I believe only in 2 things: Everything is god or nothing is god. It makes it more easy!
So, wait... you're saying that the reason to believe this is because it's easy? Quantum physics isn't easy, molecular biology isn't easy, rocket science isn't easy, et cetera. It's easier to believe that the Earth is flat, or that the sun goes around the Earth.
If everythings is god then everyone and every stone, star or whatever is god and all ethic rules are legal to it.
So Hitler was a goodguy. I mean, if you want to try to argue that, fine. But you might have a problem. Especially since he didn't respect other things, lifeforms.... eh... under your philosophy, he didn't respect God (the other life forms, et cetera.) Oh, yeah. Throw in all the other psychopaths throughout history, too.
And if everything is god then everything is uncounsesly connected with eachother what can explain telepathy and other esp things.
Even assuming you believe that stuff, there are so many different ways to explain those phenomena that the fact this potentially explains it is no support at all. For example, some explanations would be: 1. a connection in the mass unconscious suggested by Jung (Think Freudian psychology) 2. a sense existent on some sort of spiritual or mental plane, rather than physical plane (which is sort of how I figure the so-called 'women's intuition') which could fit into a large number of religions which consider the soul to be connected to, but separate from, the body 3. an ability of the mind (or societal mind) to define reality (think New Agers or Postmodernists)...
I could go on for a long time. And all that's assuming you even believe the stuff exists. No comment there.
This is called pantheism = everything is god.
You know, I've always sorta wondered about the etymology on the 'pan' prefix. Was it derived from Pan, or was it connected later? I sorta get the sense that it was derived by a sort of metaphorical relation, not a direct relation. ie, Pan is the god of nature, and since one could say that in a sense, everything exists within nature, Pan would sort of encompass everything. But he's not actually the god of everything, which is what I know a bunch of New Agers/Neopagans claim these days. As I recall, some of them also call Thor a female.
GET A FREAKING CLUE!!! READ THE BLOODY POEM!!! THOR IS MOST DECIDEDLY NOT FEMININE!!!
Sorry. My inner Norse fanatic wanted to complain about the complete corruption of the old myths by the neopagans. Back to the point at hand.
Dano't know what you people think about it, but it makes sure that you respect other things and other liveforms. Actually you exclude nothing.
Not necessarily. Let's run with your reasoning for a moment. That means that you are God just as much as everythign else. That means that you can do whatever you feel like. Including killing, slaughtering, *coughcough*holocaust*coughcough* et cetera. And you would, assuming this is true, be perfectly justified because you are part of God.
On the other hand, you could be a nice person and believe this. OR any number of other things and respect other life. Christianity, Judaism, (and, as I understand it, Islam as well) and I'm sure more others than I can list, also stress the importance of respecting other life, and non-life. The mentioned three for the reason exactly opposite what you suggest. Because they're not a part of 'you' and so you can't just do whatever the heck you want with them. Because they belong to some higher power, and you are, at most, a steward, assuming the belief system in question even argues that. Whether that Higher power is the Christian God, the Islamic God, or whatever is beside the point. You;re using someone else's stuff, and if you mess it up, lighting bolts might just start falling. Besides, presumably you don't want to go messing up other people's stuff. (I dunno. Maybe you do, but that's a whole different argument right there.)
I'm not trying to gun you down personally, just your argument. If you can come up with supporting claims and arguments, I'm all for going at it.
Alright. Gotta go. I have to run to the store to pick up College Survival Supplies.
AKA, food.
Topic: Deep Questions Seemingly Unanswerable (Read 9294 times)
