My turn:
Divine impassibility is not a lack of passion, but an eternally unshakeable, rational passion.
Your turn:
Impassibility may be defined as follows: âGod does not experience emotional changes either from within or effected by his relationship to creation.â
Why, then, is he portrayed as regretting and flooding the world?
You are going to have to rethink impassibility, for one. This is a Philosophy forum. We do that here. Start over.
Two, the appropriate response is the impassible response. Especially if you understand God is both transcendent and immanent, capable of subsuming all change, rather than being in false dichotomy (contradiction) with it.
This thread is for you to post your own aphorism, but I appreciate that you are challenging mine. However, I prefer that all challenges also offer their own aphorism that sets the aphorism they are challenging straight and actually says something (the truth of reality in place of the challenged aphorism) rather than only presenting a counterpoint. Here, the best offense/defense is a good alternative (I might need more coffee right now).
It has to be YOUR aphorismâŚone you hold to be true.
A counter-obligatory imperative is no imperative at all.
â Augustine of Hippo
(my translation, using deontic logic terms)
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I sent a rocket to therapy. Now itâs a guided missile.
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When life gave me melons i realized i was dyslexic.
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Thanks for getting my thread moved to non-philosophical chat, dorks ;^)
It was worth the laugh.
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Creation is a fiction without which nothing would be true.
If everything is like everything else, and everything is entangled, then it is a different kind of meaninglessness than if everything is completely unrelated. Sense and nonsense.
A failure to see connections is just as much an impediment as seeing connections where they are not.
âunwittingly followingââŚ. aka⌠affirming
Hebrews 11:1 Hebrews 11:1 Now faith is the assurance of what we hope for and the certainty of what we do not see. (the Greek)
IOW: affirmation (red) is a more immediate confirmation, substantiation (blue) of what will be (yellow)
Divine hiddenness is not just mercy, itâs logistics. What would you leave in and what would you leave out if you were Creator communicating to creatures still learning your language?
Plus, maybe they like to surprise people and expecting all of it at once spoils the surprise?
This explains why fundamentalist politics is so authoritarian and violent. It requires a passive electorate so it can spring its âsurprisesâ on people.
The abomination that religions speak of is their own shadow, figuratively the other side of the coin, so that we end up with a dualistic deity that canât decide whether to be compassionate or heartless.
Sounds a lot like Greek mythology.
OK, everyone, weâre gonna have to call off the surprise party for Bob.
Advaita Vedantists revere Jesusâs Sermon on the Mount because they recognise its profound spiritual teachings, which echo the core principles of Vedanta, such as self-purification, renunciation, love and direct realisation of the divine within.
According to modern Vedantic interpreters such as Swami Prabhavananda, the Sermon is not just regarded as moral instruction, but also as a spiritual guide that encourages the awakening of divine consciousness. This awakening is central to Advaita Vedantaâs teaching on realising oneâs true nature as identical with Brahman, the ultimate reality. The Sermonâs emphasis on humility, purity of heart, detachment from worldly possessions and the pursuit of righteousness resonates deeply with the ideals of Vedanta, which involves transcending the ego and manifesting the divine self.
According to Vedanta teachings, great spiritual teachers convey universal truths using language and imagery accessible to their followers, regardless of cultural or religious background. Thus, Jesus is seen as an enlightened teacher whose message aligns with the core principles of Vedantic philosophy, despite the differing frameworks.
In short, followers of Advaita Vedanta revere the Sermon on the Mount because they recognise an expression of universal spiritual truths about self-realisation, purity and union with the divine in it â the same truths that Vedanta seeks to convey in its own way.
Base desires do not trump the hunger for true meaning (the beautiful). They merely whet the Appetite, and never bed her back down. Thatâs why they can never fully satisfy.
Sure, I got a fuckin psychology book pivotal thought for yas.
Hereâs how anyone who can read isnât able to draw sympathy for a guy like me⌠and Iâm totally not pulling an Ecmandu; i donât have to fake anything and am truly disinterested in anyoneâs opinion of me. I mention this only because itâs an intruguing twist on how your head works without you knowing it.
When you see me in high-spirits cracking jokes, playing drums, driving Escalades, a good lookinâ healthy dude whoâs on top of things, etc., your brain goes, âpfft⌠this scumbag isnât sufferingâ when, if you didnât have the inference skills of a second grade chimpanzee, it would go âholy christ. Without anyoneâs help, this dude has done all this for himself IN SPITE of everything that is being done to him, and for that, i admire him even more.â
Ewwww that was heavy, bro. Take your time. And listen, if i really thought you were a shmuck I wouldnât even be here. I donât think that. I called you a chimp, not a shmuck.
yomama keeps you housed, you ungrateful turd
Unfortunately, the house was produced by the fruits of my grandfatherâs labor and given to the slob daughter for free. While sheâd like to capitalize on her own son if she could and charge him rent, she suffices to exchange a no rent deal if i do all the housework sans removing bags of backroom cat feces⌠which sheâd rather collect than throw away, anyway. Sheâs worked her way up to about seven grocery bags of shit now.
I must admit that the scumbag catlady still managed to weasel her way into another free ride quite well. She takes a house given to her and uses one of the rooms that cost her nothing to produce to house a person who will maintain and keep her free house for her in exchange for staying in that room.
Hey, how come you havenât realized you are a buffoon yet? Are you seriously this dense. This is like what⌠the fifteenth time youâve tried to insult me but ended up making as ignorant ass of yourself? Are you we todd it or something?
Moving on. What if i donât want to live in a house? Do you still get to say i should be thankful for living somewhere i neither need nor want to live but am only because Iâm trapped here?
See what just happened there? You said you were a philosopher, right? Well, i havenât seen a less socratic examination of a claim than what you just did. And itâs not just the mindless insulting and patronizing tone (that nauseating faux christian professor ahead of everyone air) of what you say thatâs so shocking. Whatâs shocking is youâre supposed to be the good guy⌠and yet you are only ever babbling about some philosophical nonsense or betraying the deep-seated resentinent you have toward everything strong and well turned out, everything that isnât sunk into a failed life now occupied only by going to church and waiting to die while writing christian picture books for retarded fith graders. I threw that thing away, by the way. Donât send any more of that garbage to my house.
If you only had the power, that sixth sense, to be able to see how people like you are absolute proof that no good god exists. Or, one does, and you are an accident.
The apple does not fall too far from the tree. All it would take is a restraining order and you would be out on your aaaaaapple core.