In a sense, yes! We are always free to alter our beliefs by controlling the behavioral cognition itself. The key is having awareness and knowledge and realizing that we are what we think we are not through others and at the same time realizing we are only what we think of ourselves---the key of course is getting the emotions that do not bring us out of harmony. However, outside of the cognitive model and subjective states we adhere to, what are we?
Yes, you can since you answered your own question Is that inherent in all of us? Being romantic? Or is it a subjective thought that manifests those emotions?
Is that all you are? Your belief system is your blueprint for your subjective reality, rightfully so. Take away your belief system and your definitions that structure your belief system, then what would be? What emotion would you have?
You understood the question, and you gave a good answer to the best you could without all the prescribed static and labels. When it comes down to it, we are feelings and emotions in our present state-of-being which may be influenced by our past and what we think in the future. What we put out, is what we get back---I know this to be true by my experiences and examinations as well as observations of others. I'm sure you feel a good sense of what you are in mediation or on the beach looking out on the horizon on a crystal clear day. Do you feel the same if it's cloudy and cold? What causes us to filter such thoughts? Hmmmm...lol
Interesting, the mask! In a sense, the mask is nothing but a projection of what we consider our persona to be---a presentation of who we think we are due to past circumstances, experiences, our environment that influenced our belief systems, and how people defined us to be. Yeah, the mask can also be used to hide our true selves for various reasons. Do we have to accept this? Of course not. For accepting this, limits us of who we can become and what we wish to be. Do you wish to be a label or an emotion? The Western world is constructed on being labels, and the belief systems of the Western world narrates our realities in many ways because we choose to accept some of the limiting ideas that have been projected on to us. If these ideas do not serve us well and bring us out of harmony, then the choice is ours to redefine these definitions of ourselves and our world view. Many allow others to do the defining, but in realization---comes transformation and change.By transforming those definitions when you see the definition you had, and realize it doesn't work for you, and replace it with the definition that does, you will experience change within you at that moment. You will feel the awesomeness and expansion of yourself based on your truths built on a new belief system---you will know you are a different you that serves you from within and not from somebody else or some holy scripture.
To my experience and understanding, there is no reality except what you define it to be. "All truths are true" in an infinite sense, that's the nature of our infinite selves, otherwise we'd never really be infinite, but stuck in limitation and un-creativity and probably still using horses for transportation lol . So going back to my original thought, what would we be without a belief system to define our reality? What would reality be if there was no consciousness projecting and warping its subjective thoughts onto it? Is there an objective reality?
Without a belief system and your definitions that make up your belief system? What or who would you be without a belief system? Would you be nothing unpacked from something---which came from nothing? How does something manifest? How did your mask and perception of yourself come into being?
These are not easy questions as Carl Sagan would say...
What do you believe? My take on this cannot be summed up in one post. Let's just say that December 21, 2012 will come and go in my personal universe---and perhaps with others, they just may experience what they are feeding with their thoughts.
I went to Jehova's church twice in the last 2 months---to observe. Nice people who rely far too much on faith in regards to how great change will come. They expect God will snap his fingers and change will come just like that. I don't think so, change comes from the people's will. They don't preach anything really differently than any other congregation---they just have their own take on some matters which is not too different or extreme.
To me, their myth of judgement day is just that---a myth perhaps built upon from other myths.
Consider this:
- According to ancient records, the Maya Long Count Calendar will reach 13.0.0.0.0. Due to the cyclic nature of Maya calendars, this date appears to replicate the same number as at the beginning of this Creation in August 3114 BC/BCE (which the Maya also wrote as 13.0.0.0.0). The interval is 5125 years & 133 days, or 5125.366 years.
- The return of Quetzalcoatl (one of the great gods of ancient Mesoamerica), according to Aztec and Maya prophecies.
- The “13” in the Maya date 13.0.0.0.0 indicates “13 Bak’tuns.” A Maya Bak’tun or Pik is 144,000 days, the same number as the number of devotees taken up in the Rapture, according to the Book of Revelation. Coincidence?
- There have been five Creations according to the Aztec records. Five times 5125.366 years is 25,626.8 years. Coincidence?
Masters of our own destiny. Unfortunately, we live is a world with all kinds of masters of limitation. Nevermind them if they keep saying can't. There is no can't in a realm of infinite possibilities and creations. Our higher selves located in our subconscious is the one who guides us---most of you label this as God. Our higher selves can only present doors when we ask and seek, and it's up to us to go through them and follow our excitement and joy that serves us in harmonic ways. We all experience the darkness in the form of adversities and challenges, and only some of us overcome---over and over again. What is our destiny? To be happy and live life to the best we can in harmonic ways to ourselves and others---including mother earth.
It is said that infinite creation loves us so much, that even infinite creation allows us to hate ourselves. What we project, will reflect---since we are in full control of our thoughts, actions, and reactions and how we perceive ourselves and our external world that exists in our minds.
It's the coldest spring here in Sweden in like 50 years. I guess the earth just go through shifts from time to time. Maybe it's the new Galactic magnetic field that we are getting since we are passing through the galactic equator in our galaxy...
Nevertheless, it's too damn cold here. Temps have been 4-6 degrees Celsius...ugh
It's true...so long as you believe there are doors to walk through after a door slams shut. I speak from experience. Believe!!! And believe it or not, the new door is always better at the time...
Quantum mysticism is the operative word here. The label happens to be God, but all certain scientists are saying is that there is some force or consciousness (that we are entangled to) that they don't fully grasp---yet respect and look to unpack it more as discovery goes on.
Stephen Hawking has said "If we do discover a theory of everything, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason—for then we would truly know the mind of God."
Again, Hawking is using a label for how the nature of the cosmos and our consciousness works. To me, it simply means expansion, and I'd never believe any scientist that they have discovered God---since we are Gods in our own right. Basically, some scientists are realizing that perhaps the universe is self-aware since it functions that way and in ways that are beyond the scope of our rational understandings.
And intelligent design apparently has a bad stigma. Creation supposedly creates and recreates in infinite ways---it's just nature aligning with a subset of rules and matrices that are made to be broken as discovery goes on and on and on and on. Once we learn new things, new realities are possible. That's all. I'm not saying there is some being who intelligently designs anything from its headquarters, I'm just saying nobody really knows---not even quantum scientists or philosophers. We humans intelligently design things on all levels, no? This reasoning does not suggest that some higher consciousness designs anything in systematic ways, but there is some good support that we are part of this higher consciousness---through spirituality and science.
Now I'm not saying there was only one beginning, just referring to our universe that has been expanding after the big bang. Perhaps this universe it's unique in it's own right with it's set of physics that may differ to other multiverses with a different set of physics and existences in an entirely different dimension.
The possibilities are infinite, so there is no need to limit infinite creation and label some higher consciousness as God.
I mainly like the teaching and wisdom of Jesus. Some stuff resonates and I find it to be from a higher awareness which mirrors other concepts from other spiritualities---from Toltec teachings to Hinduism to Confucianism. However, other stuff I find to not be from a higher awareness, but from man---so much of the stuff in the bible does not resonate with me, especially the parts where fear and violence is promoted. And this is a part of the bible that Christians just ignore or throw some hand waving argument.
The bible also preaches too much faith---especially the passage about a new Earth in Revelations 21-22. To think that change will magically happen because this Biblical God will snap his fingers is just not logical or probable. I've been to church recently to observe, and people need to realize that if you want to live in a peaceful and fair world, then we have to create it through change---and come to a respectful understanding. We have to create it, and not expect that God will just snap his fingers then it's there. How can on reason with that logic? I don't buy it, and it promotes not changing the dominant structure. So if the bible is indeed accurate through the translations that matches up with the dead sea scrolls, it doesn't matter. The Bible has too much disharmonious tones in it--and it's too vague. It is not the entire word of a higher awareness, it is filled with contradictions and misinterpretations. Just honest mistakes.
Sorry to hear about your bad day my friend. There is always tomorrow or next hour!
My point is that the way our religions on our planet chose to define the word "God", is very limiting and not accurate...and needs to evolve in infinite like ways, since God is supposedly infinity. To me, my view and label for this God concept is infinite fractal consciousness that we are a part of, since all parts are part of the whole in the process and existence of creation, consciousness,awareness,love, and energy.
There is a passage in the bible in which Jesus said to spread his word---"And as you go, preach, saying, The kingdom of heaven is at hand". This was taken by Christians to preach their religion, and I don't think there is a passage that says to form a religion in the NT. Just a way of life that the people of the time misunderstood and how the translations got jumbled up over the years.
The bible was written by humans in an ignorant and cruel age. The writers of the Bible lived in an unenlightened era, the book contains many errors and harmful teachings. They are not depicting a God who is supposedly pure love. The natives never understood this white and cruel God that the Europeans brought over America. Harmony does not kill....
This God depicted in the Bible is a joke. And the people who defend this lie are decreasing by the hour. Evolution will not be stopped, and this biblical god will be a thing to store away in the archives one day in the future. It does not work, it only breeds fear, blind faith, expecting God to bring peace, and places power of oneself outside of the self.
"The belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man" - Thomas Paine
Many people are concerned about the widespread promotion of violence in society. They see numerous cultural messages seeming to encourage violent responses to problems.
The messages come from television, movies, music, video games, the Internet, and other sources. Instead of being a last resort used only in self-defense or the defense of others, violence is often portrayed as normal, favored, and entertaining conduct.
It's understandable that people are apprehensive about possible effects of violent entertainment. What's unclear is why so few are similarly troubled by the widespread promotion of violent Bible teachings. Violent religious ideas, presented as unquestionably true, are much more likely to influence people to behave violently.
The Bible's potential to instigate violence stems, in large part, from its claims that although God committed or ordered violent acts, he is perfect, righteous, just, gracious,merciful, compassionate, and loving.
Because God is said to possess exemplary characteristics but still commits or orders violence, his followers may decide they can behave similarly and still be good people. They might even think they have a religious duty to follow his violent example.
The American patriot Thomas Paine referred to the development of such attitudes when he said, "The belief in a cruel god makes a cruel man."
Violence in Basic Doctrines
God's violent tendencies are seen in some of the most fundamental and well-known Bible teachings.
The Old Testament claims that God damned the entire human race because of the acts of the first two people. It also says he caused a worldwide Flood that drowned pregnant women, innocent children, and animals. And it reports he killed Egyptian babies at the time of the Passover.
The New Testament states that God required the torture and murder of his own son.And it promises he will send to eternal torture all who do not accept Christianity.
God looks no better when many of the Bible's other teachings are examined. His various methods of tormenting and killing people, and his frequent resort to those tactics, make him appear worse than any sociopathic mass murderer.
They are both used for brainwave synchronization. One is not better than the other---you use them for certain purposes. I don't find any differences. There are some studies suggesting that isotones are more effective, but nothing conclusive.
Here is some info for anyone curious about this. I use theta wave beats a lot when I read and write---really helps me focus and remember more---and even think better.
Exchanging ideas and observing posts is time used wisely for me! Pretty much what keeps me here on CS. I don't come to CS to find internet girlfriends who live oceans apart lol.
I'm an agnostic btw...and I'm close to putting the puzzle together on a new take on this God concept...a new explanation that ties everything together, but won't prove there is some being controlling us or designing anything. More or less that we are the ones doing so along with other forms of conscious beings in the cosmos who we are entangled with. I do believe in infinite creation and infinite fractal consciousness, it seems more rational than saying a higher awareness does not exist. The only thing is that it is outside of the box of the indoctrinations that has been on our planet. The new frontier is coming!!!!! And science is leading the way.
Ah, Gregg Braden. He has some good ideas, but others not so much.
I've studied religion and theology and still do for my own purposes. The Native Wisdom is something I find very fascinating and practical. I was just reading a book today from an author who is an Oglala Sioux. To me, it's all just parts of the whole. I do meditate btw...with binaural beats as well. We should all listen to our hearts---or higher selves that is found in our subconscious. And it's much easier to do when the mind is in harmony and free of static. And your world exists in your mind btw...your heart guides you.
Why do you limit this God concept to being a he? How do you know this God is a he? You've seen him? What about Hindu's concept of God/Gods? Expand your belief system.
Western's concept of God is silly really. You try to have it be one person or one spirit or one energy that pushes the button to turn things on. And I don’t think that’s the way it works. It’s way to vast for me to comprehend, and therefore impossible and too vast for me to relate to anyone. I believe in infinite consciousness, that I am entangled with---something science is delving into---quantum entanglement.
As long as were limited within our belief systems, it’s difficult if not impossible to understand this god concept logically. Because our belief systems are so limited in size, and what we’re trying to understand and become aware of is so big, that it won’t all fit into our little box of belief systems.
In any case, devout Christians from America are no different than devout Muslims from the middle east. You're all so narrow minded and expect God to do everything for you and the world. Wake up already.
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