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The party was hilarious. Lots of liquor, clothes sorta started coming off of everyone. And then there was a naked girl with a strap-on. And I was like "wait a minute... That's my wife! I wear the pants around here, what are you doing with that thing on!" She was a little menacing, but fun to watch her being empowered with a rubber dick. I love that girl. We all went streaking in the road, took pictures, 'woo-hoo'd' by people who drove by, and so on.
I can't possibly put all of this into a paragraph; but from all of the philosophical and theological reading that I've been studying, it's been pointing to more and more 1) that God is both an idea that collectively resides in the minds of people and exists no farther than the mind and that 2) people confuse this idea with the true creative force behind the universe, which I am proposing has nothing to do with intelligence, love or anger, purpose, and providence. These attributes belong to the manufactured idea of God; not to mention that these attributes of God are also human emotional attributes, this alone making me suspicious. Besides, all of the early church fathers from Philo, Augustine, to Aquinas and beyond, have all adhered to the idea that God is a) eternal b) unchanging c) perfect. This is PRECISELY what Plato said about the Platonic Form. All this tells me is that the church has adopted Platonic idea's (Hence my first proposition) and converted it into a theology over the centuries. Of my second proposition, I feel that the force/God responsible for creation maybe even be mathematically ascertained because it seems to be the force of pure facilitated material order, and nothing more. There is a lot of nihilism involved with this thesis, because also I feel that God is also consistent with phenomenology; in that there are forces that serve as the basis for God, which includes Nothingness. An old idea philosophically, but it is my vision to apply this theologically.
All that I am supporting in my proto-thesis is that the Christian and Judaic idea of God cannot be correct (it isn't logical, it's way too closely related to Platonic thinking, and consistently seems like a product of human egoism and narcissism) and that it is immanent and not transcendent, but not asserting that I do have a better idea. It's actually leading me to a theodicy that I think fits very well.
My art is coming along. It has taken over ten years for it all to culminate into this. I hope to have six pieces of work done in six months. While I am doing this, I am going to relearn my painting skills; that which I haven't touched in a decade. It's past due that I demonstrate my talents and artistic intelligence. I should have just enough work within a year to have a small show somewhere. It's taken me ten years to develop the imagery, the technique in which to depict them, and understand what they mean. That was the hard part, and it's over with.
I can't possibly put all of this into a paragraph; but from all of the philosophical and theological reading that I've been studying, it's been pointing to more and more 1) that God is both an idea that collectively resides in the minds of people and exists no farther than the mind and that 2) people confuse this idea with the true creative force behind the universe, which I am proposing has nothing to do with intelligence, love or anger, purpose, and providence. These attributes belong to the manufactured idea of God; not to mention that these attributes of God are also human emotional attributes, this alone making me suspicious. Besides, all of the early church fathers from Philo, Augustine, to Aquinas and beyond, have all adhered to the idea that God is a) eternal b) unchanging c) perfect. This is PRECISELY what Plato said about the Platonic Form. All this tells me is that the church has adopted Platonic idea's (Hence my first proposition) and converted it into a theology over the centuries. Of my second proposition, I feel that the force/God responsible for creation maybe even be mathematically ascertained because it seems to be the force of pure facilitated material order, and nothing more. There is a lot of nihilism involved with this thesis, because also I feel that God is also consistent with phenomenology; in that there are forces that serve as the basis for God, which includes Nothingness. An old idea philosophically, but it is my vision to apply this theologically.
All that I am supporting in my proto-thesis is that the Christian and Judaic idea of God cannot be correct (it isn't logical, it's way too closely related to Platonic thinking, and consistently seems like a product of human egoism and narcissism) and that it is immanent and not transcendent, but not asserting that I do have a better idea. It's actually leading me to a theodicy that I think fits very well.
My art is coming along. It has taken over ten years for it all to culminate into this. I hope to have six pieces of work done in six months. While I am doing this, I am going to relearn my painting skills; that which I haven't touched in a decade. It's past due that I demonstrate my talents and artistic intelligence. I should have just enough work within a year to have a small show somewhere. It's taken me ten years to develop the imagery, the technique in which to depict them, and understand what they mean. That was the hard part, and it's over with.