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I see. I must have wanted to express some of those things. Yes, I think the difference between believing and knowing is not always given much thought. So many people treat belief as a requirement to finding salvation. But I do not think that is how it works. Belief can help a person...

I also should note that I think faith is a process that keeps going. I have read about how all people have good in them. Many traditions will balance the idea that people are "sinners" or "have bad karma" with the idea that they have a Christ or Buddha Nature within them as well. It is...

I believe one must rely on intuition, common sense, and thoughtful inquiry but also have an open mind. If you don't have experience with faith, I recommend that you think about how a higher power could possibly exist. Consider how even science acknowledges that our universe is...

...I think Counselor Troi and Data should have hooked up. That way, when she's off duty she'd be able to relax because he doesn't have emotions to read. And Data could totally drive her crazy with his extra attachments.

...so if Brahma's job was to create everything, and through the development of Hindu beliefs he wasn't as associated with the omnipresent reality as Vishnu, then he just didn't have as much to do. He became a passive, less important aspect of God. I'm just speculating here at the conclusion.

I don't know. I'm getting all of this from wikipedia so don't hold me to any of this. Brahma is considered to be part of a trinity including Vishnu, and Shiva. Brahma is the creator aspect of God. Shiva destruction. Vishnu the ultimate onminpresent reality. Given the mystical approach...

My beliefs are: People have souls. People incarnate on earth until they figure out certain things. They move on to other places to figure out other things when they are done on earth.

I'm not a big fan of the Belief-o-matic. I know it's for fun, but several of the questions I want to say "none of the above."

I can detect when an enlightened person signs on the internet....to date, no enlightened person ever has.

I think I agree. You can look at a group of people digging a ditch. One finishes first. The rest finish an hour later. But who cares? Only someone who wants to be recognized as the best ditch digger makes such distinctions. Is it better to be nonviolent? To be tolerant? To seek...

Motivational thinking can often be tied to feel-good philosophies that deny any personal responsibility. ...or in the case of the law of attraction, accountability for things that are really out of your control to get you to worry about every little thought in your head and buy more self-help...

Religions are run by human beings. Anger and prejudice exists in the human heart. But humans write holy books that say "do not kill....except sometimes. You can kill when things are really bad and God sanctions it." So religion can be evil. It starts with people. People can seek the...

My understanding is that evolution is about how life adapts and progresses from simple organisms to complex organisms. It was never about explaining existence. It is meant to be a way of understanding nature. The official position of science is that God is not a suitable explanation for any...

I feel kind of bad for these people. I think they are searching for hope. They are desperate for it and they designate importance to some leader who they think has a direct line to God.

...but I did like it when they provoked some thought without being to full of themselves. Data was a cool character. I liked Enterprise as well. They acted like real people compared to the other Trek shows.

I find these ideas to be fairly agreeable with my own beliefs. It's not something I know from experience (other than my own intuition and feelings), but the existence of souls, the differences between people and animals, and so on...it's a teaching that makes sense to me.

Star Trek is based on Humanism. But it's philosophy has varied from show to show. The Next Generation crew was so politically correct and full of themselves. I liked the new movie. If you strip away all the pretentious garbage, Star Trek is essentially about space cops, traveling around...

I see your point, but arrogance is also bad in any culture. America hasn't cornered the market on that particular resource.

I read a book with an interesting view of souls. It said that each species of animals has group souls. A dog shares it's soul with all dogs, a dolphin with all dolphins, and so on. Every person has their own soul. But it isn't a ghost that lives in your chest. The soul creates the...

Very true. I have encountered many of "enlightened" people on the internet who are just tools. I think of myself as spiritual....but I don't believe anyone on earth is enlightened. I think that is an idea that some people are really in love with. Even the Dalai Lama doesn't think of...