(November 17, 2016 at 8:56 am)robvalue Wrote: Okay, thanks. As usual it's very confusing for me.
1) You pray by listening? What do you hear? What use is it? [1]
2) I have no idea what you're even saying here I'm afraid. I'm marvelling at how there must necessarily be an abstract concept which describes some things I know are happening... and this will help me understand how I act? [2] This seems a lot less efficient than simply studying myself in the usual ways; particularly studying human behaviour in general. [3]
A life that overflows with god's own fullness? I have no idea what that means, or why I'd want it. [4] I'm already as full to the brim as I can be with tautologies about being myself, and acting the way I act and so on. I can't be anything else. [5]
1) Yes. God's "voice". I don't know, what "use" is listening to your wife speak to you?
2) Yes.
3) Less efficient? Maybe. More complete? Definitely. I'm more interested in how humans knowingly act and the reasons for which they act than how the passively behave.
4) No one really knows what it actually means. All people claim to know is that god has promised to give it to us for eternity, and Jesus's resurrection is its first instance.
5) True. Right now you can't be anything else. But tomorrow you can either be better or worse, a fuller or emptier human life. Either you judge that this sort of knowledge helps to become the former or you don't.
