Allan, in subjective matters proving your point is difficult if not impossible, I cannot prove my logic about God or the Source of creation. If people think that I am illogical, I can do nothing about it. I don't find your views correct, yet they are your views and to you they are logical and as such acceptable to me.
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > See RP we both agree that God existed before the creation of the > universe.. beyond that your theology and logic becomes questionable.. > > تجنب. القتل والاغتصاب واستعباد الآخرين > Avoid; murder, rape and enslavement of others > > -----Original Message----- > From: RP Singh <[email protected]> > To: Minds Eye <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 5:07 AM > Subject: Re: Mind's Eye Re: Presence > > Neil, why think of God in the usual way, think of him as something before > the big bang from which the universe emerged. Think of him as the mind > which contained the unmanifest which became manifest as the universe. We > know that there is predetermination but why think that he has > predetermined, think that it all naturally happens and evolution is a > natural predetermined process. Why should God be aware like us, as the > source of all he need not be bound by the limits of consciousness and can > very well be unconscious. Have faith in such a God and your destiny. > > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:19 AM, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Postmodernism is supposedly a set of critical, strategic and rhetorical >> practices employing concepts such as difference, repetition, the trace, the >> simulacrum, and hyperreality to destabilize other concepts such as* >> presence*, identity, historical progress, epistemic certainty, and the >> univocity of meaning. >> >> Tony could be seen as replaying the liar's paradox here. To admit to >> hypocrisy may be to admit the truth. For some postmodern writers, one has >> to go further than any set of analytic rules and recognise madness at work >> and restriction of dialogue to safe metaphors like Freud's Oedipal family, >> when the world of real desire is very different (quite a few writers were >> gay). >> >> Skepticism, over many centuries, has taught a kind of suspension of >> judgement to a point when one works with many different arguments. Humour >> can often be the only thing left after rigorous doubting, a kind of >> self-depreciation in the face of conflicting evidence and themes. Those of >> us who 'know nothing' still know how to jibe "and even this is to know more >> than them, those who claim to know everything". This doubting process, in >> science, comes to at least a temporary end in crucial experiments that >> anyone, in principle, can demonstrate. This is rarely the case in ordinary >> living. >> >> Descartes had it that we could undergo these difficult skeptical >> processes with faith in a warm, benevolent god. It would be good to feel >> such a presence, but I don't. He had the instruments of torture to contend >> with for that matter. There is a presence of thinking on god without >> ancient fable, much as there are ways of thinking on economics without the >> dominating manners of neo-classical fantasy. The admission of perplexity >> is something of a start, but has something of the vulnerability of sensory >> deprivation. >> >> I am interested in the still mystical point of argument resolution after >> doubt that is not merely conviction, superiority.or promises so vague they >> are empty. >> >> >> On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 9:12:31 PM UTC, facilitator wrote: >>> >>> Of course Allan! My narcissism is baptized in hypocrisy. >>> >>> I espouse to walk in the light and yet there are plenty of "Neighbors" I >>> don't treat better than myself. I claim spiritual superiority and yet find >>> myself in constant need of attitude adjustment. I want world peace but >>> have done little to push that round peg into all of the square holes I have >>> encountered. Maybe only 1 out of three times do I turn the other cheek. >>> And, I am definitely superior to most of the people I meet in this life. >>> My spirit is ill equipped to take on a higher plane of existence. >>> >>> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> ""Minds Eye"" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
