If that is true, then I imagine it would have to be a majority of the religious people on the earth who would be removed.
Our planet will be destroyed one day, whether by our own hand or by the sun.
We will not have an everlasting time to fix our planet from the destruction our species has...
Practically speaking, we do this because it does. As youve outlined in your post the odds of interacting with intelligent life from other planets in our lifetime is basically zero. So we do need to live our lives with our planet as the focal point. Even if there was some way to reach...
Maybe you should take some time outside of keeping altars and statues. Just because you have intuition about a certain path doesnt mean you need to immediately set up an altar. Finding the right path isnt a race, its a journey.
Im saying that people, regardless of their skin color, who participate in competitive sports are people who work hard at what they do and probably have a high degree of mental discipline.
I draw the line at being decent to others because it is the right thing to do (I don't try to get into "simple statement" discussions with people). I do my best to understand how they see the world, and hopefully learn more about myself in that process, because being different doesnt equal bad...
Seriously? Say a person used one of your simple statements (read: deliberately provocative statement geared towards demeaning someones beliefs) and its not the person who is delivering the insults fault, really?
That didnt really answer my question. I can only guess youre asking because youve been in this situation a couple of times, which was why I asked my original question. Do you have an example of a simple statement that you are referring to?
Well, I guess I still wouldnt try to classify traditions, but rather have separate classes for the traditions being taught and forums for modern practitioners to share their personal beliefs.
Even with trying to group religion/traditions, I dont really think it would be all that useful (again in reference to pagan traditions). The best definition of someone who is a pagan is someone who identifies as such. Even my own definition of pagan has changed, just a few years ago I would...
Amongst pagan religions, I dont know how useful it would be. Even people who identify themselves as being a part of the same tradition can have vastly different beliefs and practices.
Spirituality is such an individual thing, if you want to know you should just ask that person, trying to...
I think it would be interesting to live several lifetimes, to see how the world will change, but Im not sure about living forever. I do believe that part of my soul has the option to return to this existence and live again, but it wouldnt be the me of right now and Im fine with that, in...
I think a better question is why should it matter? People who are inclined to treat others poorly based on some perceived superiority hardly need some scientific proof to back them up.