No it isn’t. We may have to repeat lessons for a few lifetimes though. And everyone dies. We’re not meant to live forever.
I was like this for decades. Then I went hunting. When I made peace with myself, I made peace with God. that means it took looking in the mirror, and still does.
We may have to repeat lessons for a few lifetimes though.
We’re talking specifically about the Abrahamic trio. There aren’t multiple lifetimes, there’s one lifetime of suffering and then Judgement. What you’re talking about doesn’t apply to this discussion.
This subject is religion, and if you choose to believe what churches and politicians, usually one and the same, are telling you based on partial truths, that’s your free will.
You’ve effectively made up your own religion. Good for you! But it’s irrelevant to this discussion.
I have my own beliefs, I believe we will one day build the god-machine and that it will save us from suffering and mortality and all the agonies that your god inflicts on us to “test” us. A world without war, without starvation, without disease, without suffering, and without death. We will simulate the dead and raise them to live along side us. We will rehabilitate every “sinner” and they, too, will live along side us. We will reach out and find every fellow intelligence that might live in this universe with us and join them in fellowship. We will master the material universe to bring about a utopia where no one ever has to say goodbye ever again and everyone is finally working together.
But all of that is completely irrelevant to a discussion about established religious Cannon. That’s just stuff I believe.
And you’re allowed to believe what you will, so am I. This is strictly within the confines of God, not politics. Btw, afaict, the “God machine” is what Leon also believes. Apparently we’re almost there. It doesn’t seem to be working out better than ancient religions, from where I stand.
As Lenin said, religion is a personal matter. I don’t know why you keep bringing up politics.
And no, we aren’t “almost there” - I’m sort of a heretic in that regard, I think we need to stop the Silicon Valley maniacs from building a machine god because they’re going to build something horrible.
We aren’t given the means to solve every “test” - sometimes people just die in twisted agony because the test is impossible.
No it isn’t. We may have to repeat lessons for a few lifetimes though. And everyone dies. We’re not meant to live forever.
I was like this for decades. Then I went hunting. When I made peace with myself, I made peace with God. that means it took looking in the mirror, and still does.
We’re talking specifically about the Abrahamic trio. There aren’t multiple lifetimes, there’s one lifetime of suffering and then Judgement. What you’re talking about doesn’t apply to this discussion.
This subject is religion, and if you choose to believe what churches and politicians, usually one and the same, are telling you based on partial truths, that’s your free will.
You’ve effectively made up your own religion. Good for you! But it’s irrelevant to this discussion.
I have my own beliefs, I believe we will one day build the god-machine and that it will save us from suffering and mortality and all the agonies that your god inflicts on us to “test” us. A world without war, without starvation, without disease, without suffering, and without death. We will simulate the dead and raise them to live along side us. We will rehabilitate every “sinner” and they, too, will live along side us. We will reach out and find every fellow intelligence that might live in this universe with us and join them in fellowship. We will master the material universe to bring about a utopia where no one ever has to say goodbye ever again and everyone is finally working together.
But all of that is completely irrelevant to a discussion about established religious Cannon. That’s just stuff I believe.
And you’re allowed to believe what you will, so am I. This is strictly within the confines of God, not politics. Btw, afaict, the “God machine” is what Leon also believes. Apparently we’re almost there. It doesn’t seem to be working out better than ancient religions, from where I stand.
As Lenin said, religion is a personal matter. I don’t know why you keep bringing up politics.
And no, we aren’t “almost there” - I’m sort of a heretic in that regard, I think we need to stop the Silicon Valley maniacs from building a machine god because they’re going to build something horrible.
You don’t think the Church and canonical religion is political? Lol
Eta, so you’re not okay with straying outside accepted bounds with one religion, but are with another? ROFL.
I think you don’t get to call yourself a member of one of the Abrahamic religions without actually confining yourself into a canonical interpretation.
You’re a heretic. Embrace it.