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Divine Plan
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02 Feb 2008 Sat 06:53 am |
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Quoting AEnigma III: is more of a "dinner party" discussion! You pay, and I will order the lobster  |
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02 Feb 2008 Sat 12:20 pm |
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I havent got time to read everything, so maybe someone already mentioned it, but AlphaF, it is true that your friend says there is difference between the mental and physical readiness for sex.
However, this is nowadays.. In older times, girls were considered old enough to marry when they were between 12-14, and expected to start making children. Its not for nothing that most girls start their periods around 12-15 years old. So a divine plan or not, the god forgot to change these periods according to current standards
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02 Feb 2008 Sat 12:40 pm |
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Quoting Deli_kizin: I havent got time to read everything, so maybe someone already mentioned it, but AlphaF, it is true that your friend says there is difference between the mental and physical readiness for sex.
However, this is nowadays.. In older times, girls were considered old enough to marry when they were between 12-14, and expected to start making children. Its not for nothing that most girls start their periods around 12-15 years old. So a divine plan or not, the god forgot to change these periods according to current standards |
My time is short too! But it was in the paper last week that girls of 9 are reaching puberty, so where does that fit into the divine plan? 
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03 Feb 2008 Sun 01:54 am |
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Quote: AEnigma, it think it depends on whether or not you are religious in a way that makes you follow all the dogma or if you are religious because you feel there is a God. I wonder if most people feel like me? I don't feel like my religion is the only one true religion. I feel that my religion is only one path to God. Because I was raised in a certain religion, it is how I feel most comfortable acknowledging my belief in God.
I do feel that some things do have meaning, but does that mean nothing is arbitrary? Why can't the two coexist? If there was a divine meaning in everything or if everything is an act of fate...then I can just sit back and let my life happen...I really believe life is a mixture of both. |
Well said Elizabeth. I am one of the people that feels the same as you.
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03 Feb 2008 Sun 01:58 am |
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Just out of curiosity - so which things are arbitrary and which are not?
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04 Feb 2008 Mon 05:02 pm |
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Quoting catwoman: Just out of curiosity - so which things are arbitrary and which are not? |
I think people can sense when there are things in their life that are meant/not meant to be. For example, there are certain things in my life that happened that started a chain of events so dependant on one another, I can only think it was fate. There are other things in my life that were just horrible or just wonderful and seemingly random. They were not necessarily connected in any way to other events in my life...kind of like modifiers in language....if you take them out...life would have the same meaning but would not be as rich.
I am not sure if I explained myself well or not, but I think it would make more sense after a few glasses of wine!!
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