Lol, @Rival entertaining that amusing gesture, imagine all of those absurdities applied to this passage (and factoring in the anti-rational Trinity while we're at it :D)
One of the scribes came near and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, he asked him...
Whether you believe God exists or No-God exists, you can still agree that Reality is sadistic? nay?
Or maybe you're just not making intelligent judgements here.
Can Reality even be sadistic?
We're born, we suffer, we die. Agree? disagree? why/why-not?
What role does passion have in all of this...
Well as the prologue in the Adi Parva of the Mahabharata states:
Sauti then said, 'Having bowed down to the primordial being Isana, to whom multitudes make offerings, and who is adored by the multitude; who is the true incorruptible one, Brahma, perceptible, imperceptible, eternal; who is both...
Hmmm....it is quite the question.
What we call "objective" in a materialist sense is still relative to the temporally observable conditions in which they are being observed. All things objective at the same time are only ever experienced through the subjective. The subjective is known through...
I'm easily susceptible to Jungian terminology/lingo, lol. I reference all of that a lot because much of it is relevant, albeit not in a materialist way. Archetypes, Shadow, Ego and Anima/Animus especially are ideas that, some of which, I naturally picked up myself actually from my own...
You're using a lot of invalid sources here, I understand that it's easier for you to do that but it means for you that you will only attack a strawman here.
You're going to have to provide evidence of these claims, you're giving me hearsay.
As for your sources, the more you reveal your sources the less impressed I am. You're getting incredibly lazy if you're using David Wood to make arguments here.
This is a common trend with missionary...
Why is your source the fraudulent Evangelical apologist Jay Smith?
Every Muslim knows about Qira'at, Qira'at does not equate to a "different Qur'an", there's only One, this is purely a factual thing. The many Hadith reaffirm that these schools of recitations are literal teacher-to-student...
I share the same frustration, I have to work jobs like everyone else but spiritual pursuits are the only thing I want to or have the Will to spend my time on.
I guess the flip side is that service to other people, giving for the benefit of others is the other aspect of the spiritual pursuit. I...
Well, by ignoramuses that don't understand what Monotheism is.
I can kinda see for Christianity though because they believe in an anthropomorphic deity that became a literal man. Hence absurdity.
I can actually kinda see that myself. A certain aspect of Paul's demeanor is a violation of Jesus' principle of:
"Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother's eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?" (Matthew 7:3)