On mystical atheists

[Balerion]

Kitt's just trolling the thread. I guess that's a thing he does now.

 

[Randwolf]

Kitt's just trolling the thread. I guess that's a thing he does now.

Give it a rest J.

 

[Balerion]

Give it a rest J.

Right back at ya, Rand.

Seriously, we get you're having a rough time at home. Do us a favor and leave it there.

 

[Randwolf]

Thanks for that empathy and that pathos. I can still swing, ever how slow, J.

 

[Magical Realist]

"It is not possible that this unity of knowledge, feeling and choice which you call your own should have sprung into being from nothingness at a given moment not so long ago; rather this knowledge, feeling, and choice are essentially eternal and unchangeable and numerically one in all men, nay in all sensitive beings. But not in this sense — that you are a part, a piece, of an eternal, infinite being, an aspect or modification of it... For we should then have the same baffling question: which part, which aspect are you? what, objectively, differentiates it from the others? No, but, inconceiveable as it seems to ordinary reason, you — and all other conscious beings as such — are all in all. Hence, this life of yours... is, in a certain sense, the whole... This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula... 'Tat tvam asi' — this is you. Or, again, in such words as 'I am in the east and in the west, I am below and above, I am this whole world.'Thus you can throw yourself flat on the ground, stretched out upon Mother Earth, with certain conviction that you are one with her and she with you ... For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end."--Erwin Schrodinger

 

[Balerion]

Thanks for that empathy and that pathos. I can still swing, ever how slow, J.

What do want, Rand? Attention? Sympathy? Is that why you follow me around and call me "J?" You want me to notice you more, Rand?

 

[Randwolf]

What do want, Rand? Attention? Sympathy? Is that why you follow me around and call me "J?" You want me to notice you more, Rand?

No.

 

[Captain Kremmen]

What does the J stand for?

 

[Randwolf]

What does the J stand for?

Justice for all?

 

[Captain Kremmen]

You should know.
You are the one using the initial.

 

[Randwolf]

You should know.
You are the one using the initial.

And, therefore, it is definitive. Justice for all...

 

[Yazata]

Thanks. I like to think I keep things interesting here. If we all agreed on the same things, what a boring world it would be.

I think that this thread is interesting and perhaps even important.

Besides the fact that I'm strongly attracted towards 'mystical atheism' myself (and that's certainly important to me), one of the things that I like about it is how it subverts some of the stereotypes that atheists and "religionists" may have about each other.

 

[Kittamaru]

You have a problem with a diversity of opinions? Or is it just me?

Heh, actually MR I was agreeing with you - it would be mind numbingly boring if we all held the exact same opinion.

 

[Captain Kremmen]

And, therefore, it is definitive. Justice for all...

He's your hero, isn't he?
He is to you what the Fonz is to me.

Heyyyyyyyy!