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To: Dead Corpse
You can't escape THAT easily.

What matters is that we are here and what we do with it.

I think "why" is an important question.

For example, if we are here to worship God, and part of worshiping Him is emulating His nature as best we can understand it, we will make far different choices for today than if we are here simply to consume until we ourselves are consumed.

Similarly, the definition of a "good" society might be radically different. If we are here simply to consume until we ourselves are consumed, then a society that protects the weak is immoral as it eventually weakens the strong.

It's a good question to ask and answer, at least as a guide to your own actions.

5,374 posted on 03/12/2013 12:07:17 PM PDT by ArGee (An open mind is like an open window - if you don't have a screen, you get flies.)
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To: ArGee
Ok... which God? How do you know you have the right God? Did he have ID? So you are taking someone Else’s word for it and going off of pure “faith” with something that can create entire Universes...

If you are wrong, He/She/It is going to be rather pissed off at you.

I don't think the Gods care any more about what labels we put to them than we care about what labels ants give us. Quantifying something as staggeringly, mind-numbingly huge as a Deity with merely human labels it preposterous.

Fighting multi-Epoc spanning theological wars over differentiation in Faith also seems to defeat the purpose of using “faith” as a yard stick for your existence as well.

Each of us exists here to experience life. When we die, we take that information into the afterlife with us. A piece of us will always remember being us and will always BE us.

Higher beings, mathematically speaking on an Infinite timescale, exist that are further along in “life” and no longer need to come back here to “live”. These are “Gods”. They can go anywhere, do anything, be anything, create, love, destroy...

But what does that matter to us? When was the last time you visited the ant hill in the park across from that big oak tree and try to hand down commandments to the inhabitants?

5,375 posted on 03/12/2013 12:20:21 PM PDT by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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