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Comment on: Re: 3 beliefs about life

Bigthink — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 23:20:40 +0100

Healingzero,

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Rodge

Comment on: Re: 3 beliefs about life

Bigthink — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:25:13 +0100

Thank you Rodge for your contribution to the idea. I really liked your conclusion "We'd be better off focusing on personal non-physical spirituality, which is not speculative but demonstrated every time we exercise free will". I'm leaning your way on that idea.

Comment on: Re: 3 beliefs about life

Bigthink — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 05:07:17 +0100

Rodge, you are invited to participate in the idea "What is your definition of God? 100 words or less". Your input will be appreciated. Thank you.

Comment on: Re: 3 beliefs about life

Bigthink — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 19:24:41 +0100

Do Humanists as a group accept a non-physical reality, which I'm calling spirituality? If not, then there is an important difference between what I'm suggesting and Humanism. Clearly it's different from material humanism, but I'm not sure if all Humanists are materialists.

Comment on: Re: 3 beliefs about life

Bigthink — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 16:40:48 +0100

For me it is important to have a balance. I recognize that I'm not alone here and there is often greater wisdom when minds combine. It doesn't mean one just openly accepts that wisdom. Discernment is necessary and I've found there is a an inner place of quiet peacefulness that I can go to that helps me stay on focus. I find it interesting that many people in history who seem to have found that centre live loving lives and share very similar guidelines. Those who have some form of fear though often try to control things because they haven't quite learned to access this place and think their little bit of understanding of it from the outside looking in is the best or only way and ends up distorting what is being given.

Comment on: Re: 3 beliefs about life

Bigthink — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:39:49 +0100

I agree with The Absurdist.

Comment on: Re: 3 beliefs about life

Bigthink — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 21:57:32 +0100

Your idea is known as Humanism, and I would hesitate to call it a religion, since most humanists, by nature, tend to be skeptics, and because it does not constrain people to a rigid belief set.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanism