guess we can't be sure of anything if we eat processed foods, hotdogs, baloney, etc.

Soilent green?

So feeding our dogs is wrong? (At least we don't eat them.)

Americans are obese because of the horrible crap the food industry pushes on us to eat. Sugar, flour, processed and junk foods with crap in them, artificial sweeteners that will kill you or make you ill, genetically modified food organisms.

Chickens and cows that are fed poisons and chemicals.. eeeek.

My camera has a photographic memory.

Not a damn thing.

LOL

I don't think falling in love is mental illness, but it is more like hypnotism, and its temporary. Infatuation is temporary. Same thing.

I wonder about mental illness too and what it means. There are schizophrenics, psychopaths, psychotics, and plain old dysfunctional screwed up thinking, etc. It could be physical, chemical etc.

People who hear voices in their heads telling them to do bad things, sounds like schizophrenic behavior, but if there are such things as demon possession, mind control, who knows.

I have known people who hear voices (not their own voices) in their head and have all of their lives. Some tend to think everyone else probably does too and its normal.

Speak for yourself. I was born with more than a blank slate.

Do you have any memories of your birth? I do. Or at least it seems like I do. Memories, they say, are rewritten every time you recall them.

Strangely, I am not very surprised by that information.

And you are Mormon? It sounds similar to Judaism.

I think we can all logically agree that the past does not exist, except as memory, and the future is just a bunch of probabilities. A "prophesy" is someone's prediction or envisioned future probability. There is no guarantee that any prophesy or prediction will happen.

The only place you can do anything, think anything, be anything is in this present moment. The present moment (NOW) is all that exists.

So why not talk about NOW instead of 2000 year old stories?

What is salvation?

Definition: sal�va�tion
noun THEOLOGY
1. deliverance from sin and its consequences, believed by Christians to be brought about by faith in Christ.

The term Christ is a title, equivalent of the Old Testament term messiah and means anointed one. The anointed one delivers the elect from their sin. The Christ has three offices: Prophet, Priest, and King. As Prophet He is the mouthpiece of God (Matt. 5:27-28) and represents God to man. As Priest He represents man to God and restores fellowship between them by offering Himself as the sacrifice that removed the sin of those saved.

What is sin:
1. an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law.
synonyms: immoral act, wrong, wrongdoing, act of evil/wickedness, transgression, crime, offense, misdeed, misdemeanor;

What is faith?noun":
1. complete trust or confidence in someone or something.
"this restores one's faith in politicians"
synonyms:trust, belief, confidence, conviction; More
antonyms: mistrust

2. strong belief in God or in the doctrines of a religion, based on spiritual apprehension rather than proof.


What is messiah?

mes�si�ah -noun
1. the promised deliverer of the Jewish nation prophesied in the Hebrew Bible.
2. a leader or savior of a particular group or cause.


So simplified by these definitions, without worrying about what name you want to call the messiah or savior, I come to a conclusion that I have a question about.

Why would you believe that a blood sacrifice removes sin and What is the logic in that?

Before the Christ sacrifice, pagans killed animals. Some still do. What does that represent? Food for the beast? Who is the beast?

Then there are mythical stories of dragons to whom virgins were sacrificed. What symbolic meaning does that have?

In ancient mid evil times, what kind of monster god or devil required a blood sacrifice to forgive the 'sins' of the people?

Where did that symbolic myth come from? Or was it real? Were human and animal sacrifices given to some monster god or did the people just imagine there was a god who required blood sacrifice?

So you think your are good at this?
(Um, no you're not.)

Going off track and off topic is not "good" especially when you get caught doing it and someone has to bring you back on topic. Its just an attempt to be distracting and a waste of time.

I like how you compared having sex for money with cleaning a bathroom that was flooded and full of feces for money.

Your question above is a subtle manipulation because it is suggestive of the penalty that the church/Bible has set up for those who do not believe their particular dogma. ("If you don't believe... bad things will happen.)

This promise (of eternal agony in hell or death) derives its power from fear. Fear is the opposite of love so it is contrary to the true teachings of Jesus therefore I believe it is not true.

Choosing Christianity just because you are afraid of the consequences for not choosing it is letting yourself be manipulated by fear.

That is one of the many reasons I am not worried about being 'wrong.'

Oh lets not start with the blame game and accuse men of exploitation of poor defenseless women. Sure it happens, but isaac_dede and me are talking about two consenting adults.

And issy, we are not talking about kidnapping, and the child sex trade. That is not "prostitution" with consenting adults.

Of course if women were able to make as much money as men all the time, there would not be so much prostitution. Women have something men want and some are willing to pay for it. One way or another they do pay for it.

Men and women are not on equal footing and they never will be. Women as a general rule don't get the highest paying jobs either in sports or industry. Things have changed a little but even recently, women have had to fight for equal pay, their own credit ratings, the right to vote etc. Women have slept their way into their jobs, or been sexually harassed by their bosses.

Prostitution should not be illegal or legalized. The government should stay out of that business and let two consenting adults do what they chose to do.

isaac_dede thanks for clarifying that.

Consenting adults. What does the government care if money exchanges hands except that they are pissed because they didn't get their share.

They are more concerned about collecting taxes than morality. The government itself isn't moral anyway. Its all about money.

He's a "nice" guy he says. Not.

That is very judgmental and disrespectful. Your profile claims that you are a nice guy.

Yeh right.

What is a casual American? I've never heard that expression.

I'll give your four cents.

Sex for money.... well lets just call it a gift exchange.

You give the girl a gift of money, and in gratitude she gives you the gift of sex.

Or a girl has sex with you and in gratitude you give her the gift of money.

In this case, you can't really call it selling or buying as each act is a gift and either party can choose whether or not to give the gift.

That is closer to dating.

gottcha. I agree.