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2003-09-18 - 1:07 a.m.


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  • I Believe there is a God
  • God is Omnipotent, Omniscient
  • God is implied by the beauty of the universe
  • Faith is believing there is a God
  • One should strive for enlightenment to know God
  • One should contemplate his/her relationship with their Creator
  • God is loving and understanding, to say anything else would be to say that God is imperfect.  God is not angry or vengeful, having nothing about which to be angry or vengeful, because God is a being without wants or needs, being omnipotent and perfect.
  • God's nature is complex, and contemplating God's nature is a path to spirituality
  • All spirituality is fine.  Everyone has different needs.
  • Everyone throughout history who has ever prayed, prayed to God.  God is above and beyond cultural differences, names, etc. 
  • There is no Hell.
  • There is no Satan.  Man does not need an excuse to create and work evil.  Some people simply are through fault of birth and experience, evil.
  • When one dies, what is left is the mind, the flesh is transient. 
  • When one dies, one must still strive for enlightenment.  Some souls, perhaps those some would call evil, may have trouble with this, and languish before eventually fading and returning to the Creator.
  • Some find enlightenment readily, and return to the Creator, which is to know bliss, fulfillment and existence without want, need, or any sort of scarcity.  It is possible deindividualization and dissolution of the ego occurs in tandem with singularity, in accordance with the complexity and duality of God.  Enlightenment may be the path to dissolution of the ego.  Some may take a long time to do this, and have trouble dealing with the dissolution of the flesh, let alone dissolution of the ego.
  • God's nature may also be conceptualized as a sentient, living force, who, being Omnipotent, may also be described as an expression, or his omnipotence is Expressed.  For such a being to exist freewill must occur, which is a contradiction in line with the duality of God.  In God's existence, to be Omnipotent may also mean allowing parts of the expression of God to have/be freewill.
  • There is no difference between a thought in God's mind and our reality.  God could think "let there be light"  and there will be light.  Ergo we may be thoughts in God's head, meaning we are all a part of God, in a very, very small manner, which ultimately wish to return to our Creator.
  • Having freewill, this part of the Expression cannot be affected by Direct Presence of God, as any tangible proof of God negates freewill outright.   God moves in subtle ways.
  • I am not sure that Jesus was divine.  Logically, from all I deduced, it is not so, as tangible evidence of the Avatar of God would negate all free will, and be in contradiction of what Western Religious thought calls the reason why we are here, which is free will.
  • I believe God loves us all even beyond the most complete love we will ever know, and talks to us all the time, but we, in our imperfect state, have extreme difficulty hearing God.
  • I believe Christianity and Islam are religions of world domination as they are currently being taught to the masses.  It is evident in their dogma of intolerance for other belief systems, and insistence on marriage and large families.
  • I believe the Bible was a good idea that got corrupted by power mad people bent on controlling the masses.  Having direct proof of the word of God would negate freewill.
  • I see little difference in the Creationism as read in Genesis, the creation of the world according to Greek mythos, Norse mythos, the Native American mythos, and the Anasazi.  All deal with man springing from the ground, which typically coincides with the last generation that the oral history of that culture recorded as the place of holiness, generation, or Eden.  This changed from generation to generation as the keepers of the oral history got wiped out by differing methods, and was settled upon and put in place as we now know it with the advent of writing and recorded history.
  • I believe most modern religions, if not all, have been warped to function as opiates for the masses, rather than explorations of human Spirituality and contemplations of his relationship with his Creator.  Some of the machinations are evident in dogma, as in Judaism and the guidelines to being kosher kept the Israelite tribes from falling prey to trichinosis.  Or the hatred of the infidel in Islam.  Or the evangelic drive of Christianity.  None of these has anything to do with spirituality, enlightenment, contemplation of the nature of God, or improving one's relationship with one's spirituality or God.
  • I believe some people need Christianity and Islam just like some people need to be told what to think and do.
  • I believe God gave us minds to think and reason.  If one does not doubt, then one is not thinking and simply blindly accepting.  Which is not spirituality.  Spirituality is a path, a search, not a destination.  Not a set of rules.  Not dogmatic belief.
  • I believe we should all love each other, and love as much as we can.
  • I believe love is all we have.
  • I believe we should strive to be good, to love and nurture each other for our sakes, for our Society to function, for ourselves, rather than for God.  God loves us all.  God does not punish.  God is the God of all, not just a few.   All life, everywhere.  To think that one could anger God in any manner is ludicrous, and suggests God is imperfect.
  • Regardless of the Divinity of Christ, I believe his teachings were corrupted and manipulated to serve the needs of other men.
  • God is all.  To be separated from God is to know scarcity, want and suffering. Nothing has existed without God creating it.
  • I  believe that one should never force one's belief system upon anyone else.
  • I think there may be one continuous universal soul, and we may be subjective expressions of that.  And that perhaps this has something to do with love. Perhaps that is God.  I don't know.  I need to contemplate some more.

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