I chose to come here to gain experience and deal with some personal matters.
My physical existence is designed to teach me how I form my personal reality through my thoughts and beliefs which are projected through the swirling soup of my emotions. Though not always pleasant, such endeavors are always greatly invigorating and add new dimensions to my psyche.
Why is the question important? To my thinking, the question itself is a bit silly. I feel silly even giving the question this much of an answer.
Energy is neither created nor destroyed. In those terms, everything has always existed, though the forms change with each nanosecond.
Is it finely tuned? Is it perfectly shaped? What do you base the question on? Compared to what, exactly? It is what it is.
If it is all the work of something or somebody then I am considerably less impressed. It is is all from random chance relating to Chaos Theory, then life as we know it is even more miraculous than if some god created the whole ball of wax. Given that god by all accounts can do anything, I shouldn't be greatly impressed that he managed creation. That said though, I would have expected a slightly better job. Perhaps my standards are higher than others though.
No I do not look at the world in terms of such limited value judgments. I tend to reject "Good" and "evil" per se, but in those terms, I see everything as gradations of good. Plus, in those terms, when I have had "bad" things happen to me in life I have usually, if not always, emerged a better person. So the seemingly "bad" events have a very good outcome.
It allow otherwise unlimited beings to experience reality from a very limited standpoint. The reason for such endeavor is so that the individual will understand what is involved in getting their ideas into concrete terms. In reality, we are learning to manipulate reality, in very real terms.
My life has a point, I can't speak for others.
NO, human animals do not HAVE souls. Human animals ARE SOULS wearing physical clothing of their own creation.
Truth is relative to the understanding that is at hand. Truth, is therefore open to change - just like everything else in existence.
No, certainly not in the sense that religious folks think of Miracles. For the most part, such folks aren't exactly the sharpest tacks in the box, imo.
Only partially, and I have a very short list. In reality, they are not really messengers, but rather manifestations of a greater identity serving to remind us of our inner reality.
Out of your list I reject all the names except Jesus Christ. My "short list" currently has three names on it. They are Jesus Christ, Buddha and Krsna. There has been no other historical figure that even comes close to their reality and achievement. I simply do not accept any other people listed in the Abrahamic pantheon of being worthy of mention.
I do not believe in death as it is commonly conceived. Of course, at some point we drop our physical body. That much is a tad obvious, but what is not quite so obvious is that which created the body is no longer held back by the limitations of the flesh and it simply returns to its regular activities, flush with the knowledge found in its latest physical sojourn.
A lot happier. Once we are able to cast off the delusions of others then we can finally get working on our own delusions. Hopefully, it would not take too long before sanity prevails.
