ThatOwlWoman (08-07-2020)
ThatOwlWoman (08-07-2020)
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
Phantasmal (08-07-2020), ThatOwlWoman (08-07-2020)
You look with limited vision with physical eyes and emotions.
A believer has the Holy Spirit to teach us and reveal God to us.
"We are IN this world, but not OF it."
We don't expect you understand spiritual matters because you don't have the ability.
God has the answers. If we (or YOU) had all the answers, then we would all BE God. We don't and we are not.
The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1Cor:2 14
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
ThatOwlWoman (08-07-2020)
Abortion rights dogma can obscure human reason & harden the human heart so much that the same person who feels
empathy for animal suffering can lack compassion for unborn children who experience lethal violence and excruciating
pain in abortion.
Unborn animals are protected in their nesting places, humans are not. To abort something is to end something
which has begun. To abort life is to end it.
That's an area of thought that is interesting to me. What is the next step in our evolution? A lateral move such as just moving as an individual from one plane of existence to another isn't much of a change. Moving from individuality to becoming one with the entire Universe seems to be a much more important step in our growth; to die and lose all individuality. Not a loss of individuality like a bee in a hive, but to become part of an overmind that includes our Universe.
Arthur C. Clarke's "Childhood's End" touched on that idea as well as several other science fiction authors including, to some extent, Douglas Adams. One of his ways was "So long and thanks for all the fish!".
https://sites.google.com/site/h2g2th...Index/d/919377
"Hatred is a failure of imagination" - Graham Greene, "The Power and the Glory"
ThatOwlWoman (08-07-2020)
Yeah. Free Will ... to choose which philosophy you want to follow. I'm good with Epicurus. (Pursuit of Happiness, like in the Constitution)
"He taught that the root of all human neurosis is death denial and the tendency for human beings to assume that death will be horrific and painful, which he claimed causes unnecessary anxiety, selfish self-protective behaviors, and hypocrisy. According to Epicurus, death is the end of both the body and the soul and therefore should not be feared".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus
The Bible was written by Goat-Herders and Mystics, Epicurus had a Group of Thinkers, 'the Garden'. (See the difference?)
"Epicurus was an ancient Greek philosopher and sage who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy. He was born on the Greek island of Samos to Athenian parents. Influenced by Democritus, Aristippus, Pyrrho, and possibly the Cynics, he turned against the Platonism of his day and established his own school, known as "the Garden", in Athens.Wikipedia"
Nordberg (08-07-2020)
I do agree with that last. There are definitely militant, pushy atheists just as there are militant pushy ppl of religious faith.
Otherwise, atheists -- at least the ones I know -- live their lives unconcerned about questions of god, angels, afterlives, souls. They do not worship science or self, but they do understand that science and technology are real aspects of our first-world existences. I would not call that "belief," though. "Belief" insinuates that the believer thinks that something unseen and/or unproven is real. For instance, I know that the planet is a globe, not a flat surface. There is plenty of proof. I know that there is an Eifel tower even though I have not personally seen it. I know that engineering principles keep the bridge up that I drove over going into town, and that the highway is curved and banked on those same principles even though I've never studied them. I don't worship those principles; I merely acknowledge their existence. Although I'm not atheist myself, I can assure you that the vast majority of them are decent ethical people who really don't care what you or I or anyone else chooses to adopt as their faith. They simply prefer to be left out of it.
"Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals." -- Mark Twain
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