Most people see that love is something that exists outside themselves as well. If you doubt that, just look at how most people seek to find happiness outside of themselves. They believe if they find the right person, they will find love. They are looking for love to come into their lives through...
How often have you seen those who claim love kill others out of jealous rages? I don't see what your point is here. Just because they use the word love, does that mean they are acting consistently with what the word represents? God, by its very construction is "Good".
How do any of the...
I like that. However, in the movie "A Love Story", which is where that line comes from, he was apologizing to her for having just screamed in her face for something he was angry about, she runs off, and finds her crying, and apologizes for what he just did. So her comment in that context, when...
You just expressed your faith twice in the above statement "I believe 'physical energy' to be the ultimate reality", and that science is the decider of this belief. Both are statements of faith.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/faith/#AffComFai
2. The affective component of faith
One...
You mean I don't understand love in the reductionist only sense of the word? That is correct. If that's all it is, then it isn't much at all. Tis but a brain fart.
You said cheating is not love. In the same vein, war is not religion. You said that love that acts that way is not real love. And...
No doubt. I think most people see God as a great big human, only better and more powerful. A "super us" in other words. "In the beginning, man created God in his own image, only better."
So then, upright on two feet? So destroying the physical vessel seems to be the sin here, since that...
But yet it clearly produces many wonderful things in the world outside of the mind, does it not?
That depends on what you mean by mind. If by mind you mean the heart in the deeper sense of something before and beyond consciousness thought, then certainly, it does manifest itself through the...
Can you explain what God's image mean? Does it mean we physically look like God? Does it mean that God walks upright on two feet, and since only humans do that, that is what God's image is? Or does it mean only we are rational because that is God's image? Does it mean only we are spiritual...
I see it as the same as saying love exists in the mind/heart. But it is also something that exists in other's hearts and minds as well. And there can be a shared experience of love, that is greater than either or all of its participants.
So isn't it fair then to say that when people speak of...
So, love means doing something that hurt someone else, and never apologizing for hurting them? Okay.
Nor is war religion.
Do you believe love only exists in the mind and therefore isn't actually real?
Would you know if they were? Do you know forms that might take? Maybe one of those low moos...
Worst line in a movie ever. Completely false.
The Trojan war ostensibly was. And if not at a city state level, certainly lovers killing those that cheat with their mates is certainly lethal violence.
There we go then. Love isn't real. :)
You can't say. Therefore, you don't know if cows...
Love exists only in the mind. Therefore it's not real. We just imagine it's real, and that creates a chemical response, which fools us into believing it actually exists. It's just a trick of the mind.
It has been used to exploit believers in the myth of love, in order to try to control them and...
Do you view Ultimate Reality as an entity, a being, or a creature of sorts? God to me is just a word meant to point to Ultimate Reality, which embraces all that is, without illusion. But for those who cannot imagine the Infinite Absolute, they make it "A God", or an "entity" or "a being". This...
Some corrections and further explanations in this for you. These are technically stages of consciousness development, which speaks to the modalities of how the mind conceptualizes and perceives reality. These are laid out basically as the archaic, magic, mythic, rational, pluralistic, integral...
You assume many things, and every time are proven wrong.
You believe.
I've never spoken of God as an entity. Add that to your list of errant assumptions.
If one has evidence, then is it faith anymore? I don't think you understand what a religious faith actually is.
You lack a great deal of...