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12-02-2016, 03:49 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2014
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Originally Posted by Baile
Good observation. I will say thought that dropping archaic religious references - He and Lord for example - can and does help to evolve a more elevated understanding of the nature of Spirit. We are not sinful children of a judgmental Father God; rather, we are perfect souls born of perfect Spirit. The label Hermeticism uses is, for me, the most insightful of the many I've come across. No patriarchal and sexist references to Lord and He, no silly inane depiction of God in human form. Rather instead: the All Mind, existing and operating infinitely beyond limited human concepts having to do with form, emotion, intellect, reason and judgment.
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I agree that we are not sinful children of a judgmental god. I can understand your preference for using the term 'All Mind' to refer to God. For me though, the term 'All Mind' is too impersonal and too distant. I prefer the word 'God' as it conveys the personal and emotional connection I have with God. This is a purely subjective term which I feel comfortable with and most accurately implies my relationship with God. I believe the pronoun 'He' is no better nor worse than 'She', nor does it objectively describe God's nature. I do prefer 'He' or 'She' though to 'It' as we use 'it' to often refer to an animal or thing that we believe is less than us or totally different to us or has no relationship with us.
God is obviously beyond 'He' and 'She'. I think we need to create a new pronoun for the English language to use when referring to God. Perhaps 'E'.
Despite our semantic differences, though, I think our view of the divine is quite similar.
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12-02-2016, 12:57 PM
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Change is Constant
Human changes over time. Absolute truths do not change and are true everywhere and everywhen
Ex there can exist 5, and only 5, regular/symmetrical polyhedra.
r6
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Originally Posted by r6r6r
I believe each individual human has there own set of beliefs ergo there own personal religion.
Biological/soul are synonyms. imho
There exist 4 primary definitions of spirit and all other definitions would be subcatagorical to those 4. imho
Spirit-1 is metaphysical-1 mind/intellect/concepts erg spirit-of-intent,
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Spirit-2 is fermions bosons and any combination thereof, phyiscal/energy,
Spirit-3 is gravity aka mass-attraction and commonly accepted as a property of spacetime--- whatever spacetime may or may not be ---,
Spirit-4 is dark energy and I speculate is the also a property of spacetime that opposite shape of gravity i.e. if gravity is associated with positive curvature, then dark energy will have negative curvature.
OUr personal religion can change because our beliefs change.
What cannot change cosmic absolute truths i.e. they are inviolate and non-contradictory.
Human changes over time.
r6
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12-02-2016, 02:12 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Canada
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Originally Posted by Chr1stian
God is obviously beyond 'He' and 'She'. I think we need to create a new pronoun for the English language to use when referring to God. Perhaps 'E'.
Despite our semantic differences, though, I think our view of the divine is quite similar.
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I read something the other day that addresses this in a way I've never considered. Taking into account human dualistic thought and experience, He/heaven can be seen as representing the active nature of Spirit, versus She/earth as representing the receptive nature of Spirit.
That I can live with.
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12-02-2016, 04:18 PM
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Closing thread for review and clean up.
Copy and paste is not permitted ( few lines exception). In the future, if you can refrain from copying full texted content that would be great,
thank ya much,
Clover
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