Thursday, April 30, 2009

Significance of Time

We have come to this point of discussion that there is a material world outside of us, or inside of our mind that overpowers us and there is "us" who wants to overpower that world. We are used to idea of god outside of time and place, out of this material world and the world as its creation, if we believe to such being. Then we say a saviour comes at the beginning of each millennium. We never ask ourselves, "For such almighty being what is the significance of a millennium, specially now with the apparent knowledge that we have accrued regarding events in that have happened in the universe in billions of years. Hence, we do not enter the present discourse if we want to put our basics upon things such as "Why the almighty has not created all of us with the highest qualities that we desire and within an environment that is ideal for our perpetual joy?" Or when disaster happens to us, "Why the almighty repeatedly and on a minute by minute basis does not intervene and relieve our disasters and we should toil overcoming difficulties of material world with a promise - never reported by anybody as being verified - of a bless after death from this material world?" If already we are engraved with these ideas, usually we do not approach to such domains of discussions that we have here. In that case we belong to a group of "others" with "other" outlooks and attitudes. They might become converted in future and enlightened with "other" ideas and then come back and taste yet "other" outlooks and horizons, our outlooks and horizons. For those who are interested n present discussion, "They should wash them of any judgements they ever had." This is the meaning of baptizing.

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