I suggest ending this thread right here.
Quite obviously, Joe Reid posted a reply intended for a different list to
the USMA list server.
Bill Potts, CMS
Roseville, CA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of kilopascal
> Sent: July 08, 2001 10:48
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:14204] Re: Fw: Fw: Agnosticism and atheism
>
>
> 2001-07-08
>
> God is one of a team of space travellers who visited the earth
> when man was
> still a stone age or pre-stone age creature. Not knowing how to interpret
> the vast knowledge these travellers possessed, the humans fantasised that
> these beings were all powerful, and all knowing. Since this/these god(s)
> were also considered all present, shows they may have possessed
> the ability
> to travel through hyperspace or just their ability to travel
> extremely fast
> in comparison to the way humans traveled.
>
> If these beings possessed a means to scramble matter and reassemble it
> completely somewhere else, or if they had the ability to appear
> as holograms
> before mankind, this would explain their ability to be spiritual.
> There is
> a natural explanation for every ability these gods possessed.
>
> Mankind may even be a product of their creation. Somehow manipulating the
> genes of Neanderthal or something similar might have produced us. The
> biblical account of man being created in god's image may be based on these
> attempts. The book of genesis chapter 6 verse 1-4 reports that "sons of
> heaven" (aliens) had intercourse with the daughters of men (human
> women) and
> produced Nephilim (giants). In other words, mutants, as the
> genes were not
> completely compatible. It was soon after these Nephilim appeared that the
> sons of heaven were forbidden to have intercourse with the
> daughters of men.
> Maybe until the incompatibility problem could be solved, or until a future
> time when the human genetic structure naturally evolved to that which was
> closer to the aliens.
>
> Who knows, Jesus Christ himself might be a result of further
> experimentation. The father being an alien and the mother being the human
> Mary. After so many years on earth, Jesus is said to have ascended into
> heaven (returned to his alien homeworld) with the promise to return.
>
> I would never expect and "scientist" who spent a lifetime studying and
> accepting the "common" beliefs on the origins of man or our history to
> suddenly accept an alternate view. We as humans can never appear to be
> wrong. So, we stick to what we want to believe, whether it is
> true or not.
>
> As for religion, it is nothing more than a social club. People
> say they go
> to church to pray to their gods, but they really go to socialise
> with their
> friends and feel they are something special because they are part of a
> large, popular and known group.
>
> This is just my belief. I'm not trying to convert anyone to it, nor do I
> claim its structure is complete or true, just a theory.
>
>
> John
>
> Keiner ist hoffnungsloser versklavt als derjenige, der irrt�mlich glaubt
> frei zu sein.
>
> There are none more hopelessly enslaved then those who falsely
> believe they
> are free!
>
> Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Joseph B. Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, 2001-07-08 13:03
> Subject: [USMA:14202] Re: Fw: Fw: Agnosticism and atheism
>
>
> > Jody Scribbler Haskit wrote:
> >
> > >Andrew asked:
> > >
> > >"And while I know there is no such an entity as a deity, I am
> also fairly
> > >dead certain that the majority of those religionists brought up in this
> > >western culture also know there is no such a thing- - ( just as the
> smoker,
> > >deep down, knows smoking is harmful.) The question they face is not
> whether
> > >there is a deity or not - - that is not the question at all -
> - , but why
> > >they want to keep on pretending there is one. And that, my friends, is
> > >something we, too, should put a lot of effort into investigating."
> >
> >
> > I define God as the answer to all unanswered questions.
> >
> > Joseph B. Reid
> > 17 Glebe Road West
> > Toronto M5P 1C8 Tel. 416 486-6071
> >
>
