Dontaskme wrote
I can only understand God as the unnamed one. Not as the named one - the one that is known to be named cannot be God, for only God knows. So in this sense God is an empty concept, he is the immaculate conception. The named one is the fictional character that pretends to be the one. And God allows for that spotlight to be taken because he knows it's just him anyway. That's how I see it anyway.
I do not in anyway know this is true for absolute certainty, I only write the story as it appears to be arising from within which is very REAL...aka this direct experience of being and knowing that I AM.
The "unnamed one" is not unlike what God said to Moses on Horab. You may not be a Bible reader. I took a course once called The Bible as Literature, though I am certainly not a "reader". My thinking begins here:
This "I am" is played out in different ways, and I am led to believe there are three kinds of people in this world: one is the kind that takes this acknowledgement as an intellectual and analytical challenge. They do the very hard and fascinating work of examining the "I" and I can tell you first hand that until one goes through some of this, one will be interpretatively in the dark, and by that I mean, it will be a serious limit on what can be said, reasonably, responsibly. It's bit like a physicist sitting on a hill and just looking around making observations. Read Heidegger's Being and Time, and your thinking will never be the same. Massively insightful.
The second is the kind of person has what I call an existential gift, and this is very weird, inaccessible to most. These are people who have a strange intimation of "the world", that is, of Being Here, that is intuitive and powerful. It is the "sense" of a meaning and depth of existence that they were born with and it is alienating, creates distance between the usual habits and familiarities that most find simply unproblematic and routine, and the self, looking out, wondering (Kierkegaard thought that this is the beginning of self realization) what everything is all about, not at any particular level of a discipline's inquiry, but in the sheer openness of Being here. These people tend to seek out religion early on, and they get trapped in very bad interpretations of what the world is about. They know they have something others do not, that they are somehow beyond the analytic work, the speculative theory, but they cannot speak it and, well, and we find them on street corners with Bibles in their hands.
The third is the a person who has both of these: the disciplined thinking and the existential gift. These are what I call enlightened. The reason I revised my assessment of your thoughts earlier is that I realized you were perhaps a threshold type, disillusioned of both Bible and books, and this is the only way to become among the third. But then, it is not so much the massive reading that makes this happen. Rather, it is a commitment to being clear and earnest in one's beliefs: to question everything and discover in what is called an
apophatic inquiry that the world is nothing that can be said, but only encountered, and when the, if you will, "Clouds of Knowing" are lifted, one sees, magnificently so.