matters that matter more than matter
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Matters that matter more than matter
Forgetting something
Ten friends got a hotel room on the 100th floor – and the power went off
What materialism can’t tell us
Origin ValueMeaning
World Health Organization (WHO)
A Hard Look at the Modern World
Over one million people commit suicide every year.
This figure is more than the total deaths in wars and homicides combined.
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OriginNothing existed because of nothing – nothing exploded because of nothing and gave rise to everything
OriginA series of temporary causes must have a non-temporary starting cause
Eg. 100-storey skyscraper has to rest on ground
Origin: Who is the inner activator?
“The brain is a computer . . . But it is programmed by something that is outside itself.” - Wilder Penfield The Mystery of the Mind,
Value: Right & WrongNothing wrong in aborting a baby after birth- Materialist philosophers Alberto Giubilini & Francesca Minerva in Journal of Medical Ethics
MeaningNewton saw apple falling – what made it fall? Search for meaning
MeaningScience, if restricted to materialism, shows tiny islets of meaning while flailing in an ocean of meaninglessness
The unknown knower?
Reject reality because it is not found in the map?
The folly of materialism“Materialism is the
philosophy of the subject who forgets to take account of himself.”
–Arthur Schopenhauer
OriginWe are eternal non-material parts of the all-attractive whole
ValueDecide right and wrong based on what helps or hinders our evolution to spiritual consciousness
PurposeTo find lasting love in the harmony of the part with the whole
Conclusion
Be not apartBe a part
Purification
Removes the viruses that infect the software of the mind
Eg “Torches of freedom”
Meditation?
Connects us with our unchanging core
Eg Anchor in an ocean
No time?
Spirituality doesn’t take your work time; it takes your worry time