@InstanceOfClass what do we gain by seeing these as idols of an underlying thing?
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@tipsfromkatee You're asking about the advantages of monotheism. Mostly, I think it promotes harmony within a nation. - 2 more replies
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@InstanceOfClass how will i know how to seek the thing when i don't know what the thing is? -
@tipsfromkatee One should seek to know the truth and do good. Ideas should help us do this instead of becoming proxy goals to obsess over.
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@tipsfromkatee@InstanceOfClass Correct, so realization ( for want of a better word) is going to be a wordless knowing. -
@Aristokles11235 @ThiamineP@InstanceOfClass how do you distinguish a wordless knowing from a wordless feeling of knowledge? - 8 more replies
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@tipsfromkatee@InstanceOfClass Well, my description thingie says 'rational mysticism', a paradox if ever there was one. -
@Aristokles11235 @ThiamineP@InstanceOfClass well there's rationality in the "verbal reasoning" sense and in the "systematic accuracy" sense - 1 more reply
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@tipsfromkatee@InstanceOfClass Divine incarnation is actually the polar opposite of imaginative anthropomorphism. -
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@tipsfromkatee@InstanceOfClass The divine incarnation is the anti-idol but only in His living form.
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