Originally posted by atv2
Can anyone tell me what God's will is?
- Don't touch yourself
- 10 Commandments
- But seriously, hands off your genitals. Other peoples' too, unless you're married.
- Figure out what you want to do with your life. But then pray a ton and tell people it's what God wants for you too. Enjoy the extra support from the community, who think you're following a righteous path instead of doing whatever the f*** you want.
- Don't worry about the Third World. They'll have their reward in heaven...or something. Better not to think about it. Just eat your Big Mac.
...far as I can tell, at least. Do you realize how absurd this question is?
Originally posted by Digi
- Don't touch yourself
- 10 Commandments
- But seriously, hands off your genitals. Other peoples' too, unless you're married.
- Figure out what you want to do with your life. But then pray a ton and tell people it's what God wants for you too. Enjoy the extra support from the community, who think you're following a righteous path instead of doing whatever the f*** you want.
- Don't worry about the Third World. They'll have their reward in heaven...or something. Better not to think about it. Just eat your Big Mac....far as I can tell, at least. Do you realize how absurd this question is?
The Big Mac I could dig, As matter of fact I wouldn't mind having one in my hand right now but there's alot I'm missing and still learning about him.
Originally posted by Digi
- But seriously, hands off your genitals. Other peoples' too, unless you're married.
Caveat: according to the Old Testament, you can touch virgins against their will if you conquer their village and slaughter their families.
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But in seriousness, I've never understood how God can intervene in everyday affairs with his "will" without:
1. Violating the deterministic and probabilistic physical laws that obviously exist
2. Violating the free will that he believes in so fanatically, he justifies torturing people for eternity in its name
I mean, how else do you cast earthquakes on people as punishments for their sins (which fundamentalists have seriously suggested)? Shake the tectonic plates arbitrarily when nobody is looking? 🙄
God wants to dream.
"Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here’s Tom with the weather."
-Bill Hicks
We're like a cinematic screen. To him, our world goes like this:
Give a few Graham's numbers in magnitude and complexity. It can count every quark and gluon, yet when acting out every quark and gluon it can amuse even itself.
Originally posted by Master Han
1. Violating the deterministic and probabilistic physical laws that obviously exist.
Ding ding ding.
The ability for infinite probability to create infinite potentiality can be translated as a karmanistic philosophy as well as free will.
What is love without hate? What is kindness without cruelty? These things become irrelevant in a totalitarian peace or state of being, there's nothing without balance between good and bad, without karma.
So for me absolution is about the journey, not the destination. Things keep going. They just keep on going. Like the Duracell bunny.
There can be no God because there's always something greater, because things keep growing at exponential or infinitely increasing rates of change. Only things with beginnings have ends. Nothing began, so nothing will end.
We are caught in the middle of a changing graph, and it is increasing and decreasing, but it persists, and it increases just a little bit. That is purpose for me to wake up and live. "I get knocked down, but I get up again. You're never gonna keep me down. My theme song." Things will increase overall, so long as I persist toward the increase. I become an agent of God. I can increase in the experience.
Man cannot know, Gods will. Man can only understand their own. Whether or not you believe that there is a, God that wants you to align with a specific will is up to you. Those motivational sayings...,the ones that seem to drive people to carry on when their at their weakest and most desperate...,they usually come from within when faced with the decision of giving up. That wisdom always comes when man is asking for answers. That goodness we strive for isn't a random chemical reaction, it's a designed path. Follow righteousness as long as it doesn't veer from the betterment of positive existence. In other words...,before you make the final decision,(which is always going to be whats ultimately best for you) take a moment and consider everyone you know and then consider the entire world as it's existing right now. Be mindful and live.