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@Nicholas Weeks ~ There is set of parentheses on to the right of your reply box that toggles the BB code. If you click that, you will find that you are able to add and remove blank lines easily. Just click it again to get to the previous view that will show what it will look like after...

Answering questions with questions isn't how conversation works. Once you answer my question, I'll respond to yours. :)

From my perspective, a thought is an object, and objects are temporary appearances in this universal consciousness. As you have already said that this universal consciousness is no longer human. Thoughts are a function of the brain, and if one is no longer human, i.e. universal consciousness...

Is universal consciousness exclusive to the human mind?

As an Advaitin I would agree with Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. I'd also like to point out that it's @Aupmanyav's identification with atheism, not his identification with Adviata, that affects his lack of belief in the storage of karma and future and past lives. The majority who subscribe to...

The same year I was born.

I was born to a cafeteria Catholic household and spent Saturdays in CCD and Sundays at Mass. The first point of questioning my indoctrination was when I was told by a nun during CCD that only humans, not other animals, were worthy of going to Heaven. This resulted in a debate between me and...

You are right on time. Today is day 3 of 5 of the Diwali celebration and considered to be the peak of the festival, where pujas are performed for Lakshmi or Kali, depending on one's sampradaya.

While locks and cages can confine or imprison, aren't they also designed to be opened? ;)

Namaste. Greetings and salutations. I hope you find the comfort and hope you seek in whatever form of religion you settle upon. Welcome to the forum.

Personally, I don't think it offers anything productive. I took 25 minutes of time to hear, "society is broken and we need religion to fix it" (along with Vivekananda's name mispronounced several times). No how-to. Just a 25 minute pitch for why we need religion. And I'm not even sure I...

What was it you were wanting to discuss?

Ratzinger, however, was not a televangelist, so I would not lump him in with these other charlatans. He amassed his fortune through book royalties and salaries from universities. "Papa Ratzinger," as the Italians called him, earned royalties from the many books he wrote and salaries from...

Given that religions exist in certain areas in spite of them, I would say yes, they would exist without them.

As I see it, mega-preachers aren't "men of God." Most men of God I know are ascetics and perform austerities. ___________________________________________________________

Any action performed by the body in the midst of chaos can, in the mind, be performed in service to God. If one is truly unable to make time for such a practice outlined in the OP, then one can make any action a spiritual/religious practice. This is karma yoga.

Thank you. :)

If you guys are talking about the widget on the right side of the main page (or bottom on mobile devices), I think there's an option to switch from "latest profile posts" to "latest posts," the latter showing the most recent posts made on the forum rather than on people's profiles...

Putting it quite simply, they don't worship. The definition above is but one. There are more. In fact, three of the four on Merriam-Webster make no mention of worship at all. I believe in the existence of gods, but I, personally, have no practical use for them in this life. In Hinduism...