Re: To Immanuel Can
Posted: Sat May 07, 2022 3:29 pm
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Just admit it, you cannot understand nonduality, no one will judge you, no one will think any less of you. You're not alone, it's one of the hardest things for the mind to fully grasp.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 3:37 pmJust admit it, you cannot understand nonduality,
Your falling into the trap of pointing the blame at the messenger. I do that sometimes, it's ok.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 3:44 pmYeah...that's the problem, eh? It's that I can't understand the profound wonders of a belief so stupid it cannot even keep faith with its own suppositions.
Right you are...the problem's mine, not "Non-duality's".![]()
The I is a concept known, and concepts know no-thing. No more than a tree can know it's a tree, because a tree just is.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 3:44 pm It's that I can't understand the profound wonders of a belief so stupid it cannot even keep faith with its own suppositions.
Right you are...the problem's mine, not "Non-duality's".![]()
We could marry God in Paradise.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 11:20 pmNothing at all.
Once you get married, you no longer have the choice of sleeping with every woman you meet. Does that mean you were not free in getting married?
You are claiming that all atheists are dishonest.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 11:20 pmExplain.Aha, now you are not making sense at all.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 10:31 pm Atheism isn't always a moral failure: but it is always a failure of logic.
True but what makes people different is their tendencies.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 11:20 pmA "tendency" is not an "inevitability." And there's nothing "certain" about what a person will choose.Genetics dictate a tendency toward certain behavior.
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 11:20 pmYou cannot help me.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 6:53 pm
The Bible says they are. I think they are.
But okay, I'll play: let's see if I can please you.
If there were an evidence for God, what would it look like? What would you accept as evidence of God's existence? If I can provide you with it, I will.
Well, then, you cannot complain that I have not provided you with evidence for God. There is, quite simply, then, nothing you will allow to BE evidence for God.
But we are face to face with God in Heaven? Don't we? More than that this is just an excuse to me from the all-powerful God.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 6:53 pmt.If there is a God who is all-powerful, why He does not come down from Heaven and show everybody that He exists. As simple as tha
The answer, Biblically speaking, is that because if He did, you would have no choice at all but to believe in Him. And all the people who were born afterward would also be without any choice. The personal presence of God is overwhelming...so powerful, that He said to Moses and to Elijah as well, "No one can see my face and live." And as for those people who even after had a vision of God (like Isaiah and John), the Bible says they "fell on their faces like dead men." That's pretty overwhelming: if God shows up, there's no choice anymore.
But God desires us to have the choice. He does not force us to love and know Him. He offers it freely.
Hell yeah. See you in Hell!promethean75 wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 2:20 pm "You cannot help me. If there is a God who is all-powerful, why He does not come down from Heaven and show everybody that He exists. As simple as that."
If 'god' provided direct proof of 'his' existence, this would change the nature and terms of the choice. You have to be able to chose to take a leap of faith in believing in something that can't be proven.
That's a typical apologist response. Okay, but what's the difference in choosing to believe in x and choosing the 'good' therefore, and directly experiencing and knowing x, and choosing the 'good' therefore?
Ah, I see. This in fact isn't an essential feature and 'god' could have excluded it and saved us a lot of trouble.
The reason for the commitment to the 'good' has less to do with the veracity of the proof that 'god' exists or not, and more to do with the existential consequences of bisbelief. Pascal had to have thought of this.
Really the motivating force to do the 'good' is that effort to avoid the punishment, damnation, eternal torment, separation from 'god', etc., promised by the religion.
So 'god' could just as easily have revealed himself, indisputably, and the terms and conditions of the compulsion of humans to choose, would be the same. They'd be deciding for the same reasons.
'Faith' has absolutely no necessary function in the mechanics of Christianity... and, in fact, can create all kinds of unnecessary confusion and frustration in its believers.
Not only that, but there's also the proof that a claimed revelatory experience of 'god' was not an imposter, that's a problem.
Moreover, 'god' would know about this problem, so we'd expect 'him' not to hold us accountable for our skepticism toward revelatory knowledge of 'him'. In other words, 'god' wouldn't do it that way. Ergo, Christianity would have to be false cuz 'god' don't be trippin like that.
Nope.
No, I'm claiming that some are honest...honestly wrong.You are claiming that all atheists are dishonest.
Their "tendencies" describe only what they "may feel they prefer" to do, but may not actually ever do.True but what makes people different is their tendencies.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 11:20 pmA "tendency" is not an "inevitability." And there's nothing "certain" about what a person will choose.Genetics dictate a tendency toward certain behavior.
Then what evidence would you accept?I want to see God.
Indeed. And when we do, there won't be even one of us that will have a doubt left. So we have only this brief span of time here to decide what we shall choose, freely, of our own volition.But we are face to face with God in Heaven? Don't we?
Why not? Remember. That is the all-powerful God.
It seems to me that you also cannot articulate a rational view too so what is left?Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 9:47 pmNo, I'm claiming that some are honest...honestly wrong.You are claiming that all atheists are dishonest.
But Atheism itself -- the ideology, that is -- is never rational, and cannot be articulated in a rational way.
True, so you agree that people are different based on their nature?Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 9:47 pmTheir "tendencies" describe only what they "may feel they prefer" to do, but may not actually ever do.True but what makes people different is their tendencies.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 11:20 pm
A "tendency" is not an "inevitability." And there's nothing "certain" about what a person will choose.
Their actual choices...that's the thing that really separates them from each other, because those are the things they actually do.
Don't take me wrong. I am a spiritual person. Spiritual beings are tremendously strong. Anybody can claim that She/He is God by performing miracles. To know the truth of the matter one needs to witness the act of creation. Only in this case, one can say that she/he witnessed God.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 9:47 pmThen what evidence would you accept?I want to see God.
That does not satisfy me. I need to see that act of creation to ensure that I am witnessing God.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 9:47 pmIndeed. And when we do, there won't be even one of us that will have a doubt left. So we have only this brief span of time here to decide what we shall choose, freely, of our own volition.
But we are face to face with God in Heaven? Don't we?
How do you know? Did you witness the Hell?Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 9:56 pmIn Hell, nobody sees anybody. It's a place of separation, not of relationship.
I am not sure. The eternal life even in Heaven will eventually turn into a Hell since you get used to the things you enjoy. You will see that I am right if you think thoroughly.Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat May 07, 2022 9:56 pm You don't want to be there. In fact, you don't even want to joke about being there.