Posted by A twit. . . . on December 12, 1998 at 11:58:06:
In Reply to: To A Twit: It just occurred to me.... posted by Zeus on December 12, 1998 at 07:50:11:
Hi Zeus!!
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GOD IS
© 1995 by Jimmy Lee White
During my lifetime, many events of tragic consequence effected great human suffering among people of earth. It is from and within that perspective, I decided to search for and prove enough reliable facts to establish a premise, which no living human could deny as true, by proving the facts used as flawed, false, corrupt, nor my reasoning revolting, repulsive, ambiguous, biased, prejudiced, or detrimental to humanity. I believe I have achieved my goal. This is the First of several writings I will openly reveal to all humanity before my death, and deals with the Subject of GOD. I am a layman, unskilled in fine arts or humanities such as philosophy; therefore, it is with a layman perspective I attempt to record these thoughts, knowing many educated scholars of every persuasion will undoubtedly yze theorize hypothesize criticize, but do not believe they can ostracize the facts, nor me.
Before I can present my other evidentiary information, the issue concerning GOD must be proven by methods acceptable to Science and Religion, by the only reasonable means available to cause the effect and destroy Controversy of Subject. GOD IS, no doubt is reasonable, and I will prove fact with four arguments that will withstand all attacks of Science . . . Religion . . . Philosophy.
To begin, word definitions are requisite for discourse to be meaningful. By that, the source of all critical words used is a common Funk & Wagnalls dictionary as published by, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY 10022 © 1980. The Key Words are Eternal, Everlasting, and Forever.
Eternal = Existing without beginning or end; forever existent.
Everlasting = Existing or lasting forever; eternal.
Forever = Throughout eternity.
To ensure no doubt of comprehension is possible, the following arguments made to provoke logic and recognize fact; each of the three words are dependent upon one or the other, and were originally established to explain an effect, without a known or reasonable cause. Eternal has no meaning without Everlasting or Forever to define it. Everlasting has no meaning without Forever or Eternal to define it. Forever has no meaning without Eternal or Everlasting to define it. Yes, other word combinations to impart a sensible alternative exist; however, mostly they require more than one word to impart meaning.
Eternal, Everlasting, Forever, all prove one fact; always, which in essence means no beginning or ending, and implies sense of past present future of the moment, “now.” By human recognition of presence in reality, I type these words in a constantly moving stream in perfect union with the moment now to such perfection, the comma just placed was history before the space after it could occur. Humans measure the ping of now with time; therefore, if time stops, no-thing is possible. By observation of the progress across each line of text as I type, proves without any doubt possible, time ended,
And did not start moving again until I pressed “A” key to finish this sentence.
However, by observation something obviously did occur without your observation because there is an empty space between the comma after ended, which was Caused by me pressing the enter key. No, time did not stop, but your observation stopped; thereof, Cause established first undeniable fact: 1) Time is eternal despite observation of it.
The example as used is simplistic in nature, it is repeatable, it is verifiable, and it is observable; therefore, to argue or belabor it, is absurd. By example of demonstration, it is not possible to stop, or start time; it always was and is but never before can be, nor after is you see, marked by the comma of eternity, which is the evidence required to prove fact two 2.
2) For a thing to manifest of no-thing is absurd.
Fact two 2 is evident within itself, proving fact three 3.
3) Creation always was.
Fact three 3 is evident within itself, proving fact four 4.
4) GOD is.
This should be sufficient to kill Controversy.
© 1995 by Jimmy Lee White
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