Quote (El1te @ Feb 8 2023 06:29pm)

My point is that the same phenomena can be described in multiple ways:
1) it can be described as Mindfulness
2) or it can be described as Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind

It's just two expressions of the same idea, much like 2 different languages

That is not demonic at all

Quote (Modulok2405 @ Feb 8 2023 07:06pm)

What do you mean with "the world"? If you mean how earth formed, than thats proven. Nothing to believe or not to believe here. Just proven fact you can research in seconds.

If you mean how the universe formed than I of course dont know.

No one knows for sure, but the big bang theory is a pretty well thought out theory. I dont know if its true, but right now I would go with that, because its the single best model of an explanation we have.

Thats what you should always do by the way.
Always go for the most likely explanation. This is how science works.
This is how we got those phones or computers we use at this moment and this is how we got everything else we have today. Because we researched things and events and backtracked them to understand them.
Thats how we made use of electricity, solar power, nuclear power, hydraulic power and countless other things.

Quote (gnarjay @ Feb 8 2023 10:13pm)

yes the internet is great but also dangerous, there exists a lot of bad information out there that people use to justify their ways - good or bad. (not talking about you here, you seem decent)

Im not necessarily asking you to pass judgment but rather I am trying to establish some distinctions here.
its always interested me how many people claim to believe but dont practice the tenants of their religion and on the flip side, how few believers are actually practicing without needing to beat their chest about how great of a Christian (or insert another religion here) they are.
it doesn't make sense to me that someone can be a complete piece of shit their entire life but "repent" before they die and are subsequently saved, but a different person can lead a noble, "good" life and go to hell simply because they don't claim to believe in "God".
IMO, it seems the actual "practicing" part of Christianity mostly died a long time ago and now its mostly hypocrites that use their religion as a shield. I say this as someone who was born and raised Catholic.
Donald Trump is an interesting example because clearly (Im passing judgment here) he does not live by ANY of the Christian or Catholic tenants but evangelicals absolutely love him. how could a God-fearing, God-loving person support him when his actions, beliefs and words conflict with everything they claim to believe?
doesnt seem very Christian to me, IMHO

Quote (redExorcist @ Feb 9 2023 04:34am)

How can you explain the fact that your heart is pumping out blood?

Did you come from monkeys?