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dfreeman wrote:Blutto wrote:Mindful wrote:To live a virtuous life is good but to selflessly devote yourself to others with no desire for payback and no thought of doing good for others solely to bring accolade or merit to your self is better.
The key to escaping the physical realm of suffering is to release the ego and care selflessly for all other living beings.
Easier said than done as we all cling to the illusion that there is a Self to satisfy. THe Self is an illusion. The ego is an illusion. When realized, all the world and what we think of as Reality becomes illusion.
Then you will move on.
The power resides in the illusion that is You.
Up to the challenge?
This sounds like New Age. It sounds that you are saying we are Gods ourselves. I remember man tried this once before with the 'Tower of Babel"
I agree to give selflessly is a great gift. More people should adhere to this philosophy.
Yet...you are using words which are becoming more and more prevalent today. You are putting the Creation above the Creator....this is dangerious talk. Our power comes from the Creator. If you didn't add a means to produce electricy in your house, will the house still generator electricity?
Nothing is done without the Creator, this is a huge point which people are missing.
Are you telling me that there is no Creator and we just happen to pop into existence through random occurances?
Are we Gods?
This is why we are heading in the direction we are heading. The desire to eliminate who God is, is another tool to isolate man from the gift of Salvation and Eternity.
It's difficult to except something we can't see or touch, so he told us from over 26 centuries ago, what we will see today. He knew that those who actually looked for the answer would find them in his Book. There is not one person who can actually predict our future exactly like he did.We are limited to what we can do. Can we transcend Time and Space? Do we know exactly what is going to happen anywhere in the World 20 minutes from now?
The truth is hard to take for the majority of the world. The world would rather view truth as something that just pertains to an individual and not something that is objective, because that then leads to something beyond us...outside and transcendent of us. It removes "us" from godhood.
Yes, we are all Gods, some of us accept the weight of the task and others push the responsibility of the mantle onto others. Those "others" were/are Gods as well, why else the accuracy of their documents? Your way of worship is just as valid as any other, but not more valid.