How can you define the divine other than what is apparent?
That is a great question how can you?
The way it seems to go is folk define the devine by whatever they make up.
This is not totally acceptable only because we could be trying to work out reality with a few nutters kicking in with crazy stuff...I know you are not crazy and your spirituality is your inoccent attempt to involve spirituality in your life.
And that is absolutely crazy as you are just deluding yourself with stuff that has no foundation in reality but otherwise yes very good.
What is apparent?
Only facts are...the rezt os what you bend your thoughts to construct... Gods ate inventions and are ok so long as you realise you invented them you are their master...go for it then and make up anything that makes you happy.
Firstly in answer to a qieztion I cant temember..
a God who confuses his pets with strange messages entrusted to bronze age folk who really did not have a clue...
Mind you before we speculate there is a God we really need to establish the points of contact this God had with humans.
Any many or few...mmm only a few...lets hope they wete nut nut jobs who only imagined their contact.
There must be a few I expect but do not underestimate the hangers on who may jump in saying they have spoken to God.
We need a list who has actually spoken to God?
I can see how everything could be used as evidence for your creator but really we need some links between what you see as devine and of that has any relationship to a God.
I cant do that but happily you are here and no doubt you can show us how it all comes together.
You look at the stars, X.
There is a certain irony here..I actually dont look at the stars so much as photograph them and of course once photographed they become sacred and so I cant even look at the photos I have taken unless I have not eaten shell fish that week...what are the chances...the lobster and crab and prawns or as you call them shrimp...I look at the stars and embrace the hugeness and think no that religion is just a pile of horse feathers.
What it does tell me is we are so small any belief is irrelevant...yours or mine...who really gives a ratz...knowing or at least considering the size of the universe on a regular basis I can not see a creator would care zip about us.
There must be billions of other worlds with intelligent life and so it must be that your God is somewhat two timing us...mmmm make that billion timing us...maybe trillion timing us.
When you open your eyes in the morning, is there any doubt where you are?
Not lately but there have been times..She looks familar but I dont know her name and we are both naked...but after a coffee you try and work it out...and then one or two for the road..coffees I mean.
What does knowing where you are have to do with the size of the universe or the fact you are almost alive?
Havent you been drunk the next day or run one day into two ...what does it matter if you wake up...sooner or later you remember where you left the car...I dont get what you drive at.
Moreover, why is the guy below so frickin' happy...
I dont think the photo shows how happy I am.
You would not believe how happy I am.
Happiest person I know.
Folk love to be around me because I am so happy.
Girls love you to be happy and so they do things that they think will make you happy...sure but I think it was probably an extreme way to get happy...anyways the photo does not show how happy I can be or how naked one can be...but thats good right.
I often wonder about that photo because I am so much more handsome and of course more happy...I think I was worried about holding the camera...I never hold the camera when I am getting photos..she holds it...and then there are her movies...who would look at them?
But nothing I said is real I just love being a little bit theist...
But seriously I am so happy that I am happy...its my best quality...be happy, kind and rich is the ideal I have tried to reach...still working on rich and feeding myself.
The main reason that I can be happy is I look at the poor folk who have been brainwashed or conned to conversion and I think ..."wow you are so together and dont need that crap and as stupid as you are (me) you at least keep it real.
The is a huge pride one gets from not accepting bullshit and having the courage to stand up and say "stick your bronze age nonsence where the Sun dont shine...but unfortunately as these folk dont know where the Sun goes at night they sre not going to figure out where to stick it.
Nice photos by the way.
Alec