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Unfolding Nature Shop: Unfolding Nature: Being in the Implicate Order

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Re: Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. [Re: blewmeanie]
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Perception:
  1.  Recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based chiefly on memory.
  2. The neurological processes by which such recognition and interpretation are effected.

If other sentient organisms did not utilize perception, they would not survive.

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Re: Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. [Re: Veritas]
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Sounds about right to me.


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Re: Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. [Re: blewmeanie]
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Perception:
  1.  Recognition and interpretation of sensory stimuli based chiefly on memory.
  2. The neurological processes by which such recognition and interpretation are effected.


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Self-awareness has nothing to do with sense perception.


Do either of you equate self-awareness with self-recognition?


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Re: Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. [Re: blewmeanie]
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Its hard for most people to be alone without inventting imaginary friends to keep you company

Yeah, If you're 3 or 4 years old. On the other hand theologian Paul Tillich said this in his classic book The Eternal Now: "There are many ways in which solitude can be sought and experienced. And each way can be called 'religious,' . . . as one philosopher said . . . 'religion is what a man does with his solitariness.'"

If you are concluding that Ultimate Reality, AKA 'GOD,' is an imaginary friend, that would indicate your own failure to experience solitariness in the depth which is alluded to by Tillich. Personification is a very human trait. Davy Crockett named his Kentucky long-rifle 'Betsy.' B.B. King named his guiter (all his guitars) 'Lucille.' I've known people to name their cars, their wife's breasts; hurricanes are named and spoken of as Andrew, Wilma, Katrina; and the motive-forces in a human psyche were named: sensual love, fighting spirit, craftsmanship, wisdom, domesticity, intellect...The Greeks called these things Aphrodite, Ares, Hephaistos, Hestia, Hermes, respectively. We put our personhood into everything. Ever wonder where we got it from in the first place? :psychsplit:


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Re: Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
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If you are concluding that Ultimate Reality, AKA 'GOD,' is an imaginary friend, that would indicate your own failure to experience solitariness in the depth which is alluded to by Tillich. Personification is a very human trait. Davy Crockett named his Kentucky long-rifle 'Betsy.' B.B. King named his guiter (all his guitars) 'Lucille.' I've known people to name their cars, their wife's breasts; hurricanes are named and spoken of as Andrew, Wilma, Katrina; and the motive-forces in a human psyche were named: sensual love, fighting spirit, craftsmanship, wisdom, domesticity, intellect...The Greeks called these things Aphrodite, Ares, Hephaistos, Hestia, Hermes, respectively. We put our personhood into everything. Ever wonder where we got it from in the first place?


You imply that you project your own godhood onto inanimate objects. However, they do not objectively respond to your power.

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Re: Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. [Re: MarkostheGnostic]
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'religion is what a man does with his solitariness.'"


How is this different than making up an imaginary friend?:tongue:


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Re: Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. [Re: Icelander]
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Yeah, but can your imaginary friend grant you Eternal Life?


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Re: Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. [Re: durian_2008]
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LOL! Sure they do, how can you NOT experience that? Too much ego in The Way to see? Ego is not the yardstick of Reality. I also implied that "godhood" has its origin outside of us. Outside our stupid egoic little minds that is. I am a vehicle, a servant, a channel, and a very temporary one at that, but so what. I'm just dust, just like Adam and to dust shall I return. Mostly Potash and Carbon  :psychsplit:. Value the contents, not the container.

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Re: Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. [Re: OrgoneConclusion]
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Yeah, but can your imaginary friend grant you Eternal Life?

Of course, a truly Gnostic take is that there is not One who 'grants' and one who receives. That's just the dualistic way of expressing Eternal Life as a gift - the way scriptures portray the "I-Thou" dualism. Beyond dualism, there is only Eternal Life.


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