Quoth The Raven
Half Arsed Muse
We've had a 3 part tv show on strings going for the last 3 weeks here. I've watched them all, and to be perfectly honest I'm not sure I understand more about it now than I did when I started.
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Energy: Neither created nor destroyed.
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Deut. 32.8 said:
JEHOVAH
(Je·ho´vah) [the causative form, the imperfect state, of the Heb. verb ha·wah´ (become); meaning "He Causes to Become"].
The personal name of God. (Isa 42:8; 54:5) Though Scripturally designated by such descriptive titles as "God," "Sovereign Lord," "Creator," "Father," "the Almighty," and "the Most High," his personality and attributeswho and what he isare fully summed up and expressed only in this personal name.Ps 83:18.
Quoth The Raven
Half Arsed Muse
Then I've got a character the size of Marvin The Martian on steroids. (There was supposed to be an earth shattering kaboom...)Sunstone said:
Master Vigil
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"By Dao are you referring to fundamental reality?"
Almost. But for a taoist it would be a bit more mysterious than that. While it is based in reality, for it controls the flow of nature. It can also be mytically used for "magical" purposes. Healing, increasing strength, and such by use of chi.
"Ask Nature"
Very close. While a taoist would see that nature is one with tao. Tao still controls nature. So a taoist would look at nature and say, ask tao.
"I know you're using the term "energy," but I've always understood "energy" as the force that causes a capacity to do something."
Same thing, chi is the energy that is produced by tao that causes everything to do something. Change never stops happening. Nothing stays exactly the same for even a second. So this "energy" is the force that causes a capacity for everything to do something. Chi to a taoist would also have more mysterious capabilities than just plain energy of course. But that gets into religious taoism, where I do not dwell. Chi vampires, immortal beings, etc... I just focus on the simple concept of Chi Gung. In which you work that chi around your body for health and enlightenment.
Almost. But for a taoist it would be a bit more mysterious than that. While it is based in reality, for it controls the flow of nature. It can also be mytically used for "magical" purposes. Healing, increasing strength, and such by use of chi.
"Ask Nature"
Very close. While a taoist would see that nature is one with tao. Tao still controls nature. So a taoist would look at nature and say, ask tao.
"I know you're using the term "energy," but I've always understood "energy" as the force that causes a capacity to do something."
Same thing, chi is the energy that is produced by tao that causes everything to do something. Change never stops happening. Nothing stays exactly the same for even a second. So this "energy" is the force that causes a capacity for everything to do something. Chi to a taoist would also have more mysterious capabilities than just plain energy of course. But that gets into religious taoism, where I do not dwell. Chi vampires, immortal beings, etc... I just focus on the simple concept of Chi Gung. In which you work that chi around your body for health and enlightenment.
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Captain Obvious
Thanks MV,
I think I'll read some more of your texts. That didn't elucidate much...but when I've read more, I'll ask again in Comparitive Religions or something. I like to understand where others come from (regardless of what I think of any given subject), and I'm quite ignorant of the actual meanings behind this.
I think I'll read some more of your texts. That didn't elucidate much...but when I've read more, I'll ask again in Comparitive Religions or something. I like to understand where others come from (regardless of what I think of any given subject), and I'm quite ignorant of the actual meanings behind this.