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    Major News Major Glad Tidings Of Imam Mahdi

    The thread reminded me of this song. I was going to joke "Here I am!!!!".... But, who am I? I think maybe we need a saviour, in that there are still issues in the world, and we feel inadequate when facing this. So there is a innate "type" the saviour, the blessed one, who will resolve our...
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    Logos

    Without a logos (structure, rationality, orderly dynamic) of reality, there would be no correspondence between verbal "logic" and reality. I think that logos is like a Wittgensteinian logical form, logic "pictures" the reality, mirrros its form, its logos. There can be non real logics, self...
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    Focus on love and the awe of God, not lesser things

    Its ok to love God, but you need a safe base, which is where wisdom and social ethics come into play.
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    My Fellowman is Insane

    A dysfunctional concept of reality causing serious harm.
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    Intuit

    To believe without reasoning or logical thought. Sometimes its better not even to believe (intellectual apprehension), but just feel in a completely passive way (pure intuition).
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    How do you Define God????

    I don't really want to give a standard sentence as a definition. That's too abstract and uninformative. Rather its relating to God that we know him, and as a sentence doesn't do this, its an empty kind of cognition. And after all, in defining God we want a cognition of Him, right? Through the...
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    It Turns Out Money Can Buy Happiness

    There is a smart Krishna Vaishnav I know, could have a villa in Spain etc, but chooses his life of faith. According the Vedic metaphysics there are three gunas (things fit into a scheme of being in the mode of goodness, passion or ignorance). The wine bar scenario many strive for, its...
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    Belief is Irrelevant

    I believe thoughts change the patterns of the brain, and therefore relational properties to the universe. Even if I am just sitting down, I relate to the world throught thought, and changing belief is as causal an affair as changing body language..
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    How do your religious beliefs affect your actions?

    No bacon sandwiches.
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    Meaning of life - a fuzzy tautology

    The way I see it rational attraction to Being is close to sat chit ananda (being, consciousness and bliss). You probably know of satchitananda from Hindu traditions?
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    How reasonable is monotheism, even hypothetically?

    Sorry about that I got little by way of attention, so I cant focus too neatly on threads. The arguments are OK, so far as its context of assumptions go, but it reminds me of animal intelligence tests in a lab. The natural environment is the animals true home, where it adapted and learned its...
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    How reasonable is monotheism, even hypothetically?

    OP. Typical atheist. No offence meant, its rude and harsh sorry but but I just invented a term. Khmer Rouge school of theology. Analogy with "What is rotten must be removed" - a Khmer Rouge slogan. Considering spirituality often codes for a type of well being, even by secular standards that's...
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    A Challenge for those who believe in a loving God

    Ok, is God the most benevolent to people (or creatures) with congenital insensisivity to pain? Congenital insensitivity to pain - Wikipedia Seems like a possible heads I win, tails you loose scenario. If pain, then God is cruel. If no pain, then God is cruel. Therefore, pain is not really a...
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    Why am I still a bigot?

    Why are you a bigot? I think its the "new consensus" no harm, no bad, and harm is defined petty narrowly as gross physical harm. Or, apart from that, you can harm yourself and others consensually. If you don't agree, you're in the "out group". Evidence for harm, lets say of divorce on the...
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    Who Created Evolution?

    What about evolution within a multiverse, or a theoretical superposition of world states? If I potentially survive in one, and die in another - what does evolution make of my fitness from that overall perspective? A superposition of lives and deaths? If God created us with real choice (I can...
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    Time - Change the word from sound to time

    I think the physicist Wheeler a physicist argued that conscioness caused a wave function of the universe to collapse, and that consciousness kind of invented time then. See Participaroty Universe Principle (PAP). Participatory Anthropic Principle (PAP)
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    This is the Koran, what about the others

    So is this thread about the whereabouts of God? What are we asking, in what way are we interrogating? The only ideas I have relate to the phenomenology of religion.
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    Meaning of life - a fuzzy tautology

    Agreed. Where Ive gone from there is relate that to evolution, all those things you mention are healthy (in due context), and are discovered to be preferble on occasion because of a) innate genetics, b) cultural learning and c) individual learning.. Where as being burnt is generally innately...
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    Wingsuit Base Jumping [VIDEO]

    No I havenst and little idea, but I d say parachute licence maybe £2000 worth of experience and kit or up, and then you can join the base jumpers. Here a google: How much does skydiving cost? | Skydive Northwest
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    Cars!

    I was raised climate conscious and anti car, but if I had to then somethin' like a Daimler Straight-Eight DE 36
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