A top quote of all time

Ingrid Bergman is given credit for two good quotes which puts her on my great quotes list. Quotes are notoriously misattributed, and Dale Carnegie is also credited. However, I go by the first time I heard it, and I think this is a greatest quote. I believe it goes like this:

Success is getting what you want, and happiness is wanting what you get.

I wish good success to everyone and hope it turns out all right for them, even though I for the life of me, cannot figure out why anyone would want it. I only hope they will be happy with it. It is only that I do not see how. 

The atheist view seems, ground down sure, to be a tough spot to be in, that is if they are correct about there being no existence for God. What if God does not exist? What a pickle I am in! In order to experience no existence, there has to be an existence to experience it.

That means being my being aware there is no existence of God. But to be outside existence and being simultaneous aware of it, indicates a void that does not change. Anything repetitive is prison like boring and guaranteed to drive one crazy, as we presently observe prisoners eventually do in solitary confinement.  

Over and over? Reminds me of virtual reincarnation. My spirit will want something new, like an expanding universe I imagine. No one has any hint of all the good things the Spirit of God has waiting for those who are, reborn, in the spirit. There is now, and always will be, something new and that is more Existence. Yes, the universe she is expanding. alright.

At least I am not the only one

 

When I was young, I knew everything. It was easy when I was young because when I knew everything, there was not much to know. Now that I know how much there really is to know, it is easier to realize who does know everything. 

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Sunday after thoughts.... 

Unresolved question for logic

Between Logic and Faith

Logic cannot resolve every question I have, largely because the conclusions of proof simply cannot do it. Well, maybe it assumes it can do it, but I cannot be sure. This is because I never seem to have all the facts. 

I never will have all the facts because, the more facts I uncover, I only learn that there are even more questions I do not know. If
I do not even have the questions, there is even less chance I can figure out the answers. So much for physical science and Gertrude Stein.

But what do I do with questions? Is ignorance an excuse for anyone who cannot understand there is a spirit as well as a mind of the flesh? Atheism cannot figure it out. Atheism wants everyone to get the same cookie cutter deal. 

Sunday: 6:30am

Climbing Up Another Way?

Jesus said God had to draw people to Him, then their decision. He also said there are sheep not of His pasture. Atheism cannot deal with that. The only way I can deal with it is to rely entirely on a decision rooted in faith. If that does not satisfy me then I will just have to be my own God and let it go at that? I'll just have to choose faith and believe it. If my body cannot make it, then faith in the spirit, and my spirit, is my only choice.

But then, what does that say about me? Or, as mentioned in the Bible, will I have to take heaven by force?

One never knows....

....When the Blow May Fall 

Playing Church at

Pulpit Rock

If one of us is killed in a tornado, then God did it. If we pray to God to heal us and He does not do it, we say that God did it. When we see war and plaques strike us, then who did it? Who else? Suffering? The devil?  God created the devil also. He is Sovreign. He is in control.

These are all loose Christian views one can find dancing around in many churches. God can do anything. What does that mean then, that God can lie, God can change His mind? I was told that by no less than a pastor, who is the teaching shepherd of the church.

If someone leaves the church, who goes after them? Jesus answered that one in a parable. I've heard many sermons that maintained if you were saved, it was a wonderful experience. Almost immediately after that sermon came the one saying don't think it will be wonderful after being saved. No further explanation on that one.

As children we played church on a huge rock that featured a podium and a choir loft. Just like the adults. The problem is not with God, it is with ourselves. It is called Pulpit Talk at Pulpit Rock.

Beyond reason

Changing our mind 

Yesterday's Magic = Today's 

Physical Science

Voltaire matched faith with reason. But what is reason? It is merely what we think we know already. I think reason would be logic. But something can be logical by all appearances and be not. Reason is just the catalyst pointing in a particular direction under a respected sense of reason at a particular time. 

Point I am making is that each of us, to illustrate, are like a small planet looking at a larger planet, all have a different view from a particular orbit. However, examples or illustrations do not prove anything by themselves. 

In point of fact, we only have a limited amount of information we believe to be true at any one time. As often as not, information is eventually expanded with newly arrived knowledge, with the unexpectant introduction of say, telescopes.

We can only prove anything each to our own particular satisfaction. No one can prove anything except to their own satisfaction and a particular set of reasons that evolve out of date, in time. When will we ever know? Now, here we are, matching wits with God. Who is God? God is a Spirit and if He is sitting across the table from us, our tails are wagging.

uncertainites

End Times Rehearsal?

Looks like folks are quite unsettled about everything. There is not one area not bubbling over like a pond of oatmeal in the Grand Canyon, that symbol of bygone terror that turned the entire country into a mouth of giant volcano. 

If the Grand Canyon goes up it would not surprise these times. The Rockies are one side of the lip and Appalachia is on the other. Talk is it is waiting to go but if there were ever a time this would have to be it, it seems to me. 

In my view

God is not a man that He should lie 

Heard the atheist view creeping tip toe int the creationist view on the radio recently. Seems a creations advocate thought the backing of the scientific method proved creationism was the way to go. Not to God's liking I would say.

I've heard that God changes His mind as well. The pastor I was listening to was misled, but he had it right from the seminary.  

Then there is "God is in control". He is sovereign, etc. There the church people tagged God with the devil, suffering, and all sorts of other evil in the world.

The more sophisticated atheistic view maintains that Moses talked God into changing His mind. Not so. His mind was and reamined made up but Moses talked Him into holding off His judgment. He relented but His judgment was the same, only held off. 

How easily some can get themselves fuzzed up without logic.

Way I see it

Closing Gaps

When Jesus is referred to as the only begotten Son, it carries the sense that He is the only Son. The "begotten" is, in the gap, easily skipped. I close gaps all the time. It comes, I would say, from my reading too fast in my case. I also type the same way. I leave usually small connecting words out and have to careful to edit them back in later.

But, back to the main point, this habit of mine gives me the sense Jesus is the only Son. But not the case, He has the power to make any of us, a son of God or daughter of God. I wish to emphasize the word power. If He is giving us power then that should not be glossed over.

Jesus even said we would do greater things than He Himself. That is quite a statement. Somewhat scary if you ask me. I do not quite feel up to it and it causes me some concern. Time is short for me to reach such a lofty position. 

When changes are eternal

This is the world that changes. And we are among the ones who change it. Where and what will I be when all the changes take place? 

W. Somerset Maugham

We are not the same persons, this year as last, nor are those we love. It is a happy chance, if we changing, continue to love a changed person.

How is what?

Lull in the Early Light

 Looking at some wedding pix and with time fooling us all, I felt there was no time to waste working out one's salvation instead of picking it up in a classroom according to someone else's ideas other than my own. 

One of the very few really wonderful college professors I admired, as a professor, was an atheist. But by that time, I was slipping away from that view. 

Wants out?

So many young chaps kept telling me what I was saying instead of accepting what I myself was saying. I was learning in my psych classes that this was an indication of projecting one's own views to keep pointing that out. If not that, then it was an attraction to control that was drawing them to putting ideas into another's words.

Words are fine but the problem is the hearer often is thinking of what they want to say and are not listening to others, much less thinking about them. I think now that the dummy in the picture was holding the dummy's head in a box. 

Unlimited Power of Faith

My Summing Up

I recommend writing down what one believes. I've found it helpful, perhaps others can do even better with it. I've wrestled with the Holy Spirit for a long time, sometimes all night, asking why I should witness in this particular church. After all they all believe in Jesus already. Should I fine tune snowflakes? I can be flip at times.

Unexpectedly, after a long time all of a sudden, the answer appeared in my heart. I want you witness for your own benefit, not anyone else's. From then on, I realized I was asking about others and the Holy Spirit was not going to mention the business of anyone else to me. The Holy Spirit convicts, certainly not me. Also, from this I realized that Jesus, the Holy Spirit and God were dealing with me for my benefit. All Jesus commandments are forever my benefit as for anyone else's. Jesus always existed, even in the beginning. 

Christianity, despite the primitive Chiristians, is individualistic. We all each make our own decision for Christ, or for not. The Holy Spirit convicts, as I said, and that, for whom He will. Sheep of His pasture will hear His voice and understand.

Some say Jesus spoke figuratively or metaphorically. True enough. But it is also true that whether or not He did, Jesus spoke true, and it is still true exactly as He said it. Does it not say that He spoke so as some hearers would not understand, lest they be healed?

So, I believe, in any case, that figuratively or not, everything He said is true and factual as He said it. If anyone has enough faith, they can move actual mountains into the sea. Did not God Himself speak the world into existence?

It is written, if I confess Jesus before men, He will confess me before God. "I confess I believe in Jesus in all things, both those I think I readily understand and those I do not."

Logic leads to complications

The Long Road Leads Home 

Some time ago, it seems now, I was interested in psychic doings, the Rosey Cross and all that sort of thing as well. Seems now I was looking at the time, to replace an empty feeling from my atheistic days. I liked Zen, the moon in the water thing, but I didn't find too much to it when I came right down to it. Promise did not seem to deliver.

Now I have arrived at a place where everything seems much more simple than all that experimentation. I tend to complicate things like everyone else, while God, I see more clearly now, is simple. The simple comes from the complex and complex comes from the simple. Complexities are quite entertaining but results are disappointing. The short, the brief, and the concise is the only way to go for the long haul,

I've heard it said, some time ago as it look back on it, that no matter how many times one reads the Bible, they never stop understanding something new. Like one revelation after another, I am not sure when another will close in on me and I'll find myself in a pleasant place. 

No longer repeat over and over....

Reincarnation overrides Incarnation? 

Jesus was the last sacrifice. When He died once on the Cross the curtain in the temple was rent top to bottom, signifying everyone could go before God in the inner temple. No longer would even the high priest need a rope around his waist so he could be dragged back out in case he died risking his life to go before God once a year. Everyone could go before God by themselves freely anytime. 

The law was given by Moses. But through Jesus came grace and truth. 

Repetition means failure because something did not last. A tree is known by its' fruit. Repetition also means love of the repetition. Repetition also is tiresome, such as repetitious days as in a prison. Repetition also represents as stalling in the process of accomplishing something, such as a spirit gaining its' goal for eternity. 

Repetition signals weakness in a system for a reason. There are repetitious prayers for a purpose. It is not profitable to seek out what the purposes may be. 

Definition of incarnate

is spirit becoming 

physical only once

Reincarnation is to incarnate more than once because only once is needed. Incarnate, it has been said, can incarnate, in some views, more than once. Such is a definition folding in on itself. The root is carnate meaning physical. There used to be, years ago, a multitude of magazine writers repeatedly using the root in the context carnally, to know someone carnally.

It says in the Bible, there is always a spiritual war going on involving the redefining of words as a short cut to changing minds of the masses. Whenever I confront a word like reincarnation, I ask myself, what is the purpose of reincarnation? Is it to repeat something over and over until one gets it right? Some Christians think they can earn their salvation or deserve their salvation. 

Even in reincarnating forever, one will ever get it right. The real purpose of reincarnation at the core of our perception is to live forever many exciting lives as possible. That is not good enough to carry reincarnation any further.

Think of doing something over and over and over. It sounds like a prison personality to me. One never even goes anywhere. It appears attractive to some, but repetition is boring because one never gets anywhere. Life has been seen as a prison for many.  These ideas come to attention in SpecificTheory or I Am.

Time is invisible

 How I Envision Time

And Reincarnation

Time is Invisible, so it is hard to see except reflected in arbitrary instruments. But it seems obvious to me many people cannot envision the spiritual if they cannot conceive of time and eternity in the spirit together. Time only exists in a comparative state, such as how long it takes for one location to go around a dominant location. That is all it is. 

Some physical scientists, with whom I tend to favor, define time as essentially an illusionary event. Time, like any spirit, is itself unseen. Since the prime characteristic of time is unseen, only the effect of time, I assume, can be seen. While this is all fairly straight forward, the introduction of reincarnation and incarnation is not. 

Sent By God Himself

Jesus is the Son of God incarnated as a human. To suggest Jesus could be incarnated many times fogs the understanding of Jesus incarnation and dilutes any clear understanding of the His power as well as the significance of His incarnation. Reincarnation, as a concept, is a major destruction definition functioning to crowd out the powerful meaning of Jesus' incarnation among the unsuspecting. In coming entries, my intent will be to show how this happens.

dystopias morph from utopias

Utopias exist in small pastures

The letters top in utopia and dystopia are, I understand, from the Greek meaning place. Utopias, a spelling coined by Thomas More, means literally no place. The root word dystopia means bad place. A dystopia is the opposite of a utopia which, sooner than later, itself will turn into a dystopia. Utopia, as spelled by More, is a pun. Dys, by all appearances, is what humans do, driven by the obsessive-compulsive need to control. Everything outside the dystopian utopia was created by existence, which is to say Who God is, Existence. More on this theme in I Am.

How famous is famous?

If There is No God, Then

One has to be God Themself

Ty Cobb told Joe Dimaggio not to waste too much time talking to radio interviewers, it would wear him down and hurt his game. Ty Cobb was the first great baseball player and the first to be inducted into the hall of fame. He asked a sport writer on one occasion do you think they will ever forget? 

Proof exists to each satisfaction.

Babe Ruth was the second and he is gradually being forgotten by those who never saw him play. Joe Dimaggio was the next generation, but Cobb did not seem to know it. A forgot statute was unearthed in Europe some time ago, apparently of a famous chariot driver. No one remembers him, or what his name even was. But he existed unknown.

Everyday uncountable individuals mention the name of Jesus, spanning generations and eras. It has never stopped. Not only is Jesus' name remembered, but it is also spoken every single day, quoted and venerated. 

All that without Jesus writing a single word down Himself. Some, who one has to suspect, do not like this. They question whether He ever even existed. Not lived, existed. There are those who can go only so far and then everything disappears for them. that is their spirit. If one cannot believe God exists, then I wonder how they can escape being God themselves. But do they have the faith for it?

Halo Spill Over Energy

Shroud of Turin's Halo Power

Another new book out about the Shroud of Turin. That there should be such unique evidence concerning Jesus incarnate, is proof of some sort in and of itself. Such power of the Spirit is like a halo leaving evidence that in even the cloth touching Him while dead, points to spiritual evidence of its' own sort.

Reminding myself that God is not impressed with proof for perhaps one prime reason only, that God's power operates through and from faith. Where there is proof under pining faith is a temporal inexact rendering of faith greatly weakened.  The more faith required to believe is, correspondingly, the more powerful.

The greater power comes from faith, not faith from proof. Proof is whatever satisfies me, but faith is something else. Further ideas along this line in I am, God is Existence .

Play Book for Presidents

 Speak Softly & 

Carry a Big Stick

Updated: Always speak well of everyone in your party whether they please you or not. They represent votes, sometimes many votes. For every individual with an opinion of other individuals there are an infinite number of views. None of them even match it seems. 

Also, speak well of your opposition, always from your viewpoint that they are good and smart but are being pressured by misplaced unhappy people in their own party. Always appear to be on good terms with everyone, especially those in the opposition. 

Never appear to be annoyed or unhappy with anyone in any party, because this is subjectively seen as weakness. Always appear to be deliberate, because emotional tensions suggest a flawed loss of control. Continued at the corner table in the Naked Eye