Wow! There's much more where that came from! Good luck in the "Great Work"
Brett
(a scientifically feasable god goes beyond faith...no one can ever take that
"certainty" away--assuming that you've added up the facts and seen the
plausibility of it, and I've n doubt that you have. I also have a
scientifically feasable god and it makes me wonder why others make
deductions based on the "prime cause" of "there is no prime cause")
At 09:17 PM 9/2/97 -0700, you wrote:
>As they say in The Forum...
>Life is empty and meaningless.
>And the fact that it's empty and meaningless is empty and meaningless.
>Attaching a value to the fact that all our meaning is made up is making the
>same mistake as when we don't realize that all our meaning is made up.
>That said, life is meaningless only on one level.
>The other day I had a revelation. My first?
>The revelation was that God exists.
>It is perfectly possible, scientifically, for God to exist.
>Just as memes exist, though not based in physical reality, they are an
>emergent property of the human nervous system.
>God is an emergent property of the billions of minds on the planet.
>The Spirit is a tangible force that is created, not creator, of the human
>mind. This force exists and causes things that no individual or group is
>consciously causing, just as the human mind causes things unbeknownst to
>the underlying cells of the body.
>
>Complexity theory tells us that the nature of an emergent phenomenon is
>unpredictable from and unrelated to the mechanics of its underpinnings.
>So the fact that all our memes are empty and meaningless does nothing to
>negate the possibility of a meaningful God, an emergent property of memes.
>The INSTANT I had that revelation, I felt a tangible shift in my feelings,
>my energy. Since that day, now a couple of weeks ago, I have been lovingly
>and peacefully accepting and creating.
>Wow.
>Contact.
>Richard Brodie RBrodie@brodietech.com http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie
>Author, VIRUS OF THE MIND: The New Science of the Meme
>http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/votm.htm
>Visit Meme Central: http://www.brodietech.com/rbrodie/meme.htm
>On Tuesday, September 2, 1997 8:41 PM, D.H.Rosdeitcher
>[SMTP:76473.3041@compuserve.com] wrote:
>> The memetic/evolutionary paradigm seems to imply that we invent our own
>"meaning
>> of life" since we create a memetic construct called 'meaning of life'.
> Does
>> having a view that we "make up" our own 'meaning of life' lead to a sense
>of
>> meaninglessness?
>> --David R.
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