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Originally Posted by acousticrock87
Not to mention, from almost any theistic viewpoint, which I take, you have to make room for the possibility of divine cause. But that's a relatively restricted viewpoint.
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God is Natural Law & all that entails.
God is Light. God is the Law of Conservation of Matter & Energy.
& to extrapolate: God is the Unconscious. God is Art.
Ivan Karamazov's Contra argument in
The Brothers Karamazov is horseshit. Why?
God never interferes. It's all on our head. Life is our responsibility. It is up to us to use our blessed partially divine gift of the will to understand & respect Natural Law to get anything done. The only deux ex machina that exists emits from your own soul & must be cultivated...by YOU. One must have a proper relationship with Natural Law & not some God that religion defines. Religion, at best, is there only to apply the lash & hopefully (if uncorrupted...it always is though at least somewhat) teach us wisdom & edify us on how to live life as Art.
as Jim Morrison remarked:
you CANNOT petition the Lord with prayer.
As Jackson Pollock said, "Art & Life are One---Inseparable."
one can only influence natural law through buddhahood, shamanism & the like, by reaching a state where one is at One with the One. Most never realize anything until the moment that they die, & even then, probably not much.
read these Davies lyrics:
Big sky looked down on all the people looking up at the big sky.
Everybody pushing one another around
Big sky feels sad when he sees the children scream and cry
But the big sky's too big to let it get him down.
Big sky too big to cry
Big sky too high to see
People like you and me
One day well be free, we won't care, just you see
til that day can be, don't let it get you down
When I feel that the world is too much for me
I think of the big sky, and nothing matters much to me.
Big sky looked down on all the people who think they got problems
They get depressed and they hold their head in their hands and cry.
People lift up their hands and they look up to the big sky
But big sky is too big to sympathize
Big sky's too occupied
Though he would like to try
And he feels bad inside
Big sky's too big to cry
One day well be free, we wont care, just you wait and see
'til that day can be, don't let it get you down.
When I feel that the world is too much for me
I think of the big sky, and nothing matters much to me.