raikohu wrote: 07 Dec 2021 18:20
If you have something to say, I really want to hear from you. I am open to any discussion and I have no prejudices about faith.
I've spoken before to you, and this is first time you've replied to me. However, in this context, I was not relaying any new ideas to you about faith, but simply pointing out a character fault. This is why you've finally replied.
raikohu wrote: 07 Dec 2021 18:20
For example, is it obvious that the snail does not know God? Obvious.
Did you ask the snail if he knows God? It is not obvious, but you judge a book by it's cover and make assumptions about it's contents, rather than letting the cover be the cover and saying "I do not know it's contents."
raikohu wrote: 07 Dec 2021 18:20
And now the opposite example: can I learn about the whole world around me if I hardly know most of its processes and functional dependence, and also sit in a black box all my life? How can I know what's outside the walls? It is also a desire to know the truth, but it is not obvious.
In this case, it is obvious only to the naive, who thinks any of his first thoughts is correct when in fact it is insanity.
Here again you are making assumptions. One who sits in a black box all their life has a greater chance of discovering the truth of this reality than one who is caught up by the world and tangled in it's thorns for one simple fact; they are not distracted, but have little choice in the matter of finding the truth. In a black box, how easy it would be to meditate for hours on end and receive genuine truth from experience.
How many times do we say to ourselves
"My gut feeling was right"
"I knew I should have done that"
"I knew it! Knew it all along"
"That was my first guess"
raikohu wrote: 07 Dec 2021 18:20
close your eyes. Sounds good. But it is like a small child closing his eyes and thinking that he is no longer visible. Or when a frightened ostrich hides its head in the sand and thinks it has escaped danger.
Therefore, you can close or not close your eyes, but you do not know the truth if you do not know anything in its field. Otherwise how to check the evidence? This is naive!
The evidence is experience. You do not know this truth because you do not know anything in this field. By closing our eyes and laying to rest our worldly desires, we enter a new world of spirit rather than matter.
"That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the spirit is spirit"
So in closing your eyes, I am asking you to relinquish the flesh and the material so that you might be born anew in and of the Spirit.
It is more like an earthworm whom was borne underground and spent his life in the dark finally reaching the surface of the soil and turning into a butterfly as the warmth and light shineth upon him, only to become an earthworm again when it is time to return to the darkness of the soil.
Being in the Earth is all the Earthworm ever knew. His eyes wide open, he could not see. Only by going against all that he knew was he able to have true sight.
raikohu wrote: 07 Dec 2021 18:20
Don't laugh. With these words, it is better to approach stupid Africans who can not read and like to make their homes out of shit. And then light a fire in front of them. They may think you are a god. Does this mean that most stupid people believe you because they are of truth?
How can you say Africans are stupid? Many Africans, and even tribal peoples all over the world, know more about this reality than the average American.
It is not to judge or to call someone stupid or a fool. It is good to build a home out of adobe, you are not taxing mother nature to do so.
We think we are smart because we have technology, but could it be more wise to be with nature and build upon your spirit instead of upon a lie?
Close your eyes.
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