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Originally Posted by photon
...(And I admit to having to Google b'kor)
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Did you actually find anything?!
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Originally Posted by photon
Exactly! So I don't look back on the string of consequences that lead me to be where I am right now and attribute it to anything more than choices combined with the random noise of events in life.
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This is where I am at as well, although leaning towards the theistic end of the spuctrum, I leave some room for the presence (but not necessarily "intrevention") of an Other Being, that may or may not factor into the noise.
For me, thinking about God is like thinking about love, and here is where my predilection for the Hollywood version of
Contact enters the fray. Are you married? You have posted that you have your own
b'kor so I presume that you have some experience with intimate love. I love my wife, and after nearly sixteen years of marriage I believe that I always will. When thinking about what love is, or what my love for my wife is, or why I love her, I can point to all sorts of attributes and experiences, to feelings that I experience with her, or to how she "makes me feel", but really, does that say anything at all about the presence of love? This is one of the reasons why I stopped answering the question, "why do you love me?" a long time ago.
I married my wife because she is hot, and because I admire her, enjoy her, respect her, and am intrigued by her. But that is not to say that there are not other women among my acquaintances who I find attractive (I work at a University!). That's not to say that there are not other women whom I admire, or respect, or whose company I "enjoy", or who intrigue me. I know plenty of women who are smarter and maybe even "nicer" than my wife is, but she is the only woman for whom I have this intimate kind of love. So what is love and how can you know it? Love can remain common to human experience but ultimately very mysterious. And I think about "God"—Otherness—in such terms as these: believable, but incomprehensible.