Billy Graham sells the couch

St Peter LoneStarDawg has Spoken

And I don't know that we have a soul. We are meat sacks, supporting a marginally self-aware nerve bundle that is tasked with propelling our DNA into the future. That marginally self-aware nerve bundle is packed with basic instructions and the potential for shell programs to be laid on top, largely determined by the DNA that it inherited from its parents, but soul? Something that exists outside the physical realm? I don't see it. Do people with dementia or Alzheimers have an eternal soul that remains intact while their brains and cognitive abilities erode? Do schizophrenics have multiple souls? What about elephants and whales, whose brains are larger and possibly more complex than ours, but they don't have opposable thumbs and a language that we recognize? It would seem to me that if you believe in the concept of a soul, you pretty much have to believe in a God of some sort.

"If you went for a walk in the woods, but then decided to wander off the path, and found yourself surrounded by a thicket of thorns and poison ivy, who would you blame? Would you blame the person who built the path? No, of course not. Instead you’d blame yourself if you were honest, because you alone were responsible for wandering from the path.
In a far deeper way, this is what happens when we decide to leave God out of our lives. For a time, it may seem like wandering away from Him doesn’t make any difference; it may even seem easier and freer. But eventually it catches up with us—just as wandering off that path and into the thicket caught up with you." —Billy Graham #BG100

To the Throbber's way of thinking, it takes way more faith to definitely dismiss the existence of a higher power than to contemplate the possible existence thereof.

Science and shit is pretty persuasive - but even those fuckers thought the world was flat and the sun revolved around the Earth's position as the center of the universe for centuries....

The Throbber actually believes there's a bit of science and a bit of spirituality that got us to this fucked up place in history. And generally give zero fucks to plant the flag in either camp in order to change someone else's mind.

So, in other words, FYFMFE.

I love science and math. In particular math. If I hadn't been such a fuck up in school I would have been good at it I found out later in life. Lots of math and formulas in construction.

I find comfort in numbers for some reason.

Never had an issue with science and faith.

I love science and math. In particular math. If I hadn't been such a fuck up in school I would have been good at it I found out later in life. Lots of math and formulas in construction.

I find comfort in numbers for some reason.

Never had an issue with science and faith.

Race probably knew Euclid.

When I was a youngster I wanted to be a structural engineer and build suspension bridges. The I learned maff was involved. Maff is hard so I went in a different direction. Now I am poor and block Creep on the free ways with my shitty, 12 year old SUV.

I love science and math. In particular math. If I hadn't been such a fuck up in school I would have been good at it I found out later in life. Lots of math and formulas in construction.

I find comfort in numbers for some reason.

Never had an issue with science and faith.

When I was a youngster I wanted to be a structural engineer and build suspension bridges. The I learned maff was involved. Maff is hard so I went in a different direction. Now I am poor and block Creep on the free ways with my shitty, 12 year old SUV.

Get off my bridge!!!!!!!!!!

I love science and math. In particular math. If I hadn't been such a fuck up in school I would have been good at it I found out later in life. Lots of math and formulas in construction.

I find comfort in numbers for some reason.

Never had an issue with science and faith.

Math doesn't lie. If you and math are having a disagreement, then you should stfu and listen to the math.

Trust math, not people.


The above is not directed to anyone in particular.

When I was a youngster I wanted to be a structural engineer and build suspension bridges. The I learned maff was involved. Maff is hard so I went in a different direction. Now I am poor and block Creep on the free ways with my shitty, 12 year old SUV.

Get off my bridge!!!!!!!!!!

When I was about 10 walking across this bridge I missed and old gentlemen jumping off on the Marin County side by about 1 min. His sweater and cane were siting right there on the pedestrian walk way. Pretty fucked up.

When I was a youngster I wanted to be a structural engineer and build suspension bridges. The I learned maff was involved. Maff is hard so I went in a different direction. Now I am poor and block Creep on the free ways with my shitty, 12 year old SUV.

Get off my bridge!!!!!!!!!!

When I was about 10 walking across this bridge I missed and old gentlemen jumping off on the Marin County side by about 1 min. His sweater and cane were siting right there on the pedestrian walk way. Pretty fucked up.

Prefer this one:

When I was a youngster I wanted to be a structural engineer and build suspension bridges. The I learned maff was involved. Maff is hard so I went in a different direction. Now I am poor and block Creep on the free ways with my shitty, 12 year old SUV.

When I was a youngster I wanted to be a structural engineer and build suspension bridges. The I learned maff was involved. Maff is hard so I went in a different direction. Now I am poor and block Creep on the free ways with my shitty, 12 year old SUV.

Wife runs a structural engineering firm. She had to slog through years of calculus at Cal for her degree. She says she rarely has to use calculus; most of her work is plain old algebra. Whenever she does need to use any calculus she just looks up the formulas and plugs shit in, since she doesn't remember too much about advanced maff that she almost never uses.

One of her junior engineers left the firm ten years ago to go to South Africa and build bridges for their 2010 World Cup infrastructure build. Saved her the task of finding a way to get rid of him gently, as he was a well-meaning kid but just wasn't particularly suited to the job.

When I was a youngster I wanted to be a structural engineer and build suspension bridges. The I learned maff was involved. Maff is hard so I went in a different direction. Now I am poor and block Creep on the free ways with my shitty, 12 year old SUV.

Wife runs a structural engineering firm. She had to slog through years of calculus at Cal for her degree. She says she rarely has to use calculus; most of her work is plain old algebra. Whenever she does need to use any calculus she just looks up the formulas and plugs shit in, since she doesn't remember too much about advanced maff that she almost never uses.

One of her junior engineers left the firm ten years ago to go to South Africa and build bridges for their 2010 World Cup infrastructure build. Saved her the task of finding a way to get rid of him gently, as he was a well-meaning kid but just wasn't particularly suited to the job.

Now this I do disagree with. Putting the coffin in the Capital Rotunda doesn't sit right with me at all. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/billy-graham-to-lie-in-honor-in-capitol-rotunda/ar-BBJt9zY?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=HPCDHP