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Such as no language may declare
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Dr. Steven Shaffer
God became man so that man might become God
(Saint) Athanasius
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Magic words
For centuries, the belief in magic went hand-in-hand with the belief in magic words. The idea is that if one knew the magic words, then anything was…
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Appealing (film) now available for streaming
Christine, a young attorney on the brink of death, finds herself at the gates of heaven and hell. Having summarily received a sentence to hell, she…
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Dr. Steven Shaffer
A dollar is better than eternal happiness
Logic proves it!
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What is left when you eliminate everything with a name?
We know God by unknowing, by a manner of uniting with God that exceeds the compass of our minds, when the mind recedes from all things and then leaves…
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October 2023
Be still and know
I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you, which shall be the darkness of God. T.S. Elliot
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How vs. Why
It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
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The Pretension of Dogmatic Beliefs
If dogmatic belief is wrong, then does that include the dogmatic belief that dogmatic belief is wrong? At some level, all beliefs require a leap of…
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The Spirit of God descends into Jesus
The description of what happened to Jesus when he was baptized very clearly describes a moment of mystical enlightenment. Literally, when Jesus is…
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Why God necessarily exists
“The union of the soul with God is its second birth, and therein consists man’s immortality and freedom.” Baruch Spinoza Most people have not read…
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The thing that thought cannot think
Wittgenstein and Kierkegaard
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