This was all clarified in a post which has unfortunately been lost, along with most of my other posts, in what was thought a very civil and dispassionate exchange on a subject that too often excites strong emotions. And so I withdraw from this discussion, lest any more efforts be squandered...
Just as a man with true power is secure enough in himself to tolerate the power of others, so an omnipotent God would be strong enough to allow human freedom. Freedom consists in this: we can choose God, or our own nothingness.
God did not 'create' homosexuality. Homosexuality is a departure from God. Even if it is genetically conditioned, it is always a choice, for man is more than his genes. Man has the freedom to choose his soul over his body. To say that the homosexual has no choice in the matter, is to say he is a...
'Idiotic', 'offensive', 'cliche' are here being used as nonsubstantive pejoratives, lacking discernible meaning. This will be interpreted as, 'Sunstone strongly disagrees ("idiotic") with something he has not clearly specified, and desires his opinions not to be criticised ("offensive")'. Very...
There is no need to be defensive. What the post refuted, first, was the supposed 'absurdity' of man's relationship with god by clarifying the nature of that relationship; and second, more generally, the opposing materialist and naturalist worldview. If you personally don't hold the materialist...
The relationship between man and god is nothing less than the correspondency of microcosm and macrocosm; far from being an 'absurdity', it is the most elegant, economic, parsimonious, logical, consisent, and succinct conception of reality, proportionate to the external facts of existence as...
Some of the comments appear to confuse the anthropomorphic symbolism of the Abrahamic religions with God himself. Any defect you can find in this symbolism, is not in the symbol, but the human mind that sees nothing in the symbol. All symbols, even the most advanced philosophical ideas, can only...
Consider everything external to yourself as being a single unified Object, and the totality of passing subjective experiences as a single unified Subject. Becoming 'one with God' would be the unification of this pure Subject with the pure Object. Since this unity is really the true state of...
Good question.
Reason is indeed limited by the prison walls of the human mind. He who sees only the material world, sees the boundaries of the human mind only.
But you are more than your mind. Your Intuition soars far above Reason. It is the true sovereign of Intelligence. Once awakened...
Male and female descend to us from the divine level. The male principle proceeds from the Absolute, which is called God the Father. He is Order, Truth, Necessity. The female principle proceeds from Infinitude, which is hydra-headed Mother Chaos surrounded by the daughters of illusion -- the...
One should use rational thought as a support for intuition and not as a barrier to it. Show reason her place as the servant, not the master, of your intelligence.
This kind of Biblicism is also of divine institution; despite its opposition, it has a right to exist. It is concerned more directly with the salvation of souls, than the knowledge which coincides with salvation. It is a way congenial to the average mentality, and leads to the same end though by...
rageoftyrael,
If the ideas of sin and punishment don't make sense to you, it may mean that you have the intelligence for a deeper understanding of these concepts than what has hitherto been given to you. The rejection of religion in its popular forms often means that one is prepared to...
By surrendering yourself to all that is. By acting in unison with the wisdom that flows through you and is within everything. By discerning, in all things, between the real and illusory, the Absolute and the relative, the changeless and the unchanging. By never thinking about yourself. By not...
First, a note to the moderators and administrators of this discussion board. Everyone else can skip over this:
I had a great experience last time I was here. I am happy to be back. I do have an old account, but the password has been forgotten and the email associated with the account is no...