I believe meditation might help me better accept the advice of others I disagree with and I may want multiple opinions. What value would prayer offer?
Granted if an angel appeared and told you some specific actionable actions I would be behind it but what if it is something else? What if it is...
Most people who believe things are reasonable everyday people. They believe in angels or saints, demons or satan or what have you. However when a doctor tries to vaccinate their children or recommends a medical procedure their religion is not what informs their decision. They trust the doctors...
This is a great response. How did you learn about god and his son or even 9/11 or dive deeper the alphabet and your culture?
I'll include myself, we all just know what we know right? We have tools that people of ancient times didn't have. Let's use them not to confirm our beliefs but instead to...
Cheers. To clarify I don't think what religion you are says anything about your ideas. If I wanted to talk about what a self means and what I might be I think a mormon might have as many good ideas as a zen master. You might want to lean one way or the other but I don't think that matters. And...
That's it exactly. Who cares what religion they are if they know about this extrinisic point of knowledge and can explain it? So a Protestant is explaining to you or a Buddhist? I don't read into their religion as a point of contradiction. Anymore than I would say so an American said this? What...
Just because someone believed something first doesnt mean it will be true for all time and supercede future beliefs or tech and discoveries.
We don't drown women anymore to prove they are not witches right?
People used to think the best and fastest way to get from point a to b was a horse and...
I meditate. A lot. I grew up catholic and than jehovah witness. I lost myself for a bit. (I'm not being coy... I had a lot of issues)
I ended up as a hard core atheist. It didn't really click though. I'm more now of a militant agnostic. I don't know and neither do you! (Hehe, thats the joke)
I...
Not at all. We used to think lead was harmless and had it in our paints and gasoline but now we know it is actually quite harmful. It has nothing to do with what someone believed first or later. Those are not useful things to pivot on.
I am guessing you find that argument useful. Do you have any idea of how many arguments people put forth that predates current knowledge and therefore whatever they thought first THUS it must be true? (Because you know they thought it first)
Is it possible that a Protestant minister might know more than a Zen Master? Who grants and measures these titles? I have met people of many faiths who I think are experts in certain realms and even they seem to be able to seperate their real life skills from their religious ones. (Not always)...
Obviously the universe is based on numbers is quite the phrase. Are you familiar with when the numbers you are familiar with were invented and why? Did the dinosaurs have numbers? Lots of people are going to believe you if you can make an interesting argument. (Not sure how that measures truth...
Right, but I am not sure why you think a buddhist would be a better person to respond. (They are just people like you. They believe different things (Maybe... don't really know you)) but to me its like saying maybe a catholic could field this question...
Being a Buddhist or a Mormon doesn't...
You are explaining your answers in dimensions we don't know exist yet and talking about creatures we don't yet know exist. You are even using the explanation of strong magic.