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  1. Etritonakin

    Russia To Be Turned Back? If So, Then What?

    No. There s a turning back before being drawn to Jerusalem -but not sure it is this. step 1 I will turn thee back, ..... step 2 and put hooks into thy jaws, ...... step 3 and I will bring thee forth"....
  2. Etritonakin

    Russia To Be Turned Back? If So, Then What?

    Was not sure where to put this... definitely current, but also discussing prophecy concerning Russia, China (kings of the East), the E.U (king of the north in Daniel [some think Russia the king of the north, but there is also discussed some north and east of the king of the north -and there is...
  3. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    sooooooooooo... I was thinking self-awareness is really perspective afforded by complexity -and a self can/must be a self before aware of itself. I remember playing a video game... in which all the action happened on one level/plane... as maps improved, engagement from more than one level was...
  4. Etritonakin

    "Begotten", what does it mean?

    That is not what I said at all -you misunderstand. Also -even Jesus Christ said -in biblical scripture -not to pray to him -but to God the Father. God did not sire physically... The being known as the Word -who was with God before man was created -willingly allowed God to place him within a...
  5. Etritonakin

    What do You Think Science is...

    Science is discovering facts about the environment -and so how to interact with it -beginning at the perspective of the ones experiencing the environment. Religion is -ideally -access to the recorded and active source of knowledge -and so how to interact with the environment -which could...
  6. Etritonakin

    "Begotten", what does it mean?

    It gets tricky when we read such things as "In the beginning" -because it does not always have to refer to the same point -much less the very beginning point. It can just mean prior to whatever is being discussed afterward. It is also possible that there is NOT a beginning to existence, but...
  7. Etritonakin

    "Begotten", what does it mean?

    In technical terms, the Word/Christ is the Father's first self-replication (existing/developing from part of him -similar to Eve being of Adam's material, but on the spiritual level). Christ is also called "the firstborn of many brethren" -as we are also made of part of God.
  8. Etritonakin

    A sometimes-overlooked foreknowledge question

    There is free will -but there are only so many options at any time from which to choose (You might choose to live on Venus, but....) -and many choices are logically correct (it takes time to see some of those as correct). Freedom of choice is good for creativity -details -variety, etc. -not for...
  9. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    I can understand that there is a whole -and that it is made of the same things as the parts. I can see what its perspective would be generally -but not specifically... not all of the details -at least not yet. The whole exists and is therefore inherently knowable -and so able to be...
  10. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    I am saying that the whole of existence -the sum of all things -which is really one thing -is aware of itself -but likely developed. Self-awareness happens every step of the way -in more-simple, separate ways which become arranged together, but also suddenly at the point of being able to look at...
  11. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    Even if one does not believe a self-awareness was involved early on, capabilities must have been involved -but after a self-awareness developed (awareness of own capability) -and not before -the environment would change in a way only a self-awareness could or would change it. On our level, that...
  12. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    So if simple energy is the driver -and simple matter is simple environment -which is arranged as new pathways for the energy -they would be completely interdependent -energy creating new pathways for itself in somewhat persistent increasingly-complex configurations which are the environment...
  13. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    How would you describe the difference between matter and energy? Continuing from other posts.... (just brainstorming -all over the shop -didn't have time to make it make sense) Before a complex self, there must be an environment of some description -a place where things happen. It is the most...
  14. Etritonakin

    ‘Free will’ is not an excuse for God allowing atrocities.

    How so? Not sure what you mean. My point is that God would have had to have become responsible and accountable to self -to become perfect -in order to continue. In order for us to continue -without messing everything up eternally or destroying everything -we must do the same. God can't do that...
  15. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    so.... would you think the 95 percent to be elsewhere -as in we are only part of and reside in the 5 percent-or everything including ourselves is only 5 percent the visible and 95 percent the invisible -and is the limitation our eyes? Can the other 95 percent be perceived by other means -such...
  16. Etritonakin

    ‘Free will’ is not an excuse for God allowing atrocities.

    Technically, we have a free will to choose some things, but what we were given was a choice between life and death -blessing and cursing -and advised to choose life. What if... initial prevention of horrible things meant the most beautiful things could not exist? What if... initial prevention...
  17. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    Everything -most simple things arranged in various ways -and nothing else. Quite vague, but there would not be much to describe about simplicity. Some sort of oscillation... some energy medium with opposite poles which jiggle into new configurations... Building materials are usually not very...
  18. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    huh? are you talking about some completely empty void between things -in which nothing exists? i guess the nature of everything would be completely full of itself?
  19. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    why would space be necessary? wouldn't completely empty space be/be as impossible as nothing?
  20. Etritonakin

    The Mind of Everything/Demystifying Self-Awareness

    That's what I was getting at -there must be some permanent foundation
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