What is heaven?

lealdragon
Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:04:54 +0000

How do you know the people who say they see something are telling the truth?

The only reason I don’t believe in God is because, obviously, there has been no actual evidence. A magical being with superpowers who created us out of nothing just doesn’t appeal to me over the simple logic of evolution.

I don’t need to believe in a magical superbeing to have faith.



Well, you don’t. But, why would they make such things up? I mean, really, say a guy nearly dies and then he has this weird experience and it changes him, and whereas before he was a jerk, now he is a loving, caring person with a mission to help others. I say, who cares if what he thought happened really happened? It made him a better person, and that’s all that really matters.

I happen to have past-life memories. Can I prove it to you? No, of course not. Those memories are as real to me as YOUR memories of getting a bike for Christmas in 2nd grade. It really doesn’t matter to someone who has had an experience, whether it’s provable or not.

It’s like holistic medicine. The medical establishment loves to ridicule the holistic healing experiences. They say they aren’t valid because they aren’t provable according to mainstream allopathic protocols. But try telling that to someone who has been healed of cancer following alternative treatment!

The point is that these are LIFE-CHANGING experiences. You may or may not ever have such an experience that would alter your belief in a Creator, but I’m sure you DO have inspirational experiences of some sort. Personally, since I believe in reincarnation, in my belief, it doesn’t matter whether you believe in God or not. It’s not like Christianity which says you can’t go to heaven. In my belief, if I am correct, then you WILL continue to exist whether you believe it now or not, so it doesn’t matter.

Regarding Creationism vs evolution: I once read in Marilyn vos Savant’s column that it actually takes more faith to believe in evolution than to believe that the whole process was set in motion by an Intelligent Being. I agree. The odds of a cosmic soup creating consciousness sounds ridiculously farfetched to me. I do NOT believe in the simplistic biblical version of ‘7 days’ - I do believe in science. I just believe that intelligence descended into matter, rather than evolving out of matter.

But, hey, that’s cool. I really have no problem with your beliefs. (A lot of people have a problem with my beliefs, because they’re not biblical, so I can relate.)

edit: Does the idea of a cosmology that is neither biblical nor based on a God-less strictly physical evolution interest you? If so, pm me. It’ll rock your socks. Proof? No. But verrrrry compelling.