In the interest of no soul left behind, I hope you are feeling better, Neil. Saving experiences, intimacy with God, and the meaning that passes between us may get us to no soul left behind. Sociopaths are a problem, but may be carried along if meaning can be shared. When times get tough, I just keep going, with a little help from my friends.
On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 1:40:38 AM UTC-4, archytas wrote: > > “An external creator and his institutions may still be verbally confessed > at Church in formulas that linger by their mere inertia, but the life is > out of them, we avoid dwelling on them, the sincere heart of us is > elsewhere” .Those who know “that we inhabit an invisible spiritual > environment from which help comes, our souls being mysteriously one with a > larger soul whose instruments we are, may have it right that it is all > about saving experiences and intimacy with God, versus the theistic view of > humans being outsiders and mere subjects to God. Mostly from William James. > > Does this meet your experience Allan? Not that I'm trying to salvage you > - we both have only residual scrap value less what it costs to carry us > away these days. It is more or less my feeling, discovered before I read > about such. I wonder a lot about this, though not in words. There is a > touch of salvation in kindness, possibly the thought we might be in the > future, not achievable now. I think we are here from somewhere else, > frontierspeople of some kind. We need to send home for our things, so to > speak. > -- --- 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.
