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DeepSight:
Question!

k4kenny:
. However we were created with the freewill to make our own decisions. As a result we're susceptible to occasional sins and transgressions. But the important thing is to seek repentance from these sins and try to live in accordance to the command of God.

DeepSight:
To start with, the precepts of heaven and hell do not particularly feature within my worldview.
I do believe in continuing life though.

Secondly, if (and only if) you believe in a "heaven" why do you say Hitler is there - perhaps this is in line with your expressed thoughts that all souls have always been worthy, that all events are part of the soul experience, and that there is neither wrong nor right per se?

DeepSight:
The smileys arent helping!

DeepSight:
Please don't be cryptic. I would appreciate clarity. As it is I can't tell if this is sarcasm or a cryptic suggestion or seriousness or just a joke.

virago:
This is the biggest bullshit I've heard all year

k4kenny:
That was a typo jor . Should be imperfections

k4kenny:
That was a typo jor . Should be imperfections

DeepSight:
Thanks, I'll take a look at the book.



Is this all you would say to, for example - a serial killer - who finds happiness therein?

k4kenny:
We were created with imperfect.

DeepSight:
Once I saw this post, i recognized at once that someone with a more profound grasp of life than usual was speaking. This was heart warming, for it is rare to see, within the dross and dim spectrum of light available in most of the world today. So thank you.

However as you have caught my interest, pardon me as I will have a few questions. I'll start with what you have hinted at up there - namely - moral relativism/ subjectivity. Let me say straight away that I totally "get" moral subjectivity - and moral relativism (both are very close precepts but not quite the same). Nevertheless when pressed on this subject I have mostly found myself standing with objective moral values. Indeed, years ago, i have had marathon debates on this forum on this subject. In those discussions, I dont think I truly let my real position on to my co-discussants - because in my view they had taken far too extreme and therefore far too absurd a position in favour of moral subjectivism/ moral relativism such that if one were to abide with their propositions, it would never be possible to condemn any deed in this world - no matter how grisly, how abominable, how disgusting or how evidently, manifestly and patently against the flow of life and nature such a deed was.

This extremity is what led me to argue objective moral standards in opposition and my question to you is therefore - to what extent would you push the moral subjectivism / moral relativism evident in your post. Do you also espouse it to such a degree that it becomes impossible to ever say of any deed - "this was clearly wrong or evil" - thereby taking us into a blurry moral existence which frankly if ever given legal credence to - would result not just in anarchy but probably even the expedited extinction of our species.

That is my question.

However because of the enlightenment with which you have spoken, and the poetry evident in your pen (which is a weakness for me) I will share with you ahead that I am not a strict moral objectivist in truth, regardless of how ardently I argued that position in the past. I am not a religious person - I subscribe to no religion - for most of my time of this forum I was known as a deist (and suspect I introduced Deism here) - today I would prefer to say that I am agnostic - whilst I believe in the existence of a source, I believe it is beyond remote and thus unknowable. On the question of morality, I believe in certain secular objective moral standards - with the proviso that every moral action has a context and a situation - which must be taken into account. Something I would perhaps call situational or contextual morality.

What say ye, good sir?

DeepSight:
In terms of the existence of souls, I would stretch that further - we are probably talking not just zillions of years - but such an unquantifiable stretch of time that is beyond the capacity of the mortal mind to grasp.

This is with the proviso though, that time is not an illusion - and it just very well might be. Indeed, almost certainly is.

DeepSight:
Profound, incisive, brilliant at once and also poetic.

Two questions strike me here and please oblige me -

1. What informs your reference to God in the feminine.

To think God is one thing, then you will think God is not another. And that would be a large mistake. God is everything.

DeepSight:
2. Please can you share your background in terms of philosophy and what writings, if any, have influenced your current take on the meaning of life. Also if you belong to any group or spiritual/ philosophical persuasion.

khia:
@ the Op, those people who died in the Holocaust were not God's people.

khia:
The Hebrews.

Preetychina22:
Always skeptical.
By past life, do you mean before the British colonial rule and amalgamation or before? Lol

midnighter:
You need to learn how to study a text in context. You dont just pick out random verses and compare them and expect them to still make sense to you.

People study theology for years to be able to preach the Bible with wisdom and youre here plucking random verses out of thin air and talking of atheism smh

whitelotus:
Everything, including my excrement? Shite? Feces?

Pataricatering:
And u chose Nigeria ?

Goldenheart002:
There's nothing like sin?
Do u mean it's okay to kill, steal, rape, do all sorts of evil and be cool?? I need clarification, pls

Bluezy13:
Please, to which faith do you belong ??

Snowale:
There is a story behind that, it's a traditional, for those that performs hajj, not compulsory you must do it every year. Get the story yourself, read it with an unbiased mind

Snowale:
those that didn't believe another prophet came after Moses are the Jews, those that didn't believe that another Prophet came after Jesus, are Christains while those that believed in the truth that the last prophet came, are the Muslims, they don't worship man, or cross or mother Mary's statue or Jesus statue.

Obaiyski:
You think all is well with you.. I tell you within a short while your eyes will clear and you will remember today.

englishmart:
So you chose to be born a Nigerian? LMFAO