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"Light within"
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"Light within"
I'm not too sure about other religions, but I know in Islam, it was taught every human has a spark within that can ignite the light and make the soul luminous. Or bad deeds can darken the soul and make the light practically disappear. Good deeds increase the light of the soul.

That said, I wonder if most humans automatically regard goodness as something that increases humans quantitatively as well qualitatively. That is some real existence increases when more goodness is done that corresponds to goodness. The good nature in the human increases that is, but not just metaphorically, but in reality. Would that be possible without a soul?

Would this inner light be a proof of the divine if it exists?
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#2
RE: "Light within"
Quote:Would this inner light be a proof of the divine if it exists?

No, dopamine.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#3
RE: "Light within"
In fable you glow red or blue/white depending on how good you are. You also grew horns and got really big and scary in fable 2. I accidentally turned off safety mode and ended up killing a huge amount of people with a giant spell. I then slaughtered hundreds of guards in self defence. Next thing I know I'm a big goat man with red glowing eyes. I've never managed to pull off being good, it's too much hassle in game.
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#4
RE: "Light within"
(August 2, 2014 at 8:49 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Would this inner light be a proof of the divine if it exists?

God is not requrired for common courtesy.
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Quote:I'm not too sure about other religions, but I know in Islam, it was taught every human has a spark within that can ignite the light and make the soul luminous.


And I bet you wonder why islam sounds stupid, too?
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#6
RE: "Light within"
Sounds like Karma, or a soul, some kind of meter that records your moral actions. That's about all I can say about the topic at hand, your post is really just a bunch of incoherent word salad. And I'm a meat and potatoes kind of guy.
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RE: "Light within"
(August 2, 2014 at 8:49 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I'm not too sure about other religions, but I know in Islam, it was taught every human has a spark within that can ignite the light and make the soul luminous. Or bad deeds can darken the soul and make the light practically disappear. Good deeds increase the light of the soul.

That said, I wonder if most humans automatically regard goodness as something that increases humans quantitatively as well qualitatively. That is some real existence increases when more goodness is done that corresponds to goodness. The good nature in the human increases that is, but not just metaphorically, but in reality. Would that be possible without a soul?

Would this inner light be a proof of the divine if it exists?

"Traits", or "the state" of a point (or volume) in space can defined the system around them. Even if they are unknown. Start there.
When you continue down this line of logic leave out all, to the best of your ability, words like "religion" vs. "science". Let it go where it goes, not where you feel good about it.
this is my first line in my personal logic. If you can prove it a fallacy it would be much appreciated.
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#8
RE: "Light within"
The mind is very powerful, enough so that placebos work, to some extent at least. So feeling good about what you've done could, I suppose, have some physical effect.

Nothing to do with your imaginary friend though.
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#9
RE: "Light within"
Has anyone ever seen a light in a body? (outside of a crematorium that is)
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will fly to the stars.

Never underestimate the power of very stupid people in large groups

Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud ..... after a while you realise that the pig likes it!

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RE: "Light within"
(August 3, 2014 at 12:15 pm)zebo-the-fat Wrote: Has anyone ever seen a light in a body? (outside of a crematorium that is)

if you can't "see" light. Use an IR camera.
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