<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:tahoma, new york, times, serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Or maybe, the Universe is God, and God the Universe. We exist because God exists and we are a part of God. We are small in the Universe as we are small to all that God is. When we go against God, ourselves, our neighbor, or nature, we also go against everything, including ourselves, which puts us in a Hell. And when we go with God, ourselves, our neighbors, and nature we are in Heaven. Maybe when we are created, we become a <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0><SPAN>separate</SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>consciousness</SPAN></SPAN> that is cut off and isolated from the direction of the <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-2><SPAN>Universe</SPAN></SPAN> and we struggle to find our way. We question the purpose of anything, understand
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Perhaps the Bible is written, "childishly" as <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-3><SPAN>Einstein</SPAN></SPAN> would phrase it, because it has to speak to men that are child like in their intellect. Perhaps if the Bible was written non-<SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-4><SPAN>figuratively</SPAN></SPAN> and all things were written in perfect detail and absolute truth, no one <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-5><SPAN>amongst</SPAN></SPAN> us would understand it and the book would be useless to all, instead of <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-6><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">understandable</SPAN></SPAN> to all. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Not one of us has the intellect to understand 1% of anything regarding, God, the Universe, or ourselves. All we can do is try, and try we must. I know I will never comprehend the Universe which contains me. But I do, and can comprehend that the Universe is vast, complex, ordered in such sophistication and design with purpose and perfection that such a creation beyond the comprehension of even the greatest of human minds could not have come into being by mere chance alone. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Donovan J. Arnold</SPAN></div>
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<DIV dir=ltr>Round and round we go. Some believe in God, others don't. Who is right? Answer: both.<BR><BR>Is God more complex than the entire universe itself? If so, then aren't we lucky that a superior perfect entity just happen to exist all on its own that was powerful enough to create our universe which is much simpler than its creator? What are the chances that the much simpler universe could have formed without assistance from the believably (or unbelievably if you will) far superior perfect entity? To some, the answer is 100% and to some others the answer is zero.<BR><BR>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV>Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 15:54:57 -0700<BR>From: donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com<BR>To: art.deco.studios@gmail.com; vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Fwd: About Evidence<BR><BR>
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<DIV><SPAN>Wayne writes, "Slipped again. Thank you, Ken"</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>That's OK Wayne, nobody is perfect but God.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN><I>"Donovan:<BR>You have not addressed the questions asked. You merely use unproven claims to attempt to avoid answering the questions, to wit: Exactly what is the "testament" of 6 billion people? Do these so-called testaments agree with each other? What exactly is the evidential component of their evidence?"</I></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>I assure you, I am not attempting to evade anything. Setting aside the actual numbers for now, many people have testified to the world, that they have seen, heard, felt, touched, tasted, or <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-0><SPAN>otherwise</SPAN></SPAN> experienced the force of a supernatural force they define as God. That is evidence. Witness testimony, shy of a <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-1><SPAN>camera</SPAN></SPAN>, is the strongest evidence you can have. Witnesses can be wrong and they can lie. But that is why we usually need more evidence than one person. As 95% of the world population believes in a God, absent any <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-2><SPAN>contradicting</SPAN></SPAN> evidence, a <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-3><SPAN>rational</SPAN></SPAN> person must conclude there is some type of God even without any personal experience.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>You attempt to <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-4><SPAN>singularly</SPAN></SPAN> counter the <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-5><SPAN>testimony</SPAN></SPAN> of 95% of the population that there is a God with no evidence of your own to support your claims, and to <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-6>questioning</SPAN> their <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-7><SPAN>rational</SPAN></SPAN> as being less perfect than your own. That is <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-8><SPAN>irrational</SPAN></SPAN> thinking. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Further, you write:</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>"At one time most living beings thought the world was flat. Is the world flat?<BR>At one time most living beings though mental illness was caused by possession by devils/demons/etc? Are devils/demons/etc the cause of mental illness?<BR>At one time most living beings thought the sun revolved around the earth. Does the sun revolve around the earth?"</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Yet, all of these false thoughts were discredited by the one <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-9><SPAN>piece</SPAN></SPAN> of evidence you seek to discredit, witness <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-10><SPAN>testimony</SPAN></SPAN>. <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-11><SPAN>Sailors</SPAN></SPAN> and <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-12><SPAN>mathematicians</SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-13><SPAN>testified</SPAN></SPAN> the world was round not flat. Scientists testified it was biological, not ghosts that created mental illness. It was witness testimony of astronomers and <SPAN id=misspell-0 class=mark>mathmaticians</SPAN> that proved the Earth was rotating around the Sun. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN>Image if <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-15><SPAN>everyone</SPAN></SPAN> refused witness <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-16><SPAN>testimony</SPAN></SPAN> as you do, and insisted on traveling the Earth, <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-17><SPAN>dissecting</SPAN></SPAN> brains to make sure their was verifiable evidence of no demons, and trying to learn the math and positions and <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-18><SPAN>movements</SPAN></SPAN> of the stars, <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-19><SPAN>planets</SPAN></SPAN>, and Sun all on their own? It wouldn't work well, and people would never be able to establish policy and beliefs. Witness <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-20><SPAN>testimony</SPAN></SPAN> is the backbone of evidence, it is strong enough to send a man to his grave.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>"You have failed to understand the problem of asserting knowledge claims without verifiable evidence. Just because someone is greatly enamored by a fantasy does not mean it is true. A theory is true if it leads to true predictions, else not."</DIV>
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<DIV>No, a theory can still be false if it leads to true predictions because of other factors. Fire for example was misunderstood for most of human <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-1><SPAN>existence</SPAN></SPAN> <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-2><SPAN>precisely</SPAN></SPAN> because their false theory was good at predicting it. Same with the planets, a more complicated prediction model was invented, that <SPAN id=misspell-1 class=mark>actuarately</SPAN> predicted planets and stars placements in the sky. </DIV>
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<DIV>You fail to understand that witness <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-21><SPAN>testimony</SPAN></SPAN> is verifiable evidence in addition to other <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-1><SPAN>circumstantial</SPAN></SPAN> evidence, like we exist as does a universe for no <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-23><SPAN>apparent</SPAN></SPAN> reason and came into being from seemingly nothing which <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-2><SPAN>defies</SPAN></SPAN> the laws of nature as they appear to be. And when placed against the <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-24><SPAN>absence</SPAN></SPAN> of evidence to the contrary, we must go with the witness testimony-not the minority view with no evidence.</DIV>
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<DIV>You also fail to recognize the <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-25><SPAN>fallibility</SPAN></SPAN> and <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-26><SPAN>fantasy</SPAN></SPAN> thinking you hold that impacts how you think. As no brain is perfect, or capable of fully comprehending all elements in their world, we all operate with <SPAN id=misspell-2 class=mark>altertered</SPAN> sense of what is reality. being such the case, your version of God's <SPAN id=yiv948944802ecxmisspell-28><SPAN>existence</SPAN></SPAN> is also a fantasy. It is also a fantasy that is a minority view point and has little verifiable evidence--like Christ Church. </DIV>
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<DIV id=yiv948944802ecxyiv157310420>Slipped again. Thank you, Ken<BR><BR>
<DIV class=yiv948944802ecxyiv157310420gmail_quote>---------- Forwarded message ----------<BR>From: <B class=yiv948944802ecxyiv157310420gmail_sendername>Kenneth Marcy</B> <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com">kmmos1@frontier.com</A>></SPAN><BR>Date: Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:38 PM<BR>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] About Evidence<BR>To: Art Deco <<A href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</A>><BR><BR><BR>
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<DIV>Wayne:<BR><BR>Did you intend to send this to Donovan rather than to me?<BR><BR><BR>Ken
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<BLOCKQUOTE>Donovan: <BR><BR>You have not addressed the questions asked. You merely use unproven claims to attempt to avoid answering the questions, to wit:<BR><BR>Exactly what is the "testament" of 6 billion people? Do these so-called testaments agree with each other? What exactly is the evidential component of their evidence?<BR><BR>At one time most living beings thought the world was flat. Is the world flat?<BR><BR>At one time most living beings though mental illness was caused by possession by devils/demons/etc? Are devils/demons/etc the cause of mental illness?<BR><BR>At one time most living beings thought the sun revolved around the earth. Does the sun revolve around the earth?<BR><BR>You have failed to understand the problem of asserting knowledge claims without verifiable evidence. Just because someone is greatly enamored by a fantasy does not mean it is true. A theory is true if it leads to true
predictions, else not.<BR><BR>If people want to believe in various gods and goddesses, but do attempt to force others to act in accordance with their beliefs, the problem becomes greatly diminished. It becomes a problem when some says "My God dictates that you shall do X or shall not do Y" and then passes laws without any or very little other evidence based justification to enforce this fantasy.<BR><BR>That's called theocracy or religious dictatorship. It leads to things like The Inquisition and The Crusades. You can choose to enable such, but for many us unwilling to sacrifice personal freedom and what we believe the overall well being of humankind and other beings, no thanks.<BR><BR><BR>w.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=yiv948944802ecxyiv157310420gmail_quote>On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Kenneth Marcy <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:kmmos1@frontier.com">kmmos1@frontier.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV><SPAN>Like the financial planners of today got it all figured out right?</SPAN></DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV>The disconcerting non-specificity of your reference 'it' notwithstanding, the fact of the matter is that our seriously under-regulated and significantly over-connected system of financial transaction data transmission and storage poses <SPAN id=misspell-3 class=mark>uncomprehended</SPAN> dangers to persons and organizations whose financial affairs have been reduced to electronic patterns stored on machines they neither own nor control. The opportunities for, and the dangers of, large-scale electronic malfeasance regarding financial affairs that should be maintained as fiduciary trusts, but are not, has never been greater.<BR><BR>Unfortunately, the drive for private profits from among those electronic patterns has never been so persistent or so pervasive, with the result that financial wealth and control of assets has never been so great
or concentrated among so few. The system is increasingly designed so as to not require large robberies at particular time points, but to do as effectively or better the same transfer of wealth and control by continual erosion via a plethora of individually small, but collectively substantial, financially corrosive agents.<BR><BR><BR>Ken<BR></DIV><BR>=======================================================<BR> List services made available by First Step Internet,<BR> serving the communities of the <SPAN id=misspell-4 class=mark>Palouse</SPAN> since 1994.<BR> http://www.fsr.net<BR> <SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>mailto</SPAN>:<A href="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020@moscow.com</A><BR>=======================================================<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><BR clear=all><BR>--
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