Friday, July 26, 2013
In Memory of my Third Wife, Ann!
July 26th, 2013
Hi, Pat, (and by courtesy of sharing, all others on my email list),
I am not sure what those "36 arguments" are for the existence of God that you reference below, Pat, but the greatest argument for me for the existence of God is simply INFINITY. I can't imagine that Existence itself is not INFINITE - but INFINITY can be translated as GOD. It really is as simple as that for me. And INFINITY must exclude no one. Thus, All must be of God since Infinity is God.
How simple can it be? Right?
On another note, I am remembering a good friend who passed away last Friday - July 19th, 2013. Ann - 69 - was my third wife - and she passed from complications due to a gall bladder surgery in May, resulting in the pneumonia that finally took her.
Dear Ann was an atheist and I am what I call a "Divine Naturist" - my term for myself. Unlike Ann, who believed there is no God, I believe that there is a UNIVERSAL GOD. For Ann, God does not exist at all, but for me, God exists everywhere.
I guess you could say that Ann and I were exact opposites in how we view God, though Ann did not act like there is no God. She acted like there is a God and that God is everywhere by virtue of being kind to everyone; and regardless of whether she believed there is a God or not, in death, she probably found herself - in a way - alone with herself. Regardless of how we believe, in death, it does not matter at all - because in the end, we only take ourselves with us. God is no more at the end of the road than God is nowhere on the road or just some place on the road. God is everywhere - and that makes "fighting for God" so pathetic. Why fight for something we all have IN us? How pathetic!
If we only all believed that God is IN all, then we could all be friends, but as it happens, we use God and beliefs or non-beliefs in God as reasons for division. In the end, though, like Ann went to her own reward simply by continuing to be whatever soul she was (and is), that is probably what happens to all of us. God is not there for one and absent for another. There is no "face of God" that some will see and others will not. I wonder when mankind will outgrow its antiquated and terribly destructive beliefs in a God that divides - and finally realizes that God is not "nowhere" as my Dear Ann believed - or "only somewhere" as most of my other friends believe? Why not believe in the probable truth - there is God and that God is Everywhere?
But here is to Dear Ann! Have a good time where you are, Dear One! Thanks for the friendship!
Pat, tell Nora hello. OK?
Gently,
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2013 01:17 PM
Subject: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Greetings Will,
I'm reading a novel now, which I recommend. Here's a sample.
“We are not more born into the self than we are born into the truth. Both must be acquired with a labor and a love that call forth powers few possess, with the consequence that the earth is populated by veritable zombies, whose inner emptiness would elicit a chorus of execretion if exposed to the eyes of the few carriers of consciousness among us.” – Professor Jonas Elijah Klapper in Rebecca Newberger Goldstein’s novel, 36 Arguments for the Existence of God
Patrick
Mathematics is the language of the universe;
literature, the articulation of the soul.