Angels
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two sheds
Least noticed poster 2007
Insurance claim: "I saw a sad faced old gentleman as he bounced off the bonnet of my car"
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Is it the congealed semen of angels?
bcuster
Well-Known Member
They don't have bodies or body parts
Mark 12:25 - The Sadducees and the Resurrection
When the dead rise, they will neither marry nor be given in marriage. Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.
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cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
And what is the halo thing all about
I use mine as a frisbee.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Angels are as real as the toothy fairy…
Sweet FA
✪ Three rounds Lord, in my .44 ✪
Remember Dogma*? I really liked it in that stoned 90s Jay & Silent Bob type of way. Good script in parts. Great angel action from Affleck & Damon.
Affleck smiting:
*(Keith Smith's Dogma is a comic theological road movie about two renegade angels (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck), permanently exiled by God to Wisconsin, who discover that they have the opportunity to re-enter Heaven through a dogmatic loophole offered by a New Jersey church. The trouble is that their return would challenge the Creator's infallibility, thus bringing life on Earth to an end.
So a permanently exasperated seraph (Alan Rickman) charges a lapsed Catholic working at an abortion clinic (Linda Fiorentino) with the task of deflecting them. She and the angels meet a variety of emissaries from Heaven and Hell, including the Thirteenth Apostle (rejected by the Evangelists because he's black) and God Herself in the form of Alanis Morissette.)
Affleck smiting:
*(Keith Smith's Dogma is a comic theological road movie about two renegade angels (Matt Damon, Ben Affleck), permanently exiled by God to Wisconsin, who discover that they have the opportunity to re-enter Heaven through a dogmatic loophole offered by a New Jersey church. The trouble is that their return would challenge the Creator's infallibility, thus bringing life on Earth to an end.
So a permanently exasperated seraph (Alan Rickman) charges a lapsed Catholic working at an abortion clinic (Linda Fiorentino) with the task of deflecting them. She and the angels meet a variety of emissaries from Heaven and Hell, including the Thirteenth Apostle (rejected by the Evangelists because he's black) and God Herself in the form of Alanis Morissette.)
Humberto
Well-Known Member
Roamed the earth amongst a fallen mankind before Noah's Ark and the great flood.
Silas Loom
Advanced. Forthright. Signifficant.
If they predate modern humankind, where did they get the Homepride flour to sprinkle on their hats and dusters?
Humberto
Well-Known Member
nope - definitely don't know what you are on about.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
There was that fella who touched Jacob's thigh as well:
On that night, he arose and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and he crossed over the Jabbok ford.
He took them and sent them over the river, and he sent over that which was his.
Jacob was left to his lonesome. A man wrestled with him until the break of dawn.
He saw that he was powerless against him. He struck the socket of his thigh, and the socket of Jacob's thigh was dislocated in his struggle with him.
He said, "Release me, for dawn is broken!" He said, "I will not release you, except if you bless me!"
He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."
He said, "Jacob will not be said as your name anymore, but Israel, for you struggled with God and with men, and you are capable!"
Jacob asked, and said, "Now, reveal your name!" He said, "Why is this, you ask for my name?" He blessed him there.
Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, "for I have seen God face-to-face, and my soul survives."
The sun shone on him when he passed Penuel, and he was limping over his thigh.
Verily, to this day the Israelites do not eat the 'forgotten sinew', which is over the socket of the thigh, for he struck in the socket of Jacob's thigh, in the forgotten sinew.
hitmouse
so defeated, thinks it's funny
There is a painting by Klee called Angelus Novus. An angel is depicted there who looks as though he were about to distance himself from something which he is staring at. His eyes are opened wide, his mouth stands open and his wings are outstretched. The Angel of History must look just so. His face is turned towards the past. Where we see the appearance of a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe, which unceasingly piles rubble on top of rubble and hurls it before his feet. He would like to pause for a moment so fair, to awaken the dead and to piece together what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing from Paradise, it has caught itself up in his wings and is so strong that the Angel can no longer close them. The storm drives him irresistibly into the future, to which his back is turned, while the rubble-heap before him grows sky-high. That which we call progress, is this storm.
WouldBe
Dislicksick
ouirdeaux
Caring, Understanding, Non-judgemental Type
In other words, we can't have any knowledge of things that pass all understanding.I'll let Professor Marcelo Gleiser answer for me
I have a deep ....belief in humility. I believe we should take a much humbler approach to knowledge, in the sense that if you look carefully at the way science works, you’ll see that yes, it is wonderful — magnificent! — but it has limits. And we have to understand and respect those limits. And by doing that, by understanding how science advances, science really becomes a deeply spiritual conversation with the mysterious, about all the things we don’t know. So that’s one answer to your question. And that has nothing to do with organized religion, obviously, but it does inform my position against atheism...
Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says
...the limits of science, the value of humility and the irrationality of nonbelief
Atheism Is Inconsistent with the Scientific Method, Prizewinning Physicist Says
In conversation, the 2019 Templeton Prize winner does not pull punches on the limits of science, the value of humility and the irrationality of nonbeliefwww.scientificamerican.com
Rather different than parroting the official line of a particular church, which seems to be only too eager to explain its unevidenced fairy stories in humorous detail.
bcuster
Well-Known Member
I interpret it as "there are real things beyond our ability to understand in a conventional way"
This type of interpretation of the world requires humility to grasp..
ouirdeaux
Caring, Understanding, Non-judgemental Type
There may be things beyond our understanding. What are they? Fuck knows, because by definition they're beyond our understanding.
You, meanwhile, know all about them, because you have a hotline to the Big Kahuna, courtesy of the traditions of a church you believe in for no better reason than that you were spawned into it. You are blessed beyond compare.
You, meanwhile, know all about them, because you have a hotline to the Big Kahuna, courtesy of the traditions of a church you believe in for no better reason than that you were spawned into it. You are blessed beyond compare.
