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 redgreenvines
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 Re: Brain wired for God [Re: arainbow]
#9950002 - 03/11/09 01:46 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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you came from your mommy's tummy...
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Master Po
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Re: Brain wired for God [Re: arainbow]
#9950134 - 03/11/09 03:16 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
arainbow said:
who made who ?
Angus made us.
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 mr_kite
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redgreenvines said:
i think the religion that kids make up is the best form of science that they can muster up, with theories they can explain the unexplained.
 Ive always thought of religion as essentially the science of its day. People's ways of making sense of the universe around them. "In the beginning there was the word" etc translates to today's big bang theory. Adam and eve eating the apple translates to our evolution from apes to a point where we're self aware. They were just doing the same we're doing today, to try and work out what the hell's going on.
That bit about children inventing the concept of God was the also the most interesting part for me, Id love to find more info on it.
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Re: Brain wired for God [Re: mr_kite]
#9950219 - 03/11/09 04:59 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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...of course science leaves a spiritual hole that religion also filled but there's many other areas for spiritual fulfillment, great music for example.
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Master Po
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Re: Brain wired for God [Re: mr_kite]
#9950227 - 03/11/09 05:08 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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mr_kite said:
...of course science leaves a spiritual hole that religion also filled but there's many other areas for spiritual fulfillment, great music for example.
God exists with or without religion. Science has nothing to do with it.
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redgreenvines
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Re: Brain wired for God X Koans [Re: mr_kite]
#9950283 - 03/11/09 05:54 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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mr_kite said:
...of course science leaves a spiritual hole that religion also filled but there's many other areas for spiritual fulfillment, great music for example.
real science leaves unanswered questions as questions.
while religion provides goofy caulking in abhorrence of any cracks or infidels.
children can work with change much better than established religions, and the childhood cosmologies bend and shift as they grow incorporating paradoxes along the way, and infidels become friends immediately.
most grown people are not discriminating enough to realize that unanswered questions are part of honest living reality.
that is where something like zen helps
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arainbow
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Re: Brain wired for God [Re: Master Po]
#9950292 - 03/11/09 06:05 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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I don't know IF God exists
BUT
I know that some kind of higher power is interested in keeping me alive .
My life has been saved 3 times by some kind of higher power.
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Master Po
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Re: Brain wired for God [Re: arainbow]
#9950440 - 03/11/09 07:25 AM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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arainbow said:
I don't know IF God exists
BUT
I know that some kind of higher power is interested in keeping me alive .
My life has been saved 3 times by some kind of higher power.
That was me. You're welcome.
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OrgoneConclusion
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while religion provides goofy caulking in abhorrence of any cracks
Quote of The Month! 
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deCypher
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Re: Brain wired for God [Re: arainbow]
#9951807 - 03/11/09 12:39 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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arainbow said:
I know that some kind of higher power is interested in keeping me alive .
But for how long? 
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Amber_Glow
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Re: Brain wired for God [Re: mr_kite]
#9952047 - 03/11/09 01:31 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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"Wired for God". Sounds like a Christian club for stimulant addicts.
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Icelander
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Re: Brain wired for God [Re: deCypher]
#9952422 - 03/11/09 02:29 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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“What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to follow its own commandments: I mean, not to kill, not to take the lives of others to justify itself.”
― Ernest Becker
"Beneath the civilized veneer, man remains the supreme predator. Cursed with what he believes is understanding, his true soul blossoms godlike in the heart of the nuclear inferno."
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OrgoneConclusion
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Re: Brain wired for God [Re: arainbow]
#9952441 - 03/11/09 02:34 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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My life has been saved 3 times by some kind of higher power.
That's because you are special.
Or
Possibly the non-survivors of major accidents/illness are no longer around to claim divine intervention.
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supernovasky
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God wired for a brain:
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arainbow
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Quote:
OrgoneConclusion said:
Quote:
My life has been saved 3 times by some kind of higher power.
That's because you are special.
Or
Possibly the non-survivors of major accidents/illness are no loenger around to claim divine intervention.
I will have to admit to having questioned whether
or not I died and had gone to hell at times
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MJF
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Re: Brain wired for God [Re: arainbow]
#9956033 - 03/11/09 11:35 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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if this is hell...then god really is a pussy. i could think of way worse shit.
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arainbow
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Re: Brain wired for God [Re: arainbow]
#9966408 - 03/13/09 05:51 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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things could get worse in ways you can't begin to Imagen
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BlueCoyote
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Re: Brain wired for God [Re: Icelander]
#9967178 - 03/13/09 08:38 PM (3 years, 2 months ago) |
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Quote:
Icelander said:
Can't create something that doesn't exist and never could.
You only can create something that will exist, but you can not create something that has been there already.
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