Nepal

[wildwood]

This is a serious question.

Could any of the religious AB members please explain in words that I can understand or without pasting lengthy gibberish tomes, why their Almighty has seen fit to kill over 2000 people in Nepal?

[naomi24]

Khandro, oh right. Any chance of giving a straight answer to my question?

[Khandro]

n. clue: Please find "And When I die" B.S. and T. on YouTube. I think there is a line something like "I know there ain't no heaven, but I pray there ain't no hell". :0)

[naomi24]

Khandro, if I wanted clues I'd go to Crosswords.

[Khandro]

n. Just as l thought, you are clueless.

[naomi24]

Khandro, you have a habit of turning any discussion into nonsense. What a wag you are.

[keyplus90]

Beso – Your question there does not make any sense. If you believe that people who have some sort of religion they spend all their life thinking about it then you are absolutely wrong. At least in my case there is nothing in life I haven’t (or am not) enjoying. And yes, we do not prostrate 24/7 as that is not even allowed in Islam. Islam does not want anyone to go on an unpopulated island and spend his/her entire life in prostration. Islam wants you to live in this world and get on with your daily life while remembering what is right and what is wrong. Why don’t you tell me just ONE thing that you might think I am missing in this world just because I am a religious person?

Khandro – with due respect may I suggest that do not argue (disagree) with Naomi. Otherwise you would be going round and round in circles. She does not like people proving her wrong and would keep on arguing. Just do what I usually do in same situations. Let her have the last say as to my knowledge we are not winning any medals on a website where people are just pixels and are willing to say and claim anything as they are not known.

[naomi24]

Keyplus, //She does not like people proving her wrong//

I've no objection to people proving me wrong if I am wrong. Sadly for you it's something you've never managed to accomplish.

[beso]

keyplus //Islam wants you to live in this world and get on with your daily life while remembering what is right and what is wrong.//

And what do you think atheists do?

The difference is that a moslem accepts a primitive fascist version of morality prescribed by ancient men while atheists earnestly contemplate the real acts in a modern context.

[beso]

keyplus //Why don’t you tell me just ONE thing that you might think I am missing in this world just because I am a religious person? //

The religious person misses out on what they could be doing instead while they focus on worshiping their deity or reading the holy books. Over a lifetime this accumulates to years of wasted opportunity.

[Hypognosis]

@Wildwood

Might Chomolongma be expressing his/her/its anger at having thousands of tourists traipsing up and down their slopes?

Or would that be a case of animism? (Not sure if that's the right word. If animism specifies animals (and/or plants) then it's the wrong one. I'm teferring to the personification of earth features which inflict mass deaths as deities. Which is entirely understandable, imho).

[Hypognosis]

@keyplus

//Perhaps I should add ONE more word to it. “……Now I am also willing and READY to be wrong once I am dead, are you? //

Well, if God exists and s/he has got eternal pain in store for people, just for being wrong about him/her then I wouldn't want to hang around with them, nor the smug types who spent their lives brown-nosing their way into his/her good books.

Perhaps I should take to carrying a suitable toast topping with me, at all times?

[keyplus90]

////The religious person misses out on what they could be doing instead while they focus on worshiping their deity or reading the holy books. Over a lifetime this accumulates to years of wasted opportunity.///

Perhaps that is the reason they have more peace of mind than the people who do not waste any opportunity of earning for this life that can finish in a blink of an eye.

Now actually we are back to point zero. You believe this world is all and everything and therefore you would rather spend every bit of your time in making this world even better for you whereas I believe that there is nothing wrong in enjoying this world but this world can end anytime and therefore also prepare for the hereafter. Now if you do not believe in hereafter and I do then that is your problem and not mine. And that was my point that I am willing and ready to find out that there is no after life and no questions asked about your actions in this world as I will have nothing to lose because I did enjoy my life anyway. But what about you if you find out that hereafter did exist but you were not prepared for that because nothing from this world will go with you. Or perhaps in your case something would.

[keyplus90]

Hypognosis - thats good. carry on.

[naomi24]

Keyplus, why do you imagine that people who don't spend their lives thinking about death don't have peace of mind? Why wouldn't they? They know they will die some day and they accept that. What's not to be content about? Dying is just a part of life. It happens.

[Khandro]

keyplus; Re. 10:58 today, I guess I know what you mean: I sometimes think that if I posted my grocery list on here, certain people would find something wrong with it!

[naomi24]

Khandro, your grocery list would make more sense.

[Khandro]

Point proven! and from one who believes the Phoenicians had aeroplanes.

[naomi24]

Khandro, I have no idea what point you think you’ve proven but you’re rambling nonsensically again.

[DTCwordfan]

well the Phoenicians have an airport, so they must have planes visiting Phoenix; it was there the last time I visited Desert Mountain. Did God build it or bless its construction?

[naomi24]

DTC, don't encourage him. ;o)