Thank youKestrel wrote:These are the words of Mr. Edmund Burke. You might imagine by the name that hes from europe, ireland He was a parliment under King George III, its intresting you hear that quotation alot these days.
I personally don't think that someone can disrespect Someone else, I think that people can only desrespect themselves. With this said, I want to note that I don't think that you disrespected yourself in my eyes. If we consider that I've understood the point you tried to make on your postKestrel wrote:I hope you can see what im saying here no disrespect to you
Tom says "Life is a Test... to check if we understand, or just dream that we do". My view is that Life will show and Keeps showing who is wrong or right.Kestrel wrote:Don't take this the wrong way at all, however in all reality we can only speculate what certin new information how that would affect things. My guess would be that certain people, lets kindly refer to them as "zealots". They see Jesus the way they want too. Now if you keep an open mind even with the bible it can be interpreted so many ways so many, you can interpret it for people in so many ways as well. I think this is evident allready however.
If you tell them something, they immeditly will give you a verse recalled from memory something about lacking faith or disbelivers will *** or what ever may be the case. These people are individuals, they are here on catagory earth with us. They are not evil, we are not supreme to them either, you can benifit from them. Ask them questions if they allow it, for what ever reason I can hope you're motives are good but those are you're choices. Do what ever basically because you could probally learn something even dispite the fact their unwavering belif that they can twist and yet in their eyes it remains strong as a steel I beam.
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What steps exactly would a "good man" in this situation do ? I think by perhaps just being able to pose the question and by that, their intelligence is reflected they have done their good deed. Its now an oppertunity for another, a chance a choice their choice not the good mans.
I agree that evil can be considered as lack of understanding so theoretically we might consider that there is no evil at all. With respect to every single human being on this planet I want to say That anyone's contribution toward clarification/communication of fact's and truths ever made by any person regardless of his/her religion/nationality anytime anywhere on this planet is a valuable step toward a common better future for all of us, alas...
WE also have different types of believeing I for example believe that "everything in the universe including its creator is a perturbation of a singular thing" This is the most probable case scenario for me at this time so I'm 100% sure It is correct for me to take this point and move on in my life toward further exploration and verification. This is something very personal and individual we all have to learn to understand and respect this. Naturally I would dismiss any newcoming religion/information which is against my own personal belief and agree with religion(s) which agree and magnify my belief system or may offer a more probable case scenario even if it might disprove my current belief(s) I also believe that by going on like this, someday I'll become 100% sure that I Know the truth for sure. Thiaooubians seem to be 100% sure and knowing 100% for sure that there is a creator for the universe and that the creator is exremely powerful and intelligent, they even are 100% sure that they know how actually the creator has created the whole universe, while at the same time it seems that only a few of them know where did the creator come from and how the creator appeard and what was before the creator.
I mean people aim to believe in different things and in things of different value for example someone may aim to believe in the most probable case scenario while at the same time someone else might not even care if there are more probable case scenarios than the one the person has currently adopted.
I'm only trying to show(as a gesture of agreement with what I understood from your poset) that there are a lot of things to consider before condemning someone to be "evil" and someone else to be "good" and that there is no point in trying to put labels on people too. From anything said and from anything heard the wise see the essence.
I really wouldn't mind two "Zealots" condemning eachother and killing eachother even if I might get killed in the process, there are a lot of more important and intresting things in life. I only might try to stop them or interfere if I might become 100% sure that reacting to such a thing is improtant in my life and/or in the life of thers involved I might still make mistakesKestrel wrote:I think its dangerous to use that quote sometimes though it seems a bit, religon isent evil I guess thats what im trying to say, simply because it contians so many brilliant individuas. You can't measure the potentioal of a person by knowing their catholic or muslim ect.
I don't understand this part of your post.Kestrel wrote:Anyways, yes indeed some may be sparked to think its those individuals whom I hope choose to keep thinking keep seeking and if a statement such as vesko has posted can do such thats wonderful. I don't fear these individuals won't find the proper guidance I am confident their higherself will help them if they are truly giving the correct questions from my level of understanding, this is the function of that great entity.
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