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treesniper119
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Re: How could an omnipotent God exist? [Re: Sun King]
#20742905 - 10/23/14 12:59 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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anytime i wanna feel sad or depressed i just post my signature...
-------------------- Icelander said: I'd like to fund unlimited abortions. Finally some good coming from my tax dollars. Repetoire89 said: I love abortion and fully condone it - some should make it into a sport. Treesniper119 said: Any one who is willing to start life & also willing to deny life to their form/seed/child/offspring is cursed. For you have severed your own cord to lifes worth. Anyone who condones these actions is cursed as well...
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Icelander
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Re: How could an omnipotent God exist? [Re: treesniper119]
#20742939 - 10/23/14 01:08 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Then you're fucked. You have the means to end your depression but not the smarts to do it.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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treesniper119
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Re: How could an omnipotent God exist? [Re: Icelander] 1
#20742949 - 10/23/14 01:10 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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I would rather think about your screen name and practice Ho'oponopono
-------------------- Icelander said: I'd like to fund unlimited abortions. Finally some good coming from my tax dollars. Repetoire89 said: I love abortion and fully condone it - some should make it into a sport. Treesniper119 said: Any one who is willing to start life & also willing to deny life to their form/seed/child/offspring is cursed. For you have severed your own cord to lifes worth. Anyone who condones these actions is cursed as well...
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cez
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Re: How could an omnipotent God exist? [Re: crumblebum]
#20742964 - 10/23/14 01:12 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
crumblebum said:
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Icelander said: God, being beyond dualities, neither exists nor doesn't exist, is neither powerful or powerless, neither old nor new. When it gets late on a lonely weeknight, this is the god I end up talking too.
I used to talk to "god" long after I quit really believing. It was so in my program. I just realized by reading the above that I almost never do that anymore. I just don't even bother. It's all bullshit.
It's a neurological exercise. From an evolutionary standpoint, society doesn't tolerate useless appendages, and religion or at least the belief in something outside and above the human experience, has been a consistent feature.
Essentially it's just a way to talk to a smarter, wiser, more patient version of myself. The version of myself who is detached from my current troubles and can take the long view.
I find something like 1984 double thing very useful, as long as you're doing it for yourself, consciously, and for your own purposes.
God exists and cares about my problems and concerns. God does not exist and my problems are my own to deal with. It profits me to believe the first one, for a time, and then the second one, for a time.
I think bringing awareness towards a creator-type ideology helps keep the burden of life at a level of impersonality. To not think about yourself is most always a great pleasure imo.
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treesniper119
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Re: How could an omnipotent God exist? [Re: cez]
#20743233 - 10/23/14 02:13 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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so who first thought that they were created?
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when and why did that thought first arise?
what originally bore the mythos of creation?
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What came first the spirit or the religion that follows it?
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cez
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Re: How could an omnipotent God exist? [Re: treesniper119]
#20743535 - 10/23/14 03:27 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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The spirit came first. In this context I define spirit as the fear of death.
Man feared his mortality and some found a way to cope with it through written word which I believe arose after much action and reflection...Others took that word and used it as a form of oppression.
Religious nuts are the cancer of mankind. Always has been and always will be.
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Re: How could an omnipotent God exist? [Re: cez]
#20743647 - 10/23/14 03:55 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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amen brother.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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treesniper119
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Re: How could an omnipotent God exist? [Re: cez]
#20743745 - 10/23/14 04:26 PM (9 years, 5 months ago) |
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I agree that the spirit came first, but in the context of an actual incarnate life form and passing on information to follow, thus creating religion and the cancer that man has caused in his misdirections.
There are many real world examples of multicultural religions supporting this position.
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