tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post4127842421827040862..comments2024-03-29T10:24:20.171+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The invisible world, in which we swimBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-88898153096556805292020-03-26T12:01:46.041+00:002020-03-26T12:01:46.041+00:00@B - Why? Irritability is a personality trait. Per...@B - Why? Irritability is a personality trait. Personality traits have something between 50-80% heritability - the left-over variance currently remains unexplained, although it may have something to do with peer groups during adolescence. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-45134955736305536292020-03-26T10:49:25.022+00:002020-03-26T10:49:25.022+00:00'I am famously irritable'
Are you? Why?
...<br />'I am famously irritable'<br /><br />Are you? Why?<br /><br />BarryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-26602982627350441282020-03-25T23:21:34.244+00:002020-03-25T23:21:34.244+00:00@J & BC:
Except the ones on whose comments yo...@J & BC:<br /><br />Except the ones on whose comments you perform a mercy killing by not posting them at all!<br /><br />We are spared the trolls.a_probsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16197411067925016452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-4781796677762584082020-03-25T13:09:43.050+00:002020-03-25T13:09:43.050+00:00@J - Actually - I am famously irritable, and treat...@J - Actually - I am famously irritable, and treat my commenters very badly.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-57913498421357254172020-03-25T13:08:35.030+00:002020-03-25T13:08:35.030+00:00@SR - I can see how deists (e.g. Platonists and ne...@SR - I can see how deists (e.g. Platonists and neo-Platonists) and monotheists would regard God as unknowable; but not Christians. <br /><br />The reality of Jesus means that God is knowable. Indeed he even said so himself, in a very explicit fashion (assuming one accepts the validity of the Fourth Gospel, and these verses in particular) - especially verses 8&9 but I give the surrounding verses for context and to demonstrate that it means what it says: <br /><br />John 14: 4 And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.<br /><br />5 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way?<br /><br />6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.<br /><br />7 If ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also: and from henceforth ye know him, and have seen him.<br /><br />8 Philip saith unto him, Lord, show us the Father, and it sufficeth us.<br /><br />9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Show us the Father?<br /><br />10 Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and the Father in me? the words that I speak unto you I speak not of myself: but the Father that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works.<br /><br />11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me: or else believe me for the very works' sake.<br /><br />12 Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.<br /><br />13 And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.<br /><br />14 If ye shall ask any thing in my name, I will do it.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-80483820094387148352020-03-25T13:07:35.537+00:002020-03-25T13:07:35.537+00:00Thanks for this, and your other methods and ideas ...Thanks for this, and your other methods and ideas for approaching and thinking about God. As one whose path was also very idiosyncratic, it really is wonderful to be able to collaborate with someone as smart and insightful as you. <br /><br />I am somewhat ironically calling what I am doing collaboration, but I think there is also some truth to that, because you seem to genuinely value your readers and commenters and lurkers. <br />At least, I seem to feel that.<br />Blessings to all.Jacob Gitteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10559764359800682222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-3932692231173784332020-03-25T12:54:27.707+00:002020-03-25T12:54:27.707+00:00There's a saying by Goethe, or at least attrib...There's a saying by Goethe, or at least attributed to him: "Das Ur-Bild ist das Bild und die Spiegelung." In English, "The original image is the image and the reflection." For me, because I believe God is unknowable, all of this spiritual taxonomy you lay out, while fascinating, is just a byproduct of our ability to think, which is certainly God-given, but can't really unriddle the various strata at which God operates or approach an understanding of him. He is in the animist, in the pagan, present there if only in some proto/UR form, but still there.Sonny Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07035237910838421940noreply@blogger.com