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Reflex wrote: The "I am God" doesn't bother me. The Impersonal Life was a big influence and it's not entirely wrong, but what it lacks is structure. Isn't structure a double edged value? Granted structure is necessary to achieve a goal and for humanity to evolve. But on the other hand Hitl...

Arising wrote: The process of existence or the body of God serves the SOURCE, ISNESS or NOW within which the process of existence takes place You have no clue if this is true or not. It could all be just the boot-up phase or even a bug or just an ephemera produced by whatever is really being calcula...

Reflex wrote: It's not a question of a deficiency in education, but a difference of perspective. Dontaskme seems to be coming from a kind of idealism found in the book Ask the Awakened. It's a good book and very appealing because it's full of wise sayings and deep insights. For all that, though, I f...

Dam wrote: Honestly, where do you think all this Thelema stuff and all the other esoteric and spiritual knowledge comes from, all these words, and there meanings, and who is the one believing in all this stuff? The imaginary ones are egoistic interpretations formed by the devolution of what Plato ca...

Arising wrote: Nick_A wrote: For the same reason your body is not just an accidental by-product of you. Except that you have it wrong and I'm a fairly accidental product of the body. Would you agree that the governing part of your collective presence is the brain in your head and your body serves t...

Nick_A wrote:
... Yet for me the process of universal existence is the body of God. ...
Why is it just not an accidental by-product?

For the same reason your body is not just an accidental by-product of you.

Reflex wrote: The presumption is that a fully functioning human being can, or should be, satisfied living in a hostile and relentless universe of matter which has decreed that the grave shall be the crowning insult to everything in human desire that is beautiful, noble, lofty, and good; satisfied w...

Dam wrote I have no idea what the heck you mean here...can't you talk in plain easy to understand language so people can understand what the heck you are going on about? I know you don't understand. The ancient Hermetic axiom "As above, so below" doesn't make sense to you. You've closed yo...

Dam, you wrote on the awakening thread: My description is....No One is a Buddha therefore Every One is a Buddha. You deny the entire scale of being which measures objective quality. For you there is ONE and everything else doesn’t exist. Yet for me the process of universal existence is the body of G...

sthit wrote: Nick_A wrote: What is one supposed to do with their finger once they've taken it off the ignition switch? You know what you in particular can do with the finger. In fact everyone here can take an educated guess what you would do with it. But this is just a belief. It isn't science. Has...

I'm not a Buddhist but he makes a good point concerning arguing God the origin of the universe. One day a man called Malunkyaputta approached the Master and demanded that He explain the origin of the Universe to him. He even threatened to cease to be His follow if the Buddha's answer was not satisfa...

Sthit wrote: Nick_A wrote:Religion isn't about defining God but rather how to open as a human being to the conscious God/Man connection. And how do you propose to do that? If you cannot define God, you have no way of knowing that there is a possibility of a connection with him. Do you wish to know ...

What is one supposed to do with their finger once they've taken it off the ignition switch?

Reflex wrote: So, I'll ask my critics one last time: what "myth" or narrative give your life direction and, at the same time, is both comforting and intellectually satisfying? What's your directionalizing and in-depth narrative or philosophy of life -- I mean besides one of the five previo...

I agree Reflex. Have you noticed how the new atheists are similar to the religious fundamentalists? They are both literal and narrow minded. Fundamentalsist are confined to a literal interpretion of the Bible and new atheists are restricted to the equation which reveals the futility of reason for me...