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to mischief, thanks for the welcome albeit i've been here since the beginning of this conversation, but its nice to be welcomed by another member, I wouldnt say i'm a scholar, but i've got my own theories.
To krossfyter, as i am technically jewish, I of course do not believe the same ideals as you. I do not believe that man should be punished for anything he does by another man, except when you harm another man or yourself. For example if you kill someone, and they have a conscience, then you shold let them rot in jail to pay for their sin, but if you only beat someone once your debt to society is paid, it's up to G-d to punish you. Another example if your a smoker or you over eat its not up to doctors to save you, you consciously decided to smoke, drink, over eat, etc. You deal with the conscequences, basically its ok if we kill ourselves but not someone else! I do not believe that there is punishment in the afterlife because I believe in karma and reincarnation. And with reincarnation there comes a journey for each soul, which must experience everything in order to be whole. Life is an experience, it can be painful or joyful and it is your choice. The basic way i look at everything is that G-d creates man, G-d is outside of time and space and as such does not have to abide by the rules G-d created. So we are here to learn lessons, both good and evil, no matter how many trips we make to complete the journey, then we die, and we go to paradise as a balanced spiritual being. Now I've got major issues with any organized religion, I do not understand how someone can have faith in something they cannot physically sense, so they create an idol, figurehead, worship ideal, etc. Jesus, Mohammed, greek and roman g-ds, etc. The reason for my belief in G-d comes not from some religion and not from faith, it comes from a belief that we are not an accident, we didnt happen by chance, it was not amino acids bumping together at random that created everything. And I also do not believe we are alone in the universe, what a ginormous waste of space.
Anything that has a soul, which i believe only humans and intelligent mammals such as dolphins, etc, have. Are all children of G-d, all we have to do is realize it, and open ourselves up to the endless possibilities. Jesus even said the temple of G-d is not inside a house made of stone and wood but inside of each person. Why do you think many jewish and pre jewish artifacts and scrolls are housed in the vatican where no one can see them. They admit to having jewish artifacts but will not even display them for people to see, or give them back to the jews as should be done. Why are there tombs in egypt which were sealed from the inside which the government will not allow us to open? Why in the world is there a painting on the wall of a temple of some ancient civilization, i forget which, but the painting or drawing shows every different type of ethnic group on the planet, and its carbon dated to before people of these ethnic groups traversed the globe!
And about the nazi's I asked my professor from my introduction to World Religions class if hitler did what he did in the name of G-d and she said yes so there!
In the end no one should be offended by what i've said, if you are I offer you my sincerest apologies. Every person is entitled to their opinion, nothing is right or wrong, there should be no judement of our kin. We do not live in that world, we live in this world where everyone is in the grey area.
And here's a time theory for ya!
There is lineal time, circular time, and then there is my version. Think of a film projectors film reel. Time is wound up into the reel, and it plays through the projector in an endless cycle, each time things happen a little differently, what you see on the screen is the present, what played, the past, what is going to be played the future. so when you die and your frame is wound up touch other frames and your soul jumps to another life, it is simply walking through your frame and into another frame either in future or past. And then the system resets and the startup chime is heard (big bang!)
