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  1. osgart

    Is it smart to claim "my Religion is superior"?

    There's a lot of bad religion. So being able to say that one practices good religion means it's superior to all the bad ones by default.
  2. osgart

    Do You Find Ietsism a Likely and/or Plausible Belief?

    I don't think it is special in the sense that there is a grande purpose to our lives. But life is inherently special in that the qualities and characteristics we have have psychophysical harmony. If mindless processes made life there'd be no harmonious function at all. There's a theistic...
  3. osgart

    Do You Find Ietsism a Likely and/or Plausible Belief?

    Ietsism is definitely where I'm at. But to explain exactly how that infinite realm operates is not knowable in the life here on Earth. Benevolent omnipotent God's I've ruled out for good reasons. Design is not an option because that implies that life is a carefully thought out plan which it...
  4. osgart

    What is the Nature of Life?

    The nature of life is to say, ' What's up? '. Some might have a different view and say ' wazzup? '. Personally I like to think of it as. ' don't die and see what we can make of it '.
  5. osgart

    "Pious Frauds" done "in the name of Jesus"!?

    A person can believe all sorts of things, why cast one into hell for it.
  6. osgart

    What is Your Disbelief?

    Reality is what is regardless of what we know about it. :)
  7. osgart

    God Sent Himself To Die On The Cross

    No other way than a Roman cross? As a child the pictures of someone suffering extreme torment on a cross freaked me out. God being able to do all things chose the spill of His own blood by Roman hands. No other way of it? Where's the logic of that? Just forgive? Maybe, no?
  8. osgart

    "Pious Frauds" done "in the name of Jesus"!?

    Eternal hell for unbelief is a fraud. Or else an extreme delusion. It's bonkers!
  9. osgart

    Where were you 20 years ago?

    Working at a mfg. plant for microchips. Semiconductor!
  10. osgart

    Is killing inherently "evil"? And vegetarianism.

    This nature and life isn't moral. Morals traps I consider to be commonplace. Killing animals is just a forced necessity of survival for many people. There's a lot people do to rationalize it. I think the biggest rationale used is that animals live miserable lives anyways. Another is that...
  11. osgart

    Is everything a simulation?

    The measure that propels events forward as we live and move and have being is not something measurable. We can only measure time in reference to motion off of atomic clocks. As for measuring space I'm very skeptical about how that's measured and considered to be actual space. I'm skeptical...
  12. osgart

    How Does Your Religion Sum Up Life?

    The same as the qualities and attributes that conscious life has. I think it's mainly non living intelligence systems spawned from intellect perhaps. There's two kinds of intelligence; one is intellect, and the other is the non living systemic kind. Life has dimensions that people think they...
  13. osgart

    How Does Your Religion Sum Up Life?

    Existence is trying to know itself, and the universe is a canvas it paints us on. I don't think the universe is fundamental to existence. People call it Brahman, but I don't buy into that. The eternal reality has qualities and attributes that simply exist.
  14. osgart

    I have a feeling that the afterlife doesn't exist

    Either we dissolve into something else or life has a fundamental quality to existence and its special characteristics that don't just pop up mindlessly.
  15. osgart

    Morality vs. self-preservation/self satisfaction

    If the morals are right/worthy then self preservation and fulfillment will have a far better chance of happening. Real morality springs from the heart and tells us what is acceptable and what is rejectable to ourselves. Some people have morals to subordinate to a set of values/standards. Some...
  16. osgart

    Can Atheists/Non-religious Lead Completely Moral Lives?

    Moralities have causes and effects in the real world. Morality can be defined as that which you find acceptable vs. being rejectable; that which brings you joy vs. that which offends you. Everyone is a moral agent. That is an inescapable fact of life. To lack morality of some kind would be to...
  17. osgart

    Eternal unconsciousness and religious belief

    How could it frighten anyone? It's akin to ceasing to exist. There would be great disappointment, but no fear. My religious beliefs I hold as like one card among many possibilities including the one you are talking about. Where would my natural identity fade to to make EU possible? I...
  18. osgart

    How Did I Get Here?

    There's a level of explanation there but I don't think it'll ever be in the fullest sense. Since consciousness is a measure of awareness I don't think that involves knowing about the subjects of consciousness; the experiencers. Awareness can be measured, but what about the process of an...
  19. osgart

    How Did I Get Here?

    So if it's infinite then we have an infinite array of galaxies, stars, planets. I wouldn't desire that to be the case. I am quite sure infinity exists, but the cosmos; I don't think so. It's turtles all the way down anyways.
  20. osgart

    How Did I Get Here?

    How do you know the cosmos is infinite? If space and time had a beginning which seems to be the case, then perhaps the cosmos is finite. The universe in its current form is a fleeting 13.8 billion years and subject to a heat death. The initial conditions at the start of our universe is...
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