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mickthinks wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 8:55 am God loves you, Gary!

But he hates your sad self-pitying shitposts.

What a surprise that the odious mickstinks from Arkansas is a kristian, and one who speaks for 'God' no less

mickthinks wrote: ↑Sun Aug 31, 2025 10:22 pm I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again;

mickthinks wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 8:55 am God loves you, Gary!

But he hates your sad self-pitying shitposts.

I doubt God even knows who I am. Is there really such a thing as a God who keeps intimate knowledge on every single individual of 7 billion human beings? Sounds like magical thinking to me. If there are over 7 billion humans alone in the world, not to count other living beings, then reality is probably a lot less magical and a lot less personal. My guess is we probably live in a cosmic aquarium that runs itself--if there is a God at all. If not, then we're just something that sprouted up by itself on a giant rock in space.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am

mickthinks wrote: ↑Sun Aug 31, 2025 10:22 pm I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again;

mickthinks wrote: ↑Sat Mar 15, 2025 8:55 am God loves you, Gary!

But he hates your sad self-pitying shitposts.

I doubt God even knows who I am.

Why?

What do you think God even is, exactly?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am Is there really such a thing as a God who keeps intimate knowledge on every single individual of 7 billion human beings?

Why do you believe that 'this' is absolutely true "gary childress"?

What do you believe is the so-called 'intimate knowledge', exactly, which you believe is being kept from you, and from the rest of you, here?

Also, could it be actually True that there is absolutely no knowledge being kept from you human beings but the very reason why some of you, in the days when this is being written, still, have not yet uncovered 'the knowledge' is just because of your continual desire to put so much effort into 'making more money', combined with your persistent assumptions and beliefs, which are what is blinding and deafening you from the so-called 'intimate knowledge' being revealed, to you?

Now, to answer 'your question', here,

Firstly, 'Yes, there, really, is such a thing as a God'.

Secondly, Absolutely nothing is kept from you, as the whole Universe is laid out 'before you'.

Thirdly, you just have to become OPEN, once more, become CURIOS, again, and just be totally HONEST, and seriously WANT to change, for the better, and then if you become 'this way' and remain 'this way', then you will learn and understand how and why it has been 'you', all along, stopping and preventing "your" own 'self' from gaining, and obtaining, what you call the 'intimate knowledge', in Life.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am Sounds like magical thinking to me.

What, exactly, is so-called 'magical thinking', to you?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am If there are over 7 billion humans alone in the world, not to count other living beings, then reality is probably a lot less magical and a lot less personal.

What is 'magical thinking', here?

If 'it' is, God loving 'you', and/or God hating 'your sad self-pitying posts', then why is 'reality' probably not like 'that', to you?

What even is 'reality', exactly, to you, anyway?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am My guess is we probably live in a cosmic aquarium that runs itself--if there is a God at all.

And, why could this so-called, 'self-running cosmic aquarium' just not be God, Itself?

Could it be a possibility that the word, 'God', has been meaning and/or just been referring to what you call the 'Self-running', or the continually 'Self-creating', cosmic aquarium, all the time, anyway?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am If not, then we're just something that sprouted up by itself on a giant rock in space.

If you think or believe that earth is a so-called 'giant rock in space', then you really do need to 'get out more', as some would say.

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 4:51 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am

mickthinks wrote: ↑Sun Aug 31, 2025 10:22 pm I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again;

I doubt God even knows who I am.

Why?

What do you think God even is, exactly?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am Is there really such a thing as a God who keeps intimate knowledge on every single individual of 7 billion human beings?

Why do you believe that 'this' is absolutely true "gary childress"?

What do you believe is the so-called 'intimate knowledge', exactly, which you believe is being kept from you, and from the rest of you, here?

Also, could it be actually True that there is absolutely no knowledge being kept from you human beings but the very reason why some of you, in the days when this is being written, still, have not yet uncovered 'the knowledge' is just because of your continual desire to put so much effort into 'making more money', combined with your persistent assumptions and beliefs, which are what is blinding and deafening you from the so-called 'intimate knowledge' being revealed, to you?

Now, to answer 'your question', here,

Firstly, 'Yes, there, really, is such a thing as a God'.

Secondly, Absolutely nothing is kept from you, as the whole Universe is laid out 'before you'.

Thirdly, you just have to become OPEN, once more, become CURIOS, again, and just be totally HONEST, and seriously WANT to change, for the better, and then if you become 'this way' and remain 'this way', then you will learn and understand how and why it has been 'you', all along, stopping and preventing "your" own 'self' from gaining, and obtaining, what you call the 'intimate knowledge', in Life.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am Sounds like magical thinking to me.

What, exactly, is so-called 'magical thinking', to you?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am If there are over 7 billion humans alone in the world, not to count other living beings, then reality is probably a lot less magical and a lot less personal.

What is 'magical thinking', here?

If 'it' is, God loving 'you', and/or God hating 'your sad self-pitying posts', then why is 'reality' probably not like 'that', to you?

What even is 'reality', exactly, to you, anyway?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am My guess is we probably live in a cosmic aquarium that runs itself--if there is a God at all.

And, why could this so-called, 'self-running cosmic aquarium' just not be God, Itself?

Could it be a possibility that the word, 'God', has been meaning and/or just been referring to what you call the 'Self-running', or the continually 'Self-creating', cosmic aquarium, all the time, anyway?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am If not, then we're just something that sprouted up by itself on a giant rock in space.

If you think or believe that earth is a so-called 'giant rock in space', then you really do need to 'get out more', as some would say.

When people use the word "God", most usually refer to a sentient being that is somewhat distinct from the universe itself. The universe itself is the universe itself. If we call the universe itself "God," then what exactly are we saying about the universe?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 4:56 am

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 4:51 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am

I doubt God even knows who I am.

Why?

What do you think God even is, exactly?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am Is there really such a thing as a God who keeps intimate knowledge on every single individual of 7 billion human beings?

Why do you believe that 'this' is absolutely true "gary childress"?

What do you believe is the so-called 'intimate knowledge', exactly, which you believe is being kept from you, and from the rest of you, here?

Also, could it be actually True that there is absolutely no knowledge being kept from you human beings but the very reason why some of you, in the days when this is being written, still, have not yet uncovered 'the knowledge' is just because of your continual desire to put so much effort into 'making more money', combined with your persistent assumptions and beliefs, which are what is blinding and deafening you from the so-called 'intimate knowledge' being revealed, to you?

Now, to answer 'your question', here,

Firstly, 'Yes, there, really, is such a thing as a God'.

Secondly, Absolutely nothing is kept from you, as the whole Universe is laid out 'before you'.

Thirdly, you just have to become OPEN, once more, become CURIOS, again, and just be totally HONEST, and seriously WANT to change, for the better, and then if you become 'this way' and remain 'this way', then you will learn and understand how and why it has been 'you', all along, stopping and preventing "your" own 'self' from gaining, and obtaining, what you call the 'intimate knowledge', in Life.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am Sounds like magical thinking to me.

What, exactly, is so-called 'magical thinking', to you?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am If there are over 7 billion humans alone in the world, not to count other living beings, then reality is probably a lot less magical and a lot less personal.

What is 'magical thinking', here?

If 'it' is, God loving 'you', and/or God hating 'your sad self-pitying posts', then why is 'reality' probably not like 'that', to you?

What even is 'reality', exactly, to you, anyway?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am My guess is we probably live in a cosmic aquarium that runs itself--if there is a God at all.

And, why could this so-called, 'self-running cosmic aquarium' just not be God, Itself?

Could it be a possibility that the word, 'God', has been meaning and/or just been referring to what you call the 'Self-running', or the continually 'Self-creating', cosmic aquarium, all the time, anyway?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:17 am If not, then we're just something that sprouted up by itself on a giant rock in space.

If you think or believe that earth is a so-called 'giant rock in space', then you really do need to 'get out more', as some would say.

When people use the word "God", most usually refer to a sentient being that is somewhat distinct from the universe itself.

Why did 'you' tell 'me' what you think or believe 'most people' usually 'see' the word God refers to?

And, what does the word, 'somewhat', mean, exactly, in relation to one thing, supposedly, being 'distinct' from another thing? In other words how can one thing be 'somewhat' distinct from another thing, exactly?

Now, if 'we' go back to 'the question' that 'I' asked 'you', 'I' asked 'you', 'What do you think God even is, exactly?'

Would 'you' like to answer 'this question', or not? See, if you do, then 'we' can move along, here? Or, do 'you' really want to give 'me' only 'that' what 'you' assume or believe is true?

See, in order to get 'you' to comprehend and understand things, here, it is your actual thoughts, views and perceptions, which are needed.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 4:56 am The universe itself is the universe itself. If we call the universe itself "God," then what exactly are we saying about the universe?

Whatever 'you' want to.

After all even in the days when this is being written, what 'you', individual, human beings are saying, and claiming, about the Universe, Itself, varies greatly, and even to the extent of absolute contradictions. Which, also, explains why 'you' human beings, in 'this' day and age, are, still, so, so lost and confused, here.

Also, notice how 'you' are wanting to 'stick' to your already obtained gained views and beliefs, here?

If yes, then 'this' is another reason of why 'you' have, still, not yet recognized, seen, comprehended, and understood the so-called 'intimate knowledge', which is 'before and within you'.

How you people use words is one of the reasons why you people are not listening to, and hearing, God, Itself. How you people use words is also why you people are 'looking' the Wrong way, and thus are not seeing, and recognizing, God, Itself.

The so-called 'intimate knowledge', of Life, is not be hidden nor kept secret, from you, you just need to change 'the way' you 'look at', and 'see', things to gain, and obtain, the True, Right, Accurate, and Correct Knowledge, of and about 'Life', Itself.

God, in the visible sense, is just the Universe, Itself. Which is very clearly always in continual creation, eternally.

God, in the invisible/Spiritual sense, is just the Mind, Itself. Which is very clearly always Open, and knowing all things, always.

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 5:56 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 4:56 am

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 4:51 am

Why?

What do you think God even is, exactly?


Why do you believe that 'this' is absolutely true "gary childress"?

What do you believe is the so-called 'intimate knowledge', exactly, which you believe is being kept from you, and from the rest of you, here?

Also, could it be actually True that there is absolutely no knowledge being kept from you human beings but the very reason why some of you, in the days when this is being written, still, have not yet uncovered 'the knowledge' is just because of your continual desire to put so much effort into 'making more money', combined with your persistent assumptions and beliefs, which are what is blinding and deafening you from the so-called 'intimate knowledge' being revealed, to you?

Now, to answer 'your question', here,

Firstly, 'Yes, there, really, is such a thing as a God'.

Secondly, Absolutely nothing is kept from you, as the whole Universe is laid out 'before you'.

Thirdly, you just have to become OPEN, once more, become CURIOS, again, and just be totally HONEST, and seriously WANT to change, for the better, and then if you become 'this way' and remain 'this way', then you will learn and understand how and why it has been 'you', all along, stopping and preventing "your" own 'self' from gaining, and obtaining, what you call the 'intimate knowledge', in Life.



What, exactly, is so-called 'magical thinking', to you?


What is 'magical thinking', here?

If 'it' is, God loving 'you', and/or God hating 'your sad self-pitying posts', then why is 'reality' probably not like 'that', to you?

What even is 'reality', exactly, to you, anyway?



And, why could this so-called, 'self-running cosmic aquarium' just not be God, Itself?

Could it be a possibility that the word, 'God', has been meaning and/or just been referring to what you call the 'Self-running', or the continually 'Self-creating', cosmic aquarium, all the time, anyway?


If you think or believe that earth is a so-called 'giant rock in space', then you really do need to 'get out more', as some would say.

When people use the word "God", most usually refer to a sentient being that is somewhat distinct from the universe itself.

Why did 'you' tell 'me' what you think or believe 'most people' usually 'see' the word God refers to?

And, what does the word, 'somewhat', mean, exactly, in relation to one thing, supposedly, being 'distinct' from another thing? In other words how can one thing be 'somewhat' distinct from another thing, exactly?

Now, if 'we' go back to 'the question' that 'I' asked 'you', 'I' asked 'you', 'What do you think God even is, exactly?'

Would 'you' like to answer 'this question', or not? See, if you do, then 'we' can move along, here? Or, do 'you' really want to give 'me' only 'that' what 'you' assume or believe is true?

See, in order to get 'you' to comprehend and understand things, here, it is your actual thoughts, views and perceptions, which are needed.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 4:56 am The universe itself is the universe itself. If we call the universe itself "God," then what exactly are we saying about the universe?

Whatever 'you' want to.

After all even in the days when this is being written, what 'you', individual, human beings are saying, and claiming, about the Universe, Itself, varies greatly, and even to the extent of absolute contradictions. Which, also, explains why 'you' human beings, in 'this' day and age, are, still, so, so lost and confused, here.

Also, notice how 'you' are wanting to 'stick' to your already obtained gained views and beliefs, here?

If yes, then 'this' is another reason of why 'you' have, still, not yet recognized, seen, comprehended, and understood the so-called 'intimate knowledge', which is 'before and within you'.

How you people use words is one of the reasons why you people are not listening to, and hearing, God, Itself. How you people use words is also why you people are 'looking' the Wrong way, and thus are not seeing, and recognizing, God, Itself.

The so-called 'intimate knowledge', of Life, is not be hidden nor kept secret, from you, you just need to change 'the way' you 'look at', and 'see', things to gain, and obtain, the True, Right, Accurate, and Correct Knowledge, of and about 'Life', Itself.

God, in the visible sense, is just the Universe, Itself. Which is very clearly always in continual creation, eternally.

God, in the invisible/Spiritual sense, is just the Mind, Itself. Which is very clearly always Open, and knowing all things, always.

Did our minds create the universe? And if so, what was here before our minds? No universe at all, but we were here before that and created the universe? Did we then create ourselves also? Or were our minds created by something we call "God"?

I can't believe you made a thread entirely about yourself. How narcissistic could anyone be?

accelafine wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 1:07 pm I can't believe you made a thread entirely about yourself. How narcissistic could anyone be?

At least I started it off with a dunce comment about myself. I made the thread because it serves as a place for me to post my most irrelevant comments. If I didn't I'd probably implode.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:04 pm

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 5:56 am

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 4:56 am

When people use the word "God", most usually refer to a sentient being that is somewhat distinct from the universe itself.

Why did 'you' tell 'me' what you think or believe 'most people' usually 'see' the word God refers to?

And, what does the word, 'somewhat', mean, exactly, in relation to one thing, supposedly, being 'distinct' from another thing? In other words how can one thing be 'somewhat' distinct from another thing, exactly?

Now, if 'we' go back to 'the question' that 'I' asked 'you', 'I' asked 'you', 'What do you think God even is, exactly?'

Would 'you' like to answer 'this question', or not? See, if you do, then 'we' can move along, here? Or, do 'you' really want to give 'me' only 'that' what 'you' assume or believe is true?

See, in order to get 'you' to comprehend and understand things, here, it is your actual thoughts, views and perceptions, which are needed.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 4:56 am The universe itself is the universe itself. If we call the universe itself "God," then what exactly are we saying about the universe?

Whatever 'you' want to.

After all even in the days when this is being written, what 'you', individual, human beings are saying, and claiming, about the Universe, Itself, varies greatly, and even to the extent of absolute contradictions. Which, also, explains why 'you' human beings, in 'this' day and age, are, still, so, so lost and confused, here.

Also, notice how 'you' are wanting to 'stick' to your already obtained gained views and beliefs, here?

If yes, then 'this' is another reason of why 'you' have, still, not yet recognized, seen, comprehended, and understood the so-called 'intimate knowledge', which is 'before and within you'.

How you people use words is one of the reasons why you people are not listening to, and hearing, God, Itself. How you people use words is also why you people are 'looking' the Wrong way, and thus are not seeing, and recognizing, God, Itself.

The so-called 'intimate knowledge', of Life, is not be hidden nor kept secret, from you, you just need to change 'the way' you 'look at', and 'see', things to gain, and obtain, the True, Right, Accurate, and Correct Knowledge, of and about 'Life', Itself.

God, in the visible sense, is just the Universe, Itself. Which is very clearly always in continual creation, eternally.

God, in the invisible/Spiritual sense, is just the Mind, Itself. Which is very clearly always Open, and knowing all things, always.

Did our minds create the universe?

1. There is only One Mind.

2. you human beings do not have your mind nor minds, and you certainly do not have/own the One Mind.

3. On reflection and introspection you will learn and see that what you actually mean, here, is 'thoughts' and not 'minds'.

4. Since the Universe was existing before you human beings came into Existence, why, exactly, did you ask, 'Did your minds/thoughts create the Universe?'

Could it even possible, to you, for 'a thing' to be able to create 'the very thing' that, for all intents and purposes, create the 'former thing'?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:04 pm And if so, what was here before our minds?

It is not even theoretically/logically possible, let alone empirically/actually possible.

Which makes me wonder, 'Why did you even ask 'that question'?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:04 pm No universe at all, but we were here before that and created the universe?

you seem to be completely bamboozling "your" 'self', here.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:04 pm Did we then create ourselves also? Or were our minds created by something we call "God"?

Are you even able to explain to the readers, here, what you mean, exactly, when you say and write the words, 'our minds'?

If yes, then will you?

If no, then why not, exactly?

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:00 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:04 pm

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 5:56 am

Why did 'you' tell 'me' what you think or believe 'most people' usually 'see' the word God refers to?

And, what does the word, 'somewhat', mean, exactly, in relation to one thing, supposedly, being 'distinct' from another thing? In other words how can one thing be 'somewhat' distinct from another thing, exactly?

Now, if 'we' go back to 'the question' that 'I' asked 'you', 'I' asked 'you', 'What do you think God even is, exactly?'

Would 'you' like to answer 'this question', or not? See, if you do, then 'we' can move along, here? Or, do 'you' really want to give 'me' only 'that' what 'you' assume or believe is true?

See, in order to get 'you' to comprehend and understand things, here, it is your actual thoughts, views and perceptions, which are needed.


Whatever 'you' want to.

After all even in the days when this is being written, what 'you', individual, human beings are saying, and claiming, about the Universe, Itself, varies greatly, and even to the extent of absolute contradictions. Which, also, explains why 'you' human beings, in 'this' day and age, are, still, so, so lost and confused, here.

Also, notice how 'you' are wanting to 'stick' to your already obtained gained views and beliefs, here?

If yes, then 'this' is another reason of why 'you' have, still, not yet recognized, seen, comprehended, and understood the so-called 'intimate knowledge', which is 'before and within you'.

How you people use words is one of the reasons why you people are not listening to, and hearing, God, Itself. How you people use words is also why you people are 'looking' the Wrong way, and thus are not seeing, and recognizing, God, Itself.

The so-called 'intimate knowledge', of Life, is not be hidden nor kept secret, from you, you just need to change 'the way' you 'look at', and 'see', things to gain, and obtain, the True, Right, Accurate, and Correct Knowledge, of and about 'Life', Itself.

God, in the visible sense, is just the Universe, Itself. Which is very clearly always in continual creation, eternally.

God, in the invisible/Spiritual sense, is just the Mind, Itself. Which is very clearly always Open, and knowing all things, always.

Did our minds create the universe?

1. There is only One Mind.

2. you human beings do not have your mind nor minds, and you certainly do not have/own the One Mind.

3. On reflection and introspection you will learn and see that what you actually mean, here, is 'thoughts' and not 'minds'.

4. Since the Universe was existing before you human beings came into Existence, why, exactly, did you ask, 'Did your minds/thoughts create the Universe?'

Could it even possible, to you, for 'a thing' to be able to create 'the very thing' that, for all intents and purposes, create the 'former thing'?

Because God's existence is often argued for as a first cause. What you are calling God sounds to be everything and all of us. If that is so, then it doens't sound like any traditional understanding of the word "God". In fact you even seem to contradict yourself by saying there is only "one mind". How do you even justify that comment? Obviously, there are many of us, aren't there? Or am I the only human left in the world and just not aware of it?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:06 pm

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:00 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 12:04 pm

Did our minds create the universe?

1. There is only One Mind.

2. you human beings do not have your mind nor minds, and you certainly do not have/own the One Mind.

3. On reflection and introspection you will learn and see that what you actually mean, here, is 'thoughts' and not 'minds'.

4. Since the Universe was existing before you human beings came into Existence, why, exactly, did you ask, 'Did your minds/thoughts create the Universe?'

Could it even possible, to you, for 'a thing' to be able to create 'the very thing' that, for all intents and purposes, create the 'former thing'?

Because God's existence is often argued for as a first cause.

How God, Itself, is the so-called 'first cause' can be very easily and very simply explained, and understood.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:06 pm What you are calling God sounds to be everything and all of us.

Obviously, the Wrong, that you adult human beings do, is not God. But, also, and obviously, 'this life', or 'the way of life', in which you adult human beings are creating, and which all of you human beings live with, and in, is created solely and only by you adult human beings.

The Wrong doing, which is done by adult human beings, only, is not and could not be God.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:06 pm If that is so, then it doens't sound like any traditional understanding of the word "God".

1. Have the 'traditional understanding/s of the word 'God', really, been getting you human beings 'anywhere'?

2. There is a saying that, 'God is within every thing', and what 'I' am calling God is certainly not the Wrong thoughts, within human bodies, which is what directly causes and creates the Wrong done, by you adult human beings.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:06 pm In fact you even seem to contradict yourself by saying there is only "one mind".

I could only be 'contradicting "my" 'self' ' if I said some thing contradicting 'me' saying, 'There is only One Mind'. Now, can you point to absolutely any thing that I have said and written in this forum that even remotely 'me' saying any thing contradictory to, 'There is only One Mind'?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:06 pm How do you even justify that comment?

By being given the chance to fully express how there is only One Mind. And, by the way, the more I am challenged and questioned of 'this claim' of mine, the better and far more successful I can prove, irrefutably, that there is, really, only One Mind.

To start to justify 'that comment' 'I' will ask 'you', 'How do you define the word, 'mind', exactly?' And, if you are having any issue at all, then just maybe what you have 'thought' before, but, really, have never actually questioned nor challenged, is not actually what is actually True and Right, in Life.

So, 'I' will wait to see how, exactly, you define the word 'mind', first.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:06 pm Obviously, there are many of us, aren't there?

Did you really not notice that you just said, 'us', without being specific as to who and/or what you are talking about and referring to, exactly?

To me, there are a number of human bodies. And, within every individual human body there is an individual human being, or person. To me, the word, 'many', is very relative and without further clarifying what is 'many' might 'not be many', to me.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:06 pm Or am I the only human left in the world and just not aware of it?

you have gone so far off-track, here, now, and you did 'this' before you even sought out, and waited for, any actual clarification, first.

By the way I added to 'my post', which you responded to, in case you had not yet noticed.

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:00 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:06 pm How do you even justify that comment?

By being given the chance to fully express how there is only One Mind. And, by the way, the more I am challenged and questioned of 'this claim' of mine, the better and far more successful I can prove, irrefutably, that there is, really, only One Mind.

To start to justify 'that comment' 'I' will ask 'you', 'How do you define the word, 'mind', exactly?' And, if you are having any issue at all, then just maybe what you have 'thought' before, but, really, have never actually questioned nor challenged, is not actually what is actually True and Right, in Life.

That's possibly true, Age, but how do you know it's true? What evidence suggests that the universe is "one mind"?

EDIT: Sorry, Age. I had our quotes reversed. I just corrected them.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:34 pm

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:00 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:06 pm How do you even justify that comment?

By being given the chance to fully express how there is only One Mind. And, by the way, the more I am challenged and questioned of 'this claim' of mine, the better and far more successful I can prove, irrefutably, that there is, really, only One Mind.

To start to justify 'that comment' 'I' will ask 'you', 'How do you define the word, 'mind', exactly?' And, if you are having any issue at all, then just maybe what you have 'thought' before, but, really, have never actually questioned nor challenged, is not actually what is actually True and Right, in Life.

That's possibly true, Age, but how do you know it's true?

I will, again, suggest that if you, really, do want specific answers, then you make your questions far more specific. So, what is the 'it' word, here, in relation to, exactly?

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:34 pm What evidence suggests that the universe is "one mind"?

1. I do not use 'evidence'. I use 'proof', instead. For the very obvious reason that 'evidence' is not 'proof' and only 'proof' is irrefutable. 'Evidence' for some thing never means that 'that thing' is True, nor Right. 'Proof', however, can not be refuted, and thus what makes 'a thing' A Fact.

2. I also do not use what 'suggests' that 'some thing' is 'some thing'. Again, for the same reasons like 'evidence' is not 'proof' of 'some thing'.

3. I never even thought, let alone said and wrote that, 'The Universe is One Mind'. Whatever would make you ask such 'a question' as you just did, here?

4. The Universe is 'the Universe'. And, what exists within 'the Universe' is 'A Mind'. Which, again, is always open, always knowing, is not owned, and there is only One of, only.

5. Now, how 'I' know 'this' is because there is not a single thing that could refute 'this'. And, how 'I' know there is not a single thing that could refute 'this' from 'knowing' what 'it' is, here, that every one could agree with. See, what 'it' is that every one could agree with, then 'that' is some thing, which no could refute. And, when no one refute some thing, then 'that' is what is known as A Fact.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:34 pm EDIT: Sorry, Age. I had our quotes reversed. I just corrected them.

Okay, but if there is no, 'last edited by ...', at the bottom of the post, then no one would have been 'none the wiser anyway', as some call it.

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:34 pm

Age wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:00 pm

Gary Childress wrote: ↑Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:06 pm How do you even justify that comment?

By being given the chance to fully express how there is only One Mind. And, by the way, the more I am challenged and questioned of 'this claim' of mine, the better and far more successful I can prove, irrefutably, that there is, really, only One Mind.

To start to justify 'that comment' 'I' will ask 'you', 'How do you define the word, 'mind', exactly?' And, if you are having any issue at all, then just maybe what you have 'thought' before, but, really, have never actually questioned nor challenged, is not actually what is actually True and Right, in Life.

That's possibly true, Age, but how do you know it's true? What evidence suggests that the universe is "one mind"?

EDIT: Sorry, Age. I had our quotes reversed. I just corrected them.