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Process Naturalism (God is us) and Process Theism (God is us and other)

“If human beings are the supreme realities, then the usual response, even of process thinkers, is to think in terms of intelligent planning, organizing, and controlling of events for human benefit. Of course, all of this has a place. But I believe, with Wieman, that the deeper truth is that we need to find that which is trustworthy and to trust it even when we do not know where this will lead.”

John B. Cobb, Jr., Chapter 18. “Process Theism”; from C. Robert Mesle, “Process Theology: a basic introduction”. Chalice Press, 1993. P. 135.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca

Whoopi

Whoopi Goldberg, you are so very sexy when you get your dander up. I like. This blog, however, never usually agrees with the stuff you put out on the View. This time you have done it.  We agree on one point, to hell with this shared blame stuff for hate speech. The problem is that you got that much right but the wrong offender. You and your Democrats in bondage do all (100%) of the hate speech which incites the crazies to kill to protect their delusions. You wrongly try to avoid blame by redefining what is hate speech.  All criticism or verbal exposes of the negative policy results from Democrat control is now hate speech, in your world.

Whoopi, your world is not the real world. You are an actor and a good one. But please, keep the dander flying.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.  

Credentials

Is it not likely (99 44/100 %) that the words of Jesus which may have been, “this is the way, the truth and the life (John 14:6)”, later became interpreted to be an “I am” saying by the succeeding believing communities? Did Jesus mean to say that the billions of people worldwide must all believe in this, “I am” God, the Jesus God in the flesh, as the only hope for finding the only true spiritual reality and an eternal future?  Is Christianity, as faith in the Christ God, the only truly authorizes spiritual reality?  I wonder if we will have to check our credentials at the Pearly Gates? 

Some of us should just get over it!

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.   

Psychosis

Psychosis is a set of symptoms that can cause a person to lose touch with reality, and have difficulty distinguishing what is real and what is not. This is a medical/ dictionary definition. For one who is suffering from a psychosis facts are unreal and truth is only defined by their own delusions or hallucinations.  Our world has had the ground breaking thought of Sigmund Freud to thank for outlining the dangers and better understanding psychosis.

Dr. Freuds studies were with individuals during the rise of Hitler and Naziism in his homeland of Germany.  Being of Jewish descent, Freud was at a loss as to why the people of Germany willfully embraced such Nazi hatred.  In his book, “Moses and Monotheism”, he advanced the theory that not only are individuals vulnerable to psychosis, there is also such a condition in groups of peoples.  Germany was collectively suffering with an episode of group psychosis. Nothing else fits and we all know how that played out.

America is now in the same boat. To a large group of our people, the facts of reality do not matter, all that matters is their supposed truth, their delusions and grandiose hallucinations. The deluded will lie, defame, jail, destroy and kill all conflicting facts or persons that paint a different story.  Our people are, indeed, suffering from a group psychosis. This sickness is being played out in our politics as it did in Germany almost 100 years ago.

Who are the crazies?  Following the presidential election loss of Donald Trump in 2020, this blog made the prediction that going forward the crazies are now our rulers.  Have not the past four years proven that reality, America has seemingly gone crazy.  Before your feathers get ruffled there is a way to make a self-diagnosis in the privacy of your own head. If candidate and former President Trump were to be killed by a lunatic fringe left winger, would you still be a Democrat? Would you still vote the party line?  If the answer is yes, call the psychiatrist!

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Life

Life is like a game of solitaire. There is only one way to navigate the ups and downs of this world. The only rule for this game is, “where there is a will there is a way".  We fanatic solitaire players can best appreciate this rule. 

As long as one has the breath of life, God has a plan for our next breath, God has not called us home yet.  The new plan may not be to our liking, it may even be humiliating but he has blessings awaiting us and for all others who are sent to assist. If we choose to will God’s new plan, we shall all reap life spiritual bonuses, regardless of the circumstances.  Together we are one.

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

Quote

If one cannot say in a few sentences what needs to be said, what is said will find few ears. (gg)

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.

 

Pain

There is no spiritual freedom without consequence. Evil is the necessary consequence that forces us to search for our spiritual God given inheritance. If there were only pleasure and no pain, we would not search. Because this world was created by God for soul-making, evil is a necessary ingredient to be experienced.

The eternity of God is absolute freedom. Our mission in this world is to experience the lack or scarcity of freedom (bondage) so that eternity, when presented to us, will be affirmed in our soul or centeredness. It matters little how much of eternity we taste in this world as long as we taste the pain, be it physical, emotional, mental or spiritual. All of whom will never be a blind alley.  Should we not pray, therefore, Lord God, bring it on!

(My take on the thought of: John Hick, "Evil and the God of Love", Revised Edition, 1978.)

G. Goslaw

Landers, Ca.