... it also enables us to exercise complete freedom of choice, which is a necessary act of love. (Excuse me for labouring this. I'm just squeezing out whatever comes to me. I'll leave the room now if you wish)
Why did God make atheism possible, if not common? . . . Our soul actually needs to know what it feels like to experience so-called “darkness”. . . . Certain positive soul-faculties and spiritual muscle can only be promoted by experiencing - and eventually overcoming - evil and pain Just want to make it clear that I'm by no mea
Heh. Good one... I guess he wanted to add some evil in order to make an amazing movie. Dude, that's not too far from the truth. Our existence on earth isn't actually the 'real thing', at least in comparison with our eternal life in Heaven. As there’s no “space-time” in the Absolute, (space-time is simply part of the physical realm – which isn’t t
Let's pretend you are God for a moment. You exist in a void where nothing is, you have for an eternity, you get bored and decide to create something to relive you of your boredom. You start throwing atoms, and dust particles together, you create everything from nothing. Things start to form, the universe, rocks, stars and gasses. You see your creation and ponder on that f
She credits God for saving her life (to hell with the science right?) yet skips over the blame for the heart attack in the first place! I agree greywar. It's like folk who survive plane crashes. I saw an interview not long ago with a lady who'd survived the tsunami earlier this year. She was a hair's breadth from death, but she "miraculously sur
Thanks Ock, I'll drop you a line some other time. Yet again I've re-read that last post, and my God I make myself cringe. It's no wonder I keep this shite to myself. It all sounds so clinical and programmed. I'm going to have to jack this stuff in sometime soon and stick with the silence. It's horrible, man. I'd hate to be someone else reading my posts
How do you use this intuition in life? Have you applied it to a career? Have you started a church of some sort? Do you provide guidance for solving crimes or what? It’s ‘used’ as an integral part of my daily life. The fact that I possess this inner-intuition is out of my hands. But it’s shaped who I am as a person. I'd like to think that it enables m
Some people need religion, and some people don't. The good thing about having so many religions is that they cater for different people's tastes. The bad thing is that people can cling onto them too dogmatically. It's like a form of security for most folk, but people within a particular religion tend to get narrow minded, and ignore other people's views. In my view, the basic premise of our religions - that a higher power or God exists, and that all is not death and finality - is correc
Tell me the nature of ultimate reality. By what mechanism does the inner peace become produced (as a by product). Throw in your definition of "natural" as you use it here, also, please. The ultimate dimension of reality is Spirit. Our existence is no accident. Life has a deeper purpose, and death is not the end. When we die, our soul continues to expe
When I read your thoughts written here, I think you are trying to convince the readers that YOUR subjectivity is THE subjectivity we will all come to once we just wake up. If what you're then telling me is that YOUR subjective reality is truly objective reality, then show me your proof so I can see. Wake us all up with frequencies in our range of detection since quite clea
You sound programmed - like you enter the discussion already knowing all the answers and are only here to spew them forth when we push the AndyBaker button I know what you mean Okham. I don't like reading my own posts, because they make me cringe. But I'm entering the discussion knowing my own points of view, and those views shape what I write. S
There is no true truth - but there is an endless supply of opinion, masquerading as fact. I agree with the latter part, but disagree with first part. The fact that something exists, rather than nothing at all, demonstrates there is an ‘Ultimate Truth’. How much our opinions, thoughts, feelings, hopes or dreads etc, are aligned with 'What Is So',
Hell is where you are removed from God's sight...no love, no joy, nothing but the darkest emotions course through your consciousness Zoologist, do you believe that hell will be experienced by a soul for ever and ever, without a chance in the afterlife to escape it or be redeemed?
(What happened there? I thought I've been editing one post)
No one ever answers my question, and here it is again. How is it possible for imperfection to arise from perfection? Ockham, some things are considered imperfect only because we choose to label them as imperfect. “Imperfect” is a subjective notion, but from the Divine point of view, that which we humans might consider “imperfect” might not be imperfec
No one ever answers my question, and here it is again. How is it possible for imperfection to arise from perfection? Ockham, some things are considered imperfect only because we choose to label them as imperfect. “Imperfect” is a subjective notion, but from the Divine point of view, that which we humans might consider “imperfect” might not be imp
Instead I just sat in the temple gardens listening to the crickets and insects and looking at the fish swimming amongst the water lilies in the pond. Without a lot of my usual worries and cares I was able to experience a profound satisfaction with the ordinary, so that any mystic experience with flashing lights and choirs of angels was kind of surplus to requirements <
There was nothing to 'find', so I didn't find it... . . . but there is something to find. Our goal down here isn't necessarily to find it, (although that's possible). Rather, it's to walk the path that leads to it.
'Venerable Gotama, is there an Atman (self)?' The Buddha is silent 'Then venerable Gotama, is there no Atman?' Again the Buddha is silent. 'Ananda, when asked "Is there a self?", if I had answered "There is a self" then that would be siding with those recluses and brahmanas who hold the eternalist theory. 'And Ananda, when asked "Is there no self
** shakes head ** how cringe worthy. (But true!)
I think that sometimes it's best to stay mute about these things, especially if it means not sounding so dogmatic and arrogant. I've just re-read those last posts and I'm starting to sound like a pompous clinical twat again. It’s true that I use JU to express my views and give vent, but I get the feeling that it’s sounding too dogmatic and pompous. I don’t breathe a word about any of this in the ‘real world’. Instead I try to walk the path rather than talk it. That seems to work. I think that so
I fail to see how it implies anything. It could just as easily imply that God is totally alone, totally miserable, and totally rejecting - always and always. You choose what you choose for some positive reason, which is very warm and fuzzy, Ockham, if we attempt to comprehend the Infinite using the finite capacity of our intellect, then we’ll
No disrespect intended, Andy, but I did not "choose" to leave Paradise, Heaven, Hell, Valhalla, Bumfuque Egypt or the Void itself to come to this cesspool in order to learn some shallow lesson in pain No disrespect taken Little Whip. We all have different points of view, which is what makes life so rich, (and it also makes conversations like this
So... It sounds great doesnt it? It's like we build our own paradise and our hell really. Since we dont have all the same concept of paradise and hell (i'm sure "my" paradise would be very different from other people's paradise) we get what we've imagined in our earthly life once we die? I guess that's a different thread... Have you seen the film
What that is, I do not know, nor do I care to. I just know I dont want to find myself back here again. I'm with you on that one too Little Whip. It's horrible down here. But this attitude shows the difference between our finite personality’s view, and our soul’s point of view. Imagine yourself in a state when you know that you're infini
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