Religious beliefs we are absolutely sure about??

[Reflex]

Reflex wrote:

Been there, done that. I no longer appreciate radical mysticism: it's the abandonment of the creative process -- escapism.

Smart move. If you can avoid these money makers like ACIM and Scientology you will indeed be ahead of the game

ACIM ?

A Course in Miracles. 'Nothing really happens' is the main theme. You can download it at no cost, if you're interested.

[Dontaskme]

All things are concepts number, form and meaning.

Things are given apparent substance through sensations arising in concord with remembering.
number form and meaning (the actualities)

Knowing all things is not belief... it is this 'actuality now'

BELIEF is simply another concept that is known.

Believing these words is just knowing more concepts.

In other words, belief is all make believe....or consciousness k(now)ing itself.

[Dontaskme]

All religious beliefs are about dead things.

Belief is a dead concept.

Has anyone seen a belief?

Does anyone know death, seen death, experienced death?

All there is is this aliveness here right now living itself, by itself, for itself. There is only SELF

Self is just another word for Life. Life is not a thing. Things are dead concepts.

No concept has ever known, seen, or experienced Life/ SELF ....because Life/ SELF is also a concept.


Can you have the experience of being a human....is being a human an experience?......no there is no such thing as a human except the concept, a concept is a dead thing....behind the concept is life...but even life is only known in relation to the concept dead.

Life is..but life is only known via dead concepts. The concept doesn't know life is....in the same context a flower doesn't know it's a flower.

You worship dead things over the living. Why, because there is some thing in a concept, but there is no thing in the living.

[Terrapin Station]

For me, "There are no gods" is one.

[thedoc]

All religious beliefs are about dead things.
Has anyone seen a belief?

You worship dead things over the living. Why, because there is some thing in a concept, but there is no thing in the living.

I have.

I believe that God is alive, and I have seen the evidence, and that is good enough for me.

[Greta]

I can't think of any belief I am sure about, aside from the fact that clearly allegorical myths are, well, only allegorical.