SurSteven:
SusyLuvsPaul:
Am reading "The Big Picture" by theoretical physicist Sean Carroll, and have to keep checking it out repeatedly 'cause it's difficult to parse, twig, understand. Much of it. He's a Debbie downer in that he thinks God doesn't exist, because death and suffering exist. If he studied Vedanta he would gain insight into this dilemma. Truth. The Many Worlds concept is fascinating, that there are many universes. It's mind boggling of course. Mind blowing
A lot of people don't think that God exists, because God doesn't do everything for them. Look at all the tools that God has given us to make our and everyone else's lives better! It is the ageless story of Faith and Works. Like I told my oldest daughter when she was starting out in her career, "You have to believe positively, and do it as naively as a child, and keep working toward your goals." Well, now she owns her own business, has 4 employee/associates and received an Entrepreneur Of The Year Award here recently. Optimism is a quantum form of energy, just like pessimism is. "What we believe = what we receive". I remember this from biblical research and teaching classes several years ago. "The Truth Is All Around Us If We Could But Perceive" ~ The Moody Blues
my 5th message in a row... The key point of that is what "God" is. "I believe in God" is quite an empty statement if you don't explain what God is, cause there are thousands of answers to that. Whatever that is, sure it's smarter than us, so we hardly can understand it. If it did all for us, it would be some kind of slave. "Slave God" is a bit of an oxymoron... We would be overprotected and silly just like the Roman emperors, you know... Nero in Quo Vadis also if it did whatever we want, it will harm others too a lot... And sometimes what we want is just the opposite of what other want, like say who wins a basketball game, then what God would be supposed to do?. A draw and infinite overtime??? "What we believe = what we receive" is half true. But that means is great(and bad when you're pessimist)!. The attitude is 50% the result, not 0%, not 100%. The placebo effect in medicine is full of endless proofs bout that. Again, 50% is mind/attitude 50% is body/matter. Or introversion/extroversion, eros/logos why/I don't know goodbye/hello low/high And those 2 things "outside/inside" are connected... enough talk.... Music on: "Your outside is in, when you're inside is out, you're inside is out when you're outside is in"
Karaoke for the song