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- October 11th, 2008, 12:30 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Belief in belief in God
- Replies: 6
- Views: 36610
Re: Belief in belief in God
You are quite right; I find nothing in your post to dispute. Searching for an analogy ... let's see. I am (hypothetidcally) lost in the wilderness somewhere in Australia. I know that I am not Australian, nor am I really equipped to survive in the outback, because "where I came from" is Ame...
- October 8th, 2008, 5:04 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: God is imaginary?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 26710
Re: God is imaginary?
So, is God imagined? The answer is, yes, of course. There is no other way “Stefan” can know any “thing” in his “reality”. Quite so. The "God" Who can be known is imaginary. The Tao that can be spoken is not the true Tao, said Lao-Tzu, stating the same truth. There is hardly a more eloquen...
- September 26th, 2008, 12:26 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: God is imaginary?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 26710
Re: God is imaginary?
One might suggest to the site that perhaps the point is less that God is imaginary, and more that we are imaginary ... and so of course the God that we imagine is imaginary. What else could such a God be? Indeed. At times, I feel imaginary. Perhaps those times are related to the state of mind that ...
- September 18th, 2008, 12:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: MY STROKE OF INSIGHT
- Replies: 6
- Views: 32515
Re: MY STROKE OF INSIGHT
I'm reminde her of a book I recently read and thoroughly enjoyed, The shack by Wm. Paul Young. The protagonist is placed in a situation in which he msut relate to God entirely apart form his religious preconeptions. At one point he is agonizing over the old "why good thngs happen to bad people ...
- September 8th, 2008, 3:13 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hurricane
- Replies: 3
- Views: 24688
Re: Hurricane
The good news is that, at last advisory from NOAA, the storm is going to pass by us over 200 miles away, so we will hve rain, and wind, but probably will not have to go to a shelter or lose power for any extended period of time. The scare was good for me, though. Interestingly, in the midst of it, m...
- September 7th, 2008, 2:35 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: This way to nothingness?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 21569
Re: This way to nothingness?
That's quite an article! Coincidentally, I am reading right now the book Origins by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, and geting a huge brainache from hearng about thngs like dark matter and dark energy. Things that exist, but don't: the only property of which seems to be gravity -- no mass. And subsequently abo...
- September 5th, 2008, 5:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Hurricane
- Replies: 3
- Views: 24688
Hurricane
Hurricane ... is it better or worse to live where tornadoes can pop up unexpectedly, or where you have constant, oppressive threat of hurricanes? I am discovering that no matter how much I think I am "getting it together," with Hurricane Ike breathing down our necks "it", whateve...
- September 2nd, 2008, 1:32 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Belief in belief in God
- Replies: 6
- Views: 36610
Belief in belief in God
It has come as something of a shock to me to read Dan Dennett's remarkable book, Breaking The Spell . In this book he highlights the difference between believing in God, and believing in believing in God, and suggests that the majority of those who say "I believe in God" really mean that t...
- August 6th, 2008, 12:06 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Don't Miss this Book
- Replies: 1
- Views: 18662
Don't Miss this Book
A friend handed me a copy of a new book by Daniel C. Dennett entitled Breaking The Spell . It reads almost like an extension of James' Varieties of Religious Experience . The "spell" to which the title refers is the "spell" of religion. He is by no means anti-religious, but is tr...
- July 29th, 2008, 12:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Maybe not, but then, maybe
- Replies: 13
- Views: 65211
Re: Maybe not, but then, maybe
This raises many "yes, buts" for me. I sometimes question whether I am good "New Age" material, because the idea that we create our own reality, as attractive as it sounds, does not always resonate well with me. Yes, when I am watching a lolvely sunset or walking the boardwalk at...
- July 11th, 2008, 3:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Maybe not, but then, maybe
- Replies: 13
- Views: 65211
Re: Maybe not, but then, maybe
""It is not the ritual that is important. It is what the ritual contributes to our understanding that matters! - Arlo R. Hansen Peculier, isn't it, that I should voice anything positive that could be construed to have its source in organized religion, when that subject ordinarily leaves me...
- June 25th, 2008, 11:53 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Maybe not, but then, maybe
- Replies: 13
- Views: 65211
Re: Maybe not, but then, maybe
I'm reminded f the time-worn sermon illustration concernng the little fish, informed by his fellows that he cannot survive unless he is immersed in water, swimming frantically about trying to find water to sustain him. I know I'm immersed in All That Is, and it is sustaining me as I write. but as yo...
- June 9th, 2008, 12:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Spiritual Agendas
- Replies: 6
- Views: 28121
Re: Spiritual Agendas
Few subjects, IMO, are more "either-or" than this one. One's relationship to The One. At one level, it is absolutely true, as the Vedas tell us, that "thou art that." If the ocean is ocean, and the wave is ocean, then by the mathematical principle of correlation, the one is the o...
- June 3rd, 2008, 12:54 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Introduce Yourself
- Replies: 12
- Views: 45857
Re: Introduce Yourself
The nature and fuction of the brain are given very much the similar slant by semantics. In the writings of Wittgenstein, Suzanne Langer and Ernst Cassirer the brain is described as simply and solely a symbol-creating mechanism. The best presentation of this idea is Langer's book, Philosophy In a New...
- June 1st, 2008, 8:47 pm
- Forum: The Sand Box
- Topic: A New Earth/ Oprah
- Replies: 10
- Views: 41530
Re: A New Earth/ Oprah
I have just finished reading A New Earth , and cannot for the life of me see what the fuss is all about. It is a book of very good psychology. Most of the fuss is from "Anti-New Age" contingents, who are, if one examines their output carefully, merely "anti" and not really "...