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elaboration I, Brian... i will attempt to address your concerns...will to harm intends harm to another; the ends may be benevolent, but the means is always malicious.and murder CAN be justified: when it is probable that someone will cause harm to others and death is the only/ best means of...

referal EGO is a common subject on which i write, and and rather than bog this post down with all that text, i'll refer you to: http://www.geocities.com/exastra/paradox.htm

There is no good or bad, right or wrong. Only harmless and harmful. We tend to (erroneously) judge as evil that which we consider to be hostile against us, if not to us. The less threatened we feel (but not necessarily are) by some thing, the less evil it seems (but not necessarily is no threat...

what if the truth is that there is no truth? i think there is an objective truth, but because it is filtered through our perceptions and perspectives, we can never know it absolutely or certainly. we can only have interpretations of probable approximations.

foundationist brings up an excellent point: Christianity as it is known would not be so without promotion and propagandizing of Paul and the politically biased Catholic Church who chose the canonical bible texts (and the deification of Jesus) in service to an agenda of domination. and what if...

"Do you think that what happens on one side of a window is more or less real than what happens on the other side? No? Then why believe such a distinction exists between internal and external reality? The dream world is no more or less real than the waking world. To assert one at the expense...

you may be interested in these books: Jesus The Heretic, Bloodline of the Holy Grail, Gnostic Gospels.

errata that last sentence warrants clarification: in evaluating ends and means, one should consider the ends and means in relation to each other. the end determines the value of the means. means define the ends, but they do not determine the value of the ends. intentions may be good, but if...

if this, then that morality and purpose are mutually exclusive concepts. one does not depend on or define the other. good and bad intentions may have good and/or bad consequences. whether a thing is good or bad depends on our perspective of it. what is good for some may be bad for others. or...

excellent topic and good points made. Our reality constructs are formulated by means of symbolism known as language. Language is all about communication; and there is no communication unless we each understand the language and its codes. It is the fundamental foundation of communication...

many historical periods have been romanticed for the sake of story telling. and any romanticizing will be biased, as it is an idealized version. as far as contemporaries adopting or adapting pagan beliefs, it isn't about recreating the culture, but appreciating and utilizing the ideals of that...

the soul-- assuming it exists-- IS connected to the all. but our ego stands between the will and the universe. it is the EGO which is illusory and deceptive. i'm willing to concede that we do not have any kind of immortal soul, and would be fine with that. however, that has not been my...

i'd rather know about his whole life, but if i had to choose just one moment, it would have to be when he decided to become the prophecied messiah.

how can a person who has never heard of God, be expected to choose God? how is it fair or reasonable for them to be sent to hell? at the very least, hell is intended as metaphor... just as heaven is. Jesus commonly spoke in allegory... symbolism. he was not literal. if there were to be an actual...

any living thing has a degree of soulness or spiritual (meaning life) energy. but a linguistic distinction must be made. the soul is our distinct individualized spirit which our body is immersed in; the spirit is life force, extended from the spiritus mundi. the undead would be activated and...

as with the Divine: for those who do not believe, no explanation is possible. for those who do believe, no explanation is necessary.

people tend to complicate the issue by phrasing the question wrong. when one asks "what is the meaning of life?", it implies the subtext "for humans". so we need to ask the question in a way that encompasses ALL life, in general. so the answer becomes, "to be(come) what you are, not what you are...

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i agree with the main points made here, but will add this: spirituality is the energy of life (and death), and energy can be positive and/or negative. it can help and/ or harm; depending on its application and context.

people believe in God because they need/want a sense of divine justice; and are comforted by the thought of some higher power applying order to the chaos.