Never thought about it until I saw it (Page 2): I want to respond to your second sentence. I remember what a Salvation Army Woman told us once at Summer Vacation Bible School over...

FallenOak Loc: St George Utah

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. wrote:

Ok mini mind, I’ll try to explain this in terms th... (show quote)

I want to respond to your second sentence. I remember what a Salvation Army Woman told us once at Summer Vacation Bible School over seventy years ago. A man asked her why she believed in a God that wasn’t there and a heaven that did not exist because after anyone died everything just became a black nothing. That was why he lived the way he did. She answer that if he was correct there would be just a nothing but if she was correct wouldn’t he rather have what she had believed and lived. It costs nothing to live a life dedicated to doing good just as it costs nothing to live a life without trying to be the best and only living for the moment so why not earn the better reward.

Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia

FallenOak wrote:

I want to respond to your second sentence. I reme... (show quote)

Some vessels are made for glory and some for destruction, I say, choices made, future determined, move on to the next heathen in line.

Y360AZ

If something cannot stop the light waves, it will not have a shadow (as the piece of glass). OR how about this explanation, folks: The flame absorbed the light as did the match stick and its light is shining on the wall. -- Hold something between the flame and the wall and see what other shadow is appears. That should prove or disprove something.

Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia

https://static.onepoliticalplaza.com/upload/2020/9/24/t1-491795-1john1_5.jpg
The original statement is still true, even though some are trying to discredit it!

Y360AZ

Marty 2020 wrote:

https://static.onepoliticalplaza.com/upload/2020/9/24/t1-491795-1john1_5.jpg
The original statement is still true, even though some are trying to discredit it!

I agree the verse it true.
But I'm having a hard time trying to figure out what kind of statement "Light has no shadow" is, because light [plus a solid something] causes a shadow. Light bulbs have no shadow either, once turned on, because they are a source of light.

billy a Loc: South Florida

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. wrote:

Ok mini mind, I’ll try to explain this in terms th... (show quote)

I feel sorry for you. No Faith. No Hope. So very lonely and afraid when the end comes.

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. Loc: Pa

billy a wrote:

I feel sorry for you. No Faith. No Hope. So very lonely and afraid when the end comes.

Wrong. Faith in reality and humanity. Happily amongst friends and family. No fear of when the end comes, I just understand that’s part of the natural life cycle for all beings. I don’t need a fairy tale of going to heaven, wh**ever and where ever that fantasyland is. Weak individuals need religion as a crutch to escape reality.

Y360AZ

I think you all are getting away from the shadow topic.

Marty 2020 Loc: Banana Republic of Kalifornia

Y360AZ wrote:

I think you all are getting away from the shadow topic.

Ok then, why do you think the flame casts no visible shadow?

Rose42

Leave the gun. Take the cannoli. wrote:

Wrong. Faith in reality and humanity. Happily amongst friends and family. No fear of when the end comes, I just understand that’s part of the natural life cycle for all beings. I don’t need a fairy tale of going to heaven, wh**ever and where ever that fantasyland is. Weak individuals need religion as a crutch to escape reality.

You may claim that but in your heart you know God exists. You choose to reject him and that doesn't make you strong.

Y360AZ

Marty 2020 wrote:

Ok then, why do you think the flame casts no visible shadow?

I have said in detail in earlier comments. Basically it is a light source.

billy a Loc: South Florida

Parky60 wrote:

Never thought about it until I saw it

There is a light-source opposite the wall, the match-stick and hand block that light, casting a shadow. The flame is sending light to the wall, countering the light that is blocked by the stick and the hand. Just a guess...

valkyrierider Loc: "Land of Trump"

billy a wrote:

There is a light-source opposite the wall, the match-stick and hand block that light, casting a shadow. The flame is sending light to the wall, countering the light that is blocked by the stick and the hand. Just a guess...

Turn off the light source that is casting the shadow and you will see the matchstick disappear as the light from the match will k**l the shadow. The flame is not invisible to the naked eye so therefore it absorbs light so that you can photograph the flame and at the same time the flame is throwing off light that makes the flame disappear. The light from the flame is not as strong as the light causing the shadow so the as long as the flame burns you will see a lighter shadow of the matchstick than when the flame goes out.

billy a Loc: South Florida

valkyrierider wrote:

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Dog-Gone Parky... see what you've started?
I was going to go with the Spiritual side of the post, but nooo... now Myself and Valky are causing one of those "chicken and egg" questions in my head for a day or two. Maybe googly...

Tug484

billy a wrote:

Dog-Gone Parky... see what you've started?
I was going to go with the Spiritual side of the post, but nooo... now Myself and Valky are causing one of those "chicken and egg" questions in my head for a day or two. Maybe googly...

I won't ponder that one.
It will drive me nuts like ,
If there was nothing here, how did God create everything.
I finally decided it was God and a huge void.
Then the where did God come from?
It could be endless.