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LOL You completely misunderstood. ^_^ I said WITHIN yourself, not AT yourself.
There's a theory that if you don't know what you're looking for, your brain won't register it and you won't see it.
I can tell you don't bother looking for an old man in a red robe.
Can you bother telling what he does need to look for? You said yourself, if he doesn't know..LOL You completely misunderstood. ^_^ I said WITHIN yourself, not AT yourself.
There's a theory that if you don't know what you're looking for, your brain won't register it and you won't see it.
I can tell you don't bother looking for an old man in a red robe.
. But anyway,Just wanted to say I like your answers MWSpiritual guide "god": Yes and no. Each individual has the power to create their own hell based on their own mindset same as the have the power to create their own heaven. "heaven" is merely having a positive/optimistic/happy state of mind while "hell" is merely having a negative/pessimistic/unhappy state of mind. Most people have a tendency to switch back and forth between the two. So the gods can place themselves in their own hell or heaven however they do not have the power to create hell as an actual place that they could send others.
Universal force: The forces that I believe in have no concept of heaven or hell either as a physical place or a mindset so no they themselves do not create a hell either for themselves or anyone else.
Spiritual guide "god": It's not a matter of allowing people to harm others. The spiritual guides that I call gods can do no more than guide us, they have no more power to change the world or control our actions than we do, perhaps even less as they have no physical body and thus can only affect the world through guiding those that do and even then can only guide those that seek and accept their guidance. Even if they did have the ability it would be unlikely for them to use that ability. They had to grow and learn just as we do, but we won't grow and learn if we always have someone else around to clean up after us and protect us from our mistakes. A student will never learn how to solve a mathmatical equation if his math teacher does is always stepping in to tell him the answer.
Universal force: The forces that I believe in have no concept of good or evil, perfect or imperfect or anything like that. They are not beings or souls like us or the gods but instead are part of our makeup and the makeup of the gods. They are not even capable of holding such concepts.
The beauty comes from the child aspect of that phrase not the starving part. Runewolf, I think, was saying that he sees beauty in every child and some of those children also happen to be starving. The starving may be ugly but the children themselves are still beautiful, at least on the inside
Spiritual guide "gods": Each spiritual guide "god" has it's own disticnt personality, beliefs, philosophies, views, perspective, etc. and thus there would be as many opinions on this as there are gods. If you want to take a census then you'll have to ask them. However the gods do not communicate through words but through emotions and feelings so their answer could be difficult to grasp.
universal forces: Again, much like with good and evil, the forces I believe in do not hold such concepts as ugly and beautiful. It's not simply that they are above them, or have no use for them, but also because they simply are not capable of holding or creating such concepts. We ourselves create al these concepts, not the forces.
Sure your god can learn from my gods, just as mine can learn from yours, they can learn from us, we can learn from them, etc. Everyone has something to teach someone else and everyone can learn something from anyone else. That's the whole point of life, of existence, I feel. To learn and to grow.