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    Religion - Some Questions

    Looks like you regard utility as the only justification for anything, religion included. I’m sure there must be some religious who feel the same way but I don’t think most would and speaking only for me, neither do all irreligious.
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    If God is something real for you, how do you imagine who/what that is?

    That is why I coined "whateverist". It isn't about being flippant. It is just knowing my faith is in the something greater I intuit - whatever that may turn out to be. My disposition is introversion so I've always gravitated toward contemplative and creative activities. I'm sure traditional...
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    If God is something real for you, how do you imagine who/what that is?

    So do I for the same reason. Not an ongoing thing and I neither need nor expect to do so again. But it is enough to know there is more depth to experience than just our immediate sense perception and cognitive associations. If you know, you know you don't need to know more. Life isn't a test...
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    Suppression of Free Speech on Covid

    Yes, but I think it just depends on people's vulnerabilities. Vaccines can smooth the way with new variants in the same way the annual flu shot can. Don't think I'd like to catch and hatch my own antibodies every time. I'm still a Covid virgin because my wife has Pure Autonomic Failure which...
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    Suppression of Free Speech on Covid

    Surprising this thread is still needed but I appreciate you for standing up for science and common sense. I don't believe I've responded to it but if I had it would have been to note we also suppress free speech in the event of a theatre burning. When public health officials declare a...
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    If God is something real for you, how do you imagine who/what that is?

    Got to say I have no place for a revealed word as though whatever God may be can and does send prose to people to transcribe for Him. I tend to understand that differently both in the Urania book and the Bible. I think everyone to some degree can occasionally tap into the something more which...
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    If God is something real for you, how do you imagine who/what that is?

    Can you tell me a little about it? New to me. Edited to add I read everything Amazon had linked about it. It strikes me as an effort to place Christianity in the widest context possible with a huge back story. Not being a Christian myself I probably won’t be going there. But I can see the...
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    If God is something real for you, how do you imagine who/what that is?

    Fair warning: it is brutally long and if you're as thick as I am you'll not only have to read it slowly but frequently reread parts. If you end up giving it a go please let me know how you like it and I'm always happy to discuss whatever strikes your fancy if you do. His first book The Master...
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    If God is something real for you, how do you imagine who/what that is?

    Interesting and pretty sophisticated for a kid. I'm looking for a quip involving a red or blue pill but coming up empty.
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    If God is something real for you, how do you imagine who/what that is?

    But what if what is held as sacred no kind of thing? If God as the ground of being is the answer to the question why anything at all exists, then whatever God is is not on the plane of things which exists. It is prior.
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    If God is something real for you, how do you imagine who/what that is?

    I agree with you though I suspect our conception of God varies, as it almost must. Probably, correctly understood, existence is beneath God. I see you aspire to be a scholar so I wonder if Iain McGIlchrist has made it into your bookcase? I've been rereading the last two chapters of his book...
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    "Love" - The Ultimate Love Song Collection

    You’re still a step above me. I’m just a guy enjoying their canned music. I worked my way through a few pages here to see if this one was already posted but didn’t see it. Musically it leaves something to be desired but I still like it.
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    "Love" - The Ultimate Love Song Collection

    So you play too? I forget what the group she sang that one was called but I liked several of their recordings.
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    "Love" - The Ultimate Love Song Collection

    Doesn't this belong in the Nora Jones section?
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    Atheists: does God exist?

    And certainly beyond the powers of language. Last night I reread these words: And the word God is obfuscated and overlaid with so many unhelpful accretions in the West that it is not surprising that people recoil from this idol. It's not just that, obviously, God is not some old man sitting...
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    Does it matter what we believe?

    It matters to me but I don’t think it is a matter of correctly answering a multiple choice test. No set of answer choices would be adequate. The point is life and the cosmos gives rise to everything - our selves, music and art as well as rocks, critters and trees. The odds of all that just...
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    Kamala Harris. Who do you think her VP pick will be.

    I'd like the democrats to actively claim the title of the Conservative Party, looking to conserve the constitution, democracy, the peaceful transfer of power and separation of church and state. To that end, if women weren't such a challenge to the status quo I'd like to see Liz Cheney run as VP...
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    Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), or Euthanasia

    You seem to be seething with must. I don't think your assumption is justified from any rational, in touch perspective but your assumptions are up to you even if making us all die in agony is not.
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    If God is something real for you, how do you imagine who/what that is?

    I have no gods. I have a sense of what God refers to and it is no thing. What you mistake as circular language is simply a different understanding of what language is about. I don’t think words are reality but only ways to present something about what reality one has experienced.
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    Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), or Euthanasia

    No choice need be made by anyone for life to end. It is the inevitable conclusion of all mortal beings. Self aware, sentient beings see the writing on the wall and are able to acquiesce to death as the lesser of two bad choices in unfortunate circumstances. It isn’t irrational or immoral.
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