|
The Belief Spectrum (pg. 10)
|
View this Thread in Original format
| Acton |
| quote: | Originally posted by enydo
 |
I love how it is so exact. |
|
|
| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Speak for yourself, heathen! |
you hear that moral? he's calling you a boring cunt. |
|
|
| Darkarbiter |
5
For the most part I fully agree with what nefardec is saying, and I also believe that hinduism is somewhat close to the truth. However, it like most other things is a religion with its flaws (I mean does not eating cows really make you more holy?).
However there's a certain spiritual thing that has been interesting me a lot lately. Which is the concept of right hand path religions and LeVayan satanism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_hand_path
In particular:
# The conviction that individuals can become (or already are) akin to gods.
# The conviction that there is no such thing as a selfless act. Fulfilling one's desire is acknowledged to be selfish, at the least reaping an individual sense of satisfaction. Altruism is considered self-deception, created and fostered by conventional religions.
# A less rigid definition of the self; a purported realization that there are sometimes collective identities which can also, just as validly, have the label "self" applied to them.
# An exoteric interpretation of concepts like karma, divine retribution, or the Threefold Law, resulting in flexible rather than rigid codes of ethics.
# The conviction that the individual is preeminent, and that all decisions should be made with the goal of cultivating the self (though not necessarily the ego).
# The conviction that each individual is responsible for his or her own happiness, and that no external force will provide salvation or reward actions which do not advance one's own happiness in this life.
Which seems exactly right to me. It's far too early to attempt to say anything intelligent, but theres a semi interesting read.
and heres a highly amusing website: http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/index.htm |
|
|
| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by Darkarbiter
In particular:
# The conviction that individuals can become (or already are) akin to gods.
# The conviction that there is no such thing as a selfless act. Fulfilling one's desire is acknowledged to be selfish, at the least reaping an individual sense of satisfaction. Altruism is considered self-deception, created and fostered by conventional religions.
# A less rigid definition of the self; a purported realization that there are sometimes collective identities which can also, just as validly, have the label "self" applied to them.
# An exoteric interpretation of concepts like karma, divine retribution, or the Threefold Law, resulting in flexible rather than rigid codes of ethics.
# The conviction that the individual is preeminent, and that all decisions should be made with the goal of cultivating the self (though not necessarily the ego).
# The conviction that each individual is responsible for his or her own happiness, and that no external force will provide salvation or reward actions which do not advance one's own happiness in this life.
Which seems exactly right to me. It's far too early to attempt to say anything intelligent, but theres a semi interesting read.
|
i don't believe there are such things as individuals ultimately. an individual is a phenomenon resulting from god observing god. or if you don't like the word god, consciousness being conscious of itself.
i think of individuals as being mountains in a universal landscape, like promontories, points of observation from an endless and ultimately undifferentiated field.
i think the ultimate realization and goal of 'cultivating the self' is to realize that the self is part of the whole and is merely a relativistic phenomenon of perspective/outlook.
i also believe there is no external force. as i said earlier, i think few true mystics believe in an external force. many religious people might see god as some external being, but their priests/etc most likely realize that god is not something else, but rather everything. I think most religions in their creation myths recognize that there is nothing but god's will or consciousness, and that is why it is often personified by a voice or music or command eg "Fiat Lux".
God is neither outside of us, nor inside of us individually, because ultimately there is no individual, just various aspects of god. therefore it is not that you are individually becoming a god, but rather you are becoming aware or remembering that you always have been.
One way to think of it is god as being a hand with infinite fingers, upon which he draws little faces and amuses himself with an endless play of finger puppetry. :p
on the topic of 'individualism' - i think there is either belief in 'dualism' (us and them) or 'monism' (i am that). individualism manifests itself in the 'self' as a single person, but also as a nation, or a sports team, or a city, or a business, or a race, or a sex, etc. ultimately any differentiation of us versus them is a sort of individualism, except the 'body' of the individual changes.
Monism, on the other hand tries to unify various seemingly disparate entities by considering them aspects of one wholeness.
with regard to this right hand path - i think any notion of either selfishness and selflessness is ultimately deceptive. Actions are both fully selfish and fully selfless, if you consider that there is only one consciousness or god.
so see if you still agree with me now :p |
|
|
| pkcRAISTLIN |
| jesus christ. |
|
|
| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
jesus christ. |
if it doesnt interest you, i recommend you just stay out of the thread, as it really wastes everyone's time. |
|
|
| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
if it doesnt interest you, i recommend you just stay out of the thread, as it really wastes everyone's time. |
something is definitely wasting everyone's time and it sure as aint me. |
|
|
| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
something is definitely wasting everyone's time and it sure as aint me. |
i wouldnt be so sure as |
|
|
| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by nefardec
i wouldnt be so sure as |
which is exactly my point. you present all these nonsense ideas without the slightest bit of substantiation. asides from giving us an insight into your own personal fantasy and illustrating what kind of garbage people will swallow, you haven't really provided anything of interest, anymore than if I posted a long-winded diatribe on my belief concerning the teapot orbiting jupiter. |
|
|
| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
which is exactly my point. you present all these nonsense ideas without the slightest bit of substantiation. asides from giving us an insight into your own personal fantasy and illustrating what kind of garbage people will swallow, you haven't really provided anything of interest, anymore than if I posted a long-winded diatribe on my belief concerning the teapot orbiting jupiter. |
i don't pretend that it is anything else than my personal beliefs. just because you don't find it interesting doesn't mean others don't.
do you really think your offensive contributions are more valuable or interesting? send me a pm if you don't agree with me personally.
anyways, the actual topic of this thread is our personal beliefs.
i don't recall providing substantiation a requisite for responding.
grow up. surely you must have something better to do than to troll repeatedly in this thread and numerous others. |
|
|
| pkcRAISTLIN |
| rolling my eyes at fanciful notions != trolling. |
|
|
| nefardec |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
rolling my eyes at fanciful notions != trolling. |
for every one of my seemingly fantastical posts I there are 5 useful, helpful, and even kind posts elsewhere in the forum.
I don't think you could say the same about yourself.
So kindly off.
do you really think it's not a waste of time to repeatedly mention that i have unorthodox ideas? is that your idea of a good time? |
|
|
|
|
