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To: ijcr; RightWhale; KayEyeDoubleDee; betty boop; Alamo-Girl; Lorianne; r9etb; William Terrell
The concept of one singular human thought process has been around for ages.It is simplistic to lump biological and hard wired human characteristics such as Greed,Lust,Pride, Envy,Anger,and Sloth (often refered to as the seven deadly sins)as shared thinking.

Frankly I don't see a requirement for uniformity or complete accuracy in human understanding, in order to say that the processes of humans at large are human processes and may be described as such. Also, the relationship between truth to humans is always that of infallible master to fallible student. Here is how A.W. Tozer explained that:

Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers [meeting] together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.

But have we all acceded at least that human thought is not the stuff of language? If so, I do also suggest a stroll through this: (on what science and the study of God are each suitable for).

298 posted on 05/24/2003 8:08:43 PM PDT by unspun ("Do everything in love.")
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To: unspun
one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other?

There is another truth available to those with subtle hearing. When a piano is moved its tuning changes. Imagine 6 billion pianos in various conditions and various states of repair and use moving constantly.

302 posted on 05/24/2003 8:13:35 PM PDT by RightWhale (Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
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Thank you so much for your posts, unspun!

To see the brain as a means for transmission is to ask transmission of what to what? One can then see that the brain is a device of limitation rather than first generation, eh?

I agree!

For one to presume that he knows enough of reality by only what he determines is of some apparent but obviously incomplete and non-basic set of the "laws of physics," is a very sad refusal of reality. We love mistaken ones, including ourselves (and that causes us to hate the mistakes all the more). But those most prone to propound tend to be those least prone to turning to a fuller understanding.

I agree, sadly…

An actualized concept is what has brought everything Mr. Piekoff has/had been willing to admit as reality into being.

And in the natural realm, artists routinely actualize concepts as do screenwriters, musicians, physicists and more.

Previously, I said: You brought up the phrase I AM which God gives to Moses as a "nickname" for Himself. It is a profound sentence and a most excellent way to begin meditation and worship - to enter the domain of thought where language fails. to which you replied Right on. That's where it begins.

Thank you for your agreement! I made a subtle misstatement but upon a reread, it was more accurate so I left it in. First I referred to I AM as a “phrase” which is the way God gave it to Moses, a nickname for Himself. In the second usage, I called it a “sentence” which it is. Moreover, it is the relevant sentence and that very completeness is what begins the meditation or worship!

To demand truth is more like insanity, especially when one refuses the truth one has been shown.

I wonder if many of those who demand truth will be astonished to know Truth?


332 posted on 05/24/2003 10:53:53 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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