there are literally hundreds of interpretations of the bible in the English language, and often very contradictory, I was curious as to which versions you are using so I could see where you are coming from.
Rodrigo, Spanish composer, born Andelucia, wrote specifically for Segovia, thats off the top of my head will look him up now. He wrote "Concierto de aranquis" one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard, Made me cry 25 yrs ago when I first hrard it and was not moved to tears again by music until I heard Polish composer Gorvecki, "a symphony of sorrow songs" I think great Artists somehow see the truth.
Seriously, the only one that I would read nowadays is JamesII, regarded by most scholars around the world as the best translation into the English language, I have read quite a few and made comparisons between them. this is why I am asking which Bible you are quoting from?
Stephen Hawking is a perfect example of quite something else in human nature, that of showing positive/negative bias to people who appear to have any form of handicap. Stephen Hawking is the most overrated person in his field, he merely quotes other peoples work and only attracts attention because of his disability. Positive bias.
I have seen the same trait shown to people with Autism and the ability to produce copies of works of Art. It is extraordinary that they can do this but it is often disregarded that the quality of these works are far from genius and merely the work of a talented amateur.
A more balanced view is the regard given to Rodrigo and lots of other people like him that are judged purely on the quality of their work. No bias.
"I have even read some things written a long time ago by the likes of Socrates, Voltaire, Mark Twain, and Albert Einstein. I only have one real problem with all of it…
it’s all the same old thing just repeated over and over again. There is no new revelation or evidence there. You can trace back all those thoughts back to when man originally started to rebel against God."
Einstein - same old thing repeated over and over again! no new revelation or evidence here!. It is easy read Einstein Mike, but can you honestly tell me you understood his theories of relativity
(Have only been using this one week so am still learning about quotes etc.)
The old Gods were the forces of nature, the new Gods are the forces of Man. We are bound to our own nature. It is all too easy to see a future with beautiful, intelligent, disease free offspring, and/or a battlefield with cloned infantry.
The world as it is, is the most accurate reflection of what Mans true nature is, and it is always a contrast of all which is both good, and bad in this world.
If the discussion of this contrast is religion. The person discussing it is God. The all powerful nature of ourselves, to create and destroy, and we almost always find ourselves on the right side, that which is good/God.
The forces within us that mold how we think and judge the world around us are mostly invisible to ourselves. the results largely become visible to everyone in time.
On this planet at this time we are the white christians that have fought and clawed our way to the top. We rule this world and all of the inhabitants in it.
We are an accurate reflection of a tribe that have had as one of their most recent Gods, a guy called Jesus and we tortured and killed him and some of us celebrate this by symbolically drinking his blood and eating his body.
There is no God, we are God. We are doomed to eternal change, we have the power to change.
Not true, Lots of people have believed in witchcraft and even more bizarre concepts, and why use this as an "anti Woman" angle. This is the post-Feminist era. Remarks like this are well outdated in todays society.
God is a Spiritual concept. metaphysical concept, psychological concept.......................and so on.
Religion is an attempt to explain what god is to the mass of people in a language that they either understand or accept that they don't and still believe..... Faith.
So does Philosophy, Psychology, and Art. There seems to be a suspension of this thing called Faith in these fields with a greater reverence for Vision.
Mostly it would seem that we do not understand ourselves and our purpose here or whether there is a meaning to this life outside of mere existence.
Perfectly correct, this is a scientific description of being "in love" but "love" itself is this different or a complex interaction between the cocktail of drugs in our brains and electrical signals being sent out from our brains. I love my son. Is this chemical or is it simply that I care without any chemical feedback. I think so as being "in love" and the rush of chemicals to our brains does not last long. where as as the love of a friend or even a lover can last forever.
If you take the major religions , Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism which account for majority of religions, none of these are based on a God as such in that Jesus, Muhammad and so on were prophets who explained what God was, also keeping in mind that these vary between 4 and 5,000 year old stories mostly explained to the "masses" i.e. largely uneducated by our standards.
God is a concept not to be confused with religion, or the "words" of prophets long since passed.
I think a few of you have gotten sidelined here, This is an interesting thread with some serious people trying to explain what their concept of God is. If it was easy to explain or more to the point if it was easy to understand what we use this word "God" to describe then the world would be a very different place.
All religions are paths of knowledge that try to lead the student/disciple, eventually to an understanding of our existence and meaning in this World.
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RE: I just all came back to me
Yes I dream in colour and have done so since i was a child. no doubt whatsoever.