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<blockquote data-quote="thecoopes" data-source="post: 9988" data-attributes="member: 844"><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Dear Lee and friends, any of the beliefs I expound here are obviously products of a personal and at times subjective view. I enjoy very much reading all your comments and through them I have been able to get a better understanding of the one we are all searching for. I hope you understand that to explore it further there is a need for me to make another comment apropos your observations. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">If we were discussing areas of physics and math we could develop our argument based on fundamental tangible truths and by this process we then prove one theory over another, however </span></span></span><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">there is a difficulty when discussing metaphysical issues that involves areas of faith and sometimes unnatural fears that become almost taboos and cause the group to pull the shutters down on their reasoning’s.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Forward then:</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Quote;</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">You suggest though if we can show compasion, and not give false directions to others then God the creator must do the same. However it is always a mistake to try and imbue God with human attributes for God is <strong><u>sooo much more</u></strong>.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Well this has to be a good starting point for all whom profess faith in the creator.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Tahoma'"><strong><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #333333">making a mental model: how big is the milky way? [from Harvard website]</span></span></strong></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">Imagine that our entire Solar System were the size of a quarter. The Sun is now a microscopic speck of dust, as are its nine planets, whose orbits are represented by the flat disc of the coin.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">On this scale, the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy will be about the size of the United States! How far away is the nearest star to our sun? In our model, Proxima Centauri (and any planets that might be around it) would be another quarter, two soccer fields away. This is the typical separation of stars in our part of the galaxy.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">This though is just our Milky Way galaxy!</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Although our imagination along with both perception and knowledge can help us formulate a picture that tries to come to some understanding of this awesome creation, we know that it goes far beyond our most wildest and creative speculation how then can we possibly understand its creator? We cannot, but of all creation we appear to have attributes that are not born of some speculative evolutionary explanation as to our existence. These attributes would then point to a higher order of which we can grasp but a speculative appreciation, just as with the physical universe so to its creator. I believe this one can be seen from time to time in the acts of almost unbelievable nobility that humans are capable of, these are acts of kindness, love, and self sacrifice to the point of surrendering ones life to save another for no reward. If then we who are a poor reflection of this creator act in such superlatives is it not right to think that he who created us would himself act in the same manner to those he created, and so would not subject creation to futility by playing hide and seek while allowing imperfect men to control and manipulate their fellow man with what they think God is saying?</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: black"></span></p><p><span style="color: black"></span><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">As a </span></span><a href="http://www.sikhphilosophy.com/sikhphilosophy/search/forum/38-1.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">Sikh</span></span></span></a><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"> I belive that God is a part of yet apart from Gods creation.</span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">If this is true then God is everything that exists, includeing us.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: red"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">So then it becomes not a case of clear directions to find God, because God is already with us, but more a question of how to remember that God is here with us.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: blue">This is why I believe it is with thoughts and not words we find God. Lawyers, solicitors and other primitive life forms play with words to circumvent the law and make good into bad and visa versa. </span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: red">Bearing this in mind, then God cannot make it as easy as follow the directions, because every single one of us is differant, with differant capacity to understand differant things, then we must all find our own ways of remembering. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: blue">Directions to find God do not need to be, do this do that, don’t do this etc, God must be able to be found by all and as the majority of this world are just scraping a living and with poor education then the directions to find this one must be via those good things that set us apart from all other creation. </span></span></span></span></p><p> <span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">So in my humble opinion, the multitude of faiths that God has given us may on the surface all point in differant directions, and I'm even prepeard to admit that a lot of holy scripture has been tainted by mans word and not Gods, but this dosen't matter because the more you tryto remember God(no matter what dogma you follow) the more God helps you to remember, and so seperate Gods word from mans</span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000">.</span></span></span></p><p> <span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="color: #000000"></span><span style="color: blue">I am convinced that the books that are considered Holy by all the worlds’ religions in themselves offer that which goes someway in our quest to find God. It’s only when we allow others to interpret those words as to what they believe God is saying that we get this madness we call “my religion”.</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Salaams</span></span></span></p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="color: blue"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 12px">John</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thecoopes, post: 9988, member: 844"] [color=blue][size=3][font=Arial]Dear Lee and friends, any of the beliefs I expound here are obviously products of a personal and at times subjective view. I enjoy very much reading all your comments and through them I have been able to get a better understanding of the one we are all searching for. I hope you understand that to explore it further there is a need for me to make another comment apropos your observations. [/font][/size][/color] [color=blue][size=3][font=Arial]If we were discussing areas of physics and math we could develop our argument based on fundamental tangible truths and by this process we then prove one theory over another, however [/font][/size][/color][color=blue][size=3][font=Arial]there is a difficulty when discussing metaphysical issues that involves areas of faith and sometimes unnatural fears that become almost taboos and cause the group to pull the shutters down on their reasoning’s.[/font][/size][/color] [color=blue][size=3][font=Arial]Forward then:[/font][/size][/color] [color=red][size=3][font=Arial]Quote; You suggest though if we can show compasion, and not give false directions to others then God the creator must do the same. However it is always a mistake to try and imbue God with human attributes for God is [b][u]sooo much more[/u][/b].[/font][/size][/color] [color=blue][size=3][font=Arial]Well this has to be a good starting point for all whom profess faith in the creator.[/font][/size][/color] [font=Tahoma][b][size=3][color=#333333]making a mental model: how big is the milky way? [from Harvard website][/color][/size][/b][/font] [font=Arial][size=3][color=#000000]Imagine that our entire Solar System were the size of a quarter. The Sun is now a microscopic speck of dust, as are its nine planets, whose orbits are represented by the flat disc of the coin.[/color][/size][/font] [font=Arial][size=3][color=#000000]On this scale, the diameter of our Milky Way galaxy will be about the size of the United States! How far away is the nearest star to our sun? In our model, Proxima Centauri (and any planets that might be around it) would be another quarter, two soccer fields away. This is the typical separation of stars in our part of the galaxy.[/color][/size][/font] [color=blue][size=3][font=Arial]This though is just our Milky Way galaxy![/font][/size][/color] [color=blue][size=3][font=Arial]Although our imagination along with both perception and knowledge can help us formulate a picture that tries to come to some understanding of this awesome creation, we know that it goes far beyond our most wildest and creative speculation how then can we possibly understand its creator? We cannot, but of all creation we appear to have attributes that are not born of some speculative evolutionary explanation as to our existence. These attributes would then point to a higher order of which we can grasp but a speculative appreciation, just as with the physical universe so to its creator. I believe this one can be seen from time to time in the acts of almost unbelievable nobility that humans are capable of, these are acts of kindness, love, and self sacrifice to the point of surrendering ones life to save another for no reward. If then we who are a poor reflection of this creator act in such superlatives is it not right to think that he who created us would himself act in the same manner to those he created, and so would not subject creation to futility by playing hide and seek while allowing imperfect men to control and manipulate their fellow man with what they think God is saying?[/font][/size][/color] [color=black] [/color][color=red][font=Arial][size=3]As a [/size][/font][url="http://www.sikhphilosophy.com/sikhphilosophy/search/forum/38-1.html"][color=red][font=Arial][size=3]Sikh[/size][/font][/color][/url][size=3][font=Arial] I belive that God is a part of yet apart from Gods creation. If this is true then God is everything that exists, includeing us. So then it becomes not a case of clear directions to find God, because God is already with us, but more a question of how to remember that God is here with us.[/font][/size][/color] [size=3][font=Arial][color=blue]This is why I believe it is with thoughts and not words we find God. Lawyers, solicitors and other primitive life forms play with words to circumvent the law and make good into bad and visa versa. [/color] [color=red]Bearing this in mind, then God cannot make it as easy as follow the directions, because every single one of us is differant, with differant capacity to understand differant things, then we must all find our own ways of remembering. [/color][/font][/size] [color=red][font=Arial][size=3][color=blue]Directions to find God do not need to be, do this do that, don’t do this etc, God must be able to be found by all and as the majority of this world are just scraping a living and with poor education then the directions to find this one must be via those good things that set us apart from all other creation. [/color] So in my humble opinion, the multitude of faiths that God has given us may on the surface all point in differant directions, and I'm even prepeard to admit that a lot of holy scripture has been tainted by mans word and not Gods, but this dosen't matter because the more you tryto remember God(no matter what dogma you follow) the more God helps you to remember, and so seperate Gods word from mans[/size][/font][/color][size=3][font=Arial][color=#000000]. [/color][color=blue]I am convinced that the books that are considered Holy by all the worlds’ religions in themselves offer that which goes someway in our quest to find God. It’s only when we allow others to interpret those words as to what they believe God is saying that we get this madness we call “my religion”.[/color][/font][/size] [color=blue][size=3][font=Arial]Salaams[/font][/size][/color] [color=blue][font=Arial][size=3]John[/size][/font][/color] [/QUOTE]
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