No because not everyone will just download books, people will still buy them. I have a both a real and a virtual copy of The Art of Electronics and will probably buy the third edition too. Especially if I find a place to download it and enjoy reading it a lot, I'd be even more motivated to buy it than I would've been without that opportunity.
Still, I don't see how borrowing a book from the library or second hand store is worse for the author than downloading it.
scientists/archeologists are searching for the past big armageddon, they found proofs in ice/soil sediments (big flood and big volcano sulphur trace) etc, i used to watch that in national geographic, you may find it in the net i think.
you can never find such text as "godless literature" in our library. i've never found aethist (or even jews) in my country, we are all religious population islam, christian, buddha live in harmony
how can something that was so important be believed today with such an unreliable information system as word of mouth. The only thing you can really say is that since the books were written people have been brainwashed in a consistent way.there are Hafeez in Islamic dictionary, even until now. Since prophet and most friends were illiterate, they used to memorized full content of it and be tested for competency annually, usually in the month of Ramadhan, it took many years that way after the prophet died. But since many Hafeez died during Crusades - Christian Islam War the ruler, or Caliphate make initiative to make it in writing. So thats the first written version. and later some ammendment in writing style to make reading easier to non-arabic literate people, but still maintaining alphabet count, only addition of dash at the top and bottom of alphabet, full stop and verse numbering which do not count in content "checksum". arabic writing (original language) is maintained even in translated version of the holy book. another history for that.
and thats the point of hell and heaven story, good and bad. to make it delusive, arguably unreliable, and even... un-measurable. (up to my logical thinking) so, from my probabilistic analytical skill earlier, you may choose:
a) fullstop or hell (no pray, no belief, become an aethist)
b) fullstop, hell or heaven (with hardwork of praying, and become the believer of a unprovable "delusion")
and to the definition of "religion with God", you dont have faith, and hence heaven (or probably hell) is not an option for you (err i mean Agnostic), until its proven otherwise. but according to the Quran (i've been quoting it as 4th edition, sad), once you've proved it (the existence of God, hell heaven etc), its already too late.
and to the definition of "religion with God", you dont have faith, and hence heaven (or probably hell) is not an option for you (err i mean Agnostic), until its proven otherwise. but according to the Quran (i've been quoting it as 4th edition, sad), once you've proved it (the existence of God, hell heaven etc), its already too late. or in other word, in religious point of view, Agnotism = Atheism. and in another word, agnostic needs prove to believe, but since there is no proof, hence there is no god. or let put it as, agnostics are "sceptic" of the existence of God. and in religios point of view Sceptic = Not Believing.
yes buddhism is belief to one single man. and as i said earlier, is not listed or not inlined with the 4 version of holy book. one day "aethism/agnotism" and "science'sm" too will become religion i suspect.
but I hope I will live to the day when science is the most widespread "religion" on this planet and current religions get forgotten.
but I hope I will live to the day when science is the most widespread "religion" on this planet and current religions get forgotten.
No mater how long you will live, there is no chance to see one alive religion,
to get forgotten.
Science is just a toy, in the hands of the humans.
If Science had inside it, something more and deep as meaning, today in our times we would not had diseases and starvation.
Science looks powerless and it is.
Your holy grail, does not look that shiny to me.
No because not everyone will just download books, people will still buy them. I have a both a real and a virtual copy of The Art of Electronics and will probably buy the third edition too.
All religious texts were written by Men.
Men = Fallible.
The end.
...science has done more for humanity than religion has in the past 6,000 years.
in Kiriakos case, i can rule Jinn of ghost, beside angel or even God as possibility. Witch is still "not so common" practice here. With a good witch, you can find your lost item given you comply to certain rule such as you remember the date of the lost, and he can even tell the current condition of the item remotely before we even get there and still in the witch's house. Its no magic here, its witch, who uses Jinn as servant. Kiri, its maybe Satan whispering in your ear!All religious texts were written by Men.
Men = Fallible.
The end.can you prove that? i've given my science fiction. yours? well, of course its written by Men! but the idea is from God, just like Kiri got the whisper. nothing is made up by mere human thinking, 100% content from God, written by Men, with stringent checking from "you know who"...science has done more for humanity than religion has in the past 6,000 years.you have lost in modernization. you should learn a lot more in broader scope of history. I suspect you dont even know or hear the story who Jesus is, or even Mohamad, the last prophet. or maybe you are refering to how the age of "reasoning" of science saved humanity from Old Fanatically Religious Roman Catholics? and maybe its been erased from you that it was Islamic Civilization that teach European how to have a proper public bath/restroom and road and pretty much everything in civilization? Islamic contributions to Medieval Europe When Islam is in its Glory, Europeans still walk in the mud. But now, the teacher is labelled as terrorist by the taught civilization who marvel Science as their "Jesus the Saviour"
The truth of the matter is, I was raised in a Muslim household. I've spent many years reading Hadith, listening to Sheikhs and scholars (One of my favorite being Nouman Ali Khan from the Bayyinah Institute) and I've come to the conclusion that it's just a farce.
even if in Islam regulation, penalty for a convert is death
Science is just a toy, in the hands of the humans.
If Science had inside it, something more and deep as meaning, today in our times we would not had diseases and starvation.
Science looks powerless and it is.
Science is just a toy, in the hands of the humans.
If Science had inside it, something more and deep as meaning, today in our times we would not had diseases and starvation.
Science looks powerless and it is.
Do you go to a hospital? Do you have a light bulb at your home? Are you using a computer? Drinking clean water? Eating processed food?
You can thank the powerless science for this. I don't know how old are you but there is a pretty good chance you would already be dead by now if it wasn't for modern healthcare. And evolution.
If you hate science so much why do you use it every day? Go live the way people in bible times did.
Kiriakos-GR, don't tell me it was a miracle from heaven you got your bike back.
Do you realize that there are thousands of hungry children dieing everyday in this world for the lord to care about someone's motorcycle? The thousands of babies, women, children, and men who drowned in the tsunami? There are people living in hunger and pain everyday.
There are hundreds of children and people borned with birth defects. Today, I saw a normal looking child borned with a mental disorder. He just keep yelling, and his mother keep him still by holding his hand. Yesterday, I saw a little girl in a pretty little dress who's eyes are crossed.
It's illogical that the lord rather do a miracle on someone's motorcycle over a child's health.
If this is how the lord works, I'll personally give him the middle finger. Two fingers while I am at it!
yes. i also think i've made my point more than enough. i respect your choice, even if in Islam regulation, penalty for a convert is death, is very hard to comprehend, but ignorant i am i will just take it with grain and salt, with "faith". thats it. only last simple question Armin, did you khatam (complete and understand reading all the Quran verses) before you convert? +1 to aethist/agnostic ally
Al-Kafirun (The Disbelievers)
Do you realize that there are thousands of hungry children dieing everyday in this world for the lord to care about someone's motorcycle?
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It's illogical that the lord rather do a miracle on someone's motorcycle over a child's health. If this is how the lord works, I'll personally give him the middle finger. Two fingers while I am at it!My God, it supposed that he made you by his own image, and so move you midle finger to the others, if this is all that you can do, about aiding others !!