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I and my ego are not angered by the fact that we are made up of simple matter. I am not sure about what kind of combination you are talking.
You're also atheist.
I and my ego are not angered by the fact that we are made up of simple matter. I am not sure about what kind of combination you are talking.
But I am human too.You're also atheist.
But I am human too.
That does answer your question, does it not?But your ego is not infused with the idea that it should be better than everything else, which is essentially what having a soul means compared to every other living being.
What exactly is "the unseen"? This sounds kind of nebulous.
1) What do you mean by "open" and why are you putting in quote marks?
2) What exactly do you mean by your "heart" finding him? This is ambiguous.
I have read it in it's entirety and the only reason Elfboy's particular brand of theism makes sense to you is because he chooses to share the same base tenet of your own particular brand of theism. I would put serious money that his version of Christianity vastly differs from yours.
I think the world would be better if everyone stopped shoving their religions down each others throats. If everyone needs to stop believing in a god for that to happen (which is what it means to be an atheist) then yes, I think that it would be a better place if everyone, or most people, were atheists. However, I'm not about to start shoving my lack of religion down anyone's throat because that would be contributing to the problem, not solving it. Imagining a world without religion scares a lot of people and it should be atheists duty to put those fears to rest.
I see the fun in this. I know you and I live in the same world where there are a lot of religions, but I haven't noticed anyone force feeding me religion, lolz, but then I'm not easy to force feed. When the Mormons come to my door, I enjoy a friendly debate over iced tea. They stopped coming by. :C
I think a truer interpretation of what the bible standforis starting to shine through.
A truth behind truth, a convention-independent symbol, an ethereal way of becoming visible: I smell obscuration.
I think what you call universal qualities of the Bible are merely contemporary interpretations of it. They will be different 100 years in the future, as they were different 100 years in the past.Perhaps I didn't word that correctly. It should be more like: The more universal qualities of the bible are being taught more and more, and the ignorance that once fueled Christian religions is being washed away by those who show extreme intolerance for such equality.
I think what you call universal qualities of the Bible are merely contemporary interpretations of it. They will be different 100 years in the future, as they were different 100 years in the past.
I respect that, as long as you give yourself credit and are proud for the things you achieve and not God, I think its ok. I need by my own definition my coffee machine, without it I am only half-human half-troll
I give myself partial credit, and while I am sometimes proud I try not to be. Prideful attitudes are arguably accompanied by insecurities and despair. Despair when you take too much credit for the things you regret instead of letting go. My relationship with the Truth is one of both awareness and growing out of old habits, whether they be habits of regret, grudges, failures or accumulating too much information. Not letting go tends to cause cognitive dissonance. Instead, I try to penetrate challenges as they come by acknowledging them for what they are in as pure an understanding as I can have; at least pure enough to determine what the best course of action is.
Usually, when one thinks of morality, they also think of trying to eradicate, or at least contain, immoral behavior. Attempting to change the truth is impossible. It is true that we are all born with an apparatus that allows us to create our own problems and overcome them as well. We overcome them by going through them and shifting the way we view them instead of trying to patch them up with some pretty band-aid.
When's the last time you saw an idea to change as aspect of reality that actually worked? They only serve to give us temporary happiness because we are proud of our supposed accomplishments.
You said that very well and I agree with everything except for the reality part. To me our reality is man made. Their may be natural laws ruling our Universe but since God cant be proven to be one of them, he falls into the other huge category which is peoples reality.
People invented religion, for a Christian its God, for a muslim its Allah, for a Hindu its Vishnu; you can see here that human reality always has the need to work towards a goal. This is our real reality and it was postulated by people like Descartes in the time of enlightenment that we need to recognize that we are shitting on ourselves.
You know, I am human like anyone else and when I had a hard time in my life, like having to write a tough exam, I sometimes had a talk with God for a second. It gave me strength to talk to him in that moment or it just relived my sorrows. I do not blame people for doing that as long as they recognize that the religious reality is a man made invention, just like our social reality, our economical and political systems, our technological and artistic creations. Without mankind our reality wouldnt exist.
Imagine you had a friend born blind, how could you ever explain to him the color blue ? And under that premise, you dont even know if that what we see thru our physical eyes, is the real world or if it may look completly different. Like for example that in reality no colors exist and everything is black and its only the surface of things that does reflect the light and appears to us as colors. Imo humans know as much about reality like worms now about spacetravel
I see the fun in this. I know you and I live in the same world where there are a lot of religions, but I haven't noticed anyone force feeding me religion, lolz, but then I'm not easy to force feed. When the Mormons come to my door, I enjoy a friendly debate over iced tea. They stopped coming by. :C