On Friday, August 30, 2024 at 8:45:19 PM UTC+2 Brent Meeker wrote:
On 8/30/2024 12:48 AM, 'Cosmin Visan' via Everything List wrote:
> I am God. And so are you. We are all one and the same God dreaming
> infinite dreams. Why is this knowledge not taught in schools ?
My dreams are finite and rather inconsistent. That's how you can tell
dreams from reality. Everybody shares the same reality.
I have no idea. Brent could have dreamt that. Turtles all the way down.
And indeed, Tao and Hindu writings are but a few examples of different cultures coming to similar metaphysical conclusions, sometimes thousands of years before Cosmin found "the theory of everything that people have been searching for millenia". Curious. It's embedded according to some scholars in the Namaste greeting, as is noted even on Wikipedia (I guess they read Cosmin and retroactively changed their pages to update them):
According to the Indologist Stephen Phillips, the terms "te and tvam" are an informal, familiar form of "you" in Sanskrit, and it is typically not used for unfamiliar adults. It is reserved for someone familiar, intimate, divine or a child.[16][17] By using the dative form of tvam in the greeting Namas-te, there is an embedded secondary, metaphorical sense in the word. This is the basis of the pragmatic meaning of Namas-te, that is "salutations to the (divine) child (in your heart)", states Phillips.[16]
In the contemporary era, namaḥ means 'bow', 'obeisance', 'reverential salutation' or 'adoration'[18] and te means 'to you' (singular dative case of 'tvam'). Therefore, namaste literally means "bowing to you".[19] In Hinduism, it also has a spiritual import reflecting the belief that "the divine and self (atman, Self) is same in you and me", and connotes "I bow to the divine in you".[20][5][21] According to sociologist Holly Oxhandler, it is a Hindu term which means "the sacred in me recognizes the sacred in you".[22]
That's an entire culture, as it lives and worships today, that recognizes and greets each other, not just knowing "We are all one and the same God" as per Cosmin's original post and similar statements, but actually acknowledging what they consider to be that fact (Of course, given more nuance than I have time for). No need to thank us. Cosmin. Just send the checks in Euro for proofreading your writings plus consultant fees to Brent, Quentin, Alan, Terren, and yours truly. If you pay and raise our fees, we have better problems/perspectives to offer. Also, the more you raise consultant and proofreading fees in general, the more the same gods will recognize the god in you. 😄
