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#1
Hi!

If one is popping over to Paris, which church has the best organ experience for a Sunday service for an organist?

Best wishes

FourFoot
#2
Hi!

This thread comes about on account of counselling some young people recently in respect of concepts of postive and negative outlooks.

One might sometimes observe that Darwinistic Atheism, which I regard to be true Atheism, and brands of Deism or Theism really all lead to the same end. The reason for this is that the process of evolution requires that only successful organisms survive, successful organisms being the ones that come together positively to replicate. In this way we see evolution as the set of solutions to a giant set of giant equations, and we now understand this to be, in effect, the action of a giant DNA computer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA_computing
QuoteDNA computing is fundamentally similar to parallel computing in that it takes advantage of the many different molecules of DNA to try many different possibilities at once.
in terms of evolution on earth, on a giant scale.

The point is that behaviourally the organisms have to be successful enough to replicate and to behave on a macroscale in a sociable way in order to achieve the common good in order to ensure the success of the species.

In a belief requiring the agency of a God mechanism, the two commandments of Christ, to love thy God and to love thy neighbour as thyself lead to the respect of the processes by which we have arrived and to behave in the common good.

These observations might seem banal and irrelevant until one starts to examine the opposite and the basic Deist or Theist premise taht Good overcomes Evil. In Darwinistic Atheism this starts to be obvious, for the positive multiplies positively, multiplication being an additive process repeatedly. This leads to success but negative patterns don't add and therefore cannot multiply and therefore, die out. They might not be seen to die out immediately, but patient watching reveals them to do so in the longer term.

Sometimes one is tempted to say bad things. It becomes obvious from the above that bad things don't need to be said, because bad things will die out as long as good things multiply. So it's necessary to say and do good things.

The corrolary is the saying that "It only requires a good man to do nothing for evil to multiply".

The injunction about doing nothing is not an encouragement to fight evil, for fighting is evil, it causes argument and unhappiness. But by doing positive things, by saying positive things, good things will simply outnumber the bad and a state of heaven endures.

I have encouraged the people who have inspired the manifestation of such thoughts to slow down in their process of ideas into enunciation and think before speaking

  • "Is what I am about to say positive"
  • "Iswhat I am about to say kind?"
and if the answer to either is "no", not to speak.

People who follow this idea will gain many more friends than they have already, in real life and not just online, and they can avoid pointing out anything that they feel is bad for the reason that the good will simply outnumber the bad to the point at which the bad ceases to exist. This leads to a manifestation of heaven.

There are many people who lurk or don't participate on forums because they say that bad things are said - but if those people were to focus  not on what is bad but upon what good they could promote, then life would be a more constructive place.

Best wishes,

Four Foot
#3
Atheists' Corner / The Certainty of Place
June 28, 2011, 11:41:05 AM
Greetings.

One is always in relation to others and to circumstances. One is governed by a network of relationships and events, often seemingly random or unpredictable, and life is considerably helped if before one there is a map and guidance as to which path to take. Without such a map or guidance, one's destination can be random and the journey tortuous.

This morning I took a flight and had arrived at Terminal 2. Whilst waiting for the bus I was approached by three luscious ladies with lots of luggage. In an accent from the other side of the world they asked me in a land where only Heavenlish is spoken whether I spoke Earthlish. The machine in the terminal which was supposed to be able to tell them where to go or with which to book a hotel was not working and they were in a foreign land. They asked me how to get to Heaven but as they told me that the taxi fare to get there was too expensive, I guessed that they might not have enough money to stay in Heaven, mainly known for its role as a Tax Haven, especially as I subsequently learned that the Crown Prince is to be married there on Saturday. Accordingly I told them to go to Purgatory from where they could take the train into Heaven every day if they wanted and to get there I told them to get the Navette Gratuite to Terminal 1 from where they could get the bus to the Gare.

A few minutes later I was dismayed to see a bus for the Gare leaving from Terminal 2. I felt guilty that I'd sent them on a long circuitous path to Heaven so I ran, with my luggage too, to the Navette Gratuite upon which they were but which had not left yet to point out the immediately available bus.

"No matter", they said, "we'll get better tourist information from Terminal 1" . . .

So many people expect to come to a foreign land without a guidebook, without the language, without a phrase book, without having looked at the instructions nor the map.

It is the duty of those with the knowledge to guide those on the path and at least point to a better guide if available along the way.

Those who guide have to know the certainty of the place and all on the path need to know where their lives are positioned on the map. Churches and organs are landmarks on our way.

Best wishes,

Four Foot