Comments by "June VanDerMark" (@junevandermark952) on "Jubilee" channel.

I always figured people that badmouth the left or the right, seem to think they have found the "line" in the middle, that in turn makes their opinions and behaviors superior. What a joke we are, on ourselves. “We are all hallucinating all the time, including right now. It’s just that when we agree about our hallucinations, we call that reality.” Anil Seth … neuroscientist.
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When I was about ten years of age, an eight year old girl of the Catholic faith (who knew that my mother was a Protestant), approached me and said, "The priest said that Protestants go to hell," and then she smiled, as she added, "but I didn't believe him." We became the best of friends, because we didn't allow religion to come between us. That was a huge lesson for me. HUGE. Even so, it took me until age 70 to leave all religion behind, and to at last be able to feel whole, just as I am. I am now 82, and the last 12 years, free of all those dogmas, have been by far, my best. I now believe as did Stephen Hawking (before he died), that the universe always existed, no creator involved.
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The news media outlets keep fueling the political fire between left and right, to the point where many of us don't know the difference between left or right. Somehow there must be a middle road in there to trod, if only we could find it during the media frenzy. I suggest that as members of the public, we should keep in mind that this is how the media outlets keep their ratings high. If we stopped fighting over the words left, versus right ... what sort of ratings would these news media outlets have anyway?
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@Bonzu_Pippinpaddleopsicopolis I agree. Excerpt from the book … Jesus as the Sun throughout History, by D.M. Murdock/Acharya … "For 'the Sun of Righteousness,' who drives His chariot over all, pervades equally all humanity..." … Church father Clement of Alexandria (Exhortation 11) … "The result of the Church's encounter with the sun-cults of antiquity was nothing less than the dethronement of Helios." … Dr. Hugo Rahner, Greek Myths and Christian Mystery.
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Because human nature is ugly, the history of religion is also ugly. Example: From the book, Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven … Uta Ranke-Heinemann In his sermons against unchastity that he gave at the French court John Gerson (d. 1429) even invoked a decree of the Christian Emperor Vanentinian from the year 390 that punished homosexuality with burning at the stake (Codex Theodosianus 9, 7, 6). Gerson equates every action that thwarts the fertility of marital sex with homosexuality. He attacks the “inventive indecencies of sinners” in marriage. Such deeds “often deserve death my fire, and are worse than if they had been committed with women who were not the sinners’ wives. May a person have intercourse at all, if he prevents the fruit of marriage from being conceived? I say that such is often a sin that deserves the flames … Every imaginable conduct that hinders the union of a man and woman from producing issue must be condemned”(Sermon against Unchastity, 2nd Sunday in Advent, Works, vol. III, 916).
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Buddhism branched off of Hinduism. There wasn't any talk of a Buddha in Hinduism, just as there wasn't any talk of a Jesus, in Judaism. Religion is now made up of many branches ... while the root of all religions stem from nothing other than man-created imaginary myths. Do you agree, or do you disagree?
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@JonathanAnthonyAltieri I agree. We are fond of people that reflect out own opinions back to us, because of course it makes us feel wise. We enjoy playing those sorts of jokes on ourselves. lol
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When I was still religious, I never believed that homosexuals were evil, or that a god existed that would harshly judge them. I knew that I was only attracted to my own gender, and that I found the thought of having a relationship with another women repulsive, so I concluded that homosexuals were born different than heterosexuals. After I left religion, I was thankful that I never believed those who claimed that a god existed that wanted homosexuals put to death. Such ignorance only occurs in human animals ... and for that, humanity should be ashamed.
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Joanne Altieri I believe that humans are the worst animals on planet earth, and had we evolved with paws rather than fingers, we would have gone extinct long ago. We never did do the earth, or each other, a favor by existing.
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@Koala I suggest that all of us are not doing a favor for the earth by being on it, and as for the Big Bang theory, I don't believe that that was the start of the universe, but rather it was just another bang among many bangs. I agree with Stephen Hawkings theory, that the universe always existed. Stephen Hawking and the No Boundary Proposal. "I still believe the universe has a beginning in real time, at the big bang. But there's another kind of time, imaginary time, at right angles to real time, in which the universe has no beginning or end." —Stephen Hawking Black Holes and Baby Universes
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@llll-mp3ci If a scientist is asked the question, “Do you believe that the universe was created,” and the scientist answers, “Yes,” that is not critical scientific thinking. That is “I accept as truth, what I was taught in my personal religion.”
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@llll-mp3ci From the book … THIS IS YOUR BRAIN ON PARASITES ... How Tiny Creatures Manipulate Our Behavior and Shape Society ... author ... Kathleen McAuliffe Perhaps prejudice will subside as more folks grow distrustful of their moral institutions and rely on them less often. Perhaps people will start taking probiotics instead of Prozac. It's hard to predict the future. Only this much is certain: Parasites are woven into our psychology and the very fabric of our being. Indeed, we are more microbe than human. We can be confident that this radical new vision of ourselves will open a world of fresh opportunities.
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@llll-mp3ci You missed the point of my posts, so you go your way, and I'll go mine.
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It seems that at least some men of ancient times agreed with Stephen Hawking’s theory that the universe always existed … and never was created. From the book … 2000 Years of Disbelief … author … James A. Haugt … “None of the gods has formed the world, nor has any man; it has always been.”—Empedocles (495—435 B.C.E.), Greek philosopher and statesman (Noyes) … “The universe has been made neither by gods nor by men, but it has been, and is, and will be eternally.”—Heraclitus (Noyes) “The nature of the universe has by no means been made through divine power, seeing how great are the flaws that mar it”—Lucretius, ibid.
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Human egoists can never see eye to eye on any subject, and certainly not on the subject of religion. Those who believe they own spiritual truth, are determined to preach AT others, who, in turn, want to preach their own "version" of spiritual truth back. Tempers flare, and war of words escalate to war of weapons. Following, is a primate example of such stupidity ... Question: How many times has Jerusalem been destroyed?" Answer: Jerusalem, the “city of peace,” has certainly known its share of sorrow and war. Since it sits at the crossroads of the ancient world and is held in high esteem by three major religions, it has been involved in wars throughout most of its 3000+ year history. When archaeologists first began excavating in the city, they were surprised to discover layer after layer of rubble, indicating that parts of Jerusalem had been destroyed at least 40 times. The layers of rubble in some places are more than 60 feet deep!
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From my perspective, we have two choices. We can either believe that the universe was created by an entity that designed suffering as part of its plan ... or, we can believe (as did Stephen Hawking, before he died) that the universe always existed, and will always exist ... no plan involved. I prefer the second choice.
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@acemxe8472 “I still believe the universe has a beginning in real time, at the big bang. But there’s another kind of time, imaginary time, at right angles to real time, in which the universe has no beginning or end.”—Stephen Hawking Black Holes and Baby Universes.
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@acemxe8472 “I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when it’s components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.” Stephen Hawking
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@acemxe8472 From the book … Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen ... author Jane Hawking ... The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything. Only a month later we found ourselves again in Rome, where Stephen was to be admitted by the Pope to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, despite the heresies he was still preaching about the universe having neither a beginning or an end. I watched and listened from the sidelines and my heart sank as I heard it repeated again and again in some form or other. "Professor Hawking, what does your research tell you about the existence of God? Or "Is there room for God in the universe you describe?" or, more directly, "Do you believe in God?" Always the answer was the same. No, Stephen did not believe in God and there was no room for God in his universe.
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Now you've changed "your" story. However, you can't change his story.
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@acemxe8472 Absurd logic is a contradiction. It can't be absurd, and at the same time ... be logic.
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@acemxe8472 When the Catholic priest Georges Lemaître created the Big Bang theory, it followed that the Big Bang theory would be enmeshed with the idea that the universe was created by a god, as Stephen Hawking learned when he visited the pope. ... "In 1985, I attended a conference on cosmology at the Vatican in Rome. The gathering of scientists had an audience with Pope John Paul II. He told us that it was okay to study the workings of the universe, but we should not ask questions about its origin, for that was the work of God." Stephen Hawking
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Would you like me to appeal to your authority, rather than Stephen Hawking's authority, concerning whose system of belief I follow?
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@acemxe8472 Your statement was the contradiction. lol
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@acemxe8472 Do you believe that your soul is destined for greatness, while my soul is doomed to fail?
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