Inconvenient Truths?

Question

Love is an emotion reserved for special people in our lives: I loved my Grandfather; he was the single most influential person in my life. I wept like a baby when he died. I loved my first love: Kimmy Cooper, I literally saw fireworks the first time I kissed her. I don't love people I don't know. I don't love Gods. We should all try to accept, understand and respect one another and stop trying to put so much pressure on us with religion that says we should all love one another. Early human beings didn't have the ability to imagine. When a member of a tribe died he remained laying where he died; no funeral or religious rituals because they didn't have the ability to imagine life after death. Simply one of many, many, many scientific facts that religious zelots choose to ignore because it's inconvenient for their faith. Faith is good, faith brings hope, but they would have you ignore the real people around you and put your faith in a God. And oh yea, donate every Sunday.

Answer 1

At one time I thought that what you are describing was love too. A long time ago I thought that love was something that you reserved for some special set of people that you had judged worthy of it.

After a while I got to thinking about what Jesus had said about turning the other cheek and loving our neighbor I put the two together and realized that he had made no exceptions in these statements. It became obvious to me that he intended that we exclude no one from the love that we are supposed to be giving. I started thinking about my idea of love and suddenly realized that I had not been loving anyone at all. I had simply been judging everyone and every thing.

Judging someone worthy of love is not love, it is only judgment. I actually started to cry when I realized this. I saw just how much of my life I had wasted being judgmental, thinking of myself as a Christian, when I was actually doing just the opposite of what Jesus had asked us to do.

I thought about the verse judge not lest ye be judged, and I understood it for the first time.

I realized that I have a lot of catching up to do. So many opportunities were wasted. I now try to apply the love that I have for the world in a universal way like Jesus asks us to do.

If I start to feel afraid and think that I see someone that I should not love because of something I have thought or heard I try to catch my mistake as soon as possible. I tell myself that I have forgot the truth and have fallen for the same old trick that had cost me so many opportunities to be loving in the past. The horror of this realization is often all that is necessary to bring me back to my senses and make me drop the judgmental nonsense I was thinking.

I still have a lot to learn about love, but at least I’m making progress.

Love and blessings

Your brother
don

Answer 2

Its my belief that there different kinds of "Love" as well... And, when it talks about "loving everyone" *sometimes I wanna gag when they say that* I see that more as showing respect, not Love like you love your Grandfather or your first girlfriend. But you make a really good point... they would have you ignore your own family and friends to place your faith in their Religion. I honestly don't think they care if you place your faith in God.... They argue too much that you have to be a certain Religion FIRST. So faith goes first to their Religion and then their God. I think I'll pass on all that and do what I can for my own.

Answer 3

You're right in some aspects- yes, love is the strongest force at work in our lives. Humans have loved for as long as we've existed. It motivates us, it draws us together and it gives us strength in times when we have none. This is why Jesus's primary message was for us to love each other. With love comes respect, tolerance, cooperation and understanding, regardless of who you are, of what your religion or nationality is. Simply, love one another. Treat people as you wish to be treated- respect. These messages got buried under piles and piles of dogma and ritual, but they are messages for all time- messages that will never go out-of-date.

Early humans began as hunter-gatherers. They needed each other to survive- there was no other way. It was Neanderthal that first began burying their dead. They had very elaborate burials, including flowers and objects the person may have used in life. The burials were carefully done, as though the dead person was being laid to rest by their loved ones and friends. This is indeed evidence of love, compassion and respect. Abstract thought, or evidence thereof, did not come until modern homo sapiens. They were the first to draw representations of animals, people, and the world around them. However, it is unknown what Neanderthal thought about the spirit world.

Regardless, we ought to listen more to the message than to the mumbo-jumbo of the "churches". We'd maybe live a happier life.

Answer 4

Early humans didnt have the ability to imagine.... hmmmmmm whats with all the stories painted on cave walls? They didnt have rituals or religious services when someone died... have you seen the pyramids? How far back are you taking "early man" anyway? Back to when you presume they were still apes? If that's the case then yes, I will agree but since the dawn of man, whether you believe God created man or one day they were no longer apes, they were worshiping and imagining.

Answer 5

The wattsupwiththat article asks which theory is in trouble because of flat temperatures? The answer is the one that says that climate is influenced by only one factor. Realists do not make any such claim about carbon dioxide, though denialists claim that about the Sun. OM That sounds like the emails the East Angia hackers released.

Answer 6

when i watched the old tv shows like the monkeys, every time Davey would fall in love he would see a Light in the eyes of a girl. I literally saw one girl with a twinkle of light in her eyes, So i am astonished that you would say you litereally saw fireworks. I think Greg on the Brady bunch or one of them likewise was shown to see fireworks.
as for early humans not having imagination. I think they HAD MORE imagination than we people who live in front of their tv's.
you might want to study that question of psychology, i dont think it is fully accurate. if you read Matthew Alperts book on the god part of the brain, he would say He disagrees with that statement too. because if was the very imagination and fear of death "that invented" God.
of course your indictment of Tithing is founded only in the unrighteous dominion of church offerings and stewardships.
God initiated tithing as a secondary means of growing the kingdom of God. with power and wealth and influence the people of God can be protected from mammon and babylon. But most people serve mammon and hence their money comes from mammon and goes to churches of babylon, not entirely to God.
There are a few churches try to keep their budget and stewardship to care of the fatherless and the widow. That is religion which is pure and undefiled.
undefiled religion has existed and a few societies flourished but i only know ONE society that was fully translated out of this earth and mortality through Following Enoch.

Answer 7

A) You limit expressions of love. You limit yourself by doing so.

B) Only the earliest hominids did as you describe. We know because we have the burials of Sterkfontein Man, Neanderthal and of course Cro-Magnon, all of whom were fully human, homo sapien sapiens, just like us. Who's to say that they were not the ones who got the divine "ZAP" and THAT'S why they believed in a life after this one? Can you say with certitude this is NOT so? Nope, you can't.

C) Believing in God does not make one a "zealot". Being antagonistic toward all who do not share your set of beliefs, including atheistic beliefs, does!

Answer 8

Love is really a mixture of emotions. We have those emotions for things ranging from ice cream to lovers. It's really just a threshold past which we call it love.

Faith, btw, is highly over-rated. It brings as more angst than hope, from what I've seen.

Answer 9

Kimmy Cooper did kiss well.

Answer 10

if you are love then you love everyone,maybe not the same but,the love for one another as human beings is the greatest love of all,there are differentkinds of love but they all come from the heart