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“The reason for involution is Delight - the Delight of Being moving to Delight of Becoming. Being throws itself forward into a multiplicity of forms, becoming lost in the inconscience of matter, and then through evolution it partakes in the Delight of rediscovering the Spirit, which had been hidden in the interim.
Evolution is thus the movement forward by which the created universe evolves from its initial state of inconscience (i.e. as matter), evolves animated life forms and mental beings (i.e. humans), and continues to evolve spiritual properties, and in that process rediscovers its Source. Such an Evolution of animated forms is only possible because at each stage of development, the developing entity contains within itself the conception of what it may become. Thus, the evolution of animated life out of matter supposes a previous involution of that animated capacity. This is akin to a seed that already has the essence of the tree that will emerge from it.”
Originally posted by HyphenSt1
reply to post by EnochWasRight
i know that each language has been engineered to a certain degree but i do wonder how many connections in language syntax are actually intentional and how many are just created because the connection make sense intuitively..? i've always thought it was interesting that something which has very little mass is called "light" (as in "virtually mass-less..?)
our language is definitely a web of meaning and i wouldn't be surprised if it weren't an extension of the syntax that composes reality..
great food for thought!
Originally posted by rhinoceros
Imagine the things you could do if you put all this effort into something other than coming up with illogical nonsense..edit on 25-8-2013 by rhinoceros because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
My conclusion is this: Evolution and natural selection is a highly visible truth if you see the truth of the matter. It is a result of programming and not the cause of it.
Originally posted by TheEthicalSkeptic
Why would an all powerful god therefore, have to devise such a low tech, desperate and miserable means of survival, as is DNA based life, inside of a universe who's laws he was fabricating at the very same moment he was creating DNA anyway? This makes no sense at all.
1. The 'talent' of our DNA 'programmer' is nowhere near that talent level that ostensibly created the universe,
2. This DNA programmer is a desperate victim of universal laws and dangers, as are we. He 'had to make do with the resources and means available to him.'
3. The 'programming' is very poorly done. In fact so sloppy and ineffective - and producing such a long legacy of disease, malformity, misery and suffering, that it is valid to call into question the benevolence of such a 'programmer.'
4. And no, none of this is 'Man's fault.'
Originally posted by HyphenSt1
i know that each language has been engineered to a certain degree but i do wonder how many connections in language syntax are actually intentional and how many are just created because the connection make sense intuitively..?
Originally posted by TheEthicalSkeptic
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
My conclusion is this: Evolution and natural selection is a highly visible truth if you see the truth of the matter. It is a result of programming and not the cause of it.
Why would an all powerful god therefore, have to devise such a low tech, desperate and miserable means of survival, as is DNA based life, inside of a universe who's laws he was fabricating at the very same moment he was creating DNA anyway? This makes no sense at all.
1. The 'talent' of our DNA 'programmer' is nowhere near that talent level that ostensibly created the universe,
2. This DNA programmer is a desperate victim of universal laws and dangers, as are we. He 'had to make do with the resources and means available to him.'
3. The 'programming' is very poorly done. In fact so sloppy and ineffective - and producing such a long legacy of disease, malformity, misery and suffering, that it is valid to call into question the benevolence of such a 'programmer.'
4. And no, none of this is 'Man's fault.'
edit on 25-8-2013 by TheEthicalSkeptic because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
From Edgar Allen Poe:
"V. All things are either good or bad by comparison. A sufficient analysis will show that pleasure in all cases, is but the contrast of pain. Positive pleasure is a mere idea. To be happy at any one point we must have suffered at the same. Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.
The thing you are missing here is the purpose of God allowing His Son to create a universe. What could He possible learn from the exercise? Is God raising His Son? Who are we?
Lacking a few basic answers as these, you cannot possibly conceive of God's reasoning. The prodigal Son returns in the end. We are all one loaf. We are the bride of Christ. The wheat and chaff are separated. God is producing individuation for fellowship with Himself. It's no fun to look at yourself in a mirror. Better to allow freedom of the prodigal, then welcome the return home from a life well lived. There are so many good reasons that I need not bother conjecturing a contrived deficit in a Holy God.
Can you not come up with a single reason God would raise children in a place like this?
Originally posted by TheEthicalSkeptic
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
From Edgar Allen Poe:
"V. All things are either good or bad by comparison. A sufficient analysis will show that pleasure in all cases, is but the contrast of pain. Positive pleasure is a mere idea. To be happy at any one point we must have suffered at the same. Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed.
This is an external objectivist's argument so the Poe justification of suffering does not apply. The Poe relativism based on human perceptions of pleasure and pain is not congruent to a comparison of technological sophistication and victim/oppression dependencies; all being wholly unrelated to our perception of personal good and evil.
The thing you are missing here is the purpose of God allowing His Son to create a universe. What could He possible learn from the exercise? Is God raising His Son? Who are we?
The real goal here is to roast monkeys, since that apparently is the majority outcome in your ontology. Roasting disobedient monkeys, who's DNA god fabricated in the first place, eternally in pits of fire is a great learning exercise yes. A wonderful expression of love.
Lacking a few basic answers as these, you cannot possibly conceive of God's reasoning. The prodigal Son returns in the end. We are all one loaf. We are the bride of Christ. The wheat and chaff are separated. God is producing individuation for fellowship with Himself. It's no fun to look at yourself in a mirror. Better to allow freedom of the prodigal, then welcome the return home from a life well lived. There are so many good reasons that I need not bother conjecturing a contrived deficit in a Holy God.
Yeah, I memorized all this pseudo-exculpatory BS as a kid too. It is like a criminal explaining that he is robbing your house to 'enlighten you to the material-less pathway in life.' But fortunately science, information and ideas began to crumble the corrupt structure of 'god's reasoning.'
Can you not come up with a single reason God would raise children in a place like this?
You have slipped the presumption by, that there MUST be a reason. I am not allowing that presumption to slip by, no.
Originally posted by Indellkoffer
Originally posted by TheEthicalSkeptic
Why would an all powerful god therefore, have to devise such a low tech, desperate and miserable means of survival, as is DNA based life, inside of a universe who's laws he was fabricating at the very same moment he was creating DNA anyway? This makes no sense at all.
1. The 'talent' of our DNA 'programmer' is nowhere near that talent level that ostensibly created the universe,
2. This DNA programmer is a desperate victim of universal laws and dangers, as are we. He 'had to make do with the resources and means available to him.'
3. The 'programming' is very poorly done. In fact so sloppy and ineffective - and producing such a long legacy of disease, malformity, misery and suffering, that it is valid to call into question the benevolence of such a 'programmer.'
4. And no, none of this is 'Man's fault.'
Agreed. And why would the DNA programmer wait to encode into a language that does not develop until relatively late (rather than encode in the original language) and why wait to encode in a language that isn't even the first written language (or among the first written languages)?
And why would the DNA programmer make multiple species of genus homo (many of which lived concurrently)? I wonder how their languages worked. I'm pretty sure that none of them were Hebrew (nor demonic).
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
Good luck with the reasoning. I will choose to see the evident and repent while the present is the gift. We'll compare notes on the other side. Poe had a keen intuition in some cases. Choose to see it how you like.
Originally posted by TheEthicalSkeptic
Originally posted by EnochWasRight
Good luck with the reasoning. I will choose to see the evident and repent while the present is the gift. We'll compare notes on the other side. Poe had a keen intuition in some cases. Choose to see it how you like.
When reduced to a position where it has no intellectual leg to stand upon, Abrahamism always resorts to pulling out the Holy Hand Grenade of last resort, = this specific threat. In this M&M candy, beneath all the candy coated flowery spiritual angelic worded shell, is a core of dark, manipulative hate and condemnation.
So your whole ontology, and your whole eloquent justification, is all hollow then? And your religion only survives, because of this artifice of threatening people with hell.
So stands it.
edit on 25-8-2013 by TheEthicalSkeptic because: (no reason given)