Philosophy For Us Dummies

interesting…not a belief system…

turtle

So, what’s the point you’re trying to make here?

I believe what you believe…my beliefs are a belief system…yours are not a belief system :slight_smile:

turtle,

:laughing: But I don’t believe turtle. I’m kind of a skeptic. I need proof.
I haven’t taken that final step…i’m pretty much away from the edge of that leap.
I contemplate, wonder, sensate and experience and it’s meaningful and valuable to me. That experience of qualia takes place within my mind and in my being but it isn’t necessarily the bottom line…more like the first lines of the book. I don’t call what i experience to be proven fact or knowledge…maybe must the entertaining of possibilities.

Is that belief?

you got me…I am a dummy…i like what you are saying…

Sure, you’re a dummy - like a fox, turtle. :laughing:

dummies-----------please look at… the post-----[I believe in god]…
it may turn out to be a very good discussion…please join in
it may be talking about life and the universe and what it is all about…
without all the distorted god stuff…throw out all the bad theology

Am on there. It seems to be another horse race between ideas and ideals.

you could look at that way but it doesn’t have to be…

us dummies-----------where is everybody

See Greatest I Am’s thread on universalism in the religious forum. It’s mostly what I believe.

very interesting ideas…I like the kindness and caring of jesus…

Meant extinct after death–oblivion of the senses.

Not IF - WHEN ~ which means that in the HERE AND NOW, we choose or not to see life as precious and valuable.
I also know that at some point I will be no more. So for now, any discussion of a so-called after life, since we cannot know, is just a moot point.
All we have is the present moment.

yes the present moment…that is all we have
that heaven thing is a preposterous delusion…unbelievable wish fulfillment

If heaven is wish fulfillment, what hope is there for those who know hell on earth?

we all are in hell on earth…the real problem is inaction…if you are being tortured it is better to try to escape than hope for a better life after death…

For some there is no escape, no exit. Would you remove their only hope?

I am talking here on ilp…I will not stop talking about inaction in the face of delusion…each person thinks for themselves…

No one is asking that you stop talking about delusion, etc. It does affect some of us here at ILP–to see our hopes summarily dismissed. I know you mean well, but ILP is not as impersonal as you might believe. I listen to you.