Christians on arbtalk?

[Treecreeper1961]

Mother nature is all the more powerful to me too but does that mean we carry on regardless inspite of that.? Power, beauty and succor. Divine.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

nature is divine, we are nature, divinity exists in us all.

[skyhuck]

Why is god dog backwards??????

 

I reckon the first guy to come up with the idea of god got caught doing something he shouldn't have been doing, he was desperate to come up with an excuse, he looked around for inspiration, he saw a dog and thinking on his feet he said "god told me to do it"

 

I could be wrong, but its a theory

[Lee Winger]

nature is divine, we are nature, divinity exists in us all.

 

No we're not part of nature we ruin the environment, all other plants and animals coexist with it happily, except us, I believe in god.....

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

No we're not part of nature we ruin the environment, all other plants and animals coexist with it happily, except us, I believe in god.....

 

then your lost to nature, but youll return, in body if not in mind, we all return to the earth.

[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

good old yoda, always a wise man!

[Big J]

nature is divine, we are nature, divinity exists in us all.

 

But why seek to attribute such pseudo-philosophical meaning to what is essentially a natural process. Nature exists as a brutal, merciless exercise of survival of the fittest. There is no greater meaning in it, there is no point to it. The simple and absolute goal of all species it to continue surviving.

 

I do get a little frustrated with people constantly trying to find meaning or spiritual purpose in life. We are born. Life is short, cruel and random. We die. The very best you can do by yourself is to be kind, conscientious and do no harm to others. You don't need a higher reason to act that way. It's just being civilised and decent. Many religions would do well to aspire to that.

[Sam Thompson]

But why seek to attribute such pseudo-philosophical meaning to what is essentially a natural process. Nature exists as a brutal, merciless exercise of survival of the fittest. There is no greater meaning in it, there is no point to it. The simple and absolute goal of all species it to continue surviving.

 

I do get a little frustrated with people constantly trying to find meaning or spiritual purpose in life. We are born. Life is short, cruel and random. We die. The very best you can do by yourself is to be kind, conscientious and do no harm to others. You don't need a higher reason to act that way. It's just being civilised and decent. Many religions would do well to aspire to that.

 

The Norse men believed we are only exist to amuse the gods. That would explain a lot.

[Treecreeper1961]

But why seek to attribute such pseudo-philosophical meaning to what is essentially a natural process. Nature exists as a brutal, merciless exercise of survival of the fittest. There is no greater meaning in it, there is no point to it. The simple and absolute goal of all species it to continue surviving.

 

I do get a little frustrated with people constantly trying to find meaning or spiritual purpose in life. We are born. Life is short, cruel and random. We die. The very best you can do by yourself is to be kind, conscientious and do no harm to others. You don't need a higher reason to act that way. It's just being civilised and decent. Many religions would do well to aspire to that.

 

I think the human species is beginning to evolve beyond the simple drive to procreation(despite having 3 children.)

That big brain we have must surely be put to some use in our future.

 

With no spiritual meaning or purpose to life we may as well live inside a computer.

 

Sh#t, i'm gonna log off now.:laugh1:

[Big J]

I think the human species is beginning to evolve beyond the simple drive to procreation(despite having 3 children.)

That big brain we have must surely be put to some use in our future.

 

With no spiritual meaning or purpose to life we may as well live inside a computer.

 

Sh#t, i'm gonna log off now.:laugh1:

 

I do agree in principle. It's interesting how as the human mind evolved before scientific understanding came about, that we conjured religion to explain the unexplainable. Now the science goes a good way to explaining most of what we seek to know, and that we have the luxury of free time to consider aspects of life beyond simple survival, we've come full circle back to the desire for spirituality to give life meaning beyond mere existence.