What Is The purpose Of Life? (17)

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Q1 - yes. Whether they'd want to be or not I don't know. I believe in a non-judgemental afterlife but I also think each individual has to find their own spiritual path. How this works out if a family holds different beliefs, I don't know, but I assume that worldly understanding is as nothing compared to how we understand things later.

Q2 - To no physical place. I believe physical reality is a necessary illusion, like a huge game. The bigger reality surrounds us, as though we were in a bubble. I don't think we "go" anyhere, I think it's more that we wake up from a dream.

Q3 - I believe there are many deities, including the Christian one. I believe that how people perceive them has more to do with the people, and "true nature" in this sense doens't mean very much. I believe that in some sense there is divinity in all living things.

Q4 - Dunno, which Lord were you thinking of? If you mean the Christian one, then I would say only if it distracts people from their duty to him, if they are his followers.

ETA: Sorry, I realise giving a serious answer here does look like rather a gross sense of humour failure...

Edited 8 Aug 08, 10:39 PM by Scribbles

What are days for?

Days are where we live.

They come, they wake us

Time and time over.

They are to be happy in:

Where can we live but days?

Ah, solving that question

Brings the priest and the doctor

In their long coats

Running over the fields.

<i have always thought this poem kind of says *everything* xxx>

You see back in the days when the world was young and folks thought the earth was a disc and under some kind of huge dome we didn't know any better mankind had to come up with a way to explain things, hence religion was born, a kind of early attempt at philosophy (though some societies in the world had been doing it much better, much earlier).

Humans by nature will sign up to any theory in order to help explain what we can't explain as a whole in general, conspiracy theory, junk theory and so on, so with religion we lie to ourselves, we use 'wish' thinking in order to convice ourselves we aren't going to die forever.

'Wish thinking' attacks the very basic integrity we need to grow and develop, religion preys on our fears, uses diseases like 'aids' to say being gay is wrong and this is how god will punish you, despite the fact that mankind can reproduce the aids gene using science is a clear cut case that it isn't some divine retribution sent from god.

My angle is this, if anyone has had surgery and gone under the needle and felt the total freedom of the blackness that envelops them, then thats probably what death is like, a kind of peaceful blackness. I do not need to be chided or made to feel guilty by people quoting from books written by ignorant men long, long ago.

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Edited 9 Aug 08, 12:04 AM by HobGothlin

If it were I'm guessing there'd be a hell of a lot (pardon the pun) of bad karma around, certainly with the majority of people I know, I see the very opposite

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LexieLou wrote: ETA: Is BDSM a sin in the eyes of the Lord?

In my personal opinion... no, my interpretation has always been that He doesn't want us for example to be promiscuous for the simple reason to protect us from unwanted children and diseases, to look after and value ourselves, not to do anything that would make us feel bad about ourselves. If we feel good about ourselves, don't get ourselves harmed (injury or psychological) then i reckon he would be ok enough with it, whether that is brought about by a good beating or a full on orgy.

God in my opinion is meant to be viewed as a loving Father... so i perceive his opinion of my activities is of a resigned... "just be careful" not wholeheartedly liking the choices i sometimes make, but giving me the freedom to make them, knowing he has enabled me the intuition for right or wrong, and eventually being there to pick up the pieces if my choices were wrong and i regret them! and whilst doing so.. not telling me "i told you so". I don't think he is as judgemental as people want to think, i think we are given the ability to judge for ourselves what is right or wrong, sinful or not, and regret and guilt or joy and pleasure are often a very good indicator of that.

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