Wild Goose Chase.

by Blueblades 5 Replies latest jw friends

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  Blueblades

  Have you ever been on a wild goose chase?

  A. N. Wilson, author of Jesus: A Life...In his review of Karen Armstrong's book, A history of God, the 4,000 -- year quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, called it 'The most fascinating and learned study of the Biggest Wild Goose Chase in History --- The Quest For God."

  I now believe that the Society has been on one of the biggest wild goose chases ever sought after and through use of the infamous carrot have had many join the wild goose chase that will never be caught.

  Blueblades ( No longer chasing the Society's Wild Goose. )
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  garybuss

  
  
  When the illusion is based on a delusion, it might make it seem like it a complete waste of time and energy . . . . but over 6 million people eat, drink, and sleep it. The escape from freedom.
  
  
  
  
  
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  Terry

  More and more I'm convinced that a quirk of human consciousness is a projection of ideal thoughts into a realm of false actuality.

  By losing track of before and after (the widdle clock in our brain) we experience De je Vous; that sense that "this has happened before". All that is--is a hiccup in our time keeper.

  I think God projection is another kind of hiccup of the brain. The fact that we can idealise all concepts and humanize that ideal gives us God. Losing track of the fact we are doing the projection makes the illusion work. God is so very very real (more real than reality) because we are the very source of the idea in the first place. If WE are real; then, God is real.

  People talk to themselves all the time. When we lose track of who is talking and who is listening that is called PRAYER.
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  Pole

  Nice point, Terry. All I can personally say about my 'God experience' is that I can somehow (pre)conceive of the Absolute Entity. I'm pretty sure it's common for all humans.

  But of course I can conceive of many other entities which have no real ontological status, so my feeling of the Absolute proves nothing.

  The concept of the Absolute is so compelling however, that over centuries millions of people have succumbed to the temptation of providing an explanation for it, thus giving rise to religious systems of all shapes and sizes.

  All of them are unavoidably confusing if taken seriously.

  Pole
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  Blueblades

  Thanks for your comments. What is reality? The concept of the universe as a giant hologram containing both matter and consciousness as a single field is a new theory presented in the book entitled,"THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE", by Michael Talbot. It talks about the paranormal, physics and unsolved riddles of the brain and body.

  Blueblades
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  Terry

  Blueblades says: Thanks for your comments. What is reality? The concept of the universe as a giant hologram containing both matter and consciousness as a single field is a new theory presented in the book entitled,"THE HOLOGRAPHIC UNIVERSE", by Michael Talbot. It talks about the paranormal, physics and unsolved riddles of the brain and body.

  Reality is often, for we humans, not what we wish it to be. I posit that most of our problems stem from this repugance. Reality is what it IS and we are stuck with it. Wishing it away with invisible champions is a waste of a good life.

  The real genius to living comes from accepting the world for what it is and learning to deal with it in such a way that we fully optimize our advantages and minimize our disadvantages.

  Understanding conceptually can be awfully tricky. I think it is better to be able to DO rather than merely to KNOW. I'll take a guy who can do something any day over a man who is inept but fully informed.