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What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body
(August 17, 2016 at 12:20 am)Stimbo Wrote:
Quote:    “Mater, the Latin word for “mother,” has given rise to the word “matter”….

   The Latin word for “father,” pater, gave rise to... “pattern.”

   Thus, [our circumstances] can be seen as coming from both a mother and father, the mating of
   matter + pattern.”

— A Beginner’s Guide to Constructing the Universe

As I have just demonstrated pretty comprehensively, using a non-biased resource purely on the subject of etymology (which you brought up), that is not true.

http://www.english-for-students.com/pater.html

Pater and patr are the root words for both Father and Pattern. They also have the same function biologically. The Father imparts imparts material pattern to complete the Mother's set, the matter of the Mother's body is used to grow the embryo.

(August 17, 2016 at 12:25 am)Rhythm Wrote:
(August 17, 2016 at 12:08 am)Arkilogue Wrote: Little to nothing given the 13 billion year stack of universal order and snowball like accumulation of language/knowledge/culture in human development.

"We see plans within plans" Dune, Spice Navigator.

Why then, would seeing an underlying meaning here or anywhere else -mean- anything more than whatever underlying divine meaning resides in your taking a morning shit?  It becomes another term for "normal stuff happening".

Meh, not even fun crazy...boring crazy.  A deranged accountant..when I was hoping for a murderous clown.
On that note, did you know there are more bacterial flora and fauna cells in your body than human cells? You aren't the passenger, you're the ride. Tongue

It means what it means to those who seek it, answers only matter to those who ask good questions.
"Leave it to me to find a way to be,
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
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RE: What God is to the Universe is what your mind is to your body - by Arkilogue - August 17, 2016 at 12:25 am

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