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I swear the
Earth shall surely be
complete
to him or her who shall be
complete,
The Earth remains
jagged and broken only
to
him or her who remains
jagged and broken.
I swear
there is no greatness or
power that does not emulate those
of the Earth,
There can be no
theory of any account
unless
it corroborate the theory of the Earth,
No
politics,
song,
religion,
behavior, or what not, is
of
account,
unless it compare with the
amplitude of the
Earth,
Unless it face the
impartiality and rectitude of
the Earth.
Walt Whitman
Americans and God
Between 85% to 90% of
Americans willing to answer
questions asking about their belief in God claim to believe in God.
Americans that do believe in God have very different
conceptual constructs.
American beliefs about God can be neatly divided into four groups.
~ 30% believe in an Authoritarian God, defined as a
judgmental deity capable of
inflicting punishment.
More individuals in the South and Midwest
believe in an Authoritarian God.
~ 40% of those with high school education
believe in an Authoritarian
God.
~ 55% of those who believe in a
Authoritarian God believe God has
testicles.
More Catholics believe in a
Benevolent God, described
as a God who judges mankind (but not as harshly as
John Calvin), than in
an Authoritarian God.
~ 25% of believers believe
in a Distant God.
A
Distant God is defined as
setting the Laws of Nature
but not acting within reality to
breach those Laws of Nature.
Believers in a Distant God are 72 times less likely than those
believing in an Authoritarian God to attempt
to convert others to their belief
system.
Only ~ 2% of believers in a
Distant God
interpret the Bible
literally.
The last mode of belief is the
Critical God.
Critical God followers
believe God's displeasure will be felt in another life.
faith is herein defined as: trust in senses
certainty of understanding
reoccurring pattern
recognition
previously occurrances
are likely to occur again;
confidence in individual ability to
have properly discerned reality;
a persuasion of the mind the
noumenon has been properly identified.
Knowledge is an essential
element in all faith, and is sometimes
spoken of as
an equivalent to faith
(John 10:38; 1 John 2:3).
Faith is not the credulity of an awestruck
ignorance.
Faith is the
consciousness and
the confident of
compassion.
Faith
denies the absurd, even
in the presence of the unknown.
Faith grasps the dignity of courage within
the reality of enthusiasm.
Faith does not consist of
the affirmation of a
symbol, but of a genuine and
constant aspiration
towards the truths which are all veiled by symbolisms.
Faith
requires the object of faith to
always remain a mystery.
To formulate aspiration,
faith is forced to borrow aspirations
and images from the known." - Eliphas Levi
"The leap of
faith is really a very ordinary operation.
We take it when we fall in love,
expect reciprocation in return
for a good deed, impulsively sacrifice
some little piece of self-interest." - Lee Siegel
"My faith is
weak, my eyes blind
from the blaze of the desert
sun.
The heat lies on
me like lead.
Thirst
torments me, I dare
not think how unendingly long my way is, and above all,
I see nothing in front of
me."
The Eternal
Soul answers:
"You speak as if
you have learned nothing.
Can you not wait?
Should everything fall into your lap ripe and
finished?
You teem with
fantasies,
intentions and
desire!
The Way
stands open only to those without
intentions." - Carl Gustav Jung
"He whose mind is unsteady, who
knows not the path of Truth, whose faith and
peace are
ever wavering, he shall
never reach fullness of wisdom.
He whose mind in calm self-control
is free from the lust of desires, who
has risen above good
and evil, he is awake and has no
fear." -
Dhammapada
People have faith for the same reason
a person has a
worldview - truth
resonates rationally and
spirtually over a wide
range of living experiences.
The opinion religion is grounded in
fear is an article of "faith".
True faith, grounded in
the noumenon, has to
relate directly to life
lived.
True faith is
known in the heart, not taught - no one needs an
intercessor!
True faith teaches reason
and intuition are to be
trusted.
No instruction should be
accepted if it does not make
logical sense.
True faith teaches the true reality inside your
heart and soul can be
trusted to have a common structure with
the true reality in which
we are immersed.
True faith is built on the
central pillars of honesty with
oneself.
This requires a reasonable,
logical ,
rational and realistic
worldview.
True faith
awakens an understanding of the emotions that drive people.
It may come as a surprise
to many students of the Bible that in the original Hebrew text the body of
water the Israelites crossed when leaving Egypt is called yam suph,
"Sea of Reeds," not "Red Sea" (Ex 15:4, 22; Dt 11:4; Jos 2:10;
4:23; 24:6; Neh 9:9; Ps 106:7, 9, 33; 136:13, 15).
Unfortunately,
yam suph has been rendered Red Sea in nearly all of translations,
the Jerusalem Bible and the New Jewish Publication Society Hebrew
Bible being notable exceptions.
The Red Sea phrase came into
the account with the third century BC translation of the Old Testament into
Greek.
Septuagint translators
made yam suph (Sea of Reeds) into eruthrá
thálasse (Red Sea).
The
Latin Vulgate
followed their lead with mari Rubro (Red Sea) and most English
versions continued that tradition.
The Hebrews fled Pharaoh
Horemheb through the Sea of Reeds as his chariots could not
follow.
Loki - the sly one, the trickster, the shape
changer, and the sky traveler
Eshu - trickster
deification and guardian of houses and
villages
Anansi - spider trickster
deification, king of all stories
Ngalyod - the great land
transformer
Corporationus -
deification of limited liabiliy
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