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  1. osgart

    Idolators - ALL

    Idolatry IDOL'ATRY, n. L. idololatria. Gr. idol, and to worship or serve. 1. The worship of idols, images, or any thing made by hands, or which is not God. Idolatry is of two kinds the worship of images, statues, pictures, &c. made by hands and the worship of the heavenly bodies,the sun...
  2. osgart

    Heaven = Life as a Ghost

    I don't find real innocence to be doormats who won't defend themselves nor will they just sit there and take abuse with love. Innocence is dangerous if provoked to action. I see two sides to innocence love/judgment. Dogs may not be able to understand that. Maliciousness by definition is...
  3. osgart

    Heaven = Life as a Ghost

    Oh I don't believe in heaven. I just communicated my idea of heaven. As for religion, heaven and hell religions don't really help anyone as far as I've seen.
  4. osgart

    Afterlife

    It's a hunch! Mindlessly made intellect and life does not compute. Ha ha
  5. osgart

    Afterlife

    I have a hunch that all life falls back into the ocean that contains drops of souls.
  6. osgart

    The power of now by eckhart tolle

    I think without the past I have nothing to propel me forward. As long as one is not anchored in the past, the past serves as lessons forward. Without the past there is no growth. The more one can bring to the present in the best possible light from the past, the better the present moment will...
  7. osgart

    Heaven = Life as a Ghost

    Innocence is having no malice and living clean according to virtues. Everyone must deal with judging whom to trust. Charity means that a person has a giving spirit, and a helpful attitude. Benevolence means that one has others best interests at heart. There's nothing child like about any...
  8. osgart

    Marketability of Your Religion Based On Your RF Contributions

    I'm not selling anything. I'm just seeing what's true, what flies, what's false, and what meets dead ears. I want to see what people know or are certain in their know about what is true. I want to see what can be known about abstract qualities and their existence. My religion is for me, not...
  9. osgart

    The Spirit of the Law

    I would say the spirit of the law is to protect wealth and the wealthy, own the factors of production, and regulate the lives of the workers stringently so as to maximize profits for their owners. That's how politicians gain power secretly, while dumbing down the masses with empty rhetoric.
  10. osgart

    What do you think about this?

    You could easily put any wealthy capitalist living in luxury in place of the Christian family part of the meme, and we would have a good critique of what's wrong with society, and western values on the whole. It's not just Christianity! An ounce of charity in a social system just might solve...
  11. osgart

    How to not worry about People's Opinion of you

    I myself detach from worry and ask myself if I did something wrong or is it that I'm conjuring up things without being reasonable with myself. If I desire to be fair, then it's important to be fair with myself as well.
  12. osgart

    Difference in moral thought between atheists and believers

    Empathy, and virtues are the basis of morality, not any God. A God declaring right/wrong with no reason nor explanation of the morality commanded is a rather senseless morality. For example, a God commands people to commit genocide but says in His commandments 'Thou shall do no murder', is...
  13. osgart

    RF Financial Advice

    50-30-20. Absolute necessities- what you want if it's good for you- savings and investments. Of the 20 for savings and investments have conservative investments at 50. Moderate risk at 30 and aggressive risk at 20 or less. Live below your means. Consult more than one expert.
  14. osgart

    Learning about people’s faith & what they believe in, how they think about it & try to practice it

    Faith is confidence and trust in what you know to be true, and/or what is justified in believing. If I didn't have faith like that I wouldn't be able to move. I have faith in the values and virtues. There's about 100 positive character traits that I can name. I also have faith in my own...
  15. osgart

    Why the burden of proof lies on God ?

    God is extraordinarily absent. If God wants to be known then that's God's burden of proof. How is God present? Is it obvious? Do I have to rely on words in a book or some other's personal experience? Then there's the matter of correct interpretation.
  16. osgart

    Atheists: does God exist?

    For me emotions are effects and the qualities/ or lack thereof are the causes. I've avoided many of wasteful emotions by choosing better attitudes, focuses, appreciations and recognizing limitations of what I could control. Being emotionally driven can be extremely unreliable. There are times...
  17. osgart

    Atheists: does God exist?

    That really doesn't explain anything about it. You associate good feelings with love. Love takes on good and bad feelings and emotions are responses too love. Of course there are different kinds of love that people base on their feelings, but that is superficial to base it on. There are...
  18. osgart

    Atheists: does God exist?

    No doubt there! Of course it is natural, but natural may include a whole lot more then the senses can perceive. I believe intelligence can be learned, but as time goes by the quality of information and experience one lacks, or has can severely handicap one from learning intelligence in the...
  19. osgart

    Revelation or Psychosis?

    I recently had a dream while sleeping where my deceased mother spoke audible words to me. I actually heard the words and then I awoke to remember the whole thing. I could not see her, but the hearing was so real. Yet when I woke up I could make a distinction between what I heard and actual...
  20. osgart

    Atheists: does God exist?

    The potential of intelligence is extremely high despite the fact that many people fall below the average. The contents of consciousness have the appearance of being put together with memory, and all other capacities, especially identity self. Everything human is for to do something in the...
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