A quotation from Smith, Sydney
It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English clergyman, essayist, wit
Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by His Daughter, Lady Holland, Vol. 1, ch. 3 (1855)
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I wrote a letter to my friend recently and now I want to share it with you, maybe someone will be interested.
Here is the text of the letter below:
"In continuation of our conversation, I decided to write a detailed answer about how I see the World.
I myself, like you, once perceived the World only through the prism of sensations and scientific facts, like what the fuck is there to invent, everything is already sorted out by bones and seen by eye. But when different strange things happen (so-called miracles), you wonder how it is possible?
I started reading about psychology, physics, quantum physics and came to esotericism. Although initially it was not my goal, I always treated it with disdain, like all kinds of fiction.
To understand something about how the World works, start reading BookNews https://kniganews.org/, but first watch Richard Feynman's lecture https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CIX6QgIVZ0. This video explains that what we see is a fixation, and in reality the Universe is multiverse. How it looks like: the whole Universe is made up of Aether - tiny “granules” that are constantly oscillating (oscillating), like such a boiling broth of microparticles. And it depends only on the observer what state these particles will be in at the moment of their observation.
In general, what we see is what we want to see. That is, we (observers) fix what happens the way we want it to happen. We create our own Present. And moreover, the Present can influence not only the Future, but also the Past. It seems like a paradox, but it only seems so. Time is cyclical, not linear.
I will also describe my vision of the greatest man in History - Jesus of Nazareth.
He was the son of a carpenter, i.e. a handy guy (it is only through hands that the brain develops). At one point he decided to go traveling, to find out how they live there, in other lands. He went to Persia, where he lived and worked for some time, respectively studied and absorbed knowledge. Then he went further - to India, where he also lived, worked and studied, absorbed local knowledge. Perhaps he was in China too. Then, having accumulated a huge luggage of knowledge, he came to enlightenment that it is possible to change the World for the better, and returned home and began to preach how it is necessary to live justly and by Faith. “Believe and it will be repaid according to your faith.
Yes, I almost forgot about one more key point - Love, without it nothing good can happen. It is necessary to love people and things you do. Without Love, only Evil will result.
This is exactly what I described above - we create our own Life by our Faith, Love and actions in this direction. The Universe is so multivariant that everything is possible in it, and we can create any miracle ourselves.
That's how it is. In short, after working with my hands, head and reading some knowledge, I also felt the desire and Power to change the World for the better.
Of course, Jesus is as far as the moon to me, but I understand approximately how to live in harmony with the Universe. "
Work, study, love life and people. Develop spiritually, and then, here on Earth, we will build Paradise together, where no one will suffer.
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What good is it, my brothers and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Surely that faith cannot save, can it? If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food and one of you says to them, “Go in peace; keep warm and eat your fill,” and yet you do not supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.
But someone will say, “You have faith, and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from works, and I by my works will show you faith.
The Bible (The New Testament) (AD 1st - 2nd C) Christian sacred scripture
James 2:14-18 [NRSV (2021 ed.)]
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