How does one "choose" a Belief System?

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BetteTheRed said:
From another thread, quoting myself,

"...A more interesting question, to me, is "can you choose your belief system"? I don't think it's possible. I believe what I believe, not because I chose it, but because this is the vision that life has unfolded before me, based on what I have received via my senses in the past, and how my brain has organized that information. And I'm not entirely talking about our five physical senses. I believe we have at least one more sense - call it intuition, spirit, inner vision - that also informs this logical process in my brain."

Also, if I use the words BS in this particular thread, I'm usually referring to belief system...that is not the case everywhere.
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All things you believe are ideas this is the basis of morality. When you make a choice you vote for what you believe in. Like money. Consumption is a choice
 
Hello everyone, I'm back. A little older but none the wiser. :)

I don't think we choose our belief system; most of us get indoctrinated into it.

Although I believe in cosmic unity, and the unitive feeling is my moral compass, this is not a doctrinal belief. I feel reality to be a unified whole, and my thoughts and actions are based on that feeling. Whatever I think about cosmic unity is, of course, my own creation. And whichever way I act based on that feeling and these thoughts is also my creation. One could call this choice. But sometimes my actions arise directly from the unitive feeling, without any intervention by deliberate thinking. I would that intuition.

The ancient Etruscans had an interesting goddess named Uni. I don't know how the Etrruscans understood Uni, but the Romans, who took over much of the Etruscan culture, made "uni" into an important prefix: Unity, unified, universe, universal, etc. Because I feel that we are a unified universe, I believe in Uni -- if the ancient Etruscans permit to interpret their Goddess freely. :)
 
Hermann said:
Hello everyone, I'm back. A little older but none the wiser. :)

I don't think we choose our belief system; most of us get indoctrinated into it.

Although I believe in cosmic unity, and the unitive feeling is my moral compass, this is not a doctrinal belief. I feel reality to be a unified whole, and my thoughts and actions are based on that feeling. Whatever I think about cosmic unity is, of course, my own creation. And whichever way I act based on that feeling and these thoughts is also my creation. One could call this choice. But sometimes my actions arise directly from the unitive feeling, without any intervention by deliberate thinking. I would that intuition.

The ancient Etruscans had an interesting goddess named Uni. I don't know how the Etrruscans understood Uni, but the Romans, who took over much of the Etruscan culture, made "uni" into an important prefix: Unity, unified, universe, universal, etc. Because I feel that we are a unified universe, I believe in Uni -- if the ancient Etruscans permit to interpret their Goddess freely. :)
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Good to hear from you Hermann ... almost like toying around with Hemes as a lighter messenger ... Lever ites? Those who pry into the shadows ... to allow a spark into their trances ... a human enigma ... some washing and drying down by the river may be advantageous! See all those birds pounding fabrics and tapestries?

Take them all lightly ... much social here say and heresy ... Hershey's Chock a Lot ...?

The dark smears may be shuffled as Smoor ...
 
Hermann said:
I feel reality to be a unified whole, and my thoughts and actions are based on that feeling.
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This is, really, roughly what I mean by pantheism, not that the universe is "God" in a personal sense but that it is the source of our existence and we are an integral part of it.

And, as I already said in our private conversation, welcome back. There's been some water under the bridge since you were last on so I hope you have time to look around and get updated.
 
Hi Hermann,

as others have noticed it is nice to meet you in the mix. In past times your diverse insights encouraged me in my own way. I was born with a strong intuition and a weak rationality. Perhaps related to a traumatic birth. In childhood this served my growth and development very well. The crisis came at puberty. Critical consciousness arose and I began to question the demand for conformity expressed by the school system. Which led to my expulsion at an early age. This opened the road to a journey of transformation. A journey of putting away much that the world about me called necessary. Opening to the realization of my unity with life itself and in all of its manifestations. Set apart for a brief interlude to participate and observe from a particular point of view. Dedicated to the practice of care in all my relations. With home as reunion of substance and source.

My own point of view has been shaped by a great diversity of perspectives. It has been strengthened by resistance from all sides. One of the reasons I value being here.

George
 
Un-I is a metaphor of not-me ... lord how fickle to drop below the horizon of Gods ... really school-like for the brutes ... garcons (source of gar-fish and oligarchs)! Tis all in the connections of strings of ... nothing but word ... dark to those without a torch ...

The shadow lands of literature and what the aboriginal meant ... tis all lost to us ... because of the "didn't wish to know" clause ... thus us the chimney it arose ... smoke-in heat ... ergos!

Sometimes Egs as nothing (o) is left out ... nothing is poorly understood even in poly tech industry ... unless you work at Ide ...
 
Hermann, nice to see you.

@Luce, like that "Un-I" as synonym for "Not me", which is definitely how to organize a religion.
 
BetteTheRed said:
Hermann, nice to see you.

@Luce, like that "Un-I" as synonym for "Not me", which is definitely how to organize a religion.
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A further question erupts ... "how does one organize knowledge and wisdom in an emotional, tempered surrounding?"

Doesn't happen in reality because it was blown before we arrived ... so we could look back with awe. Perhaps not for those that didn't like history and thus rendered it with flaws ... odd things in perfusion ...
 
How does one organize knowledge and wisdom?

The quest for knowledge is well organized. Science and the scientific method are universally acknowledged.

But science cannot and does not answer all of our questions. That's where wisdom comes in.

The quest for wisdom, though, is largely personal. We put meaning into our existence, and then live by that meaning.

But is there a universal, all applicable wisdom?

I think there is. Uni is universal wisdom: The Principle of Unity.

Uni smiles down on us and embraces us. Are we ready embrace Her?
 
Hermann said:
How does one organize knowledge and wisdom?

The quest for knowledge is well organized. Science and the scientific method are universally acknowledged.

But science cannot and does not answer all of our questions. That's where wisdom comes in.

The quest for wisdom, though, is largely personal. We put meaning into our existence, and then live by that meaning.

But is there a universal, all applicable wisdom?

I think there is. Uni is universal wisdom: The Principle of Unity.

Uni smiles down on us and embraces us. Are we ready embrace Her?
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That's you neight the "not me" syndrome ... those who wish not to give a bit in the interchange ... sometimes known as caring quantum cosmology! That surrounding nature; Lord of the Rings in Ringlets? The waves create patterns throughout the known and unknown ... thus rifts in the dark arias ... nodes?

Eastern 4 virtues may pertain to the unseen arias ... whispers in the pines ... or mockingbirds? Alien larks!

From there wings spread ... the Dark Knight rises ... that'd be Atman ... in business the ADman ... twists and cranks the fears ...

Shadow: dis position ... :devil: ... all red in the face from suppressed laughter so as to appear serious! Fringes on the Gods of Romantic Virtue that includes Hobnailed Boots to the foot of the bed ... that's another mithra of varied fertility !

Mithra????? Classical BS ...
 
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