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- Fri Feb 20, 2015 7:07 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Why hasn't Ethics made more progress in today's world?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 26322
Re: Why hasn't Ethics made more progress in today's world?
You have come to realizations by reading someone else's opinions and then adopted them as your own. Use your own introspection, otherwise your views mean nothing to me. That's pretty funny. :D Really, Jeff, you haven't the foggiest. Lesseee...which is the funniest remark. Could it be the idea that ...
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 4:47 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Why hasn't Ethics made more progress in today's world?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 26322
Re: Why hasn't Ethics made more progress in today's world?
You cannot change others or their opinions, people have to come to a realization. You can only change yourself: rather than covering up the whole surface of the earth with leather, one can just cover up the soles of one’s feet by wearing leather sandals. Meditation is the only way to do that, throu...
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 4:29 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: ~ Thou shalt not kill ~
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10349
Re: ~ Thou shalt not kill ~
It's just funny how man thinks the world was created for them. Maybe its religion that does this.
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:36 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: ~ Thou shalt not kill ~
- Replies: 39
- Views: 10349
Re: ~ Thou shalt not kill ~
Does it say 'thou shalt not kill man' in there anywhere? Why have we been saying man all these years?
- Fri Feb 20, 2015 3:27 pm
- Forum: Ethical Theory
- Topic: Why hasn't Ethics made more progress in today's world?
- Replies: 112
- Views: 26322
Re: Why hasn't Ethics made more progress in today's world?
You could be an example of 'good' ethics. But 'trying' to be ethical is a neurosis. You cannot change others or their opinions, people have to come to a realization. You can only change yourself: rather than covering up the whole surface of the earth with leather, one can just cover up the soles of ...
- Thu Feb 12, 2015 7:46 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Is Jesus Christ a man or a god?
- Replies: 298
- Views: 65032
Re: Is Jesus Christ a man or a god?
I think it's interesting how Eastern philosopies have offerered meaning to scriptures, even the esoteric ones. Wasn't Jesus in the East? I have a book that I read a year or so ago that tries to make the case that Jesus had traveled and studied in areas from Egypt, to India, and southern England in ...
- Thu Feb 12, 2015 7:43 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Is Jesus Christ a man or a god?
- Replies: 298
- Views: 65032
Re: Is Jesus Christ a man or a god?
Why were the gnostic scriptures left out of the bible? I could answer, but this'll do. http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/june/7.26.html Wasn't Jesus in the East? Geographically? The Middle East. But conceptually, the pattern of thought known as monotheism is nowadays more ordinarily associat...
- Thu Feb 12, 2015 6:24 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Is Jesus Christ a man or a god?
- Replies: 298
- Views: 65032
Re: Is Jesus Christ a man or a god?
The bible wasn't written as a book by one author. I think we're missing the point of the scriptures. Ever wonder why any church or scholar hasn't been able to discipher much scripture, especially the esoteric ones? Go back to the period where the church and gnostics were in disagreement. Why were th...
- Tue Feb 10, 2015 1:58 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Is Jesus Christ a man or a god?
- Replies: 298
- Views: 65032
Re: Is Jesus Christ a man or a god?
Bart Ehrman, a respected scholar wrote many books on this subject:
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Jesus Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
Forged: Writing in the Name of God
How Jesus Became God
etc.
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Jesus Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible
Forged: Writing in the Name of God
How Jesus Became God
etc.
- Sat Feb 07, 2015 12:03 am
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Is Jesus Christ a man or a god?
- Replies: 298
- Views: 65032
Re: Is Jesus Christ a man or a god?
I'm only asserting my understanding of Jesus and the bible. The message, and not who said what is most important to me (look at the moon instead!). That is why the buddhist scripture is most fullfilling for me, more direct. thedoc: Yes, people understand the god in the bible to be a theistic one. Th...
- Fri Feb 06, 2015 10:00 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: Is Jesus Christ a man or a god?
- Replies: 298
- Views: 65032
Re: Is Jesus Christ a man or a god?
What is god? We... man created god. What does god mean, by whose standard do we judge what he should be like? If there really was a god wouldn't we have to be a god to have any understanding of him? What if Jesus was just an ordinary person. So ordinary that he was omniscient. An awareness holder wh...
- Mon Feb 02, 2015 12:35 am
- Forum: Gender Philosophy
- Topic: Is Love a Disease?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 7460
Re: Is Love a Disease?
I think it's an emotion; like all emotions, rise and fall depending on conditions.
- Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:27 pm
- Forum: Philosophy of Religion
- Topic: ~ Do we Believe What we Believe? ~
- Replies: 37
- Views: 9248
Re: ~ Do we Believe What we Believe? ~
What about babies who die. They automatically go to heaven without having made a single conscious choice. Does that sound fair?
- Sun Jan 11, 2015 3:44 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Counselling
- Topic: Is Emptiness Actually Depression?
- Replies: 138
- Views: 390415
Re: Is Emptiness Actually Depression?
. Doing good deeds...the way you explain it...I'm, not, understanding...If you are doing good deeds for someone else to get good karma, aren't you really doing that for yourself ? which is self-centered. I think we are trapped. Trapped at this doorway to hell... We can cover this doorway with rainb...
- Fri Jan 09, 2015 4:49 pm
- Forum: Philosophical Counselling
- Topic: Is Emptiness Actually Depression?
- Replies: 138
- Views: 390415
Re: Is Emptiness Actually Depression?
. .............................................. . http://i.imgur.com/28thBtg.gif I like your post and I appreciate you taking this thread seriously. I'm not sure I understand completely what you meant. Are you are saying I need to do more? Meditate more completely? Be more compassionate? ...or are...