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Originally posted by Bosse de Nage😵
Deus sive natura.
Originally posted by black beetleThis is not te clean and simple answer of everything I anticipated.
So
every phase of these expressions emanates from the previous phase, like the water that flows and fills a tank, and from there it fills another tank, and from there another and another yet
Originally posted by FabianFnasThis is not Zen although it is;
This is not te clean and simple answer of everything I anticipated.
Where do these water tanks get its water from? The first one, or isn't there a first one? Then were do the water comes from from the beginning?
And where does it go? To the last tank? And if there are no last one where does it go? To the first tank again?
Oh, very zen...
Originally posted by black beetleSeems to be too much zen coming from an atheist, don't you think?
This is not Zen although it is;
The water tanks are not water tanks
In the acorn exists an oak tree with all its acorns and all the oak trees within them
There are more in the Nature than in your mind and your philosophy
You are supposed to use the symbols in order to visualise the conditions; once you want to learn swimming you have to swim ...[text shortened]... water
Swimming or not is striclty a decision of yours, and either way is fine with me
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Originally posted by dystoniacWe always have God's full attention as God gives the whole of
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent; He is the alpha and the omega; He is the beginning and the end; time is immaterial to God; therefore, he has all the time in the world. I hope this answers your question.
Originally posted by dystoniacYou could have just said your god is a makhijabalinloshnugjadonghhhyip...I'd be just as enlightened now as I was before!!!
God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent; He is the alpha and the omega; He is the beginning and the end; time is immaterial to God; therefore, he has all the time in the world. I hope this answers your question.
Originally posted by AgergSince God isn't bound by time or space He can use it as He wills.
You could have just said your god is a makhijabalinloshnugjadonghhhyip...I'd be just as enlightened now as I was before!!!
To put it another way your response here doesn't answer my problem 🙂
Originally posted by FabianFnasThe Whole has no proper analogy—being (as scottishinnz called it, speaking strictly as a scientist) the “totality that has no edge”. All analogies are limited, as they must be drawn from “edged” elements within and of the whole.
This is not te clean and simple answer of everything I anticipated.
Where do these water tanks get its water from? The first one, or isn't there a first one? Then were do the water comes from from the beginning?
And where does it go? To the last tank? And if there are no last one where does it go? To the first tank again?
Oh, very zen...