good
now you see all knowledge is not just acquired but is present at birth

Except instincts arent knowledge and cant be equated with knowledge. They are fundamentally different things, even though they can sometimes lead to similar outcomes.

Knowledge is learned or consciously accessible. It is based on experience, education, observation, reasoning or communication. You f.e. know that fire is hot because you either learned it or experienced it. Knowledge can be consciously recalled and explained.

Instincts are innate, unconscious behavior patterns. They do not have to be learned.
For example, a baby instinctively sucks on the breast without knowing what food is.

What we talk about here in this topic has nothing to do with instincts. Not even close, buddy.

This post was edited by Saurod on Jul 7 2025 11:53am

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This post was edited by lodd222 on Jul 7 2025 12:01pm

You will never make any sense.

This post was edited by Saurod on Jul 7 2025 11:57am

The bible. Great evidence!

atheists have a bad habit defining how and what others believe. for now i am just going to reject you definitions of faith, i want a source. we have sources so we can all be on the same page. other wise we have everyone making up chit out of their imaginations.
i define faith as trust
faith
[fāTH]
noun
complete trust or confidence in someone or something:
"this restores one's faith in politicians"
Similar:
trust
belief
confidence
conviction
credence

trust
[trəst]
noun
firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something:
"relations have to be built on trust" · "they have been able to win the trust of the others"
Similar:
confidence
belief
faith
sureness
certainty

the process is simple. i read the scripture. i test the scripture. the scripture passes the test. i began to have faith/trust in the scripture


i havent heard any good arguments for this. i betting 'atheists are just mind gaming them selves.
i remember a conversation between two atheists and how they could explain anything away. one bit of nonsense went something like this.
"would you believe if Jesus showed up and said "believe in me"
'atheist: i would think i was having a delusion"
"would you believe if God wrote in the stars "i am God believe in me"
'atheist: "i would think the aliens are trying to trick me"


do you have any real reason not to watch videos i post. perhaps your hard of hearing ?

Entirely depends on one's wealth.

Could you eleborate on that?

Free will can exist and not exist simultaneously that's the beauty of existence itself it has infinite expressions that mean different things likely across the entire perceivable universe. The idea that humans have even a remote understanding of the world around them is laughable at best and that's why all the assertations you are making and the platitudes you are spitting out don't make logical sense when in the grand scheme of things you are nothing but dust in the wind and so are your "beliefs/bias/etc.etc."

"You" as an "ego" don't exist and neither do the names of all beings who've ever breathed air on this planet. God alone exists therefore God alone is "acting". We are merely the instrumentation. The sponges with which God feels itself/himself/herself and that thing we all call "consciousness" is shared and exists simultaneously and goes on into perpetuity forever and ever and as physics has proven without a shadow of doubt, "Matter is neither created nor destroyed it is simply changing states".

So too is the way of the human being. Only the tendencies of mankind remain and "reincarnate" not the actual "people/name/ego" which is why so many religious and even non religious cultures understand this.

Present in all those great stories of spiritual teachers, cultures, and generational wisdom is the fundamental notion that only in the HUMAN body in the HUMAN form can one even contemplate such matters.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was God. Why? The human mind had not yet established itself over the dominion of man and all things prior were ONE with God(whatever God is).

This is explained through the allegory of Adam and Eve when Eve "bit of the tree of knowledge" only to find herself then SEPARATE from God. These are all deeply symbolic ways of understanding existence itself.

Free will? You were born free only your mind keeps you bound here.

edit: So yes there is no such thing as free will only the illusion of it but does not the illusion give way to action itself making the two mutually interdependent?

This post was edited by SwamiVivekananda on Jul 9 2025 01:18pm