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Awe and Wonder
There's so many kinds of love ... Which one am I supposed to fear? True love of virtues... Or Romance with passion? All I know is when you love you have something to live for. Something to lose, something to gain. So being on the wrong side of true love would be something to fear. The...- osgart
- Post #25
- Forum: Religious Debates
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Why Do You Reject Jesus?
The idea that Jesus was supremely innocent and needed to be crucified on a Roman cross so that the guilty; everyone able to choose and believe, could be redeemed to God strikes me as quite senseless, especially for an all powerful, just God. The innocent for the guilty. No way. Mercy requires...- osgart
- Post #117
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Isn't it terrible that humans don't even know why they exist but yet we push on anyway
Anyone can find good reasons, bad reasons, or no reason at all. I think there are reasons for being here in the universe. We are existence trying to know itself through the manifested universe. I also go for the quote, ' the unexamined life is not worth living '. At the endless bottom of the...- osgart
- Post #31
- Forum: Philosophy
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General Debate: The Solution to All The World's Problems
The solution is charity towards all humans as they deserve, with mercy towards the repentant, and honor to the deserving. It's a heart thing.- osgart
- Post #86
- Forum: General Debates
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Do you believe in a literal devil?
A devil in my definition is a conscious false accuser, and a tale bearing liar, filled with unjustifiable hatred bent on destruction of what's good for personal power and gain. A stealer of what don't belong to such. That kind of devil exists if anyone goes down that road. One who masters...- osgart
- Post #18
- Forum: Interfaith Discussion
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Why are a lot of people pessimistic ?
Depends what you want, truth or comfort that isn't real. Truth of reality is sobering. Nihilism is the struggle of people who want truth of existence and reality. To figure out just how much is known, unknown, and how much is ever beyond finding out, and accepting that there will always be...- osgart
- Post #12
- Forum: Philosophy
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Why are a lot of people pessimistic ?
Depends what you want, truth or comfort that isn't real. Truth of reality is sobering. Nihilism is the struggle of people who want truth of existence and reality. To figure out just how much is known, unknown, and how much is ever beyond finding out, and accepting that there will always be...- osgart
- Post #11
- Forum: Philosophy
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The Mystical Journey
Divinity is the values, virtues, and qualities of character that have a perfection that enable trust and deserve that also transcends us humans that seek it beyond the limits of our physical nature and existence. Realization of these qualities is the truth that provides mystical experiences...- osgart
- Post #12
- Forum: Religious Debates
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The Pagan/Christian Immortal Soul
The soul is just the qualities and characteristics that compose one unified self being. Anything that is truly alive has a soul; animals and humans. There is the heart or character, the mind, and the will of a self that comprise what a soul is. As souls we are units of being that are the...- osgart
- Post #16
- Forum: Religious Debates
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Judging a Religion
If the religion is highly conditional on doctrine and paints an obviously false picture of reality then it stigmatizes the out groups and is no good for society. It lives in a fixed, isolated vacuum. If they presume to know people personally and their true moral nature they are a false...- osgart
- Post #16
- Forum: General Religious Debates
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Happy Birthday osgart!!
Thanks all! Appreciate the hospitality here at RF!- osgart
- Post #7
- Forum: Member Announcements
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The Power to Love
If ego is arrogance then that character trait is blinded, or worse knowingly contrary to love. However being an individual self is a precious uniqueness. Self love is not ego. Since evil is totally unnatural, foolish, and not supposed to exist, unconditional love would be the default natural...- osgart
- Post #6
- Forum: Religious Debates
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Which non-God beings do you believe in
Eternal life forms is something I hoped was a reality because I just don't think that life comes from outta nowhere from non living things. I'm sure the foundational existence is teeming with life that has always been. No angels, no demons, no Gods. I've safely ruled out all such things...- osgart
- Post #24
- Forum: Comparative Religion
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Do you consider yourself superior to all others?
That's my big concern with certain religions and religious people. Sinners don't become royalty overnight. I desire God to be true, and existent, but I feel like a lot of self professed faithful are making a false authority in their heads. I've met people that have told me they have special...- osgart
- Post #64
- Forum: Psychology
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Do you consider yourself superior to all others?
I don't resonate with Christianity but God is definitely something I try to fathom. I had a similar sense about the peoples of Earth as a teenager. I thought that each race had much to contribute. I felt that each race had a culture, and history that would eventually lead to unity, peace, and...- osgart
- Post #57
- Forum: Psychology
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Do you consider yourself superior to all others?
There are many different measures of equality. Heartwise, intellect, skill, will, usefulness, etc. Heartwise I consider myself bottom level equal to everyone who has ever felt true love for others. We humans are perhaps at the bottom floor of existence. Perfect holiness is so far above and...- osgart
- Post #55
- Forum: Psychology
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'Unliftable Stone' Paradox - Logically flawed argument people make even today
Is there an alternative scenario that is God based and evident? I'll stop here. I will say that God based scenarios have no evidence behind them. The question of God not being able to lift a rock is an insignificant argument though.- osgart
- Post #67
- Forum: Religious Debates
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'Unliftable Stone' Paradox - Logically flawed argument people make even today
It's expected by many cosmologists that the universe will become sterile in a heat death. Even black holes will dissipate over an extreme amount of time.- osgart
- Post #65
- Forum: Religious Debates
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'Unliftable Stone' Paradox - Logically flawed argument people make even today
I'm off topic with this. I will say that supernatural events have never been witnessed by anyone alive today. The only way to know of a God is by revelation because nature doesn't reveal anything of a God that has command over nature.- osgart
- Post #63
- Forum: Religious Debates