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  1. osgart

    Death and taking life from a living creature

    In defense of life and a justice that creates peace, and virtue, when under threat of damage, harm, and death, it is justifiable to kill those that are committed to those actions. Under criminal influences, subject to evil, and with malicious, gainful intent people are expected to do murderous...
  2. osgart

    Is there such a thing as a universal religion?

    Wrong. It's just empty word claims on a page. I didn't grow up with Islam so it has no meaning for me. If you like Middle Eastern wars, violence, and terror then Islam seems to be the religion for that. Just what exactly are you submitting to?
  3. osgart

    What’s one experience—big or small—that’s had a lasting impact on how you see the world?

    My kindergarten teacher slapped me for pulling a girl's hair, which I never did and someone else got away with it. I realized that life wasn't all fair, with golden rainbows all the time.
  4. osgart

    Enlightened

    When I realized that for humans Jesus is everything they want him to be, and nothing they didn't want him to be, and that every believer had their own personal revised version of the fictional character, I was in high school in religious studies. Jesus is whomever you want him to be according to...
  5. osgart

    My GOD will MURDER and DESTROY you! Care to convert? (for your own safety, of course)

    I think the flip side of this ultimatum is that true love is on God's side of things. If they are going to preach eternal wrath and why I deserve it, they should at least tell me what this eternal true love is that I'm supposedly rejecting, denying, and hardening my heart too. Then they can...
  6. osgart

    "glory" and "glorify"???

    To glorify God is to see God's will being done in deed, truth, and at heart. In my faith, and truth I rarely get to experience any glory, or glorification. The reason for that is every generation seeks after what they want, and how to break barriers to whatever it is they want instead of...
  7. osgart

    Most Religions Believe In An Afterlife

    Reincarnation no. Continued existence I do believe in. The soul goes back to its foundations, and this reality fades away. This reality being a veil, that once lifted, reveals the true nature. All things pass, and move on. I'm not sure that memories aren't just passing occurrences. I don't...
  8. osgart

    Most Religions Believe In An Afterlife

    I would say introspection reveals much about one's own inner being reality. Not that all introspection is valid, but neither is all objective reasoning worthwhile. There's qualitative reality, and there are the things that can be measured and conceptually labeled only quantitatively. That's...
  9. osgart

    Why do humans exist ?

    Because all that exists of humans could be and probably is fundamental to existence, and not some blanket explanation of emergence. It's not satisfactory to assume the qualities of humans is a gradual pop up from nothing of those qualities. It's definitely a philosophical question. I think...
  10. osgart

    Christians: Does Christ really give you the power to forgive? Edit: To the religious as well

    No not really. But if forgiveness is going to happen that has a lot to do with the person's repentance and how genuine, and forever permanent that is. Spot me a few eons after repentance, I might be able to forgive. Having said that I believe that if there is eternal life, like I believe, then...
  11. osgart

    One word challenge: “God is…”

    The One you talk to when you stub your foot.
  12. osgart

    Teleological Argument (Aquinas)

    A natural intelligence to existence is far more likely than a supreme intelligence that is masterful. The purposes in nature are not grande, rather they are very small ones. The grandest purpose to existence is to survive, and attempt to understand it after that. To take the apparent...
  13. osgart

    Ask me anything

    Are you an independent believer, or one who chooses a mainstream religion? Also, do you think materialist/naturalist philosophy makes a lot of sense?
  14. osgart

    If science is so great why hasn't it solved all of humanitys problems ?

    It's not that you don't achieve it. It's the fact that people are able to do it, and that those qualities exist in the first place, and people take it for granted that it just happens. Those qualities have existence and can be cultivated on a spiritual path. It's hardly accidental nor purely...
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    If science is so great why hasn't it solved all of humanitys problems ?

    Problem? If enjoying beauty was all there was to it, it wouldn't be worth it . Anyone can enjoy beauty without any effort at all. It's the hidden beauty people miss, and don't care that much about. Not just a passing chemistry. Spiritual paths are knowable. It's from the inside out, not...
  16. osgart

    If science is so great why hasn't it solved all of humanitys problems ?

    I think science is wonderful, but not as a way of life to supplant spiritual/religious pursuits. That's probably the frustration you have here. It's with those who want to get rid of the spiritual in favor of critical thinking. Repeatedly being told that spiritual/religious paths are nonsense...
  17. osgart

    Talk

    Ultimate questions about life and existence isn't small talk? Uh oh, time for a reality check.
  18. osgart

    Existential dread and Religion

    Religion is often respite from the mundane, and the harsh realities of existence. There may be good reasons for spiritual realities. However people really want the importance and purpose of a story so grande it was made for them, and somehow they are apart of it all. No one wants the...
  19. osgart

    Knowledge, evidence, truth, proof, assumption, axiom, belief, faith and so on

    That depends on whether or not they can adapt to the new way of life. It may be that the mind depends on the physical brain for its existence. The spiritual may supervene upon the physical. I'm inclined to agree that there are spiritual qualities to being alive. And those qualities are...
  20. osgart

    Knowledge, evidence, truth, proof, assumption, axiom, belief, faith and so on

    Useful is subjective. However it's better to not have to be hunter/gatherers. There's the case of people who don't have a functional hippocampus whom are not able to form new memories. It seems all the important functions of consciousness go through the brain. No brain, and what does the...
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