Philosophy Now Forum

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 ...

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...

It's just funny how man thinks the world was created for them. Maybe its religion that does this.

Does it say 'thou shalt not kill man' in there anywhere? Why have we been saying man all these years?

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

I think it's an emotion; like all emotions, rise and fall depending on conditions.

What about babies who die. They automatically go to heaven without having made a single conscious choice. Does that sound fair?

. 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...

. .............................................. . 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...