RE: A Question From Atheists
June 25, 2017 at 9:26 pm
(This post was last modified: June 25, 2017 at 9:31 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
So, I've always found this particular area of magical thinking fascinating -as a sideline.
Don't you think it might be deleterious for an organism to be able to exert the kind of control over it's most vital functions that is being described as a result of meditation? If we could, for example..."turn off our I"...what would turn it back on again? What keeps it from happening on accident? Why don't people just stop where they are, and for no discernible reason......stare blankly into space never moving again until the day they die? What other things can we control? Could I stop my heart, for example?
Say I'm driving a bus, and my nirvana switch malfunctions? What happens to the people on the bus? What happens to me? If I were quietly contemplating self on the savannah...and I entered yogic beastmode, level ten.......does the lion eat me, or avoid me for the immense auric brilliance raditiating outward from my recently enlightened non-self?
Don't you think it might be deleterious for an organism to be able to exert the kind of control over it's most vital functions that is being described as a result of meditation? If we could, for example..."turn off our I"...what would turn it back on again? What keeps it from happening on accident? Why don't people just stop where they are, and for no discernible reason......stare blankly into space never moving again until the day they die? What other things can we control? Could I stop my heart, for example?
Say I'm driving a bus, and my nirvana switch malfunctions? What happens to the people on the bus? What happens to me? If I were quietly contemplating self on the savannah...and I entered yogic beastmode, level ten.......does the lion eat me, or avoid me for the immense auric brilliance raditiating outward from my recently enlightened non-self?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
