Punshhh

Yes, I know this, I suppose the way I'm talking is in abstraction when using words and thoughts. I do have other ways of relating to the one more dire...

Nicely put, it is odd when folk try to say that the one is something else, thereby insisting one is as least two.

"It's a wonder we can even feed ourselves" - Bob Dylan. So it's a race to the bottom then. Krishnamurti would be turning in his grave.

Yes, I don't disagree with your thoughts, or Unenlightened's thoughts on the intractable nature of the problems humanity is dealing with right now. Or...

I was there in the mid 90's when the ascension tapes came out. It was a heady time. I knew Sandy Stephenson who was the leading light in the New Age m...

So if Sargent Bilko became president that would be good for the world because he is a reflection of a part of humanity? You are essentially saying tha...

Yes, that is quite an obstacle. Which is why I said that they might not have an interest, because it is humanity's problem, that they let things take ...

It is implicit in the instruction given in the quotes from phrophets you have provided. I am not referring to removing oneself physically from the wor...

Yes, compassion for all beings. Bhuddists strive not to harm any other being, indeed, to help, where they can. In Hinduism, each person seeks to teach...

Nicely put. I would add the idea that it's not just the thinking that causes the psychic hunger in this analogy, but the development of an ego within ...

But what you imply is the message is not infact the message. You are confusing the teaching that in order to progress towards personal enlightenmet on...

Perhaps the real problem here is that in a few years whites will be in the minority in the US. More whites are dying than being born.

"we're dooomed" as said by Frazer in Dad's army. I would take issue with your conclusion. On the assumption that these ascended masters are really asc...

That's not how I was using the word duty, perhaps I should have said ought to. Anyway, do you cross the road to help an old lady struggling with her s...

I found it useful as an entry point into some of the ideas of Hinduism and Eastern religions in general. Along with a means by which to break free, wi...

I agree, but is there not a duty for people who get the message to apply it in their lives to some extent? Or more broadly, as we as intelligent being...

I agree with this, although I think it important not to try to define what is going on behind the scenes, because we cannot know for certain, just wha...

I was referring to UK folk, I'm already despairing about US folk. I see it loud and clear.

Just substitute the word Commy for antifa. Those damn Commies coming out of the woodwork. It's interesting drawing the comparisons with the UK, the ri...

The use of religion by politics was constructive in the development of civilisation. It's perversion into nihilist militant extremism is a recent deve...

They should take a leaf out of our book over the pond works well for us in the UK. https://i.ibb.co/QpPRpPg/IMG-9280.jpg

I'm familiar with the arguments against assertions of god did it. But you haven't answered my question, is there anything in philosophy which justifie...

Enlighten me? Either there is a singularity, or some other fudge (poetry). You still have the same problem. Can you account for any opinion that there...

Quite, we are all in the dark about our origins, which means there are a large number of questions, or issues which we can't answer, or resolve.

I entirely agree. Some people think though that the supernatural element is the creation of something out of nothing.

Nice speech from Obama.

We should remember that the mod's are just trying to archive the forum in a credible way for posterity. This might come across as weird sometimes, but...

I presume you have noted that I am not making an assertion, but rather critiquing the positive assertion that consciousness is not necessary for exist...

Sounds like a quantum physicist, or a Astro physicist. You can't diminish the existential considerations of our origins, as an artistic flourish. It's...

Punshhh I already answered this, we don't have sufficient information about existence to determine that consciousness is not a necessity. This is self...

It is you who made a claim that consciousness is not necessary for existence. How do you know that this is the case in nature? I did not make a claim,...

This assertion fails, because we don't know what existence entails, so we can't discern any role in it played by consciousness. This is a straw man, n...

Gavin Williamson* can't resign, or be sacked, however bad the mess gets, because if he does, the spell is broken. Going right back to the lie on the s...

That's not fair, you haven't addressed 3017amen's central point, which is a legitimate concern. Namely that consciousness is good evidence of God, tha...

How can there be mass voter fraud through postal votes if there are very few postboxes and those that there are, are not used. it doesn't make sense? ...

I should have seen this before I replied to him. I would like to have seen him squirming, although, I expect he would have just adopted the usual evas...

Well yes he was describing a kind of truth, but the way he was describing it explicitly explained how it was a truth not known through intellectual de...

In John 14:6 Jesus says to his disciples "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you really know me...

I see art as a social enterprise, although that includes artists, as individuals, having a great deal of freedom in their work. Whether this individua...

I think it is important in such a discussion to make a distinction between what is beautiful, or of artistic merit, to an individual and what is regar...

I'm facing facts, accepting the fact that we are not equipped to answer the questions of our origins does not mean we are somehow giving up, lost, or ...

And what about the vulnerable groups in our populations? You know those transplant patients on immunosuppressants, those with cystic fibrosis, emphyse...

So it is crazy to say, "it is its own causality". That's cleared that up.

That's not a useful comparison because it compares two scenarios, one of which is known to be encountered frequently in our world with one known to ne...

And it's not crazy to say "it is its own causality"?

I agree with your reference to the will in a person. There is a serious discussion to be had around this, but not here as, like I said before, any arg...

There aren't many people left following your exclusions, that sort of answers your question by default. On closer analysis I think you will find that ...

I don't want to get into a discussion of scripture, but the annunciation isn't mentioned in Mark and the resurrection comes across as someone who has ...

I agree, here in the UK it is the populist press which fuels the ideas that it is not a serious disease and that greater harm is being done to the eco...

You raise a good point, the allegory was a means of conveying wisdom amongst uneducated (relatively) populations. Something which has been practiced f...