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Isn't everything meaningless without faith in anything beyond this life?
Even if it is highly unlikely, shouldn't we all have some degree of faith in something more? What's the point of living life with no hope of something greater than the observable, physical world?
thedy tian
Suvedan Sudevalayam
Kyle McCall
Abhiram Lohit 10+
No. If you live every moment like it is eternity, then you don't have a premise to believe in anything beyond this life. Philosophically, each moment is eternity because it is "always present, never gone or to come". In an eternity, meaning has no meaning. If this principle is applied to daily living, then you will live a worry-free life and have a terror-free death.
Meanwhile, "knowledge" of a non-physical entity will bring serenity and spiritual satisfaction, nothing more. It will not promise betterment of conditions than now.
Nicholas Lukowiak 50+
Abhiram Lohit 10+
Farrukh Yakubov 50+
Gabo Moreno 100+
Suzanne Kleine
That's hard to coop with, isn't it.
And that's why we believe in afterlife, religion, etc.
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Matthieu Miossec 100+
Michael Roberts 10+
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
it is not my fault.
its power of Koran.
Gabo Moreno 100+
Why wouldn't there be a point of living without there being something else besides the physical world?
What is wrong with the greatness of the observable physical world?
Isn't everything meaningless if it is all about some huge all-powerful god to be worshipped in an afterlife?
Meaning is a very individual, personal, issue. I don't find the idea of an afterlife worshiping a god meaningful at all. I do find the mere reality of my existence right here and now as meaningful in and of itself. So I make the best use of it I can. If there is an afterlife, well, we will deal with it however we can, if we can. If not, well, we are still here. What should we do? Lament that there might be nothing else, or live and find meaning in what we have?
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
1- you not no way but dying
2- you do not know what happens after life
3- there is some evidences human is not only material like sleep dream deja vu hypnotism NDE ,...
3- no one could prove nothing happens after death
4- thee is some risky scenarios about after death.
http://www.al-islam.org/gallery/kids/Books/unseen/title.htm
http://www.al-islam.org/the-hereafter/
Gabo Moreno 100+
1. You missed the whole point about "meaning" being a very personal thing.
2. I can't prove that nothing happens after death, but, most importantly, nobody has proven that something does. Again, that makes no difference in terms of meaning.
3. Most religions have their "risks." Since all of them want exclusivity, there is no way to "play it safe."
4. Your "arguments" are exactly the ones I hear from Christians. Thus, your religion is just as false and nonsensical.
5. Nope, there is no evidence whatsoever that humans are anything else but 'material.'
6. Again, what you said has nothing to do with what I asked.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
1- also my points are personal
2- many proofs exist for existence of after death. please do not prejudice about all religions based on your Images about church.
3- risk if for wisdom. even without religion wisdom accepts risk after death.
4- similar. but not exact. please do not prejudice. today Christianity is an expired and out dated ad deviated religion.
5- sleep dream, deja vu, seance, Intend, wisdom, NDE and many more
6- you asked why faith? my reply: risk
Gabo Moreno 100+
1. Fine.
2. No proof exists for existence after death. All I have heard are pseudo-philosophical misinterpretations and emotions.
3. Your perception of risk is from having accepted some religion as truth.
4. I don't prejudice based on church, but on the philosophical and nonsensical claims of religions themselves. Using rhetorics and reading the Koran as if it were a horoscope does not prove the koran to be anything but a book of myths believed by adherents to the religion to be true. Christian creationists do the same. That's it. Both equally false, equally indefensible other than by rhetorical and pseudo-philosophical contortions.
5. None of that proves that we are anything else besides material.
6. OK, got it. I answered: there is no way to "play it safe."
Best,
--Gabo
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
proof exist but its more than 2000 char and I found people on TED are not interested long comments. but if you are interested I can show you references.
at least consider this: no proof exist for disproving after death. and this is enough for a wise human.
"3. Your perception of risk is from having accepted some religion as truth."
independent of religion. no one can prove after death not exist. this is enough.
for example sleep dream or deja vu or NDE or ... can show we are not only material
"Koran as if it were a horoscope does not prove the koran to be anything but a book of myths believed by adherents to the religion to be true. "
I can only recommend you reconsider this idea.
http://www.ted.com/conversations/3789/proving_koran.html
"Both equally false, "
you are judging Koran based on today Christianity. they are different
"5. None of that proves that we are anything else besides material."
science do not know them still. how you say that?
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
thanks. I visited my parents.
fear from nature (thunder/lightening...) is not rational.
but fear from death is rational.
not fear from death itself.
fear from possible risks after death.
death is only like changing cloth or like passing a bridge or like birth to this world from womb of mother.
http://tanzil.net/#search/root/%D8%B1%D8%B9%D8%A8
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
I hope God help me to I not be looser. I hope God not forget me at that day:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/7:51
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/6:130
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/6:70
Nidal Prasovic
Could that be the question?
I'm not quite sure....
Lately, "observable, physical world"
seems so... OK, to me....
And I can see that "physical" and
"observable" doesn't seem to be
synonyms...
Law of electric charge conservation
is observable but not physical. Law
of gravity is observable but not
physical. And they are all real,
aren't they?
Isn't that peculiar?
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
but I disagree Evolution as a substitute of God.
Evolution is a method of creation as a tool for God.
if you cut a tree. you cut tree or saw cut tree?
scientists see saw and do not see who controls saw.
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
so this limitation of entity of material, not limitation of God. for example we see time. but time is a creature of God and in view of God there is no time. time and tool is in view of us, not in view of God. we use world tool to understand as our mind. also there is no word to describe God. we should use words to communicate and in fact such words are not usable about God.
"scientist need not see who controls the saw, when they themselves control it. "
I mean laws of nature. for example gravity.
Newton only discovered gravity. he does not control gravity. gravity exist by power of God and we only know how gravity works (physics)
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
we can describe God, but limited to our words. we can not know entity of God. we only can know God by its attributes: powerful,...
"You defy your own logic."
how? please explain.
Salim Solaiman 50+
What you think about achieving "Nirvana" that means getting rid of greed, hatred & delusion , instead of greed for heaven or fear of hell?
Jáfia Câmara 50+
Colleen Steen 500+
Austin R 20+
Salim Solaiman 50+
Zdenek Smith 100+
I think what all people need is to have a purpose in life but not necessary faith. People find purpose in different things like science, religion, family, experience, relationships, competition etc.
In terms of being part of something big, aren't we part of the greatest thing we ever know which is our Universe?
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
universe is just a huge material and if we consider ourself just material, yes we are part of this huge materiel like stone, water soil,..
but we are aware of ourself and can distinguish between ourself and materials around us. so we have a independent identity that can not be material. if we be just material so we can not distinguish between ourself and materials around us. like a stone. do you think does a stone understand an independent self for itself? and can understand itself is not part of material?
human=body+soul
death=soul leaving body
Zdenek Smith 100+
Do you really know what the Universe is? Is it just a "huge material"? I doubt it. We do not really know what Universe is (unless you assume that what you know about it and what you see is all there is to it).
I think our brain capacity is not yet able to fully comprehend the Universe and its magic and secrets.
Also, there are most likely other civilizations and that is exciting to think about it.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
yes our mind is smaller than can understand what is and how big is universe.
pranoy sundar 20+
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
by death the chance for doing any deed is finished.
death is like sleep.
can you do anything in sleep?
after death there is no doing.
just result.
reward or punish.
not any faith is accepted by God.
lets say a saying about Satan.
Satan was not angle and worshiped God 6000 years and grew up to can in level of angles.
when God created Adam ordered all angels to pray him.
all angels prayed Adam but Satan.
God said Satan why you did not pray:
Satan said:
you created me from fire and him from soil.
fire is better than soil, so I am better than him. so I not pray him.
God said:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/7:13
before Satan go out from near of God said:
let me worship you 6000 years but I do not pray human and then forgive me.
God said:
"I want worship as I want, not as how you want"
any faith but the faith God wants has no meaning and has no value at Judgement day.
if you want can have any faith. but faith without God is just doing some deeds with no value after death.
God just accept deeds done just for him.
God do not want any other in your heart but himself.
God is alone and do not accept any partner. even in being beloved.
best gift to God is a deed pure for God.
some people take some food and at middle of night when all are asleep go to street and find hungry people and orphan child and put food for them while are asleep. and cover their face to not be known? do you know why?
giving food to a poor while other looking is not for God and is for being respected (loving to be respected) in people and when others see that poor getting food that poor will have embarrassment in front of his family (making God unhappy for making one of his creatures bothered ).
when some one do not eat all of his food and take care of poor and orphans living near his home just and just for God and not for anything also. then it is pure Love.
Imam Ali: lest orphans sleep some night hungry and some night ful
Vasil Rangelov 50+
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7ggUpyLSpc
For everyone for whom the scientific stuff is too much (yes, we're at TED... I know, I know... but it has a lot of biological terminology in it, and that's a little too much for many, me included), the argument can basically be summed up to something like this:
You feel pain with your body, and we have evidence of that in the form of medical trials with live people who don't feel pain when their nervous system is not working properly. This system dies with you and stays in our world, so even if the notion of soul is correct, that soul can't feel pain on its own.
I should also add to that the only way for your soul to possibly feel pain after death is for it to get a new perfectly working body once it's in hell. But then we go onto something else... your body can adjust itself to ignore nervous system signals after a while, and there's evidence of that too. So, even if you DO get a new body for your soul in hell, and burn... you'll either have to get a new body every few minutes with each one burning (not exactly what the bible describes, is it?) or (if your body is healing with the burn or exposed at intervals letting it to heal only to be burned again) let your one body suffer for only the first few days, and spend the rest of eternity without feeling anything.
Thoughts?
P.S. The whole channel is awesome... "You mean I'll be able to dodge bullshit" and "in some children anal bleeding will occur" are just the best phrases of it :-D .
Deaven Morris
Actually if I'm not mistaken fervent fanaticism in this regard is technically considered a neurological disorder.
Austin R 20+
Very interesting video! I agree you cannot feel pain in the afterlife. Though, I have always thought of hell is a state of being, not a place (if there is a hell). This state of being may be characterized by spiritual anguish, and not necessarily physical pain.
Deaven,
First, let me say I'm not a religious fundamentalist so please listen to what I have to say... Your premise "actually if there were intervening gods natural laws couldn't exist because they would be constantly being brokn for miracles" is not necessarily true. You assume they could no longer exist, while there is no substantiating evidence behind that assumption.
Vasil Rangelov 50+
Ah, yes... like a drug addict without his drug... yes... I suppose you have a point. AFAIK, that's not what the bible describes, but it's hell non the less, so yeah. If there's hell, it's more likely to be like that (assuming the notion of "soul" was correct).
"You assume they could no longer exist, while there is no substantiating evidence behind that assumption."
Woohoo!!! Now you're speaking my language ^_^ . "no substantiating evidence behind that assumption" is a phrase I wish hearing more often :-P .
And I have to say I agree. If there is a God, his intervention wouldn't cause the demise of natural laws, assuming he takes care to restore them after his intervention.
But of course, we're still taking the concept of God as granted in this case.
Colleen Steen 500+
I percieve my "self" to be a mass of energy, and energy probably wouldn't burn very well anyway:>)
When I left the body after a near fatal injury 21 years ago, I saw the big picture "out there", and there wasn't any hell, suffering or anguish. How's that for "substantiating evidence behind an assumption"........LOL:>)
You ask for thoughts Vasil...here's one more I want to share with you. You are most often coming from a scientific base of information, and I am about as right brain dominant as a person can be, and yet we often agree...I like that:>) Those are the kinds of things that give my life meaning here and now, regardless of what is in store for me later:>)
Colleen Steen 500+
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
""self" to be a mass of energy"
can you explain this more?
"I did not see with the eyes"
you can not see air but breathing it every day.
also about illusive near death experience:
http://www.ted.com/talks/jill_bolte_taylor_s_powerful_stroke_of_insight.html?c=233512
Colleen Steen 500+
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
and some times little punishments are gifts from God to we remember him:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/32:21
the main Job of Satan is making human to forget his God.
but God sends us reminders.
Colleen Steen 500+
True love is demonstrated by showing love, not by punishment and fear.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
do you have any contract with God that he do not punish anyone.
"True love is demonstrated by showing love"
if God not exist then nothing has meaning.
but if God exist then if God is love all so why send accident and cancer and conflagration for his creatures?
punishment is different of abusive.
for example if mother punish child it means abusive?
some mothers are pilot and some impolite. but both punish child
Colleen Steen 500+
You have said over and over again that your god is "pure love"..."all loving". If he is all loving, he would love all people. You have also said that he punishes those who deny him, and he only loves SOME people. I am getting information from you S.R. Ahmadi, and responding to YOUR comments.
Punishment is sometimes NOT different than abuse. When one is being punished because he/she does not have the same beliefs as another person, that is abuse and control. And you are saying over and over again, that your god punishes and hates those who deny him.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
those who deny God are the same as who having belief other than beliefs God want.
deny means having beliefs that have conflict with wisdom.
wisdom is prophet of God to every human.
alcohol is corrosive to wisdom.
Vasil Rangelov 50+
deny means having beliefs that have conflict with wisdom.
wisdom is prophet of God to every human."
//does a back bend move like Neo*//
Bull...ssssshhhhiiii....t.
That's not you speaking, that's the Quran speaking. You don't believe that. The Quran believes that, because it's in its interest to keep your mind imprisoned.
* http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhxbYTMNMxo
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"That's not you speaking, that's the Quran speaking. You don't believe that. The Quran believes that, because it's in its interest to keep your mind imprisoned."
Quran is a book. how it can interest something? its God Interest appeared in Koran.
Vasil Rangelov 50+
And yet you take the Quran for something more... I think it's fair to suggest that if it IS something more, than it DOES have an interest (in the same way that The Matrix allegedly has an interest in turning you into an atheist). That it has a spirit if you will (call it "God" if you insist). A spirit which is speaking through you, hence my comment on you not believing this bullshit, but rather the Quran believing it and imprisoning your mind by hijacking it and not allowing it to think for itself.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
it it is not a regular book. because it is not written by any human.
Quran said:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/2:23
can you find some one claimed can do it?
Vasil Rangelov 50+
Err... we can produce surahs [1] for centuries now, even before the Koran was written I think... heck, the majority of Chinese are irreligious, and they produce these [2]... and there's plenty of them to go around in terms of witnesses. So... they're truthful? And inherently, there is no Allah? Or am I misinterpreting this passage?
[1] Assuming the definition as in http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Surah, i.e. "a soft, twilled silk or rayon fabric."
[2] http://www.alibaba.com/showroom/surah.html
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
each chapter of Koran is called a surah.
what you showed on alibaba are art work using some sayings from Koran.
it means you write a sura like Koran at the same level of poem beauty and same level of knowledge with no error and same as Koran in any aspect.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"let your one body suffer for only the first few days, and spend the rest of eternity without feeling anything."
the movie maker is very clever or cheated from Koran.
God replied to this video 1400 years ago:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/4:56
Vasil Rangelov 50+
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
it means before body (and nervous system) burn, the body is renewed.
the sensors of pain are in skin, so when skin burn, human no more sense pain. so immediately after skin burn it is renewed. not wait to hole body burn.
Colleen Steen 500+
Pain sensors are throughout the whole body. Having worked in the health care field years ago, I witnessed many patients with severe burns all over the body who were in excruciating pain. In fact, burns are one of the most painful injuries. It is inaccurate and unkind to say "when skin burn, human no more sense pain".
Austin R 20+
Colleen Steen 500+
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
you are right.
anyhow if Hell exist, God himself know what to do with burned skins or people. maybe send them to hospital some days and after intermission they come back to Hell.
better to ask if Hell exist or not.
Colleen Steen 500+
You believe that hell exists...I do not. I agree to disagree.
You speak often of your god, who hates, and will punish those who deny him. That feels threatening and frightening to me. I will never understand why you or your god need to threaten other people with eternal suffering in hell, which many of us do not believe in.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"I will never understand why you or your god need to threaten other people with eternal suffering in hell, which many of us do not believe in."
God not need. but God is Just and has promised to punish humans who disobey him. and God never change his promise. and has absolute power and do any thing Intend and is not responsible to any one.
can I ask what kind of reason you accept for existing Hell? bible? Koran? rational? do you agree existence of God or not?
agreeing with existence of Hell is based in existence of God and know God well.
if we agree God exist then we ask this question that does he wants any thing from us?
then we seek for true messages of God.
if no God exist them Hell has no meaning and talking about Hell is just wasting time.
please have a look at:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/1599/who_is_god.html
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2142/why_our_universe_has_laws_of_p.html
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2328/is_koran_scientifically_a_mira.html
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2414/who_fired_the_dynamite_of_big.html
Colleen Steen 500+
I do not accept hell...I have told you that several times. We do not agree, and I told you I agree to disagree. Yes, I agree that you are wasting your time.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"it's JUST a book"
Agree about all you said it's JUST a… but disagree about Koran.
Koran is nut JUST a book.
Can you prove Koran is just a book? Do you know who is its writer? Do you know its writer was unread man that could not write his own name?
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
how and when he said you?
do you accept Gospel of Barnabas to be true Gospel? if no why?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnabas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Barnabas
http://barnabas.net/
please read it to know what Jesus (peace on him) said about next messenger after him. if you are real believer you should obey your messenger. please not read deviated bibles.
why you say "God will punish cruelly"
God punish in Just not cruelly. you have free will and can do good or bad and God help you in any way you select because one name of God is helper.
if you by choice of yourself do an evil so you should accept its punish. its not cruel this is Just and Fair. why cruel?
God loves but not all human equal. God loves who obey him and hates who disobey him.
"I say, people had been living a healthy life pre-Islam era also."
who you mean? yes some of them learned many things from prophets. but God always updated his religion with new information and knowledge and science and people who not accept new updated religion themselves pay the loss. not God.
"I say Koran is a fiction."
and proof?
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/2:89
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/2:39
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/3:11
please read:
http://goo.gl/JHMfb
Koran is a live miracle in many aspects. scientific, poesy, rational,...
its impossible to be from any human.
also please look translation of replies of Koran for "I say Koran is a fiction.":
http://tanzil.net/#search/root/%D9%83%D8%B0%D8%A8
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"one can really understand the Quran other than Allah himself."
Koran is message and knowledge from God to human and if human can not understand i, thent it will be useless. Koran is like a infinite table of food and all human are allowed to each how much can.
""Gospel of Barnabas" is dated to the late 16th century... "
Thanks for your explain."
Yes , Gospels of the New Testament are dated much earlier. That’s correct. But please not being old not mean necessarily original and nor deviated.
Please read this:
http://barnabas.net/how-the-gospel-of-barnabas-survived.html
Being valid and not corrupted is more important than being earlier.
Immediately after Jesus (PBUH), all bibles were collected from hand of people and all was dislimned (extirpated) and for many years Christians had no Holey book. and then some of apostles and religious leaders decided to make book and different versions of bible was written by them. then from all of them 4 best version of bible was selected and others were not confirmed by church. many of researchers believe and say the writers of that 4 bible were not direct pastel of Jesus (PBHU). and until year 170 nothing by name of bible existed. if you want to know more details about distortion of Bible please read this book from Maurice Bucaille:
http://goo.gl/tLpLc
not 100% of Bible is distorted. but not 100% of it is valid and original. it is partially distorted.
About Gospel of Barnabas there are many debated and many replies not just this one Turkish words. Finally it is considered valid by church and other.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
About compiling Koran, the conflict was about reading (pronunciation, recitation) of Koran. not about writing and text of Koran. there was not and is not any conflict even about one word of Koran all 1.5 Billion Muslims now and all Muslims at time of Uthman agree the text of Koran is exact the same as revelation. also Also Ali (peace on him) disagreed by burning Koran, but Uthman did not accept him and burned them. Koran was memorized in heart of many many Muslims and even burning of all written Korans could not deviate Koran. Uthman wanted to make standard pronunciation and if he wanted to change even one world of Koran sure all Muslims and religions leaders of them Indeed would disagree him very very serious.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
after Jesus All Bibles collected fro people and for many years no one had any bible. and at year 170 4 new version of bible (not original) distributed in people and all today bibles are from those 4 bible. deviation of bible started from time of life of Jesus (peace on him) please research about these. those 4 bible are not original from their start. the original bibles were collected from people and many years people had no bible after Jesus (peace on him)
the first and original Gospel of Barnabas is much earlier than 16th. some discovered copies are for 16th. it is mentioned in some historical documents. for example:
"A "Gospel according to Barnabas" is mentioned in two early Christian lists of apocryphal works: the Latin Decretum Gelasianum[2] (6th century)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Barnabas#Origins
there is many sayings about it. if you really want to know true about it you should do a research about it. Gospel of Barnabas book can not be found easy and amazingly is collected from market after publish in some countries.
Koran was kept safe from deviation by memorizing from time of Muhammad (peace on him) he was teacher and people memorizing it. at least 140 person memorized Koran full and all the same with no difference and all learned under teach and control of prophet and also Aisha was one of them. othman was at the same time of prophet. othman only made standard reading (pronunciation) and text (writing) of Koran was serious controlled by people memorized Koran. also the number of conflicts in pronunciation of Koran was very very limited and not noticeable.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
also not all copies was burned. Othman ordered all copies conflicting by standard copy should be burned and sent that order to all provinces but not all people obeyed his order. for example Ali (peace on him) did not care about it and kept his own copy of Koran.
about Yemen copy or any other copy there is no difference in text and writing there is difference in reading method.
please look at Arabic text of Koran there is many small symbols above or under words of Koran. the difference is in them. not in words.
http://corpus.quran.com/
only one case difference is in an extra letter (و). differences are not important in meaning of Koran. there is no doubt in text Koran in all version more than 99.999%
Koran has 77437 word and difference in few (max 4) letter is not so important.
also there is different method in counting words of Koran but the text is the same.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
yes there are differences. but only in reading method. not in text.
"including complete sentences!"
it is a big lie. whats that sentence?
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"Mohammad is from a false God and a big liar. Jesus is the true God."
first know what difference of God and prophet then speak of them.
"-- Is there any evidence of God’s punishment first of all?"
if you accept God, then evidence is in Torah and Bible and Koran.
if not accept God please first read:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2142/why_our_universe_has_laws_of_p.html
God is not my assumption. please read above link.
"You are very ignorant about Mohammad’s sex life."
I asked you read my comments here about that lie about sex by a small daughter:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2328/is_koran_scientifically_a_mira.html
you repeat a false claim.
"There is no God"
proof?
"Religion is the destruction of life"
what is your definition of religion?
" Islam is a deviated religion."
proof?
"divides human into super, normal, and sub."
yes the only things make humans better in view of God is piety. not money, not race, not any other thing.
"-- Definitely not your Allah."
so who is it?
"He is a psycho ."
not only psycho makes evil.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
OK, please show evidence and proof. please do not collect doubts from Internet and copy here. there is more than 500,000 doubt and lie about Islam and all replied. but you should spend time and read them and then conclude. please first research and know some thing well then say about it. this is not way of finding truth. you only collect doubts and do not seek for reply for doubts.
show one of that changes.( two sentence before and after change in Koran)
please do not copy links.
please write one change in Koran with valid evidence.
cancelled verse is not change. God himself cancelled some verses.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"Ahmadi where are you?"
Iran.
"I want to understand Koran"
study and ask question to understand.
God said how to learn any knowledge including Koran:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/2:282
"And fear Allah. And Allah teaches you."
this is secret of learning.
do you know what is real fearing God?
it is here:
http://www.al-islam.org/nahj/193.htm
http://makarem.ir/persian/library/?bi=179&itg=23&s=im (click on book)
also this is a good software for researching in Koran:
www.zekr.org
and a good commentary of Koran is here:
www.makarem.ir
"Muhammad's marriage with so many women is Allah wanted him so and not to enjoy?"
each of his marriage is different and each has special reason and philosophy. most of them were old women (except Aisha) and some was political and some for teaching. please first know the Arab society at 1400 years ago and the role of marriage in relations of Arab tribes and do not compare it by your Image of marriage.
for example:
in a war Muslims had some Captive and Muslims had not good manner with them and not respected them and Muhammad (peace on him) many times told Muslims respect them and give them good food and cloth and,... they are humans like you but they do not know what they are doing. but Muslims did not hear prophet. finally prophet married by one old Captive woman and because God had been said in Koran:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/33:6
Muslims respected wives of prophet and so then they learned to respect Captives.
actually any marriage of prophet was a lesson and a tool for unity of Muslims. near all wives of prophet were old widow and it is injustice to say his marriages was for enjoy.
Indeed a normal man needs marriage. but one is enough for enjoy and prophet has one wife (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khadijah_bint_Khuwaylid) she was 40 and marred prophet when he was 25. and she was his only wife until she died and then prophet marriages other wives. if it was for enjoy why he did not so when he was young?
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
Osama is not a Muslim. do not believe any thing you see in TV or news. he is or was only a fantoccini:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia
"What is the problem with Islam?"
no problem. problem is with people do not know real Islam. Muhammad (peace and greeting of God on him) said:
after me my people (Muslims) become72 branch, but only one of them are on true way.
"why u always say "peace on him"
sorry, its for translate. prophet said whenever you say the name of any prophet of God or Imam say after his name. the better translate is:
"the salute and greeting of God on him"
we say it only for who is selected and assigned by God to guide people:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/2:30
God at any time has at least one successive authority in earth.
at one time he was Adam, then, Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, Muhammad, Ali, Hasan, Husayn, .... and now 12th Imam Mahdi (peace on them all) who will come in near future.
Husayn is well known in India:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Husayn_ibn_Ali
Husayn is blood of God and 12th Imam with Jesus (peace on them) will revenge the blood of Husayn from his killers. who know Husayn and cry for him and know really why he was killed, will enter Heaven.
"Mohammad said Jesus had not risen"
this is not true:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/3:55
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/4:157
"not son of God "
yes Jesus (peace on him) was not son of God and if it is said that only metaphor and should not be taken by word:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/3:59 he is like Adam with no father.
truth about Jesus (peace on him):
http://tanzil.net/#search/quran/%D8%B9%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C
"if I draw Mohammed's picture then"
its drawing with respect has no problem. but with disparagement and satirize has problems.
talk me. I am happy to talk.
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Vasil Rangelov 50+
If that's the case, I'm going to laugh my ass off like never before, and reevaluate every single thing he ever said.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
I not dream. I say according Koran. and Koran is clear message of God.
can you prove Koran is not from God?
for example can you prove is any way that Koran is written by a human?
if yes, then OK I make fun with you.
but if you could not so please cry for yourself instead of fun.
Islam has many formulas for any aspect of life including food. and at any time any food can be matched by those formula. not need to Koran mention name of all foods during history. formula is enough. for example one simple formula exist for birds that animals that have no extra finger on their crus should not be eaten and are harmful for human. also for fish or any other kind of food.
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"not to believe anyone who comes after him" is different of "Be on the watch for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves"
"I think it is a reference to Prophet Mohammed."
please do not think and make sure by research.if at least 1% Prophet Mohammed (peace on him) is not "sheep’s clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves" then how you want to reply Jesus (peace on him) and God at at Judgement day when Jesus (peace on him) ask you:
"""why you said such ugly thing about my brother Muhammad with no research?"""
the "sheep’s clothing, but inside they are cruel wolves" are fake prophets. real prophet has miracle.
"A God who justifies can’t exist."
why?
"God must love everyone including those who do not accept him. "
you command God or God command you?
you are more powerful than Allah (God)?
"world’s main problem is caused by religion"
its made by Satan: Greed,...
with or without religion problems exist. this is plan of God in creating world.
please read here:
http://goo.gl/jcLRq
you do not know what is real religion.
"A God who updates his knowledge can’t exist."
who said God updates his knowledge?
God updates his religion sent for humans.
"Koran is still a book of fiction. "
proof?
"If I want to believe then I need proof"
http://goo.gl/OiDBn
http://www.quranmiracles.com/
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
what is problem of submission?
please first accept this facts:
1- you are not free
2- you are in jail of time
3- you are in jail of place
4- you are in jail of body
5- you can not escape death
6- your power is less than power of death.
7- you can not escape guard of Hell
8- you can not do not eat food of God
9-you can not Go out or Kingdom of God
10- you can not find a place God not see you
11-power of God is more than power of death
so the only way to kill death and become free is to have the power of God. and be friend of God.
do you know what is the secret to be free:
a good servant has potency to became free.
good servant means submission
the meaning of word Islam is submission.
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"Yes Muhammad is a false phophet because he said Jesus is a Prophet and not son of God."
how this prove he is false?
"because at least the punishment would be less severe for not believing him."
how? is there any evidence?
"After death if you find out the real God is not Allah how are you going to reply?"
before death I do enough research to find true God. and not base my life on some "if"
"Yes Muhammad is ugly because in his old age he wanted to have sex with a baby. "
this is lie. please do not say what you do not know.
this doubt is replied here:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2328/is_koran_scientifically_a_mira.html
please read.
"I judge by person’s character, Jesus for example."
please know his character more. there is tons of information about his character and you only stick to a lie?
"You don’t know the real God."
what is real God?
also please read here:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/1599/who_is_god.html
"If God update his religion that means his knowledge is also growing which can’t be unless someone(super God) controls him."
No, it means according to human development and new needs of human and change of context of human society there is new religion needed for new life.
religion is instructions for life. OK? so when life changes so religion should be changes. also a deviated religion is not usable.
"If you can make your God appear in front of me then I ‘ll become a Muslim."
God is already appear in front of you. only you should open your eyes. but God is not material to can be seen by eye of head. so you can see God by eye of heart (rational and by your eye of sprite)
any creature in Nature is a sign of God and is saying:"I have a creator". just you should open your ear of wisdom.
"Submission creates division."
please explain.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
so who is enforcer of laws of physics?
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2142/why_our_universe_has_laws_of_p.html
some one had a guest behind the closed door and did not want to have guest so said to guest: no one is in home!
my friend your existence and your breathing and your typing depends of God. if God is dead so why you are alive? your life is from God. its like that a TV has its images from electricity power plant. if power plant is off, TV is immediately off.
why you exist?
can nothing become thing with no cause?
"If God made everything, evil is also his creation. The responsibility lies with us to destroy such a evil god."
yes, evil is creature of God. you have not such power to destroy God. death is the smallest guard of God. if you want to destroy God you should go level by level and God is the final level. first level is death. first destroy it. you are so small against God that not need to God have any small worry about you. when you destroyed death then say such big word of mouth. its like that a baby mosquito say: I want to destroy elephant!
please think and understand what you say. death is in ambuscade and is waiting to hunt you.
Austin R 20+
The term "law" is just used to describe the properties we observe in the Universe, they are not necessarily laws that must be constantly enforced. However, I do believe that the properties do need an original cause. I do not think random and uncaused properties just spontaneously appear. So, I do agree the Universe indeed has a creator, or at the least a causal entity of some sort.
mahmoud nagib
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"As it says in Koran that the world is flat"
its not true and replied here
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2328/is_koran_scientifically_a_mira.html
"middle east "
it means middle between east (Asia, china, India,...) and west (EU and America)
"Arabic language is the most communicable language?"
who said this? for what time?
"Sanskrit, the mother of all languages?"
yes, it was Iran language for a while many years before.
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
I did not say God justify.
I said God punish and reward in Just. it means if some one do an evil deed and God not punish him then God is not Just. or if some one do a good deed and God not reward him then God is not Just. I mean justice.
if you do a crime and go to law court, then what will a Just Judge will say you?
he say you no problem I love you, go home? or send you in Jail?
this is meaning of punishing in Just.
God created human and gifted him Wisdom and free will among all animals and because of Wisdom the Just God send to Heaven and Hell.
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/99:7
http://tanzil.net/#search/quran/%D9%85%D8%AB%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%84
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"All the laws including sharia law are made by human "
Koran do not include this. can you prove this about Koran? Koran is not written by any human.
"God need not punish or rewards for good or evil, for in the eye of God there is no good, no evil."
yes God do not need. but God is absolute power and Just and does not change his sayings.
and problem is this:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/32.13
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/38.85
not all punish is for need. if a judge punish it is for need of judge? or it is necessary for the justice of judge?
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
please do not think and talk rational and by valid evidence.
yes you are roght but for sending message to world the only way is not jumping of a boat. he sent letter to all empires of world immediate after he was selected by God as messenger:
letters still exist in museums:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad%27s_letters_to_the_Heads-of-State
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muqawqis
please read some history.
different emperors had different reaction to letter of prophet. some kissed it and accepted it and some wrapped it and started war against prophet of God and in all wars of prophet with soldiers always fewer ( 1 to 10 usually) always prophet won by power of God.
this is the result of fighting by God:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/9:32
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
please show a fiction in Koran.
can you prove Koran is fiction?
has all in Koran is history or scientific facts (example: http://www.quranmiracles.com/) or moral instructions or instructions for life or describing after death life.
only say describing after death life can be named fiction and you can not prove they are fiction. how you want to prove they are fiction? do you have you seen the after death life? or do you have any evidence that after death happens any thing other than Koran descriptions? then OK Koran is fiction.
"God never said anything"
Koran is all sayings of God. all Arab Arab poets from 1400 years ago to now say we could not say one sentence like Koan. many tried but finally all said we can not. they say Koran is peom but is not poem.
please find a writer claiming:"I can write a sentence like Koran"
the greatest Arab poets are submitted against Koran. if some one know Arabic language well then understand it is impossible to Koran be from human. but simple people do not understand this.
at least for you it is possible to Koran be from God. please do enough research about Koran and make yourself sure that if Koran is from human or not.
"http://agniveer.com/1985/why-did-god-create-us/"
many doubts there. but reply to some:
God said 3 reason for creating human in Koran and one is main and one is to human worship God.
the only possible reason for worship is not need of God. but this linke assume t it is.
God does not have any need to human worship. but worship has many bebnefits for human.
worship is like home work.
does a teaachr need to home works of students? or students need it for its benefits (knowledge)?
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
knowing future has no conflict with test of human with free will and wisdom. if you can predict the weather it does not mean you control it. are humans are born in equal wisdom and free will and all are free to do goods or evils. are not you free to select your deeds?
"GOD NEVER CREATED US"
so who created us?
"Creation and destruction of soul is NOT the scope of work of God."
so why our soul exist? any existence need a cause. can nothing become thing with no cause?
"just as God is beginningless and endless, so are we."
this is only a claim. evidence?
" We have existed along with God always and shall continue to do so."
evidence? so why we die? who decide we born and die?
"God does what He is doing today. God is managing us."
so who created us and nature?
"God did not create the root cause of the world and universe. The root cause – called Nature (Prakriti) – was always present and shall remain forever."
nature itself is included in universe. what is cause of existence of nature?
"Nature (Prakriti) – was always present and shall remain forever"
this is only a claim. evidence? is it possible a material has no start? can material have no age? this has conflict with science. earth has 4.5 billion years old and universe near 15 billion.
what is cause of existence of universe? and why nature has laws of physics?
the main question to this link is that: who created nature? can nature exist with no cause? is nature God? if nature has no creator so it is God. and so there is 2 God. then why 2 God has no war? and why they are in peace with each other? any God should send us its messengers. why we have no messenger from nature?(if nature is God)
also who is creator of soul? why soul exist? can some thing exist with no cause?
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
what is the relation of this reply to question? you mean in democratic system there is no punish?
"God need not select a messenger to send his word thru letters. Your god is using old technology. His knowledge is limited."
you make decision for God? God send message in any way wants. God decided to make world as you see (mix of good and evil with wisdom and free will and send messengers). do you have problem with God? God is not responsible to any one.
God has no limit in technology. but people of that time had no tech for receiving it. letter in a time that paper was not invented yet was the highest tech.
"Did you ever hear of Nadi Astrology?"
no, but this is not special ability. many can do this in most countries. I know the method of it. but such works is banned by Koran and Islam and has punish from God, so we do not it. also communicate with dead people. such works is by communicating by some creatures like humans living around earth. we can not see them. they are called Jinn and Satan is from Jinn:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/18:50
at current time there are 3 main type of live creatures: humans, angels, Jinns.
angels are all wisdom with no free will.
human is wisdom and free will.
Jinns are wisdom and free will like humans, but they are not material and have no limit in space and time and see future and take news for human or can send letters of prophet in a moment to other place (the tech you wanted).
prophets of God are for both human and Jinn. and in Koran always audience is human and Jinn. before Muhammad (peace on him) Jinns had power on human and could bother humans(bogey) but because God loves Muhammad (peace on him) very very much and do not love any thing more than Muhammad (peace on him) from the time of him to know God cancelled the power of Jinn on human as a gift to humans. God created all universe because of him.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
God created world for testing human and made human in world with wisdom and free will to human itself find and pray God. and predicting future has conflict with free will.
God does not want any thing that interferer normal situation of world (evil+good+wisdom+free will).
but as people have free will only in world life then they can do any deed and God does not stop them. but this has punish from God. God is patient.
"why are joking about your prophet, S.R? what did he win? He is a dead man."
he is not dead. the life of his body finished. but he is still live and helping and guiding believers of God.
also please read history of his life. can you find a war he not won? even with few friends and armor against huge military.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_career_of_Muhammad
please note that after prophet some people could get power with cheating people and using threading people and fake advertise and and changing think of people and they used power of Muslim soldiers to make empires and enjoy and satisfy their greed.
prophet before death collected people and introduced his right successor selected by God:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith_of_the_pond_of_Khumm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadith_of_the_two_weighty_things
http://www.al-islam.org/ghadir/
but some people waiting for an opportunity to get power used all their money and power and cheats and could get power and right successor (who had absolute knowledge of every thing from God) had no way unless sitting in home and replying questions of people. some of his sayings is in this book:
http://www.al-islam.org/nahj/
please distinguish between battles at life of Muhammad (peace on him) and wars by emperors of Islamic countries after prophet.
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
how this show Koran is fiction?
about that link please write here only one evidence showing Koran is fiction. before that please define fiction.
"for science in Vedas"
I do not know Vedas but I prefer to use most updated religion. also Koran has no conflict with science. does vidas have no conflict with science? or some is and some is not compatible with science?
usually old holy books from God are deviated (I do not know vidas is from God or made by human). but Koran has special protect of God against deviation.
"Why would I (or anyone for that matter) refer Koran for moral instruction? We have Geek, Chinese , Christian and Indian sources."
morals with no reward from God has no value. only some respect in this world.
the moral valuable because of reaching Heaven. moral for some respect in life of world and then no reward after death has no value. God does not accept any kind of moral. God only accept moral said by himself (the best source for it available today and not deviated is Koran)
"--> What exactly Koran say about after death? and with proof plz."
replied here:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/815/the_end_of_the_world.html
there is also two book for that.
and proof is that Koran is miracle and so what says is truth.
"Duh! Give me a sura in Koran which can’t said by others."
all of Koran.
you give me only one Arab poet during 1400 years ago claiming can say only one verse like Koran.
"Mohammad wanted to control people"
no, he could not do so. he had many many wars with Arabs and Arabs were free.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_career_of_Muhammad
why he has so many war with Arabs. most of Arabs were his enemy, but all Arab poets were defeated and are defeat by Koran.
"I don't blame those poor poets."
please do not say any thing about Arab poets before knowing them.
you suppose thy are poor then blame them.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
a human or God?
also better to use most updated message of God. its like updating antivirus and we have common great enemy: Satan
what is Hindu Gods?
please first prove it is possible there exist more than one God.
if there was more than one God Indeed there was war between God and all of them send us messengers. why our universe is so calm with no war of Gods?
there is only one God.
the forgives all mistakes except praying more than one God.
http://tanzil.net/#search/quran/%D8%B4%D8%B1%DA%A9
making partner for God is the most hated evil deed in view of God.
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
I wrote about why God created human here:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/1599/who_is_god.html
please read them first.
the main reason is God Intended to be known. and test and pray are derivative reasons.
all test and pray is finally for that God be known by human. if is impossible that animals or angels know God well.
for knowing God free will and wisdom and a world mixed with good and evil is needed.
God is absolute knowledge and not need improving knowledge.
"If you can predict the weather it does not mean you can overtake God and his knowledge. God need not worry about that."
I mean if God can predict you, this do not have any conflict with your free will. they are two separate things and no conflict.
"I guess I answered this before. Here one more time"
you reply question by question.
if you want answer, it is Allah, Allah created every thing including nature and soul and any thing.
you showed this link and I want to show this link has mistakes. so it should can reply who/what created us? it claims [GOD NEVER CREATED US] and I disagree this.
"It could be any God except Allah."
among all Gods I heard only Allah can be real God. each other have problems/disadvantages/weak/disabilities/made by human/ or other problems that show they can not be real God. a God should be absolute power and create universe and nature and all things. a statue created by human can not be God. God is creator of human, not human is creator of God.
"If that is the case then existence of God needs a cause and what is this cause anyway?"
this has only one exception and it is God.
"--> I think it talks about many death and births endlessly."
ok, is there any evidence we have many death and births endlessly? only one solid evidence. then I agree.
Koran strongly disagree this and say each human only have one life in world and then return to God and go to Heaven or Hell according rules of Koran.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
you can ask how many questions about Allah. 40 question or 400 or more.
I respect you but why I should never ask question about Hindu gods?
Allah created every thing.
maybe Brahma is a metaphor for creation power of God.
we call them names of God:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Islam
more than one God is impossible.
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
please show only one conflict.
that link says nature has no start and end. I thing it has more conflict with science and age of earth.
"Islam god came into existence approximately 1300 yrs ago"
who said this?
Koran came in 1400 years ago, not Allah. Koran says Allah is first of all firsts and end of all ends.
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/28:70
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/57:3
Allah is only the Arabic translate of God. Allah is not new. Koan is new. Allah is God in Arabic.
"there are gods in every culture and each is better than other god/s and religion, "
why each is better? it is impossible many God and each be better.
each people think their God is better. human has errors and has limited knowledge. and not all thinks of all people are truth.
"Laws are created by human for human."
not all laws. if so please say me the name of human who made law of gravity. Newton? he only discovered it, not create it.
"Are you a personal secretary of God?"
No, God is absolute power and do any work only by Intend:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/36:82
but it will be my honor if God accept me as a servant:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/4:36
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/2:21
http://tanzil.net/#search/quran/%D8%B9%D8%A8%D8%AF (please click for translate)
Osama is not Muslim. why you think he is or was Muslim? because TV say such? are you sure such Osama exist at all? are you sure it is not fiction?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loose_Change_%28film%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamophobia
also Islam is what is i Koran and Muslim is who do instructions of Koran. Islam is not defined by ugly manners of bad Muslims. Islam is not for Iranians or Arab countries. Koran always says it is a message for all universeS. not only for Iran or saudi Arabia:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/21:107
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/3:108
http://tanzil.net/#search/quran/%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%86
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
yes, God can do any thing. but he do not want. he designed this world as it is. if all people see and ensure about God then all obey God like animals and angels and human/free will/wisdom/life in world will have no meaning.
this world should have good, evil, free will, wisdom to God be known.
"This how Allah keeps control on you and living in your memory. He keeps banning other’s good ideas calling its from Satan. What a evil Allah!"
you are free to do any thing. but we obey God. see you at Judgement day.
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/6:70
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/2:6
also see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9ance
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/3:59
I believe it is deviation in bible that he is son of God. but IF in original bible (bible of before death of Jesus (peace on him)) is said that he is son of God then Indeed it is metaphor.
"Similarly i consider Mohammad being a prophet of God also a metaphor."
why you say that?
he was a real human and real prophet of God. why he is metaphor? 1.5 billion Muslim in world consider him a real human and a real prophet of God. and you say he is metaphor? do you have any evidence for that?
"I just don’t like the cruel part (like punishment, killing infidels etc..) of Koran"
I hate punishment too.
but please reply me do we have other option against God? we are forced to be alive and we are forced to die. we can kill our body, but we can not kill our soul. our soul will have a new body at judgement day after death and at the end of world all death humans of history will become alive and each human will have a balance sheet of deeds in his neck and will be calculated and will go to Heaven or Hell:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/17:13
can you escape death?
if no so you are not free.
"I think it is better to get rid of those suras for the good of whole humanity."
No, it is escaping from problem. but escaping from problem does not solve it. while you can not escape death pleas do not say that.
better is to obey God and be free at Heaven.
do you know what is the secret of becoming free?
***a good servant has potency to become free.***
if you love God, God loves you and who is beloved of God becomes like God. when God Intend any thing say to it "Be" and it becomes and you say be and becomes.
when a human enters Heaven receives a letter:
"from who is eternal and never die to who is eternal and never die,
when I Intend some thing I say to it be and it becomes. and when you want some thing say to it be and it becomes."
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
Please explain "He".
According your definition of fiction can you prove Koran is fiction?
OK thanks. I want to do a research about Vedas and perhaps translate them as a book for use in Iran. if I found them from God.
"For ex when the earth was believed to be flat, Koran had no problem with that."
Koran does not change the understanding of Muslims change. Usually Muslims are lazy people and do not enough research in Koran. But this do not mean Koran had people. Koran has many secrets and is not easy and clear and detailed (but first level is clear and simple) and needs research for discovering scientific facts from it. Can you show an error in Koran?
Koran is not changed from 14000 years ago. It includes knowledge of past and future. But understanding of people change. If you learn Arabic you know no one has changed Koran words. But commentaries of Koran change every year.
"Plz list out those deviated holy books."
Like Torah and Bible. All holy books are deviated or un amiable today.
Yes I am interested in respectful rewards . But God is better then rewards of Heaven. If you have God you have all.
"Would you plz list out some here."
That long. At least please look this:
http://www.al-islam.org/gallery/kids/Books/unseen/title.htm
Or more detailed:
http://www.al-islam.org/the-hereafter/
"except those evil suras are"
What sura or ayah you mean? You have evidence or they are evil by your think?
"Yes how can he?"
How can what? Prophet did not pay any wage to any soldier. They came to war for satisfaction of God. God said: I punish them by your hand:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/9:14
Please do not prejudice about "them". They are who ensured about truth then denied truth. "them" are special defined people. Not all who are not Muslims. Non-Muslims are respected and welcomed to talk in Islam.
"I’m just saying had
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
Yes 100%. They had many famous poem competitions also. Many books and scientists from other countries and religions came to Arabia for discuss and Muslims was going to all countries for learning sciences. Please study this. All famous religions was known by them well.
(please wait for rest of my comments. I am going to a short travel)
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
they wanted to compete Koran but could not. if you have a Arab friend please ask about beauty of Koran.
"In short the whole book of Koran."
so you do not know Koran. have you read it all?
"and compare them with Koran.
in my opinion Koran is not fiction at all. please show one evidence for your claim.
"You obviously left out Koran from the list."
why? evidence?
"if you believe in me i 'll make the earth a heaven for everyone including believers and non-believers"
now at least one believer can be found in earth. so why each is not heaven for all?
"I would like to hear from someone who returned earth after death."
this is impossible. after death there is no opportunity for backing to world.
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/23:99
"[Surah 4:89"
how you translate Koran?
please first read the correct translate:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/4:89
killing has many rules in Koran and not all non-Muslims should be killed.
do you consider that verse satanic? why?
"this is what you said "no, he could not do so." "
prophet do not wanted to control people. he "Guided" people and some believed him and some did not believe him and some started war with him and wanted to kill him.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
Vedas are off-topic here. please come here:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/3062/are_vedas_from_god_like_torah.html
"-->what is your evidence against Bible & Tora?"
they are deviated partially. please see here:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/815/the_end_of_the_world.html
but some more original versions of them exist but not in hand of people.
"-->Heard about Somalia and its hunger? heard about middle east and killing? heard about Pakistan and suicide bombers?"
yes heard. and God is looking them.
"-->then don't talk about heaven and hell."
backing to world (life in earth) is possible. but Going to Hell or Heaven is possible. they are not called world. world means life in earth. Heaven and Hell are not in our material universe. they are very bigger than our universe. only the width of one garden of one believer is as long as all the universe:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/3:133
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/57:21
earth, world, material universe, universe are each different of other.
"-->this site can't be relied upon. it is a propaganda site. "
so please any reliable text of Koran you have.
"--> yes killing is a Satan's forte. "
even if God want you kill some one? so judges who order execution are Satan?
"God is pure love."
if so then why such God is looking his people have cancer/HIV/disasters,....? this is really loving them?
"look at the middle eastern countries now."
yes. what is the relation of middle eastern countries now and prophet? you mean eastern countries are really doing instructions of prophets?
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
do you think more than one God is possible?
this is out of topic here. please continue this topic here:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/3023/is_more_than_one_god_possible.html
"Updating Antivirus is required for small computers"
God (Allah) does not need any update.
we as humans need updating religion (antivirus) against a big enemy: Satan.
Satan is updating cheats every day for sending human to Hell.
"So we need more than one God"
what is the relation? we need father and mother for creating a child. why two God? you mean Mather and father are two God?
"A God who send a messenger is a weakling"
you mean God does not send messenger? so who sends holy books like bible, vedas,...?
how God sends message?
"You assume a lot about God."
do you agree or disagree them?
"If that is the case he should have appeared in front of all humans."
in that case all humans would be destroyed. first God is not material to can be seen by eye of head. and by eye of wisdom, no eye can see God. for example can you see sun direct? like sun no one can see God. human has not capacity to see God direct.
Knowing God is not only seeing it. for example if you see a book or some one do you know it?
the level of knowledge or power of some one how can be known by only seeing him?
"You keep contracting yourself. Some time you say you need an updated religion."
I mean humans need updating religion because era/life/tech/human change. not God need change.
God changes religion because needs of human to religion changes in time.
"God is all knowing. He doesn't have to predict."
I agree you. I mean God knows future and past.
"Allah is created by Brahma."
evidence? who created Brahma?
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
http://www.ted.com/conversations/3023/is_more_than_one_god_possible.html
"-->not correct. God (except Allah) does not need any update."
God and Allah are the same. different language.
"-->The first human was created by their father and mother, the God couple. A single God can't do that."
this is if you amuse God is human. human is male and female. but God is not human or animal.
God does not need any thing for creating human. you mean God is human and make sex for creating human?
so all fathers are god?
"God send messages thru dreams. Heard about Muhammad and his dreams? "
what you mean?
"No one will be dead just by seeing him."
no one has such ability to see God direct. example is looking at sun.
">true. thats why i'm saying Koran is a fiction. If one can't see God because of the level of power and knowledge, one can't write a book about God's plan either."
we can not not know God as it is. but we can know God as we can.
God is knowable but not 100%.
"there is no one absolute final religion."
so please say why God did not send any more religion after Islam?
"-->Good point. but he(God) made a mistake by creating us. he should have kept himself with his wife."
God is merciful and if did not create us he was not merciful.
God is alone and not have any wife or child.
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/112:1
"Brahma is the first cause."
if Brahma is really the first cause so Brahma and Allah are one with two name.
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
please show your evidence.
"Because they are the real god. Would you question your dad of your existence?"
why real God should not be asked? does real God fear?
if have question about existence I ask from my father or other.
"Only one God is also impossible."
why?
"Would you plz explain more?"
I mean is it possible a material (nature) have no start? science says the age of nature is 14 Billions years:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang
so how you say nature is stateless?
also wisdom says it is impossible to history be startless. finally one time nature started.
"Koran is the proof."
please show the verse you mean.
www.tanzil.net
"It doesn’t even sound like any syllable Allah. "
it is not needed to a word in different languages be like. they can be different. for example potato is same in all languages? meaning is important. not spell.
By the way Sanskrit is the language of God/s.
at different times God selected different languages and final was Arabic.
"I hope you understand what I’m trying to say."
what you try to say?
"Sharia laws are created by primitive people."
about Islam they are all extracted from Koran and each religion law (sharia law) is from one or more verse of Koran. and Koran is not from human.
"This is a slave mentality. "
yes, evidence is simple: death. can you escape death? if no so you are slave.
"You will never grow."
why? what is relation of slave think and grow? a slave can grow if Lord encourage and reward growing of slave.
"video message"
how much is age of video?
at 1400 years ago there was no video. Koran is not message for only us. it is for all humans from 1400 years ago until end day of world. so it for past of us and us and future of us. and God selected this media for messaging. message is important. not how it is sent. usually sender decide about it.
"But when the religion itself is bad'
evidence?
Islam=Koran
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
first infinite birth or death is impossible rationally.
second Koran says that. and Koran is not a simple book. we accepted Koran is from God and not changed by many proofs.
"Real God is real and no questioning required. simple."
but I have doubt about your real God.
"--> two gods are needed to create a powerless God, Allah."
Gods are humans or animals and need sex to create?
for example you create a new idea in your mind from nothing before it. do you have two male and female mind? our mind has power of creating. but idea. not material. creating is from nothing. production is from raw material.
"-->No God."
so what?
"-->i'm not talking about physical growth."
me too. if lord want a slave grow spiritually?
Allah is not human/animal/material. male and female is for materials.
"correct. your point, Allah is the first cause. my point, Brahma is the first cause."
OK, so we have no debate. one thing with two name. better to know it more.
"--> when was Koran written?"
near 1400 years ago by some followers of prophet. the prophet himself was unread and could not write even his own name. suddenly at age of 40 he was in a cave for yearly mediation (before anything existed in the name of Islam) and heard some amazing voices:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/96:1
he said: I can not. again voice said:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/96:1
and Muhammad started saying verses of Koran from memory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad
prophet only said Koran from revelations he heard or entered in his mind. and many people around him memorized or wrote it.
"-->God is not a potato. "
I mean name of one thing in different languages is not necessarily the same.
"-->I read this statement whenever i want to have a good laugh rolling on the floor."
I mean holy books like Torah/Bible/Koran and Vedas (if it is from God, I have not researched it yet) and other holy books from God.
are not them in different languages?
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
what you mean? Koran was the final drop (revelation) of God.
if you mean Osams videos they are not from God.
"But when the religion itself is bad' evidence?"
-->Koran.
this is claim again. what is evidence?
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
why? this is rational. why fun.
for example you can cut your hand. but you do not want. then you are making fun?
being able and not doing is not fun. Indeed there is a reason for not doing.
"Because there is no Allah."
and proof?
"Why you make assumption about God?"
one reason is death. can you escape angel of death?
"When there is a flaw in the system"
what flaw you mean?
but at that case also solving is better.
"so we can have a happy life as long we live here."
yes. but when no conflict with satisfaction of God. if satisfying God has conflict with loving neighbor then what? I do not prefer neighbor against Hell.
"It is that so simple huh?"
yes, that for absolute power and knowledge.
"Such a God can also say let there be a no fight, no disease, no death."
yes can. but if want. and about this world he does not want. if so then human would be animal and
free will would exist. this is plan of God that human have free will. and human (Satan) make war.
"Nope, not for me. You must be living in a magic land. "
it is for Heaven.
also here you can create Idea in your mind in such way. but do not can create material in such way. but in Heaven it is possible.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
yes, I mean if God can do some thing should do it? there are many things God can do but do not want to do them.
"--> Oh Allah the the only one please appear in front of me now. Ooops. he didn't show up."
if you could look direct to sun you can look to God direct. this is only a sample and God is not comparable with sun. you can not look God direct. only can know God some by attributed of God.
also not seeing does not mean not exist. you do not see air. show me air in front of me to I believe air exist.
"--> your point is God exists because of our death."
No, death is a reason for that we are not free.
"so if you make assumption"
i do not make assumption. I am rational and not need making assumption. I only accept anything is rational. and what I say is from Koran. and I accepted Koran is from God and not changed by many rational proofs. then I use Koran as a base and help for my knowledge and wisdom.
but I agree there are many religions based on human made assumptions.
"--> God is all loving and kind. but he is also a tyrant. "
God is both loving and punisher. but not cruel. God is punisher for who disobey him and loving for who obey him. also God is merciful equal to all humans (obeying or disobeying). for example God gives food/hand/eye/air/water,... equal to all humans. this is merciful.
"-->God doesn't need to be satisfied. he is not a human."
yes. but we need to satisfy God to we can escape fire of Hell. satisfy means obeying God.
"-->so you know what does he want and not want?"
yes I know according to message of God (Koran)
" but why God want and doesn't want anything?"
God wants many things and does not want many things. for example God wanted to create human.
and God does not want peace in all the world. because God created world and human because God Intended to be known. and God can be known by attributes (powerful, merciful,....) and such attributes only can be known only where goods/evils/free will exist.
Nicholas Lukowiak 50+
Reality - "is the state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or may be thought to be. In a wider definition, reality includes everything that is and has been, whether or not it is observable or comprehensible. A still more broad definition includes everything that has existed, exists, or will exist, not just in the mind, or even more broadly also including what is only in the mind." (Wikipedia)
If fundamentalist believed God was reality, that would be a hard argument to perform. However this is not the case. God started from literature/spoken oral stories and came off of the pages/words into a belief system called religion, that is the reality of the major religions.
What is beyond life? It simply cannot be heaven/hell that would mean there really is, as Sky had said, infinite life. Life ends so new life can begin that is nature. Nature is the only absolution we understand as human beings. What is beyond life is more life, your lineage, your legacies, your continuing history, and you exist forever through the lessons you made apparent to be of value. Want to live forever, In term of thoughts? Be an Aristotle, a Descartes, a Bob Marley, a Jesus, etc. Want to live forever physically? Transhumanism is an ideology focused on doing that.
What is faith? "Faith is the confident belief or trust in the truth or trustworthiness of a person, concept or thing." (I love wikipedia)
My faith is in "lessons of love and their benefits". (Refer to updated talk of "What is love?") Faith should NOT be where you focus/create your thoughts, but what inspires them. I hope when I die that my ideas would be taken and reused to help benefit others, that is more valuable to me than being warm and safe on a cushy cloud looking down at people making mistakes over and over and over again.
Sky F
Nicholas Lukowiak 50+
You cannot change someones mind if they are not accepting of you first. This is what education has taught me the most.
Edited:I still don't see what is funny dude, dictate.
Sky F
I think it's those who think 'when we die we're dead' that find that life is TRULY meaningful!
Helen Hupe 30+
Helen Hupe 30+
qwerty qwerty
A person who does a lot of crime, who kills maybe several people gets what? The worst he can get would be lifetime or death penalty. OK, but is that enough? Does that justify what he did? He killes several people. By killing them he has caused a lot of sadness, stress in the families, children, community. Maybe those children will never be the same. Because their mother, or father, or friend died... Maybe they will grow in anger, grow in revenge. This could be enlarged. The point here is that no penalty suffices the crime of killing other people. Take Hitler for example. He is responsible for so many deaths and what happened? He committed suicide. So is it done for him? Is he gone? I mean is it all over for him? My mind does not accept that, my feelings does not accept that. There should be sth, sth big sth powerful sth divine that will punish him. The conscience, the human thinking requires sth like this. Otherwise the life would be totally unfair. Agree or not? This will not happen here. This will happen in the afterlife. The afterlife where God will be the sole Judge. Where each person will face eery single thing he has done in this life- whether good or bad. And I mean every single, tiny bits as well.
For people who do not accept afterlife is because they do not believe in things they do not see. They simply think for sth to exist it needs to be there- in front of you. Thats not the case. Trying to define everything by science or luck or probability is just misleading. A baby falling from the tenth floor- what is the possibility for that baby to live? I would say sth close to zero. But yet we see on the news that he survives. Now, how's that possible? There must have been sth that prevented him. And science cannot explain this. Probability or luck certainly does not. So God wanted him to live. Thats it.
Will continue.
Colleen Steen 500+
Each and every person can decide how meaningful or meaningless his/her life can be, and will often make choices based on that belief. My observations of life and people tell me that those who find meaning in life, including me, are not as concerned with an after life, but rather, more aware of the here and now. We are on this earth NOW, and we have the choice to contribute to it in a productive, meaningful way....or not. It gives me pleasure to care about people and the environment. It is that joy, I want to experience here and now, regardless of what is in store for me after the body dies. I do believe that we are energy beings, and our energy moves on. However, I don't live my life based on that belief. It is more interesting, exciting, productive, fullfilling, adventuresome, exploratory, joyful, and science is recognizing that we are generally more healthy when we have meaning in our lives.
You ask: "What's the point of living life with no hope of something greater than the observable, physical world?" The "physical world" is what we make of it. How would our world be, if we were all dedicated to making this physical world the best it could possibly be? For me, part of that process is accepting and appreciating that we all have different beliefs.
Austin R 20+
My problem is my mind always wants fixate on the future. It would be blissful to only be aware of the "here and now", but my curiosity will not allow it.
Colleen Steen 500+
Austin R 20+
Colleen Steen 500+
Don't "should" on yourself. Be all that you can be whenever you can "be":>)
Matthieu Miossec 100+
Here's a quote by Douglas Adams that sums up what I think:
"Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
Here's another one by Richard Dawkins:
"People sometimes say, there must be more than just this world, than just this life, but how much more do you want? We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because theyre never going to be born. The number of people that could be here in my place outnumber the sand grains of sahara. If you think about all the different ways our genes could be permuted you and i are quite grotesquely lucky to be here, the number of events that had to happen in order for you to exist, in order for me to exist. We are privilaged to be alive and we should make the most of our time on this world."
It's sad you can't even recognise how lucky you are. Yes, death is a really unpleasant idea, but making up some deity in the hopes to ultimately cheat it doesn't work. Maybe consider getting cryogenically frozen?
Austin R 20+
My question is primarily focused on the transience of life, not on life itself. When I said "Isn't everything meaningless?" I meant to imply "...after everything is said and done." If nothing in existence is everlasting, then there is only temporary significance in existing.
Here is my proof:
Life is meaningful while we live.
There is no meaning while we do not exist.
Any finite number when contrasted to infinity is virtually zero.
The ratio for which we do exist ('x' time) compared to when we do not (infinite time) is 'x' (a finite number) to infinity.
Therefore, life is essentially meaningless.
EDIT: There is no meaning when no life exists.
Vasil Rangelov 50+
That's where you're wrong.
Every scientist/politician/artist... every historical person you can think of... their life has a meaning even though they do not exist any longer. It has a meaning because their achievements have shaped our society and in turn give meaning to our lives in one way or another. Because we remember them and what they did. Even the bad ones... like Hitler, Napoleon and Sadam Husein, giving us good examples of how we should NOT treat others, are people who's meaning of life has transcended life itself, even though that life is no longer.
So... everything IN life is meaningless after death, but life itself is not meaningless even after death.
Colleen Steen 500+
YES! A garden is beautiful no matter what!!!:>)
Austin,
If you believe life is meaningless, that is a choice you make regarding how you live your life, and it is the reality you create for yourself. You don't need to wait for someone else to tell you it is meaningless or meaningful. Make your own choices to make life what you want it to be.
Vasil,
I agree with you that we contribute to the meaning of life all the time, and when we are gone, we may leave something behind. We touch each others lives all the time in small or very significant ways. As you have mentioned Vasil, even those we think of as not so good, have left their marks on the world, and it is meaningful if only as a way for us to learn how NOT to treat others.
Austin R 20+
Sorry, I was unclear. "we" = "all life"
If you do not believe in a higher power: There must have been an infinite regression of time before our Universe came into being, correct? And isn't it a popular theory that the Universe goes through cycles of imploding and exploding? So, when the Universe implodes or life in it ends one way or another, there is no more meaning. Hence, there is no meaning when no life exists.
Colleen Steen 500+
Perhaps that is a good argument for living in the here and now with meaning?
The question: "Isn't everything meaningless without faith in anything beyond this life?" Whether or not one lives a life dependant on something in the after life doesn't really matter, does it? Whatever gives meaning to our lives, wherever the motivation comes from, is important. How we give our lives meaning is a choice.
Vasil Rangelov 50+
But even if the cycles of explosion/implosion was the truth, there's still the possibility of there being other universes or of us working around the laws of the universe in order to preserve ourselves. Once upon a time, the thought of something on Earth going to the sun or moon was considered impossible and "other planets" sounded as abstract as "other universes" sounds today. Not anymore. Who's to say humanity won't one day be able to do what is currently unimaginable and will remain such in our life time?
Austin R 20+
I can agree with that.
@Vasil
If humans can actually create some way to survive the whole Universe imploding, then you are right. I see that as virtually impossible, but there is no way of knowing for sure.
I know this is going off on a tangent but... Vasil, what is your personal opinion of how the Universe began? I am curious.
Matthieu Miossec 100+
Colleen Steen 500+
I'm a little confused by your statement: "What does it matter if life has no meaning after your dead? Enjoy it. Life is without meaning even while you're alive".
You believe that life has no meaning after we're dead, and it has no meaning while we're alive? That's a choice you make and I respect your choice.
You also say "enjoy it". For me, the enjoyment of life gives it meaning. Doesn't it for you?
Matthieu Miossec 100+
Colleen Steen 500+
Only the meaning that one gives to their own life which is down to each individual.
I respect your belief that life does not have universal meaning or purpose.
I also respect those who share the idea that life DOES have universal meaning and purpose.
So, we agree that it comes down to each individual to choose what he/she believes:>)
It seems that there is no one concrete answer to the question.
Vasil Rangelov 50+
"I know this is going off on a tangent but... Vasil, what is your personal opinion of how the Universe began? I am curious."
The current scientific theories about the origin of the universe are so numerous and mind boggling, IMHO more so than any religious claim, that it's next to impossible to say "IMHO, that's the one".
The big bang sounds like the most plausible to me for now, but if there was further evidence supporting the implosion/explosion cycle, I suppose that would make sense too if this cycle once had a start at some point along this "pendulum". It's hard for me to imagine something without a start, though I can imagine it with no end. When you draw a circle, you're always starting at a point, even though eventually you're reaching that same starting point.
There's also the various multi-verse theories that if true will just compound the problem further. Once upon a time, people asked "How did our world/planet came to be? Are there others?", now we ask "How did our universe came to be? Are there others?". If we live in a multi-verse of some sort, we'll start asking "How did the multi-verse we live in came to be? Are there others?".
Austin R 20+
""How did our universe came to be? Are there others?". If we live in a multi-verse of some sort, we'll start asking "How did the multi-verse we live in came to be? Are there others?"."
Who knows... one day we may come to the conclusion that anything that can exist, does exist, meaning that all possibilities are also realities. Why should we constrain reality to a finite amount of events? To assume our Universe is the only one is massively restricted thinking. :) (my two cents)
Vasil Rangelov 50+
That's just one of the many multi-verse theories.
BTW, theories other than the big bang are always supersets of it... as far as the big bang itself is concerned, there's too much evidence to not consider it True. Here's a video that sums up the evidence (if not for anything, you'll enjoy the cosmic visuals; I know I did):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PqJ2eEzD3o
Austin R 20+
Good talk that addresses this question!
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
everything meaningless without faith in anything beyond this life.
universe is a game?
universe is for what?
why universe exist in this form?
why universe exist?
why earth turn around sun?
is there any reason?
why we are in earth?
where we were before cumming to this world?
where we go after death?
what is the goal of universe?
when we die and we become soil and bone, then we become alive again?
is death finish?
what is death?
can we escape death?
does death have a drug?
Austin R 20+
Vasil Rangelov 50+
universe is a game? - No. It's more like a mechanism.
universe is for what? - Must it be for anything? The fact the stuff we make has a meaning doesn't mean there couldn't be stuff made by no one with no meaning... like rocks.
why universe exist in this form? - Scientists are working on it. The ideal proposition is that there's a single universal action that always happens on some scale we can't observe yet... like the bit addition operation in a computer, which is the base for everything else in it.
why universe exist? - Why shouldn't it exist?
why earth turn around sun? - My guess (just guess) is fractal-like characteristic of the universe. Electrons turn around a nucleus, planets turn around starts, starts turn around galaxies... for all we know, galaxies could be turning around a larger structure and going on to a point where we might be part of a giant being.
is there any reason? - Maybe not. Like I said, the above is just a guess, a shot in the dark, so maybe there is no meaning.
why we are in earth? - Because it had the right conditions for our kind of life. We could've arisen on another planet with different conditions, but we would be a different kind of life then.
where we were before cumming to this world? - In the cum (sorry, couldn't resist). If you drop the notion of "soul", you'll see you were everywhere... and nowhere... the particles that eventually formed you were everywhere, but what you define as "you" was still nowhere.
where we go after death? - back to the rest of the mechanism.
what is the goal of universe? - See "universe is for what?".
is death finish? - Definitely the end of something.
what is death? - The stop of a sub-mechanism in the larger mechanism of the universe.
can we escape death? - Possibly.
does death have a drug? - Considering that our brain is constantly under some kind of drugs, death is more like not having any drugs.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2142/why_our_universe_has_laws_of_p.html
universe is for what? - Must it be for anything? The fact the stuff we make has a meaning doesn't:
must not be for anything?
mean there couldn't be stuff made by no one with no meaning... like rocks:
are you sure rock is made by no one?
why universe exist in this form? - Scientists are working on it:
OK, so we should wait for scientist? we can not think? we not have wisdom? they only way of knowledge is waiting for scientists?
why universe exist? - Why shouldn't it exist?:
anyway now universe exist. this is a fact.
why earth turn around sun? - My guess (just guess) is fractal-like characteristic of the universe. Electrons turn around a nucleus, planets turn around starts, starts turn around galaxies... for all we know, galaxies could be turning around a larger structure and going on to a point where we might be part of a giant being:
why sun and electrons are always turning in same way? why they not change their way?
is there any reason? - Maybe not. Like I said, the above is just a guess, a shot in the dark, so maybe there is no meaning:
maybe is not truth. human heart become calm just by truth.
why we are in earth? - Because it had the right conditions for our kind of life. We could've arisen on another planet with different conditions, but we would be a different kind of life then:
OK, right condition. but why we came in earth? why not any other planet? who chooses earth?
Vasil Rangelov 50+
are you sure rock is made by no one? - even if they were made by someone/something, that doesn't stop the maker of doing them without meaning i.e. for no real purpose other than to, say, entertain himself.
OK, so we should wait for scientist? we can not think? we not have wisdom? they only way of knowledge is waiting for scientists? - No. There's also the way of you actually becoming a scientist yourself and actually proposing and/or doing something that can prove your claims/conclusions/logic. In the case of proposals, you can do that even without formally being a scientist. You just need to present an idea that could be tested in some fashion or present an alternative interpretation that doesn't contradict with any evidence science has so far. If you're brave enough to present it to a scientist that has the resources and will to execute the test, you might actually contribute something to our understanding of the universe, regardless of the test results.
why sun and electrons are always turning in same way? why they not change their way? - Actually, electrons do change their way. They're moving (seemingly) chaotically within an orbital, but not on a fixed orbit. And some planets (in solar systems other than ours) do change their orbit too.
maybe is not truth. human heart become calm just by truth. - No it's not. It's also calm by belief, as evidenced by yourself. As long as there's ANY explanation that seems plausible (and therefore believable), that's enough for the human heart/mind.
OK, right condition. but why we came in earth? why not any other planet? who chooses earth? - Again, if it wasn't Earth, it wouldn't have been "we", it would be someone else. Before life, there was no life, therefore no choice.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
and then become alive again from that mechanism. like when you created inside your mother from soil. (your mother eat food and all foods are finally from soil). so you are created from soil and this can happen again.
what is the goal of universe? - See "universe is for what?".
is death finish? - Definitely the end of something.:
can you prove you will not become alive again?
what is death? - The stop of a sub-mechanism in the larger mechanism of the universe.
can we escape death? - Possibly:
what is evidence of this possibility? even 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000001%, please accept the true fact. no human can escape angle of death. death prove human is not free. just God is alive for ever.
does death have a drug? - Considering that our brain is constantly under some kind of drugs, death is more like not having any drugs:
yes, Indeed
all disease has drug but death.
Vasil Rangelov 50+
Make that "particles of soil". Yes. My mother ate food that is made of particles from various things, soil being among them. And yes, I'm made of particles from various sources, including particles from the food my mother ate. But the chances of the same particles ever appearing together in the same configuration after they're scattered after my death is next to none.
can you prove you will not become alive again? - I can't. Even if I was to arise, death is still the end of my last life instance... so it's still the end of something. What is that thing is a separate question.
what is evidence of this possibility? - Increased life expectancy from 20 to 40, and nowadays to 60, 80 and more. Maybe we'll keep going till we reach a point of immortality. Maybe we never will. But this 300% increase does raise the possibility.
no human can escape angle of death. - Yet.
all disease has drug but death. - a drug isn't necessarily something that cures you. By "drug" I mean any specifically defined chemical composition that has some known effect on your body. This includes cures, but also includes narcotics, poisons, perfumes and gases. Note also those can be (and typically are) generated from your body itself, rather than from taking something in.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
all foods your mother eat is finally from soil. what is other source of food?
meat is from animals and animals eat plants and plants eat particles of soil.
what is chance of happening a baby from particles of soil? its like chance of arise again after death.
life expectancy just increase life time.even life time is 1000 years or 100,000 years at last it is death.
maybe science reach long life. but if it not happen at our life, what we should do?
Deaven Morris
Vasil Rangelov 50+
Study medicine, biology, genetics and all that science stuff. If you consider yourself too old, encourage kids that they should study it. The more minds working on this, the higher the chances of it eventually happening. And hope it happens before you die (BTW, you can "hope" without "praying"). We surely won't get there if we don't try, same way we didn't get into space without trying to focus our scientific research at the goal.
And on the rest, Deaven Morris covered it.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
I agree most of your sayings.
please also consider possibility of having meaning. why just possibility of no meaning?
if we do not know what is use of a rock better to say "I do not know"
I mean direction of turning electrons and moon and earth, not spin.
they not change their direction and also earth not change the way around sun. does not this show they are enforced? so what is enforcer? is it possible some thing is enforced with no enforcer?
heart is calm by belief when you can ensure yourself its true belief. so we should search to find true.
just this plant has water in universe. (as we know today). what is the chance life start at the same planet with water.
Deaven Morris
I don't need someone clinging on to my ankles to stop me from flying away, I just can't.
Vasil Rangelov 50+
How many times do I have to say this? I accept the possibility of there being a meaning. It's not "just possibility of no meaning". What I'm saying is that based on the current evidence, the universe has no meaning, and therefore I take this as true UNTIL there is evidence that suggests it has. I AM open-minded. I DO accept alternative ideas to those I currently hold. I'm just not accepting them as true without evidence.
"I mean direction of turning electrons and moon and earth, not spin."
The argument holds. When I say "change", I mean including direction. There are such things in both planets and atoms. The only difference is that the orbit of distant planets, while changing, is still predictably doing so, while electron's orbitals change unpredictably to our current knowledge (maybe they change their positions predictably too, we just don't know how yet).
'if we do not know what is use of a rock better to say "I do not know"'
I thought the mind is not satisfied with not knowing according to you (which I disagree with; My mind is perfectly satisfied with not knowing, as long as there's a possible explanation)... so how is that better? As far as I'm concerned, currently, there is no evidence that a rock has a purpose, therefore UNTIL there is evidence of a rock having purpose, I am not considering that it has. That doesn't mean the rock has no purpose. It only means we can't bring the purpose or lack thereof of a rock as evidence for anything else.
In essence, yes, that we don't know, but without evidence, we shouldn't take any claim such as "the rock has a meaning" or "the rock has no meaning" as True and let it influence the life and behavior of everyone and serve as part of further explanations about the things around us. We simply can't use it as a referencing point for any other claim, including, but not limited to, God's existence, for which the same thing applies.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"It doesn't show that there is an enforcer it just shows that Newton was mostly correct."
please read this and say your comment:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2142/why_our_universe_has_laws_of_p.html
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
what if that UNTIL not happen before your death and God exist and you go to Hell?
why you not take this as false UNTIL there is evidence that suggests it has not?
this is like we say (in a town not have an earthquake never before)
why we make expensive safe home? earthquake will not happen, and therefore I take this as true UNTIL there is evidence that suggests earthquake will happen.
if Hell exist at least 0.00000001 % because it is unlimited and Hell has no end time and is for ever so the rational people consider at least min. chance for it. you know:
epsilon*unlimited=unlimited
this is like chance of earthquake in a town never had earthquake before.
Vasil Rangelov 50+
If my lack of faith in God and/or heaven and hell is the only reason I'm sent to hell, I'd be honored to go there, because the kind of God that sends good people to hell is a tyrant, and I don't worship tyrants.
And if I'm a bad person for other reasons that I'm not aware of, then I suppose I'd go to hell anyway, with or without kissing God's behind.
Nicholas Lukowiak 50+
Sky F
My mom committed suicide. The logic I've had is this: She's either in hell for doing that, or heaven because she was a good person. With that said, if she's in hell, why would I want to be in heaven? If she's in heaven, why should I continue living the rest of my life if suicide can take me to paradise?
People in my situation, in which one of my closest loved ones is already somewhere, are kind of either screwed no matter what. I get a hard pointless life or an empty afterlife.
That's why I emotionally can't even bring myself to believing in two different places we go for an afterlife.
Colleen Steen 500+
I am so sorry about your mom, and very sorry for your loss.
Vasil makes a good point, and I don't believe in a hell either, nor do I believe that if there is a God, he/she/it would send anyone to an after life of suffering. I think somewhere in the bible, it says we are made in the image and likeness of god, so the teachings seem contradictory to me. God would send him/herself to hell? Doesn't make any sense.
From reading your profile, it seems that you believe in choices, and it doesn't seem that you've made the choice of a "hard pointless life". Perhaps your mom influenced your choice to study neuroscience and health care? The loss of one we love is always a difficult challenge. Apparently, you had a loving relationship and you can try to remember what she has given you. Our lives can have meaning when we believe in ourselves.
My love and energy are with you.
Colleen
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
entering heaven has terms.
heaven is very expensive.
the price of heaven is yourself, so do not sell yourself to any other thing.
Imam Ali (peace on him):
"your price is heaven, so do not sell yourself to any thing cheaper than it"
do not sell yourself to anything like materialism or any .....ism or money or food or any other thing but God.
why God is tyrant? we have no quest on God. we are not worthy to be existed. this is merciful of God tat created us. God is not responsible to anyone.
the isms come and go, but what remains is God and you and your deeds.
heaven does not have just one terms, believe is just first. way of God is not easy. you should immolate (prey ; sacrifice) all of your beloved to then God accept you as his beloved.
God just accept pure love.
God can not see anything in your heart but his pure Love.
finally you should immolate your self.
then you are beloved of God and you become the same as God. then you and God become one, because you reach the level of perdition in God. like a drop in ocean.
God loves his friends and also friends of his friends.
God gives gifts to his friends to make them happy. even forgiving a friend of his friend and bringing him or her to heaven near a friend of God. the best friend of any human after God is his mother.
Muhammad (peace on him):
heaven is under the foot of Mothers.
who his mother is angry with him never enter heaven.
Vasil Rangelov 50+
"if heaven exist, who decide who enter and who not enter? God or other?
entering heaven has terms."
And who set the terms? God or other? If it's God, he should be able to change them. Just because he "automated" the procedure doesn't mean he's not responsible for it. Me being the programmer of a program doesn't lift my responsibility of maintaining the program and changing it for the better. If God has left the "non belief" bug into his program, he's either imperfect for this bug, or he's perfect and this bug is actually a feature, making him a tyrant.
"God is not responsible to anyone."
Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely... and based on the thing about heaven and hell, it seems even God is no exception.
"you should immolate (prey ; sacrifice) all of your beloved to then God accept you as his beloved."
OK, now you're starting to sound like a leader of a dangerous cult.
"God can not see anything in your heart but his pure Love."
And I can see many other things... I thought God can see everything... huh... who's the blind one here then?
"finally you should immolate your self."
Into a skyscraper? OK, sorry... I know you didn't mean it like that. But some people do mean literal self sacrifice, and that includes fundamentalists of all religions and cults alike.
"then you are beloved of God and you become the same as God. then you and God become one, because you reach the level of perdition in God. like a drop in ocean."
Explains why God has turned so imperfect by the time the events of holy scriptures take place then... all those imperfect souls gathering up into him takes its toll.
"God loves his friends and also friends of his friends."
I thought he's "all loving". You're saying he's not? That he loves only his friends? One more reason he's a tyrant then.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
no I am not.
right, sorry about title.
as I know God never change his terms. do have any evidence God change terms?
God is absolute knowledge and so not need to change. change is for who his knowledge is developing.
yes, Power corrupts. but God is not only power. please consider God by his all attributes together:
power+merciful+Love+... then it not corrupts.
"God can not see anything in your heart but his pure Love."
sorry, my English is not perfect. its: God not want to see...
"finally you should immolate your self."
please not "your self", not "yourself". it means killing ambition, pride, love of food, other loves...
please look at this from view of love. its means forgiving somethings against God. for example if you love someone and she know you love other, so she wants to you first forgive other then she love you.
God is perfect and souls are imperfect. why God turned imperfect?
God has given wisdom to all and all have the opportunity to catch heaven. but some people themselves do not go to heaven i.e themselves go to hell. all have the same opportunity. God do not send to hell. people themselves go. the way of heaven is open. God loves who obey him and hates who deny him.
yes, he is "all loving" so created us and send prophets for us to we not go to hell. but when who do not thanks God, God punish him.
all humans has same rights against each other and so tyrant has meaning. but no human has any right against God. so tyrant has no meaning for God. we had not the right to be existed. it is the donor of God and is not tyrant.
Vasil Rangelov 50+
My point exactly. That's what a tyrant does.
"God is perfect and souls are imperfect. why God turned imperfect?"
Something imperfect, if merged with something perfect makes the whole imperfect. Combined with infinity of imperfect souls, God is infinitively imperfect... almost satanic even.
In fact, if we assume each soul merging with God is 99% perfect and God is 100% perfect, then with only 1000 souls merged, God will be 0.00431712% perfect (yeah, I calculated it). If we assume each soul is 99.99% perfect, then God needs 100000 souls to become only 0.00453772% perfect. No matter how minor imperfect a soul is, if merged with God, God becomes imperfect, and soon turns even more corrupt than the souls he merged with.
"as I know God never change his terms. do have any evidence God change terms?"
Oh, so NOW you want evidence? Well, so do I in terms of God's existence. You are the one making the claim he exists. I'm not making the claim he doesn't (i.e. if there was verifiable evidence for his existence, I'd buy it; Holy scriptures are the claims, not the evidence).
"its means forgiving somethings against God."
I don't hold anything against something I don't believe in, so I have nothing to forgive.
Colleen Steen 500+
Please think about your argument.
You say: "God cannot see anything in your heart but his pure love"
"You should immolate your self...it means killing ambition, pride, love of food...other loves"
"God loves who obey him and hates who deny him"
"yes, he is all loving"
S.R., YOU "look at this from view of love", as you say, and decide if a God who is pure love, wants us to kill ambition, pride, love of food and other loves, and who hates those who deny him, is all loving. Seems contradictory to me.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/59:23
who think is higher than God, God smite him.
if God reward to who obey him and who deny him then God is not just and fair.
God is unlimited and God is not material to be imperfect. also all souls and all humans are from God from first. please read this:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2064/what_is_evil_2.html?c=230650
you do not know God well.
please read my comments here on knowing God:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/1599/who_is_god.html
when a soul is close to God and perdition in God, nothing added to God.
God is unlimited and absolute and any thing is not comparable to God even a perfect sprite.
God is not material. you are considering God as material. God will punish materialists:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/17:49
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/17:98
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/23:35
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/23:82
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/37:16
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/37:53
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/56:47
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/79:11
God has many terms (laws) and what or anyone do each deed immediately include laws of God.
God has 99 name (and more) names and each name (attribute) of God has is a law.
for example one name is cutter (cutter of seed) this means when a seed has required needs like soil and water this name of God cuts seed and green seedling comes out.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Islam
Dear Vasil Rangelov, I do not know you and I have no judgement about you. my evils are more than my goods. maybe you are better than me in view of God. just God know what is in heart of people.
"verifiable evidence for his existence, I'd buy it;"
what is your idea about this? its free:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2142/why_our_universe_has_laws_of_p.html
happy to see your comment about it.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
consider you love cigar and at the same time you fall in love of a very beautiful girl and ask her a date, then she tell you: 'if you want my joiner you should forgive cigar first'
then what is your reply?
is there any language you do not know?
oh, found. I think you do not know .NET
Vasil Rangelov 50+
But in that scenario, there is evidence for the girls' existence. And you also see I've matched the criteria before meeting her. I don't need to believe that she exist in order to match the criteria when eventually meeting her. I don't need to believe she'll go on a date with me for her to actually go with me if I match the criteria. I can't imagine her telling me "because you didn't believed I existed before meeting me just now, I won't go out with you, even though you satisfy my criteria".
Actually, now that I think about it, maybe telling to a girl "I didn't believed such a beautiful girl existed" might be a good pick up line.
(See Colleen's statement too)
P.S. Thanks for pointing out the omission of .NET. I know C#, so that's fixed now.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
thanks for your smile.
"if a God who is pure love, "
why you think so? I said such thing?
please look my comments here:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/1585/if_god_is_love_and_love_is_god.html
oh my God, seems it is removed. why???
any how.
again:
God is not Love and Love is not God.
human is beloved of God and God is beloved of human.
God loves human and human loves God.
love is need of heart to visit its beloved.
this is right:
God wants us to love him, a pure love.
is religion anything but love?
Colleen Steen 500+
Thank you. Smiling is fun and loving:>)
I do not choose to look at your comments on another thread. I am following this thread of comments and I quoted from your comment above:
Again: "God can not see anything in your heart but his pure love".
"God loves who obey him and hates who deny him".
"yes, he is all loving"
S.R. One who is "pure love" or "all loving" does not hate.
You wrote it, and it seems to be contradictory. I don't know what your intention is,
but you seem to be making a good argument for NOT believing in a God.
Religion is dogma. It could be love, or not, depending on how it is used.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
do you accept this as an evidence?:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2142/why_our_universe_has_laws_of_p.html
did you look for an evidence and not found or not want to find at all?
haven you any interest in Heaven or any fear of Hell?
is it important for you to know does God exist or not?
Vasil Rangelov 50+
I've told you in that topic: No, because your analogy is invalid.
"did you look for an evidence and not found or not want to find at all?"
How do you think I jumped from atheist (birth), to Christian (child) back to atheist (teen, up to now)? I actually started looking up for evidence, and the more I searched, the more contradictions I saw between what the bible said and what there were evidences for. First there was the claim that those who believe in him were more righteous and good, which was in total contrast to how many priests in my country behave (there are good ones too; point is religion is not a guarantee for righteousness). Then there's the claim God blesses those who believe in him. But then I saw many people, not just in my country, who believe in God, and are still going over sufferings, which dismissed this claim. At that point, I did the evaluation of heaven and hell I talked about before in this conversation, because of the ambiguity in those situations.
I finally thought of God as nothing more than the creator of the universe and saw no reason to worship him, seeing that he's not really with us and probably doesn't care about us if he exists. Later I learned the Quran is filled with just as much of nonsense (like most Christians, the only part I was exposed to was the "wearing burka" thing), though I admit I haven't researched it deeply myself (only watched videos and read articles by other people). I also already knew about ancient Greek and Egyptian Gods... I was already wondering what makes our God any more right than those ones and knew the cosmology theory that the universe started as a gas that formed everything else. I finally learned there were these people called "atheists" who consider God doesn't exist. I wondered if that makes sense. But it was only after I heard the big bang theory that I said "Yes! It all makes sense now! It's not just the biblical God that's made up... the whole concept is!".
Nicholas Lukowiak 50+
I just want to know what you are trying to gain. while you should of been on other threads sharing ideas you continue to be an atheist militant. Dude by all means if it makes you happy. But recognize a losing battle when it is in front of you. S.R has no free ability to give up God, it is not in him, he cannot do it. I know this because even if he understood half of what you were saying he would of given up by now knowing you cannot be converted to his side.
Only bother with those who are actually considering your ideas as even semi-plausible first before you just keep laying it on thick. I am not saying give up on your passion of articulating your arguments, I am saying pick you battles wisely.
A battle with S.R on God, is not, I repeat, not going to end with anything changed. I mean look at his profile. Besides drink clean water God took over his life. You are telling a man who has put God on every level in his life that he is wrong. you are saying his life is wrong.
Would you listen to that argument with an open-mind? Definitely not. Win, by not pursing.
If you could reason with religious people there wouldn't be religious people.
Just some friendly advice Vasil.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
appropriate your comment there and commented it:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2142/why_our_universe_has_laws_of_p.html?c=232626
can I have the honor of seeing your comments here:?
http://www.ted.com/conversations/815/the_end_of_the_world.html
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
I do not care about who accept or not accept and I not see this as battle.
I just have one mission to spread my knowledge in this dark world. nothing else.
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.qaribullah/36:17
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.qaribullah/64:12
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.qaribullah/16:82
Nicholas Lukowiak 50+
Do not make it an effort to change other people's minds, they do not care what you have to say unless they welcome it, ESPECIALLY around religion.
Faith is a touche subject to most, you have to welcomed before it is taken seriously.
If you love God, and his message, that is great, but TED is about ideas worth spreading not ideas that already exist and you are constantly repeating them.
Try a new idea, try saying "god is reality" or "God lies in the need of love", and work on that argument and boy will people have fun debating that with you.
Just stop posting a thousand God comments everywhere, especially in threads that do not involve religion. This one does and I am not telling you to stop it here. In fact post more here if you like, but keep it where God is asked for.
Lastly, try talking about something that has nothing to do with your faith, you may learn something.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
it is knowledge for me and idea for you.
sorry, this is what I can do. you can spread your ideas in your name.
"especially in threads that do not involve religion."
you are right, I am so sorry. this was some cases at beginning of my entering TED and was not familiar with TED (also still). sorry and please forgive me. I did not repeated it.
I think this is a new idea. this is a new perspective to meaning of God
is not it?
Nicholas Lukowiak 50+
I have no hard feelings towards you, I am only giving you advance that I feel is necessary for you. It can be completely wrong, it is my opinion. I do not know how others feel about you. But I feel you are not being open enough to the ideas here on TED. The people here are passionate about their ideas just as much as you are about spreading your ideas about God.
Just live and learn my friend. Keep posting on the "who is god" or "why don't people believe in god" threads strengthen your belief. BUT also take interest in other threads try to learn something new as I do constantly on here.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
belief is in mind and no one can see inside mind.
I am living in Islamic country but I know some atheist people living here but not overture their beliefs.
body can be controlled but thought can not be controled.
anyhow sorry to disturb you.
OK, I continue in "who is god".
Vasil Rangelov 50+
I don't think anyone is really doing anything here for any sort of "gain"... except maybe knowledge. We're exchanging ideas, taking the best of each "set of ideas"... I guess me and S.R. are both "giving" more than we're "taking", but that's probably because I've been taking such things before, plus what you said.
@S.R.
"why you think I am not open enough?"
Well, for one thing, being open minded means accepting any idea as possible (not as true!), and then trying to see if it fits with what you know to be true. We are accepting the idea of God, heaven and hell, and many related... we're putting them on equal ground with our beliefs and knowledge... but they don't stack up with what we know to be true by evidence. We are hoping to see your evaluation on what we present to you as ideas and evidence, and instead of accepting the ideas as possible and seeing how they stack up with everything else you know to be true, you're trying to reject them by further asking why is your idea not right.
"belief is in mind and no one can see inside mind."
Yes. That's sort of Nicholas' point. That not only can I not see the way your mind works, but that I wouldn't be able to change it even if I could, because you're not open minded.
"I am living in Islamic country but I know some atheist people living here but not overture their beliefs."
I assume you mean "admit" instead of "overture"?
Well, that's precisely the kind of discrimination that militant atheists seek to eliminate. I don't mind your beliefs even though I don't agree with them. But if the only reason you believe what you believe is because that's the belief in the country you live, I feel it a moral obligation to present to you an alternative point of view and make you realize your belief is just that - a belief. It's not truth that should be used as a motivator for anything, including discrimination of those who don't agree with the belief. You may not personally be doing that, but your support encourages it.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
sorry my English is not perfect.
Again: "God can not see anything in your heart but his pure love".
"God loves who obey him and hates who deny him".
"yes, he is all loving"
those all I mean Human loves God and God Loves Human.
human needs love. but God not need Love. love of God means God accept human come to nearest possible level to God and gives Human the same attributes of himself.
I Never said God is Love in any post and I disagree this.
"God can not see anything in your heart but his pure love".
I mean God do not wants to human love any thing but God.
"loves" and "loving" and all are verb. and are not noun.
again sorry for my poor language.
Colleen Steen 500+
Your English is good enough to get your point across. It is not your language I question, but rather your belief and motive for repeating the same message over and over again.
You speak of a god who punishes and hates us if we deny him. Hate and punishment comes from fear. You seem to be a man who is afraid, and worships a god who is afraid. Fear creates destruction in our world.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
God is not Love. but God loves some humans. this means Love is an attribute of God. not God itself is Love.
"Hate and punishment comes from fear."
please explain why you say that.
for example a police punishes who cross red line in street. this means polic fear form driver?
or you may hate lie, this means you fear from lie?
hate and punishment comes from power, not from fear.
"a man who is afraid"
yes I am afraid of power of God to punish me.
"god who is afraid" and what is proof?
"Fear creates destruction in our world."
yes, agree.
if God has power to create such large universe, Indeed has power to punish me.
also:
if God is just love and do not hate anything, so why send cancer to his people or burn his beloved in conflagration or kill his beloved in car accident?
does a person who love others do such things to his beloved?
if you love some one burn him?
Vasil Rangelov 50+
So he's not "all loving", but "some loving", OK... that's sort of the point I've been trying to make. And that this trait makes him a tyrant.
"for example a police punishes who cross red line in street. this means polic fear form driver?"
If the police were also the ones to define the law... yes... that would be the case. The reason we have defined red lights is because we're afraid of drivers not giving way to each other which could end with their death or that of those around them, us included if we're there.
"or you may hate lie, this means you fear from lie?"
Well, don't you fear lies? Don't you fear that you may be basing your life on a big lie? Or that someone may have lied to you some time ago for their own mischievous agenda that has nothing to do with your well being?
Most people hate lies exactly because they're afraid of being lied to.
'"god who is afraid" and what is proof?'
The fact he punishes those who deny him... like all tyrants... who are also cowards because of that.
Colleen Steen 500+
Hate is fear based. Power over others is fear based. If you are afraid of "power of god to punish" you, as you say, that is not love...it is fear. If you are worshiping a god because you're afraid you will be punished if you do not worship that god, that is fear, not love.
God is not killing people, or burning "his beloved". We are doing that to each other when we are afraid and hateful. No, we do not burn people when we are loving.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
please first say what is definition of tyrant?
police is not law definer.
if I myself say lie, you are right I will fear.
but my meaning was if some one else lies.
to be honest I do not fear from some one lying me.
what is "mischievous agenda"?
please say a clear example of fearing from others lie while that lie has not bad effect on me. for example some one say I do not smoke while he really smoke. why I should fear?
God has given wisdom to all and all have the opportunity to catch heaven. but some people themselves do not go to heaven i.e themselves go to hell. all have the same opportunity. God do not send to hell. people themselves go. the way of heaven is open. God loves who obey him and hates who deny him.
God loves us, so created us and sent prophets for us to we not go to hell. but when who do not thanks God, God punish him.
all humans has same rights against each other and so tyrant has meaning. but no human has any right against God. so tyrant has no meaning for God. we had not the right to be existed. it is the donor of God and is not tyrant.
punishment is not always sign of being tyrant. for example a child does not go to school and want to just play and does not understand the value of knowledge. so his mother punish him while love her child because when that child grow up will thank his mother.
God has 99 attributes. not only power.
please look these 99 attribute and then please say if some one have all these attributes together then can we call him tyrant?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_God_in_Islam
also please read this:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2064/what_is_evil_2.html?c=230650
Vasil Rangelov 50+
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tyrant
Any one of those definitions is applicable... I did not asked to be created or ruled by God, but if he and his word was true, then he's at least a tyrant by the 3rd definition, and if he punished those who deny him, he's also a tyrant by the other two definitions.
"police is not law definer."
But allegedly, God is... so point stands. If there is a higher entity above God who defined the laws God is allegedly enforcing, then the definer (whatever we call it) is really the tyrant since he excluded God from his laws. If God is only the definer and not the enforcer AND he's not bound by the laws he defined OR he did not bound the enforcer with those laws, he's the tyrant.
"please say a clear example of fearing from others lie while that lie has not bad effect on me."
For example, someone tells you "smoking is cool! You should smoke! It's actually good for you!". In this day and age, no one is telling you that, but only a few decades ago, cigar manufacturers were doing just that. Their agenda was to keep their revenues high. The agenda was mischievous ( http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/mischievous ) because it was done without them caring about people's health.
If someone tells you something is good for you, aren't you afraid that good thing might actually be bad for you? What would you feel if you find out it is indeed bad for you? I mean, if it doesn't affect you, sure, you can afford to be neutral towards it, but would you be if it does?
"but no human has any right against God. "
And no citizen has any rights against their oppressor/ruler/tyrant. Same deal.
"so his mother punish him while love her child because when that child grow up will thank his mother."
But it is still the mother's responsibility when a child kills its sibling or takes in something that the parent knows to be poisonous... and we say that's not the case for God? Why?
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"Hate is fear based. Power over others is fear based."
you have not proved this yet.
love and fear can be together at the same ti. is there any conflict?
for example I love a woman and at the same time fear to do get angry with me and leave mo. so I take care of my manner while Loving her at the same time.
"If you are worshiping a god because you're afraid "
I do not worship God because I fear him. it can be about some people. worship can have one ore more these 3 reason:
1- fear of hell
2- wish of heave
3- appritiating God for creating us and his feeding us and protecting us in earth and mercifull to us and his other donors.
"God is not killing people, or burning "his beloved". We are doing that to each other when we are afraid and hateful. No, we do not burn people when we are loving."
right, agree. I said this as an evidence God not love all humans. but some times bad happenings and accidents can be a warning and remembering to not forget God which is a kind of loving. like a mother punishing her child.
Colleen Steen 500+
I don't have to prove that hate and power over others is fear based. That is well known.
Your "evidence" that "God not love all humans" fails, and your argument continues to be contradictory. You say it is a "loving god"...a god of "pure love", and yet hates, has power over humans and will punish us if we deny him....contradictory.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
at Judgment the main player is God and has all needed aid and recreate you for Judgment.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"I don't have to prove that hate and power over others is fear based. That is well known."
its is not well known for me and I made an example if loving and fearing together with no contradictory.
""loving god"...a god of "pure love", and yet hates, has power over humans and will punish us if we deny him....contradictory."
pure love is what God expect from us. I did not say God is pure love.
loving God also is not for all humans. God loves some and Hates some.
no contradictory.
you want to prove God is all love or you want to prove I have contradictory or other?
is there any thing you want to prove?
Colleen Steen 500+
If you do not see a contradiction in your statements: "God is all loving...pure love" and "God loves some and hates some", you might want to explore that thought/feeling a little more.
Perhaps you can go back and check some of your comments, because you often say you didn't say something, when it is right there, clearly in the comments.
I sincerely hope you are not one who will defend your god by punishing other people.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
""God is all loving...pure love" "
I never said "God is pure love". I said:
we should have our pure love for God.
and for "God is all loving" where I said it? I could not found it?
even if I said such thing it has been error. what I say is God do not love all humans equal and even hate people deny him.
there is no contradictory.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
tyrant is when some one has a right and other one not recognize that right. so the second is tyrant.ok?
why you exist?
so what is your right against God?
do you have the right to be created?
do you have the right to be existed?
do you have the right to born human? God could create you animal or a stone or not create you at all.
did you pay anything to God to create you and make you exist?
did you select to be born in earth?
did you select which country and city be born?
did you make heaven? to now be creditor?
what is your right against God?
you can make a doll by mud. then you can destroy it. does it have any right from you? no. it is for you. it belong you. it depends on you. does not have any right.
you do not have any right from God. Nothing.
God is not responsible to anyone.
God is alone and is absolute power.
all the universe is like an Image in a TV. any moment God want can turn off all the universe and all of us. but he is merciful and not do this.
"If someone tells you something is good for you, aren't you afraid that good thing might actually be bad for you?"
"while that lie has not bad effect on me.", No. but if I think has bad effect I still not afraid him. just deny him.
"And no citizen has any rights against their oppressor/ruler/tyrant. Same deal."
No, citizen oppressor/ruler/(tyrant man) all are human and all humans are equal. white is equal to white. rich is equal to poor.African is equal to American. the only thing makes some one better against other in view of God is piety. but human is not equal to God.
"But it is still the mother's responsibility when a child kills its sibling or takes in something that the parent knows to be poisonous... and we say that's not the case for God? Why?"
you are very clever. that why God not send to Hell child and bedlam people.
God send to Hell because of wisdom and gives Heaven because of wisdom.
animals have no wisdom so they not go to Hell. also not go to Heaven.
(has continues.)
Vasil Rangelov 50+
Huh? Clarify that one further please... with examples showing the difference.
"why you exist?"
Because everything in the universe before me led to my existence.
"so what is your right against God?"
If God existed as described, I wouldn't... that's what makes God a tyrant. If God was a nice chap that would always speak to all of us from the sky or something about what we should do, accepted criticism and asked our soul if it wants to enter the world when he creates us, I guess that would be a very nice God indeed.
"do you have the right to be created?
do you have the right to be existed?
do you have the right to born human?"
If I have an eternal soul that God puts into the fetus I was, then that soul should have the right to choose if, when and where it should be assigned to a body. If I don't have a soul, then I don't have that right, but that also means I was not "created" by a supernatural being, but was the result of soul-less interactions within the universe.
"...did you select to be born in earth?
did you select which country and city be born?..."
No. Exactly what makes God a tyrant (if he existed as described) - he puts my eternal soul wherever he pleases, without concerning me for it, without giving me any right to further question him and threatens to punish my soul once it's out of this world that he could allegedly intervene it at any moment, and yet rarely does so as to not affect our free will too much.
"you can make a doll by mud. then you can destroy it. does it have any right from you? no. it is for you. it belong you. it depends on you. does not have any right."
But it doesn't have a soul, nor does it "live" up to kill other dolls if I command it.
"God is not responsible to anyone.
God is alone and is absolute power."
That's exactly how tyrants act like. Does that make their actions right?
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
human has wisdom and also is free to think and option. one select evil so go to Hell. some select good and worship God so go to Heaven. Heaven is Gift of God. no right. we have not even right to be existed.
God created human to worship him. and not accept worship from every one in any format.
God just accept worship in the form he accept. not in any form any humans likes himself.
we are not free until we can not escape death. and a perfect servant has the potency to become free.
God sent 124000 messenger during history to guide people to God and the final was Muhammad (peace on him) and no messenger after him because he bring us most complete religion with no need to anything be added to it. messengers are witness for God against people and Muhammad (peace on him) is witness for God against all messengers. but just few admit messengers and most say to messengers: you are magician.
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/2:83
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/2:88
God promised happy life with all things a human can wish and many things a human can not Imagine in world for ever and with no death at Heaven.
Vasil Rangelov 50+
God just accept worship in the form he accept. not in any form any humans likes himself."
So... you mean like that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6_9QmM6TfE
"God promised happy life with all things a human can wish and many things a human can not Imagine in world for ever and with no death at Heaven."
And the evidence for that promise by this non-proven being? (holy books, Quran included, are the claims, not the evidence)
"messengers are witness for God against people and Muhammad (peace on him) is witness for God against all messengers. but just few admit messengers and most say to messengers: you are magician."
Oh... so it's not just Muslims who are right, but also Jews and Christians? I mean, they had messengers that came before. And who's to say they were the last one? I mean, Joseph Smith was a later messenger for God and formed Mormonism.... that's true too?
What's the evidence that makes YOUR prophet right and the other ones wrong? If they were all God's messengers, they must all be right, and yet they contradict each other... did God changed his mind over time? What's to say he hasn't changed it again since the Quran?
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
about movie I could not understand it well (for language). appreciate if say its argument in summary.
"(holy books, Quran included, are the claims, not the evidence)"
Koran itself is an evidence and a miracle. if you in anyway could prove that Koran is not from God and it is possible any human written it, then OK I accept you. for example books written by human have internal contradictions or have conflict by science. also Koran said if you can make some verse like that.
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2328/is_koran_scientifically_a_mira.html
"Oh... so it's not just Muslims who are right, but also Jews and Christians? I "
yes, sure. all messengers of God are the same and if some one believe God agree and respect all messengers of God. but the only note is that God sent religions according to context and time and development level of human and step by stem made religion more and more complete and the final religion is the perfect and complete religion and best way life for human. all religions of God have no conflict with each other. only completed and believers should always use the most updated and most complete religion of God.
"And who's to say they were the last one? "
it is by rational and wisdom m of every human. if a human claim he is messenger from God, OK so he should have enough proof. God is creator of all the Nature and can give power to his messenger to control Nature. for example a messenger should can rise the sun from west or any change in Nature. if some could do such works (miracle) that no human can do it, OK we accept he is real messenger of real God.
I do no know Smith but if he has such miracle and new Book from God, OK we accept it. also liars who say I am messenger appear regular. one appeared some months ago in Saudi Arabia.
"What's the evidence that makes YOUR prophet right and the other ones wrong?"
all prophets having miracle are right.
not changed mind. updated religion.
Vasil Rangelov 50+
-Doc: Yes, that's it. Thank me!
-Male Robot: Thank you.
-Female Robot: Thank you.
-D: Yes! Who's your daddy?!
-MR: You are.
-FR: You're my daddy.
-D: That's right. Who created you?
-MR: You did.
-D: And you're very thankful for that, aren't you?
-MR: Yes. Thank you.
-FR: Thank you.
-D: Oh, you're welcome, you're welcome. But I'm not really hearing enough praise.
-FR: Praise the maker.
-MR: Praise the maker. The maker is good. The maker is great.
-FR: I love the maker.
-D: Yes, that's it!
-MR: Thank you for making us, oh great one. Thank you. Thank you.
-D: Now I'm going to adjust your programming so that you can do whatever you want. But remember, the reason I created you is to honor me.
-MR: Yes maker. Thank you. Thank you.
[The next day...]
-MR/FR: I like to party.
-D: What are you doing? Stop it!
-MR/FR: I like to move it, move it...
-MR [while banging FR]: Who's your daddy!
-FR: You're my daddy!
-D: Stop it this instant!
-FR: [some mumbling...]
-D: What the hell are you doing? Why aren't you thanking me anymore?
-MR/FR: I like to party.
-D: Damn it! I created you!
-MR [still banging FR]: Who's your daddy!
-FR: You're my daddy!
-D: I'm your daddy damn it! Me!
[D smashes MR and starts wiping out the "infidel" robots. The infidels shred him to pieces and he goes to God]
-God: Ahahahaha. Let me get this straight. You made a bunch of robots, but you didn't want them to act like robots, but when they didn't act like robots, you punished them for not acting like robots?! Hahaha! What a douche bag!
-Jeffery: Um, God.
- G: What kind of a fucking loser would create something for the sole purpose of praising him and thanking him his whole fucking life?
-J: Um, God!
-G: Huh. Wow. You're really arrogant.
-J: Khm.
-G: So insecure. Why would you even need them worshiping you all the time?
Vasil Rangelov 50+
-J: Huh...
-G: Look, you're guilty of being brimful , envious, wrathful, just to name a few. Have fun burning in hell douche bag!
-D: But, but... it wasn't my fault! It was the robots!
-G: If a painting is bad, do you blame the painting or the painter? If a watch can't keep time, do you blame the watch or the watchmaker? I mean are you so blind that you can't see that if your creation is shitty, it's because the creator is shitty. Any two year can figure this out dick head.
-J: Khm... dumbass... khm.
-G: Are you OK Jeffery? Do you have something to say?
-J: I... [points at bowing crowd] uh... I just... uh... [face palm].
I'm not sure I can add any argument towards that which is not part of the video.
As for Mormons, not only are they later than the Quran, but their "prophet" Joseph Smith from what I've heard, was apparently the only one who could use a magical stone to translate the original holy scripture from reformed Egyptian into English. I think that's one hell of an ability right there... being able to see the "real" word of God as opposed to coming with it from a personal revelation, which might as well be a hallucination. You can't accuse Joseph Smith of THAT (you can accuse him of deliberate deception, but that is also applicable to all prophets).
As for God claiming the Quran is final... so does the Bible, which can only mean one of two things - either the statement of any holy scripture being "final" is false by default, or only the earliest one is really a final one.
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
1- if accept Koran is from God and is original and even one word of it has not changed since exited from mouth of true messenger of true God. the God himself said:
1- http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.qaribullah/33:40
(Seal of the Prophets)
Seal means the end of letter.(when a letter finished writing the writer stamp his seal at the end of letter) an Arabic language the Seal is symbol for final.
2- http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.qaribullah/5:3
(This day I have perfected your religion ...)
also there is other evidences Muhammad (peace on him) is the final messenger among near 124000 messengers God selected from people to guide people during all the History of human (from near 7000 years ago to now). current generation of human all are from Adam and Eve. but before them some generations of other creatures like human lived on earth and all extincted before Adam.
now we are the people of end of life of earth (end of time)
Muhammad (peace on him) said:
/////**** the most wonderful people in certainty and the most powerful people in belief are people of end of time. they have not seen any messenger and are bereaved from Imam (successor of messenger) but they believe by black on white.****/////
ADDED LATER:
(black on white is for example writings on paper.)
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
God created human because God Indented to be known. this the reason for creation. and worship is a tool for remembering God because most people even believers forget God. also God cleans the sins of human by pray like going to bath room.
also about that movie God is not a human and God does not need to sit on chair and God is every where, not just in sky, God is more near to you than your vessel of neck. and God is not material.
about Mormon you mean translating old scripture is miracle? some other specialists can do that work. I not consider it as a miracle. miracle is beyond power of human.
also are you sure the story of original holy scripture is true?
"but that is also applicable to all prophets"
prophets have miracle. but did not see any miracle but Koran.
are you sure Koran is not miracle? have you read Koran at least one time? and can you prove Koran is not miracle?
"As for God claiming the Quran is final... so does the Bible,"
sure? can you show me this in Bible? which verse?
"being "final" is false by default,"
it is when you can prove Koran is not miracle.
M. Timothy
I was raised by devout born again Christian parents so my take on this whole thing always seem to change as I get older. I enjoy reading these back and forth arguments. I think it's thoroughly entertaining!
S.R. how do I know that you believe in God? Is it proof enough that because you say (or in this case write) that you do indeed believe, that any other person on this thread can totally and undoubtedly ascertain to your faith?
If I can put it another way, how do you prove to yourself that you believe in 'God'? I'm curious…
Ask me any questions, as well if you like, since I seemed to have fired a considerable amount your way...
:)
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
please read my other comments, your questions are replied. after that please ask your questions.
also it needs much research. after research you will find truth.
I did religious research for near 15 years. and changed my beliefs many times and finally found truth.
I have no doubt now.
the best way of religious is to first hear and understand well all or most religions all over the world and then decide to if you should have any religion or not? and if yes then which is better and most beneficial for you?
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/39:18
"S.R. how do I know that you believe in God?"
I believe in God in many many ways that I can not say them you all.
but I think this is a beautiful proof:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2142/why_our_universe_has_laws_of_p.html
M. Timothy
Again my question is 'how' (--not why--) do you prove to yourself that you believe in God? How have you confirmed this to yourself???
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
I think you can cry easy and your tear flow quick.
when a human is born his heart is white and tear flow quick. then by doing each evil act a black point remains on heart and little by little all hearth becomes black. when heart die, then heart can not hear truth and tear can not flow. do know what is the drug for black heart? it is reading Koran. Koran treats the sick heart.
the ways of knowing God is as much as the number of humans God created.
"how do I know that you believe in God?"
as I have studied atomic physics, I knew God by atoms and laws of physics.
each human can know God by his special way.
for example a programmer say: the moon and sun and earth and stars need an perfect program to operate so exact. the starting time of the next year can be predicted by exact (one second).
or a a factory boss say: I make advanced digital camera from raw materials and my eye is more advanced than digital camera. so Indeed we should have a manufacturer.
a philosopher says: why we exist? if there is nothing and then become a thing so it should have a cause so universe has a cause to be existed.
and so on.
a watch maker says the galaxy and stars and plants are more advanced than the watch I make. so Indeed there is a watch maker for galaxy.
and so on every one has a reason.
a Carling says my spinsterhood does not turn if I do not turn it. so Indeed some one is turning sun every day around earth.
"'how' (--not why--) do you prove to yourself "
Dear M. Timothy, I asked you read my other comments in other conversations.
can find them in my profile.
for example:
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2142/why_our_universe_has_laws_of_p.html
M. Timothy
They say that the Bible is the only cure for a 'sick' heart…
I've never heard anyone say the Koran is the cure for a 'sick' heart…until you wrote it?
Which one is the truth?
I'm curious…teach me…does the Koran mention the atom?
S.R. Ahmadi 20+
"Which one is the truth?"
both are true. both are true. but Original bible. not distorted bible.
both are books from one God. and both are holy. and both are drug for dark hearts.
"I'm curious…teach me…does the Koran mention the atom? "
this is one:
http://tanzil.net/#trans/en.sahih/4:40
but I am sure there is more.
now thousands of books are written from Koran and still wonders of Koran are not finished.
please look:
http://www.quranmiracles.com/
http://www.ted.com/conversations/2328/is_koran_scientifically_a_mira.html
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S.R. Ahmadi 20+
some fact just can be known rational and is out of reach of science.
when there is no way you can not go there any time.
science needs at least a way to reach the answer of some questions. but there is no way for science.
science not want to back church. and so has problem with God. but God and church is not necessarily equal.
please write your meaning of your question clear. I could not understand your meaning from asking such question.