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| Yoism |
Goren, Avi |
Aug 21, 2005 |
Has anyone written a critique of Yoism (the belief in "Yo" - a sort-of "Reality Worship" that tries not to say "God" explicitly)?
Their site is rife with scientific claims and proofs - many of which are used to support their claim of a strange non-deity they call Yo.
I would be very interested in reading an assesement of their claims, written in the logical, dispassionate, and intelectual style of this site and its contributors.
Respectfully,
Avi Goren
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| Courage to expose Ezra and his Tradition |
Dobbs, Steven |
Jul 25, 2005 |
Dear Mr. Zeligman,
Congratulations for your courageous stand and for daring to let your conscience do the talking.
I wouldn’t like to be in the shoes of those teachers of the Law who read your letter. Even if inured by the ignorance and hypocrisy inherent to tradition, being confronted by doubts that one's life could be based on a lie must still be unsettling. (Yet one must bear in mind that, as people say, a guy needs to make a living -- just as Ezra and his team did.)
Ezra's forgery prevented assimilation, but at a terrible price for future generations. Does this mean that everyone must be hopelessly doomed for what someone else did? No. Life is an individual thing, not a collective endeavor. One's duty is to listen to one’s conscience and to seek the truth and to not sink without a fight.
Finding out the truth, even if it is painful, is far more important than a person's ethnic or religious identity. Loyalty to an error, on the grounds that it happens to come from one's own mother, does not make it less of an error and it does not change its consequences.
This may be a bitter struggle, but one can't afford to give up hope that, even now, Ezra's fateful deception can be undone. He was allowed to hide God's word, but not destroy it; its fragments are still there, and those who look with all their heart will find it.
Best regards,
Steven Dobbs
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| Not sure what to think of this... |
Stimpert, Philip |
Jul 22, 2005 |
I was reading the Chicago Tribune article linked to under "What's New" on
your site (Pondering the spiritual contradictions of intelligent design). I
found the article reasonably interesting, but far more amusing were the ads
at the bottom of the page. Apparently handled by Google, all three referred
to fairly obviously pro-ID or at least theistic sites. I refreshed the page
several times, and while there were some other advertisements, at least two
were always to theistic sites.
Just something I noticed and found amusing.
Yours truly,
Philip Stimpert
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| the flaw in Intelligent Design |
walter@stonecarver.com |
Jul 15, 2005 |
Here is what I see as a major flaw in the theory of Intelligent Design:
I'm making the assumption that God created nature, and that science is the attempt to understand the laws of nature. Intelligent Design claims that God is not capable of working within those laws to create all of creation. God had to bend the rules, go outside the rules, to create us.
It's easy to win at a game if you cheat. It's much harder, much more impressive, to play within the rules and still succeed. It seems to me that proponents of intelligent design are people of little faith; their God has limited capabilities, and couldn't create a nature or a universe which was sufficiently creative, flexible, and complex to run on its own and grow and develop into this amazing universe. Their God had to break his own rules, the rules of nature and science; their God had to cheat to succeed. "oh ye of little faith". |
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