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Thread #131699   Message #2977827
Posted By: Donuel
01-Sep-10 - 04:34 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Willie WOOF
it bears repeatin
"Religion is like a dog. When it is yours, it is warm and cuddly. When it is someone else's, it is dangerous and threatening. In either event, children need protecting from it."




Have you ever noticed...

Religions that have multiple gods or have the unknowable mystery as a primary tenent are peaceful religions that treat their diverse neighbors very well. Mono theisitic religions which are touted to be an "improvement" have proven very bloody.

Monotheistic rants I have heard; The one and only, the one true God, the path that others must take or die.




Now as I promised earlier...



HOW TO PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.

There once was a skin cell on the forskin of Sir Issac Newton. IT knew virtually nothing of the man it was attached to. However it did know of times of great rigidity and times of sustained wet. It knew of dark sleeping times and rigorous rubbing until one day it dried up and fell off. Despite having a nerveous system connection to mr. Newton, it knew nothing of questions of gravity or orbital velocities. It knew there was somthing more. It knew when its needs were met and when they weren't. It knew of an urge to exist, but it never knew the entireity of the man named Newton.

People have an inkling that they are like a cell on a larger being and they are indeed correct. They are part of an eco system which is part of a cosmological system which is part of a larger dimensional system. In the other direction the molecules are part of an electro dynamic system which are part of vibratory atomic systems harmonicly obeying the same laws, fractally ad infinitum down to the strings and waves of energy at the Plank baseline.

None of these systems exist on their own. They are a response, no they are indeed a harmony to something else, like the note C is a vibration of many things but combine that C with an E and you have a harmony that conveys a certain feeling to Issac Newton or yourself.
Add a G and you feel a larger harmony. etc.

No cell is an island. No being is an Island. No religion is an Island. No science is an Island. Interdisciplinary systems are more revealing than one branch of science alone.

To know this deeply is alin to falling in love as two people both see a fucntionsing oof a larger harmony in their lives.

This state of everything existing in response to and because of the interlacing harmonies of all energies is called God by some people. Make god a religion outside of ANYTHING else, make a religion exclusive or special outside of ANYTHING else, then you will lose the entire universe. You will have lost the point.

The harmonic continuem will exist but your exclusive idea of a singular god of a single religion, will kill the wisdom of shared harmony.

To a scientist it is like a grand split beam quantum experiment.
Leave the electrons to their own devices and they will behave in a beautiful spread BUT when you observe just one outside the context of everything YOU WILL CHANGE ITS PATH. Yes just by looking at one thing seperate from its context, you will have seperated it behavior from the norm.

Do so with an inclusive religion and you have changee the harmony. Do so with a vengEful religion and you have changed harmony to dissonance.

ergo

God exists best when you don't try to find it.
By not looking you will find it by experiencing it.