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- From: mdc@crash.cts.com (Milo D. Cooper)
- Subject: GOD.
- Date: 25 Jan 93 21:22:50 PST
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.212250.24118@crash>
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- The human mind is a passive system for the processing of
- information. Intellect, personality, and ideas are formed through
- interaction with one's environment and no one can achieve active
- thought to allow perception beyond that dictated by experience.
- Anything that any of us ever does is a reaction to established
- elements of the outer environment (the space beyond our bodies) or
- the inner environment (bodily functions). Everything we do, we do
- for a reason. Everything we do, we are moved to do, because we
- are creatures of reaction, and not of action. Reasons for reaction
- are irrelevant at this point; they may be moral reasons or immoral
- reasons or good reasons or bad reasons or obvious reasons or incon-
- spicuous ones.
- Progress of any kind is due to a flaw of human information
- processing which distorts incoming information based on the way in
- which one's mind is shaped by his/her inner and outer environments.
- Our minds divide environments into attention areas based on our
- experience and personal biases. Insight, the element common to all
- revered figures of history, is a chance defying of logical reasoning
- which reveals a novel and/or better method of information processing.
- Logic itself can only proceed along mental pathways already defined
- by experience. The best way to innovate is not by engaging in lo-
- gical thought; the best way to innovate is by making a mistake, be-
- cause logic is simply a process involving one reaction after another
- which deliberately avoids any seemingly irrelevant or contradictory
- information.
- One cannot conceive of God when one cannot conceive of a
- being which occurs beyond the limits of time. Because humans are
- unavoidably limited to existence within the confines of time, which
- happens to describe our terms of being, everything for many of
- us must have a beginning and, in most cases, an end. Therefore,
- lots of us will be puzzled by the assertion that God was created by
- nothing and no one and "has always" existed and "always will" exist.
- These same people will balk at the idea that a "good" God exists
- when exposed to incidences described as "evil," because they can
- see no benefit coming of this evil, in much the same way a logically-
- inclined person avoids haphazard insight. My black ancestors were
- slaves. You can be certain a slew of them saw no benefit coming of
- their forced subordinate status into an oppressive society; they all
- existed inside time. And yet the immorality of slavery has yielded
- an enrichment of America and, due to America's global influence, the
- rest of the civilized world. The most obvious proof of this enrich-
- ment is Rock music, a product of European and African established
- thought patterns. This immoral event led to a haphazard amalgamation
- of cultures which produced insight. Natural and logical thought
- would never have as readily introduced such an incredibly popular
- and bonding art form.
- I shall stop here to answer any opposing comments. This ends
- part one of the Proof of God's Existence.
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- Milo D. Cooper '92 | 1992 | mdc@crash.cts.com
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