Please outline your beliefs

[killallthewhiteman]

Originally Posted by Yggdrasil

some kind of unconscious force emanating from the Cosmos

You believe consciousness comes from unconsciousness

I believe consciousness comes from consciousness

When my consciousness is conscious of itself; that is the nature of self-conscious. This is the parameter and context that consciousness exists on; consciousness is only known to oneself;oneself being the soul; the soul being is an inner entity that everyone possesses, but in fact most of the population are not fully aware of; for various reasons both intentional and unintentional; both realized and unrealized; mostly because people are not conscious of their own soul as well as the vastness of spiritual knowledge.

So why does consciousness have such value? Consciousness is one symptom of the soul; there are various symptoms of the soul but only consciousness can be aware of any and every symptom of the soul and it is the mechanism to which they are acquired ; spiritual knowledge is acquired when consciousness is conscious of itself; and recognizes consciousness as the most important function of a soul, because consciousness is the one symptom of the soul that remains stagnant when other symptoms of the soul are malleable and changing in their nature; the contents of the consciusness change but the nature of consciusness is always the same; in a sense eternal in this world until our death, that is when our consciousness be conscious: when the nature of consciousness changes, ceases to exist in this experience. That is why it is the most important symptom of the soul; that is why a transcendental mode of consciousness achieved through a mode of satva is valuable over a mode of passion or a mode of ignorance.

That is why spiritual knowledge is valuable over material knowledge.

[shane666]

religions retarded

[JesuitArtiste]

Originally Posted by shane666

religions retarded

Indeed.

[rodrat16]

What are your beliefs regarding what God is?
What are your beliefs regarding who Jesus was and his relation to god and us?
What are your beliefs regarding other religeons?

god is an all knowing being, he is in and off the earth and a separate entity on his own that we cannot fathom. i do not believe in him but rather know he exists through experiences that i cannot explain, so yeah i am a christian.

jesus is the god in human flesh who gave up his life to save us. strive to be like jesus but dont worship him, only the father

i think there wrong

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all that being said, i am huge hypocrite like all other christians. do not be sheep like the idiotic followers but rather find your own path.

as a christian i personally believe in evolution, dinosaurs existed and the world is billions of years old

[trumbly]

I believe there is a divine power. I believe in aliens. I believe the Great Pyramid of Giza is a product of divine power and aliens/mankind. I believe Jesus was a prophet and many of the books of the Bible were not incorporated into the Bible for religious reasons. I don't know a whole lot about other religions, so I usually don't ridicule them. But, I might, just depends on what the Islamists are up to.

[Mankonaut]

Originally Posted by redzed

I believe there cannot be nothing so there must be something! That something is one thing, as in - totally connected! There cannot be any gaps or 'nothing' to seperate us from each and all. There cannot be nothing, that is an absolute nothingness, therefore the fundamentalist xian image of a righteous and pure God who exists elsewhere, seperate from this sinful dimension, and who created the universe out of nothing cannot be true. How is it possible for fundamentalist xian god to create a universe seperate from him/her self? An ancient philosopher said if horses had gods they would look and act like horses, that seems the way it is. Humans make images/descritions of god/s except we seem to make them in our own image, our imagination.

Therein lies a quandary, how to describe the indescribable? If one was to say God is a spirit, or: God is Spirit what does that mean. Spirit, as in an individual incorporeal being without shape or form(whatever that is), or Spirit as: all being, the aggregate of sentience? None of those things can tell. All descriptions of God are inadequate. One can perhaps describe better what god is not.

God is not seperate from humanity, for what is it that would seperate? There cannot be nothing so it seems all that exists must be connected there cannot be any gaps so whatever god is and, whatever we are, we are all part of the one infinite something that exists everywhere because there cannot be a nowhere or a nothing.

Jesus is another quandary. Who to believe" Am I, along with the disciple Thomas, allowed the proof of checking out the wounds before making my decision? Why when Jesus was accused of blasphemy for saying he was the son of god did he reply: 'your own scriptures say' "You are Gods" 'so how can you kill me for saying I am the son of god'? Does that mean he was affirming that we are Gods?

The etymology of Jesus name interested me so looked it up in a dictionary and apparently one translation is that Jesus means: God is Help. That made sense because of the selfless things I see humans doing to help one another{and thinking of God in an abstract kind of way as the Logos, Word or Reason or as the highest or controlling principle}, it seemed the most pure expression of divinity I have seen, or felt, is the unconditional help humans give each other - especially in times of need.

A lot of my thoughts about god comes down to personal stuff. For example one time I was bushwalking and fell off a small mountain, after bouncing headlong off a couple of ledges I went face first over a cliff. From there I could see all the way to the bottom- roughly a couple hundred metres. Being sure I was going to die, thoughts sped thru my mind and I did as when the nightmares came in childhood and called out "Jesus". Shortly after my head smacked into the cliff face and the next bit's somewhat blurry but I recall coming to, caught by some bushes growing out the side of the mountain, suspended above the remaining 150 metres or so! The very first thought in my mind was a verse repeated three times in the bible: "Whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved". And saved I was, when the selfless emergency service volunteers came in the middle of the night and dragged me up the side of the mountain with a rope!

IMHO We are all one, one reflection of infinite being in an infinite kaleidoscope of being, in infinite dimensions of being - because there cannot be 'nothing' so there must simply be an infinite totally connected something! That infinite being has consciousness and we are fractals of that consciousness. God is what we call the rest of our own greater being.

Cheers

That was a good read, man. If you only read one post this year...

Originally Posted by MoneyBoxers14

& dont be a dick.

This is pretty much what most religions come down to.

As for my views, I've done some reading in my time (ya srsly!), books from some of the smartest people in history, none of who have been able to get any closer than I to God or disproving him. So I figure why waste my time, do I think I'm some kind of frigging genius that's gonna crack the coldest case ever? If any of you guys find God or the answer to life let me know, promise?

[PastorSehmish]

Greetings,

I'll just give you an introduction to myself. My name is Wayne, but you can call me Dr. Pastor Emeritus Wayne Sehmish. Until recently, I was pastor of Good Shepherd Baptist Church in Queensland, Australia (www.baptist.com.au). My time as pastor was a time of fruitfulness and blessing, especially in a financial context. After creating a financial base for myself, I got the go-ahead from God to begin financing and planning my conquest of Asia and the greater third world. This empire will then be left to my son, who despite his metal retardation, is still the most apt to lead besides myself.

To learn more about me and my plans for world domination, visit www.thesimpletruth.com.au. For you reading pleasure, I have also included a favorite quote of mine on each page. You may be surprised to find that these quote are actually mine, but this is simply because nobody else has come up with one as spectacular as any of mine. Here's a sample:

“Who do you think you’re not, and what if you are wrong ?”
-Dr Pastor Emeritus Wayne Sehmish

In conclusion, it is also my humble God-given duty to let ou know that we are all sinners, the likes of which are the cause of God's wrathful vengeance, which comes in the form of tsunamis, floods, hurricanes (Katrina, anyone???) and also Armageddon. You'd best get saved before the latter arrives, which isn't far away since the antichrist has been elected to be the president of the United States.

God Bless,
Dr. Pastor Emeritus Wayne Sehmish