* the thing i miss the most about the city is the ability to go to a table tennis club and play some matches, even though i never did when i lived there. i don't believe in the trinity, but i do believe in the triad. the whole point is the threeness. if it was the oneness, or an infinite number, we could do with one of the other religions. he didn't know what to make of her, or what to do with her, or how to live without her. her name was any government bureaucracy. some people like to deny God the sabbath. let him have his rest. take care of yourself for a bit. i know you of the sour cherry tree ~ literal translation of a portuguese idiom, meaning, i know all your bad traits, used playfully, not sternly. speech recognition is a dictatorship. find something useful to undo. i need some finity in my infiniteness. what the buddhists aim for i have naturally. no wonder i find the religion so boring and pointless. it's easy, and even justifiable, to put down the enlightenment. even the name is ridiculous, granted. but it's also good to not take for granted certain things. for example, before the individualism of the era, there was no idea of childhood. the two are inseparably linked. i don't think many understand this: in most places, in most eras, once you learned to speak properly, you were an adult. many things changed this, but without the idea of the individual, this would still be the case in the West. in fact, it is coming back, and it's not pretty. i knew it was over when we abandoned the emoticon in favor of the emoji. another specialized machine, this time to express feelings. * our thoughts are always peopled by our experiences, even those before life on earth, and thus always in a sense externally bound. and when we create, we do not have any way to create from ourselves alone, we draw on those experiences, now remembered. the key is being conscious of the lens through which we see the outside, instead of blind to it. because there is always an outside where there are persons, and almost everything in the world is personal. to relate to something outside of you, you need a body. the purpose of this most perfect and complex body of all, the flesh, is to enhance those relations. that's why God gave them to us. the 'sharing', and not innately shared, aspect of relations indeed only functions if there are two, independent people, and if it's chosen. so we come to share, in fact even (begin to) create, worlds within worlds with the ones we love. [prompted by a post by Bruce Charlton] * angel means messenger. so you have a guardian messenger. meditate on what this means. either heaven and eternity have something to do with the earth and life in the flesh, or, the earth and life in the flesh have no relation to what comes after at all, and so have no significance whatsoever. you can't have your heaven and not eat it too. you know what inspires me? breathing.
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Yes, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are a Triad in experience, they each have the taste of deity, but that could just mean they’re Gods. The Trinity is a philosophical construction, though it could be correct - a gallon of water simultaneously being completely, liquid, vapor and solid. The Father seems to be the source of the other two. But they are so distinct and different and can be simultaneously present so modalism isn’t a solution to the conundrum. God doesn’t take turns being the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. The Threeness never resolves into one. Anyway it’s more fun than an utter oneness. Multiplicity never ends.