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Great Thread! I tend to agree with Thomas but at the same time I disagree. I used to be a Universalist, only about a few months ago. If any of you remember, I advocated a religion that would combine all of the religions, all the prophets and godmen, ect. But there were obvious flaws in my...

There is a reason for this. Remember all religions were created in various cultures to understand the world around them and to create order and customs. Of course many religions teach the same thing because there is a universal moral standard that most humans agree upon (such as murder, rape...

I would say I am a pantheist with a tad bit of Shaivite Hinduism. Science is my biggest tool for finding God. Various philosophies (especially Eastern) would come next (since many are based on rational thought).

Huh? Your not making much sense.:rolleyes:

I don't agree with Einstein on everything, although my religious beliefs are very similar to Einstein (many documents suggest he was pantheist). I do agree with Einstein with the quote in my sig. because I do think religion without science is blind and science without religion is lame ;).

I said a lot of my religious beliefs in my last post, I believe the omniverse (infinite universe/multiverse) is God. You can't get any higher of a existence than being "everything" there is (the sum total of all existence). I believe my conscious awareness is our soul, and that it doesn't just...

It's not a deity. It doesn't have to be one either. My point is that the universe/multiverse/omniverse can be considered God but not in a deity sense. The term "God" has many meanings. It doesn't have to be the primitive deity that is limited to a body like in the many mythologies of the world...

Well my friend ask yourself this question: Can a universe come out of nothingness? No of course not! Something has to have been here for eternity. There is no way around it. We can't compromise with this ultimate reality. Now this something can be anything. It can be the universe or multiverse...

Jaiket, Do you believe in the infinite? Do you believe in a infinite universe (or multiverse) in both time and space?

Of course faith has to exist for certain givens. For example I have faith a big green monster from outer space doesn't live under my house. Of course there is no way to disprove that such a thing exists under my house but there is no proof for this. That type of faith or trust is different. The...

If you define faith as; "adherence to a collectively held religious Truth despite evidence to the contrary and without continuing efforts to seek out, understand and weigh evidence." Then I would say faith is an exempt from faith. If you are a Abrahmic for example you don't have to live in the...

I describe myself a Naturalist. To me Nature IS God ;). But unlike atheists I do not believe that Nature is limited to Its laws of Nature and I do believe it has conscious (the source of all consciousness). It can do anything It wants but choses to enforce Its laws for a reason we may never know...

What the Ultimate Reality? There is only one reality for sure; 1. Something has to have existed for eternity. That statement is true no matter how you look at it. This is because God/Universe/Nature cannot come from nothingness.

I don't believe in a heaven per say. Not the Abrahmaic view. However if you mean heaven as in perhaps moksha or nirvana, maybe. But there is no proof for such an existence. Perhaps we all return to Nature and Its universal conscious by default when we die but I have a feeling our conscious...

But do you actually believe that very primitive animals, plants, ect. have awareness, whether they realize anything about themselves or not (considering some humans may not even realize themselves ;)). If so where would it come from? Perhaps an unknown part of the cell? I'm not so sure about...

Which says a lot about the validity of Santana Dharma ;). Actually such a private narrow attitude about sex has never been a big attribute of Indian culture. Tantric sex was holy and what now :p. In Christianity, sex is looked down upon as a dirty act only done for reproduction. Same with Islam...

If the Bible/Quran creation story is true, then every creation myth is true. There are obvious contradictions in all creation myths. A particular Native American tribe believed the world we stand on was created from the heavens with a turtle shell. To some south pacific creation myths spiders...

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Yes but if we were to take the brain out of a person and if put it into an artificial body were will the consciousness and self-awareness be? Now this maybe impossible right now but in the future this will be very much possible. If we take the brain and place it in an artificial body the most...

Awareness comes from the brain when it comes to life on Earth. So you maybe right.