No God or Know God?

An atheist professor of philosophy speaks to his class on the problem Science has with God, The Almighty.


He asks one of his new students to stand and.....

Prof: So you believe in God?

Student: Absolutely, sir.


Prof: Is God good?

Student: Sure.



Prof: Is God all-powerful?

Student: Yes.


Prof: My brother died of cancer even though he prayed to God to heal him.


Most of us would attempt to help others who are ill. But God didn't. How is this God good then? Hmm? (Student is silent.)


Prof: You can't answer, can you? Let's start again, young fellow. Is God good?

Student: Yes.


Prof: Is Satan good ?

Student: No.


Prof: Where does Satan come from?

Student: From...God.. .


Prof: That's right. Tell me son, is there evil in this world?

Student: Yes.


Prof: Evil is everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything. Correct?

Student: Yes.


Prof: So who created evil?

(Student does not answer. )



Prof: Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible things exist in the world, don't they?

Student: Yes, sir.



Prof: So, who created them?

( Student has no answer.)



Prof: Science says you have 5 senses you use to identify and observe the world around you. Tell me, son...Have you ever seen God?

Student: No, sir.



Prof: Tell us if you have ever heard your God?

Student: No, sir.


Prof: Have you ever felt your God, tasted your God, smelt your God? Have you ever had any sensory perception of God for that matter?

Student: No, sir. I'm afraid I haven't.



Prof: Yet you still believe in Him ?

Student: Yes.



Prof: According to empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol, science says your GOD doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?

Student: Nothing. I only have my faith.



Prof: Yes. Faith. And that is the problem science has.



Student: Professor, is there such a thing as heat?

Prof: Yes.



Student: And is there such a thing as cold?

Prof: Yes.



Student: No sir. There isn't.


(The lecture theatre becomes very quiet with this turn of events .)



Student: Sir, you can have lots of heat, even more heat, superheat, mega heat, white heat, a little heat or no heat. But we don't have anything called cold. We can hit 458 degrees below zero which is no heat,


But we can't go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold. Cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold.


Heat is energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.



(There is pin-drop silence in the lecture theatre .)


Student: What about darkness, Professor? Is there such a thing as darkness?

Prof: Yes. What is night if there isn't darkness?



Student: You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is the absence of something. You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light....But if you have no light constantly, you have nothing and its called darkness, isn't it? In reality, darkness isn't.


If it were you would be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?



Prof: So what is the point you are making, young man?

Student: Sir, my point is your philosophical premise is flawed.

Prof: Flawed? Can you explain how?



Student: Sir, you are working on the premise of duality. You argue there is life and then there is death, a good God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure.


Sir, science can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much less fully understood either one.


To view death as the opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the opposite of life: just the absence of it. Now tell me, Professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?


Prof: If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, yes, of course, I do.

Student: Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?


(The Professor shakes his head with a smile, beginning to realize where the argument is going.)



Student: Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going endeavour, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you not a scientist but a preacher?


(The class is in uproar .)


Student: Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen the Professor's brain?


(The class breaks out into laughter.)


Student: Is there anyone here who has ever heard the Professor's brain, felt it, touched or smelt it? No one appears to have done so. So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain, sir.


With all due respect, sir, how do we then trust your lectures, sir?



(The room is silent . The professor stares at the student, his face unfathomable. )



Prof: I guess you'll have to take them on faith, son.


Student: That is it sir... The link between man & god is FAITH .

That is all that keeps things moving & alive..................


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New Year Quotes...

Be always at war with your vices,
at peace with your neighbors,
and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin


No one ever regarded the First of January with indifference.
It is that from which all date their time, and count upon what is left.
It is the nativity of our common Adam. ~Charles Lamb


New Year's Day is every man's birthday. ~Charles Lamb


Never tell your resolution beforehand, or it's twice as onerous a duty. ~John Selden


Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on,
with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. ~Hal Borland


The merry year is born
Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.
~Hartley Coleridge


New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. ~Hamilton Wright Mabie


The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell


Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey


Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850


The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year's Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you're married to. ~P.J. O'Rourke


Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. ~Henry Ward Beecher


New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual. ~Mark Twain


The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~George William Curtis


For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
~T.S. Eliot, "Little Gidding"


We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce


Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. ~Mark Twain



People are so worried about what they eat between Christmas and the New Year, but they really should be worried about what they eat between the New Year and Christmas. ~Author Unknown


And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast,
And been bow'd to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.
~Thomas Hood


Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go. ~Brooks Atkinson


Each age has deemed the new-born year
The fittest time for festal cheer.
~Walter Scott


Good resolutions are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account. ~Oscar Wilde


Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth.
~Martin Luther


A new oath holds pretty well; but... when it is become old, and frayed out, and damaged by a dozen annual retryings of its remains, it ceases to be serviceable; any little strain will snap it. ~Mark Twain, speech in New York City, 31 March 1885


But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. ~Andre Gide


I do think New Year's resolutions can't technically be expected to begin on New Year's Day, don't you? Since, because it's an extension of New Year's Eve, smokers are already on a smoking roll and cannot be expected to stop abruptly on the stroke of midnight with so much nicotine in the system. Also dieting on New Year's Day isn't a good idea as you can't eat rationally but really need to be free to consume whatever is necessary, moment by moment, in order to ease your hangover. I think it would be much more sensible if resolutions began generally on January the second. ~Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones's Diary


New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ~Jay Leno


We meet today
To thank Thee for the era done,
And Thee for the opening one.
~John Greenleaf Whittier


One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things. ~John Burroughs


Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. ~Charles Lamb


A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
~Edgar Guest


It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ~William Thomas


We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman


May all your troubles last as long as your New Year's resolutions. ~Joey Adams


He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.
~F.M. Knowles


The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. ~G.K. Chesterton


I think in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's. ~Henry Moore


Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols. ~Thomas Mann


I made no resolutions for the New Year. The habit of making plans, of criticizing, sanctioning and molding my life, is too much of a daily event for me. ~Anaïs Nin


Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on time? I want an interregnum. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping - rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas - But, goodness, why need they do it? ~John Dos Passos, 1917


New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions. ~Mark Twain


Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time. ~Jean Paul Richter


The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears. ~W.H. Auden

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New Year SMS, Wallpapers, Quotes....

New Year Wallpapers..






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You know God arrange for you..
12 Months of Love,
52 Weeks Non Stop Fun,
& 365 days of Happiness.
So when you Mixed them all..
You will found a Very Happy Year!

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Naye saal aaye banke ujale,
Khul jaye aap ki kismat ka tale,
Hamesha aap pe rahe meherban Oparwale,
Chand tare bhi aap pe hi rosni dale.
Happy New year.

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New Year Quotes...

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Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.
Middle age is when you're forced to. ~Bill Vaughn

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An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.
A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves. ~Bill Vaughan

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Many people look forward to the new year
for a new start on old habits. ~Author Unknown

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A New Year's resolution is something that
goes in one year and out the other. ~Author Unknown

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Great start for Jan, Love for Feb,
Peace for march, No worries for April,
Fun for May, Joy for June to Nov,
Happiness for Dec, Have a lucky and wonderful 2008.

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Each moment in a day has its own value.
Morning brings HOPE,
Afternoon brings FAITH,
Evening brings LOVE, Night brings REST...
Hope you will all of them everyday.
HAPPY NEW YEAR

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Fresh Air....
Fresh Idea....
Fresh Talent....
Fresh Energy....
I wish U to have a .....
Sweetest Sunday,
Marvellous Monday,
Tasty Tuesday,
Wonderful Wednesday,
Thankful Thursday,
Friendly Friday,
Successful Saturday.
Have a great Year. HAPPY NEW YEAR.

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When the mid-nite bell rings tonight...
Let it signify new and better things for you,
let it signify a realisation of all things you wish for,
Let it signify a year of courage and believes,
Wishing you a very...very...very prosperious 2008.

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New Year is the time to unfold
new horizons & realize new dreams,
to rediscover the strength & faith within u,
to rejoice in simple pleasures
& gear up 4 a new challenges.
Wishin u a truly fulfilling 2008.

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Years come n go,
but this year I specially wish 4 u a
double dose of health n happiness
topped with loads of good fortune.
Have a gr8 year ahead! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

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New is the year, new are the hopes
and the aspirations, new is the resolution,
new are the spirits and forever my warm wishes are for u.
Have a promising and fulfilling new year.

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May The Year 2008
Bring for You Happiness,
Success and filled with Peace,
Hope & Togetherness of your Family & Friends....
Wishing You a...*HAPPY NEW YEAR*

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With all the Rose's Perfume
& with all the lights in the world
& with all the children's Smiles...
I Wish U that ur all dreams comes True..
*HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008*

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A Relaxed Mind, A Peaceful Soul,
A Joyful Spirit, A Healthy Body &
Heart full of Love..
All these are my Prayers for You..
Wish a Happy New Year.

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Glory to God in highest heaven,
Who unto man His Son hath given;
While angels sing with tender mirth,
A glad new year to all the earth

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SELF TEST .. ..

 


What to do:   


1) Grab a pen/pencil and paper.
2) Mark the paper 1 to 10 down the side
3) Answer each question and mark the corresponding letter
to your answer on the paper
4) Calculate the point score for each question for each of your
answers
5) Total up the points for all the questions and see where you land!

Here goes...

1. When do you feel your best?
(a) In the morning
(b) During the afternoon and early evening
(c) Late at night

2. Do you usually walk
(a) fairly fast, with long steps?
(b) fairly fast, but with short, quick steps?
(c) less fast, head up looking the world in the face?
(d) less fast, head down?
(e) very slowly?

3. When talking to people, do you
(a) stand with your arms folded?
(b) have your hands clasped?
(c) have one or both your hands on your hips?
(d) touch or push the person to whom you are talking?
(e) play with your ear, touch your chin, or smooth your hair?

4. When relaxing, do you sit with
(a) your knees bent and your legs neatly side by side?
(b) your legs crossed?
(c) your legs stretced out or straight?
(d) with one leg curled under you?

5. When something really amuses you, how do you react? Do you give
(a) a big, appreciative laugh?
(b) a laugh, but not a loud one?
(c) a quiet chuckle?
(d) a big smile?
(e) a slow smile?

6. When you go to a party or social gathering, you
(a) make a loud entrance so everyone notices you?
(b) make a quieter entrance looking around quickly for someone
you know
(c) make quietest possible entrance? and try to stay unnoticed?

7. You are working hard, concentrating hard. You are interrupted.
Do you
(a) welcome the break?
(b) feel extremely irritated?
(c) vary between these two extremes?

8. Which of the following colors do you like most
(a) red or orange
(b) black
(c) yellow or light blue
(d) green
(e) dark blue or purple
(f) white
(g) brown, gray, or violet

9. When you are in bed at night, in those last few moments before
going to sleep, do you lie
(a) stretched out on your back?
(b) stretched out face dawn on your stomach?
(c) on your side, slightly curled?
(d) with your head on one arm?
(e) with your head under the covers?

10. Do you often dream that you are
(a) falling?
(b) fighting or struggling?
(c) searching for something or somebody?
(d) flying or floating?
(e) or do you usually have a dreamless sleep?
(f) or do you have pleasant dreams?




" SCORE YOUR OWN QUIZ "

POINTS:
1. (a) 2 (b) 4 (c) 6
2. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 7 (d) 2 (e) 1
3. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 5 (d) 7 (e) 6
4. (a) 4 (b) 6 (c) 2 (d) 1
5. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 2
6. (a) 6 (b) 4 (c) 2
7. (a) 6 (b) 2 (c) 4
8. (a) 6 (b) 7 (c) 5 (d) 4 (e) 3 (f) 2 (g) 1
9. (a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 4 (d) 2 (e) 1
10. (a) 4 (b) 2 (c) 3 (d) 5 (e) 6 (f) 1

Add the total number of points.


:) :) :)


Results:

OVER 60 POINTS:
Others see you as some one they should " handle with care."
You are seen as vain, self-centered, and extremely dominant.
Others may admire you and wish they could be more like you,
but they don't always trust you and hesitate to become too
deeply involved with you.

FROM 51 TO 60 POINTS:
Your friends see you as an exciting, highly volatile,
rather impulsive personality; a natural leader,
quick to make decisions (though not always the right ones).
They see you as a bold and venturesome,
Someone who will try anything-well, almost anything-once;
someone who takes a chance and enjoys an adventure. They
enjoy being in your company because of the excitement you
radiate.

FROM 41 TO 50 POINTS:
Others see you as fresh, lively, charming, amusing, and
always interesting; someone who is constantly the center
of attention, but sufficiently well-balanced not to let it go to
your head. They see you also as kind, considerate, and
understanding; someone who will cheer them up and help
them out.

FROM 31 TO 40 POINTS:
Other people see you as sensible, cautious, careful, and
practical. They see you as clever, gifted, or talented, but
modest. Not a person who makes friend too quickly or too
easily, but someone who is extremely loyal to the friends
you do make and who expects the same loyalty in return.
Those who really get to know you realize that it takes a lot
to shake you trust in your friends, but, equally, that it takes
you a long time to get over it if that trust is shaken.

FROM 21 TO 30 POINTS:
Your friends see you as painstaking, perhaps little fussy at
times. They see you as very, very cautious and
extremely careful, a slow and steady plodder. It would really
surprise them if you ever did something impulsively or on
the spur the of moment. They expect you to examine
everything carefully from every side and then, usually
decide against it. They think this reaction on your part is
caused partly by your carefully nature and partly by laziness.

UNDER 21 POINTS:
People think you are shy, nervous, and indecisive, someone
needs to be looked after, who always wants someone else
to make the decisions and who doesn't want to get involved
with anyone or anything. They see you as a worrier, who sees
problems that don't exist. Some people think your are boring.
Only the people who know you well know that you aren't. The
trouble is that you don't let very many people get close to you.

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Short Story...

Little girl and her father were crossing a bridge.

The father was kind of scared so he asked his little daughter,

"Sweetheart, please hold my hand so that you don't fall into the river."

The little girl said, "No, Dad. You hold my hand."

"What's the difference?" Asked the puzzled father.

"There's a big difference," replied the little girl.


"If I hold your hand and something happens to me,

chances are that I may let your hand go.

But if you hold my hand, I know for sure that no matter what happens,

you will never let my hand go."






In any relationship, the essence of trust is not in its bind, but in its bond.



So hold the hand of the person who loves you rather than expecting them to hold yours...
This message is too short......but carries a lot of Feelings

soo sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet ....

Effort....

A giant ship engine failed. The ship's owners tried one expert after another, but none of them could figure out how to fix the engine.

Then they brought in an old man who had been fixing ships since he was a young. He carried a large bag of tools with him, and when he arrived, he immediately went to work. He inspected the engine very carefully, top to bottom.

Two of the ship's owners were there, watching this man, hoping he would know what to do. After looking things over, the old man reached into his bag and pulled out a small hammer. He gently tapped something. Instantly, the engine lurched into life. He carefully put his hammer away. The engine was fixed!

A week later, the owners received a bill from the old man for ten thousand dollars.

"What?!" the owners exclaimed. "He hardly did anything!"
So they wrote the old man a note saying, "Please send us an itemized bill."

The man sent a bill that read:
Tapping with a hammer...... ......... ........ $ 2.00
Knowing where to tap......... ......... ........ $ 9,998.00

"Effort is important, but knowing where to make an effort makes all the difference"

Food for thought...

Good Read!!!



Imagine there was a bank that credited your very own account each morning with a large sum of money. But, it carried over no balance from day to day. Every evening it deleted whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out all of it, of course!



Each of us has such a bank. Its name is - Time. Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off, as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft.



Each day it makes a new deposit for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no going back. There is no drawing against the "tomorrow." You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and success!



The clock is running. Make the most of today. And remember that time waits for no one. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. That's why it's called The Present!

Will Power

An old man lived alone in Minnesota. He wanted to spade his potato garden, but it was very hard work.


His only son, who would have helped him, was in prison. The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his situation.


Dear Son, I am feeling pretty bad because it looks like I won't be able to plant my potato garden this year.




I hate to miss doing the garden, because your mother always loved planting time. I'm just getting too old to be digging up a garden plot.If you were here, all my troubles would be over. I know you would dig the plot for me, if you weren't in prison.


Love, Dad

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Shortly, the old man received this telegram:


"For Heaven's sake, Dad,don't dig up the garden!! That's where I buried the GUNS!" At 4a.m.



the next morning,



A dozen FBI agents and local police officers showed up and dug up the entire garden without finding any guns.


Confused, the old man wrote another note to his son telling him what happened, and a sked him what to do next.



His son's reply was: "Go ahead and plant your potatoes, Dad. It's the best I could do for you from here."




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- Moral Of the Story


NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IN THE WORLD,


IF YOU HAVE DECIDED TO DO SOMETHING DEEP FROM YOUR HEART, YOU CAN DO IT.


IT IS THE THOUGHT THAT MATTERS NOT WHERE YOU ARE OR WHERE THE PERSON IS.



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