Hey, good news.. I had a little time.. so here is my observations on your presentation.. ( not all of it.. I only had an hour )
That's great news
It's always better to listen and respond as opposed to reacting. Thank you for the response.
Apparently, what you mean by the word "God" is .. everything. We have a word for everything, I looked it up in the dictionary, it's called "everything". So, you believe that everything is everything. Nice. wow.. deep. And that's "God".. wow, deep..
"Everything" works alright, but everything can never be grasped or known. Everything except our false mental self would be God.
So, instead of using the word "everything", you prefer the word "God". Ok, easy enough concept.. I understand what the word everything means. Another word for that is "universe"..
Well, I agree with you I THINK.. I believe that all that exists, exists.
"Universe" even works better than "everything."
Yep. I do. I don't call that God because the word is way too loaded, but hey.. it's just a word. You could call it blagoddlong. You could make up words, use old words in new ways, whatever. It's just word games at this point.
Very much agree, it is very loaded. The word "God" is said and ego, emotions, imaginations, and assumptions run rampant.
And since God is everything, it's NOT what you just said, at the same time. It's what you say and NOT what you say. It's everything else, too. You said God was EVERYTHING .. so it's not JUST a balancing force, but an UNBALLANCING FORCE, it's not just something that creates, but it's something that destroys, it's not just the force that gives us life, but it's the force that takes it away.
Birth and death are the same things. We weren't afraid to be born, we shouldn't be afraid to die. We are aware that we die. Sure, you can be considered a "god" ... You have the ability to create and destroy by existing. Yet you have no control over where you're born, what circumstances, when you die, how you will die, why you are more cognitive than others, it wasn't your choosing.
Anything that you may experience about a god that is absolutely everything is of course, NOT what you may experience about the god at the same time.
This life is about us. Experience is experience. Experience couldn't exist without all infinite potentials of the spectrum. Again, everything but our false mental self that deceives us.
If God is everything, then God is not a separate life form and it IS a separate life form.
Everything but our false mental self.
If God is life itself, it is also death itself. If God is the balancing force that controls life it is also the unbalance that has no control.
Life and death are the same things. "God" doesn't change.
Interesting interpretation. So, if god is everything then yes.. as soon as you can think of a characteristic , you immediately must ascribe the very opposite of that characteristic. If you say that God goes right, you also have to say that he goes left. If god exists, then he also does not.
Everything besides our false mental selves. We are "gods" too, one who exists. Again, the infinite potential of opposites must exist to experience. The entire universe including ourselves and minds are based on opposites.
Just because you claim to know something does not mean that you actually do. You seem to BELIEVE in these things, but you have absolutely no evidence or good reasoning that any of this is actually true. You very much like it. It's cute. I can see why you might like it.
I'm at rest and peace, I don't believe in anything.
You don't actually "know" where this god is.. You say you do. But you don't actually know. And by your reasoning, God is where you say it is, and it's also not where you say it is. Your reasoning is horribly flawed and is based one no evidence whatsoever.
Sorry.
"God" is within me. I'm the reason for my existence. Belief and faith was discussed in another post. I didn't choose to exist, I just do and I'm not going to complain and whine about life, I choose to be at peace and content and embrace with love and be fulfilled, not worry about unnecessary and worthless things. . And allow the opposite portion of my mind to decieve me.
Well, nice but no. You don't know what god "looks like".. what an idea... And you DON'T actually know what god does. You say that you do.. but what you're doing is jumping from your BELIEF to a KNOWLEDGE claim without any evidence or reason to support the knowledge claim.
Belief and knowledge were discussed in another post. I see life. I know what life is and looks like.
Again, fallacious reasoning based on no evidence at all...
And now, you presume to KNOW how best to understand the concept of god too.
And again, you offer no good reason or any evidence to support the claim that you DO know how best to understand the concept.
I think you are practically oblivious to the idea of evidence and reasoning. You don't use much of either..especially the evidence part. You don't seem to require ANY evidence for your beliefs.. and your reasoning is .. ahhh.. how to put it charitably... a bit thin, shall we say.
Reality and life is evidence. What the hell would I care to live in the past, you have no evidence of the past, you weren't there. Takes a way my fulfillment of the present.
It means that.. ? No, you just said that.. you haven't demonstrated that it means that.. you just stated what you think it means to YOU. But you haven't bothered to tell us how you reasoned that out. You start off with a series of assertions and work backward from that.. but why should anyone take your assertions for knowledge, when it is clearly belief?
Deductive logic. Eliminating what things are not and not allowing my mind to define everything, judge anything, or be biased into choosing what I feel I should believe because everyone else does.
Knowledge and belief.. you confuse the two.
Addressed in another post. I think you confuse the two.
LOL.. no.. you miss the irony here. You have created an image of who you think "God" is.. and by your reasoning, are giving a false impression.. oh boy. Tell me you see the irony here.. OH come on.
Elaborate on the image I created. I can't physically see all things.
How could you know any of this.. god is this , god is that.. and you just SAID that to create any image of what you think "God" is.. is only going to give us a FALSE impression... IRONY.. or to put it in a less charitable way, completely self-refuting.
Please, next time.. read over what you write before posting it.
I'm not getting all emotional over believing in myths and stories of "God" drowning babies.
Ok.. now, you're just being precious, aren't you? Stop being pretentious. Be a bit more humble. You aren't as clever as you would like to believe. Honestly. You don't have to tear people DOWN to help your argument, as your argument stands on it's OWN. Or falls, as is the case right now, I'm afraid. Sorry.
You're living in a mental world of judgements. I don't care about being clever. Stop apologizing. I forgive you buddy, even though it's all sarcasm of an emotional ego the redundant amount of "sorry's" you keep saying. Don't be afraid either, it's okay. Breathe.
Playing with words again, are we?
I can't play with words.
Ok, but look, since you started this VERY LONG sermon with the assertion that god is everything and nothing.. yeah.. I think you have pretty much said a lot about nothing. Words usually are meant to have meanings, or we can't understand each other.. words to you are.. infinitely fluid. X equals non X and yes means no, and everything actually means nothing.
Consciousness/life and matter. Nothing and everything.
You quite literally aren't making any sense. Sorry.
Stop apologizing.
You say that in the very same sentence where you say it's impossible to get your mind around it. You SAY that you can't understand, and yet you present yourself as someone who CAN understand. You want it both ways, but you can't. That's meaningless.
You can't possibly KNOW something without evidence or a method TO know.. some cognition. That's what the word "know" means.. a true cognitive state.
You can't think without words, you can't KNOW without using your mind . You can't make a truth claim without evidence, and you can't believe in one thing and it's contradiction at the same time and make any sense.
So, of course, you don't know any of this.. and you cant "be" it.. whatever that means.. Be a self-contradiction? You are alive and dead at the same time? You are thinking and NOT thinking?
You can be consciously aware and unconsciously not aware. Opposites.
I'll give you my opinion about your thinking.. you ARE thinking, that's for SURE. But you aren't thinking all that well.
But that's ok.. You can learn how to think well.
Stay in debates like this.. prove your points. Learn how to argue a point.
You can take online courses and read books.. and even watch videos on the internet.
Arguing is useless and ignorant and arrogant. The difference between you and I. I'm reasoning and simply discussing and talking, having a casual conversation, you want to argue.
you don't have to give up thinking just because you're new at it.. I was new at it. I'm learning.. That's what I'm DOING in here.. learning how to think better. Not just turning it of ( as if you could ) and pretending the rest of your life away .
You can pretend to know.. but you don't really know. You just said that you can't even wrap your mind around it.
The mind and the spirit are separate. Or we can say that the conscious and subconscious/unconscious are two separate.
Actually your life is much more fulfilled and lasts longer when the mind is used less. There is a higher mind and a lower mind. Opposites. What makes you think everything internally is exempt from the laws of opposites? Conscious and subconscious.
So, ok. If you really think that making a case for abandoning your MIND about anything is the BEST method to use to KNOW anything that is true.. Try it out on ANYTHING else but your god ideas.
Try to figure something out without using your mind. Go ahead. You can meditate and learn how to stop thinking in words.. and relax, and feel nice, and calm, and all that is beneficial, but it's not thinking.
And you can't get thoughts by NOT thinking. Thinking requires THOUGHTS.. Nobody writes a novel when they are unconscious. Nobody learns to tap-dance when they are asleep.
I don't know why you felt the need to give us a course on meditation. I know how to meditate, but more to the point, this has nothing to do with the subject at hand. Next time, try to keep to a point.
You might be experiencing something that is false. But you don't seem to care at all if your experiences are misleading you or not. Apparently, anything that you experience, by definition, is true. Maybe you haven't heard of optical illusions. Optical illusions give false experiences. And they seem perfectly true. Minds DO on occasion make errors., You seem to ignore that fact. And because of that., you are more likely to BE in error than not. You actually caution us NOT to judge any experience. So, if you are perfectly wrong about some belief, you would actually never know.
I wont take your suggestion.
Ok.. wow.. it does go on and on, doesn't it?
I'm going to stop here because of the length. And you repeat yourself a lot. Try not to do that next time.
