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Posted by Steve on 2/14/2009, 7:52 am, in reply to "Re: Yeah, I feel better now."
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: In the Army I learned not to look directly
: at my target in the dark. It seems the
: periphery of the eye is more adaptable to
: low light condtions. Little Bang.
:
: Maybe we cannot look directly at what was
: before the Big Bang. But maybe we can infer
: what a Creator might be like from what we
: can measure.
:
: With Hubble and other new technologies for
: measuring the Cosmos Astronomers have been
: very busy measuring the Universe for the
: past few decades.
:
: Their measurements reveal nothing less than
: the fingerprints of God, or the Tao if you
: prefer. But not the impersonal Tao. The Tao
: that is transpersonal.
:
: What most Astronomers have come to realize
: is that the Universe is so finely tuned, so
: finely crafted, that nothing less than some
: sort of intelligence, superintelligence,
: must have designed it. The Universe was
: designed for life. Human life being the
: highest form of rational life we are aware
: of. The list of paramaters that make the
: case for intelligent design is staggering.
: The website of one of these Astronomers can
: be found at www.reasons.org/
:
: If you are ever looking at the night sky
: through a pair of binoculars or a telescope,
: remember to shift your attention to the
: periphery of your vision and you will see
: better by several magnitudes than if you
: just stare from the center of your field of
: vision.
:
: Butcho
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Nice post, Butcho.
The God/Dao line is blurry. Mystics of every persuasion sputter over precisely what it is they're seeing and paying homage to. My guess is that St. Paul didn't see anything radically different than what Laozi saw. Their vocabularies were radically different however.
I do the same thing you do; I anthropomorphize. I talk about the beneficence of the dao while at the same time sensing that the dao is neither benevolent nor malevolent. It's natural to describe what we see in terms that are familiar and comfortable.
Nothing wrong with it, I say. Carry on, sir.
Full steam ahead. Mind the gap.
Steve
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-Li Daoqun
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