Evening. I hope everyone is doing well :)
I finished a 'book' I was working on a while back. Its quite a long, difficult read - 27 pages of .pdf. It covers eternity, infinity, mystery, consciousness, destiny, perfection. Stuff like, what the ultimate purpose of all life ought to be.
Here is...
Lets say reality at any point in the past was entirely one being, and lets call this being God. Could it be that this being wondered whether or not he should split himself into many separate selves, and then have some of them seriously wonder whether or not they used to be part of one being? And...
An excellent observation. Doesn't make much sense to me either. All evidence, from biology, to chemistry, to geology, to astronomy, seems to suggest a reality in which the 'gods' play at best a small role in our world and beyond. But then, perhaps things aren't as they seem.
If they are up...
I watched an episode of the outer limits a few days ago about the boogeyman. It was scary. He hung out under the bed and grabbed a boy at one point, a massive hairy claw arm reached out and nabbed him. They got that evil ******* in the end though :yes:
It wasn't so bad before I was born. Assuming there was only nothingness, but I dont know if that was actually the case.
Could be. We might get switched over to another program. Might be gone forever, though I doubt it. Reincarnation has a lot going for it.
You start to decompose...
As time goes on the average person is becoming better and better educated about such ideas, including the arguments against them. As more and more people come over to atheism the rates of deconversions will increase even more, kinda like a snowball rolling down a hill. In some countries this is...
Because he could never be sure that there isn't more of reality outside himself. It may be possible that God is omni-everything. He simply could never know for sure that he is. As far as anyone would know, the part of reality that he is in might only represent...
God could never be sure that he is all powerful, or all-knowing, or that he is everywhere at once. At best he could have power over everything that he knows exists. Whether or not there is more to reality beyond that which he knows, - perhaps much, much more - even God couldn't say. Mystery is a...
I hope it will happen for you. Galantamine and choline are highly recommended by stephen laberge, and I was taking a dreaming supplement that had both of those. I also drank protein shakes before I went to sleep on the days I had the lucid dreams, coincidentally. I think either the supplement or...
I read somewhere that people who take mushrooms have approximately a 40% chance to have a religious experience - its probably more or less the same for other hallucinogens. If anyone is looking for an altered state of consiousness, thats probably the most powerful way to go about it - for good...
Haha, thats awesome. I was into that at one point. I read a book about it by Stephen LaBerge and his techniques were really good. The best lucid dreaming moment I had was when I was in a kind of cave with a tall cliff wall in front of me. At that moment I became lucid and decided to kind of...
This warrants another admonition. This is perhaps the worst violation of reason I have yet to see in my entire life. Maybe there have been worse ones, I don't know, but I can't think of any. I find this overwhelmingly offensive to rationality and logic. Unbelievable. Just unbelievable...
Yeah the idea of an all-powerful God is very difficult to reconcile with the state of reality about which we know - especially the war-mongering, murdering, raping, thieving, defrauding, corrupt, and overall twisted nature of humanity.
The decision to believe, lol. The almighty master of the universe has given us a test. "Based on no concrete evidence at all, guess which of the countless religions is true!! Your prize is a magical happy afterlife! But if you guess wrong you'll burn in hell forever!"
It can't be any more...
If God exists he is just as natural as any other part of reality.
Free will isn't dependant on whether or not any particular being exists. It is dependant on the nature of consciousness, which is very mysterious.
Whether or not we have free will, we may never know. If we don't have free...
I agree in part. I think that the highest religion would not be limited to good deeds, but would also include positive and virtuous thinking. Clearly, though, good deeds on the surface seems more important, but without a foundation of virtuous thinking and habits I wouldn't think that a person...