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1) If there is only "now", one reality, no individuals then there is no responsibility. The greedy who hurt others have no responsibility since individuality is just "illusion".
2) No free-will means its ok to lie, cheat, and kill and to even promote such behavior since they can just say they had no free-will. What better excuse for a serial-killer?
3) If God is Now and Reality then God is a liar, deceiver, and selfish ego since reality contains within it such unkind behavior. With a god like that who needs to believe in the devil?
What better religion for the rulers to teach in order to get approval for their unkind behavior? Since we are all One why not get microchips and cameras on every street corner? No individual then no privacy or need to hide.
And what is one's existence after all is said and done? Consciousness or awareness - that is the reality that never changes, never ages, is always the case. However, we tend to identify with our body-mind and so think that is what we actually are altogether.
originally posted by: zackli
Even if you don't have a sense of self, the fact that you exist does not change. In the end, you can be assured of nothing BUT your own existence.
originally posted by: bb23108
We tend to confuse our sense of our true nature (awareness or consciousness) with what is arising conditionally (the body-mind and all forms) - and cannot reconcile this via the mind because the mind is part of the same conditionality that cannot grasp the unconditional reality (consciousness or awareness)!
Heheh, and we are also NOT the seeing of what we are NOT.
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
originally posted by: bb23108
We tend to confuse our sense of our true nature (awareness or consciousness) with what is arising conditionally (the body-mind and all forms) - and cannot reconcile this via the mind because the mind is part of the same conditionality that cannot grasp the unconditional reality (consciousness or awareness)!
Exactly.
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
Who can choose what thought will appear next? If you cannot know what the next thought will be, is there someone with freewill?
And what is one's existence after all is said and done?
originally posted by: zackli
Your body is technically the only thing that exists, "after all is said and done".
That you apply significance to your thoughts is nothing short of a leap of faith; a reaction to a fleeting microsecond of awareness of your environment is nothing to be proud of.
If you take that thought and run with it, you realize that a lot of things you thought true aren't true. Why should the way you treat a person one time say anything at all about you as a person? It doesn't.
originally posted by: BigBrotherDarkness
a reply to: bb23108
A question is begging for an answer, you appear 9 months... when the water breaks, will the rainbow light flow... who knows? Who knows?