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Here's something to ponder today, an election day, the day after 9/11 with all of it's bad memory. (I've been saying things like this commenting in other journals, and I think it's time it got put up here. It's also something that needs to go up elsewhere. So quote or steal the quote even, the issue is bigger than me)
Ok, what if...
We've got it all completely backwards?
What if the massive disagreements about the nature of God are not because somebody got it wrong, but because they are *all* right?
What if our race's varying beliefs about God tell us, not about God, but about US?
It's hard NOT to notice that different children, even within the same family, will need different methods and have different learning styles to master the exact same lessons?
They'll have different strengths, weakness, aptitudes, and they'll even grasp the same concept from different angles, and even the most gifted will never seem to master everything.
Each child, in the end turns out to be unique.
How could and why should Spirituality be any different?
What if God is big, really big, mindbogglingly big? So enormous in scope and complexity that it's impossible for A Human to fully understand God, because understanding God would require that human to utterly transcend not only their consciousness but their existence as well.
We're talking about a Force that could jump start an entire Universe after all.
In the face of something so Big, the best a single Human could ever hope to do, it seems, would be to grasp or understand a glimpse, a single facet, a portion, and that would ONLY be the portion that they're capable of understanding.
So what if our diverse beliefs about God come from this? What if it's NOT a mistake for someone to percieve God differently from you? What if your unique experience of God, that no one else can have because it's tailor fit for you, is not a mistake, but a Gift?
What if the purpose of YOUR personal message from God is there to help YOU?
And what if your personal message from God includes "Go out and tell other people"?
What if your personal message contradicts someone else's?
What are we supposed to do?
Fight?
We've all been there and done that. Has it ever worked? In all of our history, has fighting over Religion ever really achieved long term progress, happiness, prosperity, for the people involved?
How many fights is it gonna take before we realise that fighting doesn't work?
I ask again: What if our fights say alot more about us than about God?
What if we've all got it all wrong?
What if, instead of taking our different ideas and fighting with them and fighting for them, and fighting over them, we're supposed to share them, compare notes, see where they fit together- like a puzzle- a puzzle so big and so complex, and so grand and beautiful that it's impossible for any single person, any group, any sect, any creed, ANY subset of humanity to solve, grasp, understand?
What if the mystery of God is SO mindbogglingly transcendent of Us that it's going to take all of Us (and more?) to piece it together and possibly all of Time to understand it?
What if we decide to think and act THAT way, instead of the way we're acting now?
What would happen?
What if?
Ok, what if...
We've got it all completely backwards?
What if the massive disagreements about the nature of God are not because somebody got it wrong, but because they are *all* right?
What if our race's varying beliefs about God tell us, not about God, but about US?
It's hard NOT to notice that different children, even within the same family, will need different methods and have different learning styles to master the exact same lessons?
They'll have different strengths, weakness, aptitudes, and they'll even grasp the same concept from different angles, and even the most gifted will never seem to master everything.
Each child, in the end turns out to be unique.
How could and why should Spirituality be any different?
What if God is big, really big, mindbogglingly big? So enormous in scope and complexity that it's impossible for A Human to fully understand God, because understanding God would require that human to utterly transcend not only their consciousness but their existence as well.
We're talking about a Force that could jump start an entire Universe after all.
In the face of something so Big, the best a single Human could ever hope to do, it seems, would be to grasp or understand a glimpse, a single facet, a portion, and that would ONLY be the portion that they're capable of understanding.
So what if our diverse beliefs about God come from this? What if it's NOT a mistake for someone to percieve God differently from you? What if your unique experience of God, that no one else can have because it's tailor fit for you, is not a mistake, but a Gift?
What if the purpose of YOUR personal message from God is there to help YOU?
And what if your personal message from God includes "Go out and tell other people"?
What if your personal message contradicts someone else's?
What are we supposed to do?
Fight?
We've all been there and done that. Has it ever worked? In all of our history, has fighting over Religion ever really achieved long term progress, happiness, prosperity, for the people involved?
How many fights is it gonna take before we realise that fighting doesn't work?
I ask again: What if our fights say alot more about us than about God?
What if we've all got it all wrong?
What if, instead of taking our different ideas and fighting with them and fighting for them, and fighting over them, we're supposed to share them, compare notes, see where they fit together- like a puzzle- a puzzle so big and so complex, and so grand and beautiful that it's impossible for any single person, any group, any sect, any creed, ANY subset of humanity to solve, grasp, understand?
What if the mystery of God is SO mindbogglingly transcendent of Us that it's going to take all of Us (and more?) to piece it together and possibly all of Time to understand it?
What if we decide to think and act THAT way, instead of the way we're acting now?
What would happen?
What if?
