jmaf6556 wrote:I always wonder about people who react like this, I recently had a quite unpleasant conversation with a couple of random atheists on the internet. I wonder if you've understood the message, then determined it to be false, or if you just don't understand the message in the first place. Because no offense but I don't think it's responsible to attack things as being false on the basis of you not understanding or having experienced them on your end. A lot of complex philosophy questions and math and physics equations seem like gibberish to the ordinary layperson, but this doesn't mean they are, the reality is that the ordinary layperson simply doesn't understand them. At least Spheres wasn't as offensive as many others are, I do appreciate that.
It is not about not understanding. Your whole theory is based on a lot of assumptions which you have taken as true. In a philosophy forum, you are first expected to establish your assumptions as true. If that is not done, everything that is derived from those assumptions become invalid and worthless.
Your website starts with :
The One, Self-Knowledge "Know Thyself", the Truth
God:
The one supreme being
The one universal spirit
The one true Self of all
Who is
Who we really are
The Heart
The origin and source of life energy, intuition, and conscience
The essence of all things
Consciousness
Awareness
The present moment
The Truth
Reality
The absolute
Uniting with God is the purpose of mysticism, the heart of spirituality.
Self-inquiry (jnana yoga): concentrating on God using key thoughts such as:
Who is? (Who am I?) and God is (I am [that])
Surrender and service to God (bhakti yoga): synonymous with self-inquiry.
Can you see how many assumptions there are which you expect people to take to be true? You have simply declared what is God without in anyway establishing the existence of God or how you concluded that these are the characteristics of God. Then you have explained what to do to unite with God. Essentially, you are trying to cater to theists, who "understand" what you mean and give them your own take on God and whatever else. This belongs basically to a theology forum and not a philosophical forum. You have also posted it in the wrong place , because this is not general philosophy. It is not even philosophy of religion. However, it might have been more appropriate there.
To an atheist, your complex philosophy is complex simply because you put God into the equation. If you remove God, life and everything becomes very easy to understand. Theists also make the assumption that all atheists are born that way. We are most of us born theists. I am a Hindu. I have read all the upnishads, and I am a fan of Adi Sankaracharya who I believe is the greatest writer the world has ever seen and can kick Shakespeare's ass any time. I am one of the few people who has been able to explain the "Vivekchudamani" to my father and his friends. So your assumption that atheists don't "understand" is just plain wrong. I just don't believe in it anymore as I have found enough reasons to reject the concept for now. There are other atheists like me who "understand" what God is. They just don't agree with the concept anymore.
As long as you guys keep saying we don't "understand", you imply that you have better understanding than us. Which is an insult and is rude too and which is replied to in kind by us in language which you consider unpleasant and rude. It is a tit for tat thing.
Also always remember. Among all those considered "enlightened", Buddha was one. And he was an atheist. How did that happen?
Oh, and since you are a hindu, here is another question no hindu ever asks. Krishna actually showed Arjun what God was and what the ultimate reality is. Arjun is the only guy who has actually seen God in It's true form. How come Arjun was not enlightened? Did you ever even think of that? Well, technically even Sanjaya saw It, but even he is not considered enlightened. Why is that?