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@Cinorjer It seems like those 4 things would lead to existential despair or Absurdism. Reminds me of the existentialists like Camus. My questions is, if it's in your nature to question and think about these things, how can one simply stop? It seem…
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@b5C - Didn't Buddha say "life is suffering"? No matter what religion one follows we're all human and we all suffer. Christianity is not about suffering and it's not just about how Jesus died for our sins. That is what most people believe but that i…
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Prometheus - I could say the same to you. Obviously you are fixed in your "beliefs" so no matter what I say you will disregard it. I've never attacked you or put you down. I simply responded with my argument. yet in every response you've been insult…
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I don't think Jesus said that only true happiness will be in the future. He said "the kingdom of heaven is within you". Not, wait until you die and you will be happy. "the kingdom of the father will not come by expectation. The kingdom of the father…
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@prometheus You're very condescending for someone who calls themselves a Buddhist...
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@Prometheus "No, you know what, I'm just not going to reply to this thread any further." touché...no need to take anything I said personally. It's not like i'm the only person in the world who has said these things.
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@person If I am correct, Buddhism is more of a path to liberation than it is an analytical philosophy of our existence. Thinking and contemplating the existence of God may stray one away from the path to enlightenment, but I don't think that means…
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@prometheus Moral laws have a lot do with the existence of god, because where did they come from? Where did the laws of the universe come from? To me, it makes more sense that something created these laws than them just "being here". I'm not saying …
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@prometheus I don't think you see what I'm saying at all. To think that I was saying I was a pantheist is depressingly way off. I was trying to show you that the definition of the word "universe" makes it impossible for anything to exist "outside" …
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@Daozen Ok, I see you are leaning towards the evolutionary naturalism position, which I think is a self contradiction. If we are just biological mechanisms who's only purpose is survival, then why should you trust any of your beliefs? A frog can ea…
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@Daozen Yes, this god can interact with all these things because it created them! If there is a higher reality other than the material universe we live in, who are we to say what can interact with what? There are occurrences that happen in our univ…
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@Daozen A timeless, space less, immaterial, eternal god cannot have a first cause. Everything that begins to exist has a cause, something cannot come into being out of nothing. If something is eternal and timeless then it doesn't fall under thos…
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@Prometheus I see what you're saying. From what I can tell, you've taken on the pantheistic viewpoint. That if there is a god, it is the universe itself. What I'm saying is that if there is a god he was present before the universe was created. You c…
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@Prometheus Well, if there is a God he is outside of time and space and therefore not restricted to the laws of the Universe he created. I think there are just certain objective truths in the Universe that may point to there being a God. i.e - Moral…
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Thinking of a creator, the question can be immediately asked: "Who created the creator?". You get an infinite regress of first causes. Hence, imponderable. IMO the cosmos just is, and always has been. Infinite in every conceivable (and inconceivab…