You can't go wrong with god on your side.....can you ??

[Landsurfer]

I trust that is at worst, 9 of the 10 ?

10 out of 10 i’m afraid ... Northern Ireland / Falklands / GW1 ... HM Forces.

 

[Drago]

I don't belive that Professor Brian Cock got a mention in this thread. I guess things can only get better.

 

[Landsurfer]

Cock .. the simpering vampire ...
Things are about to get much better ,,, 0630hrs and i’m off cycling for the day ........
Told work i’d be late in this morning .... They know that means i’ll be in tomorrow morning

 

[MartinQ]

I mean the Pope seems like a good person

Not so sure about the previous one ... or quite a few of the medieval / older ones.
As Gods representative on earth, it does prove that (s)he likes a laugh at times.

 

[Dirk]

I don't belive that Professor Brian Cock got a mention in this thread. I guess things can only get better.

I got the joke.

 

[PaulB]

Maybe it's just their way of saying "she's lucky to be alive" - which she is, by the sound of things.

Is she lucky to be alive? Look at the facts; she's 99, she's broken her neck, fractured her skull, she has a bleed on the brain, a broken leg and she's been unconscious. She won't be going on Strictly Come Dancing, will she?

 

[Drago]

She won't be going on Strictly Come Dancing, will she?

Butnonly because the professional dancer she was paired with has gone down with covid.

 

[numbnuts]

Just goggled there is 67% chance of a God

 

[Chromatic]

I did the normal science subject at school
Then dis Maths Physics and Chemistry at 'A' Level
then Chemistry at University - including a high level course of Astrochemistry

and after that helped several people doing Open University Science courses

I knew a lot about how things where detected and measured

SO I thought I kinda knew about science and some space stuff

Then I went of a holiday where I shared a room with someone random. Turned out to be an older bloke who had spent most of his life making high precision tools and equipment

He asked me how far away the nearest star was to Earth
and what about the others

OK - I knew that
OK - he said - how do they know
OK - I knew that

he pounced

HOW do they know - and what it the possible error

It is all based on angles measured from Earth (this is the 1990s - it is more certain nowadays - but no absolute because that is impossible)

and the angles HAVE to have an error

so how far is it

a very quick estimate says it is HUGE

which kinda shows that people know some bits about science - and trust scientists - and the people who check the scientists - that the rest is accurate
i.e. they believe it

so - How deep is the deepest part of the Ocean???

and where is it??

how do you know??

you trust (OK if there is an Ocean Scientist on here with a depth guage - pick something else!!! - how high is Everest??)

you cannot know everything

youhave to look at how many people have looked at this - who has checked it - do the assembled scientific community agree having checked etc etc)

so you believe - because you can see that a huge number of people who can be trusted to check this stuff agee that this is correct




now go back
and imagine that you live on La Palma and that volcano does what it is doing

and you witch doctor says it is because the Gods are are angry because you are not giving enough in sacrifice
(look up
Jesse Duplantis and his view that if you give more MONEY Jesus will return)

and imagine that this is your one and only source of trustworthy information

what can you think

I mean - if Brian Cox says something my wife is seriously inclined to believe him - dunno why - but I don;t think it his Ph.D!!!



Anyway - what I mean is (finally) we cannot know everything we get thrown at us nowadays
we can only try to look at who is saying stuff
and who is repeating this having - hopefully - checked it
and deciding that this is trustworthy - and this is not

so - going back again - and my priest says this is OK - and I should do it
hmmmm - you see where I am going

so
in ancient times
the chief or witch doctor say THIS IS TRUE then what other choice do you have - if is makes sense - it must be true

nowadays - we have a far too massive amount of information available to us

for example - there is evidence tha ther is a teapot floating in space between the Earth and the Sun - either you know where this goes - or Google it (orr Dudkduckgo it if you are likeme) but ther is evidence

but the volume is huge and a lot of it is rubbish

so we end up with a lot of people getting overwhelmed and going back to trusting the sources they know
which could be Facebook, or Twitter, or Fox News - or their local priest

I mean the Pope seems like a good person

bt this is just how people work - we cannot deal with everything so we find someone to trust

it may be a priest or shamen or Brian Cox

it just depends on what information and education and facts we have available to allow us to make a judgement on who to trust
and how actually trustworthy that person happens to be


if the priest ( of whatever type) wins - sometimes that is good

sometime very not


Yea gods I woffle sometime when I have had a few glasses of wine

Re your final sentence, I started reading your post and thought was this person posting under the influence, then I looked at the time of posting and thought 'yes, posting while pissed'.
Nice to see confirmation.

 

[woodbutchmaster]

This has a very serious side so I am not making light of a situation. Its more of an observation and to see the general consensus.
A friend of our is very god fearing....as is her 99+ year old mother.
The mother has just had a serious fall down the stairs.
Among other things she has.....
Broken neck
Fractured scull
Bleed on the brain
Broken leg
She is unconscious.
2 ambulances and a helicopter arrived.
Our friend said....."god must have been with her".
Now I have known the family for 40+ years and confess to shedding a few tears BUT...
such terrible injuries and she believes god was with her.......its beyond my way of thinking.
NB
I am not anti religious (apart from the obvious hard liners that believe it entitles them to hurt others).

With a god like that who needs enemies ?

 

[MartinQ]

Just goggled there is 67% chance of a God

Thats (2/3) rational

 

[Dogtrousers]

I doubt these French children think god was on their side: French Church abuse: 216,000 children were victims of clergy - inquiry - BBC News

If you can bear another heartbreaking story in this vein, read about the fate of indigenous children in Canadian church schools.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57592243

 

[Drago]

Clear evidence thst just because someone in authority claims to worship God, or be doing Gods work, it does not mean they are being thruthful.

 

[Dirk]

Just goggled there is 67% chance of a God

What data was used to arrive at that probability?
Citation needed.

 

[woodbutchmaster]

What data was used to arrive at that probability?
Citation needed.

You know the old adage "lies, damn lies and statistics"