What are these unique observations many have verified that I have missed? Are you referring to the modern declaration that the Great Beast has become the God of all replacing all previous misguided conceptions of a source for all conscious quality? Of course over time many of the fallacies of religious fundamentalism have been exposed. However in the process the essence of religion has been thrown out with the fallacies. Only recently has the wheat begun to be separated from the tares and preserved for the few willing to experience beyond blind denial.Again, you seem unable to see the difference between observations verified by many and your own subjective observations. Your attitude displays a weak and blinkered grasp of philosophic history, especially the growing need in ancient civilisations to verify people's varied subjective claims.
No. People prefer to present an image as opposed to admitting what we are. Why is this surprising for you? Jesus accused the Pharisees of hypocrisy because they had become creatures of image who did not feel and experience what they said or how they acted in public. They were zombies trying to appear alive.So, when someone chooses not to speak about their subjective stuff (as anyone could), you seem to assume that they don't have any subjective existence like David Chalmer's "philosophical zombies". It's a naive view that underestimates the nature of human consciousness.
Why would you have trouble with a theist?I am perfectly happy exchanging views with theists and, aside from you, can have a relaxed sharing and comparing of ideas. As it is, you STILL think that it's your ideas that bother others when the problem is simply your aggressive personality. Stop being aggressive and carrying on as though you are The Great King Poop speaking down to his unworthy subjects and you'll find people being a whole lot more receptive to you.
A theist believes there is a God who made and governs all creation; but does not believe in the doctrine of the Trinity, nor in a divine revelation.
You will just claim that your god, the Great Beast, is bigger than their god. Nothing else to argue about.
What appears to you as an aggressive personality is my recognition of levels of reality and the relativity and scale of being that comprises these levels of reality.
You are apparently unaware of what “being” is. It is more than just being alive or dead. Human being is the same. It isn’t a matter of being alive or dead. You are unaware of both the relativity and scale of human being. The concept is offensive for you and you react to it. You don’t appreciate the value of the message so must condemn the messenger.
Your condemnation of the message is shared by many secularists including those in education who express their ignorance through secular intolerance
Those like you and F4 have no idea what human being is so naturally no idea how and why to cultivate it. The secular answer is indoctrination which they call education for the outer man. Without any appreciation for the reality of human “being” you cannot understand how the narrow-mindedness of secular indoctrination leads to spirit killing. The fact that I realize it and am wiling to discuss it is seen as looking down on people. If we are asleep in Plato’s cave unaware of what we are in comparison to the potential for human “being” it is a very insulting revelation to those with the normal modern belief in the superiority of the Great Beast and all its supportersNicolae Tanase: Prof. Needleman, what is the meaning of life?
Jacob Needleman: The dramatic effects of the accelerating advance of technology, for all the material promise they offer the world (along with the dangers, of course) are but the most recent wave in a civilization that, without recognizing what it was doing, has placed the satisfaction of desire above the cultivation of being.
The deep meaning of many rules of conduct and moral principles of the past — so many of which have been abandoned without our understanding their real roots in human nature — involved the cultivation and development of the uniquely human power of attention, its action in the body, heart and mind of man.
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