tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3223914061929527675.post1418755256968676810..comments2013-11-01T01:53:08.663-07:00Comments on Distance Haze: The Eternal NowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3223914061929527675.post-48781715551108675092010-05-22T22:35:34.507-07:002010-05-22T22:35:34.507-07:00Hello Pastor Don (sounds odd doesn’t it?). I rece...Hello Pastor Don (sounds odd doesn’t it?). I recently came across your blog through our mutual friend Robin. I find it both interesting and disturbing. Oddly enough, I agree with most of what you have posted. <br /><br />No doubt attempting to determine our purpose in life is a haunting proposition for anyone who really thinks about it. <br /><br />I’ve had a discussion recently with my sons regarding eternity. Remember them? You baptized some of them. (wonder if that will hold up in the court of God considering your turn to…whatever). In any case your comments about consciousness are interesting. How do you know that your “consciousness” does not extend to the infinite end? Obviously our beginning does not, or at lease it seems to us it does not.<br /><br />How could eternal have no value? Can you really conceive of a time before times? At the end of every thought is the daunting questions – what was before that? I can’t conceive of a beginning, or an end. Time can not be understood with our finite minds. Thus God. I suspect that at the moment after death we will come to realize just how wrong we were with our human logic and “higher understanding”. Including Christian, hindu taoism, buddhism.<br /><br />There are two types of minds in this world, the deep thinker and the shallow simple minded. You are the deep thinker as is my good friend Rick Ianniello: http://rianniello.blogspot.com/ As I’ve often told him – he is the John Piper (or CS Lewis) and I’m the Billy Graham. My story, my life, my thoughts are simple. You on the other hand, have a brilliant disturbingly provocative mind. Your type seems always to live on the edge of extremes. Either the path of CS Lewis (or Rick Ianniello) or David Hawkins. But your inability to accept that some things are beyond understanding has led you to a point of supposed higher understanding. When in fact you don’t understand anything more than you did 20 years ago in Woodstock GA.<br /><br />Death will be the final enlightenment. You’ve simply traded one hope for another. As for me, I’ve recently come to the conclusion that – I Believe.<br /><br />CalvinCalvinnoreply@blogger.com