--- In [email protected], "BillyG." <wg...@...> wrote: > I think Edg put it best if he doesn't mind me quoting him here: > > "And Billy's being outside us should be seen as a clanging a gong that > peals the news that he's also found inside us, or we would never have > IDENTIFIED HIM OUT THERE....flown into him, labeled him, targeted him. > If there's a problem with Billy outside, how much more of a problem > must we have with our inner Billy?" > > Nicely put Edg/Duveyoung!!
Nice try at a dodge Billy. That spiritual psycho-babble doesn't work on me. Claiming to know and act according to God's will still has nothing to do with "humility", and your claim of it had nothing to do with what is inside me. > > --- In [email protected], "curtisdeltablues" > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > --- In [email protected], "BillyG." <wgm4u@> wrote: > > > > > The ideal is to live according to God's will, as his servant, > > > realizing our total dependence upon him, this is wisdom, IMHO. > > > > Let's see if I have this right. > > > > You are assuming that you have the ability to discern which of the > > thousands of ideas of gods that man has proposed is the real one? And > > happen to live in a period of history when this information is readily > > available to you rather than the beings that were worshiped before > > people passed their beliefs down in songs which could be put into > > books and then translated into a language you could understand? > > > > That you have the ability to understand this being's will? The > > creator and sustainer of the universe, that being's will? Your human > > mind can understand and decipher through the nuances of scripture and > > translations or through direct revelation, the mind of God? And that > > your birth language just happens to be able to convey through > > translations all the subtlety needed to understand the mind of God? > > > > Claiming to be his servant with enough wisdom to not only understand > > his will but to carry it out in this world? > > > > And to this preposterously grandiose list of claims you add that it is > > "IMHO", your HUMBLE opinion? > > > > I don't think you understand what the term "humble" means. > > > > The claim that you know what "living according to God's will" means or > > are even in a position to determine what that will is (or if the many > > concepts of god actually refer to something more real than Santa > > Claus) is the most un-humble claim I can conceive of. I don't buy > > religious claims that try to usurp the true meaning of humility. > > > > For me, the association of humility and religion can be summed up in > > the following phrase: > > > > "We don't know." > > I think Edg put it best if he doesn't mind me quoting him here: > > "And Billy's being outside us should be seen as a clanging a gong that > peals the news that he's also found inside us, or we would never have > IDENTIFIED HIM OUT THERE....flown into him, labeled him, targeted him. > If there's a problem with Billy outside, how much more of a problem > must we have with our inner Billy?" > > Nicely put Edg/Duveyoung!! >
