Good bye

He's now finding out whether or not his theories were accurate. He's either off into nothingness, or burning in eternal hell.

Rest in peace, Mr. Hawking. Hopefully.

I responded to one of them, and got logged out of my own FB account for calling that person a retard.

Of all the unflattering things that were said about me... I got logged out of my own account, and warned about FB policies about calling people retards.

Mark Zuckerberg can kiss my ass. F***that p***y piece of sh*t.

To have held the post at Cambridge University of Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics, a position that has been held by only 17 men including the father of physics Isaac Newton. Well, it is just sad to lose such a man.

MACS, You just can't fix people unwilling to have an open mind no matter how hard you try. If I recall Hawkings hypotheses was showing positive for there not having a higher being correct? I can't remember as it has been a while since I have read up on his works.

It's a damn shame the Winklevoss guys didn't log that thieving POS out of Facebook right at the beginning ...

I have an easier time understanding why a wicked man would but, well this has always bothered me: if God made us who we are, he knows what he made and is, the way I see it, largely responsible for what we are and do.

I know it will be argued that WE make choices but..do we really? Always? I dunno...

We lost a great man. I think part of his legacy should be his warning to us, the not nearly as brilliant people of the earth that he seemed to really love.

He warned us that we were screwing up the planet, that artificial intelligence could bring about the end of mankind, as would trying to find alien life, an inevitability he was really afraid of.

3 quotes by Hawking:

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

who knows really

not for us to judge

with my beliefs I pray he came to faith in his fleeting moments

one day we will all find out the truth but either way it will likely be too late to do anything about it

yours is one of the top 4-5 questions that have troubled man as long as man exists

if you are truly interested in some well thought out and widely held answers you will find them by searching through some of William lane Craig's questions/answers over the years. you will see that a version of your question comes up very frequently.

https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/ 

I glossed over this earlier... but now that gummy quoted it... it makes no sense.

You start by posting a false binary choice (either there is no god and he's off to nothingness, or the god is specifically the type which believes nonbelievers will burn in eternal hell). The binary choice is obviously false, as the existence of a god can be the existence of ANY god. This isn't an "either macs or stephen hawking is right about the nature of the universe". You both could conceptually be wrong.

But then, you state that you hope he rests in peace. Which is weird, as you are presumably of the religion in which nonbelievers burn in hell (otherwise you wouldn't have offered that option up in the binary choice)... so hoping he rests in peace is disingenuous, as it would require you be wrong about your religion, something which is built solely on faith.

I really have never understood people.

Interesting site. I seem incapable of that leap of faith many others are capable of.

That said, I'm reading Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. There's a really interesting point one of characters makes: he says the greatest, most admirable thing about man is the idea he's concocted that 'even if there were no God it would be necessary to invent him'. That somehow, for many of us, God is necessary! Whether he exists or not!

Personally, I like that.

Liar.