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The name of God thread.
#21
RE: The name of God thread.
Quit trolling, MK. It’s against the rules, you know.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken. 
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#22
RE: The name of God thread.
MK. Stop talking at us ...It's insulting...
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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#23
RE: The name of God thread.
Allah is a fucking prick!
God thinks it's fun to confuse primates. Larsen's God!






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#24
RE: The name of God thread.
(June 24, 2018 at 6:29 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(June 24, 2018 at 6:23 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: I’ve wondered why Jewish people often write God as G-d? Or something like that?

It isn't considered reverent to write the name of God (in any form) in a place where it may be destroyed.  If, for instance, you write 'God' on a bit of paper and then burn it, you have desecrated the name of God.  Spelling it out 'G-d' lets people know what you mean, but you've not actually written out the full name.

One of the advantages to having a Jewish wife.

Boru

Very interesting !

It is widespread in some Muslim societies -including where I grew up-, that if a sheet of paper or a book has the name of God, you burn it so you don't desecrate it by throwing it in the garbage

But it's the first time I know about the Jewish custom; so thanks.

Probably the Islamic Sunni/Shiite burning papers that has the name of God in it, is because of "inverting the Jewish and Christian habits"; so if a jew prays wearing a shoe, you pray barefoot; and so on.
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#25
RE: The name of God thread.
Chapter 2 - The Cow


This chapter is the longest chapter in Quran and it begins with something very important about God's Name with respect to God's book.

"By the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful, Alif, Lam, Meem. (1) That book there is no doubt in it a guidance for those who guard/fear (the pious). (2:1-2)"

Alif Lam Meem in this place according to a hadith attributed to one the Twelve Imams, means, "I am God the King". However the subtle way we can know this, I won't get into here.

What is clear with little reflection, is that, it's only when the book is coupled with God's Name that there is no doubt in it a guidance for those who guard/fear (the Mutaqeen).  Whatever the guidance is and whatever the book is, and whatever the truth is,  it must be approached with due diligence.

In fact, it's insane to think that a book from God if not approached with piety and guarding, can benefit us.  This is because the book of God is meant to guide out the way of errors, which means we don't think correctly to start with. It's here to facilitate guidance and make us reflect properly. If it's approached playfully without any reverence, even if one is not sure it's from God, it will not benefit.

But why is that? The next verse shows why the name of God is essentially needed as well.

"Those who believe what which is hidden....".

The Arabs were well acquainted with hidden beings, magic, and spiritual realm, so it was not about believing in things beyond five senses, but rather, as one of the Imams (as) argues, that this verse refers to the proof which is told in another verse "Those who disbelieve say why not a sign/proof is brought down? Say: The hiding/hidden (ie. of the sign) is only for God, so wait, we too are of those who wait."

It refers to then those who believe the proof of God which to a degree is hidden and not manifest.  Another verse says "Those who disbelieve say why not a sign/proof is brought down? Say: You are only a warner and for every people there is a guide."

This is the reality, the name of God is not a physical manifest thing, and he has hidden his name in a human.  The perfect human is brought out (Moses) from the unseen river (Jaffar).

It's essential to believe in the hidden nature of proof and connection to God as God is manifestly hidden and hiddenly manifest, and although this seems paradoxical, it is not. 

Through his signs and proofs he his manifest, but, all this requires reasoning, and reasoning is unseen and hidden, and the spiritual world, even if perceived 100%, takes vision of the 3rd eye which needs acceptance of that sense and what it sees.


As God's Name is hidden and manifest, a mystery and an obvious reality,  guidance is essentially not possible without it's company.  And this is again shows why God is needed for goodness or objectively morality.  As morality is guidance and the guidance is unseen and the path is unseen, and the proof is hidden, goodness itself and the proof for it is a hidden reality.

The reality of goodness and what's it's true nature, per this verse, is "holding on to the name of God" and if a religion or holy book is to be approached, it needs God's Name to verify it and testify to it, and to be guided by it.

With the company of God's Name that book which is the manifestation of "I am God the King", becomes a guidance.

This expressed in Saheefa Sajjadiya: "The guided are only guided by the light of your face".

We will look how the Surah continues to flow with respect to this subject and elaborate it.
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#26
RE: The name of God thread.
You are spamming.
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken. 
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#27
RE: The name of God thread.
I'm going to find out what the squiggle meaning allah is in arabic, write it on a piece of toilet paper and wipe my ass with it. It will be so blessed by the Holy Shit of the Fireball!
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.
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#28
RE: The name of God thread.
(June 24, 2018 at 9:26 pm)Fireball Wrote: I'm going to find out what the squiggle meaning allah is in arabic, write it on a piece of toilet paper and wipe my ass with it. It will be so blessed by the Holy Shit of the Fireball!

Do you think there is a possibility that MK sees different replies to his threads than are actually there?  Like, people are telling him, “shut up, we don’t care,” but he reads, “fascinating, MK!  Do go on!!! *popcorn*”
Nay_Sayer: “Nothing is impossible if you dream big enough, or in this case, nothing is impossible if you use a barrel of KY Jelly and a miniature horse.”

Wiser words were never spoken. 
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#29
RE: The name of God thread.
(June 24, 2018 at 6:23 pm)*Deidre* Wrote: I’ve wondered why Jewish people often write God as G-d? Or something like that?

Misinterpretation of God's words, that's all.
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#30
RE: The name of God thread.
(June 24, 2018 at 5:54 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: It happens to be the name of God is the proof of God, so you can solve two birds in one stone with this guidance.

No, the name of a god is only evidence that someone imagined a god and assigned it a name.  If you persist with this line of reasoning, MK, for consistency you are obligated to acknowledge the existence of every god that humans have ever named.
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