Posted on 08/17/2012 11:21:22 AM PDT by fishtank
That kid was wonderous.. thanks...
If you have not heard or researched Emily Bear or Anna Graceman you’d be amazed as well..
Anna writes lyrics and music as good as Paul Simon or Carole King or the Bergman’s and she’s only 12 been writing music since 4 or 5...
Emily Bear just may be the next Mozart.. really not kidding.. amazing thing just to view YT’s of her..
Her composition “Northern Lights” is brilliant.. and so many others.. and shes what 12 or younger..
Jackie (the brat) stole my heart though..
I don’t want it back she can keep it..
In her second PBS Special she did
“The Summer Knows” from movie Summer of 42..
Blew me away.. amazing she could do such a
bluesy jazzy torch song like(better than) an adult torch singer..
and the trumpet player (Jamaane Smith) was brilliant..
She pretty OWNS this song from now on..
and then apples reminds you of Newton and
I believe the Newton inference has to do with his literal yec worldview
Somehow the entire concept of "analogy" got lost there. Or was intentionally discarded. I can't tell.
Mine have indeed been similar in that there are no words (music sometimes, no words) - but mine are not often repetitious.
For example, we mere mortals struggle with the concept of the Trinity, because it goes against what we creatures understand. But autonomy is not a restriction to God.
But where autonomy is, then of necessity there will be senders and receivers in communication and a need to encode/decode messages, i.e. language (semiosis.)
Interestingly, qualia are among the reasons artificial intelligence cannot be called "living." Qualia are those things we experience but are unable to convey to anyone else, e.g. love, pain, regret.
However, where there is no autonomy, the merged vision you had, there is no conveyance and the whole is the part and the part is the whole, the sense or experience such as qualia is felt by all, all at once.
Concerning the autonomy issue, I have recently been drawn to meditating on the geometry of space/time - more specifically that, if we were able to sense and act in more than 4 expanded spatial/temporal dimensions then we would be able to reach inside and remove the contents of a closed box, examine a planet in another galaxy without leaving our lab, etc. In effect, we would be able to transport things "faster than the speed of light" simply by changing perspective (like rotating a plane in a tesseract) - or to put it another way, as if bending space/time itself. Even so, whereas geometric forms would be visually though not actually disintegrated depending on perspective, the forms would remain autonomous because of the geometry.
Then again, geometry is part of the creation and not a property of the Creator of it.
God's Name is I AM.
“... if we were able to sense and act in more than 4 expanded spatial/temporal dimensions then we would be able to reach inside and remove the contents of a closed box ...” Or reach into Belshazzar’s palace party central and write on his chamber wall, or stand on a mountain top and cover the eyes of a passing Moses, bring three Hebrew boys into your presence inside a ‘furnace’, to ptotect them from harm, or enter a closed and shuttered room without using a door or window, or appear beside a couple of disciples walking a dusty road, then sit down to dine with them, give a blessing, then exit the scene instantly, or ... well, you get the gist no doubt.
All I can add is that the Jewish mystics use the term Ayn Sof when speaking of God the Creator. The term literally means "no thing" and the point is that any word man would use to describe Creator-God would limit his concept by the word he used.
That insight has stayed with me for years perhaps to warn me away from superimposing my mental limitations onto God's revelations of Who He IS.
Truly, God the Father has revealed Himself in four ways: through the Person of His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ, through the indwelling Holy Spirit, through His words in Scripture and through His Creation both physical and spiritual.
And so we can gather up testimonies, make observations about Him from His creation, compile His own words revealing Himself to us - whether Name or attribute - and yet we should stop short of presuming that we fully know or could ever fully know "Who God IS" - i.e. Ayn Sof.
Man is not the measure of God.
Man is not the measure of God.
Indeed, dearest sister in Christ. That's exactly the meaning I was trying to convey in Post #156. That's not to say that we should not "gather up testimonies, make observations about Him," etc. We want to understand Him. But it seems we need to be aware that He is not reducible to human categories of understanding.
This is an epistemological point. It's of concern to me, for man has the propensity to forget that his theories about anything are not the same thing as that to which they refer in Reality. No dogma can possibly encompass God as He IS in His fullness....
Instrumental reason cannot disclose who God IS. Only His self-revelation to us can do that, and that must necessarily be partial. For our minds are finite, quite puny, compared to the infinite Mind of God.
In short I completely agree with you, dear sister in Christ: We ought not to superimpose our mental limitations onto God's revelations of Who He Is.
I'm truly sorry if I've offended anyone by making such "philosophical" remarks. [My bad.]
Actually that was one of the most wonderful things in the "vision"(mine).. was that shape/form was not needed(geometry).. Still possible but not really needed.. I got the "feeling" it was "juvenile" or sometimes needed to relate to others(whatever they are/will be)... but the "normal" state was of no real shape.. I "saw" plasmoid entities/beings(kinda)..
Language and even Shape not really needed... was a lot for me to process.. I have had trouble trying to express this in words.. maybe still cannot(well)... Considering a "life" where shape is not really needed(by me) is hard to imagine.. let alone the language thing... In the "vision" the Universe exists mostly as is but there is a "plane/place" super universal.. that operates on different "laws".. existing simultaneously..
Thats where I will be (according to the vision)... But by the way earth will be HELL.. a good place for humans which those there will be relegated to.. i.e. being humans.. like; forever.. The Punishment being remaining a human.. instead of "something else"...
Some think I was (trippin)... but I wasn't.. it was as real as a heart attack... What to do with this data?.. Makes no difference really...
Whatever is.. "IS"/will be... What ever ain't ..."AIN'T"/won't be..
You know "dreams" might be to prepare us(our minds) for this.. So that it will not seem strange to us from the git go... Heck my "vision" itself was "dream-like"...
For The Son is in The Father and The Father is in The Son.
In another place in the Bible is the hint that refers to Jesus could not sin because His seed remained within Him, His Godness remained within Him thus He could not sin because that would be contrary to Whom God IS.
Jesus let us know that The Seed left Him at the end on the cross, so that He could die in our stead. I happen to believe that The Seed came back into the body in the tomb, and He left the wrappings and the rock enclosure by just stepping out of our spacetime limits.
BTW, we are told that the earnest of our inheritence of That Seed is what comes into our human spirit when saved, so that we have 'God with Us' for the remiander of our earthly life. But the degree of expression of His 'within us' is related to how much we allow Him to 'do it' ... Faithful is He that calleth you, for He will also do it.
Truly, when people try to superimpose their own mental limitations on God's revelations of Himself we end up with things like Michaelangelo's "Creation of Adam" in the Sistine Chapel - beautiful but misleading.
Conversely, we all benefit when we disclose everything - what we know, what we suspect, what we cannot know.
God's Name is I AM.
Indeed, perhaps it was to comfort you and prepare you for the next life.
Thank you so much for all your insights, dear MHGinTN!
FReepMail for you...
He's married to evolution because it allows his mind to go on permanent vacation, an autopilot rationalizing of his rebellion against his creator.
When it's broken down to it's very most basic buidling block, liberalism amounts to a rejection of God.
A mindreader troll with a vacuous personal attack. Yawn.
Truth hurts, eh?
You miss the point completely then.
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