XPost: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy, alt.philosophy.taoism, alt.philosophy.zen   
   From: wudao@wuji.net   
      
   Ned wrote about:   
      
   >  The two phrases above...   
   >   
   >"because there is no relation that escapes his all-knowledge"   
   >   
   >"if God finds it good to make his thought effective and to   
   > produce this substance."   
   >   
   >...are contradictory.  God already knows "if he finds it good",   
   >because "there is no relation that escapes his all-knowledge".   
   >   
   >  This is why applying attributes to God is so stupid.  And   
   >any God would truly go mad for lack of another God.  Or   
   >anything 'unknown'.   
   >   
   >---   
   >And the shade knew it all, saw it all,   
   >everything enacted on this same small desert,   
   >as if all history happens in an instant.   
   >What a tedious enlightenment!   
   >   
   >A life without surprises - fait accompli -   
   >nothing left to imagination or chance,   
   >a moment in the world of the Lord.   
   >God must go mad for lack of another God.   
   >---   
   >   
   > Ned   
      
   As a young child, there used to be little plastic toys. Men.   
   Some were soldiers, some on horses, different sorts.   
   And, without anything else in mind, I'd play.   
      
   To say I knew everything about these, men, and horses,   
   and the surface of the dirt or grass I was playing on or in,   
   might be to say something of a sort.   
      
   As I entered into this play, as a child, it was fun.   
      
   To think God must go mad sounds bad.   
   And yet, for God, it must be fun.   
      
   Some people might think God takes being God seriously.   
   Some might think God takes God as being more light.   
      
   Xuan is something found in Taoist thought. And xue.   
      
   - fwiw   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)