The Pope said:
or positive projection..string theory, the belief that anything is possible..what's delusional about that?..you choose billionaire as your projection. Good luck. I don't sell my beliefs or look for groups to support them. I think Nihilism is more self delusional than Taoism. Having money is a tangible..countable thing..believing that we are not confined to the physical form we inhabit forever is interesting if you compare it to emptiness, nothingness. It's a choice but if it seems bizarre to you, that's understandable.
But there is white heaven. All the statues in Catholic churches are Norwegian blue eyed holy men.
no it's not...if you consider something possible, it doesn't mean you're fooling yourself..as to reincarnation I have experienced things that sparked my curiousity but choice and interest is a personal thing. You seem to need to question the puzzle that I find interesting....I question immaculate conception and eternal damnation so I know what that's like but I firmly believe you decide what to put your faith behind and when something demonstrable changes that perspective, I'll adapt. I have no dogma when it comes to how I view our lives resolve. I think my take on life is as genuine as the argument against it and it IS a choice
I haven't looked at it like that before. I can totally understand how you could think that the choice of an agnostic not to place faith in one side (atheism) or the other (theism) is an avoidance of the 'question'. I ask that you try to look at it in a different way. If humanity had to take a test and was asked "Is there a god/s" in a sense - Theism would be Yes, Atheism would be no, and Agnostic would be Other (Please explain). It's not that we are avoiding the question, we are in fact answering the question with the answer being that not enough evidence is given for us to commit to the yes, or the no. I can't speak for everyone, but that doesn't mean an agnostic walks through life with their eyes shut. I am constantly weighing 'evidence' for the existence of a god. I'm honestly just not sure its possible for us to gain that knowledge in this existence. Science has made amazing advancements in the way we understand how things work and why they are here, but deep down my gut tells me that you could spend billions of years trying to disprove a god with science to no avail.
well said
You assume it's not actual so that it props up your stance on the subject..in essence you may be fooling yourself by not exploring the possibiltiy...sort of like being taught the world is flat until someone says..hey...maybe it's not but nobody has circumnavigated the globe to prove it. In the case of reincarnation there are thousands of cases you can study that prop up the possiblity but you can choose to not show interest and write them off as foolish pursuits.