Reply #122: What a load of bullocks. [View All]

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Why is that the only way to be able to answer those questions is in a dogma state of mind? What a laugh.

What do you have to offer as a group in the form of public policy ideas that are an improvement over what already exists?
-- The ability to progress is only hindered by the dogma that currently restricts it. Without dogma around your neck you can resolve issues much better. There is not that paranoia that some divine invisible man in the sky is watching us or that it should be included in our societal decisions and direction.

Who are we?
-- Well if you would pay attention you would already know that answer. But, instead some choose to ignore the evidence and stick to dark age fantasy and superstitions in a self enforced delusion.
We are Homo Sapiens. we are not descendants of Monkeys but share a common ancestor with Apes. The Human species is not seperate from the animal kingdom but part of it as well as a Evolutionary result, a process that will continue. The answer to 'Who are we' in the species since is easy, we are an animal like all other mammals on this planet, no exceptions, it is written on you DNA. The very DNA that WE share most in common we Apes. The other "Who are we" is the one about individuality, which is more of a 'Who am I' rather than a 'Who are we'. WE know who WE are and where WE came from, but answering the 'Who are YOU' question is a matter of self evaluation.

Where did we come from?
--We came from Africa and the consensus agrees based on the fossil evidence. Life in general came from Millions of years of singled celled Evolution..Now where did that single celled life come from? It is being discussed that Life, DNA/RNA or something similar, exist through out Space and that Planets are seeded through what is called PANSPERMIA. But, that is only a Hypothesis and requires more evidence to support it, perhaps when we discover life on another planet it can be considered more seriously and become a Theory.

How shall we live our lives?
-- You live it civil and based on what is and is not accepted in society. You do not need religion to be a moral and just person, Morality is ingrained in us and religion has nothing to do with it which is obvious when you look at the so-called 'moral majority'.

How should society be organized?
-- Not at all to differently then it already is, but with a stronger focus on Humanism. By removing Religious dogma the resources and energy that it consumes can be used for far more important things. Religious organizations are social vampires that suck funds and raw materials dry or at least a very large culprit. The general structure is relatively fine, but since religion has injected itself into the politics; because the flock thinks it has some sort of 'special' authority to govern based on divine law, the structure has become cracked and jagged as well as misguided. We all know that religion and politics DO NOT work together, History has shown us that yet the States do not seem to learn from History.
It seems that some think that if Religion was not part of society that people would just come unhinged and do more then what they do now even with religion present, but that could not be further from reality. Even if religion was not part of society, there would still be lawful consequences to your actions as there are now. gawds law, as according to the NT, is nothing that was not established prior to its scratchings which was sometime after the supposed death of the christ, like decades. It does not take religion to establish social structure in order for a society to function, the Sumerians had established social Law long before the Greeks. Without order in ancient societies we would not be having this discussion.

Where are we going after death?
-- After you die your time is up, when you die so goes your self awareness and the very thing that makes you who you are, your brain. Knowing that there is no such thing as the supernatural and no evidence (hard evidence) at all to support the claim we can conclude that such places like heaven and hell are nothing more then fabrications of the human imagination, just like Oz and Alice's Wonderland.