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brightlights said: "Would he give us stories, parables, laws, poetry? What would you expect communication from God to be like if there was such a thing?" In engineering there is something know as a black box which is s component of a system that is unknown how it works. Usually this is because...

One more thing I forgot to mention.. For what little I know about how the universe works I have read several articles about super black holes and how they gobble up many of the galaxies around them. It is kind of hard to imagine exactly what these look like (because you really can see them...

I have probably crossed the line of what others consider 'decent' more times in my life than some others (ie. shop lifted at least a dozen times when I was in my teens and steal things many other times, used to go out with someone that I know who was married to a cop, hung out at bars and go-go...

Isn't it said somewhere that God watches over child and the mentally ill? I don't know if that is true, but I like to think that one can use their mental illness( and perhaps physical illness as well) in order to get in touch with their spiritual side and/or with God. Think of it kind of like...

I may be still misreading this, but being a moral agent is part of being a Christian but faith itself is something that is often even more required of a person than being a moral agent. Also you seem to be saying that a person that has enough faith but is not the best moral agent would likely...

God may be mysterious in some ways, but if God is completely unknowable and/or arbitrary in what he does it could create a certain kind of madness and make it difficult for people to actually call him 'God' if there really is no rhyme or reason to what he does. For example, in Gnostic...

It was actually more about the your point about believing in God while not necessarily bothering to be nice to other people. I may be wrong but I believe there is a problem if someone that believes in God uses other people as mere tools instead of treating them like people. While this may not be...

Maybe, but if I'm one of many that it might be necessary for me to try and get other people to be mindful as well which is at least as difficult as being mindful myself. I guess doing either one of these works up to a certain point and then becomes too much for one person, but I guess the point...

Fair enough for me. :)

It is more than just that experience, but i should kind of leave it at that so that I just don't go on about stuff that may not be important. Maybe but I don't think it is about asking for God for forgiveness and then using other people however you see fit. As I mention to another forum member...

But if I bow down to a being just because he is powerful, doesn't it make me even worse that those who choose to stick to their beliefs even though other people told them it might be against God's will? I may be wrong but I believe that in order for me or anyone else to be one of the faithful...

I was confused by what you meant by this until I remembered that part of my post about eating something bad that can make a person adverse to it later. I'll try to remember to Google and make note of it as soon as I get a chance. And Thanks :D Maybe but it seems to me that there are some...

So are you a Christian, or one of those who consider themselves spiritual but not religious. I'm just curious since your id doesn't really specify what you believe as far as I can tell.

Could you slightly expand on that as there are too many ways for me to interpret it for me to make a reply that isn't filled with fallacies or having to make numerous replies for each of the potential meaning you could have be thinking while writing the post.

What if that isn't good enough? While I believe that if one is willing to adhere to certain beliefs or doctrines such Jain's No One Sidedness, it will enable them to overcome some of the problems I'm mentioning. However even if I DO THIS it is not a given that my actions will help me explain how...