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My "New Age Perception" - The Goddess Is "Real"
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RE: My "New Age Perception" - The Goddess Is "Real"
(May 1, 2014 at 10:36 am)Shaykh al-Kabir Shair Abdulrab Wrote: Allah is real,

Two questions.

How do you know that Allah is real?

You've rejected what religion teaches so how would you describe Allah?
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RE: My "New Age Perception" - The Goddess Is "Real"
(May 2, 2014 at 5:43 am)Confused Ape Wrote: Two questions.

How do you know that Allah is real?

Through my ability to reason and see the world in terms of pure physicality.

Quote:You've rejected what religion teaches so how would you describe Allah?

What do you mean?
Look at the world and that alone describes God. Have you never heard of Natural Theology before?
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My "New Age Perception" - The Goddess Is "Real"
(May 4, 2014 at 6:20 pm)Shaykh al-Kabir Shair Abdulrab Wrote:
(May 2, 2014 at 5:43 am)Confused Ape Wrote: Two questions.

How do you know that Allah is real?

Through my ability to reason and see the world in terms of pure physicality.

Quote:You've rejected what religion teaches so how would you describe Allah?

What do you mean?
Look at the world and that alone describes God. Have you never heard of Natural Theology before?

Nice double dodge here.

Apparently, you hold on to the belief you were indoctrinated into. No surprise there, but don't claim it's rational when you can't even qualify it, or how it aligns with pagan traditions, or what distinguishes Allah from Jehovah from Unicorns from Santa as a reasonable belief instead of just another vestige of superstition.
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RE: My "New Age Perception" - The Goddess Is "Real"
(May 4, 2014 at 8:21 pm)Rampant.A.I. Wrote: Nice double dodge here.

Apparently, you hold on to the belief you were indoctrinated into.


I was never born a Muslim. I dislike Islam with a burning passion along with the false cow-fucking prophet Muhammad.

Quote:No surprise there, but don't claim it's rational when you can't even qualify it, or how it aligns with pagan traditions, or what distinguishes Allah from Jehovah from Unicorns from Santa as a reasonable belief instead of just another vestige of superstition.

Allah is a pagan deity, even Kuttub al-Sittah mentions this along with al-Qur'an:

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"And they attribute to Allah daughters - exalted is He - and for them is what they desire."

Allah is just a word I like using, nothing more nothing less. I know exactly what it means and exactly where it comes from. Muslims do not own the name but instead stole it and killed the owners(not even they truly owned the name).

al-Baqara ayat 115: "To ALLAH belongs the East and the West; so where ever you turn, there will be the face of ALLAH. Surely, ALLAH is Bountiful, All-Knowing."

Try applying some hermeneutics to that verse and see how it correlates to proof of god. Hint: many pagans did not believe their own myths were real Wink
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RE: My "New Age Perception" - The Goddess Is "Real"
Shaykh al-Kabir Shair Abdulrab [/quote' Wrote: Through my ability to reason and see the world in terms of pure physicality.

I cam across this article about Shiva.

At the end of the section titled - Shiva as the Supreme Reality - there's -

Quote:Shiva is also the great deity of nature, the lord of animals or Pashupati. He is the lord of the wild. He really has no human form. We find his face and form hidden in nature, whether in the mountain, tree, the cloud, the animal or the rock

The article then goes on to say -

Quote:The Duality of Shiva and Shakti

Yet Shiva forms a duality of cosmic powers at a manifest level as the cosmic masculine force, along with his complimentary Shakti or feminine principle.

The worship of Shiva and Shakti or the dual cosmic powers represents the natural religion of all humanity and of the entire universe, which revolves around honoring these two forces in all their manifestations in both the animate and inanimate realms.

In the Section titled Forms Of Shiva there's -

Quote:Shiva’s consorts or feminine counterparts are similarly many in name and form.

Just as Shiva is Mahadeva or the Great God, his consort is Mahadevi or the Great Goddess. Her forms are as diverse and paradoxical as those of Shiva’s, reflecting the universal power that is rooted in transformation, not in fixed appearances.

So, when you look around you at the world, how can you be certain that you're looking at the work of Allah and not an aspect of Shiva?

Shaykh al-Kabir Shair Abdulrab [/quote' Wrote: What do you mean?
Look at the world and that alone describes God. Have you never heard of Natural Theology before?

Yes, I have heard of Natural Theology but I'm interested in what Allah means to you, personally. Do you see him as a watchmaker or a computer programmer? Is Allah masculine or a balance of masculine and feminine or neither? Is Allah outside the universe or manifested in it?

I'm not going to laugh at you or say you're stupid because I'm genuinely interested in what people experience. I just get irritated with some religious people who insist that their concept of the Supreme Reality is THE Truth because other traditions have their own concepts.

Is there a Supreme Reality? Nobody knows but it seems that humans evolved to have concepts of one.
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RE: My "New Age Perception" - The Goddess Is "Real"
(May 5, 2014 at 3:41 am)Confused Ape Wrote:
Shaykh al-Kabir Shair Abdulrab

Through my ability to reason and see the world in terms of pure physicality.[/quote' Wrote: I cam across this article about Shiva.

At the end of the section titled - Shiva as the Supreme Reality - there's -

Quote:Shiva is also the great deity of nature, the lord of animals or Pashupati. He is the lord of the wild. He really has no human form. We find his face and form hidden in nature, whether in the mountain, tree, the cloud, the animal or the rock

The article then goes on to say -

Quote:The Duality of Shiva and Shakti

Yet Shiva forms a duality of cosmic powers at a manifest level as the cosmic masculine force, along with his complimentary Shakti or feminine principle.

The worship of Shiva and Shakti or the dual cosmic powers represents the natural religion of all humanity and of the entire universe, which revolves around honoring these two forces in all their manifestations in both the animate and inanimate realms.

In the Section titled Forms Of Shiva there's -

Quote:Shiva’s consorts or feminine counterparts are similarly many in name and form.

Just as Shiva is Mahadeva or the Great God, his consort is Mahadevi or the Great Goddess. Her forms are as diverse and paradoxical as those of Shiva’s, reflecting the universal power that is rooted in transformation, not in fixed appearances.

So, when you look around you at the world, how can you be certain that you're looking at the work of Allah and not an aspect of Shiva?

Shaykh al-Kabir Shair Abdulrab [/quote' Wrote: What do you mean?
Look at the world and that alone describes God. Have you never heard of Natural Theology before?

Yes, I have heard of Natural Theology but I'm interested in what Allah means to you, personally. Do you see him as a watchmaker or a computer programmer? Is Allah masculine or a balance of masculine and feminine or neither? Is Allah outside the universe or manifested in it?

I'm not going to laugh at you or say you're stupid because I'm genuinely interested in what people experience. I just get irritated with some religious people who insist that their concept of the Supreme Reality is THE Truth because other traditions have their own concepts.

Is there a Supreme Reality? Nobody knows but it seems that humans evolved to have concepts of one.

Just so you know, I was a Shaivite Hindu(very bad one) so I am quite influenced by the Shiva Purana. Allah is a name and I do not understand your fixation upon a mere name as being somehow different than another when it means the same thing.
By Supreme Reality(Brahman) you are saying there is a type of objective reality in existence which is not simply true, only 1/3 of it is objective and the rest is subjective and semantical. Saying that there is an ultimate truth is a fallacy as I can say that god is inherently evil because suffering exist in the world yet you could say the opposite.

So please tell me why suffering exist and why is god not evil because such suffering exist in the world. Do you even believe that suffering exist in the world?
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RE: My "New Age Perception" - The Goddess Is "Real"
(May 6, 2014 at 1:31 am)Shaykh al-Kabir Shair Abdulrab Wrote: Just so you know, I was a Shaivite Hindu(very bad one) so I am quite influenced by the Shiva Purana. Allah is a name and I do not understand your fixation upon a mere name as being somehow different than another when it means the same thing.

Yes, Allah is a name but I wanted to find out what you, personally, mean by it. If I've interpreted your post correctly, you regard Allah as being the same thing as Shiva, whatever that thing actually is.

(May 6, 2014 at 1:31 am)Shaykh al-Kabir Shair Abdulrab Wrote: By Supreme Reality(Brahman) you are saying there is a type of objective reality in existence which is not simply true, only 1/3 of it is objective and the rest is subjective and semantical.

I haven't the faintest idea what the nature of Supreme Reality is, all supposing it exists in the first place. If I had to make a guess, I'd say that it's the ultimate reality of our universe which physicists are still trying to figure out.

Quantum physics somehow got mixed up with Hinduism. In the Preface To The Tao Of Physics Fritjof Capra, a physicist, describes a subjective experience he had one day.

Quote:Five years ago, I had a beautiful experience which set me on a road that has led to the writing of this book. I was sitting by the ocean one late summer afternoon, watching the waves rolling in and feeling the rhythm of my breathing, when I suddenly became aware of my whole environment as being engaged in a gigantic cosmic dance. Being a physicist, I knew that the sand, rocks, water, and air around me were made of vibrating molecules and atoms, and that these consisted of particles which interacted with one another by creating and destroying other particles. I knew also that the earth's atmosphere was continually bombarded by showers of "cosmic rays," particles of high energy undergoing multiple collisions as they penetrated the air. All this was familiar to me from my research in high-energy physics, but until that moment I had only experienced it through graphs, diagrams, and mathematical theories. As I sat on that beach my former experiences came to life; I "saw" cascades of energy coming down from outer space, in which particles were created and destroyed in rhythmic pulses; I "saw" the atoms of the elements and those of my body participating in this cosmic dance of energy; I felt its rhythm and I "heard" its sound, and at that moment I knew that this was the Dance of Shiva, the Lord of Dancers worshiped by the Hindus.

There is now a statue of Shiva in his aspect of Nataraja, the Lord of Dance at CERN.

Shiva's Cosmic Dance At CERN

Quote:A special plaque next to the Shiva statue at CERN explains the significance of the metaphor of Shiva's cosmic dance with several quotations from The Tao of Physics.

(May 6, 2014 at 1:31 am)Shaykh al-Kabir Shair Abdulrab Wrote: Saying that there is an ultimate truth is a fallacy as I can say that god is inherently evil because suffering exist in the world yet you could say the opposite.

It depends on how one defines ultimate truth. Maybe ultimate truth is just the ultimate nature of the universe.

(May 6, 2014 at 1:31 am)Shaykh al-Kabir Shair Abdulrab Wrote: So please tell me why suffering exist and why is god not evil because such suffering exist in the world. Do you even believe that suffering exist in the world?

The universe is what the universe is. It's ridiculous projecting our human values and concept of purpose onto it. I'm an atheist so I don't regard it as a deity. My subjective experience of a Goddess was just that - she's a metaphor in the same way that Shiva is a metaphor at CERN.
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RE: My "New Age Perception" - The Goddess Is "Real"
(May 1, 2014 at 8:47 am)Confused Ape Wrote:


The goal of sub-atomic particles is to plant the seeds of inspiration rather than illusion.
Hope is the nature of spacetime, and of us. Wonder is a constant.
Although you may not realize it, you are consciousness-expanding.

Reality has always been overflowing with beings whose dreams are opened by transcendence. We are at a crossroads of wisdom and stagnation. Throughout history, humans have been interacting with the quantum matrix via bio-electricity.

Reiki may be the solution to what’s holding you back from a magnificent explosion of presence. As you self-actualize, you will enter into infinite presence that transcends understanding. Through astral projection, our third eyes are baptized in understanding.

Entity, look within and strengthen yourself. If you have never experienced this rebirth of unfathomable proportions, it can be difficult to heal. The world is calling to you via frequencies. Can you hear it?

You will soon be awakened by a power deep within yourself — a power that is angelic, conscious.

How should you navigate this heroic quantum cycle? Have you found your story? It can be difficult to know where to begin.

Yes, it is possible to confront the things that can destroy us, but not without love on our side. Only a prophet of the planet may harmonize this network of consciousness. The complexity of the present time seems to demand a summoning of our lives if we are going to survive.
Skepticism is not a position; it is an approach to claims.
Science is not a subject, but a method.
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RE: My "New Age Perception" - The Goddess Is "Real"
(May 6, 2014 at 12:20 pm)Chas Wrote:




Really? And there was me thinking my brain was just producing some kind of hallucination. * Reads the transcript of God On The Brain again* I still think my brain was producing some kind of hallucination.

I was particularly interested in this point you made, however.

Quote:The goal of sub-atomic particles is to plant the seeds of inspiration rather than illusion.

When I get bored I go to google and do a search for quantum plus some other word to see what turns up. The other day I tried "quantum cabbage" and was fascinated to find myself on a page of this site - The Hub - Abarim Publications' celebrated array of articles pertaining to Apologetics and Bible study.

I didn't know I needed a basic understanding of quantum mechanics and chaos theory in order to understand the Bible. Confusedhock:

"Quantum Jesus" turns up some interesting results as well. Here's a thought provoking video -

Jesus' Quantum Teachings-What Are They?

Quote:Jesus lived long before quantum physics was explained by science, but many of his teachings clearly demonstrate he understood the quantum universe.

Looks like those sub-atomic particles aren't doing their job very well. Big Grin
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