You laugh, but it is true.

Organized religion and Christianity in the US has been slowly declining over the past decades, and the invention and growth of the internet has been attributed as one of the factors to the relatively larger decline seen in the millinial generation.

"I was born in a time when the majority of young people had lost faith in God, for the same reason their elders had had it – without knowing why." - Fernando Pessoa
Everyone is shaped by historical phenomena that they have no control over, and the people that are already dead aren't any dumber or smarter than any of us.

This post was edited by Gastly on Jan 31 2016 02:24pm

Shining bright as ever I see. Your ideas of Christ really seem to do the trick for you living your life fully in pure ease and joy, keep it up & carry on.

...save your hippie dippie bullshit for someone else son .

Humanity collectively can be considered more knowledgeable though.

This post was edited by Neptunus on Jan 31 2016 04:22pm

Correlation=/=causation in that case.

Fair enough. I don't really see the value of what is called knowledge, it certainly isn't smart to use knowledge to cause immense amounts of suffering.
In all likelihood knowledge will eventually amount to a smoldering hellhole of a planet - it is after all the most wicked of all animals that managed to acquire this knowledge.

Haha. I did, actually, but you were the one choosing to go in here and complain, so why do "you" bother? And it's not mine, nothing belongs to "me"
Ask yourself, who is it really that is bothered? And who decided to klick this thread more than 3 times? Was this a concious choise, or habitual and almost automatic without much space at all? Were you aware of your self while doing this? While writing that? While reading this?

This is no such "hippie dippie" thing, it might seem like religious ideas and that's why I posted it here, but this is more simple than simple. It's beyond that, yet something that seems difficult for the mind to accept and grasp, because there is nothing to grasp, no effort to make. It's about pure beingness and awareness of the made up identity, what is the self? where is the "I"? What is aware of the sense "I am". What percieves this awareness? Does your mind present you with an image of yourself? Do you believe yourself to be this image? or feeling? Then what preceded it, what observes the awareness of this idea of self?

What are you beyond identification with all imagination, all thoughts, all beliefs, all self image. What is always there, effortlessly still, silent, unchanging?

Kind of like what Eckart Tolle is talking about, but I find Mooji being more clear and direct.

This post was edited by TidsL on Jan 31 2016 04:49pm

...good grief