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Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#46New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 09:02:58
Trust me, when you've broken the barriers of perception to the point that you perceive yourself as a puppet standing around an abandoned stage set - you truly have rebuked the magic that influences the hope that causes one to blindly go running running with open arms back into the experiments again.
Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#47New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 09:28:25
Either way, rather an experimenting god or just simply two dimensional and selfish people I wait out the rest of my stale life for death.

In the theistic hypothetical there would be one stop off before hand to sign papers to make sure that my coding is never resurrected or exploited again so that I may remain asleep.
Glenn On January 10, 2013
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Meridian, Mississippi
#48New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 10:49:48
@chaski Said

How do you know?

What is your basis to compare a post with a comment?



In mode of communication a post is a comment and vice versa.
Glenn On January 10, 2013
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Meridian, Mississippi
#49New Post! Jan 17, 2012 @ 10:55:36
@chaski Said

What is "god"?

And how do you know that?


God is an ntelligent being who created you. And I don't know. If you popped into existence via some evolutionary process then God may not exist. Again I don't know. I only believe that God exists and he created us.

Also rational kinda needs more definition than what was given.
gakINGKONG On October 18, 2022




, Florida
#50New Post! Jul 24, 2020 @ 23:21:40
I am a Promise!


Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#51New Post! Nov 05, 2020 @ 17:10:17
@gakINGKONG Said

I am a Promise!





Along the lines of the same sense of humor.....


gakINGKONG On October 18, 2022




, Florida
#52New Post! Nov 17, 2020 @ 13:48:15
God shows his grace on us.

Some he heals and some he saves. Some neither.

If God loves you, it depends on who "you" are.
dookie On December 16, 2023
Foolish Bombu





, United Kingdom
#53New Post! Nov 17, 2020 @ 14:48:31
@gakINGKONG Said

God shows his grace on us.

Some he heals and some he saves. Some neither.

If God loves you, it depends on who "you" are.



I wonder how you know this?

i.e. That the creator of all, the sustainer of all, distributes his love in such a manner (if, as you say, he distributes it at all)

All rather confusing. But obviously no point asking you to explain as you ignore me. We tend to mimic the God we believe in.

dookie On December 16, 2023
Foolish Bombu





, United Kingdom
#54New Post! Nov 17, 2020 @ 15:03:26
Here is a non-theist vision of Reality. No if's or buts.


I bring fullness and satisfaction to the world,

like rain that spreads its moisture everywhere.

Eminent and lowly, superior and inferior,

observers of precepts, violators of precepts,

those fully endowed with proper demeanor,

those not fully endowed,

those of correct views, of erroneous views,

of keen capacity, of dull capacity -

I cause the Dharma rain to rain on all equally,

never lax or neglectful.

When all the various living beings

hear my Law,

they receive it according to their power,

dwelling in their different environments.....

..The Law of the Buddhas

is constantly of a single flavour,

causing the many worlds

to attain full satisfaction everywhere;

by practicing gradually and stage by stage,

all beings can gain the fruits of the way.


(The Lotus Sutra, Parable of the Dharma Rain)
Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
Returner and proud





Penzance, United Kingdom
#55New Post! Nov 17, 2020 @ 18:48:41
I'm not even going to bother with the biological argument on this one.

Off you go fellas. Let me know when you come back down to earth.
dookie On December 16, 2023
Foolish Bombu





, United Kingdom
#56New Post! Nov 17, 2020 @ 20:24:17
@Jennifer1984 Said

I'm not even going to bother with the biological argument on this one.

Off you go fellas. Let me know when you come back down to earth.


Your perception/implication that ANY expression of what could be called "spirituality" (yuk) can never be fully "of the earth" simply demonstrates the limited parameters of your mindset.

So there!
Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#57New Post! Dec 04, 2020 @ 07:33:02
@gakINGKONG Said

God shows his grace on us.

Some he heals and some he saves. Some neither.

If God loves you, it depends on who "you" are.



I'm independent and alien to him
I'm not looking for 'Love'
Just his respect and fair passage until I can get out of here
and back to my paradise.
Electric_Banana On February 05, 2024




, New Zealand
#58New Post! Dec 04, 2020 @ 07:36:46
@dookie Said

Here is a non-theist vision of Reality. No if's or buts.


I bring fullness and satisfaction to the world,

like rain that spreads its moisture everywhere.

Eminent and lowly, superior and inferior,

observers of precepts, violators of precepts,

those fully endowed with proper demeanor,

those not fully endowed,

those of correct views, of erroneous views,

of keen capacity, of dull capacity -

I cause the Dharma rain to rain on all equally,

never lax or neglectful.

When all the various living beings

hear my Law,

they receive it according to their power,

dwelling in their different environments.....

..The Law of the Buddhas

is constantly of a single flavour,

causing the many worlds

to attain full satisfaction everywhere;

by practicing gradually and stage by stage,

all beings can gain the fruits of the way.


(The Lotus Sutra, Parable of the Dharma Rain)



That's called "Personal Responsibility"

It fails every single time when everyone else, whose co-operation is imperative to your survival, is a stupid, poop-throwing, STD-infected ape.

The God story helps us forgive because it's assuming others are not to blame for their crimes and follies but rather a mad scientist screwed them all up.
Jennifer1984 On July 20, 2022
Returner and proud





Penzance, United Kingdom
#59New Post! Dec 04, 2020 @ 12:32:00
@dookie Said

Your perception/implication that ANY expression of what could be called "spirituality" (yuk) can never be fully "of the earth" simply demonstrates the limited parameters of your mindset.

So there!



Incorrect. "spirituality" implies the existence of a spirit in the form of something created by a God, and that it is God working through a human host that is the source of all knowledge.

Intellectual reason, however, is a process of information / data gathering, collation, understanding, analysis, conclusion and application. This does not require a spirit, it simply needs a rational use of the physical and mental resources that any human being has whether they believe in a God or not.

So ner, ner, ner.
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