Do I have to be a religious nut to post on RF?

[Cooky]

My wisdom only brings out the best in people.

Your posts mostly seem like trolling to me, if you're willing to receive critique outside your own imagination.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Your posts mostly seem like trolling to me, if you're willing to receive critique outside your own imagination.

I've payed attention to @Father Heathen from afar for some time. I think a lot of his posts are in the politics board and aimed at trying to help people better understand the world from a left-wing perspective. I don't consider them trolling, really.

Add to that he has been here since 2008, and I think that alone warrants respect.

 

[Revoltingest]

I've payed attention to @Father Heathen from afar for some time. I think a lot of his posts are in the politics board and aimed at trying to help people better understand the world from a left-wing perspective. I don't consider them trolling, really.

Add to that he has been here since 2008, and I think that alone warrants respect.

I've sensed his being angry these last few years, hence some of his posts
also striking me as trollish. But don't think that I'm insulting him....we all
have moods. He's quite reasonable & civil...his avatar notwithstanding.

 

[PureX]

I'm not interested in religion, myself. But I am interested in how people think, and how they "reason", and it seems to me that in discussing religion and philosophy, and their relationship to science and politics and ethics provides an excellent opportunity for me to get some idea of how people think and reason about their own existence. And I am endlessly curious about this. That's why I'm here.

 

[TransmutingSoul]

Maybe I could become Baha’i..!

Maybe, but there is only one that can make that choice about Faith.

At least there is never a dull moment and one would never want to stop talking about God and virtues.

Life is full of great things to enjoy and talk about. The key is it is all worthless without the knowledge of God.

I have had a life of many pursuits. I have travelled, owned boats and fished, traversed my country in 4wd vehicles, had many jobs and skills and in the end it all came to nothing, it was all a waste without due service to Faith and God.

Thus you may just be in a lull, maybe you also long to serve your Faith but are being distracted by what the world offers.

All the best Landon, I hope you find your happy. My experience is that it cannot be found anywhere but in Faith.

God = Happy

World = a matrix to find happy.

Regards Tony

 

[TransmutingSoul]

I am sure there are one or few on RF willing to guide your path

Actually I see Faith is a path one has to choose and walk for themselves. Life is about sharing our journey's.

Sometimes it results in others walking the same path.

Regards Tony

 

[TransmutingSoul]

And then there’s the Baha’i, who claim to offer something new

I have no complaints, except maybe for being banned and thus unable to talk about God on RF forums

But then that may be a good thing, if we are actually talking to people, that in no way shape or form want to talk about God. In that case I should go and not need a boot.

Regards Tony

 

[paarsurrey]

Friend @Landon Caeli

Is the "nut" problem since solved? Please

Regards

 

[Brickjectivity]

I'm not interested in religion, myself. But I am interested in how people think, and how they "reason", and it seems to me that in discussing religion and philosophy, and their relationship to science and politics and ethics provides an excellent opportunity for me to get some idea of how people think and reason about their own existence. And I am endlessly curious about this. That's why I'm here.

Do you suggest any books about this? Anything that surprised you.

 

[PureX]

Do you suggest any books about this? Anything that surprised you.

I read a book called "People of the Lie" by M. Scott Peck many years ago that opened my eyes a bit. It wasn't the author's take that interested me so much as the cases he cited as his examples of 'evil' at work. The strange combination of both ignorance and intent. Real evil is very, very rarely conscious, organized, and deliberate. It's almost always hidden from the perpetrators, themselves, who see themselves and being innocent, and even victims in some twisted way. And although it's not 'organized' in a deliberate way, it tends to be effective through mutual complicity. Harmful people get bound together in the unconscious pack of their own dishonesty and denial. Almost no human ever knowingly and willingly wants to hurt another, and yet we do hurt each other all the time. So how does that keep happening? How does who we think we are become so divorced from who we actually are?

It's a very big question with some very complicated answers.