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In reply to the discussion: Religion--just like the rest of life, rests on things that cannot be "proved. [View all]Voice for Peace
(13,141 posts)73. or stillness itself. Kindness itself. Beauty Itself.
pure and dear and unalloyed, not clogged with the pollutions
of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life
where the mortal intersects the immortal.
of mortality and all the colours and vanities of human life
where the mortal intersects the immortal.
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Religion--just like the rest of life, rests on things that cannot be "proved. [View all]
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
OP
it's tricky to find the boundaries, when we are shedding our skin cells all day long
Voice for Peace
Sep 2012
#51
Perhaps the heart of reality is not things in motdion, but motion itself.
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#64
If I have a perception of reality and hundreds of millions of others have the same "opinion"
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#13
You should read "The Believing Brain" by Michael Shermer. It would clear up this confusion.
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#81
experience arrives at the brain through all of the senses including the sense of feeling.
Voice for Peace
Sep 2012
#92
If I want to compel others to agree with my point of view, of course I need to offer something
Voice for Peace
Sep 2012
#107
Well, I would hope that you do read this book in your quest for knowledge.
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#109
It IS something more, it's called "childhood indoctrination into religion."
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#33
I have come to respect my own perception of reality, regardless of others.
Voice for Peace
Sep 2012
#52
Evolution! and the very processes of life in which everything is related to everything else.
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#11
Your post's title is something that should have 'meaning', but appears not to, on closer inspection
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2012
#16
I chose evolution as the impetus behind the quest for meaning as it is lived out.
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#22
Sorry, are you saying that you accuse people of 'scientism' so you can thwart conversation'?
muriel_volestrangler
Sep 2012
#43
My 29 post was not to thwart conversation, but to suggest that scientism
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#65
Trying to educate you on a scientific theory you obviously have no knowledge of is "scientism"? n/t
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2012
#69
It would take the whole of process theology to offer an adequate answer.
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#23
Is that supposed to be some kind of clever snark or put-down? How about being coherent instead?
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#115
I think the human ability to feel is sorely underappreciated and valued.
Voice for Peace
Sep 2012
#53
yes. often I've gone with reason, ignoring a feeling, and it was a bad call.
Voice for Peace
Sep 2012
#57
You can't see the wind, and yet it is real. That's why in the good old days, winds were gods.
dimbear
Sep 2012
#4
It is my very partial listing of notions I and most of the human race encounter. nt
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#12
Looking forward to sharing some of those unproven things with you later this week.
cbayer
Sep 2012
#10
I hate the word "prove".....it doesn't come close to explaining what real science is. Science isn't
Evoman
Sep 2012
#32
Actually, the theory of gravity, as understood through Einstein, has huge holes in it...
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2012
#70
Wow, this reads like it was cut-and-pasted from a fundie apologetics website.
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#34
So how does that solid and thoughtful definition square with your POV that no one would want to live
cleanhippie
Sep 2012
#44
I have sworn not to respond to about five of you--but let me break that promise.
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#94
And three years later you *still* stand by your indefensible, insulting, arrogant statement.
mr blur
Sep 2012
#103
You seem to have profound misunderstandings of both humans and science...
Humanist_Activist
Sep 2012
#67
Other than the last gratituous nasty paragraph, in which you reverted to the dark side of a very
Thats my opinion
Sep 2012
#74