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Old 13th September 2006, 10:33 PM   #1
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Today we had to write an essay in school about materialistic and spiritual world. Since im not good in begining a topic I will make it short The essay was supposed to include our opinions about spiritual and materialistic world and how do we think they both are like, we had to describe them both. Also the teacher told us to write down about our opinions in living in both of those worlds and about materialistic and spiritual people who live in them. So now i would like u to write down ur opinion here too.
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Old 14th September 2006, 09:16 AM   #2
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I think the difference between the material and spiritual worlds is that the material world is directly perceptable by our current sensory and physical awareness, whether it truly exists, is an illusion or whatever else. The spiritual world, on the other hand, is very much so present everywhere and in everything, and indeed is the driving force of things metaphysically, but it is not directly perceptable by normal physical sensory abilities.
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Old 14th September 2006, 01:04 PM   #3
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Old 25th September 2006, 07:08 AM   #4
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I think the difference between the material and spiritual worlds is that the material world is directly perceptable by our current sensory and physical awareness, whether it truly exists, is an illusion or whatever else. The spiritual world, on the other hand, is very much so present everywhere and in everything, and indeed is the driving force of things metaphysically, but it is not directly perceptable by normal physical sensory abilities.
So we have one thing that you can see, but might be an illusion. And we have another thing that we can't percieve, but is a definate existance .....

To me there is no spiritual, it is just an anomoly created by the mind to feed the insatiable need that is human curiosity. To me there is only the physical or "material" world. This obviously creates our brain which in turn creates our illusion that is the mind.

"I think therefore I am"

I think not so, you exist already, but referring to the "you" that is the mind? It would not exist without the biochemistry or the molecular brainstructure.

But that's just what I think
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Old 25th September 2006, 01:12 PM   #5
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Indeed, it is just what you think. And my answering to midnight's question was only going by the founded views on such things as he was inquiring about. I was making no claim of faith.
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Old 26th September 2006, 09:01 AM   #6
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Material World is where we are living in now. Things that can be touch and seen. Spiritual World is a place where we could not see or touch but can be feel. On some explanation is call dimension. But Spritual World could be illusion world where none existance happen.

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Old 26th September 2006, 01:17 PM   #7
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But Spritual World could be illusion world where none existance happen.
Much like this material world is an illusion!
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Old 28th September 2006, 01:36 PM   #8
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Material World = Illusion too....hmmm......I am not so sure about this. But most of the time people fall into illusion when comes into Spiritual World. The reason being might be, no people actually knows where is the spiritual world is located. Mostly are actually writen down by some people. So there isnt any evidence of existance.
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Old 28th September 2006, 01:47 PM   #9
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The spiritual world's location? Tell me this, where is the material world located?
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Old 28th September 2006, 01:49 PM   #10
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Material World could be here where we exist. Do you agree on this?
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