joel wrote:bansy wrote:OK, as wide as the spectrum can get. Did God make us His children, or did we make Him our God ?
How broad is it, really?
Life itself would be (is!) mysterious, magical enough. There is no shortage of magic in my opinion that there needs to be an abstract godlike or presidential intention. Abundant already without a benevolent Giver of Reward.
The BKWSU gathers all knowledge about Baba, yet being about Baba a kind of love-fest that even the most bookish of BK men cannot completely escape. A lovefest of mutual validation accompanied by miracles ... it's enough for some people to feel it is God who calls himself God.
Yet there is love without the lovefest, purity without the celibacy, non-violence without the vegetarism, anger without destructiveness, intimacy without losing oneself.
Funny BKWSUs are so concerned about you losing yourself to a "human being" and they are so interested in you "surrendering (losing) yourself" to God.
"Take my bags and baggage!"
"With pleasure, my child!"
"My mind, body and wealth!"
"With pleasure my child, for your future 84 lives, money in the bank."
BKWSUs combine love or the eternal family with a keen sense of gain and loss in worldly affairs. They would be equally magic even if their founder weren't God Himself.
If there is a God, I don't believe he plays favorites. Might may make right, but not God. The BKWSU are no more chosen than the Jews. It is obvious that the world is Godlessly chaotic, but that is not necessarily bad. It is not God who gave permission for fragmentation bombs and nuclear weapons. Nor God who supplies plastic shopping bags. A moment of tenderness between lovers, between a mother and her child. The delicate fullness of life, absent nothing, is available to everyone, not just those who put their hands together. How suspicious a group of people who just stare and don't touch each other. They sound dry, strait-laced.
I am rambling on as usual, but later, mark my works, you'll be selling printouts of these posts on e-Bay