(May 10, 2014 at 12:46 am)Rayaan Wrote: So going back, if the knowledge of God is the first thing that was installed in our memory system, and if the Self-Memory System theory of the self is true, then that memory (i.e. the knowledge that there is a God) must be the primary thing that causes the sense of self to emerge. This idea corresponds with another verse in the Quran where it beautifully states that when people forget God, they have also forgotten their own selves (or their souls): "And be not like those who forgot Allah, so He made them forget themselves" (Surah 59:19).
Put in another way, the verse is telling us that we cannot find our true selves without finding God first. Unless one becomes mindful of God and remembers Him frequently, he cannot set out on the path of real self-understanding. Without God, our sense of self is more of a pseudo-self. We may think that we understand ourselves, but we don't. We'd have forgotten our own selves without even knowing it.
So the millions of people in history who worshiped idols never knew themselves until Abrahamic religions came into play. Or do those idols count as god?
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
