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astral_aura On October 21, 2021




Somewhere, United Kingdom
#1New Post! Sep 24, 2021 @ 15:57:04
Do the gods and goddesses actually matter as much as modern day religion would have us believe (Christianity, Islam, etc)?

What if like people once believed there was the divine, Gods and Goddesses are just a way to connect with the divine are they not?

Heaven and Hell, Gehinnom and Eden, Paradise and a pot of boiling oil? Is this really accurate? Maybe it is just a fear that people once had? Sure, I don't believe that we just blink out of existence like JWs believe, that is physically impossible, energy can neither be created nor destroyed after all. So what if there are multiple planes of existence, magical planes and mundane planes? Where does our energy go when we die, where does it come from when we are born? If we can Astrally project into the Astral plane, why do we not go there when we died?

Also, on the beginning topic of gods. Just taking the Christian belief as an example. Does the Bible not state that one of the 10 commandments was

"Thou shalt have no other gods before Me"

Maybe this is just obedience testing. But again, does it actually state that there are no other gods or goddesses? So again, is a God/Goddess just a pathway to the divine? The energy source that keeps us going.

So what if no matter what God/Goddess you worship, you are just connecting with the divine?

As for evolution vs creation, well, are we just a cosmic accident that means nothing one way or another, like who cares. Were we even meant to be here? Then what do we matter.

But as for creation, well who created the creator?

Anyway, I am going now.
chaski On March 28, 2024
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#2New Post! Sep 24, 2021 @ 19:00:34
People just got confused and forgot the original Trinity; The Great Sky God, Mother Earth and the Cave Bear.

Besides if you have one invisible god, you can make him/her into anything you want... then you can manipulate the gullible masses into doing whatever you want them to do.

dookie On December 16, 2023
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#3New Post! Sep 24, 2021 @ 20:44:11
@astral_aura Said



As for evolution vs creation, well, are we just a cosmic accident that means nothing one way or another, like who cares. Were we even meant to be here? Then what do we matter.

But as for creation, well who created the creator?




Who really knows? Who will here proclaim it?
Whence was it produced? Whence is this creation?
Gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe.
Who then knows whence it has arisen?

Whether God's will created it, or whether He was mute;
Perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not;
Only He who is its overseer in highest heaven knows,
Only He knows, or perhaps He does not know.

—Rigveda 10.129

Or as the zens say/ask:- what was your original face before you were born?

We all have to find our path, our time and place and "if there are fish that would swim or birds that would fly only after investigating the entire ocean or sky, they would find neither path nor place." (Dogen, lines from GENJŌKŌAN)
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