January 2002 - July 2006 - The Jerry Quarry Foundation

Marist Brothers questions and, when they couldn't answer with proof about some
religious belief, I was always told to have faith. But faith has no wordly,
tangible existence. I'm an athiest, Kent, not because I don't want to
believe, but because religion has such a nothingness about it. There is no proof
other than faith, and faith is nothingness.You show me the proof and
I'll happily convert. In the meantime, I'm going to enjoy watching men beat up
on each other (boxing), and I'm going to keep gambling, and drinking too much
beer, despite the 10 Commandments. If God is going to send me to hell
for doing those things, then I'm gonna have plenty of drinking and gambling
buddies doing time with me discussing Rocky, 'The Greatest', the punchers
Frazier ducked, made guys in the Dead Parrot Society, etc. Just like I'm doing
now. |
|4/3/05 04:03:33 PM|Massimo|Roma||4||||10|Steve-It's hard to predict how
much we human beings will be able to understand of the Universe. But look, if
you think about it, Physics started with Galileo Galilei only about 400 years
ago. It's really impressive how many things we have been able to learn in 400
years. 400 years are almost nothing. What will we be able to do in, say, 1000
years, or 10000 years or 100000 years ? It's really impossible to predict ! All
the human emotions and feelings are somewhere in our brain, the most
sophisticated object in the Universe. That's no doubt about it. That's why an
ictus often change a person's emotivity and caracter (or temper). Physics
doesn't destroy the poetry of life, absolutely not !|
|4/3/05 04:09:18 PM|Massimo |Roma||4||||10|Howard C.-Yes, it was his
final work and one of the greatest things ever written, as well. Unfortunately
he wasn't able to finish it, and died at 35. He was the greatest ! There will
probably never be another Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 27 Genuary 1756- 5 December
1791|
|4/3/05 04:38:43 PM|Massimo |Roma ||4||||10|I was thinking, following the so
common logic that in a single moment God created the Universe, I wonder... What
was He doing before creating the Universe ? Was He reading a book ? And before ?
And before ? And before ? Don't you see how all this story sounds weird ?|
|4/3/05 05:26:42 PM|Steve|NJ||NA||||10|Howard,do you love your mom and dad?Can
you proof it?You can't proof faith or love.I've done things in war that you
couldn't begin to comprehend.You can't always look for proof !Faith in a higher
reason for all of this foolishness.It will make you a stronger,better man or
women.I'm not stupid,I don't practise any formal religion,and I don't believe in
hell.I believe our time here on earth is just an obstacle we must get
through,and then God will forgive us all.All the bad stuf fhat happenrd in your
life won't mean a thing when you draw that last,scary breath,and meet your
maker.|
|4/3/05 06:46:35 PM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|Howard and
Massimo, it is not my job to convince you there is a God. It is something I
believe but I can see why others do not.I am just saying that it is
possible the big bang, if that is what created the universe (I tend to support
the steady state idea myself, that the universe has always been here), could
have been caused by a creator.The fact is, I don't know how the universe
was created as I wasn't there and also in answer to Howard's question, I am
neither an expert at theology and I am certainly not God myself, so I don't know
why there can be so much human suffering in this world.I agree with
Steve, there is so much beauty and wonders to look at and far more good things
than bad that have been created by the most sophisticated engineer, who I
believe to be God, that his existance can be seen in his handiwork, at least I
think so, and I am not going to put down contrary beliefs. |
|4/3/05 06:52:51 PM|Kent|Murrieta, Ca||kentallenent@aol.com||||10|One more
thing, where do people like Mozart get their incredible gifts to create such
beautiful music and often with such ease, while others, as hard as they try and
want to do the same thing but never will be able to?I believe the beauty