When I look in the mirror, I see something I call me, but it isn't what everyone else sees, they see me reversed, the other way around, the right way around, I see myself back to front. Then there's different photos of me, some so different you wouldn't know it was the same person, so which one is me? Then there's different ages, then there's the self we project. Is it the same as what is received about us? Am I what you think I am, or what I think I am? Is one more real than the other? Am I a spirit in cyberspace?
We live in a world in which extremist think tanks have enormous influence ever governments and the news media. There "studies" invariable recommend less for us and more for the corporations and wealthy individuals. Their profits will then be used to benefit everyong. (Right. Tell that to Haiti, Iraq, and Guatemala. Tell that to unemployed Americans who live in a country without with one of the largest gaps between right an poor in the world. Their moral basis, often enough stated publicy enough, is greed is good.
As human beings and we are always operating on faith since we never know what the future has in store for us.
When we pressed the elevator button we wait because we have faith it will come. Based on this statement we should make a distinction between three kinds of faith: below reason, within reason and above reason.
The usual connotation of the word refers to the first kind of faith: below reason, meaning that we’ve been told something and we believe it without verifying it. This is the religious approach to faith.
I have realized that the last topic I posted on this forum, 'is Jesus God,' brought up the question "What is God?" The last few comments on that thread addressed the concepts of truth and lies, and the spiritual dangers in mistaking one for the other. Perhaps nowhere is that mistake so dangerous than in the area of worship and prayer. I don't have a 'unified theory' of God. On the one hand, I have worked with attempts to come closer to the divine through sacred teachings about the attributes of the divine:
