Friday, December 01, 2006
Celebrating God
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I say this of course because the major attributes of God seem to be invisibility followed by the inability to communicate: God is not only 'in-visible' but 'in-communicate:' the devotee can neither see god nor communicate with god. This is as it should be: were god visible, then ancient paintings would have to be revised. Were the voice of god hearable, then old ideas concerning the will of god would be subject to revision. Preachers would be reduced to studying current events, then commenting to their flocks regarding those events.
Of course the voice of God remains a mystery because such voice is beyond modern technology. All information about God resides in a make-believe world called 'The Supernatural.' But there is no such world. There is only this world. You live in this world. You will die out of this world. Furthermore you will die forever. My advice to you is that you celebrate your existence in this world while you can. Once dead you will celebrate nothing.
I say this of course because the major attributes of God seem to be invisibility followed by the inability to communicate: God is not only 'in-visible' but 'in-communicate:' the devotee can neither see god nor communicate with god. This is as it should be: were god visible, then ancient paintings would have to be revised. Were the voice of god hearable, then old ideas concerning the will of god would be subject to revision. Preachers would be reduced to studying current events, then commenting to their flocks regarding those events.
Of course the voice of God remains a mystery because such voice is beyond modern technology. All information about God resides in a make-believe world called 'The Supernatural.' But there is no such world. There is only this world. You live in this world. You will die out of this world. Furthermore you will die forever. My advice to you is that you celebrate your existence in this world while you can. Once dead you will celebrate nothing.
