The Truth Process

 Thought experiment: (lets assume you know nothing about God and are an atheist). A mining operation in Alaska reveals a stone box is which contains a clay tablet with a message on it written in an ancient dialect similar to Mesopotamian cuneiform. After lots of time and effort, the dialect is decoded. The message says that if a person will shout a certain word every day 100 times for 100 days and then lay quietly on the ground that a being inside the planet would hear them and visit their minds, giving them the knowledge that is beyond expression. Would you do it? No? okay-- Lets say that you heard that someone else whom you do not know personally did it and they claim to have had this experience but they cant possibly begin to explain it and it has transformed their life. Would you do it now? Still no? okay, Lets say that someone whom you DO know AND trust personally claims to have done this and claims to have had this experience and that they cant possibly being to explain it in...

Athiest: People tend to want to believe in things that would be nice. Unicorns, cancer-curing oils, hugging beloved grandparent in a blissful afterlife... This has no relation to whether those things are a part of objective reality. People experience their gods inside their subjective realities, the evidence is massive. The "elevation emotion" is certainly real. Very rare to find evidence for anything supernatural being in objective reality, though. More than rare, I would say there is no good evidence at all, so far. We just need ONE piece of irrefutable evidence. Believing in magic is bad for humanity, I think. Why do experiments in physics, it won't save your soul, best to memorize holy books instead. If you look too hard at your faith, you risk something worse than losing your soul: realizing that you never had one. Believer This is what you kind of said in other words: "To believe, all I need is for something intangible (spirits) to be tangible!" By definit...

QUESTION: "Where did we come from." ANSWER: From what I can tell or understand, our spirits have always existed and are made of the same thing that God is made of it. You could almost say that we are made of God... but the wording that I am the most familiar with is that "God organized our intelligences". This could mean a great many things, but one of them might be that He helped us to progress and develop into something more than we were-- and I believe that this progression and development continues today in a new setting of mortality on this earth.  QUESTION: "How did God make the earth."  ANSWER: Personally, I turn to science to answer these questions as there is very little functional guidance given from spirituality on the subject. The creation stories in Genesis only make sense to me as analogies or perhaps an order. I do find it interesting to note that if you replace dinosaurs with birds, the order of creation resembles the order that evolutionis...

One does not generally have the capacity to directly choose their beliefs. For example, I could likely not get myself to start believing in Dragons no matter how much I wished they were real or how much I wanted to believe in them. Rather than directly choosing our beliefs, we may have the a bility to manipulate them indirectly. In order to do that, we have to understand why people believe things: The Four factors determining belief 1). The people they identify with as their “society” believes it. 2). The individuals they identify as authority figures believe it.  3). They have examined evidence from a trusted source that supports the belief. 4). They have personal experience that supports the belief. So if you want to start or stop believing something, try to manipulate these four factors.  Sometimes people find themselves in a situation where one or more of the four factors influencing their beliefs do not align. When this occurs, they may experience cognitive dissonance. To...

I was recently told by a protestant Christian that because I was raised in the Church of Jesus Christ that I would burn in hell forever-- unless I became what she specified as a “bad Mormon” which she clarified to mean that I had to stop believing all of the things that I was taught in my church, and I needed to start believing all of the things that she was taught in her church. I asked her what was it about membership in my religion made we worthy of eternal damnation-- is there some specific belief? Did she believe that God have be burned eternally because I thought that God might have visited people in America? Or is it because I believe that God spoke to more people than she did? She clarified that the reason that God would not save me was because I believed in works. I disagreed with her and shared the following: 1. I very clearly stated that I believed that Jesus Christ is the Redeemer and Judge of mankind and that salvation is in and through Jesus Christ. I...

For hundreds or even perhaps thousands of years, people who have acted on homosexual tendencies have been treated abhorrently. Being persecuted, murdered, and cruelly condemned. Treating anyone in this way is wrong, and quite frankly, evil.  Kindness and love are what the Savior taught.  The Savior set the perfect example for all of us in loving the sinner without praising the behavior. John 8:10-12 10 When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? 11 She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. 12 Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. The woman caught in adultery was not accused, condemned, or attacked with stones-- physically or metaphorically. Of note, neither did the Messiah endorse, encourage, praise, congrat...

Different religions have taken different approaches to religion and sexuality. Religious individuals such as some monks, yogi's and catholic priests believe that, for them celibacy (abstaining from marriage and sexual relations), is the most conducive to their views of spirituality.  Other religious individuals such as some Christians, Latter-day Saints, and Muslims believe that, for them, heterosexual relationships are most conducive to their views on spirituality.  Some others believe that if and individual has homosexual attraction, that engaging in homosexual relations is the best thing for their welfare. Which is right? We should all get to chose. Certain lifestyles may not be conducive to certain religions. Heterosexual relations is not conducive to a celibate monk, and homosexual relations may not be conducive to the life of a temple-serving latter day Saint. Some consider this hateful. Religious people are at times hateful, which is unfortunate in my opinion. Sometimes...