Hope, faith and knowing.

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Hope, faith and knowing.

Bowser — 5/22/2009 3:59:02 AM (archived)

I've come to the point where I know "I" am not my brain, not my personality, not my body, not my thoughts nor my emotions and yet I still talk about an "I".

So what's left? The Christian Bible says it well - without the knowledge of good and evil, without that ego, there is a Universal Existence.

I don't hope that's so, or have faith, I know it.

However, the allure of the ego is too strong.

Arf

The whole thread (52 posts)

The Brain and Spirituality - Eri - 5/20/2009 3:05:26 AM
- Let's be rational - Raoul - 5/25/2009 3:47:51 PM
  - True. - Eri - 5/26/2009 2:47:49 AM
    - Couldn't have said it better Eri. (n/t) - Jody - 5/26/2009 1:48:13 PM
- re: The Brain and Spirituality - gbaikie - 5/24/2009 8:52:47 PM
- re: The Brain and Spirituality - ER - 5/22/2009 9:57:18 PM
  - "Surely, if there is a god and life after death, he can do better than this." - Bowser - 5/24/2009 6:26:34 PM
    - No need for religious beliefs - Raoul - 5/25/2009 3:57:33 PM
    - They've got a better deal. - ER - 5/24/2009 8:21:16 PM
      - re: They've got a better deal. - ER - 5/24/2009 8:47:09 PM
        
        All I have to say is... - Eri - 5/24/2009 10:36:59 PM
- Look at the richness of the answers...and we are all correct. Great thread Eri! (n/t) - Jody - 5/22/2009 5:21:45 PM
- Hope, faith and knowing. - Bowser - 5/22/2009 3:59:02 AM
- re: The Brain and Spirituality - ER - 5/22/2009 1:42:35 AM
  - For ER.... - Jody - 5/23/2009 2:03:45 AM
    - Thank you, Jody! - Eri - 5/23/2009 4:51:14 PM
- Topics like this - azstrummer - 5/21/2009 2:41:34 PM
  - Something my sister kept repeating to me. - Eri - 5/22/2009 5:09:37 AM
    - re: Something my sister kept repeating to me. - gbaikie - 5/24/2009 11:03:09 PM
      - I agree with everything you said. - Eri - 5/26/2009 2:52:16 AM
- I have been on the Zone long enough now that I can tell you how each Zoner will respond to this. - Jody - 5/20/2009 10:37:35 PM
  - I would have thought Zoners would be interested in hard science. - Eri - 5/21/2009 12:53:08 AM
    - Anything *spiritual* that has entered my life.. - Jody - 5/21/2009 3:21:11 PM
    - back when we were stoned hippies... - ER - 5/21/2009 12:35:58 PM
      - Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - RNE - 5/21/2009 9:42:30 PM
        
        Glad I wasn't a Hippie or a Stoner. - Eri - 5/22/2009 2:17:48 AM
        
        No big deal. I cannot recall anything that I've forgotten. (n/t) - ER - 5/22/2009 2:19:59 AM
        
        I forgot to remember to forget. - Eri - 5/22/2009 4:50:10 AM
        
        Sometimes, I wish I could - RNE - 5/22/2009 6:02:54 PM
        
        And, by the way. - RNE - 5/22/2009 7:38:00 PM
        
        Good!...because long haired freaky people need not apply. (n/t) - Jody - 5/22/2009 11:00:40 PM
        
        For those who forgot because they were stoned... - Jody - 5/24/2009 12:05:13 AM
        
        Another bright star - ER - 5/24/2009 2:25:46 AM
        
        Beau Brummels & the Troggs? - Eri - 5/24/2009 5:08:38 PM
        
        I really liked the Zombies, too. - ER - 5/24/2009 6:11:16 PM
        
        One more for you lefties - ER - 5/24/2009 6:58:13 PM
        
        Zombies. the singers not the half dead - Eri - 5/24/2009 7:51:16 PM
        
        No one took the Zombies seriously, it must have been that stupid name. - ER - 5/24/2009 9:46:14 PM
        
        OTOH - RNE - 5/27/2009 5:32:40 PM
        
        There were a lot of dynamite mini-symphonies... - ER - 5/27/2009 11:15:34 PM
        
        That is what I am tawkin' 'bout!! - Jody - 5/24/2009 4:29:08 PM
        
        Never got into those. - Eri the bad girl - 5/22/2009 8:37:38 PM
        
        "didn't really know why people thought it was so great" - ER - 5/22/2009 10:01:15 PM
        
        LOL - Eri - 5/23/2009 12:06:26 AM
        
        Blue Nun Leibfraumilch? What a class act! - ER - 5/23/2009 5:02:57 PM
        
        liebfraumilch - Eri - 5/24/2009 10:42:04 PM
        
        oh and... - Eri - 5/24/2009 10:42:39 PM
        
        It's not nice to laugh at Blue Nun. - Eri - 5/24/2009 1:07:03 AM
        
        blaue Nonnengruppe - ER - 5/24/2009 1:28:15 AM
        
        I am so telling my Aunt Minnie on you. - Jody - 5/22/2009 8:59:05 PM
        
        Dilbert on the brain and free will - Socrates II - 5/28/2009 8:34:46 PM
        
        My free will is attached to my .................................... (n/t) - Floatin' on by...Jody - 5/29/2009 8:12:05 PM

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