RE: What if we're all wrong though?
June 10, 2010 at 12:07 am
(This post was last modified: June 10, 2010 at 12:12 am by tackattack.)
@ strongbad- I'm sorry if you took it pesonally, that wasn't my intent. From your analysis of the metaphor of "a hard heart" being about the actual muscle I hve every right to assume you're a materialist. The rest wasn't referencing you at all directly, just an explanation of the metaphor. I don't think I can recall any of your posts so I would have no idea if you particularly speak with reeesentment, divisivness or hate. You particularly weren't instructed to do anything. It was directed at answering mem's request for clarification on how to hear God. I don't think I'm being obtuse or dancing around anything. If you don't think my response was direct enough here you go.
heart- defined in this context as the abstract concept of an emotional mechanism in the brain responsible for affecting will and desire. It is not a euphemism as I'm not trying to hide aything nor am I trying to lessen the connotation of the words or be polotically correct.
soften- defined in this context as to lessen in severity emotional response by resenting less in other people, which leads to divisvness and hatred.
"soften your heart"- would then be a colloquialism used to describe the lessening of resentment and resolution of subconscious/ conscious issues (thus lessening hatred, malice, intolerance, divisiveness, etc.) within the conceptual emotional mechanism in the brain responsible for emotional responces to a point where you are open to possibilities you were previously unaware. The phrased is referenind in Ezekiel of the Bible and is a common term among Christians.
It's not about rationalizing the idea that God could exist. It's about truly, consciously and subconsciously, setting aside as much bias as you can and being open to possibilities you might/ might not have been aware of.
-Side note: I'm not sure what preconceptions you have of my intents in this forum. I'm not sure where you are going with the whole song and dance thing, but it would probably be more constructive if you checked those at the door.
heart- defined in this context as the abstract concept of an emotional mechanism in the brain responsible for affecting will and desire. It is not a euphemism as I'm not trying to hide aything nor am I trying to lessen the connotation of the words or be polotically correct.
soften- defined in this context as to lessen in severity emotional response by resenting less in other people, which leads to divisvness and hatred.
"soften your heart"- would then be a colloquialism used to describe the lessening of resentment and resolution of subconscious/ conscious issues (thus lessening hatred, malice, intolerance, divisiveness, etc.) within the conceptual emotional mechanism in the brain responsible for emotional responces to a point where you are open to possibilities you were previously unaware. The phrased is referenind in Ezekiel of the Bible and is a common term among Christians.
It's not about rationalizing the idea that God could exist. It's about truly, consciously and subconsciously, setting aside as much bias as you can and being open to possibilities you might/ might not have been aware of.
-Side note: I'm not sure what preconceptions you have of my intents in this forum. I'm not sure where you are going with the whole song and dance thing, but it would probably be more constructive if you checked those at the door.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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