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Xtianity is not as large a community as Muslims in India. And the once loving Hindu people are becoming very nationalist spurred on by the, now ruling, BJP party. Their actions are, for now at least, more hateful towards Muslims than towards Xtianity/Buddhism and my guess is that the so-called...

Just because some deceive does not mean automatically that all do. The link I sent did have some examples of corroborated visual experiences. But, hell, in a reality where wealth is often espoused as a path to happiness, I realize that many researchers may misrepresent data in the hope of...

This may not be true, as there is some indication that even the congenitally blind show some indication of sight during some NDEs. I point you and @Aupmanyav towards: https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc799333/m2/1/high_res_d/vol16-no2-101.pdf

Well, all that the biological aspects of our brain can do it understand reality through the senses. Which is ultimately an illusion according to quantum science and ancient religions both. When the senses die, there is no need for consciousness to die. It is possible to be aware of awareness...

There is no reason for anyone to believe those things if they don't want to. I wonder if your mispelling of Bible was accidental. 😅 I found that being infinite also meant being unconditional love. There was no superior being. All beings were one. I realize it could have just been a brain state...

Then my guess is you haven't read the Bible. Or at least the New Testament. Or just maybe not John. In any case, the Bible was created by the official Christian Church. Not Jesus. Also, I have had more success seeking God within myself, rather than in trying to interpret secondary texts from...

Warnings are nothing more than threats. But loving an offender by teaching him how to love himself and others and, at the same time, teaching him how to earn a living by legal means is the best way to wean someone off the path of evil...

Well, yeah. For now, since I am able to accept much, I reckon it don't matter what's around the corner as long as I can deal with what's starin' me in the face. Anyways, all this pondering of the afterlife is just an offshoot of fear...or worry rather. My personal experience with my psychosis...

Our laws are woefully inadequate as methods to correct evil. In fact, countries that have created prisons that are loving and non-restrictive are the ones that have had the most success in removing some evil from society. Love heals, not punishment.

I currently do suspect that both heaven and hell exist only on this Earth as a result of our emotions. I also believe that while we cannot control what will happen to us in an uncertain reality, we can control our perspective on what is happening. I believe I can face and accept anything this...

If evil will not be necessary, then everyone would be in heaven. A bunch of people having fun in heaven while others are tortured eternally in hell does not sound like a reality without evil. Will our compassion no longer exist once we are in heaven? Heaven is still a concept for me. And...

If there was nothing to oppose the feel-good state, wouldn't feeling good become meaningless? Suffering makes us stronger and strive to improve ourselves. Feeling good all the time and having no unsatisfied desires would basically mean a slew of lethargic and inactive humans. We may not desire...

Hmmm. Looks like you're right. I never believed Allah or Jehovah preached unconditional love but I just thought Jesus did in his gospels. He died to save us etc. The issue with the Bible is that I find the OT and NT are basically talking about 2 separate, even opposite, gods. So, one can...

Hasn't quantum science given evidence for the fact that matter is an illusion? That at fundamental levels, everything is energy? No doubt, just like the early spokespersons for religion did when Copernicus gave his proof, classical physics does not want to jump on board that wagon yet...

Isn't God supposed to have unconditional love? If so, there is nothing God will not love. Evil is loved because, without it, the good would have no meaning.

I don't think a divine being would have any faults by definition. Faults are seen in the mind of the one being faulted, usually. Where I think many humans err is in believing that they are owed special treatment from other lifeforms. Life is not a gift, for many. In fact, for many, it is a...

I believe that hatred was born in the mind of Man. And if however, Christianity's creed is true, one still has to accept that God has not blocked Satan's flourishing in our world. So God has a love for Satan too.

Certainly, but we all know an infinite being like God does not provide that support and neither a finite being like Man. A noble ideal but not one that I believe we can achieve in an uncertain reality where what the brain perceives as good/bad can happen to anyone at any age. The brain is apt...

Yes, I do believe that if an infinite being existed, love would be an integral, maybe even the only part of its nature. And unconditional love at that. Dictionaries define love cyclically as "affection"/"attraction" but, for me, love is best defined by "allowing all that is being to be". Love...

It would have all properties of your or my consciousness surely? Just not be a slave to them. I am asking more from the POV of "if you discovered you were such a being after death, do think you would want to return to being a human being? Or some other model of finite consciousness?"