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And that's fine if you send prayers and also offer tangible help. My point is when some people think prayer alone is enough under all circumstances which even you would disagree with lol

You said by being my own God, I am my own standard of ethics which means I am one out of many other people with differing standards. And here's the thing, even if I am not my own God and go off a religion, then you are going off a religion out of many others as the standard for ethics. Either...

When I talk about consciousness, I'm talking about pure awareness. It has no dimensions or form. Trying to look for awareness is like trying to see your eyes with your eyes. It's like a knife trying to cut itself-it's not possible. It's pure subjectivity/soul/spirit. Because it has no...

This is sort of getting into the territory of, "You can't have morals without God." I mean I guess if the Bible tells you not to kill, that's fine. But you don't necessarily need the Bible in order to not kill. Nordic countries are some of the most secular in the world with some of the highest...

Jehovah Witnesses forego blood transfusions and they consider themselves to be Christian despite what others think. If someone is starving, giving them food is going to help them more than praying for them. We can speculate and say that prayer can feed their soul and all but they're still not...

Another thing is that religion isn't just potentially harmful in the way that it keeps its adherents from receiving useful medical treatement, it's also potentially harmful in the way that it allows its adherents to do effectively nothing to help others even when they're trying to. A good...

There's no denying that I haven't grown in wisdom. Being aware of more things is a change. But the very light with which I know anything at all, is what remains changeless. I know more things now than I do back when I was 4, but the knowing substratum or the canvas hasn't changed. For example...

Well getting over yourself doesn't necessarily mean renouncing yourself, but renouncing whatever limiting beliefs you had about yourself. It just means letting go of whatever baggage you're carrying. If you picked up some baggage, you can also put it back down...because you picked it up. Being...

I've heard that one before. "Science answers the how whereas religion answers the why." That why is based on belief, not empirical evidence. Ok, you might argue that there IS empirical evidence because there's trees, animals, and stars around us. But those don't necessarily have to imply that...

It's not that I am more aware of the world around me now than my first memory. It's that I'm aware of more things. The content increases or decreases, but the awareness doesn't fluctuate. For example when I go to sleep, I'm not focusing on anything. I'm no longer aware of my surroundings. Yet...

One day they agree that faith in Jesus is all that matters and the next day they say only their way is the correct way and that your way is a one way ticket to hell. Just ask any Baptist or Catholic if the Mormons or Jehovah Witnesses are Christians.

Well, scientists also form their hypothesis based off empirical evidence and then they conduct an experiment to test that hypothesis in order to gain more empirical evidence. In religion there's no experiment to be done in an effort to gain empirical evidence. Because of this objective focus...

Everything with a form is subject to time. But there's a part of me that's not subject to time and that's what I call "I". My consciousness, my awareness is not subject to time. Awareness notices the changing, therefore it is itself, changeless and not subject to time. Everything comes and goes...

The irony of what you said reminds me of protestants with their Sola Scriptura. It's odd to me that the idea of Sola Scriptura has led to so many denominations. Denominations is just another way of saying 'multiple interpretations'. Before protestantism there was really only catholicism and...

I agree. Believing in a God is low key avoiding responsibility in my opinion. I'm saying this because those who believe in a God still take responsibility for many things, but it's only because of God that they're able to, not them. It's just this consistent rejection of the self and it's odd to...

I'm happy. I noticed that we don't need anything to be happy, but we need a reason to be unhappy. Otherwise, being happy is our natural state. As far as religious beliefs, I have none. I don't believe in believing anything. I either know or I don't know. Why believe? Believing just means you...

You had me at "Plenty of people have been back from the dead." Ok then why hasn't my grandma come back after she died? If all those people could come back to life after clinical death, so can she. I haven't seen a single zombie either, have you? And you say the salvation message is not a...

Except that if you actually stick close to your experience, it's always right 'now'. Anything that has happened or will happen, takes place right now. Time is an illusion, a tool to keep track of change. Time simply does not exist when you don't think about it. Consciousness or awareness is...

Yes, I exist outside of time because I am always here and now. Here and now is not a specific location in time. How many nows are there and how long is now? Without consciousness, nothing can be known. And consciousness is me.

Today is all we have. Tomorrow is a projection. Tomorrow will come in the form of today, so there is no such thing as tomorrow really. And no one has ever been back from the dead to tell us what's next. Why don't human beings just grow up and stop pretending like they know instead of having the...