Comments on: Everyday Miracles

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:20:21 +0000

Roy, I just wanted to tell you that I truly cherish our time spent together and I think of you as a brother-in-arms, or just a brother.

By: Daddy Peacebucks

Daddy Peacebucks — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 17:53:02 +0000

Roy! I recognize you! You can change your name a million times, but my unabiding love for your lantern of ultimate truth will always find you!

Waiting for you to rip off a good one about Tom Robbins or Kurt Vonnegut, I always love that.

Still waiting to hang out,

Daddy

By: Roy

Roy — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:36:25 +0000

Life itself is a miracle, no real christian should have to read some tabloidish 8th century account of holy alchemy, to be convinced of the divinity of christ. That is a bunch of horseshit. And plus I find it ironic how you quote from the book of Thomas where the eucharist would be a non-factor, because Jesus was not crucified in the book of Thomas! duh… You’re a fucking loser and hypocrite Tim. Go stuff your face with some more 7/11 and maybe you’ll get some real inspiration to write.

By: prnsqlr

prnsqlr — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 03:12:31 +0000

Multiple sages in different traditions have put forth the idea that the world is created and destroyed thousands of times every second. After acclimating to this idea, miracles of the mentioned short gain a certain insistent resonance that forces any question of plausibility aside: after the inexpressible overflowing miracle of the present moment, of having a self, can one dare to skeptically dismiss any story of the spirit?

If all the world is sign and holy script, can one speak of the Bible, translated by culturally-conditioned and fallible humans, inconsistent, laden with paradox and mystery and historical impossibility, the limited and finite product of the totality of its times and all history preceeding, how can we say it is anything BUT truly inspired by the Lord? (as a Christian would say)

Like the leopard’s spots, passed from generation to generation in the fertile 4-dimensional organism we call “species,” through and via and not other than life and death: it speaks to itself in the silence.

Sufi tales of miracles contain stories where the sea instantly becomes a sea of gold coins, or where the world is instantly filled with wish carrying treasures in their mouths, which vanish immediately. The temple is destroyed and rebuilt, and no man can prevent the passage of the One who walks…

The Absolute is Absolute. No conditioned being can move it, it moves all and alone is. I am not a personality. I am something that is so designed to act as though it believes itself to be a personality. The purpose of this complicated construction is to provide another instance of the Truth realizing itself. “I was a hidden treasure and I longed to be known.” The thing, little by little, dismantles its projected world from the inside and is somehow all the more present in the world.

The Absolute is absolute, if the Eye in the Sky should close for one instant, all creation would collapse. Atlas holds the world, Mithras turns the outer sphere, Job had the right idea. There is no need to mentally rehearse the future, or dwell on the past.

That which is styled by men “God”, is in ALL that stuff!

By: Tim Boucher

Tim Boucher — Mon, 20 Feb 2006 02:46:06 +0000

is god in the poisoned mind of some Muslims killing, and burning because of cartoons? Or is God in the injustice of the capitalist sytem that has created an unfair concentration of wealth in the hands of the few.

Yep - god’s in all that stuff. Pretty cool, right? He’s even there when things aren’t fair, when they hurt and when we don’t understand them. Maybe even more so!

By: Is God

Is God — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 23:35:57 +0000

in the poisoned mind of some Muslims killing, and burning because of cartoons? Or is God in the injustice of the capitalist sytem that has created an unfair concentration of wealth in the hands of the few. I have nothing against capitalism or Islam but I do have a problem with ideology that makes sure life has additonal suffering.
I also have a deep problem with the number of strokes, the babies born with physical diseases, babies aborted naturally, people who look like werewolves. There is no insurance and no security in life. The blessings a person has today may be wiped out tomorrow by floods or fires.
And lastly I don’t mean to be silly but what happened to the dinosaurs? They lived in a universe that allowed their destruction. Are the spirits of dinosaurs still evolving somewhere?
Just because humans have consciousness does not mean we do not live in a universe of the absurd. I don’t doubt life is a mystery but it is also really fucked up and miserable for billions of life species.

By: clancy

clancy — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 20:36:34 +0000

that is one of the ironies im sure god smiles at: we have a cut, and it heals and we go about our business. but when a statue leaks tears, or some other “miracle” which confounds the “laws of nature” happens, we yell it from the rooftops. the laws of nature are the real miracles, that anything doesnt obey the rule of entropy in the first place, that things regenerate, grow, heal, and evolve is the truly mind blowing thing.

By: Anna Montana

Anna Montana — Sun, 19 Feb 2006 00:42:32 +0000

Right on Tim. Well put.