seeing is not believing, believing is seeing

I shut my eyes in order to see. Paul Gauguin

God is Existence and Geoffrey Berg

Logic demands faith to accommodate a definition of God in order to deal with everything that can be known that we do not yet know. Geoffrey Berg has written a book, the God Paradox, disproving the existence of God. I'll probably get around eventually to reading his book so I can disprove his disproofs. On this subject everyone starts out and ends on the same square, convincing themselves, which is after all why we speak anything at all in the first place. I wager his motivations, deep down inside his spirit, is he suspects there is something to disprove. He is seeking balance like everyone one of us. His title particularly gives away his preconceptions. The one issue usually avoided is any possible definition of God. In an early scan of a review of his effort I detect no attempts to define God yet and it should have been at the fore front. Of course, if God could be proved then there would be no God. One may define God, and we should always define our terms according to Ayn Rand even tho she did not prominentize her definition, but this is not to say we can cancel out a paradox. If God could be proved then there is no requirement of faith. Even the sometimes patronized ancient writers knew that much. God is a Spirit, just like many other unseen forces routinely referred to by physicists, and since there are many spirits the Spirit of God is usually capitalized to distinguish the inaugural spirit. So since God is usually personified as a Spirit, especially by ancient writers, they knew we can only please God through Faith. This was their way of saying that God, the personifier of Existence, is out front of us beyond our knowledge. Our knowledge is so limited as to be ludicrous compared to all that can be known. When we learn anything new it is a given we will learn that there is even more to be learned than we suspected previous to any new knowledge. Our expanding ignorance of all the facts forces us to operate on expanding faith. There is power in the spirit space, as the unseen space, and the ancient writers knew we could achieve anything we put our mind toward. Well, we've all proved that more than once, haven't we? Davin

how eternity become hung in our hearts

There are several powers, often mentioned in the non-religious occult arena, such as the ability to move objects, seemingly just with the mind or perhaps by the power of a spirit under control of forces unknown. This would be a poltergiest, physicists might term it as a space of intense energy. Polter means bluster or rumble and Giest means spirit. These forces are not only not identified, they are not under our control, so we say in that case that there is no proof for them. However there is one proof for them, the fact that we've even just thought of them. Anything we can think of can be brought to fruition. Certain individuals are more dense than others. This point has been mentioned previously. The more dense a charismatic is the greater the mass and as such will attract those of lighter weight. There is a point in the circle of orbiting events when the laws of physics will be apparently reversed. Thus a charismatic is not either good or bad but is defined by his ability to communicatively attract an multitude of others. Science today was magic yesterday.

the galaxy within our heads

Space does not appear to have any limits that we can determine. In fact both time and space are quite elusive and even illusionary. There is as yet unharnessed power in unseen, apparently empty space, such as gravity and electromagnetism. For want of a better term, the spirit within us is a space where unseen entities generate forces as yet beyond our control. But these forces propel us forward to develop other entities which mimic the necessities in our world view. It was once said and is still commonly theorized that there is enough electricity in our brains to power a flashlight indicating the presence of electricity or even magnetism like water on the moon. There is a galaxy in our mind. Existence has hung eternity in our hearts.

the spirit and the letter

The spirit of the law brings the letter of the law to life.

the one in charge

Either the body directs the spirit or the spirit directs the body.

fear and greed in the gathering dusk

It is not easy to act opposite to perceptions of fear and greed. Just like, when is seeing is not believing, and when is believing seeing? I sometimes look back on other markets and think what if only I could see then what I see now. Markets were fought out in houses, houses I've lived in, all over the country and in other countries. I had a lot of well liked visitors, mostly friends, and they were welcome whether I was there at the time or not. The primary attraction, of course, was my computer. I had the first computer among my friends at that time. One was angry that I would consider such a thing, even though he worked with them at his employment during the day. In retrospect the glorified calculator I thought was a computer would turn our world upside down. I brought it home in a series of boxes which, prominent in my memory now, included a soldering iron. Even today you can hear one of us say, where is the iron? They mean the soldering iron, now cordless, which we call the mouse. I say this to mention for first time callers that anyone might post here. I just do not always get around to clean it up, even the prank talk, posted to imitate someone else. But since starting to post here publicly notice everyone, for the most part, are more acceptably behaved than in former days. Everyone has their own computers now, one is building a new one right now, for cad. They even, like myself, naturally have more than one, but they still come around to visit and will often pop a post or two into one of my computers. At first their entries were left there to amuse me but since I've opened it up to everyone the nonsense has noticeably retreated. BTW...Sometimes I may break off unceremoniously due to the press of physical confirmities. Davin Paralee, contemplating the gathering dusk....