I really enjoyed your comments. Yeah if I’m drawn to the Quran, perhaps I’m not really a mystic. It does have a very strong Monism, there is no God bu...
Yes! You have be aware of it yourself, you can’t trust anyone else. Or at least you need to verify it for yourself. That’s why I feel so inept at sayi...
That’s a really good question. Because we are already in a state of union, so yes the goal is awareness. Though I’m starting to feel my whole intellec...
Comments revised... So this would be the closest to the direct, independent experience I’m talking about. But as I’ve learned in my research on psyche...
Are you familiar with Pascal’s wager? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal's_Wager The above my modified version of it. Explaining 3 possible outcom...
So yes, God probably does enjoy watching us finding our way back to Him (Kabbalah and Gnosticism are big on these themes). But human misery during lif...
I think when I said numerology and Platonism are both BS people understood my iconclastic meaning. I’m well known on here to be a Platonist. I’ve spen...
Do you mean possibly happy for all eternity? In our current state/psychology it would not be possible I agree. It’s an excellent point that I reject h...
The impulse being seeking or expressing truth? I suppose then you’re right. But they both BS at least in the sense that they don’t tell us the whole s...
Hmm.. so how do we allow truth to be truth, to speak for itself? I love being overdramitic and say to free God but it’s poetic language. Truth isn’t n...
Maybe you’re right. One man’s life changing ephainy is another nonsensical fantasy. I went camping this weekend and it was a delightful dose of perspe...
I enjoy the gnostics, especially the Gospel of Thomas, which is my favorite of the gospels. I wrote a “devotional” of the book that’s a bit harsh para...
I didn’t know there are other kinds of vu’s that’s funny, thanks. So yeah I’m on the verge of falling into complete absurdity. You’ll often find this ...
No. They grew out of Shi’a Islam in Persia/Iran in 1800s with the teachings of their prophets the Bab and Bahá’u’llá. They are a really small religion...
If I think I understand you, this is sort of what some of us were discussing in the psychedelic thread. Sometimes there are “glitches in the matrix” t...
You’re right I’m an apostate. But only to christanity. Judiasm, Islam*, Bahai, Buddhism, Hinduism are all cool with me and vice versa. That suggests t...
I’ve had simmilar thoughts that all of religions are just mankind’s attempts to describe God that are initiated by intelligent, wise and pious men rat...
Okay, that’s probably true about not being mean spirited. I forgot who said it, maybe Huxley, but so many ex-churched mystics treat Christanity like a...
In my experience, Christians get really nervous (in person rather than online) about talking to me about salvation and hell. But that’s because I’m we...
Thanks for this thread, I’ll definitely read and catch up on the rest of it. I don’t think such questions are helpful as deductive proofs or disproofs...
Im glad you raised this, it’s timely. I’ve been considering writing an open letter to evangelical Christians. You’re right that most believers wouldn’...
I’ve been thinking back to philosophy 101 where I first heard about Plato, his Forms and his cave. It’s required knowledge for any of western philosop...
It’s okay. Thanks for your support Clark. I’m not a religious theist. I’d really like to develop some sort of middle way between atheism and theism. 9...
Welcome Alaina! I’m so happy to see someone else interested in the Republic!! Okay, Socrates gets him to say justice when well applied should punish o...
No, thankfully it doesn’t. So either: 1) There is a god and therefore God is the source of meaning. 2) there is no god but some other source of meanin...
My theology doesn’t give me a definite answer either. Such is the nature of God. God doesn’t fit in neatly defined, deductive boxes. I can’t prove him...
What i meant was it’s not deductively reasoned. I inductively arrive at it because it makes the best sense of my experience. If you can prove as you a...
You’re lucky!! Though I suspect really you probably don’t care :) Actually in this thread I did posit a brief defense of God and Monism. https://theph...
I was with you until you called yourself “new age”. You’re better than that! New Age don’t believe in anything they just grab at whatever flashy idea ...
Philosophy isn’t some perfect place where everyone is completely open minded. We are discussing what for me is a first principle. “God exists and is t...
Wow. Thanks for filling me in. I thought it was just a bunch of reinsance guys and then Huxley. There are a lot of syncretic philosophies and faiths. ...
I agree. Good way to go. Good comes from and is defined by God. So doing good actions is following God’s will, doing evil actions is acting contrary t...
No. Actions aren’t metaphysical, they happen outside of a individual. Are you your running? Even if you are then it is only while the action occurs. S...
As a monist I don’t need a counterpart to define anything. It just is. In fact, to be a monist I believe a pluralities and dualities have a ultimate, ...
I sense a trap and getting out of my league here. This is what I get for just studying monists (Plato, Plotinus, Spinoza, Maimonides)... it always ass...
Hmm... yes. If the mortal world ends and everyone is in heaven, do they eventually forget about evil and without evil there is no good? It’s a clever ...
I used pretty sarcastic language for effect to point out the logical absurdity and cruelty of the position on hell. Yet. I acknowledge that you never ...
Another argument, hell assumes that time only matters from a human perspective, not a divine one. I was a good kid I went to church and was baptized. ...
That video was really well done, thanks for sharing. I still think we are dealing with more than just left and right brain thinking. Maybe an intuitiv...
It wasn’t till lately that I realized that I had a consistent pattern in the type of stuff I practice since I’ve drifted away from traditional zazen “...
This is an interesting example. So I think it would be a mistake to identify spiritual awareness/insight with one particular function or area of the b...
Mindfulness, breathing meditation, visualization based on religious texts (some Pure Land Buddhist or Kabbalistic texts), other kinds of visualization...
So perhaps we are combining insight with real action/change. This isn’t a problem unique to psychedelics. What about people who have religious experie...
I was thinking about some of your points when I posed my question. If everyone in world just avoided being terrible and didn’t commit murder, or signi...
At least heresy is more severely punished by English teachers than by theology ones. At least double the risk of defenestration. (I got to use that wo...
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