I believe, and experience, that there is a 'higher intelligence' dimension to all this - whatever 'god' in whom/what we might trust or have our faith and optimism. Personally I believe that each of us is our own god; moreover each of us is 'one' with every other human soul. It's more a matter of aboriginal ancient wisdoms, rather than ho…
I believe, and experience, that there is a 'higher intelligence' dimension to all this - whatever 'god' in whom/what we might trust or have our faith and optimism. Personally I believe that each of us is our own god; moreover each of us is 'one' with every other human soul. It's more a matter of aboriginal ancient wisdoms, rather than how we've been conditioned to use logic and left-side brain analysis. It's a heart thing, perhaps. The world doesn't change, instead we do, and as our views of ourselves change, so all else does too. Does anything exist if humans are not around to imagine it?
I think you undervalue logic such as would be used to figure out how to determine if God exists and then what to do after that. You definitely don't want to fall under a bad belief system. I think a good place to start is working to follow the Golden Rule, making yourself strong for all weather, and not judging others. The basis for the latter is only God has the capacity to judge; there are too many factors to evaluate for the human mind, and we're too subject to hypocrisy and possibly overestimating how we would be under a completely different life story.
I believe, and experience, that there is a 'higher intelligence' dimension to all this - whatever 'god' in whom/what we might trust or have our faith and optimism. Personally I believe that each of us is our own god; moreover each of us is 'one' with every other human soul. It's more a matter of aboriginal ancient wisdoms, rather than how we've been conditioned to use logic and left-side brain analysis. It's a heart thing, perhaps. The world doesn't change, instead we do, and as our views of ourselves change, so all else does too. Does anything exist if humans are not around to imagine it?
I think you undervalue logic such as would be used to figure out how to determine if God exists and then what to do after that. You definitely don't want to fall under a bad belief system. I think a good place to start is working to follow the Golden Rule, making yourself strong for all weather, and not judging others. The basis for the latter is only God has the capacity to judge; there are too many factors to evaluate for the human mind, and we're too subject to hypocrisy and possibly overestimating how we would be under a completely different life story.
Doug thanks, you make excellent points and I appreciate your time and care.