(February 19, 2015 at 4:43 pm)Surgenator Wrote: Reincarnation could be considered cyclical. Instead of ceasing to exist, you are reborn into a new body without the memories of your past life. Evolving would be similar to cyclical but you can be reincarnated into higher or lower lifeforms. And possibly to non-existence.
Thank you for the explanation. I didn't think of those perspectives because having read about them in eastern religion literature, I don't believe in that kind of thing and had set them aside.
Quote: Cause and effect does NOT come from me. It is the observable fact of reality. It is not subject to my beliefs just like gravity is not subject to my belief of it.
I understand that what you say is true, but you're still not seeing the definition of subjective. In the following comment you tell me about what it means to offend the law (I'll get to that in a minute). The same thing applies. Ideas don't create themselves, people created them. That something is considered by you as an observable fact isn't what makes it subjective. You observe something and from that, you formulate a conclusion, which if true, becomes a standard. But the formulation of the idea comes from a person which is what makes it subjective. The thing that reinforces its subjectivity is that other people have different ideas.
Quote: Breaking the human laws is an offense to the citizens that made that law. It is not an offense to the law, just like I cannot offend the 2nd law of thermodynamics. Laws don't have feelings, people do.
I concede the point, but I will modify you response just a bit. It offends those who abide the law and not necessarily those who created it.
