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ACOT is right. We have agreed that 1) there are a lot of wanker theists who define g!d as some kind of anthropomorphic Superman-Father, 2) most atheists define g!d this way in reaction to the wankers, and 3) most theists (world-wide) do not agree with this definition. How do you get...

Bless me, you are correct!

Oddly enough, I agree with carrots, but I base it on "sudden school" insight. However, I agree with you, too, GK. Proof means proof in the physical universe (empirical). It does not apply. But I do have as much faith in my experience of the d!vine as I have in my experience of self or of...

:) I appreciate and understand your answer. I think that Yama and his dogs are widely enough known that your answer covers most Eastern Spiritual approaches (I remember him as Japanese and Thai manifestations as well as Hindu-Zoroastrian). Yeah, some differences, but not enough to loose the...

I thought so. Sorry religion is never empirically verifiable. Your use of "foolish", "submission", and "Jesus" are interesting, even traditional in modern versions of Christianity... but they are far from the meaning most Christians and Jews and Muslims use them.

GK, the C.S.A. (Umerikkan South) is a relatively backwater of Christianity. Most Christian (world wide) have a much less restrictive definition. So the reality is somewhere between you and ACOT.

"Verifiable" usually means a physical checking with an empirical source? Is this what you mean? "Submission" is usually used in terms of giving up to a superior. Is this what you mean? Are you referring to Jesus (the Israelite) and Christianity (his religion)? I understand...

The beautiful is a term of axiology, of aesthetics. Try "pleasing to the eye" or "balance and harmonious", "in accordance with with nature", "perfection of form", all of which lead to subjective attraction and emotional well-being.

Kinda depends on what one means by knowledge and ignorance, don't you think?

Gee, I for one do not define g!d that way… a non-personal, non –anthropomorphic g!d. Quite so, infinite possibilities, if you are looking as g!d’s plan as something like Einstein’s Block Universe (everything being totally pre-determined) it is very hard to live, or play baseball...

"The Gulch" and "Peaches". Is does not relly matter about the drinking. The point is that our character (good or bad or in-between) really determines our "free will". A heroin addict or alcoholic (and I am both) has none… once the first drink or smoke or hit hits, comprenez vous? “Free will”...

I do not know who said that, but Gregory of Nyssa, John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, John of Damascus, Meister Eckhart and St. John of the Cross, would disagree, as would Maimonides, Ha'ARI, and Rosenzweig. Sorry, g!d is beyond knowledge... it is such a limited and trivial thing. It is like...

GK, I believe it is a continuum. For instance, I go to a bar and have drinks with this really likeable lady. I make sure she drinks more than I, but I do my share. I take her home, accept her offer of a nightcap, undress like her and her wiccan roommate. Then She asks if I want a Viagra, I...

No, we are more than mind or logic... the sp!rit that dwells in us, what we experience is the important thing, not what our monkey mind thinks about it. Kant and Hegel ultimately failed in their quest to logically or rationally comprehend the d!vine (see Star of Redemption). The process is...

Sorry, I do not see a huge difference between grace and bhakti yoga... what am I missing, Aup?

Yes, Hawking (Great as he is) does not hold with the Copenhagen Interpretation or the possibility of Quantum Gravity. I differ (based on what a lot of others say about it, and what little I understand).

As my bride says "they are just all the same".

Consciousness, quantum physics, and free will by D. Hodgson orHenry P. Stapp’s Quantum Mechanical Theories of Consciousness or Libet’s Volitional Brain. Henry P. Stapp’s Quantum Mechanical Theories of Consciousness or Libet’s Volitional Brain. A very good starting point is...

Dearest Thomas, BodhgayaNews: Pali Canon Online Database is a pretty good place to start. This kinda-sorta corresponds to the "Q document". The other sutras (the term sutta is Pali, sutra is, I believe, Sanskrit, more inclusive). In my way of seeing things, the sutras correspond to the...

Why does g!d have to be deterministic? Where did you get that idea? Quantum physics supports free will, why? Indeterminism. Determinism and fatalism are non-quantum ideas, so modern physics support the notion of “free will”. Kinda-sorta depends on what you mean by “miracle” doesn’t it...