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justA
There is no single title or classification responsible for all examples. That would be like claiming that all car accidents were the same. We already know that there are way too many different things that cause those accidents and it would be insulting to just file them all as the same type of accident. Basically you could not say that vehicle malfunction is the cause of all car accidents. We know sometimes the drivers are at fault, sometime the vehicle, sometimes nature, sometimes it is people in other vehicles or just on the street walking by and sometimes accidents just happen with no obvious cause. That is the way life works. There are many possible causes for things in the universe. You can not group everything that exists and claim that there were created in the same way or by the same forces. It would be naive to think such a thing.
And to Y-L-F's comment, dust particles in the air that have captured water molecules are higher than you?
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kooka_lives
on August 29, 2004 at 6:50 AM
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Mr. justA
To put all these things together in one big ball and give it a label --
I would probably call it infinite explorations.
Spirit in infinite.
WE have infinite to learn and infinity in which to learn it.
we cannot impose human experience onto spiritual.
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Xeno-x
on August 29, 2004 at 6:36 AM
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westwind
God is the highest reality; the deity, the total of all Truth.
But you are right, mankind will not get anywhere until each person learns to treat the other as though they are God. Respecting their choices and decisions as though it is God himself that is speaking through them. We must look at others as though they are the voice of God, as their lives unfolds and deliver The Truth.
posted by
justAcarpenter
on August 29, 2004 at 12:26 AM
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You-look-fabulous
Excellent comment, whatever it is that delivers All Truth, is higher than us.
posted by
justAcarpenter
on August 29, 2004 at 12:26 AM
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kooka_lives
Take every example that you used in this post, with any others that you can think of, put them together in one group. What title would be the most scientifically correct name for the group? What single title or classification could you claim to be responsible for all examples?
posted by
justAcarpenter
on August 29, 2004 at 12:25 AM
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oh yes
it's also direct at WMDG
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 28, 2004 at 8:09 AM
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There is no god.
so I believe and yet I don't.
kooka -- you're an exception to the next statement -- P.I.M.P., steelerman61, friartuck, others, you are to whom I direct it.
you have to disbelieve in your god.
he is an idol.
he is the image in Daniel, with feet of iron mixed with miry clay. The rock of truth disposes of this image in those that see the truth.
and yes there it something higher than I.
We must take the Eastern Religions and understand.
Basically the other person is. We treat the other person as deity.
Bow to others, serve others. Yeshua said as much in the foot-washing scene in John.
posted by
Xeno-x
on August 28, 2004 at 8:08 AM
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Whatever makes the rain fall is higher than me.
posted by
TARZANA
on August 27, 2004 at 8:37 PM
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we only know what we experience.
I have mentioned "reality" in a recent post -- people have different realities.
it's about perceiving the Universe
that's what we're talking about isn't it?
it's what we perceive.
if a person perceives and experiences something, it is real to that person, although it is not necessarily real to someone else.
we have to work with what is real to us.
like ol Bill once said, "To thine own self be true." Hey, it's gospel.
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Xeno-x
on August 26, 2004 at 8:15 PM
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