Question by Ryan G: Should sections like Politics, Philosophy and Religion & Spirituality be exempt from the Community Guidelines?
Except for obvious things like threatening violence, spam, fraud etc.etc.

Shouldn’t these section be more free wheeling and no-holds bar? I just think the Community Guidelines don’t work in these section. They stifle debate. They enable reasonable questions to be removed for purely technical violations. What are your thoughts?

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Answer by Barack Behind Bars
Yes but to convince Yahoo! of that would be fruitless.

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Question by : How connected is philosophy to religion and spirituality?

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Answer by Thunder Stormer
Well all three disciplines are steeped in mindless banter. Science is where the action is.

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Imagination is only a groping. It has no value unless it is divinely inspired, for then it becomes inspiration. Completely new terms can be made up by new-age authors. A lot of science fiction and fantasy movies also come up with several new terms which you might not have heard before. Ingenious sure, but empty all the same. Sometimes they run out of terms to explain what they are trying to say, so what do they do? They borrow from other age-old cultures and just use terms superficially. So, before one reads new-age books, one must read some real spiritual books, try to have real inner experience, and then you will have the discerning ability to tell the real from the false. But if you rather just be swooped up in some fancy imagination than the real truth, then you should just continue reading novellas and short stories and have fun.

 Imagination, as beautiful and as creative as it can be at times, is aesthetically pleasing but is also vacant and void and often baseless and non-revealing of any higher truth. It may correspond to something higher in a very faint and obscure way but it has the danger of leading you astray and away from the harsh realities that must be endured on the way to the truth if you lack discernment and rational discrimination. Imagination is a tool for us lower beings with our limited mentality and our obscure groping for truth. However, if used well it can be a good tool to reach out into the unrealized possibilities, and our minds could be like antennae that pick up on the unmanifest and will to create it here in the material realm. Some beings tend to have more power to realize and manifest what they imagine and sometimes it betters humanity and sometimes it worsens and sometimes it’s neither. It comes from the universal mind. The universe is impartial so it allows the complete and utter realization of any possibility that can be thought up and there is nothing we can imagine that isn’t already contained in the framework of the universe. It may not exist in our current world or be a part of our present existence but it still exists in seed state or realized in subtler realms. Otherwise, somebody like a Tesla could never have invented things that were yet incomprehensible to most people then. So, I admit that imagination can be used as a tool towards realization of truth, but when one ascends to higher levels of consciousness, the dependence on imagination recedes and must be abandoned in favour of inspiration and intuition combined with higher discrimination from higher and deeper realms. Also, there is a strong will required and a detailed thought process involved in converting these ideations, imaginations or inspirations into something material that is utilizable and applicable in Life.

Things that have fancy names and are colourful and make a lot of noise obviously lack content and attract attention through vacant polysyllables. The beauty should be in the content and the living truth that it represents, not some far off fantasy. These things often don’t have a definite demarcation between them. We can ideate and try to define them but that would lower its content. Then it loses value. Our language is insufficient to express higher truths. So one must first realize and live in the truth oneself and then transform one’s own being entirely before his exterior equipments (mind, life, body) are ready to express it without dilution or distortion. But most new age authors just read a lot of ancient history and scriptures from various great civilizations of the past and then just use their extremely imaginative mind to make up their own little world by which they then try and proselytize undeveloped minds. And people just buy into it because it’s been published as a book. These shouldn’t receive more importance than a novel or a short story that took you on a surreal journey yet when you’re back on the ground you must use your rational mind to discern the truth alone. Often times certain novels and stories written in the right spirit expresses more truth than this new-age nonsense. It is just a marketing gimmick. I am all for synthesizing and integrating truths from various timeless cultures but it has to be a synthesis of truth and truth alone. It must not be a mere enthusiastic and ecclesiastical orgy of polysyllables and exotic terminology engineered to invade the undeveloped minds of the ignorant mass. It must be an integration of the essence and not just terms and false symbols. None of these authors have had any authentic spiritual realizations. Neither is their outer nature transmuted enough to express the truth in any form.

 Almost all ancient texts from around the world are esoteric in the sense that they contain hidden truths, which they represent in an interactive, often extra-logical ways; kind of like a fairy tale. They exaggerate it to such an extent that it is purposely meant for you to look beyond the literal and into the deeper psychological subtleties leading to truths. However, majority of the world still hasn’t developed much of a thought-force and rather not think and just repose on the mundane. Once you have been awakened to deeper meaning behind the ancient symbolism, your perspective changes for ever. You tend to see it everywhere you look.

Terms such as religion, God, spirit and soul have all been corrupted indeed, by the limited understanding of puny minds. So, when science advanced, it found it easy to disprove all the so called “religious” truths because even the so called “religious and spiritual” leaders did not have a proper understanding of their own beliefs as science did of science. So materialism took over and we see the world today as its most extreme form. It seems today that matter and spirit are mutually exclusive but the perfect reconciliation of the two is what will set humanity free and immortal.

In the words of the great Seer-poet-philosopher Sri Aurobindo:

 ”Atheism in Europe has been a shallow and rather childish reaction against a shallow and childish exoteric religionism and its popular inadequate and crudely dogmatic notions.”

This sort of atheism, materialism, capitalism, positivism and agnosticism is more pronounced in the west than the East. In the east there never was and possibly never will be such an unbridgeable gap between spirituality, mysticism, Religion and Science because all Eastern philosophies work towards synthesis and reconciliation. This comes easy to them because they start from an essential unity whereas all western thought begins from a multiplicity and differentiation and division. The West tends to live in the realm of the mind which has a natural tendency to division and separation and exclusive analysis and thus cannot look at the whole. It takes a part for the whole and gives it an absolute value. Thus its perspective is limited only to that portion no matter how large the portion. Eastern thought on the other hand views the world from the largeness and vastness of the spirit and thus even the most opposite of principles fuse into one essentially instead of an eternal dichotomy.

Science is still playing catch up to Spirituality & Occultism, which have a few thousand years of head start. Yet science arrogantly claims the findings as its own & discredits others; fails to acknowledge the truth in them. Perhaps, it has become a new kind of dogma and a new church. The Power of the Mantra, known to ancients millennia ago is now starting to be accepted by science as per the article by Grazyna Fosar and Franz Bludorf, “Scientist Prove DNA Can Be Reprogrammed by Words & Frequencies”. Take the long route science. I shall be waiting on the mountain peaks of the Spirit, if & when you transcend your limiting intellect & eventually get there. For our destination is the same.

However, Science cannot be completely discredited or dismissed. Science has made an immense contribution in terms of analyzing and classifying details of creation. It has brought to light the minute and detailed workings of world nature and physical matter and is constantly moving towards further perfection. However, it must work within its limits and stick to what it knows and what it’s expertise entails. It must not state its claim on non-physical or supra-physical phenomenon using physical means. It must constantly move towards a truth and be flexible in its approach and not be fixed in its ways. It must be willing to accept other possibilities beyond the physical and widen its scope and its future development. It must not become a new religion but be constantly in pursuit of truth be willing to accommodate varied viewpoints if it is to enlarge its scope.

The superficiality and the superfluousness of the world can be really frustrating at times and the Ignorance and stupidity that brews daily is just simply repugnant. However, we can only try and live the truth. That is the only way we can lead by example. Whatever truth is concretely and subjectively realized must be objectified and externalized in life and must constantly remain living. This is what the ancient rituals of various traditions such as Vedas and Tantras aimed at when they translated their inner realization as outward rites and actions. However, they have a tendency to become mechanical over time since the average man is unable to see the living truth behind the form and hold it in his heart and mind whilst performing such a rite. Hence, Spiritual realization must come first and we must be a conscious instrument, forever spontaneously acting out the truths based on the intimations received from that infinite spiritual space.

Reason used upon itself and for itself only leads to agnosticism and facts or logic leave no room for other possibilities. Reason must be used to transcend

Question by apsjn: Define Religion, Philosophy and Spirituality and how do they play in one’s life?
Subsequent to seeing a typical question like the above and the way it was answered and got selected by the questioner, I feel to give perfection and clarity to the above three limbs to make the readers understand. Each one of them is interconnected. Unless man follows all the three he cannot be called ‘Man of perfection’. I request the commentators not to give wage and abusive answers. My regards to you all.

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Answer by The internet is serious business
Religion- A group of beliefs about the world, spirituality, morals, deities, etc. Usually cult-like

Philosophy- A way of thinking about things/curiosity

Spirituality- Beliefs about the soul, the paranormal, etc.

They come into play in people’s lives in different ways, depending on who they are. Personally, I am spiritual/philosophical but not religious.

What do you think? Answer below!

Thoughts turn out to be factors. Radiate constructive vibrations and observe the universe reverberate in variety; we generate our own reality; believe large ideas along with your world grows brighter; focus on the damaging, along with your fears materialize. Thoughts inside of attract factors on the market.

Tomorrow’s God will arrive down to earth and be component of us, as humankind awakens to locate that its idea of the supreme becoming wrongly reflects the actual deity. Daily life is God acting out its purpose, becoming actual in bodily kind. An universal thoughts underlies the entire world; speak to it and it will provide an solution. Make up your thoughts; assume constructive thoughts; enrich oneself; depart your person ego and develop a brand new Earth.

And so the new spirituality speaks of a tidal wave quickly to wash over us, joining the aged truths of religion with new-age optimism; one brain, 1 globe.

Since the teachings with the new spiritualism reflect the teachings in the previous spiritualism, it can be tough to oppose this optimistic viewpoint. But for the teachings to be real, the new spiritualism will will need far more than high thoughts, bright-colored textbooks, and promises of the better globe. It’ll will need a logical, credible grounding. It’s going to want a coherent worldview, a metaphysics, and exclusively, an integrated picture with the universe that explains both spirit as well as the substance entire world.

Which is all very good and great. No one reads, significantly less agrees with, Berkeley and Hume any much more. But then here arrives the shocker for anyone who treatment to dedicate some attention towards the problem.

When we turn to quantum idea, physic’s major theory in the nature of truth, we find that physicists along with the idealist philosophers are stating quite close to exactly the same point but in different methods. Physicists repeatedly remind us that “atoms will not be things.” Fairly, in the base of fact all we have are “quantum waves,” one thing resting from the borderland involving a particle and a wave, or even the wave function, a system telling us where we might find a particle if we determine to search for one particular. (See Bruce Rosenblum & Fred Kuttner, Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness). Nobel prize-winning physicists, Robert J. Laughlin, tells us that “[q]uantum mechanical matter consists of waves of nothing.” (A Different Universe). Jim Al-Khalili, in his book, Quantum: A Guide for the Perplexed, acknowledges that “no 1 really knows what the wave purpose actually is.” It really is not a “classical particle with a definite location at each time.” Instead it’s a probability wave that “collapses” into a discrete particle when observed.

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As Bruce Rosenblum and Fred Kuttner write, “There is no way to interpret quantum principle without encountering consciousness.” Why? Because even though quantum theory says only wave functions exist, scientific observations somehow convert the wave perform into a particle. As quickly as consciousness is found to play a role within the “collapse from the wave purpose,” the next question is, how considerably of the role? Instead of mind-independent matter, are there mind-independent wave functions “out there” waiting to be collapsed into a true planet? Or, was Berkeley right after all? Are we simply looking at a dream from the head of an Eternal Spirit?

Quantum theorists say that conscious observations are necessary to produce a photograph of bodily reality; Berkeley said that a head or spirit is necessary for us to experience a substance entire world. Isn’t the difference among these two viewpoints one particular of emphasis instead than of doctrine? Have scientists, in belittling Berkeley’s philosophy, missed out on a chance to integrate science with idealism?

Despite the findings of quantum physics, the scientific thoughts cannot bring itself to dispense with the principle of objectivity, the belief that “there is a real entire world independent of human perceptions.” (Ernst Mayr, This is Biology: The Science of the Living World.) Science remains the emotionally-detached search for truth; it does not want to inject spirit, daily life, or mind into the wave perform; it only wants to observe particles in motion.

Equally the idealist philosophers and quantum theorists agree that there is no such point as a mind-independent planet of matter. Somewhat, under both fields of thought, matter is an idea we’ve got implanted upon the external world. In other words, the two matter and spirit are internal concepts and exist on the very same level. Therefore, spirit should be able to affect matter from the same way that the substance entire world – a bad day with the office, the home team comes from behind to win, our best friend moves away – affects spirit.

So we are now ready to outline a metaphysics for the new spirituality. And it really is simple. All of physical actuality does in fact reside in an Eternal Spirit, and this spirit is what we call God. If we are a single thoughts inside the midst of a powerful dream, then most everything the new spirituality says can be true: thoughts can make up issues because the thought and also the issue are connected, like a dreamer and its dream. If we can solve the problem of solipsism and find a way to integrate science into this new viewpoint, then we will really be on to one thing.

The prediction here is that the “new spirituality” will eventually divide into two camps: individuals who practice spirituality (or religion) within the worldview of materialism and pray for an omnipotent God to change the world through a miracle, and these who conclude that to make spiritualism genuine, it’s going to be necessary to eliminate the independent-world assumption of scientific materialism and join spirit with matter, the dreamer with its dream.

Philip Mereton is a practicing lawyer with a philosophy degree whose mission is to expose the fallacies in our current materialistic worldview and to advance an a lot more rational — and promising — outlook. His first book, The Heaven in the End of Science – An Argument for a new Worldview of Hope, began as a college essay in 1974. The theme is the same: idealism (the world is really a dream) much better explains the entire world than materialism (the entire world is a decaying machine). His website and blog appear at http://www.heavenattheendofscience.com.

Mr. Mereton asks all viewers who have doubts about the truth with the Big Bang, the origin of daily life from a primordial swamp, humankind’s descent from bacteria, or even the death of God (among many other doubtful findings of modern science), to join the revolution against scientific materialism. The revolution begins with a question: is materialism correct? Is there a much better way to explain the entire world we live in? After all, if the entire world is really a dream, it’d be to our advantage to learn and understand that fact now so that we can learn how to master the dream and thus our individual lives, instead than manipulate particles in materialism’s grand machine. So what can you do? Visit the website; read guides that question materialism; raise your hand in class and question science teachers; be type. Under the tenets of science, the truth will remain standing after all the questioning and experimentation ends. But we must start first start the debate. Join in.

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