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Optimism.

Most of my contemporaries used to dread marrying and settling down, looking upon it as a prison sentence, I on the other hand wasn't too happy with si...

Quoted from Alan Watts: "... the central Self, let's call it God, it’s All of Us. It’s playing all the parts of All Beings whatsoever everywhere and a...

Let's differentiate between faith and blind faith, the former I think we are discussing here, the latter really is head in the sand stuff.

Throughout history we have misinterpreted what we see, our eyes saw the Sun and the Moon and the stars moving across the sky and logically deduced the...

I don't believe I being informed by fact, rather, I believe I'm being informed by beliefs and opinions. I take it all all so called'knowledge' with a ...

Yes I can go along with that rather than saying 'right' or 'wrong'. This accords with my belief that we are all God who wants to experience everything...

Not sure about that though somewhere in the bible we are described as gods, not God though, but maybe it's a sideways reference to all of us, the one ...

I don't, I believe.

If good is white and evil is black which shade of grey is the dividing line? If that line can't be ascertained then surely good and evil are one.

You don't perceive God directly because as God you have decided to experience being a human being, i.e. so called 'you'. To make that experience seem ...

Not joking, it's what I believe, that what we call 'God' is the only thing that exists. So if you/I/we exist then you/I/we are God, quite simple reall...

There is no rock, it's just God imagining itself to be a rock, by the same token there is no universe, it just appears to be.

Advaita Vedanta holds that Brahman, the creator, and Atman, the human soul, are one and the same, (Advaita means 'not two') this means, in effect, tha...

Neither exist.

There may be someone capable of proving existence of God but chooses not to for reason(s) unknown to me.

'The greatest show on earth' don't spoil it by moving the scenery or looking backstage otherwise it will involve a reboot.

"If we were to admit that the self, one's identity, personality, etc., were not dependent on the existential determinants of the world then we would r...

Oh right, I think I'm getting mixed up, if so I apologise. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, maybe I should just read and not spread confusion by posting!

No I didn't, it was you who said my post was theology and not philosophy.

It seems to me that we only experience things as a series of memories, when somethings 'happens' it immediately becomes a memory. We can only see back...

OK, if it's not philosophy then I'm on the wrong forum! Philosophy is the study of reality and existence, when that leads, inevitably, into the study ...

I love this from Alan Watts: Hide ‘n’ Seek “God likes to play hide ‘n’ seek, but because there is nothing outside of God, he has no one but himself to...

Question: Is there so called ‘life after death’? Answer: There are two possibilities: Either : 1 - Your consciousness or self awareness ceases to exis...

There are many that are desperate to believe there is no God and do likewise. Proof is in the eye of the beholder?

If God the Creator exists then science is part of that creation. If, for whatever reason, God decides to remain hidden (which seems to be the case) th...

Yes I would say ultimate reality is God/Allah/Brahman/Creator etc etc, use any label you like. The only thing that really exists, every 'thing' else i...

I don't know where the candle light comes from, I've read that it comes from the candle and converted by my eye into electrical impulses to be analyze...

Are thoughts the function of a brain or is the brain just a device for conveying them?

Well obviously I am unable to convey my feelings using written language, anyway I don't feel the need to convince anyone or defend them

I can't differentiate with language only within myself.

I did say'us'

If everyone is God, as myself and millions of people believe, then all of 'us' are very familiar with God and even talk to Him/Her/It on a regular bas...

I think part of the problem of depression is not realising it is often a normal part of life and therefore thinking that something is wrong. I can't i...

I don't believe in authority but I'm saying that I believe he (Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan) is real, but not ultimately real. 'Real' is like saying a com...

Maybe the only thing that exists is the all loving Creator who needs to experience what it feels to be the opposite to what it is, but as there is no ...

What he was saying is that the world is not ultimately real. In the rest of his statement which I left out he said that viewing the world as ultimatel...

As to your question I don't know, everything is on shifting sands so there is no solid vantage point to make a firm decision. As to reality I'll quote...

I like this version of an agnostic: "Someone who finds his life meaningful enough to pursue; without admitting or dismissing a God, and tolerant enoug...

I don't know what is real, some of my experiences seem to suggest there is another reality behind this reality, so what is ultimate reality? As a huma...

I've only succeeded once to realise that I'm dreaming, very subjective experience for everyone. As for quantum theory I think it's largely bunkum with...

We only know what dreams are when we they are viewed from the vantage point of wakefulness. When trying to observe the quantum world nothing makes log...

Assuming of course that the stars and the Sun are in fact what and where they are, we have no first hand experience, just what we are told, and the te...

The objective world we seem to occupy could all be an illusion or dream, we don't know, if that is true we cannot prove or disprove it as any measures...

I believe the same as we all believe, we don't know, we can only guess, Einstein said something like "atheism is no belief at all" but I disagree, it ...

An instant in so called time must be just that, not something that lasts for a period of time but something that starts and ends at the same instant, ...

I believe we only observe what appears to be an occurance, like watching a film/movie, nothing is occurring, it's just a still shot observed for a fra...

My understanding is that it doesn't occur at all in reality, it just appears to occur.

We can only experience the present as a memory, it's impossible to experience it as it occurs. The present consists of an instant which is changed for...

Exactly.