(October 12, 2013 at 6:48 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: If by 'the I', you mean the awareness of self, you're dead wrong. This issue is part and parcel of the mind/brain debate.
Who is I?
OM......i am God.
For many thousand years the general mantra has been OM or i am God.
So I represent the awareness that you are God and therefore is not a different issue.
But of course before you realize this it takes a lot of hard work.
Quote:Don't limit yourself: It isn't possible to investigate God even WITH knowledge of the mind, brain, and awareness of self.
Have you ever try?
Quote:Religions are born out of fear.............
Wrong again.
The primitive that worshiped the sun, the moon and every other physical entity did so out of fear but they did not start the religions.
The caste of priests started the religions in order to control the masses for their own benefit.
Quote:and the difference between religion and spirituality is mainly a tax-exemption.
No idea isn't it?
Just as i thought.
enrico Wrote:Did Shiva, Krisna, Buddha, and Jesus were teaching spirituality or religions?
Quote:Accepting for the moment that these myth figures taught anything at all, I'd have to say they were teaching religion.
Wrong again.
They did teach spirituality but if you haven't got a clue what spirituality is then all lost.
Shiva, Krisna, Buddha, Jesus were teaching meditation not the rosary, the masses or old mantras.
enrico Wrote:How do you understand whether God exist or not?
Quote:This the gnomes-in-the-garden problem again. I understand that gods do not exist because there is no reason for them to exist and no compelling evidence for them.
How do you COMPEL evidence?
With the usual PHYSICAL science?
And how do you know that there is no reason for them to exist.
How would you know that the space, the air the light the water and the solid matter are not instead composed of vibration if you never practice self awareness?
You see that is what i am talking about in my OP.
People are over optimistic so they come to easy conclusion even before they build up the foundations into intuitional science which would be able to explain how the system works.
Quote:I agree that philosophy isn't going to solve the gods issue, but so what?
Not really.
Philosophy is the theoretical way to know how the system works.
Quote:It happens to be a grand way to pass the time when it's too rainy to go out and there's nothing good on the tell.
I wonder why so many people try to pass the time in this forum.
You make me feel like going to sleep!
