None of this indicates the gravity or even the possibility that your version or interpretation could or even might be true in any objective sense all it does is show how ignorant and unwilling to face reality when it comes to the death of the human being most of us really are. As far as objective history teaches us there is no such thing as a soul, as hauntings or as even any kind of survival after death. Does anyone think for a minute that if such after death things were possible, that the early victims of the Holocaust would not have made some kind of effort to warn the later victims about the existence of Hitler's death camps and ovens. Don't you think that things would be even a little bit different in this world if there was such a thing as an all-knowing and all-powerful being in charge. For a guy who doesn't play dice he sure seems to believe in chance. I mean why would an all-knowing and all-powerful being countenance and condone the senseless murder of six million Jews more or less and no more???? Why countenance and condone the enslavement of millions of people of Black skin while allowing your own teachings to be used as the support and argument for this enslavement and then suddenly decide to end it at least partially with a war that kills over half a million??? All-knowing, all-powerful??? If this is the best he can do, if in fact he is a he as white males have always portended; another projective reality no doubt or perhaps just wishful thinking, I hardly think this evidence indicates an all-knowing, all powerful being; but just another human being full of human arrogance and failings more likely as confused as our current president.
And the asking or posing of questions does not in and of itself make the questioner baffled or confounded, only willing to pose questions that most people would rather not pose. History tells us that as we have progressed in our understanding of both science and nature we have come to understand things that once were attributed to the gods. We no longer need a God of Thunder because we now know what causes thunder, so it is no longer a mysterious occurrence whose origin baffles us. Nor do we need a God of the Sea, etc. Now our mysteries are more abstract, more philosophical if you will, and so we need a God who reflects and aids us in some way in explaining or answering those still unanswered or unexplained mysteries. Someone who can be the container for everything we don't know; since it is like that great romantic poet John Keats said so many years ago when speaking of the superior man, or what he called the "Man of Achievement" that is one who had "Negative Capability...when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, Mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason." It is my belief as it was John Keats' in December of 1817, that such men are few and far between. God represents the ultimate reach, when all else fails these others, who are not capable of remaining for any time at all in such a state.
The one thing that really separates the true believers from others is their certitude. You my good man, demonstrate more certitude than most posters here. Why is that??? Do you ever feel even the slightest twinge of doubt or ambivalence??? If so, I have never witnessed it???
Even as I argue for a specific position I am continuously struck by the fact that I could be wrong, or that my facts could be wrong or that I may be just so full of myself that I can't see the forest for the trees or that I might simply be talking right out my ass. Indeed, I have been wrong numerous times here and have been mistaken about my facts on numerous occasions (no doubt you will take this confession and run with it to God only knows where [metaphorically speaking of course]).
But according to all you continue to say here, you have never been wrong or mistaken or confused or confounded about anything, like Bush you seem infallible. I get the sense, BILLO, that you think you are always right about everything. Unfortunately you are not, no one can be, you would do well to study Keats's admonition carefully; it's ok to not be so sure. The real trick is to not be paralyzed by your doubt...that's all. I of course am still working on that one.
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