One of the interesting things about Mitchell, in terms of a philosophical praxis, is what happened to her as a child. She contracted polio and somehow got the notion into her head that if she could keep singing she would be well and wouldn’t die. Who's to say it could have been otherwise?
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Therefore, EXACTLY, as I have been SAYING and POINTING OUT, ALREADY.Walker wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 9:00 am“Papa's faith is peopleAge wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 12:53 amTherefore, EXACTLY as I had envisioned.
So now, what is the name of the 'thing' that causes, creates, or provides 'the mechanics of matter', and, what is the name of the 'thing' that causes, creates, or provides 'the autonomy of creatures'?
And, could those 'things' just what the word 'God' has meant or been related to, EXACTLY?
Mama she believes in cleaning
Papa's faith is in people
Mama she's always cleaning
Papa brought home the sugar
Mama taught me the deeper meaning”
- Joni Mitchell
Comment:
The deeper meaning is found in the causes, effects and implications of cleaning (order, and ordering.)
Creation of order. Preservation of order. Destruction of order.
This causes all movement in the universe, even the “mechanics of matter,” referenced by Weil.
Each is necessary for the other.
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What does a 'love-of-learning praxis' mean, or refer to, to you?Walker wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 9:17 amOne of the interesting things about Mitchell, in terms of a philosophical praxis, is what happened to her as a child. She contracted polio and somehow got the notion into her head that if she could keep singing she would be well and wouldn’t die. Who's to say it could have been otherwise?
Also, what does the word 'it' here refer to, EXACTLY?
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In deed, indeed.Age wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 11:08 pmWhat does a 'love-of-learning praxis' mean, or refer to, to you?Walker wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 9:17 amOne of the interesting things about Mitchell, in terms of a philosophical praxis, is what happened to her as a child. She contracted polio and somehow got the notion into her head that if she could keep singing she would be well and wouldn’t die. Who's to say it could have been otherwise?
Also, what does the word 'it' here refer to, EXACTLY?
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Thanks for the amazing thread starter.
What could do what God is said to be able to do is NOTHING
The ''WHAT'' question can only be answered in the spirit it was given, which is I do not know, so I am going to try and find out what I do not know, and so in that finding will be my answer. In other words, I will eventually know what I do not know.
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So, in one line you CLAIM what could do what God is said to be able to do is "NOTHING", BUT, in your very next line you CLAIM "YOU DO NOT KNOW" what could do what God is said to be able to do.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 8:38 amThanks for the amazing thread starter.
What could do what God is said to be able to do is NOTHING
The ''WHAT'' question can only be answered in the spirit it was given, which is I do not know, so I am going to try and find out what I do not know, and so in that finding will be my answer. In other words, I will eventually know what I do not know.
Are you able to CLEAR UP and CLARIFY this, another, OBVIOUSLY BLATANT CONTRADICTION here.
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Here is a GREAT EXAMPLE of when people MAKE CLAIMS but are completely and utterly INCAPABLE backing up what they CLAIM, nor being able to ELABORATE on what they say, and this, it will be found, is because they are NOT ACTUALLY SURE of what 'it' is that they are SAYING and CLAIMING.Walker wrote: ↑Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:58 pmIn deed, indeed.Age wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 11:08 pmWhat does a 'love-of-learning praxis' mean, or refer to, to you?Walker wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 9:17 am
One of the interesting things about Mitchell, in terms of a philosophical praxis, is what happened to her as a child. She contracted polio and somehow got the notion into her head that if she could keep singing she would be well and wouldn’t die. Who's to say it could have been otherwise?
Also, what does the word 'it' here refer to, EXACTLY?
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Dontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 8:38 am
Thanks for the amazing thread starter.
What could do what God is said to be able to do is NOTHING
The ''WHAT'' question can only be answered in the spirit it was given, which is I do not know, so I am going to try and find out what I do not know, and so in that finding will be my answer. In other words, I will eventually know what I do not know.
Clearing up...if I have to ask a question about a subject, then that is a demand for an answer to what I do not know, else why bother to ask the question in the first place, except the demand for an answer. The answer to this question is that it's as though I am looking for an answer to what I do not know, so that I will eventually know what I didn't know.Age wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 3:09 amSo, in one line you CLAIM what could do what God is said to be able to do is "NOTHING", BUT, in your very next line you CLAIM "YOU DO NOT KNOW" what could do what God is said to be able to do.
Are you able to CLEAR UP and CLARIFY this, another, OBVIOUSLY BLATANT CONTRADICTION here.
Does that clear up and clarify the blatant contradiction Age?
And may I ask, is there anything untoward with the idea of 'contradiction'.. that you just had to bring to the table in such a blatant manner?
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God to me, is everything that ever is, was, and ever will be infinitely forever. Which logically deduces everything to nothing as being the very first source.
In other words, if we are to attempt to put this into knowledge. God is the dreamer, the dreaming, and the dream simultaneously. In other words, all there is is nothing,not-a-thing, no-thing appearing as it's equal and exact opposite, in the context a mirror can never be anything but what it reflects, and the reflection is nothing other than the mirror itself.
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To add more...God is every experience known to consciousness, to which there are infinite expressions of experiences, for example: A 'murderer' and the murderers ' victim' are two experiences of what God is capable of experiencing, because in the absolute infinite freedom to be, absolutely anything can happen, and will happen without restriction or resistence, and that is absolute freedom to be, which is this immediate unconditional love that is God.
The one looking out of your eyes is the same one looking out of every other eye.
The one eyed looker is king.
''And if your eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.''
You are the ONE. Only you are responsible for your actions, only you, for there is no one like you because there is no other than you, others are you in a different meat suit that's all..as God desired to experience every combination there possible could be.
There was no sacrifice for you, nor was there a saviour for you. You are absolutely everything already. You are the perfect nothingess appearing as everything.
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1. There is NEVER a 'have to ask a question about a subject'. However, if there is some CURIOSITY, then one MAY ask a question about a subject.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 6:36 amDontaskme wrote: ↑Fri Dec 31, 2021 8:38 am
Thanks for the amazing thread starter.
What could do what God is said to be able to do is NOTHING
The ''WHAT'' question can only be answered in the spirit it was given, which is I do not know, so I am going to try and find out what I do not know, and so in that finding will be my answer. In other words, I will eventually know what I do not know.Clearing up...if I have to ask a question about a subject, then that is a demand for an answer to what I do not know, else why bother to ask the question in the first place, except the demand for an answer.Age wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 3:09 amSo, in one line you CLAIM what could do what God is said to be able to do is "NOTHING", BUT, in your very next line you CLAIM "YOU DO NOT KNOW" what could do what God is said to be able to do.
Are you able to CLEAR UP and CLARIFY this, another, OBVIOUSLY BLATANT CONTRADICTION here.
2. Asking a question about a subject is NOT necessarily a demand for an answer AT ALL. Some just ask questions about a subject to SEE if an answer is provided or not.
3. One can ALREADY KNOW an answer but STILL ask "another" a question, about a subject, just to gauge how much the "other" REALLY does KNOW or just says that they know.
4. One can a question, in the first place, to either learn, to gain CLARITY, to SEE and gauge what "another" really does know or not know.
5. I have NEVER asked a question on this forum 'demanding' an answer AT ALL.
Okay, thank you for Honesty and CLARIFYING response here.
Oh, and by the way, if you are looking for answer, to what you do not already know, then may I suggest you just ask a question. Some one here might be able to provide you with that answer, which you do NOT YET know and which you are LOOKING FOR.
Yes it does, and again thank you.
Yes you may.
What, EXACTLY, was the so-called "blatant manner", which I, supposedly, just 'had to' bring to the table here?
And, there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING 'untoward' with the idea of 'contradiction', well not from my perspective, anyway.
Was there ANY thing unexpected and inappropriate, or inconvenient, to you, with the 'contradiction' of yours that I just pointed out and presented here above?
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Okay, but some would say that the CLEARLY Wrong, bad, and/or evil things that 'you', adult human beings, do would NOT be things that are related directly to God NOR to God's doing. But each to their own, as some say.
But, for some, that does NOT AT ALL deduce EVERY thing to NO thing as being the very first source. For them to do so would be Truly ILLOGICAL. Especially considering the Fact that there NEVER was an outside, beyond, NOR separate ANY thing from EVERY thing that ever is, was, and ever will be infinitely forever. So, to these ones, there NEVER could be a first source of 'nothing'.
What does the 'this' word here mean or refer to, EXACTLY?
Okay, but this seems like a VERY UNNECESSARY thing to 'dream up', especially considering what 'God' IS, EXACTLY?
What happens if the dreamer is dreaming of abusing animals, including 'you', human animals, in the dream? Would this REALLY be God, or what the word God means or refers to, EXACTLY?
Would 'abusing things' REALLY be what God is said to be able to do?
But there is NOT just 'nothing'. What there OBVIOUSLY IS EXACTLY are physical things (some things) with nothing in between, and BOTH TOGETHER make up thee Universe the way It IS.
BUT a 'mirror' can CERTAINLY BE some thing other than what it reflects. A 'mirror' can be and ACTUALLY IS 'a mirror'.
And 'a reflection' is ACTUALLY some thing other than 'a mirror', itself. A 'reflection' can be and ACTUALLY is 'a reflection'.
A 'mirror' AND a 'reflection' are two VERY DIFFERENT things, OBVIOUSLY.
The CONTRADICTIONS here are just to OBVIOUS to even mention.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 7:05 am .
To add more...God is every experience known to consciousness, to which there are infinite expressions of experiences, for example: A 'murderer' and the murderers ' victim' are two experiences of what God is capable of experiencing, because in the absolute infinite freedom to be, absolutely anything can happen, and will happen without restriction or resistence, and that is absolute freedom to be, which is this immediate unconditional love that is God.
Also, and by the way, 'you', human beings, are absolutely FREE to CHOOSE whether to murder, or not, so there does NOT need to be " 'murder' WILL HAPPEN " scenario.
Then how, EXACTLY, are they "my" eyes.
WHY do 'you' talk to 'me' like I am so OTHER one, or thing, but STILL CLAIM this is the SAME one?
What 'you' are REALLY meaning to say and write is; thee One looking out of the eyes of EVERY body is the EXACT SAME One.
That is WHY that One Eye is referred to thee Mind's Eye. As there is ONLY One Mind, which SEES ALL with thee One Eye, which is ABLE to SEE EVERY thing and EVERY where.
WHY do 'you' agree with 'me' when I say that the word 'you' implies or refers to "an other", so to say 'you' are the One does NOT make sense here, but then you completely IGNORE this agreement you made, and then say you what you do here, again, and again?
OF COURSE this is IRREFUTABLY True. BUT, the way you say this does NOT make ANY sense, which could be agreed with and accepted.
Change the words you use, but keep meaning the EXACT SAME thing, then you will find EVERY one agrees with and accepts what you are saying, and MEANING.
Does this apply for the countless OTHERS of 'you' as well?
Can you SEE the CONTRADICTION here?
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But then one would have to have a curiosity, which to me, is indistinguishable from the demand to know something, by asking a question about a subject one is curious about. Unless you HAVE a curiosity, then no question is likely to arrive is it.
To question is a demand for knowledge Age...no matter whether one is questioning it's own curiosity, or is curious another source of knowledge is available, as and through another one's consciousness.
It is true that one can ask another conscious being a question that the asker alreadys knows the answer to. But to me, it's not necessary to do so, because the other consciousness will only be able to possess it's own self bias opinion on a subject.
And personally, I do not believe for one minute that every single conscious human being will ever be on the same page at exactly the same time. This has been proven over and over again in philosophical discussions. So all that can be said about the sharing of knowledge is take what is true to you and reject what isn't.
Some people choose to live the comfortable lie, while others choose the uncomfortable truth.
For me personally, all learning is about knowledge which is always a passed down second hand knowledge based on someone elses self biased opinion. And it is through that knowledge that we all conspire to agree or not. Some people choose to think only for themselves, rather than take on board someone elses self bias opinion, when it comes to self-knowledge about their being, especially the knowledge about God.
Who asked these two questions?
Surely these two questions are demanding an answer?So, what exactly could do what God is said to be able to do?
And, if any one answers with the word God, then what exactly is God, to you?
The answer to the 'what question' is 'whatever' I imagine.
Again, if I want to know some knowledge I do not know, then finding the answer will ensure I become knowledgable of what was once unknown to me. Everyone knows how to do that Age.
Okay, so a contradiction occured within this discussion, could that have been avoided, obviously not. So it doesn't matter.Age wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 8:50 amYes you may.
What, EXACTLY, was the so-called "blatant manner", which I, supposedly, just 'had to' bring to the table here?
And, there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING 'untoward' with the idea of 'contradiction', well not from my perspective, anyway.
Was there ANY thing unexpected and inappropriate, or inconvenient, to you, with the 'contradiction' of yours that I just pointed out and presented here above?
Contradictions are a part of reality within the conceptual language that is knowledge, especially when discussing the subject of God.
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Yes each to their own understanding of self-actualisation. Which to me, is all God anyway.
If others want to say God cannot be evil, then to me, that's just denial of their true nature, which to me, is whoever knows tha concept of evil is the only creator of evil. This to me, is not a complicated realisation, it's very basic and simple actually.
I agree.Age wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 11:48 amBut, for some, that does NOT AT ALL deduce EVERY thing to NO thing as being the very first source. For them to do so would be Truly ILLOGICAL. Especially considering the Fact that there NEVER was an outside, beyond, NOR separate ANY thing from EVERY thing that ever is, was, and ever will be infinitely forever. So, to these ones, there NEVER could be a first source of 'nothing'.
First source to me, starts with me only, I can know of no other source of me, than my own first person direct self-centred experience.
The ''THIS'' word, to me, is a word I use to point to what is ultimately everything that is was and ever will be...in other words, seamless infinite reality, one without a second.
To me personally, God is everything, there is nothing that is not God. So whatever can be known, is what God is.Age wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 11:48 amOkay, but this seems like a VERY UNNECESSARY thing to 'dream up', especially considering what 'God' IS, EXACTLY?
What happens if the dreamer is dreaming of abusing animals, including 'you', human animals, in the dream? Would this REALLY be God, or what the word God means or refers to, EXACTLY?
Would 'abusing things' REALLY be what God is said to be able to do?
However, that is only what this one here, aka me imagines is true, I cannot speak for what others choose to imagine is true.
Everything is indistinguisable from Nothing, in my opinion. What distinguishes a physical thing from a non-physical thing is simply a perception, and to me, any distinction is all the same one conscious action. I use the dream analogy because reality to me is likened to a dream in which no thing actually happens, it only appears to happen. And I have no idea as to HOW OR WHY dreaming happens, all I know is that it does.
A mirror and it's reflection are indistinguishable, inseparable and always one and the same phenomena, and that was my point, about the mirror analogy.
The difference is conceptual, a mirror is a mirror, a reflection is a reflection. Yes, two different concepts. But the point was, the mirror is a metaphor for consciousness, now that's not too difficult to work out that consciousness and the contents of consciousness are the same one phenomena. Different words for the same principle is all that I am saying.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 7:05 am
To add more...God is every experience known to consciousness, to which there are infinite expressions of experiences, for example: A 'murderer' and the murderers ' victim' are two experiences of what God is capable of experiencing, because in the absolute infinite freedom to be, absolutely anything can happen, and will happen without restriction or resistence, and that is absolute freedom to be, which is this immediate unconditional love that is God.
Yes one is unconditionally free to act in anyway shape or form, simply because it is my understanding that there is nothing to stop anything from happening, as nothing is making anything happen. Something either happens or it doesn't happen. If a human being chooses to kill another, there is absolutely nothing that can undo that choice once it is made. Because actions are totally and utterly free to act in every moment. And to me, that freedom is unconditional love, it's all God's will.
Because I am talking to myself, and why I do that, is because I can, because I can entertain myself by imagining their are others.
That's another way of putting it yes.
Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 7:05 amTo me, the ''you'' also means other, other than me, and yet is the same one talking to itself.
God desired to experience every combination there possible could be.
There was no sacrifice for you, nor was there a saviour for you. You are absolutely everything already. You are the perfect nothingess appearing as everything.
Well, I can only speak for myself, and that any apparent others are of my own creation, and I take on that creation as if it was real and true, because I can know of no other source, other than what I create myself. Knowledge to me is a second order phenomena, the first order being, being this immediate presence of being, prior to knowing it.....so only I can be contradicting myself here, which to me is perfectly normal since I am the only original source of knowledge, which can only ever be my own creation. As I know nothing outside of my own first person knowing consciousness.
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Okay, but to me, 'being curious about some thing', and, 'demanding an answer (or demanding to know something), is VERY DISTINGUISHABLE.
In the former one can be curious and NOT ask for ANY thing NOR demand for ANY thing AT ALL, whereas in the latter one is demanding some thing.
But, while we are here, one HAS TO BE 'curious' BEFORE they even want to ask for an answer/clarity. And, one can also just ask for an answer or to know some thing while NEVER expecting NOR EVER demanding an answer nor clarity. They can, instead, just ask politely, and then just wait patiently, like I do, NEVER expecting and NEVER demanding AT ALL.
If this is a question, posed to me, then I agree that curiosity is needed before questioning arises. However, this is just 'sidetracking' away from your claim that "if you HAD TO ask a question, then that is a demand for an answer".
Now, you may well DEMAND answers for EVERY question you ask, but I CERTAINLY DO NOT.
Also, you may feel, think, or BELIEVE, that you HAVE TO ask questions, but this is obviously NOT thee Truth of things.
This may well be from YOUR perspective "dontaskme". But, this is CERTAINLY NOT the case for ALL "others".
SEE, when we question things, we are just seeking to learn more, or become wiser. There is NEVER ANY demand for knowledge, but if knowledge comes our way, then so be it. All is well and good.
LOL How does one question their OWN curiosity, EXACTLY?
Either one is curios, at a particular moment, or they are not.
If you say so.
OF COURSE it is NOT 'necessary' to do so.
WHY do you have this propensity to automatically ASSUME that when some says some thing happens, then they are CLAIMING that 'that thing' HAS TO HAPPEN, or is a NECESSITY?
This is NOT true, 'you', human beings, are able to posses, and share, ACTUAL Facts on ANY subject, and NOT just biased opinions AT ALL.
'you' are FREE to BELIEVE absolutely ANY thing you like. But do not forget that what you BELIEVE creates 'bias confirmation' at its highest level.
For example, if EVERY other human being were on the 'same page', at exactly the same time, you would, purposely, be, and stay, on 'another page' just so you could and would make your OWN BELIEF true, right, and correct.
You would NOT BELIEVE some thing if it were NOT true and right, correct?
LOL If you think or believe that what happens in so-called "philosophical discussions" is some sort of example to be guided by of and about human beings, for ALL of human life, then you will be sadly MISTAKEN.
But what is just NOT 'true' to you is sometimes what IS ACTUALLY and IRREFUTABLY True.
And, "others" choose other things. But, besides this Fact just being completely OBVIOUS, was there ANY other point that you were trying to convey here?
And, considering the Fact that ALL self based opinion can be False, Wrong, and/or Incorrect, then ALL knowledge to you could also be False, Wrong, and/or Incorrect, correct?
But it is NOT through so-called "second hand self biased opinions" that we ALL conspire to agree or not.
If what you CLAIMED here was true, then we ALL would be on the same page, at exactly the same time.
SEE, if ANY one CLAIMS that we ALL could NEVER agree on some thing or we could NEVER be on the same page, at exactly the same time, then they could NOT, logically, then also CLAIM that we ALL do the EXACT SAME thing nor things.
Okay.
Surely these two questions are demanding an answer?[/quote]So, what exactly could do what God is said to be able to do?
And, if any one answers with the word God, then what exactly is God, to you?
NOT AT ALL.
They were just asked politely, while waiting patiently to see if ANY one responds.
If NO one answers, then so be it.
As I said I have NEVER asked a question on this forum demanding an answer AT ALL.
By the way, I did.
Maybe so, but this has absolutely NOTHING AT ALL to do with what I saying, and MEANING.
Okay, so a contradiction occured within this discussion, could that have been avoided, obviously not. So it doesn't matter.[/quote]Age wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 8:50 amYes you may.
What, EXACTLY, was the so-called "blatant manner", which I, supposedly, just 'had to' bring to the table here?
And, there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING 'untoward' with the idea of 'contradiction', well not from my perspective, anyway.
Was there ANY thing unexpected and inappropriate, or inconvenient, to you, with the 'contradiction' of yours that I just pointed out and presented here above?
LOL WHY do you think or BELIEVE that 'contradiction', itself, can NOT be avoided in your discussions?
AND what ELSE is also a part of Reality within the conceptual language that is knowledge, especially when discussing ANY subject, including ANY subject of God, are statements that are necessarily True. So, 'contradictions' are NOT necessary AT ALL, and may I suggest are best AVOIDED ALL TOGETHER.
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What you are essentially saying is God is 'your', human beings, 'true nature', but whoever knows 'evil' is the ONLY creator of evil, correct?Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:08 pmYes each to their own understanding of self-actualisation. Which to me, is all God anyway.
If others want to say God cannot be evil, then to me, that's just denial of their true nature, which to me, is whoever knows tha concept of evil is the only creator of evil. This to me, is not a complicated realisation, it's very basic and simple actually.
If no, then what IS correct here?
Okay, now we are getting much closer to what thee ACTUAL and IRREFUTABLE Truth IS.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:08 pmI agree.Age wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 11:48 amBut, for some, that does NOT AT ALL deduce EVERY thing to NO thing as being the very first source. For them to do so would be Truly ILLOGICAL. Especially considering the Fact that there NEVER was an outside, beyond, NOR separate ANY thing from EVERY thing that ever is, was, and ever will be infinitely forever. So, to these ones, there NEVER could be a first source of 'nothing'.
First source to me, starts with me only, I can know of no other source of me, than my own first person direct self-centred experience.
WHY would you even 'try' to put EVERY thing into 'knowledge'?
Okay, but in the opening post here I did say; Now, for this discussion to begin and to be successful we just have to work out if there could be absolutely any existing thing that could do what God is said to be able to do, and then see if any of those things could be what the word 'God' was just actually referring to.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:08 pmTo me personally, God is everything, there is nothing that is not God. So whatever can be known, is what God is.Age wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 11:48 amOkay, but this seems like a VERY UNNECESSARY thing to 'dream up', especially considering what 'God' IS, EXACTLY?
What happens if the dreamer is dreaming of abusing animals, including 'you', human animals, in the dream? Would this REALLY be God, or what the word God means or refers to, EXACTLY?
Would 'abusing things' REALLY be what God is said to be able to do?
And, I clearly expressed in that post also; The quickest, simplest, and easiest way for this answer to come to light is by not expressing what one already thinks or believes is true, but by just remaining always open instead
You can NOT if they do NOT share with you those imaginings, BUT, you can speak for what "others" choose to imagine is true if they share those imaginings with you.
How can you NOT distinguish between the physical things and the 'nothingness' of 'empty space'?
But that is just that 'one's' chosen imagined dream of 'things'. And, 'you' are absolutely FREE to CHOOSE whatever you want imagine and/or dream.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:08 pm What distinguishes a physical thing from a non-physical thing is simply a perception, and to me, any distinction is all the same one conscious action. I use the dream analogy because reality to me is likened to a dream in which no thing actually happens, it only appears to happen.
Which is NOT SURPRISING, AT ALL, considering that you can NOT even distinguish between what is a physical thing and the empty space which is NEEDED for physical things to exist.
But they ARE, to me.
There is 'the mirror', and then there is 'the reflection'. Two VERY EASILY distinguishable things. Well to me they are anyway.
Well your point is NOT been SHOWN that well.
Oh, and by the way, the VERY POINT that you are ALLUDING to is ALREADY KNOWN. Well by me anyway.
SEE, the physical things AND the nothing between them are ACTUALLY and IRREFUTABLY 'inseparable'. As the two things HAVE TO EXIST, ALWAYS, and TOGETHER they make up thee One and ONLY True thing, which is, literally, ACTUALLY INSEPARABLE.
By the way, your mirror analogy can be REFUTED as all one has to do is cover the face of the mirror and then there is NO reflection, but the mirror, OBVIOUSLY, REMAINS. Meaning; A mirror and its reflection ARE distinguishable.
Even your OWN words CLEARLY points this Fact out. Saying, " A mirror and 'its' reflection' " means TWO separate or distinguishable things, and, saying, that those TWO things 'are' indistinguishable means there are TWO, different, things.
Name one thing that is NOT 'conceptual'.
But 'consciousness' is just consciousness, while 'the contents of consciousness', if you have not guessed it already is 'the contents of consciousness'.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:08 pm a mirror is a mirror, a reflection is a reflection. Yes, two different concepts. But the point was, the mirror is a metaphor for consciousness, now that's not too difficult to work out that consciousness and the contents of consciousness are the same one phenomena.
Well if that is ALL that you are saying, then I suggest just say, "Different words for the same principle", and then we can LOOK AT 'that', and then DISCUSS 'that', that is; if we want to.
I would NOT say that one is unconditionally free to act in ANY way, shape, nor form, as one is limited by the thinking within the body, and it is thinking which controls the way, shape, and form one acts, or behaves in.Dontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 1:08 pmDontaskme wrote: ↑Sat Jan 01, 2022 7:05 am
To add more...God is every experience known to consciousness, to which there are infinite expressions of experiences, for example: A 'murderer' and the murderers ' victim' are two experiences of what God is capable of experiencing, because in the absolute infinite freedom to be, absolutely anything can happen, and will happen without restriction or resistence, and that is absolute freedom to be, which is this immediate unconditional love that is God.Yes one is unconditionally free to act in anyway shape or form,
One is CERTAINLY absolutely FREE to CHOOSE. But EVERY one of 'you', human beings, only has a limited choice to CHOOSE from.
Thee ACTUAL Thing that is making ALL-OF-THIS happen is thee Thing that is just a combination of ALL (the) things (working together).
Nothing besides, incorrectly called, 'time travel' that is.
To me, 'actions', themselves, are DIFFERENT from 'behaviors', and it CHOOSING ALL of 'your', adult human 'behaviors', which are totally and utterly FREE of 'conditions'. However, ALL 'actions' are just 're-actions' due to, or because of, previous circumstances.
AGAIN, the 'CONTRADICTION' here is BLATANTLY OBVIOUS.
The FREEDOM to 'murder' maybe God's will but 'to murder' would NOT be God's will.
Unless, OF COURSE, ANY one comes up with some PROOF that 'God's will' is 'to murder' some and NOT "others"
If you think or BELIEVE that absolutely EVERY thing is an ILLUSION of your OWN making, or imagining, then you are ABLE to do ABSOLUTELY ANY thing.
But what you can, or can NOT do, was NEVER being questioned here. What WAS being QUESTION was; WHY you do some thing?
Now, if you would like to respond to 'that', INSTEAD, then please do.
Okay.
But can you YET SEE the CONTRADICTION in speaking that way?
Also, remember you BELIEVE that 'this' can NOT be explained in words, NOR language, so to fulfill your OWN BELIEFS and 'confirmation biases' here you will, purposely, go out of your way to say things that are NONSENSICAL, ILLOGICAL, or SELF-CONTRADICTORY.
There is Truth in this. But, to be ABLE to FIND It and SEE It other things are NEEDED.
Yes 'I' KNOW 'I am'
SEE, with the word 'I' there is NO reference to ANY 'other'. But with the word 'you' there is DIRECT reference to AN 'other'. Can 'you' SEE 'this', NOW?
Even the word 'myself' is a CONTRADICTION of itself. The word 'my' in 'myself' refers to 'one', and the word 'self' refers to 'another one'.
So, literally, 'which 'one' is which', as some might now ask?
We KNOW this. We can CLEARLY SEE that 'you' take on your OWN, self-admitted, 'illusion/s' as being ABSOLUTELY 'real' AND 'true'.
You CAN, but you just prefer NOT TO.
You, literally, prefer to exist solely in your OWN made up 'illusion' AND 'creation'
As I say, Thee ACTUAL Truth of 'things' can be KNOWN, ALMOST instantaneously. Which means more or less what you are 'trying to' convey here, which is; thee ACTUAL 'immediate presence' happens or occurs prior to knowledge of 'It' can EVER become KNOWN.