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Re: The meaning of God
Reply #30 - Aug 13th, 2011 at 2:01pm
 
mozzaok wrote on Aug 5th, 2011 at 7:59pm:
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"He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him"


Well if that is a quote from the bible, and if god inspired/directed those words, then god must be a stoner, because he speaks jibberish.


Or .. it could be that YOU simply failed to understand these words and/or the context within which they were written.  
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If I let myself be bought then I am no longer free.

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Reply #31 - Aug 13th, 2011 at 2:03pm
 
Soren wrote on Aug 5th, 2011 at 8:51pm:
Mozz, this remark of yours reveals the worst kind of narrow-minded parochialism - if it's not readily fathomable within the narrow horizons of the last 40 years then it's not worth stopping for. The compulsive forgetter's dreadful attitude.


Ahhh .. well said my learned friend!
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Reply #32 - Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:13am
 
Ambiguity can sometimes be a very concise teacher, can it not?  Grin



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Reply #33 - Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:15am
 
Amadd wrote on Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:13am:
Ambiguity can sometimes be a very concise teacher, can it not?  Grin

Should this thread be about the quest for the meaning of god... Or the god of meaning? Or is that, the god in meaning... Or the meaning in god...
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Reply #34 - Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:20am
 
I think we know who the Gods of meaning are  Roll Eyes

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Reply #35 - Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:21am
 
Amadd wrote on Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:20am:
I think we know who the Gods of meaning are  Roll Eyes


Meaning?
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Reply #36 - Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:42am
 
Meaning that the gods of interpretation (religions) are amazingly able to decifer the true meaning from biblical texts where most mere mortals cannot.
Is it they who are in fact our god?


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Reply #37 - Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:47am
 
Amadd wrote on Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:42am:
Meaning that the gods of interpretation (religions) are amazingly able to decifer the true meaning from biblical texts where most mere mortals cannot.
Is it they who are in fact our god?

I see what you mean.
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Reply #38 - Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:01pm
 
NorthOfNorth wrote on Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:15am:
Amadd wrote on Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:13am:
Ambiguity can sometimes be a very concise teacher, can it not?  Grin

Should this thread be about the quest for the meaning of god... Or the god of meaning? Or is that, the god in meaning... Or the meaning in god...
Cheesy



As the Buddha said, "Don't ask"
http://www.messagefrommasters.com/Stories/Conditioning/Buddha_explaining_existen...

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Don't ask, there is no need to ask. It is not a question which can be answered. It is not an inquiry but a quest, a thirst. Be silent and know.
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Reply #39 - Sep 29th, 2011 at 11:05pm
 
If it is true that the word "God" can be interchangable with the word
"Meaning", then the obvious sequitor reasoning would be to state it as it is, and not as the fairies dictate.

Religiousness away at your whim, but it ain't ever gonna get control over the true reality.


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Reply #40 - Oct 1st, 2011 at 9:52am
 
Amadd wrote on Sep 29th, 2011 at 11:05pm:
If it is true that the word "God" can be interchangable with the word
"Meaning", then the obvious sequitor reasoning would be to state it as it is, and not as the fairies dictate.

Religiousness away at your whim, but it ain't ever gonna get control over the true reality.





"True reality" is not any better understood or less controversial than "God".

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Reply #41 - Oct 1st, 2011 at 8:36pm
 
Amadd wrote on Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:42am:
Meaning that the gods of interpretation (religions) are amazingly able to decifer the true meaning from biblical texts where most mere mortals cannot.
Is it they who are in fact our god?




Think of a Bible in the same way as a crystal ball, or like shapes in the clouds . In a way, that seems to be the way it's used by the faithful. You see what you want to see, and if you "see" it, the message will be reinforced for next time. The next time you will see it clearer.  

Pareidolia.  (if you don't know it, Google it)

I have a device for seeing God.  It's made of plate glass, and it's coated with aluminium on the back. To see God, you look into it.
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Re: The meaning of God
Reply #42 - Oct 1st, 2011 at 11:35pm
 
God is that which Groks
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"I just get sick of people who place a label on someone else with their own definition.

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Reply #43 - Oct 2nd, 2011 at 4:58am
 
muso wrote on Oct 1st, 2011 at 8:36pm:
Amadd wrote on Aug 14th, 2011 at 12:42am:
Meaning that the gods of interpretation (religions) are amazingly able to decifer the true meaning from biblical texts where most mere mortals cannot.
Is it they who are in fact our god?




Think of a Bible in the same way as a crystal ball, or like shapes in the clouds . In a way, that seems to be the way it's used by the faithful. You see what you want to see, and if you "see" it, the message will be reinforced for next time. The next time you will see it clearer.   




Reading the bible, can be a meditation.

That is the effect it sometimes has on me,   .....even hours or days later!

And its stories do excite my imagination, it is true.

But is that a bad thing ?



muso,

Haven't almost all of mankind's very greatest inventive [technological] breakthroughs come through those people with 'excited imaginations' ?     Wink

IMO, it would be such a small and dull existence, if none of us were able to escape this world, and travel to those 'places' where our imagination is able to take us.   Wink

Why is it 'wrong' to see what others 'cannot' see, and/or what others refuse to see ?

Luke 17:5      Wink







muso wrote on Oct 1st, 2011 at 8:36pm:
Pareidolia.  (if you don't know it, Google it)

I have a device for seeing God.  It's made of plate glass, and it's coated with aluminium on the back. To see God, you look into it.




LOL

I didn't believe that you were that conceited muso.

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"....And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead."
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Reply #44 - Oct 2nd, 2011 at 8:33pm
 
muso wrote on Oct 1st, 2011 at 8:36pm:
I have a device for seeing God.  It's made of plate glass, and it's coated with aluminium on the back. To see God, you look into it.

A plate of glass with a bit of Al foil on the back?

Sheeit, God must look like a friggin Picasso to you. Grin

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