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  1. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    Paradise, heaven and humanity - your view

    The Universe is like an enormous book. We make it as we go. But we often have contrary wishes, which is why it does not always appear to be what we want. Most aTheists cease to exist after they die. Our stream of awareness is a fixed line, but in order for us to enjoy being fully immersed in...
  2. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    If you were God, what would you do differently?

    In your world we would all be living on top of one another like sardines in a can. We would have no free will, make no mistakes, be totally indifferent. We would have no tears, and thus no joy. Not knowing hunger we would never feel blissfully satisfied after eating. We would be in a state of...
  3. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    What is objective?

    Kant realized that all knowledge has 3 components: The subject (knower) The object (that which is known) and the phenomenon of knowing which unites the other two. Phenomenology then uses the concept of combined inter-subjective knowledge. So multiple persons (subjects) will come to realize that...
  4. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    Do you find the teaching of eternal damnation thoroughly repulsive and the epitome of unjust?

    I do not recall reading that in the 7 times I read the Bible. Is that perhaps a rumor? After all the parable of the Good Samaritan tells of a man who is saved by his good deeds and not by which sect he belongs to. The Earth eventually will be destroyed, one way or another. The Soul transcends...
  5. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    if God were real...?

    It seems your position is actually agnostic, which is quite different to saying that The God does not exist. But have you considered the following argument (which is my own but inspired by Aquinas' argument from design): Consider where humanity will be in say 2000 years; probably colonizing the...
  6. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    Is philosophy a science?

    Well philosophy may actually become a 'science'. Yes science initially comes about when Descartes and other philosophers get fed up with dogma and sophistry, (medieval philosophy) and reform formal knowledge using geometry as a founding principle. They call it 'science.' However, science as an...
  7. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    What to make of reality

    Science reduces everything to math. Our real world is more like art. Why should there be different forms at all? Without the mystical qualitative aspect, math would reduce everything to a simple number like zero or 1. Science is like a sieve, it catches the big solid easy things, and lets...
  8. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    You are events.

    How did causality come to exist? or Why does it exist? or How do you know that causality is not an illusion?
  9. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    How materialists know brain produces mind

    Are you saying that: If all consciousness is a result of sense perception, then we must have perceived consciousness in order to have it. But in order to perceive consciousness, we must already have it to actually be able to have any such perception. So consciousness cannot be the result of...
  10. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    Do you find the teaching of eternal damnation thoroughly repulsive and the epitome of unjust?

    If people are good to a certain extent, then they have accepted God and Jesus to a certain extent. They may not use those words in the same way that you have decided those words must operate. I see it this way: Jesus=Good=God. Now I see many people disclaim the word 'Jesus' because it has been...
  11. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    Is It Really all about God????

    Love is unconditional. Respect is earned. Some do not fear death, they long for it as an end to their suffering. This is why many reject God: they then justify cheating and stealing and grabbing for themselves; thinking that after they die there will be no accounting for it.
  12. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    May I Have Your Attention, Please?

    He came to me as a spirit, and his message was True. I looked for God, a Deist or even Pantheist impersonal God, and was astonished to find John the Baptist and Jesus answer me. I think it was because I looked for truth with all my heart and soul, that they answered me. Like any being one could...
  13. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    if God were real...?

    I just use the age of 7 as a benchmark. Still there must have been a time when you felt you had made up your mind that Thor of the comic books was not going to lend you his hammer (and the others were also uninterested in you). I really do not see how Aquinas' argument from design can be...
  14. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    Jesus , Krishna- which of the two is the supreme-god?

    Jesus is the savior of mankind, so could be seen as supremely important for us humans; but the Lord of All Creation, would be infinitely more than this. The Lord of All Creation may even perhaps be seen to be a somewhat impersonal Deist concept: Supreme over all. Even Jesus may only be...
  15. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    L U S T

    Well after 5 years of marriage and sex 3 times a day; I 'd had enough. (5000 times) 14 years later, and it just seems like a cloying claustrophobic neediness and fear. Now if I presume to take the average of 3 times a week multiplied by 46 years thats 7000 times. Sorry, I'm just a compulsive...
  16. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    Where do thoughts come from?

    I just don't see how atheists can possibly believe that something as amazing as thought/consciousness can manifest out of a particular configuration of atoms in the form of organised sludgy mud.
  17. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    What's your sexy car?

    There is nothing in this world that I loathe more than motor cars. I often imagine that I am a giant reptile 30 feet high walking down the road stomping on cars; and then I kick one and it goes flying into the back of another one. heheh
  18. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    L U S T

    Do you think that there is no higher state of being/joy/happiness than sexy marriage?
  19. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    Creation Myths

    Myth is condescending. It claims the account is untrue. Now an account may be partly untrue, to a larger or lesser extent. But who can say for certain about how the universe came into being? We may just be in a highly complex computer game that itself could be inside another highly complex...
  20. Jonathan Ainsley Bain

    Jesus , Krishna- which of the two is the supreme-god?

    Jesus claimed to be the Son of God, not the supreme-god. But when Jesus spoke to me, such subtle points were not so important to him. Its strange because I had made a far more serious study of the Bhagavad Gita and considered myself a pagan who believes in reincarnation and many gods at the...
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