Jump to content

Has anyone tried the Alpha course?

LegalEagle-ish

By LegalEagle-ish
in The Lounge

 Share

Recommended Posts

Keef

Keef

Posted
Posted

I think I may need to step back from this thread now... I will say though Bizzy, I am pleased you have your faith, and should anyone try to put you down for it, they are wrong.


HOWEVER, a Christian who won't accept the possibility that it is all just a nonsense is every bit as bad as a patronising atheist who refuses to accept the possibility of anything outside of proven science!


I prefer to accept that some things are proven fact (or at least far more proven than a bible story), yet I leave myself open to belief in a higher being. This doesn't make me perfect, but it makes me accepting of others, something that I think a lot of people on both sides of this thread are not.

annaj

annaj

Posted
Posted

Right.


First, I didn't say that I beleive there is no god. I said I no longer believe in the christian church. There is a difference.


Second, I made no comment on your decision in life, I made a comment on the way you have chosen to express and defend your views and how off putting and alienating I found it. That is an opinion, not a judgement.


As I said, you know nothing about me, or what I think or feel.


Edited for typos

Bizzy

Bizzy

Posted
Posted

Keef,


I have tried to express the fact that people outside Christianity do have their own beliefs. I can see that you respect other people?s beliefs. There is a common notion for people to think that if someone talks about Christianity, they are preaching and nothing else.


I know I'm *trying* to answer questions but why do people see my answers as a put down? Think of my posts as being someone of the Christian faith *trying* to explain why he believes.

snorky

snorky

Posted
Posted

Bizzy Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> Annaj

>

> By the tone of your posts it's quite obvious.

>

> Snorky

>

> As I have said before i'm not trying to convert on

> this board. Get it right.


then you are not follwing the words of your mate Jesus & not being a proper forelock tugguing christian


" Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost; Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen." Matthew 28:18-20

Keef

Keef

Posted
Posted
Keef Wrote:

-------------------------------------------------------

> ... I still say that NO ONE has ever lived 950 years!


You can't disprove it Keef so it's a possibility. Even if we know it's impossible in the eyes and minds of some it may be true.



Touche,


However, millions and millions and muillions of people have lived to nowhere near that age, so whilst it could be possible, I think that stands as pretty good proof.

mockney piers

mockney piers

Posted
Posted

We can see that medical advances are pretty amazing, and within time an age of 950 years might be possible as we unlock the genetics of the ageing process.


If we also posit that time travel maayyyyyy juuust be possible one day, then I guess it's possible that Noah, Moses, Methuselah and all the other long-lived people may have been visitors from the future.

In fact God may be a super evolved being from the future (and he's trying to hide that from us, hence his objection to Evolution...why he didn't just crush Darwin at birth I don't know) who went back to a previous/parallel universe and destroyed it to give birtth to ours...oooh paradoxes galore.


But go on, thery and disprove my theory, go on...you can't!!


Excellent, perfect relativism, nothing can be absolutely true therefore nothing can be absolutely false.


Except the 50 eggs thing.

  • 4 months later...
Marmora Man

Marmora Man

Posted
Posted

PR - damn! Meant to record this - did it / will it (if I can find it on On Demand TV) confirm my prejudices about the Alpha course that it's a load of old twaddle?


PS: Did you see in today's Times that Richard Dawkins is subsidising atheist summer camps - most of my Scout camps were on the atheist side - when we weren't putting up tents and cooking dampers we were checking out the local pubs, scrumpy and girls at the chip shop.

PeckhamRose

PeckhamRose

Posted
Posted

I pray this works....

Ho ho ho

It's 4oD last night's programme Sunday 28th June about the Alpha Course.

It was interesting, but more for the sort of people who went, rather than the predictable ones who ran it.

I am not a NLP expert (tho I'd go on a course if there was one available), but was there any NLP in this programme?

I am sure Mr Ronson would have spotted it.

Anyway, er, 'enjoy'!

Next week it's Muslims.

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share
Go to topic listing
  • Advertise Here

  • Latest Discussions

    • janetN
      Newbies - Swimming lessons and gym

      By janetN · Posted

      Another bite for JAGS ( James Allen Girls school) classes are excellent too. There is also Dulwich boys but less light and airy )might be better nor as haven’t been for a while) 
    • Jah Lush
      The going home for the weekend song thread...come on you groovey foookers

      By Jah Lush · Posted

    • LordshipPain
      Council "weed" removal

      By LordshipPain · Posted

      Photos. Every single piece of litter in that photo (if you enlarge it you can see lots more pieces) was dropped by the bin men in the background. I don't blame them - it would destroy their backs to pick it all up. Perhaps they should try to not drop so much litter in the first place...  These photos were taken on the 1st March - a Saturday. The street cleaner, who does an excellent job around Underhill Road and Melford Road, bags up the rubbish and leaves them on a Thursday generally. They are supposed to be collected the same day or the next day at the latest. They weren't collected. The first photo was November. It was a very large number of poo bags. I reported it to Southwark but they took 3 days to collect it. In the meantime the bags were squashed and the faeces was spread everywhere, photo 2. It would mean that everyone who walked along that bit of road will have spread it a bit further, along with the vehicles, so that it went into a lot of people's houses.  Over to you Sue. In this photo you can see the litter that was dropped by the bin men (I feel bad as they are really nice and work really hard often going into people's properties to get the bins that weren't put out - usually at a semi-jog speed; it must be exhausting and its not their fault that Southwark doesn't give them enough time to do their job properly. Maybe they should sack their team of EDF astro-turfers to save some money?), the split blue bag with some birds sorting the contents on the pavement, and the refuse truck in the background. I don't blame the workers, I blame Southwark. I am also annoyed at you, Sue, for saying this is an exaggeration and is basically a lie; something you do all over the forum (along with the cycling trolls). I have a lot more pictures too.
    • LordshipPain
      Council "weed" removal

      By LordshipPain · Posted

      No need to provoke you since you respond constantly to everything. It is not a gross exaggeration - I took photos. Do you not like people answering back? A bit head girl aren't you. Unkempt roads and weed-lifted pavements with dog faces bags all over the place - when the blue bags, which are regularly not collected by the LA, are split open by foxes. Again, I have photos.

East Dulwich Forum

Established in 2006, we are an online community discussion forum for people who live, work in and visit SE22.

Home
Events
Sign In

Sign In



Or sign in with one of these services

Search
×
    Search In
×
×
  • Create New...