and a child you still are... if you are unable to take a leap of faith and tell me frankly what it is that fundamentally bothers you with my previous post... you know the one i mean
Please, not the tired old "you are God" line of nonsense. That's old-school. Get an upgrade, at least. (Some of the poetry is well done. I'll concede that.)
When one becomes identified with a body-mind package, it is the unwitting identification with a fearful thought. The body-mind then goes into overdrive creating the illusion that there is something it must separate from in order to find its safety...its invulnerability. This is a type of salvation, and it requires great faith. They rage against yet another illusion, in which there is a God that is hunting them down to punish them. In defense of themselves, they attack, making all gods non-existent. Who can blame them? Yet they attack nothing outside of their own mind. All egos perpetuating myths about gods who punish are symbols of their own thoughts. The war is within, and it is for salvation...a sense of safety and invulnerability. They rage only for love. This scenario then plays out in many forms. Who is more fearful today then the perpetuators of punishing-God myths? The myths are so prevalent that the idea of a loving God is lost, and many will attack ANY idea of God. In doing so, they attack themselves, and lose their true identity. Losing identity, they show less than love, just as the perveyors of mad-God myths show less than love. It's all perceptions. Believe it or not, even the building of armies and multiplication of weapons of war is a raging for love...as insane as that appears. Sane or insane, all seek love one way or another. Forgive them and embrace them as symbols of your own thoughts so that the war within can give way to peace. The ultimate state of consciousness is not an aversion of this world, but the embracing of this world. There is no greater sense of freedom than to be able to abide where you are as one who is free. Blessings, Jesus
the illusion is that there be a chain of causal events... however good a conceptual approximation it might be in our macroscopic world and at some other intermediate scales of observation... quantum mechanics... familiar?
Sure, technology always raises ethical and societal issues. It always has, it always will. Genetic engineering can produce what for us appear to be very weird results. I personally have nothing against religious leaders being involved in these debates. These people, though, are hardly religious leaders. When you make a statement like 'Asking why is a sin', that's not leadership. It's fruitcake. When you make a statement like 'Kids on pediatric cancer wards did something to land themselves there, because God doesn't make mistakes', that's insane. That one is attributable to Z in this thread. I know a lot of religious people. I was with one of them tonight, as a matter of fact, a guy who was born into a Mennonite family. One of the nicest guys I know, a great family man, a fantastic musician, an honest man. He lives his life according to the precepts of his faith. I asked him about the ID thing and he scoffed at it, calling it propaganda. He said that it is ridiculous that zealots should be trying to force their agenda down our throats. You want to know what he said? He said... 'It is up to me to teach my children the lessons that I personally think are important. I can only tell them what I believe, and show them how my beliefs have guided my life. It is then up to them to decide what they believe in'. Religion is a private matter. I asked him what he would have to say if one of his kids came home from university and told him that they had enrolled in science, specializing in evolutionary genetics. He said he would always be proud of his kids and support them in anything they wanted to do. I would ask him to be on the committee before any of my more liberal friends.
Z doesn't understand about causality breaking down at the sub-atomic level. He has no idea what you're talking about, nor does he want to know.
am with you on this... and your previous mail... thing is, the church has changed, we all learn from our mistakes... they're not going to take a stance that the earth is flat this time round, just because it very much looks like it is...
Communication IS creation. These two are one and the same. Therefore, if you would create well, ask only: What am I committed to communicating? What will my creations express? What will my creations convey to others? For what I seek to convey reveals what I believe is the truth of my Self to the world. Allow me to communicate this about that! You are as God created you to be. You are an infinite focus of consciousness. Your very sense of existence is nothing more than a feedback loop or feedback mechanism - think quantum mechanics - so that you can witness the effects of the choices you are making in the very deep, deep depth of your mind that rests alongside the Mind of God. Therefore, in each moment of your existence, which includes this bodily incarnation, you are literally allowing through deliberate choice - though perhaps unconscious - to bring forth a vibration of thought or a vibration of creation...and to commune-i-cate it to the world in an attempt to experience communion with all life. Each gesture, each thought, the way that the body breathes, all of these things are going on constantly, and they are communicating or revealing the effect of what you have allowed to make a home in your mind. I am speaking to the "I" of "you" that is pure Spirit that knows it exists, even though it does not know the time of its own creation. As pure Spirit, you know: " I am only this, and in each moment, regardless of what I believe I see, regardless of the feelings that arise within my awareness, I and I alone am wholly responsible for them. No one has caused them. No great force in the universe has made this perception well up within my consciousness. I have selected it. " "My" words, then, are not so much mine, as they are Yours speaking to you. The question then becomes: What kind of school is this? Blessings, Jesus