[Jacks True Self]

LinaBo, I completely agree. �People doing it in their own way� is my whole point. Invisible world is best explored with intuition, cold science is too slow for that and out of its slowness it will just create more problems. When I said religion I meant following of dogmas based on one or another type of fear. Be it fear of not being accepted or fear of not having things turn out your way or something else. If religion is defined as honest exploration using reason and intuition it gets a whole new meaning.

I don�t know if I said this already but separations like science/religion/philosophy don�t really mean anything. All are trying to do the same thing which is providing ways to understand the universe around us but doing it in different ways. Universe is not separated into physical phenomenons then spiritual then some other� it�s all the same thing manifesting itself on levels which we due to our perspective might see as separate. It absolutely never is.

I think you are also right when you say that balance is what makes this world possible. It�s the interaction of light/dark emptiness/fullness or good and evil that sets everything in motion. We seem to be here just to experience the process and learn from it�

As to the idea of God I think that its most closely interconnected with life, a force that manifests itself in every possible place that is suitable for its manifestation. Maybe the creator is the created and vice versa. And once again it�s all part of the universe and is only separated in our heads.


Steven, I�ve never stated any proof against existence of god, I think I said something quite opposite. Doesn�t matter. All the people you�ve mentioned were just like all of us, and by close examination, reasoning and intuition they�ve discovered something profound. Later came the small minds and polluted it all with idolatry and deifying. What better way is there to keep people from discovering the same thing as Jesus or Mohammed did than to attribute something non-human to them, have them have something special from God that we don�t have, thus having the rest believe that what these people did is so far beyond our power we shouldn�t even try.
Word �Christ� might not mean Jesus Christ but a reference to a higher state of mind that is attainable by anyone who wishes. �Buddha� means the same thing! And �impossible� only exists in our heads. A tiny cell ends up giving birth to a human being.

As to finity of the universe, this is the first time I hear this. I don�t know how it could ever be limited in space but I don�t know much about this to argue. Either way what was said about progression of gas>galaxies>stars and planets in my earlier post can be applied to finite universe just the same.

[LinaBo]

Indeed

I won't bother with quoting myself, but if you'll look back to my previous posts, you'll notice that my concept of god isn't a personified one, but rather the 'sum of the parts'.

[ December 09, 2001: Message edited by: LinaBo ]