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I wonder how I am or anyone for that matter can trust or believe anything written in the bible when it was written by the hands of man ...humans hearts are wicked and lie by it's very nature . How can anyone trust it ? It's not as if God himself wrote these words. I am not asking this to ruffle any feathers ,I am just looking for insight .Just trying to make sense of things that make no sense to me.

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Elevatorpitches · F

SWeeps don't know enough to start talking about "God, man and the mystery of evil in the world and why its all the way it is".

We don't know enough and so when this subject comes back again and again it feels like leapfrogging...and it feels INAUTHENTIC.

And idiotic. Any day of the week.

If we believe fine, if not fine, if we believe other stuff we can hash it out here.

Does any of this blabber end up meanig anything though?

Its not a serious site and Biblical scholars and professional anthropologists and authors in the human endeavor... don't bother writing posts here.

And the range of topics on SW is alarmingly narrow. So hence the obsession with either religion or atheism. Its embarassingly boring to me though. Its not that we are burning with the need to know. Maybe we just wanna impress someone. But my advice is save it.

SW-User

@Elevatorpitches I find it confusing...maybe I need to stick to asking shallow and meaningless questions on here

Elevatorpitches · F

@SW-User Are you mocking me? Sounds like it

Look I know SWeeps wanna appear all virtuous and G rated. But can't that just continue to be done in the usual ways?

Most times the "church" message is "believe cause you are supposed to". But I say leave it at that.

We don't know enough to discover answers to the ultimate questions. And besides they are never framed where we can really wrap our heads around it. It feels patronizing or pushy and inauthentically "serious". Ditto 4 the professional "atheists".

Why do people always just push to act like they are smarter and/or "wiser" than the other? Maybe because we are small and insignificant and that hurts. But it would be a big help to just get real about all that. And try to learn more stuff about

EVERYTHING

SW-User

@Elevatorpitches uh..no

ArishMell · 70-79, M

@Elevatorpitches You have a point there - you won't find much serious, thoughtful and civilised debate on SW, as indeed some of the aggressive responses already on this thread show.

I think though that its range of topics and general level of discussion is limited by its users, not the site itself, although the binary nature of so many group titles ("I Love / I Hate...." ) cannot help.

Elevatorpitches · F

@ArishMell Management collected and selected those limited group headings from the old EP

Management seems to have a DIM view of our thinking abilities and it aggravates things, But there are worse aggravations in the world like why is everyone hurting so much?

Seems like a plan but who knows how to work it and make "it" better?
OMG I think I'm enabling the religious crowd again, hope NOT!

Take care all, make someone happy today! 🙂