Posted on 01/27/2008 7:56:14 PM PST by Manfred the Wonder Dawg
Then there's the Psalm which in the Dawg translation reads, "Back OFF, God, you're crowding me! Jeeze!" He takes up no space put He can sho' press the breath out of you, can't He?
This is, maybe, me at my persnicketiest (let me run upstairs and get my tweeds on and my half-glasses and a battered pipe ... okay, I'm back): I complain about the word "dimension" because it has a meaning (darned if I can say what it is -- but that "mens" sure sounds like "measure" to me, which sure sounds like it has "extent"). And just as we can do useful geometry on the premise that two lines in a plane and both perpendicular to a third line still meet at some point, so we can do comprehensible (to some, not to me) but unimaginable (strictly speaking) analytical geometry on the basis of x,y,z,t,and some other dimension(s) perpendicular to all the others..
All that work is going to require that the dimension be measurable. That may sound like special pleading or an insistence on a pedantic or technical use, but in allegedly real life when we ask for the dimensions of something we mean precisely it's measurement in different "senses" or directions.
So to speak of a dimension that doesn't involve "taking up 'space'" at least risks being almost as meaningless as Chomsky's "colorless green ideas" (which as you may recall, "sleep furiously".)
I think the reason I get all snotty about it is that, while everyone knows that 99 44/100's of what I say is meaningless on its face, the word 'dimension' gives an aura or impression of meaning which is I think, false and misleading.
As to His taking up no space: Roger that. He fills the whole world and by His filling it things which do "take up 'space'" may exist.
Actually, I'm just seeing that maybe there is a link between the "God does not exist" cry of the radical monotheist and the vague use of dimension (where vague is descriptive, not judgmental -- well, not much anyway). I think by your measureless dimension you are headed in the same direction as we are with our non-existent being. But, of course, we're right an you're not, nyah.
Oh Lord, I'm arguing with lawyers. Where's that pillar of fire when I need it?
Well, it'll be hard, but in the spirit of the season and all, I just MAY find it in my wizened and shrivelled heart of stone to forgive you. Let me get back to you on that.
I suppose I am postulating that there is a real difference between change/motion and "something happening".
Think about it real hard -- not that you haven't, but harder still, please. How is "happening" thought of without change? Isn't it that something "was"n't there and "now" it is, or it "was" this way and "now" it's that way.
I fully agree that God has never gone from things like good to better, or OK to not so OK, but I don't think that necessarily means that nothing was going on before He created.
I think (JUST my problem, not saying I'm right) that you have to be careful to remain aware of the "colorless green idea" possibility. Yeah, God and what He does is/are incomprehensible. Most of the struggle is to see how much we can say with the appearance of coherence before we hit a wall. But I myself don't think we can get very far with stuff going on or happening without something changin in some respect.
Garlic on Lamb ?????????????
Yuck...
I had Lamb for Easter, but I cooked it the British way...
NO GARLIC
WELL DONE...
With Mint Sauce...
Modern pseudo-liberalism is more about license than freedom and wants everything to be okay and immediately displays the impossibility of that desire by coming down with viciousness, repression, and slaughter on anyone who disagrees or whose existence is inconvenient.
Agreed! All of which is a product of the “virus of Plauralism” -got the seed from the reformation, sprouted in the enlightenment and is a monster today
Anyway, A lady named Barbara Kafka has a great way to roast a leg in a HURRY (at like 475 degrees) and I'm all over cutting slivers of garlic, piercing the leg and sliding the slivers in. It's also good to rub the leg with cracked pepper and soy sauce.
Mind you, the "English way" is fine, but when you have a lot of legs of lamb in the freezer you start getting fancy.
Yet we are having tremendous success south of the border. This thinking indicates a lack of confidence to evangelize those that come. Yet they claim an exclusivity to the truth.
IIRC, Scripture tells us about the vine that does not bear good fruit. I think it gets cut off and the branches that will bear fruit get grafted in.
We had lots of sheep when I was young...
We ate lamb or mutton about 4 days a week...
there was no fancy way needed...
Roast Mutton, Shepherd’s Pie, Lamb chops, etc...
NEVER any garlic...
And always well done...
Or?
God decided it was time for aspirin to be found.
***I had Lamb for Easter, but I cooked it the British way...***
May the Lord have mercy upon your soul. The British can cook exactly nothing right except for salmon.
Mint sauce? Poisonous green toxic waste? Lamb is Middle East, not British.
If you would like, Freepmail me and I will send you a recipe for lamb that will surpass anything that you’ve come up against before.
p.s. mint sauce needs to be made of real mint leaves and not the stuff in a jar. And used sparingly.
mint sauce needs to be made of real mint leaves
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Of course...
The British can cook exactly nothing right except for salmon.
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Salmon are Canadian...
I bet you dont even know how to make a decent cup of tea...
have you ever heard of heating the tea pot with hot water first ???
Do you even OWN a tea pot ??????
And NO dumb lemon slices...
Milk and sugar
In the States, 2% milk works best
All my lemon slices are smart.
Sugar and milk? Barbaric!
Sugar and milk? Barbaric!
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My English ancestors could be called barbaric...
but not their way of making a decent cuppa...
LOL. I drink my coffee, and my tea, straight. Unless, of course, it is iced, then I HAVE to have a slice of lemon.
Funny, I’m from the south, yet I don’t drink sweet tea, and I live in Seattle, and I don’t drink lattes. Go figure :>)
How sad is that? Sending a person to hell is better than coming to know the true and living Lord through a missionary? How heretic is that????
Barbara Kafka’s book on roasting is held in high esteem in my house.
The oven is set to 500 F; I hold the line at kosher salt and garlic. I like soy, but I think that it tends to burn too easily during extended roasting.
***We ate lamb or mutton about 4 days a week...
there was no fancy way needed...
Roast Mutton, Shepherd’s Pie, Lamb chops, etc...
NEVER any garlic...
And always well done...***
Horrors. A good fresh lamb needs only be done to medium rare.
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