a13antichrist
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Yeah, I was still contemplating whether I’d pull the page up out of my temp. internet files when I got home..
As I’ve mentioned, I’ve stopped worrying about disproving or proving the existence of God. I’ve instead looked at what God has to offer me. I have no need of anything he could provide[/b], and hence, the issue of whether or not he truly does exist becomes.. well, a non-issue. You could prove tomorrow that God does indeed exist – it would make no difference to me whatsoever, because he has nothing to offer me. Not because I don’t want to see it.
When I’m 80 & on my death-bed, & I’m contemplating the fact that (since God has been proven to exist) I’m about to go to hell, I’d probably all of a sudden have a need for God. And would he accept me then? Yes, he would. The fact that I could “cheat” God like this is just one more blow to His credibility.
More to the point, however, the idea of a God figure goes against the very fundamentals of my philosophical principles. It would mean that the mind is not the most influential factor of our existence. It would mean that I would be required to justify my thoughts to someone [-thing] else. And that would mean that my thoughts were not my own.
Why am I dating my gf?? Well my scanner should be arriving in a week or so..
Seriously though, that’s an interesting question. I have at times gone for months, even a couple of years at a time, without any ‘significant other’ in my life, and thought nothing of it. I am with my current gf because I feel she appreciates what I have to offer her. More importantly, she makes me feel good about being a human, in spite of everything about humanity that disgusts me. How does she do that? I don’t know. Maybe I’ll make that my next area of consideration. But you know, frankly I don’t think I want to. I think the fact that I don’t know is more significant than either of the other two.
Let me ask you something else. What is it about “sex with someone you love” that makes it so much better than just simple one-night stands? Could it be that once you get to that stage, you’ve stopped making love to your partner & you’re finally making love with him/her? Is it at all possible that once you get to that stage, you’re no longer concerned with dominating your partner, but instead are doing it as much for her as you are for you? Once you get to that stage, sex stops being a power thing. That’s why it’s so much better.
Now again. What would relationships be like if it was like that from the start?
I think they haven’t yet asked the right questions…
I’m sure you’re aware that that’s precisely what you’re enlisting him to do in those examples.. you don’t have any way of explaining what happened to cure those people, but by falling back on God you achieve an answer. Why?
I have yet to see any evidence (since “proof” implies something slightly stronger) of anything other than that he is simply an idea.
Okay, but that’s not the point I’m trying to make. To me, whether he exists or not is irrelevant since I have decided I have no need for him.
Are you asking me what I think it means to be human? Or what I perceive society deems as human? Because you can rest assured, most people wouldn’t qualify under my definition.
To clarify this I’ll quote myself from above, regarding true friends:
Getting it doesn’t mean agreeing with me. It means criticising everything that society throws in your face & coming up with your own perspective on what “life” is. It doesn’t matter if they disagree with everything single point I make, or even if they agree 100% with what society has told them, provided they’ve thrown out all the ideas to begin with & then decided they were right after all. It’s matter of realising that your reality is totally dependent on your thoughts and the way you apply them.
What do I believe? I don’t believe in any extra-dimensional forces. I don’t believe in fairies, dragons, magic. I don’t believe in ghosts, demons, spirits, life after death, Judgement, reincarnation, kama. I don’t believe in unseen forces and I certainly don’t believe in a supreme being. I don't believe in the physical (or otherwise)existence of a "soul"..
..but I do believe in the concept.
I do believe that there’s no point being alive if you’re just going to live somebody else’s thoughts. I believe that outside of physical certainties (H2SO4 will make a hole in your shoe), nothing is either true or false, but thinking makes it so. [Not the exact quote but I like that better. ] I believe that anyone can fundamentally change their perspective on life in a matter of seconds, provided they give themselves the chance. I believe you can change your own world as easily as you can punch yourself in the eye (easy, but not that easy
). I believe you can change someone else’s world if that person is ready to have their world changed (my gf has changed my world – but don’t jump to any conclusions). I also believe that you don’t have a chance in hell if someone isn’t ready to have his/her world changed. Unfortunately, yes.props: Yeah, CDS is ideally suited to not catch flak for being a gentle loving father but do we need to increase our reps to earn that?
I think it’s great that you’ve taken on a new life-view involving an encompassing of what is traditionally non-masculine. Think about how much better you life is because of it. Now what I’m trying to do is show people how much better the world will be once everyone makes that realisation.
