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Thread #125426   Message #2781446
Posted By: Little Hawk
05-Dec-09 - 02:05 PM
Thread Name: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Subject: RE: BS: Death penalty for homosexuality?
Are ideas real? Yes. They are very real. They are not physical, but they are real. If you don't think so, take note of what power an idea can have, and how it can change the world.

You cannot find "tangible" proof for either God...or an idea...or a movement of imagination that occurs in the mind...but just because something is not tangible does not mean it isn't real.

Non-tangible things such as ideas and thoughts formed in someone's imagination can have real effect...effect that is soon seen in the world of the tangible, because thoughts affect actions and they also affect one's physical health and well-being over a period of time.

Consciousness rules our reality. It is the crucial factor in experiencing reality. Without consciousness we would not even be aware of anything physical, and the world we experience...for us...would vanish, to all intents and purposes.

And that is exactly what happens for you when you become unconscious. The world as you knew it vanishes. If you remain permanently unconscious, then the world...for you...has ceased to exist, as has life itself.

Consciousness isn't tangible either. But it is real. God, if there is a God, is not to be found in what is tangible, but in the realm of consciousness.

Without consciousness, you could not presently be reading this post...and finding something in it to disagree with! ;-) Consciousness is what you are.