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Originally posted by DarkCyrus
Continued from original post
Science is a too 'closed behind the doors' operation. I needs to be more open to the public and information should be available to everyone.
The military has put a tight grip on the 'wow' theories and ideas and they don't share it. The military owns science.
[edit on 25-10-2008 by DarkCyrus]
Originally posted by Solo954
Instead of raging war we should use that funding to advance our knowledge taught in school. Include courses in school for kids to learn how to expand the consciousness and creativity. Keep exploring our universe. Teach peace and bring peace to all nations.
Eliminate all negative thoughts. We would all learn how to work in one harmony and our planet would only conduct one song for the whole universe to listen.
Originally posted by FrostForests
Ah, but hate and war are part of humanity as well. There will never be true peace, we are not a peaceful race. We all have our inner hate and fear. We all have a breaking point of violence.
Originally posted by Solo954
Originally posted by FrostForests
Ah, but hate and war are part of humanity as well. There will never be true peace, we are not a peaceful race. We all have our inner hate and fear. We all have a breaking point of violence.
Hate?? Is determined by patience. Patience is determined by experiences. Can you hate something that others dont? Can you say you hate somethings as much as or more then someone else? Hate is fear. Fear is to become hostile on a confusing subject or event. So what if we learn how to remove hostility but use our creativity and place understanding or empathy instead of fear?
So if the whole world lived like this, there wouldnt be no such thing as evil. Have you ever read about the fallen angel? What if the fallen angel in reality was just a bad thought, and it created an infinite amount of bad thoughts that only exist in a human mind. That would mean the hate/devil is only in your mind. But I can share my thought of love or being righteous, and slowly change the world.
Think of a thought like lighting a match and getting burned the first time. Would you try to understand why were you burned and NOT do it again? or Would you try to understand and DO it again?
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[edit on 26-10-2008 by Solo954]
Originally posted by FrostForests
You miss my point-You are attempting to turn valid, natural emotions into some sort of mathematic equation. Emotions such as hate and fear cannot be untaught, they are inherent to humanity, and shall forever be. The best you can do is attempt to suppress such feelings. Yet these feelings may be suppressed, we will never unlearn them. They will still be contained in ourselves, always in our thoughts, no matter how far back you push them.
Originally posted by HankMcCoy
Hate and War are not merely Human qualities. These are also traits shared by other apes, most notably chimps. You are talking about undoing our genetic code. These aren't learned responses, these are traits assigned to us by natural selection.
Forget "The meek shall inherit the earth", and embrace "Survival of the Fittest". Study Anthropology and you will discover I am correct.
[edit on 26-10-2008 by HankMcCoy]
Originally posted by DarkCyrus
Let me guess, you still think we evolved naturally on our own?
You are right, they are basic instinctual animal qualities. I was just thinking today how human's are still ontop of the food chain as the biggest most feared animal. Maybe oneday we can move to the point where were off the charts and actually be in control of our own denstiny and become caretakers of ourselves and all of earth. I guess being worked like a dog with low status and living an empty life working for scraps to get to the top doing something you do not enjoy is good enough for some people but, not me. Thats a society based on fear, ego and control. These are people who are so affraid of losing their empire of control they would upload their brain memories to a computer and inject it into a clone if they could. Thats the type of life they live and I think that the colony (us) is way better than that.
Originally posted by DarkCyrus
Do you beleive in god Hank? And I'm not talking about religion in specific or at all. I'm simply asking if you beleive in a "higher being who is the source of all existance".
I'm receiving new kinds of information all the time. I'm either thinking of this stuff myself or not.. but somehow it comes to me. Mostly in pictures and dreams. Sometimes in what I beleive to be as telepathy. Its like having fuzzy backround noises in the back of your mind aside from your own thoughts. I mean, I first questioned it alot. Now I just learned by listening alot and now its easier for me to tell the different between the sound of my own thoughts/words and other ones. Its kinda like waking up in the matrix and sometimes it starts getting loud before I fall alseep or between sleep, like tons of radios were turned on at the same time.
Originally posted by HankMcCoy
Originally posted by DarkCyrus
Do you beleive in god Hank? And I'm not talking about religion in specific or at all. I'm simply asking if you beleive in a "higher being who is the source of all existance".
I am agnostic, however in my experience I have not come up with any credible evidence that points me in the direction of a higher being.
Originally posted by Solo954
Originally posted by HankMcCoy
Originally posted by DarkCyrus
Do you beleive in god Hank? And I'm not talking about religion in specific or at all. I'm simply asking if you beleive in a "higher being who is the source of all existance".
I am agnostic, however in my experience I have not come up with any credible evidence that points me in the direction of a higher being.
The best way I found to understand, believe it or not is to study the teachings of Christ. You have to understand when reading the scriptures you shouldn't read with a prejudice mind that religion has created for it to be. Read and try to interpret his teachings with an open mind. Listen to that one voice that makes sense and follow the path.
"If you seek you shall find"
Knowledge is food for the soul. As your body needs food.
Originally posted by HankMcCoy
Sorry, an uneducated guy that can be likened to any of the homeless guys on any city street in the world is not the first place I would look to answers about a God that has abandoned them.