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Why is everything with Shesh always personal? Indifference is the order of the day. Indifference. I am telling you - as someone wasting their time with the Jewish religion - this is why the Hellenistic Jews woke up to the superiority of Greek philosophy. They saw the Ten Commandments given by God a...

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transcendence Is that a Greek idea? I thought it was eleventh century CE. It's very much a Greek idea. Plato called it "true being" when the mind contemplates the eternal unchanging reality as opposed to the "becoming and going away" of the sensible world. I use "transcende...

Only through Greek philosophy does the trinity make sense to me. God in its entirety is a transcendence that cannot be encompassed in words; the enormity of which can only be felt or intuited during a revelation or divine state. That is the father. The intelligibility of god, that is the extent to w...

Hi Horatio Parker, I think I'm making a point about language. In most situations, we don't have to be all that precise with words and we get our meaning across well enough. However, when trying to describe something new or a shift in viewpoint, the old terms don't work so well. It is kind of like b...

You need a focus group. "Pro-life" is a focus group tested term. Might be hard to put one together for this problem. How about spiritualist, a term most mythicists would probably hate, but it does emphasize non-corporeality. It is also theologically neutral, another aspect that probably wo...