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Re: How is God related? [Re: justAkid]
#5685971 - 05/29/06 10:03 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Eyeless in the morning sun you were Pale and mild A modern girl Taken with thought still prone to care Making tea In your underwear You went out in the yard to find Something to eat And clear your mind And something bad inside me went away
Quaking leaves and broken light Shifting skin The coming night The bearers of all good things arrive Climb inside us Twist and cry A kiss on your molten eyes Myriad lives Like blades of grass Yet to be realized Bow as they pass
They are cold Still Waiting in the Ether to Form Feel Kill Propogate Only to die
They are cold Still Waiting in the Ether to Form Feel Kill Propogate Only to die Dissolve magically Absurdly They'll end Leave Dissipate Coldly and Strangely Return
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BlueCoyote
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Re: How is God related? [Re: Basilides]
#5686312 - 05/29/06 12:42 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Perhaps we can see it/him/her all the time, but our mind is not evolved enough (through the 'shock of lasting linear left brain male dominance history) to directly perceive, like our ancestors did and do. Sometimes, less 'linear' knowledge can be 'more' understanding of the parallel/associated processes in reality.
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Re: How is God related? [Re: Basilides]
#5686421 - 05/29/06 01:09 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Basilides said: Existence is "real" but it's not the only "real". It is only sensory reality - there are realities beyond sense data.
There is but one reality. A statement that "existence is real, but its not the only real" doesn't make sense from my perspective, as I see existence as being all that exists, in whatever form or to whatever degree it exists.
I'm intrigued as to what definiton of the word "existence" you are using. I was to understand that its a question of existence or nonexistence.... so, then, how could there exist more than what exists? 
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Corporal Kielbasa

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i would answer that with this Mu or Wu
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BlueCoyote
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We may perceive parallel/associated processes as them, but we may not see the cause of their connections. Even science uses 'models' for explanation, not the real stuff ! With our linear view of cause and effect and our preconditioned expectations, we are about to lose much of the 'total' view of reality, which recognizes some connections to events, before we know the cause of it. This ability is essential for our spirit to evolve and to research into the material (and spiritual) realm.
We have to find the questions to the answers first.
Edited by BlueCoyote (05/29/06 02:07 PM)
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Deviate said: God is used in a similar sense as the word Tao. both can take one either closer to or further away from the state of direct knowledge of reality. to say they only take one away is ignorant. it seems you dont understand the way it is being used because it is not redundunt.
"God" is utilized in a great multitude of senses, which further underscores its ineffectiveness in representing any actual concept.
I propose to you that the term "reality" is the summation of this entire, strange phenomenon... existance, the universe, everything. Reality represents everything. Using a term such as "god" is not going to go any further, and it will not represent anything that reality is incapable of doing.
Operating with a conception of God will further seperate oneself from a state of directly perceiving and thus realizing reality for what it is, the manner in which it presents itself to you as the result of your interaction with it, the result of your interaction as it.
"That tree, that is God! You are God! I am God! We are all God! God is reality!" 
Um, no. That tree is that tree, and you are you. I am I. We are all we, and reality is reality. Reality simply is. To say that reality is reality, but that God is reality is redundant. No aspect of "god" is distinct from that of reality, thus, using the term is redundant.
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how does that refute the statement it was in reply to? you're ignoring context. picture a television set, of course the pictures on the screen are real. such is self-evident. however, there are some people who may not recognize that what they are looking at is a combination of pixels, hence the statement that its unreal.
Existance exists in the form in which it exists. Reality and that which has form isn't "unreal" simply because you formed misperceptions of its nature.
 Peace.
you're still missing the point. context. to someone who sees a rope in the twilight and believes it to be a snake, the snake is unreal and yet there is still a real peice of rope. you haven't even defined what you mean by real. is sherlock holmes real? he is a real famous fictional character but an unreal person. your statements about god are also wrong, while there is certainly overlap between the terms god and reality, they are not interchangeable and can refer to different aspects/angles of understanding when used in the right context.
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Re: How is God related? [Re: Deviate]
#5687031 - 05/29/06 03:43 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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That's because you're trying to understand the infinite with finite understanding. Things fall into place when you begin to realize that the questions you are asking may not be the most important ones.
what questions am i asking?
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Re: How is God related? [Re: Deviate]
#5687455 - 05/29/06 05:18 PM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sorry thought you were the origional poster.
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The thing about sense data-based conclusions of "reality" is that it's short-sighted and myopic. What's beyond the borders of "existence"?
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