Letters to the Editor, June 30 edition
On looking for God
Identity.
What is in a name, a word?
What is the relationship between thought, word, and object?
What was a maple tree before it was called a maple tree, a cloud before it was called a cloud?
What would everything be if it did not have a name, would it be?
The world in front of our eyes is a neutral canvas, upon which we paint the reality of our own personal beliefs. Only we can see the picture painted by our own hand. It exists only with our permission.
If reality could be defined as thought supported by belief, then it would seem to follow that reality could be changed by changing or withdrawing belief.
Before we are Christians, Muslims and Jews, we are human beings, and before we are human beings we are, and we remain, life itself.
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