Here is your first version of your manifesto. Let us all have another jolly good laugh at you:
Originally Posted by tazanastazio View Post
GOD IS THE INFINITE AND THE INFINITE IS GOD
God is the Infinite; the Infinite Intelligence, Matter and Energy (this idea is perhaps what the meanings of “Father”, “Son” and “Holy Spirit” may also symbolize). Any form of matter, is simply particles in a different formation and every situation is regarded as "negative or "positive" depending on its effect on the well being of the existence experiencing it.........as for example species with animal like and even monstrous features as portrayed in sci-fi works of fiction, would bear the question of whether those beings are part of a group of beings of an already higher level of existence, that chose directly or indirectly to separate itself from the Infinite God (by means of choosing to follow God’s directions and serve the purpose of their existence within the Infinite, or not, as the example in Genesis of the 1/3 of the Angels who rebelled against God and were cast out from heaven shows), they could of course evolve an altered image by means of misusing technology (radioactivity), if God had allow for their species to exist for that long of a time interval after He had sent them His messenger (every human level of existence would have received the messenger of God at a similar time interval within their evolution)
You have built a glassy, fantasy world, in which you fancy yourself the "king critic" of other people's writings and it is falling apart. If you could see how pathetic you begin to appear you would have the wisdom to save some of your imaginary "status."
First, after he got his behind whooped repeatedly, he Googled me, found a picture of mine, and posted it in the other skeptic site blog. His lame excuse that a) I "fascinate" him, b) He has nothing better to do in his life but to entertain himself by criticizing other people's writing 24 hours a day.
Now, hadn't I seen what a coyote he can be, based on his behavior to others; let alone that he is the king and master of omitting, making up, misrepresenting, twisting and inventing of statements, to misrepresent those of others; cutting a phrase here from people's quotes, misparaphrase them there, insert some doubt elsewhere; and when that fails insult the other person's intelligence, and call the "innocuous" names, to fog things up; mud them up a little bit to a whole lot; I would still attempt to end this in a gentle manner, thinking "perhaps that's all he's got going on in his life." What a sorry example of a true cliche court- appointed attorney; used car salesperson! What a carpetbagger! The ignorant deserve understanding, and even pity for their wrong doings. But you are not ignorant! You would pretend that you didn't understand even at the expense of acting the fool, just to score a point in a debate and to feed your ego as a "Master-debater." I mean now all of sudden, to Matthew's bizarre way of comprehension of things, I "hinted" I was "Jesus!" What a cunning weasel! If I had a pick matey, I'll be Leonidas, or Alexander the great, or Achilles; You matey, I regard you, more like Don Quixote, or Mussolini; or at best Napoleon!
Having nothing else to say; having all your points used up, and all your arguments exhausted, without achieving the two-fold desirable outcome; to prove me wrong and yourself the king of the world of the skeptic forum; you went back to your den to lick your wounds, because your pride cannot ever fathom to be proven wrong, and having all your silly arguments backfiring; YOU DUG THE ARCHIVES FROM 2010 and 2013 BECAUSE A 10 - 16 PAGE WRITING of 2017 - 2019 (depending on the font); would not serve your purpose. Matey, you shouldn't be laughing nor crying, you should ring up a psychologist or perhaps a psychiatrist. But since you made the effort and searched for, and scrolled up and down, and read and reread, and copied and pasted, the "first version" of what you call "my manifesto", let's see what you dug up.
Was I more religious a few years back? Sure I was! And I was even more when I was 10! My grandmother would take me and my brother to church back in the small town where we grew up in Greece, almost every single Sunday, since we could remember! Then you have Christmas and Eastern and what not. In school we would be taught of the Bible in every single grade; even the details of what takes place during Sunday mass. I did say I grew up like a Shepherd dog. Then I emigrated to the States. I read Sagan, I read more about Einstein, a little bit of Dawkins a little bit of Hawking. I moved around the country, I did all kinds of jobs, I joined the US Army, I went oversees. I met religious and non-religious people of all kinds and walks of life; New York, Los Angeles, Nashville, San Antonio, Miami, Mosul - Iraq; "I've been every where man." I read my Greek philosophers a little more; also Hugo, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and others, Louis L'Amour and William W Johnston. Around 2009 - 2013, I started scribbling down a few things, from a philosophical concept that started to take shape in my mind early in my twenties, while I was trying to make sense of it all in the process. I was more religious back then, more of a philosopher later.
I got to search my computer see if I have what you so eagerly searched and dug up mate, thanks; good for old memory sake - I'm sure I have written some quite interesting stuff back then upon which I can write something up later, or even shake my head and say, "I don't know how this made sense back to me then, and I don't see it now"; like with so many other things we do when we are younger than today. In what Matthew here dug up from "the archives," I explored the conflicting ideas of positive-negative, good vs evil, "Angels and Demons" as the famous title of the well known novel and movie with Tom Hanks reads. Because these ideas, are not just mine mate; they are yours and everybody else's as well! And if you say they are not, I won't have to say anything more to prove that you are the liar! Before you shoot yourself for the - I lost count - time in the foot again, have you ever had a nightmare? This is how I explained all the aforementioned on the 2017 - 2019 "version of my manifesto":
"When we under the control of our feelings, instead of our feelings being under our control, when we are possessed by fear and panic, when we are addicted to act in ways that could have dire and even catastrophic results; it would be, figuratively speaking, as if we were controlled and tortured by demons. A person sees a skull of a goat, ugly thing that it is, and scary enough to engage the minds of the curious, and associates it with the devil. He then can use it as a means to inflict fear in the hearts of the unfaithful; some of which in order to appease the devil, because they are afraid of him, they form a religious sect; another religion is formed. You, seeing the image at some point in your life, and being a little over-stressed and worried not to loose your job, wake up in the middle of the night because your subconscious has associated the image of the skull of the goat, with a distorted similar shape in your dream; you just had a nightmare, say a prayer to calm down or get over it. Seriously, if indeed there are superior beings spying over the Earth, don't they have anything better to do in the whole galaxy, or clusters of them? Do they need to torture us for entertainment?"
Matey, you said "after two months" I'll erase my stuff and disappear. I haven't erased my post 2 years now. I am still here, and you still struggle and fail to prove me wrong. The way I see it, you being obsessed/fascinated and all, you will be struggling and failing to prove me wrong, for the rest of your life. It is your life to waste, and it is truly entertaining sometimes (when you truly deserve it), and truly sad all the rest of the time; to see you wasting your life in your futile attempts to fill the black hole of your ego.