I am a Buddhist and if anyone wants to question my beliefs then they are welcome to do so...

Keep dreaming if you think otherwise…and sort your unawareness out.

We are not consciousness, PERIOD……..that is just a claim from an an ignorant individual who only practices a HALF inward meditative technique in UNAWARENESS.

If you go inward you will just “toggle” from left to right and right to left ,knowledge gathering (swinging on the pendulum) .You WILL NOT be “in the moment”.You ONLY realise this if you have AWARENESS.

The mind either CONTROLS you or you CONTROL it……PERIOD.

If SELF is AWARE, then SELF can choose to bring oneself back “in moment” state any time one wishes.Try it …...consciously bring yourself into the moment and stay there.

LOL….

You will be able to consciously bring yourself “into the moment” but I guarantee that you won’t be able to stay “in the moment” ,you will automatically drift back to a “not in the moment” state of consciousness..This is PROOF that you have no control over your mind……it CONTROLS YOU……….it CONTROLS SELF!!!!!!!!

Most people live their whole lives in the AUTOPILOT state of consciousness exercising no control whatsoever over consciousness.They are CONTROLLED by their minds ……..PERIOD.

The mind will slam you into MANUAL when it wants to ….when it needs you to make a decision it can’t.You won’t realise that this is what is happening all the time because you are stuck in UNAWARENESS.

The mind is perfectly capable of operating AUTOMATICALLY by itself and does do.SELF (SPECTATOR) is just a passenger unless it chooses to DRIVE (PLAYER).As I say, the mind will use you when it wants,this is all part of the automatic process.

SELF needs to take CONTROL over the mind.

This is real enlightenment……

Now how are you going to do that if you have already convinced yourself that you are an illusion.You haven’t convinced yourself of this,your mind has convinced you of it because it has total control over you.

It’s true…..you can disagree as much as you want…….if you bothered to look into it properly yourself you would find out.You only find out if you practice OUTWARD meditation as well.

I am not entirely sure you are not an old bot...when I see your posts I have the impression I am talking to a poorly scripted program. You just sound like an on/off switch.

Ha Ha….I’m not a poorly scripted program Albuquerque…..I know all about Buddhist meditative practices…..what I have posted is true.

The reason I know is because I have been there, experienced it…got the tee shirt.

All science’s must be interconnected….

When you go within and meditate………you need to know (BE AWARE) that it is a “toggling” meditative practice in which SELF is “not in the moment”.

The individual needs recognise the “in the moment” state of consciousness more…which means CONSCIOUSLY bringing yourself out of this inward state.

Why?

…..because the individual experiences “closed loop” reasoning logic in the inward state of consciousness because no DEFINITIVE proof is available.

It is for this reason that the individual CANNOT state with any confidence that good is bad and bad is good……because if there is a God then this might not be the case..The opposite might be true………after all, we all know that we don’t know if there is a God or not.

All any of us has is a HOPE in something i.e. the gravity theory/evolution/the magnetism theory..

If all sciences are interconnected then you would expect to find a similar “toggling” principles at play in the cosmos/nature.

I argue that you do with the 4 off magnetic interactions and therefore the magnetism theory is a legitimate theory that can explain the workings of the cosmos and how we relate to it…..unlike the gravity theory which is just a half philosophy theory that only considers half possibilities and therefore cannot explain the workings of the cosmos and how we relate to it.

You might be blind, deaf, and so dull of mind, so as to not know if there is a God or not, but who are you?

Are you describing yourself there “The Anointed”? …..sorry,I couldn’t resist?

Well you could say that you are or you could say that you are not…..…….neither takes precedence over the other.

Do you speak for the world population on every subject? It appears that you were only speaking in reference to yourself, revealing that you don't know what you know and what you don't know



If you believe that everyone knows that they DON'T KNOW if God exists or not, then you don't know too much at all do you?

Of course you know that you don’t know if there is a God or not ………and this applies to everyone.

…why?… do you know one way or the other?…...if so, provide the DEFINITIVE proof, so that we all have it.

I don't think the concept of an absolute all powerful God like it is described in the old testament makes any rational sense and it is not possible at all.

That said, it is irrelevant for what I am going to say next:

A demigod is not only conceivable but quite probable cosidering the size of the Universe.

And what would be a demigod people might wonder?
Well Anything that was as distant to our collective intelligence like we are distant from a snail.

That kind of intelligence would blow away any of our theologians, any of our past or present religious beliefs and any scientific or philosophical thinking we would ever had past present and future as a species.

What is the take of this tangent?
Well the take is that the DISTINCTION from an actual not possible God for a quite probable demigod could not be made apart from any or all Homo Sapiens...such that for all intents and purposes if such a thing showed up we all would fall to our knees like children!

The obsession on "realness" is IRRELEVANT so long something for us is real enough.
And oh boy a demigod showing up would be the MOST real God we could never imagine!

We do indeed grasp at straws with concepts all the time...

Finally, and because it is important, I am going to pull a Pascal wager on this...I do indeed assume an invisible super intelligence is observing us...and considering that a demigod is not perfect, has goals which are personal not Universal, it is not a rock of all existence, thus not necessarily Moral, I rather not be on the wrong side of it.

Post Scriptum - I forgot to throw Darwin awards on the topic sheeesh loosing all the fun...yeah the irony is I rather not do a type one mistake and go extinct because I do not run from a potential "Lion" just because I cannot see it...so Science has NO AUTHORITY in this matter!

Lets keep having some fun shall we, I am in the mood to go ahead, you guys with me? I will assume you are for your own benefit from my magnanimous altruism...

So the question now is should we pray to a super intelligent demigod?

Well not to any demigod in local contact with us...that would be the wrong pick.

We should pray and only pray to the most powerful demigod in our informational vicinity so that we can out compete any other lesser demigods that might exist to improve our chances.

Next question, how should we pray? Should we ask for personal favours?
Nop that would be rude and a waste of time of said creature.

We should pray asking for the maintenance of our RARE ECOSYSTEM and to be improved as a species to KEEP living in it without disrupting it as we are doing now.

No need to thank me go to a corner and start praying you fools!

I don't often agree with Anointed, but he has a definite sense of faith that you are lacking.

A body should be sure of their own beliefs, or they are muddled in confusion.

And you don't need proof for your belief, only for what you claim to know. Belief is opinion, knowledge is assertion. I can believe there are faeries all I want, but it's my opinion. I only know there are faeries once I capture one in a glass, and by that point I am able to show it to you.

Yet you know that we don't know. So prove it!

Prove that there hasn't been anything in my life that might lead me to believe in God. You'll find that proof sorely lacking.

I do know that nobody has definitive proof…….we all have the same evidences which we interpret differently….that’s all.

Evidences isn’t definitive proof.

Yeah, I agree. A person should be sure of their blind guesses. I am always sure when I make a guess that it is a guess...and I don't try to pretend it is anything else by calling it a "belief."