Galt

Greg And Liz Teshara, that is

Congrats on your nuptials, bro (and Liz!)!
May your life together be happy, healthy, long, loving, and blessed!

aside
Galt is (also) a place in Canada, as well as Mongolia, as well as 5 places in the U.S.A.
Ayn Rand famously opens Atlas Shrugged with 'Who is John Galt?'
Her philosophy is called 'Objectivism'

Objectivism rejects belief in "every 'spiritual' dimension, force, Form, Idea, entity, power, or whatnot alleged to transcend existence."

She says,
"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute."

She chose "objectivism" as the title for her philosophy because,
"The name "Objectivism" derives from the principle that human knowledge and values are objective: they are not created by the thoughts one has, but are determined by the nature of reality, to be discovered by man's mind. Rand chose the name because her preferred term for a philosophy based on the primacy of existence, existentialism, had already been taken."

Haitian earthquake possibly an Act of God

Sorry. I was jumping rope to get healthier. I enjoy skipping rope.
I mean, was it me, really? I hope not.
I may have also caused the quake in Northern California.

Jump up, jump up and get down. Jump around.



http://www.redcross.org

Mary Moran

"German Gullon es Dios"

If you're out there, Maria, contact me!
-Chuy

God and Nature

People believe God created Nature, and God is in Nature

God IS Nature
Nature is Everything...it encompasses Humanity and Human Nature (we're animals, too). Nature created God, in that it created humans, who speak..

"and the word was God"
We use words, our minds, concepts to "create" the world, our inner worlds...
"The first step to knowing something is to give it a name"
So if God is all-knowing, then "omniscience" is God.
Of course, omniscience is impossible
(Even for me)
lol

God is IN nature, if you believe nature, red in tooth and claw, is pervaded by "love."

Parmenides, Sheryl Crow, and Dr. Bronner

Parmenides was the original Dr. Bronner
Sheryl Crow sings "Love is All There Is" on her 2008 Detours album

All-1, says the shampoo bottle. Parmenides conceived of everything as...

"The single known work of Parmenides is a poem which has survived only in fragmentary form. In this poem, Parmenides describes two views of reality. In The Way of Truth (a part of the poem), he explains how reality is one, change is impossible, and existence is timeless, uniform, and unchanging."

Unfortunately, Grooveshark doesn't seem to have the song available for me to provide the link to it. Ack! It probably does: it's called Love is All There Is, not Love is Everything..

CCC Comment

Catechism of the Catholic Church, that is

What, exactly, is the God of the Catholic church?
Well, Prologue, Chapter 1, Verse 1 of the CCC (written by the current Pope?) seems like a good stab at it. Off the mark, though, in my opinion.

It goes something like this:
"God, infinitely perfect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness freely created man to make him share in his own blessed life. For this reason, at every time and in every place, God draws close to man. He calls man to seek him, to know him, to love him with all his strength. He calls together all men, scattered and divided by sin, into the unity of his family, the Church. To accomplilsh this, when the fullness of time had come, God sent his Son as Redeemer and Savior. In his Son and through him, he invites men to become, in the Holy Spirit, his adopted children and thus heirs of his blessed life."

Hmm.

-That's a lot of reference to men in there (I count 15).
-Why is God and He and Him and His, etc. not capitalized...
-"Infinitely perfect and blessed in himself" -I like that, lol.
-to know him (biblically?)
-the Church family, Mr. and Mrs. Church.

-I don't draw
-I didn't make anyone to share in my life.

You-niverse

You are your own world

Thus, you are God
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