Itâs still a cat even if you call it energy. And calling it a cat letâs us know a lot more about what it does and is capable of. Itâs not jumping, itâs energy.
Energy doesnât care about its young. Become problematic when we focus on the catness of that batch of energy.
You could respond to me and Phyllo by simply typing
ENERGY
But you donât, you get specific and seem to think those specifics matter.
I think you missed the part about varying frequencies of energy. Yes, everything is energy, but the frequencies are different. On one of those science youtube videos that I like to watch, they unwound movie film from one end of the country to the other (they pretended) in order to represent the electromagnetic spectrum, then they cut 1 inch from the middle which represented the amount of the spectrum that we can see. So, 1 inch divided by the distance across the US is the % of the spectrum that we can see (visible light). Itâs an understatement to say there are a LOT of frequencies of energy. From 1 hz all the way to 10^24 hz and then all the particles which have even more energy. Who knows how far it goes.
An atom is 100,000 times bigger than the nucleus, so itâs practically all empty space. And theyâve demonstrated the double slit experiment with buckyballs (60 carbon atoms I think), so even molecules arenât tangible things, but waves. Itâs all energy. There is nothing but energy.
Itâs interesting that we or someone hijacked the thread. There is some vague parallel. It opens with Jesusâ version of moral vs. the OT via Yahwehâs nature, and whether there was or should be a conflict. The angry spiteful jealous God of the OT vs. the generally more caring and non-violent Jesus.
And this evolved into a discussion of whether caring for others is a meaningful concept and if so what it entails, means.
Itâs because the greatest I am asked me who my god is and I replied that I can only care about myself, so I suppose my god is me. Then Phyllo opened the selfless acts can of worms and you jumped somewhere in the middle and here we are.
This reminds me of another AW bit: I canât remember the guruâs name, but he would always reply to the spiritual with the material and to the material with the spiritual, so if you ask about the nature of reality, you get reference to bamboo shoots and if you ask to be passed a knife at dinner, youâll be confronted with a spiritual dilemma lol. I think thatâs kinda what you did there.
but theyâre always saying that the
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highest religion could get really to get
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there you have to kill the Buddha.
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Supposing a clergyman got up one day in
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pulpit and said âevery time you say Jesus
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Christ you have to wash your mouth out.â
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Or if you meet God the Father, kill him;
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if you meet God the Son, kill him and
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meet God the Holy Spirit, kill him; if you
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meet the Pope, kill him; if you meet st.
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Augustine, kill him; if you meet your
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father and mother, kill them! Kill them all right away!
Yeah, but he (and Phyllo) are pulling from the if you meet the buddha on the road
coming from a Zen Master. Not literal. The idea of the Buddha inside you. Gotta kill Watts in the same vein. Let me know how you killed WattsâŚ
And now going back to this strange monk Dionysus, it was he who first put around the idea in Christian circles that there was such a thing of the knowledge as the knowledge of God by faith, by agnosia, really by unknowing, and he, in a book which he wrote called âThe Theologian Mysticaâ, he wrote a treatise on the higher knowledge of God which might be quoted directly from the Upanishads, in certain parts of it, the last section of it reads like the Mandukya Upanishad because itâs a series of negations. It says what God is not and he goes very far because he says that God is not âoneâ because our idea of unity falls far short of what God is; so does our idea of Trinity; so does our idea of spirit; our idea of mind; of justice; of love; all these things are not really God and he says in another place âthat if anybody, having seen God, understood what he had seen, what he would have seen would not have been God, but some creature of God less than God; some sort of angel or something like that.â
And then in other places Alan says people who believe in god donât have any faith because they need something to hold onto. True faith is letting go of all concepts of god (kill the buddha). If you meet the buddha on the road, it could not have been the buddha, but some creature less than; an impostor!