Blackhawk

This constant thing with attributing human qualities to God... While you are at it, why not also say that he is a man with white beard?

A interesting question is: why would God delude himself? Maybe because he or you don't want to know the truth? That would make seeking for truth a bad thing. Just some thoughts. I don't know the answer.

There are books written about this subject.. which I have read. Nato reminds me of the holism thing which Leo has talked about. Because all member countries goes together for the greater good. It acts as one. It prevents wars because attacking a Nato member would be suicide. Together is strong. The former Sovjetunion states Georgia and Ukraine aren't Nato members, and they have been attacked by Russia. While the Baltic states (former Sovjetunion states Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) are Nato members, and they haven't been attacked by Russia. It's their Nato membership which has saved them. Ukraine is now begging for a Nato membership, but unfortunately they can't join Nato right now because that would instantly trigger a war with Russia. A country should join Nato before war starts, to prevent a war from starting, that's why I want Sweden and Finland to join Nato now while we still have peace. NATO is a international intergovernmental political organization in which the decisions are made by consensus between all 30 sovereign member states, and every member has veto right, so everyone benefit. But hostile aggressive countries do not benefit because they can't attack members. "These organizations bring member states together to cooperate on a particular theme or issues that have global impacts and implications such as human rights, trade, development, poverty, gender or migration." https://libguides.lub.lu.se/c.php?g=489859&p=3938549 "Article 5 provides that if a NATO Ally is the victim of an armed attack, each and every other member of the Alliance will consider this act of violence as an armed attack against all members and will take the actions it deems necessary to assist the Ally attacked." https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm Basically every swede who is against a Nato membership is against it because they believe in some myth about Nato, or have misconceptions about it. Every argument against a membership can be killed by pure facts. Most swedes don't really know what Nato even is, they just have prejudices and wrong notions. And they also don't know that Sweden isn't neutral anymore, because we are EU members, and we have a thing called "solidaritetsförklaringen" in which we promise to help other Nordic and EU countries if they are attacked. If a war happens in our proximity then Sweden will be dragged into the war even if we aren't members in Nato. And if Russia attacks Sweden it will be because it needs Gotland (a swedish island) and maybe southern Sweden because of strategic reasons if Russia attacks the Baltic states. Because Russia can then cut off Nato from helping the Baltic states, by putting air and sea missile systems on Gotland and southern Sweden, so Nato can't come from west to assist the Baltics. In case of a war Sweden will assist Nato anyway (despite our lack of membership). And Russia knows it. And Russia will act accordingly. So there is no reason for Sweden to not join Nato. Sweden is a close partner with Nato. A Nato membership would definitely increase the safety not only for Sweden, but also for the Baltics. The Baltics have repeatedly said that a swedish membership would increase their safety. It's also morally important to be on the good side and defend the free world, our shared western values, human rights and democracy, by being a member of Nato. For example Belgium don't have any foes, they are surrounded by friendly democratic countries, they are cocooned in safety, but they are still members of Nato because of moral reasons. They want to contribute to a good cause. Almost all the good guys are members of Nato. This should be enough to understand that Nato is good and that Sweden and Finland should join it: Trump didn't like Nato and other international cooperations, while Biden loves them.

That Sweden isn't a member of Nato. The politicians don't do the right thing and join the defense alliance of the free world mainly because they are too afraid of Russia. Which means they let a foreign country rule over our security politics. I'm doing my best to convince the swedes that we should join Nato.. But it doesn't look promising.

"Look within, There is no difference between yourself, Self and Guru. You are always Free. There is no teacher, there is no student, there is no teaching." - Papaji Of course this would be a contradiction... but whatever.

My belief is that there's a high probability that we are all seekers/students. So how could you then have a school?

That idea is disturbing. Maybe you should stop assuming that the stuff here is the truth. But maybe it is the truth, what do I know. Just the risk that it might not be the truth..

@kras I've done it. Basically life becomes a loooong loooong wait for death.

Forget the existence of "psychosis".

Just stop it.. (This is not a troll post.)

@soos_mite_ah It would be interesting/useful to know your age. I find my parents annoying too. (But of course I care about them.) I'm around 30. Fact #1: We don't like everyone. Fact #2: We didn't choose our parents. Result: Not everyone likes their parents.

Is that your own idea? This is how expansion is possible even if the universe is infinite: Imagine infinite space and time, and that it's only the distances between objects which increase.

It isn't 0. I don't know how it works but scientists say that the universe might be infinite.

No the chance statistically that we exist isn't 0, it's above 0, otherwise we wouldn't be here. We know that the universe is bigger than what the Hubble space telescope can see. Since the chance that intelligent life exists is above 0, and because the universe is so big, maybe infinite, it's impossible that we are alone.

I don't think it will ever be possible. Having an open mind doesn't mean that you buy everything. It's called open minded skepticism. I wouldn't be in this forum at all if I wouldn't be open minded. But let's agree to disagree.

Don't know if it's true or not.

We don't know if humans are enlightened, let alone if animals are.

There would be many people who would want stuff like that. That "love based society" will never happen. It's not possible.

"I mean, would you interact with us?" Yes I would.

....Just forget it. Of course it would never work.

Oh okay ?

It could work if everyone gets the exact same amount of stuff. But it would require massive amount of monitoring that everyone actually gets the exact same amount of stuff. And then there's the issue with cheating and stealing. You would have to have super tough penalties for cheating and stealing. Or btw, no, not even that would work since everyone have different needs, hobbies, etc. It would be completely impossible. Forget it.

So if I want 50 big houses, the society would be obliged to give me them? Or what?

Let's agree to disagree.