Memo (Y-not question the Sunday Readings)

by Ynot , Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 09:54 (305 days ago) @ Brian Coyne
edited by Ynot, Wednesday, July 18, 2012, 10:05

"I don't pretend to know where all this is going," you say again, Brian. That's good. It is reassuring to me that you are not manipulating us with secret plans to direct our sharing to some predetermined end. If that were the case, I'd be out of here for it would offend my deepest sense of value and the dignity of my self and of every "self" - and the same goes for GOD!

The great original provider, fore-see-er, should also not pretend.

It is getting to a point where I will need to write a weekly memo to myself to keep track of what's been going on down on the forum, or in the agora. I very nearly missed a string entitled "Creation of Space and Time" with some of the best responses we've ever seen - and by the look of it, many others missed it too. http://www.catholica.com.au/forum/index.php?id=108009

It seems I may give the impression of being one who does not believe in a personal god. Nothing could be further from the truth, but it is my belief i.e., my leap in the dark in choosing the personal/spiritual over the logical/mechanistic (to use an old label for a whole complex!).

In that string quantum mechanics gets another mention: that mystery in which a result occurs outside what could be surely predicted from the input. It seems preposterous, logically unacceptable, and yet it happens and apparently is mathematically plausible to the degree that they can even build a computer that works by using those unpredictable quantum leaps. (I hope I haven't got that all wrong )

I begin to see more sense in Plato's shadow boxing, after so long. The shadows are real, and the boxing is real, but nothing compared to the real of which they are shadows. Spirit, in my experience, is not bound to time or space. And spirit is thought, and thought is personal, and we are all 'of that thought' which was in the beginning with god and which in the end is god, and through which all things came to be, and what came to be was life, and that life is the light in human minds that see. (cf. John 1: 1-3)

I wonder could the quantum leap deep within the material be where thought becomes material word with determination?

I presume too much in writing this here - but boldly I will leave it .

Thank you Francis for your amazing story, and for your kind words re mine own. And Sandra and Cathy and editor Brian. May we not suffer indigestion from too much rich fair.

Thanks also to all who consume these offerings.

"I will lay out a banquet for them," says the Lord.

tony

'TonyL
"A post is a free gift, and it will go where it pleases."'