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Originally posted by filosophia
reply to post by DragonriderGal
I'm not comparing God to the human body, the closest physical comparison would be the Sun, but God is actually the light within the mind.
Originally posted by KingJames1337
Why would god create two religions first and say to them beware of 'false prophets' and than create Islam and require everyone to convert and say to Muslims.
Believers, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends. They are friends with one another. Whoever of you seeks their friendship shall become one of their number. God does not guide the wrong-doers.
Prophet, make war on the unbelievers and the hypocrites and deal rigorously with them. Hell shall be their home: an evil fate.
You are the noblest community ever raised up for mankind. You enjoin justice and forbid evil. You believe in God.
Had the People of the Book [Jews and Christians] accepted the Faith, it would surely have been better for them. Some are true believers, but most are evil-doers.
Originally posted by DragonriderGal
Originally posted by filosophia
reply to post by DragonriderGal
I'm not comparing God to the human body, the closest physical comparison would be the Sun, but God is actually the light within the mind.
No, you said that I could be said to not exist because I said that god doesn't exist... and then you went on to expound on the why. As far as I can tell, that is a comparison, eh??
Originally posted by Kaiuk
Can god influence anything in the physical realm? if so why is there no documented proof. if no, how did he create the universe?
Originally posted by filosophia
reply to post by DragonriderGal
So you believe in a spirit but you believe the aliens have manipulated it? But spirit is eternal, it can not be fully adulterated. So even if there were control over it, the control would have to be physical, and the spirit could break free of this. And if it is mental, you don't need aliens to influence your thought waves, look no further than yourself, and that can be controlled through philosophy and meditation.
Originally posted by filosophia
reply to post by DragonriderGal
Even if there were other species of intelligent life forms the ultimate question is, are they happy or unhappy? Humans are an intelligent race, and there is more evidence of human existence than any other alien race, yet are humans happy? For the most part, no. But if you know God and know the true spirit, you are happy. So that is the real issue, maybe an alien is intelligent but can not be spiritual, but humans can do either, they can be materialistically intelligent, or spiritually happy. I take the happiness.
Originally posted by filosophia
Originally posted by DragonriderGal
Originally posted by filosophia
reply to post by DragonriderGal
I'm not comparing God to the human body, the closest physical comparison would be the Sun, but God is actually the light within the mind.
No, you said that I could be said to not exist because I said that god doesn't exist... and then you went on to expound on the why. As far as I can tell, that is a comparison, eh??
I said that because I thought you were a materialist and all you believed in was your physical body.
Originally posted by DragonriderGal
Originally posted by filosophia
Originally posted by DragonriderGal
Originally posted by filosophia
reply to post by DragonriderGal
I'm not comparing God to the human body, the closest physical comparison would be the Sun, but God is actually the light within the mind.
No, you said that I could be said to not exist because I said that god doesn't exist... and then you went on to expound on the why. As far as I can tell, that is a comparison, eh??
I said that because I thought you were a materialist and all you believed in was your physical body.
Hum.. back peddle, back peddle. Obviously NOTHING I've said thus far would indicate that I'm a materialist. You just hate that I called you on your shoddy logic.
Originally posted by filosophia
Originally posted by ALOSTSOUL
reply to post by filosophia
By this controlling entity you mean me/my soul right? are you suggesting that the soul is already eternal? even before birth or death?
You are the conscious soul of your body, the supreme God is the soul of all things, looking down at all things but not affecting their nature. If you realize that essence of your consciousness, to the point where you are conscious of consciousness itself, that is the true self.
Originally posted by filosophia
Originally posted by DragonriderGal
Originally posted by filosophia
Originally posted by DragonriderGal
Originally posted by filosophia
reply to post by DragonriderGal
I'm not comparing God to the human body, the closest physical comparison would be the Sun, but God is actually the light within the mind.
No, you said that I could be said to not exist because I said that god doesn't exist... and then you went on to expound on the why. As far as I can tell, that is a comparison, eh??
I said that because I thought you were a materialist and all you believed in was your physical body.
Hum.. back peddle, back peddle. Obviously NOTHING I've said thus far would indicate that I'm a materialist. You just hate that I called you on your shoddy logic.
And you are just here so you can try and berate someone who is answering questions honestly from people no matter what they ask about. So if you don't have a question there's no point in me talking to you.
Originally posted by inforeal
God is everything, period! There is nothing but God.
There are his or her systems, worlds, dimensions, “creations” and beings and non-beings that determine his states of being.
The question of duality is one of time where he involutes himself to know more of himself by arranging various states of being to associate himself therein to experience the different levels of consciousness—ENERGIY SYSTEMS that ensues. If something occurs called “ELLIPSE” (imperfect world) through this phenomenon then the world will re-evolve back to perfection—the God state . . . THIS IS THE ESSENTIAL EXPERIECE OF MAN.
Originally posted by inforeal
The present condition of humans is that they have been relegated to the state of involution in which the biblical and Quranic metaphor is called “fall of man.”
This entails the creation of something called religion or the return path to perfection that we are all on.
Religion becomes imperfect because the operand that it is dealing with—man—is imperfect and infects religion with its own state.
But the “good news” is that ALL HUMANS are evolving back to the God state of perfection through evolution or completion INSANUL-KAMIL ( COMPLETE HUMAN ).
edit on 21-8-2011 by inforeal because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by SpreadLoveNotHate
reply to post by filosophia
So is it possible (going out on a limb here) that you actually live the same life (maybe not as the same person, or maybe as the same person, it doesn't matter) over and over again, until you free yourself from materialism? And once you've freed yourself, and you've reached the state of oneness... Does it just start all over again?
Man, thinking about life is great, I wish I could have more in person conversations. At first, I was almost scared to give in to "oneness" cause I feel like it is almost dying (while still alive) and being born again. You are just one part of a whole, but because you are a part of the whole, you are also the whole. The universe exists through you...
I have a theory I want to present to you, what if the awareness got tired of being one... is that what physical "reailty" is, the spirit got lonely so to speak, and wanted to experience something other than itself? But in reality is just experiencing itself in a different way?
Originally posted by filosophia
Originally posted by SpreadLoveNotHate
reply to post by filosophia
So is it possible (going out on a limb here) that you actually live the same life (maybe not as the same person, or maybe as the same person, it doesn't matter) over and over again, until you free yourself from materialism? And once you've freed yourself, and you've reached the state of oneness... Does it just start all over again?
Man, thinking about life is great, I wish I could have more in person conversations. At first, I was almost scared to give in to "oneness" cause I feel like it is almost dying (while still alive) and being born again. You are just one part of a whole, but because you are a part of the whole, you are also the whole. The universe exists through you...
I have a theory I want to present to you, what if the awareness got tired of being one... is that what physical "reailty" is, the spirit got lonely so to speak, and wanted to experience something other than itself? But in reality is just experiencing itself in a different way?
It's impossible to live exactly the same life, because the environment and society changes, and also there are theories that a human can de-evolve into an animal or worse, or they can ascend to a higher being than human (celestial body, star, galaxy, etc). It gets into the realm of infinite possibility, but what is certain is the Self or Truth is unchanging, so if you could actually be that Truth, you would not start over again. Starting over is an indication that you have gone astray from the Truth.
The "dying" of oneness is a tough thing to get used to because there is a fear that maybe you will die or change yourself completely, but to me that is the indication to me that it was real. If it was just the imagination, how often do you become so terrified of your own imagination? That "dying" is actually transcendence, which is a type of dying of the material realm, but a rebirth into the spiritual realm. Basically: have no fear. You did it once, you didn't die, and no one in history has been known to die just by thinking it. No one in history has suddenly forced their heart to stop because they thought of it that way.
If the awareness got tired of being one, a separate soul would be created. The supreme soul is viewed as unchanging so it could not get tired of being one, since that is all there really is to be. But you have a point in that loneliness is a major reason as to why the souls would want to interact with themselves in the world. But that is all it really is, if everything is one, then you are just interacting with another version of the true self.