@@grnttylr480 hello and greetings to you.So Grnt is English your first language? We must hope so. Either way this may be a struggle, let's see. Okay when people like you make claims such as you have there in attempt besmirch or destroy someone's character ,YOU NEED TO PROVIDE PROOF. Please provide the PROOF for your claims. Thanking you in advance. Cheers.
"These are nothing but names that you and your forefathers have invented, for which Allah has sent down no authority. They are merely following their conjectures and their carnal desires although guidance has come to them from their Lord." Quran 53-23 it is just a mathematical equation which explains how things happen. However, why all things follow this equation? You can say it is World or atoms who do that like Shakespeare example; however, this is not the case
Not sure who said it first....Without the past there is no present and without the present there is no future.... "That's simple math. 2+2 will always equal 4 but so does 1 and 3!"
We are controlled by laws of nature. There is a general force of nature, and two opposite forces-bestowal and reception-extend from it. We exist between these forces, and both of these qualities affect us. Then, the question arises: How do we develop under the influence of these forces? Where do we act? Where are we free? How do we accumulate and correlate these two forces within ourselves? How can we build ourselves out of them? These are the questions that the wisdom of Kabbalah engages in: how we receive these two forces in an optimal balance, and with their help, shape ourselves so as to resemble the very laws of nature, to arise and reach equivalence of form with the force of bestowal in nature. These very laws gave us the opportunity to control the pace of our progress in accepting them upon ourselves. That is the point of our freewill. How could we act if we do not have freewill? Who would we be? Would we just be like robots, always under control? Until now, we have always been under control. What does it mean? Nature as if injects a drop of egoism-the desire to enjoy at others’ expense-into us, and then it does so a little more, and a little more again, and we then get the impetus to move toward all kinds of egoistic goals. The more our egoism inflates, the more we become willing to move to increasingly gain at the expense of others. Nature constantly squeezes the syringe into us until it eventually infuses us with the full amount of egoism. Our era is characterized by the syringe of egoism having become completely injected into us, with no more egoism left to inject. That is why we have nowhere left to run. Where do we head from here? What do we do? Moreover, egoism has become global and integral. In the beginning, we felt good because we reached egoistic global connections in the world and thought that everything would be fine. However, when such connections started depending on everyone, we turned out to be nature’s opposite. At this juncture, we find ourselves with a major dilemma, and we need to work out what we do about it. Where our fully-inflated egoism coupled with our tightening global connections brings us to increasing problems around the world, today we require a new form of connection-enriching education that would have the ability to guide us on how to change our egoistic connections to altruistic ones. That is the key to a shift to a harmonious and peaceful world.
Wait then by what he says there is no free will, because if God existed he will direct men in such a way to align with His agenda Just He does multiple times in the Bible
If we want to do something then He accepts our want and creates it. We just have 'will'. Everything about power in His hand. It is really astonising... You may feel weird but actually Islam has this real monoteistic idea since the time of Prophet Muhammed(saw). And this idea solves every problem, there is no 'God of Gaps' because there is no filled Gaps...
Well, this is exactly what Islamic monotheism is. In Islam, Allah is not like a deist God who created universe and sat down, but a God who does everything in everytime even smallest atom to the greatest stars... Here is my evidences: "He merges the night into the day and the day into the night, and has subjected the sun and the moon, each orbiting for an appointed term. That is Allah-your Lord! All authority belongs to Him. But those ˹idols˺ you invoke besides Him do not possess even the skin of a date stone." Quran 35-13 "Have they not seen birds above them spreading and closing their wings, with none holding them except the Merciful One? He oversees everything" Quran 67-19 "It was not you ˹believers˺ who killed them, but it was Allah Who did so. Nor was it you ˹O Prophet˺ who threw ˹a handful of sand at the disbelievers˺, but it was Allah Who did so, rendering the believers a great favour. Surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing." Quran 8-17 And more... I can find even at least 20 more verses now
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CS Lewis was / is a modern "version" of a prophet. A great prophet.
@@grnttylr480 hello and greetings to you.So Grnt is English your first language? We must hope so. Either way this may be a struggle, let's see. Okay when people like you make claims such as you have there in attempt besmirch or destroy someone's character ,YOU NEED TO PROVIDE PROOF. Please provide the PROOF for your claims. Thanking you in advance. Cheers.
One of the challenges of modern society is that many people do not want to think.
C. S. Lewis, if you really want to listen, makes you think.
RULES OF NATURE
AND THEY RUN WHEN THE SUN COMES UP
I have listened to this before, but I still learn more each time I listen
What an intellect
Brilliant.
Thinking the exact same thing
Darwin ran into the same wall
What about the gravitational pull causing waves?
"These are nothing but names that you and your forefathers have invented, for which Allah has sent down no authority. They are merely following their conjectures and their carnal desires although guidance has come to them from their Lord."
Quran 53-23
it is just a mathematical equation which explains how things happen. However, why all things follow this equation? You can say it is World or atoms who do that like Shakespeare example; however, this is not the case
Almighty God created everything even the universe.
Not sure who said it first....Without the past there is no present and without the present there is no future....
"That's simple math. 2+2 will always equal 4 but so does 1 and 3!"
Present
We are controlled by laws of nature.
There is a general force of nature, and two opposite forces-bestowal and reception-extend from it.
We exist between these forces, and both of these qualities affect us.
Then, the question arises: How do we develop under the influence of these forces? Where do we act? Where are we free? How do we accumulate and correlate these two forces within ourselves? How can we build ourselves out of them?
These are the questions that the wisdom of Kabbalah engages in: how we receive these two forces in an optimal balance, and with their help, shape ourselves so as to resemble the very laws of nature, to arise and reach equivalence of form with the force of bestowal in nature. These very laws gave us the opportunity to control the pace of our progress in accepting them upon ourselves.
That is the point of our freewill.
How could we act if we do not have freewill? Who would we be? Would we just be like robots, always under control?
Until now, we have always been under control. What does it mean?
Nature as if injects a drop of egoism-the desire to enjoy at others’ expense-into us, and then it does so a little more, and a little more again, and we then get the impetus to move toward all kinds of egoistic goals. The more our egoism inflates, the more we become willing to move to increasingly gain at the expense of others. Nature constantly squeezes the syringe into us until it eventually infuses us with the full amount of egoism.
Our era is characterized by the syringe of egoism having become completely injected into us, with no more egoism left to inject. That is why we have nowhere left to run.
Where do we head from here? What do we do?
Moreover, egoism has become global and integral. In the beginning, we felt good because we reached egoistic global connections in the world and thought that everything would be fine. However, when such connections started depending on everyone, we turned out to be nature’s opposite.
At this juncture, we find ourselves with a major dilemma, and we need to work out what we do about it. Where our fully-inflated egoism coupled with our tightening global connections brings us to increasing problems around the world, today we require a new form of connection-enriching education that would have the ability to guide us on how to change our egoistic connections to altruistic ones. That is the key to a shift to a harmonious and peaceful world.
"laws of nature means laws of God." Kindly read The Bhagavad-Gītā As It Is, Hare KRSNA.
Wait then by what he says there is no free will, because if God existed he will direct men in such a way to align with His agenda
Just He does multiple times in the Bible
But humans dont have to obey. That is the point
If we want to do something then He accepts our want and creates it. We just have 'will'. Everything about power in His hand. It is really astonising...
You may feel weird but actually Islam has this real monoteistic idea since the time of Prophet Muhammed(saw). And this idea solves every problem, there is no 'God of Gaps' because there is no filled Gaps...
Well, this is exactly what Islamic monotheism is. In Islam, Allah is not like a deist God who created universe and sat down, but a God who does everything in everytime even smallest atom to the greatest stars... Here is my evidences:
"He merges the night into the day and the day into the night, and has subjected the sun and the moon, each orbiting for an appointed term. That is Allah-your Lord! All authority belongs to Him. But those ˹idols˺ you invoke besides Him do not possess even the skin of a date stone." Quran 35-13
"Have they not seen birds above them spreading and closing their wings, with none holding them except the Merciful One? He oversees everything" Quran 67-19
"It was not you ˹believers˺ who killed them, but it was Allah Who did so. Nor was it you ˹O Prophet˺ who threw ˹a handful of sand at the disbelievers˺, but it was Allah Who did so, rendering the believers a great favour. Surely Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing." Quran 8-17
And more... I can find even at least 20 more verses now
Would be interested in hearing your thoughts on this video: The Quran, the Bible, and the Islamic Dilemma (David Wood)
Lately Islam seems to have enjoyed kidnapping and murder. Great religion!
If a frog had a glass ass, he'll break it.
Logic is overrated.