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A Dualist Playing GOD
- Thread starter Fool
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Maybe. Maybe not. We'll never know.
Hermit Philosopher
Selflessly here for you
Thank you @Fool, for elaborating a bit.
Panentheistically speaking, individuals are not God. Much like a cell in your body is not you.
You experience via cells, though never from the perspective of those cells, but rather, always from your perspective - which consists of everything that your body experiences as a whole.
A cell [in you], if it has the ability to experience, would only experience its own, limited perspective [within you].
If sentient beings (like you and I) were like cells in a “divine body”, their experience of being would not be God’s and God’s experience, though via them, would not be theirs.
Humbly
Hermit
Panentheistically speaking, individuals are not God. Much like a cell in your body is not you.
You experience via cells, though never from the perspective of those cells, but rather, always from your perspective - which consists of everything that your body experiences as a whole.
A cell [in you], if it has the ability to experience, would only experience its own, limited perspective [within you].
If sentient beings (like you and I) were like cells in a “divine body”, their experience of being would not be God’s and God’s experience, though via them, would not be theirs.
Humbly
Hermit
Even if that is the case. The Universe is not an independent entity. But an interdependent existence between everything.
The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
I disagree.
Each part is identical to, and as great as the whole.
Each part is a whole unto itself. Oftentimes an unrealized whole. Universes within universes.
There is one form having many forms.
There is one forming and having no form. An eternal forming would then appear to have no exact form. This is how an uncreated creator would create
a part can only fuse with other parts by giving up its illusion of individuality, or expanding to eventually realize the whole. A service to self type can't do this and become the whole. Why?
Because it is always in opposition to parts of itself
This is why duality eventually fails.
Fails?!
Not at all... my wife are both individuals, and One unit; depending on the needs of one or both.
Your logic doesn't follow.
Edit: Dualism always fades away at death. But during life it's an essential facet of ones ability to function in the world.
Without it, once again, one could conclude that the only thing that exists is Self... Do you advise Solipsism?
*thumbs up
There is no form per se. To accept "god" as a form, any form, is to give "god" a name, which is the universal no-no. To name "god' is to kill it; the living god is boundless.
That said, we create forms, and we give it to forms to create forms.
There is no individual self. There is just one consciousness manifesting as manyness
Love is unconsciously and consciously forming unions everywhere.
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Duality is.
The tau that can be named, can be formed, is not the enduring tau.
By jove I think u have it.
Best wishes.
Gee, thanks. :-D
This I disagree with.
We name God, because we want and need a form we can reach for, in order to attain the Truth.
The Gods abide, and show themselves to each of us, in the ways that each individual understands it.
The Truth itself may be ineffable. Which is why to name it, allows others to reach for it. One cannot reach for that which is unable to be comprehended.
To extinguish the lamp takes silence. To realize there is a lamp to extinguish, it needs a name.
No there you and your partner are. Your love is something greater than yourselves as individuals
Yet, I'm replying to you. Weird.