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Y’all do realize that with all this talk of god=man, consciousness, experiencing etc. you have come full circle back to theism. The we are god idea is a case of begging the question. It won’t syllogize. Steiner takes that idea as far as I have seen in anthroposophy.

Really good work! I love the onion one.

Essay on the fundamental nature of fundamentalism. The same viewpoint occurs in every sphere. https://blogs.ancientfaith.com/nootherfoundation/you-might-be-a-fundamentalist/

You never know, Grasshopper.

21st century.

I worked with the homeless for several years and at the Presbyterian street center the bible study classes were standing room only. C21 monks live under bridges and out in God’s wilderness under tarps. Monk’s rooms are called cells, so why not teach the prisoner in the cell to be a monk? It’s not exactly Mt. Athos or JtB, but I see many similarities and potentials.

I like the Benedictines because of, uh, Benedictine! Just a splash and brandy becomes beautiful. Hermetic monks are not bearded old guys who live in caves. Just strong introverts. I bet you can find a few in prisons and in high density urban areas.

I imagine there are self-supporting cenobitic businesses operating sort of like American Shakers. I can also see hermetic individuals. The people interviewed seem headed this way, but Not enough info. I wonder if that writer realizes this would make a good book.

As I read it, this wierd Christianity is essentially pietist. These are non-religious people who have spiritual experiences in religious spaces. I would not be surprised to find a new monasticism has emerged as well.

Thank you, Thormas. Quite a lot was touched on in that brief but broad article. The needs for ritual, beauty, sacred spaces and unity in vibration. There does exist a primordial God that draws people to itself.

Remember, golfers should always wear 2 masks. Just in case they get a hole in one.

The atonement moves through Jesus resurrection, ascension, his session at the right hand of God, Pentecost and the indwelling of Christ in every living person. We are all part of the at-one-ment, Thormas.

God has always had all knowledge and information, but Jesus enabled God’s ability to indwell in humanity and experience sentience. Everyone has knowledge and information that giving birth or getting a hard kick in the nutz is painful but ask someone who has had either experience and they will tell you that information and knowledge are no substitute for experience. Before Jesus atonement God could not fully experience humanity. How else could an omnipotent God experience fear, shame, lust or greed? This is how Jesus at-one-ment was able to bring about forgiveness for sins. The allegory is releasing the patriarchs from hell and opening heaven but the scriptures are really speaking to the forgiveness of humanity.

What we now provide for God, through the grace of Jesus, is not information or knowledge but experience. God can now experience human doubt, fear, ambition etc. This was the atonement. At-one-ment. It began with Jesus’ conception and was completed at Pentecost.

On the universe as a pool hall. https://www.unz.com/freed/the-universe-as-pool-hall/

Please use a Ridgid Tool calendar for me.

Still alive! Real but an extreme overreaction imo.

I can go into more detail on each of those events. The laser summary is we are going through a national bankruptcy for the fifth or sixth time. Another major depression and another new dollar, but this time it looks like this time we may escape a major war. Pray for peace.

None of the 2008 economic problems were fixed. Some of the biggest signs are interest rates dropping to below inflation levels, the inversion of the yield curve, companies buying back their own stock instead of distributing or reinvesting earnings, the ongoing repo bailout and the absurd multiple hypothecation of assets.

The economy is not being shut down because of the virus. Our economy failed in 2008 and has been rolling downhill since then. The virus is providing a convenient excuse and distraction for the increasingly evident economic failure.