Dawnling

big bang is enough to answer this.

The egg came before the chicken.
The egg is a single cell.
(yes, the chicken egg that you eat is a SINGLE cell.)
The chicken is many cells so, it came after.

EVERYTHING on earth came from single cells that finally stuck together
on a ball spinning near a warm thing called a "sun"
in a rather calm solar system.
In other solar systems,
planets bump into each other and negate the possiblilty of what we know as flora and fauna life.

So, make a bunch of balls spin off of a nuclear ball
and keep them spinning and not bumping.
Single cell from that whole process will then
keep doing their thing until they make vertebrates in the sea.

The need for safety and food and the constant change of day and night will urge some vertabrates onto the land and more change will happen.

The need for safety and food and the constant change from day to night
will cause vertabrates to go into trees
( trees are another VERY evolved life-form)
Moving from tree to tree will cause the vertabrates to
use the front limbs differently from the back limbs and
then start to use the front limbs to modify the environment.

THEN, time will allow for the discovery of the taming of fire and
THAT will allow tiny moments of safety and all this will continue to send brain abillity forward and
STILL the vertabrates will not realize that earth is NOT flat.

OUR juncture in human thought IS the juncture
to end the stupidity of religion.

If this is hard to understand then I suggest that
you go back to math class and try to get an "A".

The idea of "GOD" would get straight "A"s in math so should you.

I am much more in love and inspired by this than anything than
relligion has ever offered.

I KNOW that all food is pure love and joy in all my molecules.
I KNOW that all words disturb the fabric of the Solar System
as only the exhales of a brain-bearing vertebrate can

and that we, as humans, are MORE responsible for our behavior
than ANY religon has ever comprehended.

Eat in joy.
Speak CAREFULLY.
Examine all and wallow not in the pedantic, foolish,
childish, uneducated, brain-stomping ideas of religon

LeisureChrist

For what it's worth, I don't believe I ever would have been an especially great guitar player. So it was no great loss to the world. I'm a fair vocalist (although I do keep a tape of my first band's forst practice around to remind that this was not always so), a mighty clever lyricist, and I have a genuinely dynamic stage presence when I am "on." But the thing for you to remember, Eman, is that you and I are not in competition with each other. Not as performers, not as seekers, not as people. If we are wise, we know that we are in competition only with ourselves, to be somehow a little bit better, a little bit more, than we were yesterday.

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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to be Environment Man and remove all doubt."---Benjamin Frank-N-Furter

LeisureChrist

My music still lives. I just have the joy of letting other people join me in bringing to life.

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"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to be Environment Man and remove all doubt."---Benjamin Frank-N-Furter

Dawnling

YAY!!! I am in the crowd, dancing to your tunes...
w/a sword on my head

jdanton

I can't sing or play. I love guitar music and have a collection that includes the Ventures, Chet Atkins, roy Clark, Glen Campbell (recorded before he made money singing) Jow Pass, and Tommy Garretts 50 guitar orchestra. This year I've got to add some Les Paul

I've written Glen and asked that he record another guitar album before he hangs it up for good. Even if it's a Christmas Album on the guitar.

Doubt he'll do it, although I'm told he's thinking about it.

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Author: Memoirs of a Sleepless Mind, a book you CAN judge by its cover.

Environment Man

Wise statement oh shaman Leisure X. Eman IS in competition with himself. You are correct. And you are no competition for Eman. Your self review sounds accurate though I have never observed your 'product.' Hang in there in 2008 and if you are not producing, then continue your coverage of the Eman.

Jonesy

It matters because God, or the idea of God, functions as guidance.

Environment Man

The best guidance for man's nature is folly and prone to evil.

Jonesy

Indeed. Personal pleasure. But perhaps man simply hasn't yet realized the difference between a guide and a master? Or is man too weak-willed to resist temptation? And by applying too much force, doesn't the idea of a God ruin the true way?

Environment Man

Order requires force. And God is the ultimate dictator. He made us and knows how we work best, individually and collectively. Yet we seek our own way as heathens hell bent on materialism and orgasm and drunkeness from power.