Re: The Unknown God (was: Conciliatory moves...)

FFlores wrote:

> This probably sounded like an excuse, I know; I really don't know
> what could have happened if my life had been different, though
> I'm sure some questionings would have arised, that nothing but
> faith could have replied to. I respect those who have faith,
> but I can't restrain myself to have faith only in things decreed
> by humans with unknown intentions in the far past, or any other
> circumstances.
>
> I believe what I see, that there's an ordered universe around
> me, that nothing and no-one within it may have conceived or created,
> and that I can't understand, but fills me with marvel and a sense
> you can maybe call a kind of faith: the (unjustifiable) sense that
> everything falls into place at due time, and that each particle
> of dust has a meaning. I'm not sure whether it is inside it
> (inside everything), or comes from outside, or co-is (is together)
> with it. If It decided to talk to me some time (which I believe
> It can, given all the above), I guess I'd be glad. But it will
> surely be an uncommunicable experience. Which is why I can't
> believe people who said they have experienced it, at least not
> always. When I do (since I'm not a reasoning machine) it makes
> me glad too -- because It managed to make me believe. Unfortunately,
> that doesn't happen a lot.
I agree 100%.

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