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To: Alamo-Girl; IronJack; betty boop
[ My God doesn't need the endorsement of a lot of puny humans, all validating His existence using the very tools He gave them to begin with. ]

LoL.. true.. If Mankind are frogs in separate different wells with merely human language to communicate with.. about the sky they can see or surmise.. the well.. and what they even each are.. individually and corporately.. The Semantics of the discourse(croaking) are no doubt the source the froggie clubs of thought.. on many issues they can't possible have a clue of.. Very easy to get confused as a frog in a well..

But arrogance would be easy.. to make it all simpler, blind to the fact that simplisitic and simple are two different things..

55 posted on 02/05/2006 11:01:41 AM PST by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole..)
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To: hosepipe
Frog in a well is an excellent metaphor.

I liken our relationship to the Almighty to that of a microbe and a mathematician. Not only doesn't the microbe understand the math, it doesn't even have the capacity to realize how little it understands or the language to express its helplessness. In its ignorance, it defines everything in terms of itself, never realizing that there is a vastly larger, more complex world beyond. Even if it somehow rose to that capacity, it would still be unable to fathom its own insignificance.

We are eons from even the beginnings of an iota of a shadow of an inkling. And yet we would presume to judge the Creator of All Things. One of the sure signs of our ignorance is our arrogance. The truly wise are infinitely humble, because they understand more than most that they have reason to be.

56 posted on 02/05/2006 12:53:24 PM PST by IronJack
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