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Question for the Secular Crowd Here

Can You Relate to the Judge?

  • Very much so

    Votes: 1 14.3%

  • Somewhat

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Not at all

    Votes: 6 85.7%
  • Total voters
    7
  • Poll closed .
Treasure Hunter

Treasure Hunter

Well-Known Member
I realize the basic interpretation is to associate God with the Judge and the self with the widow, but there is much more to be gained when you see yourself as the judge and and the widow as the conscience. This applies to every one of the parables that Jesus gave. There are basic interpretations and deeper interpretations since patterns in reality are fractal.
 
Audie

Audie

Veteran Member
Treasure Hunter said:
I realize the basic interpretation is to associate God with the Judge and the self with the widow, but there is much more to be gained when you see yourself as the judge and and the widow as the conscience. This applies to every one of the parables that Jesus gave. There are basic interpretations and deeper interpretations since patterns in reality are fractal.
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Same is equally true for any story or poem.
So,what?
 
Treasure Hunter

Treasure Hunter

Well-Known Member
Audie said:
Same is equally true for any story or poem.
So,what?
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Going on a journey of growth and transformation is supposed to be a major part of life. Anyone closed off to this should just skip my posts here. Anyone interested in this will see value in at least some of my posts.
 
9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Treasure Hunter said:
Going on a journey of growth and transformation is supposed to be a major part of life. Anyone closed off to this should just skip my posts here. Anyone interested in this will see value in at least some of my posts.
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Personally, I'm quite open to growth and transformation, but I don't see what the Bible would have to do with either of these things.
 
Audie

Audie

Veteran Member
Treasure Hunter said:
Going on a journey of growth and transformation is supposed to be a major part of life. Anyone closed off to this should just skip my posts here. Anyone interested in this will see value in at least some of my posts.
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There is very little of value in a post
that is 100 % unresponsive to what is asked..

If you are suggesting that I am "closed" " you could say it directly.

My rejection of your book is not synonymous with being closed,

Thinking the bible is The word,
however, is.

The bible is a poor choice as a guide
to transformation. It's tedious confusing, contradictory, full of very
negative values and very few,seem to
be the least bitt tansformed, still fewer for the better.

Why did you post that psrable?
 
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Treasure Hunter

Treasure Hunter

Well-Known Member
mikkel_the_dane said:
Can you rephrase that?
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I didn’t use the Bible either but if I had known there was deeper meaning to the stories that related to growth and transformation, it would have been helpful to me. I know that now, looking back at the path with the darkness brought to light and the fog lifted.
 
9-10ths_Penguin

9-10ths_Penguin

1/10 Subway Stalinist
Premium Member
Treasure Hunter said:
There are two worlds the stories in the Bible speak to. Most everyone stops at applying the stories to the external world. They are also applicable to the hidden, internal world.
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This is true for every single book in existence.

We're pattern- and meaning-seeking animals. If someone who wants "growth and transformation" looks at the phone book long enough for material "applicable to the hidden, internal world," they'll find what they're looking for.
 
mikkel_the_dane

mikkel_the_dane

My own religion
Treasure Hunter said:
I didn’t use the Bible either but if I had known there was deeper meaning to the stories that related to growth and transformation, it would have been helpful to me. I know that now, looking back at the path with the darkness brought to light and the fog lifted.
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Thanks for your answer. :)
 
Audie

Audie

Veteran Member
Treasure Hunter said:
There are two worlds the stories in the Bible speak to. Most everyone stops at applying the stories to the external world. They are also applicable to the hidden, internal world.
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We have a saying that translates like,
"If you can't say it in plain words, you
don't know you are talking anout".


A parable that means whatever you
fancy, and gibberish about a " hidden internal world" don't impress me as reflecting much wisdom.
 
mikkel_the_dane

mikkel_the_dane

My own religion
Audie said:
We have a saying that translates like,
"If you can't say it in plain words, you
don't know you are talking anout".


A parable that means whatever you
fancy, and gibberish about a " hidden internal world" don't impress me as reflecting much wisdom.
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Well, in Western secular terms for philosophy it is sometimes called becoming authentic. There is also episteme versus doxa. That can also be about the mental state of being a human.
 
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