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  1. sealchan

    The Central Revelation of Christianity: God IS the "apple"

    I just had a revelation which I realized was also a remembering and renewed understanding of something I read awhile back. it lead me to the idea that the central revelation of Christianity is that God Is one of us, that we ARE created in the image of God and that God IS the "apple". The apple...
  2. sealchan

    The God Barrier: An Idea for an endless fictional universe

    I thought I would share something which I just wrote, something that I have been mulling over for many years that has taken shape and "needed to come out of me". it is basically a very high level story that could be a framework for an endless series of stories from a mythical past to a science...
  3. sealchan

    Confessions of a Son's Strong Political Differences with his Father

    My father is an avid Trump supporter. Earlier today I visited my parents and my father and I indulged in an intense discussion about this difference while my mother and my wife stepped away to the proverbial "ladies parlour" to sit out the discussion. There was no yelling, but I was...
  4. sealchan

    Information Overload

    In my musings on how the US has come to the political climate that it has come to, I feel that my former feeling that white racism is the primary factor has shifted. Certainly the Trump voter is primarily white, male and Christian. Certainly a deep survey of the Trump voter in 2016 revealed...
  5. sealchan

    Epic Fictional Universes: Then and Now

    I have this notion of the "World Story" which would be some endless project of finding and connecting together stories in a way that makes a sort of patchwork quilt of narrative that stretches out across history and beyond. I am learning web development which might help me to establish some...
  6. sealchan

    The Character of Creation

    These are some somewhat groomed thoughts interconnected and inspirational that I thought I would share here for feedback, questions, etc...these sentences are fairly metaphysical but are meant to describe the most abstract qualities of consciousness, being, physical systems and knowledge. The...
  7. sealchan

    Trump and the Internet

    I have an idea I need to air out, expose to critical view and otherwise share because I think it might be another piece to the puzzle of why we went through this moment in our political history and why we will still go through it to some extent although I think that having Trump out of office...
  8. sealchan

    The Psychology of the Monotheistic God

    Imagine the psyche as composed of a myriad of voices representing desires, instincts, choices, etc and the 'I' that we all feel we know so intimately is really more strange and diverse than we care to believe. If this distributed humuculi understanding of the human ego is correct it can...
  9. sealchan

    An Approach to Bridging the Conservative-Liberal Divide

    I have a thought I wanted to share and get feedback on about how to approach bridging the widening divide between conservative and liberal understandings about how we should conduct ourselves as a society. The thought will be couched in many generalizations which is unavoidable when discussing...
  10. sealchan

    The Edge of the Universe

    I have had this notion of certain principles of systems and what they might help us to understand about that which exists outside of our Universe. It seems that all things tend to exist in terms of energies with polarized qualities such that one can adjust a knob for a given quality to one end...
  11. sealchan

    Pre-cellular Evolution: Proteins

    Here is a recent article I came across that seems to indicate that scientists are looking at the evolution (yes, evolution) of proteins prior to or required for the formation of the first living cells. https://phys.org/news/2020-03-scientists-blocks-life.html This seems to me to imply that...
  12. sealchan

    Death Is A (Corona)Virus

    As we are encountering the latest probable pandemic with the spread of the new coronavirus many questions have been raised in my mind but especially whether the visibility and consequent (perhaps skewed) publicity of a newly discovered flu-like virus is creating more hype than it would were it...
  13. sealchan

    Mirror, Mirror On Our Wall: The Problem Of Mono-modal Faith

    I just finished a new post which attempts to cover the logical reasons why having faith only in the Bible is frought with issues of integrity that cannot be easily addresses and places one in a difficult position to defend their epistemology. This post is a parallel one which is meant to...
  14. sealchan

    Who Knows?: The Ownership of Personal Knowledge

    Some people claim that they can rely only on God's understanding, not man's...but they often fail to explain clearly how it is that they, as an individual knower, can accomplish this in any rational way. The claim seems to come to that if one doesn't contradict what the Bible says then one is...
  15. sealchan

    The Systemic Emergence of our Oxygenated Planet

    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earth-might-not-have-needed-major-event-become-oxygen-rich This article in Science News highlights research which suggests that "sudden" increases in the availability of planetary oxygen may have arisen out of the "evolution" of chemical availability as...
  16. sealchan

    The Central Paradox of All Faiths

    I've had an audacious thought that naturally wants me to let it loose on the Internet... The central revelation of all religion is the understanding and preservation of the meaning and value of the Name and that to which it refers. Meaning arises from the Name being good and valuable and in...
  17. sealchan

    The Progressive Revelation of Carl Jung

    Many Jungians might balk at this topic but it is one that some Jungians would embrace as an important consideration...that the psychologist Carl Jung has created an understanding of religion from a point of view independent of those religions while, at the same time, finding deep and ultimate...
  18. sealchan

    Night Walk Through Filbert Orchard

    Here is a very recent dream I thought I would share. I will probably come back and analyze it myself or use it to talk about how I find dreams valuable ways of understanding one's self. Any sincere thoughts welcome. December 4, 2019 I stood looking out across the street [east] at a Filbert...
  19. sealchan

    Jesus and Paul in Kazantzakis' The Last Temptation of Christ

    Here is Scorsese's take on a scene from Nikos Kazantzakis' story of the life of Jesus of Nazareth The Last Temptation of Christ. It is a scene where Paul is preaching the gospel and Jesus, who has come down off the cross through a vision inspired by Satan in the form of a young girl, comes to...
  20. sealchan

    Evolution Is Not Just About Life

    I've seen the argument often made that the Theory of Evolution (ToE) is a topic restricted to the change in biological organisms over time and that it should only be discussed in that context. However, this seems to me to be increasing short-sighted and insular. There are a growing number of...
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