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Why has God changed and morphed through time? why is my God good and your God nonsense? and why does God degrade, enslave and abandon us if we don't follow the doctrine of the holy spirit?

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I believe God is our own internal moral compass and therefore, we are the supreme being of our own existence. Such freedom allows me to talk about God without being offended or defensive; it allows me to be pitied and judged by the believers without feeling pitied or judged.

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Probably the best thing to do is fathom the depths of what I said in post 198 so I dont have to start handing people their asses again.

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Time is a constant.

No, it isn't, RO.

Probably the best thing to do is fathom the depths of what I said in post 198 so I dont have to start handing people their asses again.

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The construct of time is intended to be a constant and thats where it ends, nothing more to it.

Time errors between time devices is the result one or 2 things, perceptual errors or mechanical errors within the device. Time itself is a constant.

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Go with your gods to a country in which other gods are worshipped, and you will be shown that you are the victim of fancies and abstractions. And rightly. Anyone who had brought a migrant god to the ancient Greeks, would have found the proof of the non-existence of this god, because it did not exist for the Greeks. What is the case in a certain country for certain foreign gods, takes place for god in general in the country of reason: it is an area in which his existence ceases" K. Marx [;)]

I know and I respect that religion brings about 'real' happiness and 'real' comfort for 'the' individual but the question is, does it bring about real happiness and comfort to the world as a 'whole'? if not, why not? Why has God changed and morphed through time? why is my God good and your God nonsense? and why does God degrade, enslave and abandon us if we don't follow the doctrine of the holy spirit?

I believe God is our own internal moral compass and therefore, we are the supreme being of our own existence. Such freedom allows me to talk about God without being offended or defensive; it allows me to be pitied and judged by the believers without feeling pitied or judged.

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In anthropology such ideas are called 'myths' - the truth value of an idea derives not from any intrinsic merit the idea may have but from how numerous the believers are, and the strength with which they hold the idea. One common application is that it's a good way of accounting for the fervour with which differing religions across cultures are held without taking any view on their theological truth values, though its usefulness is far more widespread than just this application. Another obvious application would be the ways in which differing societies express patriotism.

And of course, Tweakabelle - sorry, Tinkerbelle - in Peter Pan, could only be kept alive by the fact of millions of people saying 'I believe in fairies'. [:)]

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The construct of time is intended to be a constant and thats where it ends, nothing more to it.

Time errors between time devices is the result one or 2 things, perceptual errors or mechanical errors within the device. Time itself is a constant.

Which reminds us of the paradox of the twin astronauts. Both young men. One twin embarked on a galactic round trip traveling at maybe near the speed of light. The other remained home on earth. When the prodigal twin returned he was much younger than the terrestrial twin.

So far, so strange, but undoubtedly real. Space-travel with speeds close to that of light may be unfathomably far beyond the reach of current technology. But sending elementary particles on round trips in a particle accelerator at 99.99999 percent of light speed is routine. The result is in precise agreement with the predictions of special relativity - the "inner clock" of such a travelling particle runs much slower than that of a particle of the same species that remains at rest (cf. the page The relativity of space and time in the section Special Relativity of Elementary Einstein).

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heh....
I am not going up against inerweener at all. I am going up against your understanding of inerweeners theory, which is incorrectly understood by most blind faith high school indoctrinates.

Since there is so much interest in something so simple, lets start here.

What units is time measured in again?

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heh....
I am not going up against inerweener at all. I am going up against your understanding of inerweeners theory, which is incorrectly understood by most blind faith high school indoctrinates.

Since there is so much interest in something so simple, lets start here.

What units is time measured in again?

seconds, minutes and hours (it came from the round sundial and Egyptians.....which used.........and here is a big fucking hint for you........light, to approximate time)

and then we can divide that into mille, nano, and so on.

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FR~

According to Physics.nist.gov: The second is the duration of 9 192 631 770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the cesium 133 atom.

And corroborated by techtarget.com: One second is the time that elapses during 9,192,631,770 (9.192631770 x 10 9 ) cycles of the radiation produced by the transition between two levels of the cesium 133 atom.

Also, Wiki states: Since 1967, the International System of Measurements bases its unit of time, the second, on the properties of caesium atoms. SI defines the second as 9,192,631,770 cycles of the radiation that corresponds to the transition between two electron spin energy levels of the ground state of the 133Cs atom.

That's good enough for me. [8D]