|
Rule -> RE: What is Lost Due to Circumcision? (6/2/2010 4:04:59 AM)
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: kiwisub12
and how can you be a little bit redeemed? Isn't that like being a little bit pregnant?
The potential damage done by parents to the gene pool is equal to the fraction of their children that continue the practice of circumcision. So the larger the fraction of their children is that repent and that determine that the practice of circumcision must stop, the more their parents and their population are redeemed evolutionarily.
As for partial spiritual redemption of the parents by the actions of their offspring, I do know nothing about that. It seems to me that the parents themselves as an individual responsibility must repent to garner spiritual redemption to at least some degree.
quote:
ORIGINAL: kiwisub12
One thing we haven't established is what happens after death. Do you believe you go to heaven i.e. another plane of existence where you reap rich rewards for what you did on earth
'Outside' our universe there is only the Nothingness of the Divine; there is not even empty space as we know it in our universe. So there is no spiritual heaven there, only data storage.
I have concluded that there is one other universe, but as that is the inverse of our universe, I strongly doubt that it is spiritual heaven.
Physical heaven is no longer accessible to us since a couple of centuries. There was not sufficient capacity in it to process more than a small portion of humanity anyway, I suspect.
Thus I can only speculate and necessarily must extrapolate from mythology and science to the spirit. As on Earth and in mythology, so spiritually.
As for science, we have observed that the universe is thrifty: everything is recycled. So it is reasonable to extrapolate that the mind also is recycled. Everything also is composed of components, and the mind most certainly does is composed of components, and recycled components do not necessarily end up with the same destination.
If recycled, there is only one known destination: the organisms - perhaps even the inanimate objects - in our universe, anywhere in time. That gives us the cycle of life reincarnations of the Buddhists.
According to the ancient Egyptians the souls of bad people were after their death devoured by a supernatural beast that comes out of the desert, which represents complete annihilation. So that might be the fate of defective components of the mind; it stands to reason to throw away defective components. (Mind that there is a difference between bad and defective.)
We also know that the pagan gods judged the dead. This also must be extrapolated to the Divine. Accordingly, if components of the mind are recycled anywhere in time and space to any kind of species, then there is a large spectrum for reward and punishment, varying from being born as a school of shrimp in the Palaeozoic to being reborn as a superintelligent being on the other side of the galaxy.
quote:
ORIGINAL: kiwisub12
where you reap rich rewards for what you did on earth - as long as your parents didn't circumcise you?
I do not think that circumcised people are necessarily damned, but there is such a thing as poetic justice and that might be applied if and when the components of their minds are recycled.
quote:
ORIGINAL: kiwisub12
And do you belong to an organised religion? I'm trying to get a handle on your religious beliefs.
I am an atheist with an open mind who happened to serendipitously discover the Divine 'outside' our universe, as well as becoming a bit spiritually aware.
quote:
ORIGINAL: kiwisub12
They seem to be a little wild and wacky, but interesting.
Thank you.
|
|
|
|
