Thread: God's Name

Originally Posted by Crocodile

If you start speaking Quantum Physics to me I'm washing my hands.

But when those scientists start talking about a cat being dead and alive at the same time, you take their word for it and at least pretend you believe, don't you? The more I learned about astrophysics the stronger my belief in God became.

Originally Posted by Ramil

But when those scientists start talking about a cat being dead and alive at the same time, you take their word for it and at least pretend you believe, don't you? The more I learned about astrophysics the stronger my belief in God became.

Yeah... the famous "there are believers among the physicists too"... I've been through that. Here's what I have to say. There are people who sense something more than the other people do. Those people have existed at any time in history, in almost any cultural/religious context and they have explained their actions rather differently. Biblical and shamanic, monotheistic and pagan religions had implied different rituals, but the result was pretty much the same (or at least comparable). So, that means those chosen people don't know at all how they do it. In my opinion, a religion is an unfair attempt to capitalize on those special abilities. Dixi.

Originally Posted by Crocodile

Yeah... the famous "there are believers among the physicists too"... I've been through that. Here's what I have to say. There are people who sense something more than the other people do. Those people have existed at any time in history, in almost any cultural/religious context and they have explained their actions rather differently. Biblical and shamanic, monotheistic and pagan religions had implied different rituals, but the result was pretty much the same (or at least comparable). So, that means those chosen people don't know at all how they do it. In my opinion, a religion is an unfair attempt to capitalize on those special abilities. Dixi.

What's very interesting in my opinion is that if you look at the mystics within any religious tradition, such as Meister Eckhardt in Christianity, the Muslim sufis, but also mystics of any other religion, monotheistic or no, the results and philosophies they reach are all pretty much the same, and there is no enmity between those philosophies anymore. While such content is normally called the esoteric (inner) teaching, religions as presented to the people are called exoteric; they are mostly window dressing for the masses who would not understand the underlying common principles and cannot be taught their content, so they are presented with something to fear so they behave.