RE: Religion will dramatically shrink
June 11, 2011 at 1:22 pm
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2011 at 1:39 pm by Castle.)
(June 11, 2011 at 8:00 am)FaithNoMore Wrote:(June 11, 2011 at 7:28 am)Castle Wrote: You wanted to know how I receive info? It’s like a small voice that come into the mind, and from experience if I do not listen to it,it always get me into trouble.
That's called intuition.
Yes, yet how would one explain intuition to most people let alone greater skeptic like atheist and I won't get even into imagination part just yet?
1 immediate apprehension by the mind without reasoning.
2 immediate apprehensions by a sense.
3 immediate insights. (Intuitionalism. Philos. The belief that primary truths and principles
4. the ability to see any event, any object from a viewpoint of the cosmic whole,
5. The knowing of something without prior knowledge or the use of reason.
6 All stands revealed the hearts, the motives, and the causes of all events.
Intuition can be said a person who develops intuition can know anything, without the barriers of time, space and any other obstructions. The intuitive type: Creative people, people with hunches whose chief concern is with future possibilities. They are able to sense the invisible and the impalatable. They perceive wholes and compress much into a flash. Poets and prophets are often intuitive.
I know of a few other Artists that have these abilities like messenger to our nervous system of society, yet most people are too numb to hear.
(June 11, 2011 at 3:05 am)Anymouse Wrote:(June 9, 2011 at 8:51 pm)Castle Wrote:
It will come down to something worst than the second world war in death tolls, Since Nuclear War is Mankind's greatest threat, . . . (rest cut for brevity)
If you don't count epidemic, drought, starvation, overpopulation, climate change, environmental destruction, &c.
Remember that WWI was not ended by an Allied victory; it was ended by the Spanish Flu. War (as of yet) has never had much of a long-term impact on populations. 350,000 new cases of poliomyelitis were reported in 1988, even today the number is about 1,000 a year, and most Western nations have abandoned mandatory polio vaccinations.
By the mid XVIII Century smallpox was killing 400,000 people a year. Smallpox is no longer vaccinated against, either. The global mortality rate for the 1918/1919 Spanish Flu pandemic is not known, but it is estimated that 20% died, or about 100,000,000. In the USA alone, 675,000. Now certain bonehead scientists have dug up the virus from people who died from it and are studying it in labs (like smallpox) on animals and in vitro.
Shouldn't be too long before someone somewhere has an "accident," or worse, such stuff gets stolen. (A suicide bomber with active polio or tuberculosis, perhaps?)
More people today are dying more from obesity than starvation, poverty is very harmful too. For the first time in human history our life expectancy is going into reverse and fast food and super market maybe one of the greatest killers.
Those are slow unnoticed killers, it will much largest natural disasters and nuclear blow out would change the mind of the 80% people's consciousness
(June 9, 2011 at 6:47 pm)Epimethean Wrote: There seems to be an evolutionary process at work in the major religions of the world. Few truly polytheistic (dinosaurs among religion) religions remain powerful, having been supplanted by their more radical and aggressive (mammals among religion) monotheistic progeny. There seems a push toward extinction, as evidenced by the rise of atheism in the public view, and how well it tends to get on with science.
The larger question seems to be: Will mankind evolve enough to let religion run its full course toward extinction, or will the outdated beliefs destroy (or at least massively hamper) its chance to do so in some holy nuclear disaster?
Although, on second thought, such a disaster might do just the right thing in bringing people full-speed modern and ready to see religion for the species-suicide it is.
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devil:
