'Hi, no-id. Good to hear from you again.  IN RESPONSE TO YOUR IDEAS:  What does an ideal relationship look like for you?... sex... sex... sex....  I WOULD SAY:  Yes, I understand and agree...|||Ecotecture, loving the Earth, our common home.|||Hey, Chris,                                There's so much that can be done. IMO, it's a question of choosing harmony with nature and each other.                       I love to see beautiful...|||Hi Chris, I looked up ParEcon, ParPolity, and Permaculture. And this is what I found on Facebook:   AboutSustainable ecological collaborative community of benevolent environmentally friendly...|||Hi, no-id. I'm still here. Have been busy this past week. What would you like to see on this thread? I guess we've been discussing such serious metaphysics that people don't know what to say about...|||tuan:                          Hi Jasper,                   I like the Taoist prose at the bottom of your post. It all starts in the heart.|||tuan:     Halleluyah. Some days it seems there are many more non-believers than believers in a universal god.|||tuan:        Hi, no_id, which Eastern Tradition interests you?|||tuan:   Sounds good to me. Is there something universal binding us together, a loving consciousness, a spirit?|||Idealismics:    Hey, INFPs, and others, it might help for us to do a little quiz to determine our belief systems. From this you will know if your inclination is toward a personal or impersonal...|||ronnie: Very nicely written!  You obviously put a lot of thought into this.  I'd like to suggest a book that I think is very relevant and would be useful to this discussion:  The Joseph...|||The link for Autobiography of a Yogi, the full book, is at:  Autobiography of a Yogi/Chapter 1 - Wikisource, the free online library|||Idealismics:  In recommending this text by an Eastern Saint of India, I hope we will be able to see past the false wall built between East and West by different self-interested religious and...|||Idealismics:   Finding God Within Practical Techniques to Awaken Our Inner Divinity  So, what do we do if the physical is not adequate to give us the joy, peace and love we all want? We could...|||tuan @ strangestdude   The scientific method is a system of epistemology.  Regarding values, that's a different branch of philosophy.  You can point out the limits of science in regards to...|||Idealismics...  A couple of posters have said I'm too hard on Smythe. So, I reviewed the videoclip offered, to see whether I had made a mistake. Hey, we're human, what! My greatest critique of...|||strangestdude:  Yeah I like religious naturalism. I'm still puzzled by your disparaging remarks about the scientific method though.    tuanx92s reply.   Letx92s take a little...|||Strangedude:  I like it if more people were able to read and write. I literally can not begin to express how my life has been enhanced and how much I've benefited from my school teachers helping to...|||Idealismics....  Science, or Faith, or Both? God IS the Evolutionary Energy of Biology  63771  Scientists Speak Up on Mix of God and Science  63769|||TO:  Panoramiq;3469103]Idealism and spirituality cannot co-exist. An ideal is only a supreme idea. It's only in the ordinary, reality without ideals, that one can experience existence itself.   ...|||no_id;3466807]Ive noticed that too but diggin a bit more you perhaps can understand it this way : the science, no matter what they try to approach, can't touch the pure existence/reality of things....|||Idealismics, What Spiritual INFPS Want, Wish For and Would Like;   ON:  DEGREES OF FAITH AND DEGREES OF ENLIGHTENMENT   IMO, One needs to be very careful when assessing the degree of...|||They say that if you scratch a cynic you find a disappointed idealist, which I think is completely true. A cynic is an idealist who has gotten disappointed one time too many, and has lost faith in...|||Refugee:     Perfection doesn't exist.   Not even gold is 100% pure, because it contains impurities.  You get the picture?  The best you can hope for is to be understood by the few.|||I kind of went on about my past when trying to answer your question so I kind of stopped half way.  But to get to the point.  I was a Buddhist (atheistic) growing up, became nihilistic and atheist at...|||Was a cynic for a little while. Basically a crushed form of my idealism in the sense of nihilism.  I believed that human beings were basically the cancer of the Earth.  Good thing is people can...|||POEMS OF FAITH FROM THE EAST      An Indian yogi, Yogananda:  January 5, 1893 x96 March 7, 1952|||RESPONSE TO no-id    This is written in French. If anyone wants the English, please ask.   Bonjour no_id,            A mon avis (In my opinion - IMO) tu as des belles idées dans ton...|||63097 Collaborative Creative Writing  with  Other Spiritual INFPs    Ix92m an English teacher. Thatx92s the ENFJ part of my Idealism. I also have INFJ and a predominance of INTP.  I propose...|||William Blake - Auguries of Innocence    To see a world in a grain of sand,                            63058 And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And...|||Do not stand at my grave and weep   Do not stand at my grave and weep I am not there. I do not sleep. I am a thousand winds that blow. I am the diamond glints on snow. I am the sunlight on...|||Mare RubrumBy Oliver Wendell Holmes1858  FLASH out a Stream of blood-red wine!x97                                                    or:   THE HOLY GRAIL               For I would drink to other...|||You should post more.   Hi Sily,  Do you believe there is a universal, invisible, loving intelligence connecting all of us, that we can approach and unite with through surrender?              ...|||I would like for there to exist true justice, true peace. Today, there are so many injustices and hardships people face because of the intent of the very few, most powerful people in the world to...|||Why do I get the feeling that this thread might somehow sponsor a series of mini-tyrants?  Why would you get that feeling Candid Apple?|||POETRY OF FAITH SECTION     Idealismics, What Spiritual INFPS Want, Wish For and Would Like; The Ideal World A Manifesto for Idealists of Faith|||You should post more.    Do you believe there is a universal, invisible, loving intelligence connecting all of us, that we can approach and unite with through surrender?|||I would have to write a book to argue thoroughly against everything you've said here, so I will preface this by saying that I can't do it justice in space as limited as this. You extrapolate many...|||[QUOTE=Actionjesus;3430478]Another good post Juan. What happened to your old thread? I was hoping to get to know you better. :) My apologies if you feel I went overboard in there, I can't help it.  ...|||This scene from Before Sunrise sums up my spiritual feelings soo perfectly.    Iufeff believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in...|||Thanks for your ideas on the topic, Mattylad.|||Beautiful thoughts and sentiments. I'm glad you're on the planet with us. This gives me some hope for our species.|||Idealismics, What Spiritual INFPS Want, Wish For and Would Like; The Ideal World A Manifesto for Idealists of Faith    Ix92ve created a new word which I call Idealismics, meaning everything...|||Hi strangestdude,        Well, we INFPs are said to be healers, and that’s where you and I resonate. I’m not a fan of traditional religions either, the formal fossilized abrahamic desert religions...|||Hi Belovodia,               Hey, I like your words. A lot said in a little space. The connection you have to the Divine, is it constant or does it come and go? I wouldn’t call it delusional, more...|||Hi ActionJesus,                    Given the words ActionJesus, you may have a belief in Jesus.            Why do people call you a nihilist and an extreme skeptic? Do you tell them you believe...|||Great Taoist poem, Agape,           I try to empty my boat a little each day. My goal is a fully Empty Boat. A similar thought: annihilate the ego and bodily consciousness before death comes again...|||Hi CCL,  It seems to me that Jung was a very complex intellectual and that he toyed with many ideas about god/goddess, The Force, The Source, the Tao....if we look at the article attached below. ...|||Hello synchronit111,                 The breathless state is necessary for the more profound states. Sounds like you touched it briefly. Seems to me, the difficulty is the world time it takes to...|||Hi,        The tests I've done indicate I have a mainly INFP personality, with two other idealistic types,  INFJ and ENFJ, at other times. My life story matches up with this type. My decisions have...'