RE: Do you see any benefits to religious faith?
September 13, 2016 at 7:06 pm
(This post was last modified: September 13, 2016 at 7:08 pm by Arkilogue.)
(September 13, 2016 at 6:47 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote:It's allegorical of course, the "light" is consciousness. But creation of the circumstances required for EM radiation to propagate was created by God. EM propagation is not possible through absolute solid matter (quark matter aka quagma). Space must be created inside in a very specific manner to support electromagnetic phenomena.(September 13, 2016 at 6:23 pm)Arkilogue Wrote: Communication is easier received from familiar forms.
Who can withstand a formless God of light so bright it shines through one's body, a mind so omnipresent that it looks at you from both within yourself and from all around, and a voice that comes from everywhere at once?
God "hides" from us a reason. The universe is like a house and we, like light bulbs, are self contained and illuminated with a regular amount of current we can handle. We are shielded/hid from the natural occurrence of electricity which takes the form of a lighting bolt that no light bulb can withstand the full power of and remain intact.
Woo, sir. Woo.
Is God literally light? Does it exist on the electromagnetic spectrum? Does God have a speed limit of 186,000 miles per second? Or are you parroting metaphors generated by sapient creatures that have evolved to depend on light?
Light is also helpful to illustrate the relationship of God to the universe: Before the creation of space is like unified white light, the creation of space is like the prismation of light, the forces and material inside are like the spread out colors. They would be the "Elohim" expressive plurality of the originally unfed God.
The infinite unified God state of absolute being still exists outside the finite, mostly empty space universe.
(September 13, 2016 at 6:55 pm)Stimbo Wrote: but I fail to see how any of this is relevant. Are you sure you posted in the correct section?
You began the jpg train, I simply hoped aboard. Are you unsatisfied with your trajectory?
"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
Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder