Ten Enigmas

I’m not sure how many people have asked the same questions before. But I know some of the questions I’m asking have been asked. And so my questions are just complementing them. I’m not trying to change the world or anything like that. It’s just a work to inspire the readers to have fun for a while. Adding more questions will be great. Questions just come to everyone anyway. I think questions are fun; especially for the truth seekers! Questions based on reason encourage free thinking I think – although no thought can ever actually free as we have to base a thought on something existing which encourages us to ask. And it’s more than fun when our thoughts inspire ourselves for good – if inspire others as well, then it’s a bonus. So these are only ten questions (to become enigma, they must not be answered).

1. Based on a classic question: If what God doesn’t create cannot exist either physically or mentally (such as thought, etc), did God create evil on purpose?
a) Then does God want people to avoid evil His creation deliberately?
b) Then God did create evil to exist – as evil, evil doers, and the devil?
c) Does that mean God wants people to fight against evil or just avoid it?
d) Is that Free Will?
e) If yes, God created Free Will as well?


2. If Free Will exists:
a) If Free Will is created by God, is it really FREE?
b) Then God is not controlling anyone?
c) Then God is not showing everyone to see the good and not evil?
d) Or does God show good to someone and evil to another?
e) God doesn’t show good or bad to anyone but the good shows what is good and the devil shows what is bad?


3. If God is the same, why are heavens different?
a) Do Christians go to Jesus’ heaven, Jews to Judaist heaven (the abode of Jehovah the God of Israelites), and Muslims to Islamic heaven?
b) If so then what’s the point arguing and fighting as they are just destined to different heavens?
c) Do different Christianities go to different Heavens?
d) And different kinds of Muslims – such as Shiites, Sunni! Do they go to their different heavens too?


4. God is just:
a) Then do all people get the same rewards in different Heavens?
b) Do both kids and adults get the same rewards?
c) Do both males and females get the same reward?


5. Is a religious culture on Earth the same to the religious on a heaven?
a) Then does a heaven have different religious cultures of its own? i.e. Catholics have different Catholic cultures – for example.
b) Do priests become priests in heaven?
c) Do monks, etc become what they were as humans in heaven?
d) Or do all people become just the same – in justness and fairness unlike on earth?
e) Then do both male and female become equal in heaven?
f) If not, do man and woman become not to need being equal?


6. Heaven has eternal life for everyone:
a) Can God cease eternality from anyone He thinks an evil doer?
b) Then heaven is only for the good because heaven is perfect for everyone who gets there?!
c) Satan or a certain powerful evil committed sin and was sent to hell from heaven:
i. Then can there be another such evil doer? If not why not?
ii. If a person can become evil doer, does it support the claim ‘heaven is perfect and only for the good’?
iii. As long as God exists, as long as heaven exists, as long as hell exists, do more and more creatures go to hell for mistakes and unforgivable sin?!


7. God created heaven to be perfect but He did not create His angels, archangels etc to be perfect:
a) Why doesn’t heaven have everything perfect?
b) What is the definition of perfection in religious view?


8. A child dies and arrives to heaven, In this scenario, the child is either male or female:
a) Does the child keep growing into adulthood?
b) Does the child can get married later with its opposite sex?
i. If yes, does the child have to take a role, duty and lifestyle which are similar to of the earth?
c) Does the child maintain the traditional values it was born in?
i. If circumcision is to be performed to the child but the child died before that, does that child still require circumcising?
d) Does the child require learning the religious scripture?
e) Is a family in heaven allowed to have children of their own?


9. An old person dies and gets to heaven:
a) Does that old person maintain the age?
b) Does that old person get freed from old age – if that person desires?
c) Or can that old person change into any age at all any time?


10. If the good go to heaven and the bad to eternal hell, Gehenna, Jahannam, Jaina,
a) how does the earth need to be destroyed?
b) Is the earth to exist eternally at all?
c) Is the earth to exist with nobody on its surface but in hell only – in the Abrahamic view?

Bala-pandita Sutta (Fools & Wise People) 2

"Monks, these two are fools. Which two? The one who doesn't see his transgression as a transgression, and the one who doesn't rightfully pardon another who has confessed his transgression. These two are fools.

"These two are wise people. Which two? The one who sees his transgression as a transgression, and the one who rightfully pardons another who has confessed his transgression. These two are wise people."

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an02/an02.021.than.html

Bala-pandita Sutta (The Fool & the Wise Person)

Dwelling at Savatthi. "When a fool is obstructed by ignorance and conjoined with craving, this body thus results. Now there is both this body and external name-&-form. Here, in dependence on this duality, there is contact at the six senses. Touched by these, or one or another of them, the fool is sensitive to pleasure & pain.

"When a wise person is obstructed by ignorance and conjoined with craving, this body thus results. Now there is both this body and external name-&-form. Here, in dependence on this duality, there is contact at the six senses. Touched by these, or one or another of them, the wise person is sensitive to pleasure & pain.

"So what difference, what distinction, what distinguishing factor is there between the wise person & the fool?"

"For us, lord, the teachings have the Blessed One as their root, their guide, & their arbitrator. It would be good if the Blessed One himself would explicate the meaning of this statement. Having heard it from the Blessed One, the monks will remember it."

"In that case, monks, listen & pay close attention. I will speak."

"As you say, lord," the monks responded.

The Blessed One said, "The ignorance with which the fool is obstructed, the craving with which he is conjoined, through which this body results: that ignorance has not been abandoned by the fool; that craving has not been destroyed. Why is that? The fool has not practiced the holy life for the right ending of stress. Therefore, at the break-up of the body, he is headed for a [new] body. Headed for a body, he is not entirely freed from birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. I tell you, he is not entirely freed from stress & suffering.

"The ignorance with which the wise person is obstructed, the craving with which he is conjoined, through which this body results: that ignorance has been abandoned by the wise person; that craving has been destroyed. Why is that? The wise person has practiced the holy life for the right ending of stress. Therefore, at the break-up of the body, he is not headed for a [new] body. Not headed for a body, he is entirely freed from birth, aging, death, sorrow, lamentation, pain, distress, & despair. He is, I tell you, entirely freed from stress & suffering."

http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn12/sn12.019.than.html

10 Stupid Mistakes Made by the Newly Self-Employed

1. Selling to the wrong people.
2. Spending too much money.
3. Spending too little money.
4. Putting on a fake front.
5. Assuming a signed contract will be honored.
6. Going against your intuition.
7. Being too formal.
8. Sacrificing your personality quirks.
9. Failing to focus on value creation.
10. Failing to optimize.
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog
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