No, I don't. I think the evolving soul that chooses to seek God and become like Him is resurrected after death and journeys forth on other worlds with different environments and circumstances in a long divine ascension plan towards perfection and oneness/likeness with God. Reincarnation is the belief held by those who assert "self" over everything else. You have no power of reincarnation and if you think you do you are going to be sadly mistaken.

I note in your profile you say the following:

"My ultimate goal is to get paid to think and to be remembered for my thoughts. I want to be quoted long after I am gone. I am looking for a smart and enthusiastic lady who is also spiritual and compassiionate. It is all about personality with me."

Why do you think anyone would want to remember your thoughts that God is NOT a divine loving and caring personality that can be experienced within who promises eternal life to those who seek Him but rather a impersonal it, force, energy or light that doesn't care about anything?

From what you say, fyathyrio, your personality ceases to exist at death and you "turn into your true nature which is light." In believing this are you saying when death overtakes you that's the end of your existence except as light?

That's right

So, are you done wasting your time???

Time is never wasted if one engaged in movement towards positive goal.

And what is the practical path for achieving that? Reading books?
Following Jesus? It's kind of hard to figure out who Jesus really is. He left the body 2000 years ago and never wrote down anything himself, so it's like third or fourth hand stories. Why is it so hard to understand that Jesus (or rather the Christ power) has been among us thousands of times in so many forms? Why are thier teachings any less than his? The Sikh Gurus all speak of attaining exactly the same end as you recommend
As did Zoroaster, Kabir, Buleh Sha, and the modern Saints of Beas.
Union with the Creator is the spiritual goal of all religions and that goal supcedes all the rituals and rules. What good is a school that graduates no-one?

"unity with God's loving eternal, unchanging self" is the underlying goal of Buddists and Jews and Muslims also. Why can you not accept that validity?

And what is the practical path for achieving that?

Reading books?

Following Jesus? It's kind of hard to figure out who Jesus really is. He left the body 2000 years ago and never wrote down anything himself, so it's like third or fourth hand stories.

Why is it so hard to understand that Jesus (or rather the Christ power) has been among us thousands of times in so many forms? Why are thier teachings any less than his? The Sikh Gurus all speak of attaining exactly the same end as you recommend
As did Zoroaster, Kabir, Buleh Sha, and the modern Saints of Beas.
Union with the Creator is the spiritual goal of all religions and that goal supcedes all the rituals and rules.

What good is a school that graduates no-one?

"unity with God's loving eternal, unchanging self" is the underlying goal of Buddists and Jews and Muslims also. Why can you not accept that validity?

What's the matter, asanb, can't you bring yourself to quote my post and respond to each statement/question in a sincere fashion?

@ KB222
" I am on the path home (Godward) but sadly you are not. You are not because you don't believe God is a personality."

I think you need to justify this statement with a lot of reasons.

I have heard the same from a whole lot of Bible thumpers who profess Jesus to the rafters.

Tell me why "Belief" is the prerequisite to "Godward"?

Belief and Devotion are not of the same definition.

Your characterization of an "impersonal" God is presumptive .

Can you imagine swimming in an ocean of love?

How do you know what the characteristics of a diety that is not a "personality" might be.

Quote from asanb:


It was YOU way back in our conversations that declared God was not a personality but rather a "impersonal it" and you still do.


Well, if its your desire to become that ocean of love then you are swimming in love of self while destroying self.


Only a personality can truly love another personality.

:7.2 (31.2) Man does not achieve union with God as a drop of water might find unity with the ocean. Man attains divine union by progressive reciprocal spiritual communion, by personality intercourse with the personal God, by increasingly attaining the divine nature through wholehearted and intelligent conformity to the divine will. Such a sublime relationship can exist only between personalities.

1:7.3 (31.3) The concept of truth might possibly be entertained apart from personality, the concept of beauty may exist without personality, but the concept of divine goodness is understandable only in relation to personality. Only a person can love and be loved. Even beauty and truth would be divorced from survival hope if they were not attributes of a personal God, a loving Father.

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Again,

The term God always denotes personality, asanb & fyathyrio. If you disagree then you and the rest of your "masters" should stop referring to God as a "he" or "him" and substitute "it." Doncha think?

Wow, you really take off and run with it, Doncha.
Ignore the rest of my post and gnaw at that bone.
so if one of my cats is a personality, then he must also be a soul, right?

yes, Kb, God is a personality. God is the personality that we look at in the mirror every day. God is present in every conscious being. The quality of "awareness" is the qualifying feature that defines divinity within.
If you have seen God, perhaps you might describe Him to me so that I might recognize him also. If you have not seen God, how is it that you can say " god is this, and this, and this"?

God is three personalities, and three Persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Not three gods, one God, three Persons.

yes, Kb, God is a personality. God is the personality that we look at in the mirror every day. God is present in every conscious being. The quality of "awareness" is the qualifying feature that defines divinity within.
If you have seen God, perhaps you might describe Him to me so that I might recognize him also. If you have not seen God, how is it that you can say " god is this, and this, and this"?

You are so screwed up you obviously don't realize it. For years now you have claimed God is an "impersonal it" then you say God is a "personality" then you say "God is that voice within us that speaks about the right thing to do, and that yearning that carries us into loving relationships" then you say God is "mostly an imaginary God" and just above you say God is a "fabrication of men's minds."

So, in all honesty I must finally conclude you are just to screwed up to have a serious and honest discussion with, asnab.