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Author: John JonesJohn Jones Date: Mar 11, 2008 12:58
THE BORG wrote:
> God - however you perceive God - male - female - adult - child - horse -
> bird - or indeed even cardboard box is not really anything to do with
> religion.
>
> God is to do with music and pleasure and love and nature and harmony and
> drugs and intelligence and great humour and interest and bliss and all kinds
> of thing.
> Although there are stories and religious interpretations of God - they are
> not really as broad or expansive as how it is and cannot really explain the
> nature of the concept of God.
>
> To find God - you need only look at the sky - and say "I wonder why there are
> clouds and how or why they are so lovely?"
>
> The nature of God is not do to with salvation and suffering and sin and
> purgatory and these kind of religious notions.
> God is more to do with the sound of the wind - how it makes you feel nice and
> safe indoors on a windy rainy day - and beautiful music you hear sometimes in
> your dreams - or echoes here and there on the radio.
>
> Humans should learn to drop the serious religious notions of God - and
> embrace the truth for what it is.
>
> Anyone can find God - the deaf - the blind - anyone. He is just there.
> Everywhere. Everyone has experience of God in touch or pleasure or in some
> way during their life.
>
> There is no one who could say they have never come across God - he is there
> in the very book you read - as part of the grand intelligent design.
> Synchronous moments of precision immaculate timing.
> Weather patterns and in all kinds of ways - God manifests among you.
>
> So when you see a rainbow - you do not need to ponder on the bible and the
> flood and dinosaurs - God exists in far more places that in one Jewish bible
> story! Think more how pretty - and what design would create light this way -
> that a spectrum of colours be formed like this? And why?
> After all - there is no REASON for a rainbow.
> THE BORG
>
>
There is one place where you won't find God, and that's in a
clinicians diagnosis. A diagnosis of mental illness asserts that our
soul is chemical and hence beyond even God's understanding of us as human.
A chemically corrupted soul, a 'mentally ill' person is not a soul or
person at all, but a chemical failure that must be treated chemically,
with pills, and understood chemically.
That's a belief I've never subscribed to, but all doctors subscribe to
it, as do 'their patients', or followers as I prefer to call them, in
this awful creed.
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