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To: RightWhale
All our minds are one through this new dimension, --which is neither timelike nor spacelike,-- and it is the mind of God, but we are not aware of this due to our animal bodies and our world distracting us.

I'm not sure about that. What makes you think it is God's mind? Why couldn't it be, for example, the mind of John Malkovich?

170 posted on 02/19/2002 7:58:36 PM PST by Fifth Business
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To: Fifth Business
What makes you think it is God's mind?

It goes back to the meaning of the Logos. As in John 1:1, in the beginning was the Word. Logos is translated as Word. I take that as Mind, although there are other metaphors, the NT is jam packed with parables about this.

It is the thing behind consciousness, behind soul, behind personality, behind You.

John Malkovich also has a piece of the Mind.

We can explain biology and evolution and chemical processes, rightly or wrongly, but we can't explain consciousness. Where did that come from? We can't know that, it's a total mystery. So we'll just call it the Mind.

175 posted on 02/19/2002 8:31:27 PM PST by RightWhale
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