We are clearly in two different discussions here. I want you to take your views on God and religion and note how they impact your actual interactions with others such that the dots are connected between your value judgments on this side of grave, the behaviors you choose as a result of them and the manner which your surmise this will impact your own particular “I” on the other side of the grave.
Instead, you persist in taking us up into the fluffy clouds of psychologism. Or, rather, so it seems to me. A T-Rex at the Smithsonian?! What does this have to do with the request that I made?
So, the slaughterhouse that is nature and hellholes that natural disasters can become in inflicting terrible pain and suffering on mere mortals from the cradle to the grave…this is just something that you are able to subsume in the manner in which you have thought yourself into believing what you do. Or would you explain it differently?
On the other hand, when push comes to shove, you insist that your own rendition of God is there to protect your destiny. But what of the hundreds and hundreds of denominational narratives out there that have very different assumptions about God? Are they all just subsumed ecumenically in your own set of assumptions?
I call them assumptions only until you are able to demonstrate to us that what you believe is true here “in your head” is in fact true for all of us.
We are a society, and programming the right instructions into the game to flow the right way, towards our highest fate, if you really want my own, old, wrinkled, decrepit opinion is that a few of us do tap into the fullest power/realization of God with full Free Will, but the numbers of us who do that are few (and I do consider myself 1 of those select people), and when you involve the global mass consciousness, things are more satanically dominated by his ill will and predictive powers for our future than ever! More people = less free will; 1-2 or a few smart people = extreme free will (the best possible results).
As well, from my frame of mind, just another abstract/abstruse “general description” of how you “feel” about all of this. In no way does it address the points that I make. Why? Because [in my view] the whole point of saying and believing fuzzy, featherty things like this is to sustain how it makes you feel. Nestled snugly in the comfort and the consolation of having something like this to fall back on in a world bursting at the seams with all manner of human pain and suffering.
Again:
I created this thread in order to go in the opposite direction:
When you are out and about interacting with others, what moitivates you to choose particular behaviors…as this relates to the assumptions you make about God and religion as this relates to that which you construe your fate to be on the other side of the grave?
Are you willing to bring the rhetoric down to the reality of defending your own value judgments on this side of the grave?
My motivations are wisdom seeking (why else would I be at a philosophy forum), but also to reach a higher fate than ordinary, because life is filled with so many challenges, that if we can blast beyond the point of return, and come back to earth with a repair plan, the impossibilities of sci-fi could reinvent tomorrow, so to be part of that transition would be groundbreaking.
Clearly you are not. This is the sort of airy rhetoric – “language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in meaningful content” – that we get from any number of New Age mystic sorts.
So, if you are not willing to contribute to the thread in the spirit of the OP, you can surely continue to post here, but I will not be inclined to read any of what you do post.
Convince me then that you are willing to go in that direction.
In other words…
Again, what would you deem to be wrong behavior on this side of the grave? And suppose others with conflicting views of God and religion insisted that this behavior was actually right instead. Regarding an issue like abortion. Which has been in the news here of late in America.
In detail, note your own chosen behaviors regarding an issue like this [on this side of the grave] and how and why you chose it given your assumptions regarding your fate on the other side of the grave.
To which you post:
I never think that women should give natural births - it hurts them too badly. And the kid’s life might suck too. 1 funny twist I thought of is to have the Female optional player in Pokemon Crystal have Bunny/Pikachu Ears sticking out of Her vagina, and then you just pull the Bunny out, and she goes, “Wah, Wah”!! But I still think that women who sin and give birth are just wimps, because men like Kobe Bryant, frankly, endure more pain.
Sorry, but this is not the sort of thing I am able to take seriously.
And, sure, that may well reflect my own failing here.
But there it is.