Interesting - 3 red thumbs but no arguments. <sigh>
I was just watching a program critical of religion - critical both pro and con.
An interesting point was made. A claim was made for the discovery of a gene for spiritualism. Everyone carries a copy of it but there are 2 versions distributed approximately 50/50 throughout the population. This appeals to me. I have long thought that some people have a sense of the numinous while others don't. Those that do will fall into religion, any religion and buy into its particular tenets like they were God's truth because indeed, that's what they believe they are. Others, have a lesser sense of the numinous and just see in religion a lot of hocus pocus and manipulation.
That doesn't imply anything about the existence of God but it implies a deep criticism of all established religions that purport to know the Truth.
It's comforting to me to see an explanation and a vindication of sorts for my own guess work. I think I can guess which version of the gene I carry.
Oh, it doesn't imply anything about wave sailing either.
Interesting that Nobbie was more than willing to start this thread having a crack at Josh Angulo .... but as soon as the intelligentisia step in with some real discussion about the existence or otherwise of a God, he changes the title to "nerds"
I guess we may disregard his opinion
Well done Nobbie.... not.
twas a good experiment on the original poster who now fears reprisal from god and repents with the fear of god in his loins!
i know i would be really scared!
Ha...Love this thread.
Love your mind NotWal....particularly when you talk dirty!!
tick tok tick tok tick tok tick tok tick tok tick tok ... wacking a can down very soon.
There s always wind but it ant always 6 foot.... oh well ......
good xxxxxmmmmaaaassss. hope yr well.....like that spider bite 10 days to that.
You be off it ha
Yer sticky bored fingers..............
just about got bed sores to day .....................
very very smooth glass cut backs l under the bowl.The last couple of days after the crowds sailed them selves out and headed home. ,Its been linking from way out the back with the full tides. lIke plodding around getting your waves as the sun goes down .........as for to day hot for the first time all year ......air con on looks windy .......hope its not.....just got the call ...its in again
The young guns are ripping into it double forwards, huge backies,big round houses and dropping into the pit bacwards and doing a sail spin .......goyatos fully planing good to see .....no nerdy action going down, oh oh insaying that thres a few usual euro nerd moves........but hey iim an old school nerd. Them little highs and fronts down south and cyclone up north seen to be pushing the swell through, .....see you soon
OI KING,,,,,
you didnt ask to use that pic of me wife....
Ill let ya off this time
I categorize myself as someone who doubts their belief or doubts their disbelief, I think it depends on the day or astrology or something. Faith or beliefs are such powerful things it’s a struggle to thing of any great or terrible event in history that hasn’t been influenced one way or another. To just write it all off as a joke is to deny the epic and fantastic mess that is our past.
For me it seems a mistake to tie a creator to any theory or event, an all powerful being who is outside space and time shouldn’t need parlor tricks or science to aid his/her reign.
The grit in the Vaseline is when belief is used to justify some world destroying activity. Did the big guy tell Dubya to invade Iraq? Does George believe these are the end days? Now that scares the poop out of me. Despite this some of my greatest heroes are/were believers (Mandela, Einstein, King (the other one!)).
If Angulo wants to write things on his boards that’s OK with me, what would the other brands write?
We love advertising.
We love money
Robby Naish loves Robby Naish. (He is a God and shouldn’t suffer the self doubt the rest of us have to deal with.)
There is a Dog (now this should be distributed evenly between the brands by a magazine editor using a dart board)
Happy Elmomas
Al
but its sound in theory.
but its sound in theory.
but its sound in theory.
So natural selection and mutation is not the precursor to evolution, guess we'll just have to sit around for a million years to watch this experiment. But god's designs are perfect why would something like natural selection be required anyway.
Leech let's face it you probably sin just like all the other followers so none of us are going to heaven anyway.
I'm not anti-god, I do not believe or not believe as there is not enough evidence. My kids go to catholic school, I chose not to sway their beliefs either way it's a pity the church cannot see to do the same thing. If you believe fine just don't push your brand of BS on the rest of us.
There are mountains of contradiction with any Scientific Theory, it is mearly accepted as the most plausible to explain that situation.
1st day of Science degree... everything you are about to learn will be rubbish in 50 years 
(i've just destroyed my argument )
I've got written on my house "the premier of Queensland loves me" after forking out tens of thousands of dollars in stamp duty! WTF!
Collection box stuff i guess, religion, politics, related.....hmmmmm!
but its sound in theory.
