taken a good look around youself? Really, take a good look around. Everything around you has nothing to do with 'spiritually' or 'religion'; such things are concepts, ideas. What you are seeing is both reality and illusion; and there is no way to discern any difference, or establish any sort of proof without baseing what you know (or what someone else knows, or thinks), upon something else. You may rely on faith, or proof (or lack thereof), or even on uncertainity to give you a comfortable description of reality; but all those things fall short of what is really going on here. This may sound like an agnostic speaking, but i am not; i'm not really anything. i am as real, and as unreal as all of you. how can anyone possibly call life, such as we know it, life without having anything to compare it to; this may be all there is; and if it isn't; how can any of us possibly think that one way is right while another is wrong? In this one, great one thing, there is no way; there is only life.
2007-02-02 17:36:33 · 16 answers · asked by -skrowzdm- 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You challenge us to define reality vs. illusion, and to prove or disprove the concept of life without a comparative norm.
We are not the ones with anything to prove here. It would appear to me that YOU are the one who needs to have something to prove. If the whole of society is comfortable believing in something, then there is no need (in their minds) to exact change. Apparently there is no need among the spiritual to prove to non-believers that what they believe is scientifically sound.
I beg to differ that when we look around us what we see has nothing to do with "spirituality" or "religion." The creation of life has everything to do with spirituality. When I look into a baby's face and it smiles, I see Divinity. I see Spirit when I look at the wonderment of a Spiderweb that only Mother Nature could have helped to create.
Who knows which is the true religion? Why does it matter? As long as we spend our time helping others, doing No Harm, and working to Teach Peace, then it doesn't matter who it right. We are striving toward a loving existence, and that is what matters.
2007-02-02 18:01:23 · answer #1 · answered by luvmelodio 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have taken a good look around at the world. For more than 30 years. What I see terrifies me. I'm new to the religion thing. I have no label. I do believe God created us and this beautiful planet. That doesn't make me stupid or blind, as some in answers have said. Life here is harsh. Look around. Maybe there is no God. Hoping for better days doesn't make someone irrational. Thinking there will one day be a beautiful world for everyone, us, our children, is not pointless. Thinking about my children living where I can let them out of my sight and not have to think they'll be taken by someone and tortured, raped, mutilated. Look around all of you. If hoping for a heaven is stupid, and mocking those of us that hope for one is not, I'd rather be stupid. I will do everything I can to try and make a better world, without help, it's pretty much pointless.
2007-02-02 18:45:32 · answer #2 · answered by Rosalind S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
As an organism, I can tell you that yes, that is all there is: to be alive, and when you have lost your way in the maze of human convolutions, try to revisit that simple truth. But to live a Blessed life is also a condition for which we yearn. We seek more than just existence. We seek meaning. As a spiritual being, I can tell you that this also is the truth. If you are strong, shelter the weak. Be honourable in all that you think and say and do. Also, take care of yourself.
2007-02-02 17:57:46 · answer #3 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dude, have you been reading _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance_? I ask because I'm about halfway through, and the author gets right into what you are talking about. Basically, how do we know that we know anything?
Wasn't it Dave Barry who said, "Philosophy is where you decide everything is an illusion and nothing is real, and then you go to lunch."?
2007-02-02 17:51:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you were to add a compassionate perspective to your ideas as well as a dash of forgiveness, you'd be kinda on track to what the Buddha discovered all those years ago.
what you're talking about is the essence and that's probably (in my opinion) the spirit. It infuses everything and is unfathomable to our limited way of thinking...but we can sense that there's something there....
the other thing that I get from your statement is that you are close to the concept of "Emptiness" - in that there is nothing that exists in and of itself....all things are, inherently....nothing, therefore "empty". go meditate with this concept and you'll be an enlightened being!!!!
Love and Light,
Jarrah
2007-02-02 17:46:22 · answer #5 · answered by jarrah_fortytwo 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
To do useful research, scientists must agree on what constitutes a fact, and how to demonstrate it. The standards for this are well established.
2007-02-02 17:41:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
Your thinking parallels that of the Philosopher Wittgenstein.
He eventually committed suicide!
""how can any of us possibly think that one way is right while another is wrong? ""
THAT is the way it is!
2007-02-02 17:46:51 · answer #7 · answered by whynotaskdon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quite a Longggggggggggggg question to answer,
Life is eternal
2007-02-02 17:40:03 · answer #8 · answered by Gifted 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Some of us have an education and life experience to determine what is true. We leave it up to you to guess.
2007-02-02 17:50:20 · answer #9 · answered by Fish <>< 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BRAVO! may I have an autographed copy of your book?If there was a prize for best question, yours would win
2007-02-02 17:43:23 · answer #10 · answered by onemark1966 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋