Thought For The Day by John Jaeger, MBA

[Cyber Liberty]

"The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who
are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." ---Samuel Adams

And then God created a Democrat.

[ChemEngrMBA]

And then God created a Democrat.

I think you left an "N" out of Democrat.

[ChemEngrMBA]

"Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have,
 it depends solely upon what you think." - Dale Carnegie


"The greatest discovery of any generation is that human beings can alter their lives
by altering the attitudes of their minds." - Albert Schweitzer

[Polly Ticks]

[ChemEngrMBA]

"Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all." – Oliver Wendell Holmes

[ChemEngrMBA]

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" - Mark 8:36


Bernie Madoff
Jeffrey Epstein
Phil Spector

Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Chairman Mao
Vladimir Putin

[bigheadfred]

"For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?" - Mark 8:36


Bernie Madoff
Jeffrey Epstein
Phil Spector

Adolf Hitler
Joseph Stalin
Chairman Mao
Vladimir Putin
Democrats

[ChemEngrMBA]

Gentlemen, court your wife every single day.  Romance her publicly and privately, for a happy marriage and a happy life.
If this seems strange to you, start practicing every day. Practice makes perfect.

Ladies, I heard this on a radio talk show:  "I'm a feminist.  I've learned that if you treat your husband like a king, he will treat you like a queen."

[Cyber Liberty]

 

Its true....you can ask my wife!

[Polly Ticks]

Mostly true, unless you are married to an addict. In that case, it's just enabling. 

[ChemEngrMBA]

"Out of  the very stones [Arabs] will fabricate such a tower of falsehoods that you can only stand and gape in wonder and admiration at their fruitful invention." --Isabel Burton

[ChemEngrMBA]

… those nations with the highest levels  of depression and suicide over the last 50 years  also happen to have been the most irreligious.  (Soviet bloc, China, Japan, Scandanavia, UK, France, among others)  Abortion rates, separation and family discord are all far more prominent in the irreligious west than anywhere else in the world.- 1627

The evidence suggest that atheism is thus:
A belief held for psychological reasons leading to an increased probability of psychosis, abusive behavior, depression and suicidal inclination.
If those are not the hallmarks of a delusion, I don’t know what is. – 1641  (Illogical Atheism, by Bo Jinn, former atheist)

[sneakypete]

If those are not the hallmarks of a delusion, I don’t know what is. –Illogical Atheism, by Bo Jinn, former atheist

Believing in a magical fairy that lives in the sky and loves you so much he inflicts terrible pain and suffering on most of you  to prove he loves you?

Organized religion is about controlling the masses with fear in order to keep them in line.

[ChemEngrMBA]

If those are not the hallmarks of a delusion, I don’t know what is. –Illogical Atheism, by Bo Jinn, former atheist

Believing in a magical fairy that lives in the sky and loves you so much he inflicts terrible pain and suffering on most of you  to prove he loves you?

Organized religion is about controlling the masses with fear in order to keep them in line.

Organized atheism has a lot to answer for, from Lenin to Stalin to Hitler to Chairman Mao to the fatuous pretense that everything made itself from nothing, to the fact that of all religions, atheism has the lowest retention rate and the fewest number of Nobel Laureates in science.  The Unabomber was a genius who murdered people he hated with package bombs.  He had a well-worn copy of atheist Isaac Asimov's Two Volume Guide to the Bible in his rathole cabin, along with Al Gore's Earth in the Balance.

I refer you to http://Proof-There-Is-No-God.blogspot.com

and http://Irrational-Atheism.blogspot.com

[sneakypete]

Organized atheism has a lot to answer for, from Lenin to Stalin to Hitler to Chairman Mao to the fatuous pretense that everything made itself from nothing, to the fact that of all religions, atheism has the lowest retention rate and the fewest number of Nobel Laureates in science.  The Unabomber was a genius who murdered people he hated with package bombs.  He had a well-worn copy of atheist Isaac Asimov's Two Volume Guide to the Bible in his rathole cabin, along with Al Gore's Earth in the Balance.

I refer you to http://Proof-There-Is-No-God.blogspot.com

and http://Irrational-Atheism.blogspot.com

@ChemEngrMBA

Now list all the religious wars created by the True Believers to kill non-believers.

I understand this may take weeks,so no hurry with your answser.

[Cyber Liberty]

@ChemEngrMBA

Lets just enjoy this thread of quotes.  Not the place for Christian vs Atheist arguments....

[Bigun]

Organized atheism has a lot to answer for, from Lenin to Stalin to Hitler to Chairman Mao to the fatuous pretense that everything made itself from nothing, to the fact that of all religions, atheism has the lowest retention rate and the fewest number of Nobel Laureates in science.  The Unabomber was a genius who murdered people he hated with package bombs.  He had a well-worn copy of atheist Isaac Asimov's Two Volume Guide to the Bible in his rathole cabin, along with Al Gore's Earth in the Balance.

I refer you to http://Proof-There-Is-No-God.blogspot.com

and http://Irrational-Atheism.blogspot.com

Trying to change some people's minds about anything is very much akin to teaching pigs to sing.

It wastes your time and annoys the pigs. @ChemEngrMBA

[sneakypete]

Lets just enjoy this thread of quotes.  Not the place for Christian vs Atheist arguments....

@Cyber Liberty

It's a "fight" nobody ever wins,anyway.

I personally  don't give a squat who worships who or what,as long as they don't insist that I worship it with them.

[MOD3]

Lets just enjoy this thread of quotes.  Not the place for Christian vs Atheist arguments....

What CL said. Change topics.

[ChemEngrMBA]

Lets just enjoy this thread of quotes.  Not the place for Christian vs Atheist arguments....

I quoted the Holy Bible many times, without the slightest objection. Implicitly, any quote from the Bible contradicts atheism.
Every Bible quote is implicitly Christian vs Atheist. What would have been appropriate was for @sneakypete to take his snark elsewhere, and create a new thread.  I did just that, guaranteeing his failure to rise to my complex challenge of *science* without intervention.

[bigheadfred]

 “Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
—Jack Handey

[ChemEngrMBA]

".... no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end." - Ecclesiastes 3:11

"There is an infinite amount of research to do." - Scientists, eager for an infinite amount of government grants, confirming Ecclesiastes 3:11

[libertybele]

@Cyber Liberty

It's a "fight" nobody ever wins,anyway.

I personally  don't give a squat who worships who or what,as long as they don't insist that I worship it with them.

@sneakypete you have right to your beliefs and I absolutely agree; no one should insist that you worship with them.  However, I do pray for others.

[libertybele]

“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”
—Jack Handey

 

[ChemEngrMBA]

"One hundred years from my day there will not be a bible in the earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity seeker." - Voltaire, 1694 - 1778

The Holy Bible is the best-selling book in the world two hundred fifty years later.

[ChemEngrMBA]

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.— Nathaniel Branden, Canadian Psychotherapist

[Cyber Liberty]

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.— Nathaniel Branden, Canadian Psychotherapist

LOL!  Leftists have an extremely high level of self esteem, yet they are the worst people on the planet.

[ChemEngrMBA]

LOL!  Leftists have an extremely high level of self esteem, yet they are the worst people on the planet.

Analyze that point carefully.  Is it perhaps that Leftists CLAIM intellect, rationality and morality, but deep down inside,
they know that they are really low-lifes and so their self-esteem is seriously compromised?  They're bitter, petulant,
dishonest and very unhappy overall.  These are not characteristics of people with true high-level self-esteem, as you
and I have.   Conservatives are consistently happier people.  The most mentally unstable are Leftist women, according
to studies.

[Cyber Liberty]

Analyze that point carefully.  Is it perhaps that Leftists CLAIM intellect, rationality and morality, but deep down inside,
they know that they are really low-lifes and so their self-esteem is seriously compromised?  They're bitter, petulant,
dishonest and very unhappy overall.  These are not characteristics of people with true high-level self-esteem, as you
and I have.   Conservatives are consistently happier people.  The most mentally unstable are Leftist women, according
to studies.

Good points!!

[Kamaji]

Analyze that point carefully.  Is it perhaps that Leftists CLAIM intellect, rationality and morality, but deep down inside,
they know that they are really low-lifes and so their self-esteem is seriously compromised?  They're bitter, petulant,
dishonest and very unhappy overall.  These are not characteristics of people with true high-level self-esteem, as you
and I have.   Conservatives are consistently happier people.  The most mentally unstable are Leftist women, according
to studies.

[ChemEngrMBA]

Thank you for the friend!

I get those every single day I hold up my sign in my car to the car next to me at a red light.
The sign reads "BRAKE LIGHT OUT"

Almost invariably I get a thumbs up from the driver.  Then I flip the sign over to the other side which reads:
"NO BIDEN SUPPORTER HELPED YOU"

Almost invariably I get laughter even here in Southern California.  Occasionally I get a bitter look or a middle finger.
I just laugh at them and point, so they know they are idiots whose opinions only make me laugh at them.

[ChemEngrMBA]

"Experts and the educated elite have...replaced what worked with what sounded good. Society was far more civilized before they took over our schools, prisons, welfare programs, police departments and courts. It's high time we ran these people out of our lives and went back to common sense." -- The Late Walter Williams, Economics Professor, George Mason University

[Cyber Liberty]

Walter was correct about a LOT of things!  I miss him....Now there is nobody to tell me to go to the head of the class....

[Bigun]

Walter was correct about a LOT of things!  I miss him....Now there is nobody to tell me to go to the head of the class....

For several years I carried on a running correspondence with Dr. Williams from which I learned a great deal. He was and is a giant! I sorely miss him.

[DB]

For several years I carried on a running correspondence with Dr. Williams from which I learned a great deal. He was and is a giant! I sorely miss him.

That's awesome!

[ChemEngrMBA]

I invited him to my home for any visit to California, in place of checking into a hotel.  I told Dr. Williams he would be welcome to use my 21 speed road bike during his stay for exercise.   He said "That would take some getting used to" and never was my guest, alas. He hosted the Rush Limbaugh Show and when a smartaleck woman called in to say, "You're a conservative!" as a criticism, he replied, "Oh no, ma'am, I'm a radical."

[ChemEngrMBA]

"Morality is the necessary spring of popular government.... Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without Christianity." - - George Washington

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Homosexual perversion, molesting and grooming children, and transgender insanity are the worst kind of immorality and destructiveness.



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[Smokin Joe]

".... no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end." - Ecclesiastes 3:11

"There is an infinite amount of research to do." - Scientists, eager for an infinite amount of government grants, confirming Ecclesiastes 3:11

Of course. They spend a lot of time asking the wrong questions and looking in the wrong places.

[sneakypete]

Of course. They spend a lot of time asking the wrong questions and looking in the wrong places.

@Smokin Joe

Well,if they already knew it all,there would be no reason to do any research,and nobody ever found the "right places" without discovering a few "wrong places" first.

It's just the nature of the bidnez.

[Bigun]

Of course. They spend a lot of time asking the wrong questions and looking in the wrong places.

With equipment that is not properly calibrated and located in places that predetermine the values.

[Smokin Joe]

@Smokin Joe

Well,if they already knew it all,there would be no reason to do any research,and nobody ever found the "right places" without discovering a few "wrong places" first.

It's just the nature of the bidnez.

First off, no one will ever know it all. And yes, every answer brings more questions.

I don't have so much a problem with looking the wrong place, either, as long as the logic was sound. After all, I'm an oilfield geologist, and despite our best efforts we occasionally still drill dry holes. But if it isn't there, we know it isn't when we're done, and can move on.

The problem is one of researchers asking the wrong questions, questions designed to produce an indeterminate result, which, coupled with standard academic closings of any research paper will lead to the conclusion that more research is needed, perpetuating the grant money stream.

In industry, a definitive answer is worth money.
In academia, the research is moneymaker, answers (unless patentable), not so much.

Which is why the sex life of Ordovician Brachiopods is left to academia, while industry focuses on smaller/lighter/faster/stronger/more efficient/more productive, etc.

[ChemEngrMBA]

"The science to which I pinned my faith is bankrupt. Its counsels, which should have established the millennium, have led directly to the suicide of Europe. I believed them once. In their name I helped to destroy the faith of millions. And now they look at me and witness the great tragedy of an atheist who has lost his faith." - George Bernard Shaw, lifelong atheist until just before his death, 1950, Too True to Be Good

[ChemEngrMBA]

If atheism is so "rational" and "scientific," then why do atheists leave their beliefs more frequently than any other religion?  The U.S. Supreme Court declared that atheism is a religion. - Torcaso v. Watkins, 367 U.S. 488 (1961)

[ChemEngrMBA]

"For me, and I suspected for a growing number of young people, I had to divest myself of the “silly” ideas instilled in me by science, not religion; in the twenty-first century, science, not the Church, is the oppressor that champions a worldview that has to be cast off." – George Stanciu, St. John’s College

[corbe]

   People will always ask questions above their Rational to comprehend.  It's referred to as Human Perspective and I believe it to be encoded in our DNA.

   Just look at the Historical, Archaeological and Geological record of our planet with your Religious Blinders off, perhaps you will have a whole different perspective, like me.

[Kamaji]

   People will always ask questions above their Rational to comprehend.  It's referred to as Human Perspective and I believe it to be encoded in our DNA.

   Just look at the Historical, Archaeological and Geological record of our planet with your Religious Blinders off, perhaps you will have a whole different perspective, like me.

As the saying goes, one's reach should exceed one's grasp.

[corbe]

   I would assume you are very much alone in your chosen Career Field @ChemEngrMBA
   Most in your field would follow (Proven) Science and not dabble in Theology, correct me if I'm wrong.

   I admire your tenacity.   

[ChemEngrMBA]

As the saying goes, one's reach should exceed one's grasp.

... or what's a heaven for?

[corbe]

   I don't deny the positive that Religion has had on Mankind, especially in the foundation of Governments.  Ever
 since Constantine adopting Christianity in ancient Rome. 
   I also cannot deny the Evil, in the name of their perceived G_d, that they have wrought across our Societal Map through the AGES.

[ChemEngrMBA]

   I would assume you are very much alone in your chosen Career Field @ChemEngrMBA
   Most in your field would follow (Proven) Science and not dabble in Theology, correct me if I'm wrong.

   I admire your tenacity.   

My Dear Corbe,
Thank you for your genuine and kind remarks.   There are a number of factors which figure in to people schooled in sciences and their theological expressions or comments.  Most don't want to be confrontational or argue and it's easier to just go with the naturalistic/atheist/intellectual flow.  Don't rock the boat or make waves, as it were.

However this is a critically important subject to each and every one of us.  Don't get it wrong!   There are so many persuasive scientific, historical, and paleontological findings that point to Nature's God, I can't see how anyone can doubt His Existence.
As I have said many times, 85% of Nobel Laureates in the sciences are believers. Don't anyone tell me they are stupid or "bible thumpers."  You see, atheists are always the first ones to thump a Bible whenever you point out scientific evidence for Nature's God.

I have no problem standing alone in any size crowd. I've done so before many times.  I once emailed the entire Harvard Law School faculty over the bizarre, emotional rant of one of their professors, who "almost threw up" when the President suggest that perhaps some research was warranted to discover why men overwhelmingly prefer math, engineering and science, compared to women.

This was upsetting to Little Miss Feminist to think that ::: gasp:::: men and women are......different.

Nobody responded to me with any counterpoints in defense of their crybaby professor.

I have also challenged experts in their own fields when they were wrong and had my letters of challenge published in the Wall Street Journal and National Geographic Magazine.

It is fun to have fun but you have to know how. - The Cat in the Hat (page 28 I do believe)