Okay my first thread! Well besides my intro!
One of the things I really like about Epicurean philosophy is freedom from fear of death via Epicurus's understanding of the nature of life and death.
It occurred to me that perhaps without afterlife concepts being introduced at a young age, fear...
What evidence do you base that on> that we're evolving to be energy in heaven and such? What makes you think we will be anything since the seat of consciousness is the brain?
I have heard arguments for the New Testament not being quite so clear about homosexuality as people believe it is. Romans 1 has to be condemning something tied with idolatry because of the context set by earlier verses. It says because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie AND served the...
Given the presupposed nature of a god, that he exists in another realm and so forth, I don't see how one could communicate with such a being at all except by some bridge like a mediator.
Good day all. Nice to be here. I found this forum on Google and it sounded fun.
A little introduction. I consider myself a strong gnostic atheist with philosophical Epicureanism. I aspire to the ideal of Ataraxia- tranquility of mind, absence of suffering, freedom from fear of gods and death...