Sunday, January 6, 2008
What does God have to be, to be God? 1.2
This was the title of one of the first posts in this blog, a couple of years ago. This is not that post, but an update and continuation of those thoughts. I was taught, directly and indirectly, that God is the Supreme Being, the greatest force in the Universe, the master and sulitmate Source of all that is, the First Cause of every effect, the absolute Absolute. It is all there in the simple assertion: Nothing is greater than God. Well, here is Everything. Did it just happen? Did it grow out of...
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"...On the Twelfth Day of Christmas..."
Okay, counting from Christmas Day, today is the 13th Day of Christmas, and I missed by one... what an epiphany! Have I had it wrong all these years? Or does the count begin the day after Christmas? Regardless, I have been thinking lately that it would be a fine thing to shift the gifting part of the Christmas season to this traditional day for it. Could we do this? I don't see why not... And save Dec 25 to celebrate quietly, perhaps even with some reverence for the birth of one who, whatever...
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Friday, January 4, 2008
Is it stupider to believe there is, or is not God?
In a comment in the previous post, Gepruitt brought this up: that there is a general idea, even assumption, that people who believe in the reality of God are shallow. I have noticed that on people on both sides of the argument frequently have disdain or pity for those deluded, possibly even stupid folk on the other side. I have looked at people who believe that spirit is real, and at those that, as adamantly as any evangelist, believe that it is not. What I see in the most interesting of those...
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Thursday, January 3, 2008
p2008 asked via email about afterlife in relation to the Astral,
and here is my response which I think might be of general interest. Perhaps other readers will have other comments to add, as well. There are so many variations on the 'where-we-go-after' theme, including the one that we go where we have ourselves decided we will go. No one knows better than ourselves what we deserve, no one is more likely to punish us for the sins we know we are responsible for, regardless of what we admit to in life or in consciousness. In fact, I don't think it is God's...
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smarter than a bag of hammers
It is evident that the majority of people, especially in this country are getting dumber by the school year, by the generation. Not because they are poorly educated, but because they don't care. And vast numbers of dumb do not add up to smart. Have you caught as many minutes as you can bear of the 'reality' show AMERICA'S MOST SMARTEST MODEL? Have you heard the one that flatly, with perfect certainty mentions that elephants are close relatives of dinosaurs? I define 'smart' as capable of...
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Monday, December 31, 2007
Go read this!
http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/Taps_dance/511661
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Sunday, December 30, 2007
Come to the The New Year's Name-dropper's Ball!
Sometimes, its all about who ya know... It's the Seven Degrees of Separation thing: through a string of usually less than 7 people, you are connected to anyone in the world. It's also about the Rubbed Off Glory thing-- knowing someone interesting makes us each a little more interesting... A fallacy, sure, but it has an emotional appeal. Sadly, it is considered a bit uncool to go around dropping names. Except here, right now... Welcome to the Name-dropper's Ball! Who do you know, who have you...
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Saturday, December 29, 2007
My eyeballs are spinning...
Spur of the moment afternoon lark... we decided to take in a movie... or two... make it three... but wait, there's more! There's four! We started at 2:50 with ALIENS VS PREDATOR. Gritty, dark and scary, but not the artistry of the first and second Alien movies. The second feature was THE GOLDEN COMPASS. I enjoyed it, liked the scenery and other-worldliness, a sort of dreamy first movie of what is clearly going to be at least two. Then, NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS. I heard a critic...
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Friday, December 28, 2007
Gomedome and bpitter started a most stimulating discussion about
forensic linguistic anthroplogy. They got me thinking, and here's what happened next... Fascinating stuff! Even an oral tradition can be traced back to its deeper roots through the forensic analysis of the language itself: track the language, track the tale. Hierarchy is the way humans tend to think, once they get organized in forms of civilization beyond the tribal. The early pantheons were imagined after the model of human behaviors, based on assumptions made by looking at the dynamics between...
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Thursday, December 20, 2007
Seeking The Universal Truth With Santa
Each of us is such a tiny nexus of Light and Matter, here in the very center, each of us, of our own personal Universe! We are constrained by what we are, and though I believe that we can understand quite a lot, we cannot reasonably hope to pin down Universal or Absolute Truth. We cannot expect that our models of Reality are or can be wholly correct or complete. All we can do is be open to possibilities, to not be satisfied with 'truths' based on traditional assumptions or charismatic...
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