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  1. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    Ok, it is understood that you believe there is no value in religion, what is not understood is why you are not able to resist going into ant-religion mode against religious minded posters, even when you were not addressed, when this very forum is called Religious Forums. Why don't you just keep...
  2. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    Dear gnostic, meditation is a non-dualistic practice, science in the context of astronomy is a dualistic practice, there is no objection to, or competition with, on the part of a meditator as to the practice of astronomy. In fact, there is no reason why an astronomer could not practice...
  3. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    All concepts are abstract dear gnostic, that is what I have been trying to convey, reality is forever on the other side of words. Now if you test and have evidence/proof that an idea is real, then you understand the reality represented by the concept/word, but you cannot expect that everyone...
  4. Ben Dhyan

    End Times?

    If you imagine that the present immoral, decadent, evil, state of the world with wars going on in the ME and Ukraine is the Second Coming post Armageddon Heavenly rule period promised in Revelation end time prophecy, then you are easily pleased. Imho, the present wars are the beginning period...
  5. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    Dear gnostic, a concept represents reality (bear in mind that the word 'reality' is also a concept, but you know I mean the actual reality represented by the concept reality), but it is not reality, except as a concept, it is merely a sort of symbol to represent the real. The reader/listener...
  6. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    Yes, try to understand, the reality represented by the concept 'God' is 'all there is'. Now if I say to you 'the whole of existence', I would mean 'all there is'. This is not superstition, all that exists is plain English, there is nothing outside of all that exists as a fact of logic, all that...
  7. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    Ok, let me try and understand, you are saying duality is superstition and non-duality/union is superstition, meditation is superstition and non-meditation is superstition? To be consistent, should not according to your logic, science be superstition, and non-science also be superstition...
  8. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    Belief in some reality implies duality, the believer on the one hand and the belief on the other. However, to transcend duality and become one with reality is yoga, ie,., union, so no belief is involved.
  9. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    Treat others as one would like to be treated is not being gratuitous imho. My comments to simsi that you and gnostic are reacting to was in the context of religion, not science. That you and gnostic have decided to engage me on the subject of the reality represented by the concept of 'God' by...
  10. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    We are talking about the same reality as you call the universe, I respect that and use that term myself in the scientific context, but in the proper religious context, I may use the concept 'God', or more specifically 'God's creation', God bless.
  11. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    Thank you for your opinion, God bless you my dear shunyadragon.
  12. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    Your opinion is noted, God bless you my dear gnostic.
  13. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    The reality represented by the concept 'God' is infinite and eternal, the reality represented by the concept 'space' and 'time' is infinite and eternal respectively. God is one, there is nothing outside of God. God is the eternal now, God is the infinite space. The reality represented by the...
  14. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    Have you ever considered that the reality represented by the concept of God as an indivisible one, and it is only human conception that divides the one God into two aspects, the creator aspect, and the created aspect. Now all created things have beginnings and endings, iow they are not eternal...
  15. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    Some people are born or become blind and cannot see what you can see, and so it is that some souls are born or become 'blind' to the reality represented by the concept 'God', and cannot apprehend what a spiritually receptive soul may realize. What a non-believer shouldn't do, is deny spiritual...
  16. Ben Dhyan

    End Times?

    If it has already happened, what was the point, nothing seems to have changed, wars and rumors of wars, corruption and evil, still happening since the days of Jesus?
  17. Ben Dhyan

    End Times?

    Trump's would be assassin apparently thinks he is on the side of good against evil of end times.
  18. Ben Dhyan

    End Times?

    This site, ESCHATOLOGY TODAY , specializes on "end times" development. If you have been following post WWII geopolitics, and before, you would know that the "game of monopoly" on planet Earth has been won and the winners are trying to establish a one world government to rule all humanity. And...
  19. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    ^ You may want to remember that conceptualization is not reality, it may be meant to represent reality/truth, but reality/truth is what it is, and never the symbolic representation. Abstract: existing as an idea, feeling, or quality, not as a material object: Abstract...
  20. Ben Dhyan

    Why Didn't the Universe Always Exist?

    Ok, you have clarification, that was not said in the religious context.
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