Is God mute?

jimmiebarton said:
you should hook up with Deepak Chopra lecture circuit, they'd love you:D


As you embrace the present
and become one with it, and merge with it,
you will experience a fire, a glow,
a sparkle of ecstasy throbbing in every sentient being.
As you begin to experience this exultation of spirit
in everything that is alive, as you become intimate with it,
joy will be born within you,
and you will drop the terrible burdens of defensiveness,
resentment, and hurtfulness...
then you will become lighthearted, carefree, joyous, and free.
-D. Chopra
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A student went to his meditation teacher and said, "My meditation is horrible! I feel so distracted, or my legs ache, or I'm constantly falling asleep. It's just horrible!"

"It will pass," the teacher said matter-of-factly.

A week later, the student came back to his teacher. "My meditation is wonderful! I feel so aware, so peaceful, so alive! It's just wonderful!'

"It will pass," the teacher replied matter-of-factly.
 
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Is God mute?

Should we expect God to reveal All about Her/Him to us? With our kind of languages and maths/science advancements!

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http://scn.sap.com/community/busine...0/03/the-cloud-the-elephant-and-the-blind-men

The cloud, the elephant and the blind men
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Throughout history, philosophers, teachers and religious leaders have used stories and parables to help us understand intangible, often complex, concepts. One of my favorites is the Indian parable of the elephant and the blind men.

It runs roughly like this: six blind men were asked by the king to describe an elephant after being allowed to touch just one part of the animal.

The blind man who feels a leg says the elephant is like a pillar; the one who feels the tail says it is like a rope; the one who feels the trunk says it is like a tree branch; the one who feels the ear says the elephant is like a rug; the one who feels the elephant’s side insists is like a wall; and the one who feels the tusk says it is like a spear.

The blind men argue with each other each insisting that, based on their own experience, they are right (in some versions they actually come to blows.) The conflict is resolved only when they stop talking, start listening and collaborate to ‘see’ the full elephant.

The parable has been interpreted in many ways. The message I take away from it is a reminder that, while anyone's individual subjective experience is true; it may not be the totality of truth. It is only by listening to and accommodating different perspectives that we can ‘see’ past the complexity and reach a simpler understanding of the world around us.
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OddTrader said:
Surely the Light will Prevail!
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Work in progress: http://theo.kuleuven.be/en/research/centres/centr_anthropos/

Q http://www.acu.edu.au/about_acu/fac...h/research_project_anthropos_in_the_antipodes

What does it mean to be human? Recent socio-political, cultural, and ecological developments have provoked new challenges with often one-sided views of humanity. These views quickly get a hold both of public opinion and of the socio-cultural context in which people and their communities establish their identities. Recent developments in bio-medical sciences and technology (eg. DNA research, cloning, etc.) lead to philosophical and ethical controversies. At stake is the question 'Who/What is humanity?' Psychology, economics, sociology, philosophy,... appear to overthrow traditional concepts of humanity.

Within this context, theology is challenged to formulate an inspiring response. Anthropos is an interdisciplinary project of fundamental theologians and theological ethicists seeking to develop a renewed theological anthropology rooted in the Christian tradition and in dialogue with contemporary science and philosophy. With the traditional triptych of creation, sin/grace, and redemption as its guiding light, it aims at developing a coherent foundational vision.
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Perhaps a new light to shine:

Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Husserl

In a later period, Husserl began to wrestle with the complicated issues of intersubjectivity, specifically, how communication about an object can be assumed to refer to the same ideal entity (Cartesian Meditations, Meditation V). Husserl tries new methods of bringing his readers to understand the importance of phenomenology to scientific inquiry (and specifically to psychology) and what it means to "bracket" the natural attitude. The Crisis of the European Sciences is Husserl's unfinished work that deals most directly with these issues. In it, Husserl for the first time attempts a historical overview of the development of Western philosophy and science, emphasizing the challenges presented by their increasingly (one-sidedly) empirical and naturalistic orientation. Husserl declares that mental and spiritual reality possess their own reality independent of any physical basis,[45] and that a science of the mind ('Geisteswissenschaft') must be established on as scientific a foundation as the natural sciences have managed:

"It is my conviction that intentional phenomenology has for the first time made spirit as spirit the field of systematic scientific experience, thus effecting a total transformation of the task of knowledge."[46]
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Off course God is not mute. We created God in our minds and he speaks to us in a way we understand. But naturally, it is all a fantasy as far as science and nature are concerned, unless we consider our mental creations a part of nature, which of course they are.. Nevertheless it is truly amazing what our brains have evolved to be capable of.
 
OddTrader said:
Perhaps a new light to shine:

Q https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Husserl

In a later period, Husserl began to wrestle with the complicated issues of intersubjectivity, specifically, how communication about an object can be assumed to refer to the same ideal entity (Cartesian Meditations, Meditation V). Husserl tries new methods of bringing his readers to understand the importance of phenomenology to scientific inquiry (and specifically to psychology) and what it means to "bracket" the natural attitude. The Crisis of the European Sciences is Husserl's unfinished work that deals most directly with these issues. In it, Husserl for the first time attempts a historical overview of the development of Western philosophy and science, emphasizing the challenges presented by their increasingly (one-sidedly) empirical and naturalistic orientation. Husserl declares that mental and spiritual reality possess their own reality independent of any physical basis,[45] and that a science of the mind ('Geisteswissenschaft') must be established on as scientific a foundation as the natural sciences have managed:

"It is my conviction that intentional phenomenology has for the first time made spirit as spirit the field of systematic scientific experience, thus effecting a total transformation of the task of knowledge."[46]
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We have already words to describe that smaller fraction of the human population whose mental and spiritual reality is 'independent of any physical basis'. In the vernacular we refer to them as "crazy". There are of course professional terms as well. I had occasion to recently assist a young friend whose reality was 'independent of any physical basis'. He was absolutely convinced that someone had come into his house through a window, moved his pants, and stolen $5 from him. When I pointed out that the window through which his thief entered was painted shut it did not shake his believe one bit. He then determined that someone was hiding in a locked closet, but one that can only be opened from the outside using a table knife. Using a knife, while I stood by to observe, he opened the door only to find a row of inanimate suits hanging limply. He concluded that the intruder had moved to another closet while his back was turned.

We have well-known examples of mental reality being 'independent of any physical basis'. The founders of both the Morman and Christian religions are classical in this respect.
 
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