Should We Be Blogging About Whether We Should Be Talking About Piers Morgan Bringing Alex Jones on Television

The Sandy Hook tragedy has led to much bickering, arguing, and a general opportunity for Americans to express their opinions.  But a person has to ask themselves if the opinions they are expressing are "good-natured".

Every time a disaster falls, Americans feel the urgent need to enact new legislation.  After 9/11 we were rushed into the Patriot Act, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Iraq War.  Now after the Sandy Hook tragedy many states are passing gun control legislation (see link Gun Control Bills Flood Statehouses.., ) and there has been talk of a national ban on "military-style assault rifles".  Are we a people prone to panic?  Why is it that it takes a national tragedy to produce such an urgent need to enact change?  When is the last time that something good happened that put a fire into the people?

Certainly there are special interests capitalizing on the events of the Sandy Hook tragedy as a means to enact push forward gun control legislation.  It is difficult to deny that this also happened after 9/11.  Of course there is not a lot of mention of the purpose of the 2nd amendment- the citizenry has a right to protect itself against an oppressive government.   For this reason it is contrary to the notions of liberty  to talk of banning "military-style assault rifles" for all but the military.  Many of you who are reading recognize this truth.

I grew up in a small rural community, where there was constant talk of the government "taking away our guns".  I recognize their sentiment and agree that the government should not take them away.  That is not to say that we should have guns or use them, or more importantly, we need not be passionate about guns.  "For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also".

It does not appear that the federal government will be a leader in world peace.  They are not going to give up using their weapons.  The citizens of this country need to do that.

We should not ban assault weapons, we should just not use them.  Jesus said, "Do not resist an evil person".

Great things can happen.  Believe in those things. 

Great things can happen.  Believe in those things. If you believe you have something to say that expresses the will of God, then you need to express it.  This is not easy.  In finding a way to articulate a message in a way that people can understand and receive it can be a painful process.  It can take hard, hard work.  But the more you work, the easier it gets.

God

Just as our thoughts are part of material reality. So could God’s thoughts be part of all the reality we see. There doesn’t necessarily have to be a 4th dimension.

What are our thoughts? They are real yes… but they don’t exist materially in the world. (Perhaps I am speaking of the consciousness of our thoughts.) The neuronal combinations that give rise to our thoughts exist, but these are not our thoughts. All that is is this. But just as we have thoughts that aren’t material so too God could have thoughts. A consciousness made up of all that is.

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Our souls must influence the material world. Otherwise all of our thoughts are completely determinstic and we can’t control them. Our souls manipulate the quantum particles and arrange our neurons in ways that allow us to think and act as we do. Similarly God is not controlled by all the material reality. God’s thought’s control it.

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However these two arguments seem contradictory. Because the second one speaks of souls which implies a 4th dimension. Perhaps there is a 4th dimension that we have always been familiar with.. the dimension of thought. Don’t forget time.. perhaps we are talking about the 5th dimension here.

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It is not hard to love. It is however hard to feel that you are loved. It is hard to express love.

gumby600: yeah so.. the problem is .. i couldn't write a treatise on god.. and argue for the materiality of god.. and then turn around and argue for the necessary existence of souls.
gumby600: but actually .. i could probably do that.. in the same treatise.. i could say .. okay it is possible for god to be nonmaterial.. but then nothing would have free will.. not even god... so god must be spirit, and we must have souls.

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We can imagine a God without free will. In the beginning his thoughts were created out of some combination of the matter that came to exist in whatever reality it first came to exist in. The material created consciousness and determined God’s thoughts. After the cycle was put in motion everything would be causally connected and God could have done everything he did without free will since his thoughts were determined by the material world… However it seems this argument could be flawed.. because if all thoughts were determined by the material world in which everything is random then what would keep God’s thoughts going from love to hate to a jumbled mess, to whatever?? It seems that at some point God would have gained control… but… it is possible to imagine that God doesn’t have free will. We don’t have free will.. And everything that happens necessarily must happen.