I said, "if you must worship". I don't need to worship anything.
I cannot believe it. Are all religious folks so shallow to think only about themselves and their salvation?
It is all about you and your personal pleasure.
Why would you even think that someone would want to be good to others to satisfy their own personal whimsy?
You are good to others so that others feel good. That is what selflessness is all about.
Maybe religious people cannot become truly selfless that is why you don't understand or trust what I am talking about.
Maybe that is why you invent the supernatural to satisfy your pathological lack of empathy for human beings.
You need the supernatural because you lack connection with other, physical life.
I am afraid our nervous systems are wired differently that is why you do not truly trust and understand what I am saying.
Instead, you look for invalidation of my position elsewhere by inventing that reason to fit it into your worldview.
I am walking, talking Jesus or Budda compared to you guys.
You are wrong on that point af_newbie. Everyone worships something. Your only choice is what that worship is centered on and whether you are going to be aware of what you are worshipping.
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Nah... I am amazed by all the life that is around us. I do not worship it. I appreciate it.
Life is, just is. Whether I am alive, whether I am amazed by it or NOT. It was here billions of years before me, and it will be here in billions of years after I die.
The difference between our positions is that you focus on the afterlife, I focus on this life when we are alive.
There is no afterlife IMHO. You beg to differ.
You think that the afterlife is more important than this life. That is why you don't value this life the same way I do.To you this life is worthless, the life in the afterlife is the prize you are after.
The concept of God that you have invented is just mental imagery and feelings you have developed to help you believe that there is an afterlife; the afterlife you so desperately seek.