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Dude – you’ve reached such an awareness of the importance of thought, you’ve answered your own question already. Cool!

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A &B

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No, Not Mine.

When my wife was pregnant for my first child the doctor said after analyzing a lab test (I forgot the name of the test) that our baby seems to had Downs Syndrom. He wanted to make an amniocentesis to confirm. We both say NO!
* Not willing to take any chances / risks.
* We saw no need for that test. In the worst case, if she had Downs Syndrom we would raise her, not killed her through an abortion. We felt very angry to his suggestion that we should think about it.
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Months later when a it was time for a sonogram nothing in the facial images suggested Downs Syndrom. When she was born (15 years ago) she was normal, the lab test was just a false positive. My daughter has allways been an excellent student been graduated with the highest grade averages of her class. Allways got the highest honors in graduations, frequently the best score in any exam. And that doctor suggested we should kill her!

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I do.. What are you looking for specifically?

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First of all, I believe that G-d is perfect, and definitely does not have more imperfections as me. That being said:

I have the same question as you. It doesn’t make sense to me why people would want to be loyal to a god who promptly sends people to eternal damnation just for not believing in him (and the RIGHT him too). But this god of eternal damnation is not the Jewish G-d. Judaism doesn’t believe that all who don’t follow Judaism are going to hell. They believe that all those who keep 7 basic, moral laws of humanity (called the 7 noahide laws) have a place in heaven. It’s really not all that hard, and many people may actually be following them accidentally, if they are moral and believe in One god.

Also, the Jewish view of G-d on punishment is this: The world was set up with a certain system, and just like when the body consumes something that is bad for it, it gets sick or has pain, the same thing happens when people sin. They get hurt as a result of the sin, as a spiritual consequence of their spiritually harmful actions. G-d is actually extremely merciful, because He tends to unnaturally hold back many of these consequences from people in the hopes that they may repent and therefore negate the reason for the consequence.

Something which I think may be interesting to note: Many people have come up with the complaint that G-d is haughty and full of Himself. The thing is, they don’t realize that all the moral and interpersonal rules that apply to us don’t necessarily apply to Him. The reason it’s bad for us to be haughty and full of ourselves, and think that we’re the center of the world, is because we’re NOT. On the other hand, G-d IS, so it is 100% not a problem that G-d thinks the world of Himself. Would you think of someone as being rude and haughty if they proudly declared that they’re more important that a strand of carpet? No. Would you think of the strand of carpet as being rude and haughty if it declared that it was just as important as you (bear with me and my silly example, lol)? It’s the same with us and G-d.

And it’s the same with different attributes G-d has. Many things are forbidden for us because we do not have the authority to act that way, while G-d does, since He created and manages this all.

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In The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins, he refers to a study done by [I forget]. In the study he had so many sick patients to work with. Some would receive prayers and not know it, others no prayers at all and some would receive prayers and know it. The ones who received prayers and didn’t know it and the ones who didn’t receive prayers at all weren’t any different. However the ones that did receive prayers and did know it seemed to be worse off. They think this might have caused some anxiety in those patients, that they probably thought ‘what could possibly be wrong with me that I need a bunch of people praying for me.’

In my own opinion (which is worth very little seeing as how I am 20 and have no degree in anything at the moment) I think the placebo effect could do wonders. But still don’t give up modern medicine for prayer or meditation, that’s ludicrous.

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You have lost me on this one Jack lol

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I agree with you.Life is nothing but a big school.All to enrich our souls.

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The FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions document) entitled “Feminist Myths and Dirty Tricks,” commonly seen on the newsgroups alt.mens-rights and soc.men, holds some of the answers to the question “where did these images come from?” The amazing thing about this FAQ is that it alleges “feminist myths and tricks that are frequently used to disrupt good discussions” which presumably take place in these forums. Men’s and fathers’ rights advocates are notorious for disrupting any form of discussion about feminism, domestic violence, and family law that take place on the Internet, within newsgroups, and on America Online. The most prevalent of men’s rights myths are extolled in this FAQ as well as men’s rights propaganda regarding exactly what feminism is supposed to be. “The Testimonial” is one particular technique used by these groups to denigrate feminism. Experts approved by the organizations are called forth to give a questionable point of view validity. The definitions of feminist point of view presented are not only blatant misrepresentations of feminism, men’s rights advocates treat them as if they are accurate. These people are redefining and labeling the feminist movement itself.