I think you're forgetting the second greatest commandment, which is to love your neighbor as yourself. On the contrary to what you said, God wants you to love everyone in the entire world. He wants you to love your wife like Christ loved the church. God asks you to do more and be more than anything this world asks you to do. Your children are a blessing:

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.
(Psalms 127:3-5 ESV)

You misunderstand what that verse about the world means. It means do not value the material things of this world over the things of God. Look at the next verse:

"For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world."

Yes, God wants you to put Him first, because through Him all other things come. To want to do it without Him is like preferring to push your car up a hill instead of driving it down the freeway.

>> ^Ryjkyj:
>> ^shinyblurry:
We will never be satisfied with what is in the world, because it is all perishing:
All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
God told us not to love the world or anything in the world, and if we do, the love of God is not in us.
>> ^Doc_M:
I just can't live with no hope. Immortality is essential for human life, IMO.


And there you go Doc, the reason I choose the bleakness of my own unanswered curiosity over this:
"Nothing will ever satisfy you in your whole life, not the birth of your child, the love of another person, not your grandmother's cookies. In fact, I literally am asking you not to love anything or anyone but Me. And if you do love anything else, I will not love you. Also, please fear Me and die."
Thanks,
-the Lord

>> ^shinyblurry:

We will never be satisfied with what is in the world, because it is all perishing:
All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
God told us not to love the world or anything in the world, and if we do, the love of God is not in us.
>> ^Doc_M:
I just can't live with no hope. Immortality is essential for human life, IMO.



And there you go Doc, the reason I choose the bleakness of my own unanswered curiosity over this:

"Nothing will ever satisfy you in your whole life, not the birth of your child, the love of another person, not your grandmother's cookies. In fact, I literally am asking you not to love anything or anyone but Me. And if you do love anything else, I will not love you. Also, please fear Me and die."

Thanks,
-the Lord

*engineering

Looks like an Immortal.

"He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men"

God put eternity into our hearts. We will never be satisfied with what is in the world, because it is all perishing:

All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

God told us not to love the world or anything in the world, and if we do, the love of God is not in us. He said this because:

And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

He also said where ever your treasure is, there your heart will also be. Which is why He said:

but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.

Jesus is the treasure we all seek, the way to eternal life. If we set our hearts on worldly things, we will perish along with it. Jesus tasted death for all men, and took the punishment for our sins so that we could be forgiven.. The wages of sin is death, and we are dead in our sins, but through Jesus Christ, our sins are forgiven and we are given a new heart and new spirit, and sealed for eternal life.

>> ^Doc_M:
I just can't live with no hope. Immortality is essential for human life, IMO.

I just can't live with no hope. Immortality is essential for human life, IMO.

I just don't get atheism. Where's the hope? Even if you lived a long life and passed on your genetic information to the next generation, you're still going to be forgotten eventually. Even if it takes a trillion years, you just don't matter. Unless humanity acquires immortality some time soon, life just doesn't matter for an atheist. I don't think I could live that way. You can say you'll live for the moment, but you won't remember it, so who cares?! What's the advantage? Atheism is depressing.

#1 is untrue, but interesting assumption.

#4 is heavily discouraged. Specifically, don't just upvote any comment for personal gain. Do so only if the comment merits your vote.

I think it's great that folks grow to feel intimate knowledge of siftbot's inner workings, regardless how accurate those feelings are.

Just don't step outside acceptable behavior when attempting to game the system. Whether or not something is explicitly prohibited, if you know it's probably wrong, in the immortal words of Grandmaster Melle Mel: Don't do it!

"Is somebody with this many rescue dogs immortal?"

Nope....just really good at shoveling dog crap and dealing with gallons of drool.

Guys like @quantumushroom,@Winstonfield_Pennypacker and @lantern53 are all Bigoted Privileged White Males who Idolize the Wealthy Privileged White Males:
The class/culture they most admire and would like to be a part of one day.


Doesn't this mean you're bigoted against Wealthy Privileged White Males? I don't know lantern and Pennypacker personally and have no idea what "color" they are or their levels of income. I like both, and rest assured, W. Pennypacker doesn't appreciate my incendiary rhetoric.


You know, they're like the humans that do the bidding of Vampires in the hopes they'll be made into immortals in exchange for their blind faith and service.
..but who are really just fodder for their political business masters.


Yeah, I've seen the Blade trilogy, thanks. The third one sucked, and I don't mean blood.

BTW, You nailed it. I'm secretly worshiping Gates, an unlikable nerd who released Windows Sh1tsa so Windows 7 would look good by comparison. I don't want him to pay higher taxes because I'm going to be as rich as him next week.


>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:

@ChaosEngine
You nailed it.
Guys like @quantumushroom,@Winstonfield_Pennypacker and @lantern53 are all Bigoted Privileged White Males who Idolize the Wealthy Privileged White Males:
The class/culture they most admire and would like to be a part of one day.
You know, they're like the humans that do the bidding of Vampires in the hopes they'll be made into immortals in exchange for their blind faith and service.
..but who are really just fodder for their political business masters.

@ChaosEngine

You nailed it.

Guys like @quantumushroom,@Winstonfield_Pennypacker and @lantern53 are all Bigoted Privileged White Males who Idolize the Wealthy Privileged White Males:
The class/culture they most admire and would like to be a part of one day.

You know, they're like the humans that do the bidding of Vampires in the hopes they'll be made into immortals in exchange for their blind faith and service.

..but who are really just fodder for their political business masters.

One of the first things I messed around with in my first year of Ecology.

Another toughie are the Hydra, a genus that not only has remarkable regenarative properties, but also don't seem to age. Ie, they appear to be biologically immortal. They aren't quite as "cute" as the water bear though, they are basically jellyfish with a very simple nerve net that provides some basic behaviour that allows them to feed...and not much else.

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It immediately reminded me of this.
I'll ALWAYS lend my ears to Immortal Technique after hearing this - (NSFW)

VICIOUSLY ^Upvoted^

>> ^obscenesimian:

Appeal to authority, ad hominem.


So, pointing out Hitchens extensive amount of time spent researching, traveling, speaking with key players, and studying major events in our world is an 'appeal to authority?

And ad hominem is comparing the experience and knowledge levels of a lifetime academic and polemicist to comedians and pointing out an inequality?

Kudos to you on knowing the two concepts are important logical fallacies, the next step is to study their meanings and applications so you can recognize them correctly.