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January 31st, 2010, 4:03 am
Izzy, By the way, I see you joined this Forum on my birthday. Nice job! You said, "...at this moment I could not imagine enjoying an afterlife that ultimately lost my personality that sounds like nirvana.." --> I want to point out that I see our personality as a lower aspect of who we real...
January 31st, 2010, 12:08 am
Izzy, I am very much into metaphysics, which is where I got the idea that everything is a form of consciousness -- and idea which works quite well for me. I, too, believe we have a post-mortem state of "awareness" and personality. But I think that, as we rise through various levels of post...
January 30th, 2010, 8:09 am
Everything is consciousness. There is nothing that is not consciousness. For this reason, we cannot define consciousness -- we would need something that is not consciousness to compare it to, and we have no such thing. For example, I think of a brick wall as nothing more than "solidified consci...
December 13th, 2009, 12:04 am
Nick A., you said, "Negative emotions are acquired reactions. We are not born with them but actually begin to learn them at an early age from the external world." --> I disagree. The first thing a baby does when it comes into this world is cry. Babies can get very angry. But what I think y...
December 11th, 2009, 2:46 pm
Nick A., you said, "People normally think we have the choice of either expressing or suppressing acquired emotional habits." --> I agree to an extent. Some people express emotions compulsively. "I've read that we also have the potential to consciously experience emotions without expre...
December 9th, 2009, 4:01 pm
Nick A., you said, "I agree it can be done but it is easier to avoid it." --> I agree that it may seem easier, but it is harder in the long run. "Do you notice how all the talk on the human condition is about intellectually considering it. We speak of critical thinking but the whole p...
December 9th, 2009, 2:48 am
Nick A., you wrote, "In the Bible Peter was still incapable of it...." --> This is an important point. I have descovered that many of us carry with us emotional scars from our childhood. These emotional scars will not allow us to experience true love. Many of us are too childish, distant, ...
December 9th, 2009, 12:19 am
Scott, you asked, "...isn't my own happiness still most important to me?" --> It is. But what i meant to say is that, at times , her happiness is so important to me that I completely and temporarily forget myself and think about what I can do to make her happy. "Could it be that my lo...
December 5th, 2009, 4:18 am
Love is the idea that my partner's happiness is more important than my happiness.
Many people confuse love with emotional attachement. Getting the two confused is a huge mistake, and is a big contributor to breakups and divorce. True love does not require an emotional response at all.
Many people confuse love with emotional attachement. Getting the two confused is a huge mistake, and is a big contributor to breakups and divorce. True love does not require an emotional response at all.
November 30th, 2009, 9:25 am
Belinda, you said, "...there is no such being as a Hindu child...." --> I disagree. "Isn't the proper aim of education to prepare the child for independent freedom of thought?" --> The aim of education is to protect children from propoganda, much less instigate propoganda against...
November 30th, 2009, 9:22 am
Alun, you said, "...the only reason he is so highlighted is because the theory he instigated offends religious creation stories, and therefore has to be defended in public." --> I agree. It is a good example of a theory that seems so innocent yet gets a lot of people all riled up. People t...
November 28th, 2009, 7:09 pm
Hi everybody! I am reminded of the example of when two American Christian parents were living in Japan and sending their childen to public school in Japan. One day the school had a assembly for a Buddhist national holiday occuring that day. The American parents became very angry, because the assembl...
November 27th, 2009, 5:30 am
Bluemist, I agree. Darwin's theory deals with why two animal groups from the same species look different after having been isolated from each other for thousands or millions of years. The extrapolations from this theory which say specific human ethnic groups are inferior are just that -- extrapolati...
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