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Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
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RE: Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
(August 12, 2014 at 11:49 am)Diablo Wrote:
(August 12, 2014 at 11:45 am)ShaMan Wrote: I read the title as "Does Deep Throat Lead to God?" Giggle

It certainly leads to Paradise.Big Grin

And repeated exclamations of the word God from the male. Tongue
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?

Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
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RE: Does Deep Thought Lead to God? Here's a Shallow Answer
(August 12, 2014 at 1:31 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: I have no idea what that means. Case in point. Foundational reality, sure, but I have no idea what "preserves being throughout change" even means.

Here's another case in point. Someone please parse this Tillich quote into English:

Quote:..It is the expression of the experience of being over against non-being. Therefore, it can be described as the power of being which resists non-being. For this reason, the medieval philosophers called being the basic transcendentale, beyond the universal and the particular...
The same word, the emptiest of all concepts when taken as an abstraction, becomes the most meaningful of all concepts when it is understood as the power of being in everything that has being.

Utter gobbledygook. The power of being in everything that has being?
I take that to mean the potential for being from non-being is a power (or principle) of being that exists in everything that has being (the sum and parts of the material Universe), and exists prior to the actuation of its being.

Without a fuller context of Tillich's theology, since I have never read him and only share a marginal interest in doing so, I have no idea what he might possibly mean in the other quotes you offered.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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